bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Erkek maden mühendislerinin mesleklerindeki erkeklik algısına yönelik görüşleri
Authors: Tombal Tuğba Deniz
Published: July 2024

Maden mühendisliği mesleğinin erkek mühendislerin bakış açısıyla irdelenmesi ve bu mesleğin toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliği penceresinden incelenmesi bu çalışmanın temel kapsamını meydana getirmektedir. Bu çalışma, eş zamanlı olarak, ülkemizde maden mühendisliği eğitimi almış ve halen mesleğini icra etmekte olan maden mühendislerinin karşılaştıkları cinsiyetçi rollere dayalı sorunları tanımlamayı ve çözüm önerileri getirmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu kapsamda 143 katılımcının görüşleri temel alınarak bir saha çalışması gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çalışmada katılımcıların cevaplaması istenilen ve iki kısımdan oluşan araştırma soruları dijital ortamda dağıtılmıştır. Soruların ilk bölümü demografik bilgiler, ikinci bölümü ise katılımcıların mesleklerini cinsiyet temelli değerlendirmelerine ilişkindir. Çalışmadan elde edilen veriler değerlendirilmiş, yorumlanmış ve çözüm önerileri sunulmuştur.
Kamusal alanı mekanda yer duygusuyla düşünmek
Authors: Bengü Devran
Published: July 2024

Bu makalenin temel meselesi, mimarlık disiplini içerisinde kamusal alana farklı bir perspektiften nasıl yaklaşılabileceğidir. Kamusal alanın fiziksel mekândan bağımsızlığı, çoğu zaman ya mimarlık alanı içinde ihmal edilmesine ya da kamusal mekânların kamusal alanı yarattığı fikrine indirgeyen yaklaşımlara yol açmaktadır. Literatür taraması süreci boyunca, mimari mekânsal tasarım yaklaşımlarına insan deneyimlerini ve duygularını merkeze alan farklı bir bakış açısı geliştirilmesine vurgu yapılmıştır. Mekân ve yer duygusu arasındaki ilişkiler bağlamında, kamusal alan odaklı bir teorem formüle edilebileceği savunulmuştur. Mimarlık alanında, insan merkezli ve kamusallığı dikkate alan mekânsal tasarım yaklaşımlarını tartışmak ve geliştirmek, böylece kamusal alana odaklanan literatüre farklı bakış açıları kazandırmak önemlidir. Bu amaca ulaşmak için sosyal bilimler, şehir planlama ve mimarlık alanlarındaki literatürden yararlanılmıştır. Disiplinlerarası literatürde incelenen kavramsal ilişkiler, makalede ele alınan yaklaşımın mekân, yer, yer duygusu, eşzamanlılık, kolektif hafıza ve kamusal alan gibi kavramlara odaklanmasını sağlamıştır. Bu kavramların tanımları ve fenomenolojik analizleri, kamusal alanın ve canlı kamusallığın mimari mekânsal araçlarla ilişkilendirilmesi olasılığını ortaya koymaktadır. Makale, kavramsal ilişkiler ve fenomenolojik yaklaşımlar aracılığıyla kamusal alana odaklanan mimari mekânsal tasarım ilkelerini tanımlama potansiyelinin altını çizen teorik bir yaklaşıma dayanmaktadır. Makale, Arendt'in kamusal alanı tanımlayan teorik perspektifiyle uyumludur. Sonuç bölümünde, bu amaca yönelik gelecekteki çalışmalara ışık tutması için katılımcı tasarımın önemi vurgulanmaktadır. Özellikle katılımcı tasarım metodolojilerinin kamusal alan odaklı mekânsal çözümlerin geliştirilmesine katkı sağlayabileceği vurgulanmaktadır.
Nükleer silahların caydırıcılık gücü bağlamında Rusya-Ukrayna krizinin analizi
Authors: Göksal Yılmaz Aziz , Tatar Volkan
Published: July 2024

Rusya’nın 2022 başında giriştiği, “özel askerî operasyon” olarak tanımladığı ve kısa sürede biteceği yönünde beklentisinin olduğu Ukrayna saldırısı, Ukrayna’nın gösterdiği direnç ve Batı’nın da Ukrayna’ya olan desteği sebebiyle uzamış, medyada Rusya’nın Ukrayna’nın savaşma şevkini kırmak için taktik nükleer silahlara başvurabileceği yönünde tartışmalar yaşanmıştır. Rus lider Putin’in, Rusya’nın nükleer caydırıcı güçleri “yüksek alarm durumuna geçirdiğini” duyurması örneğindeki gibi bu kaygıları tetikleyen açıklamaları tedirginlik yaratırken, tartışmalar günümüze dek sürmüştür. Saldırının başlangıcında ise Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin tepkisinin yetersiz olduğuna dair eleştiriler yöneltildiğinde, ABD başkanı Biden ABD’nin tutumunu savunmuş, ekonomik yaptırımların da etkili olacağını belirterek, Rusya ile bir nükleer çatışma riski yaratacak eylemlerden kaçındığı yönünde açıklamalarda bulunmuştur. Kimi araştırmacıların, Ukrayna’nın 1994 Budapeşte memorandumu ile nükleer silahlarını teslim etmeseydi Rusya’nın bu saldırgan tutumu takınmaya cesaret edemeyeceği yönünde görüşleri de eklendiğinde, Rusya-Ukrayna krizinin nükleer silahların caydırıcı gücünün gölgesinde geliştiği ve sürdüğü müşahede edilmektedir.
Bu bağlamda çalışma, Ukrayna Rusya arasındaki çatışmaya nükleer silahların krize olan etkisi üzerinden bakmakta, krizin analizi için farklı bir perspektif sunmaktadır. Elde edilen veriler, nükleer silahların Budapeşte Memorandumu’nun imzalanmasından günümüze değin Rusya Ukrayna arasındaki ilişkileri etkilediğini, Ukrayna’nın, kaybettiği caydırıcılık sebebiyle Rusya’nın konvansiyonel saldırısına ve işgaline maruz kaldığını göstermektedir. Ayrıca Rusya’nın, Ukrayna’ya silah yardımında bulunan Batı’nın konvansiyonel gücündeki üstünlüğü dengeleyebilmek için sıkıştığında taktik nükleer silahlara başvurabileceğine dair dile getirilen endişeler, Ukrayna’nın bir nükleer saldırı riskiyle de karşı karşıya olduğunu göstermektedir. Diğer taraftan Rusya ve Batı arasındaki nükleer dehşet dengesinin ise hâlen geçerli olduğu, tarafların bu noktada son derece temkinli davrandığına da müşahede edilmektedir.
Katılımcı tasarımda kamusal alan dinamikleri: Lucien Kroll
Authors: Bengü Devran
Published: July 2024

Katılımcı tasarımın Lucien Kroll tarafından, özellikle de onun modern mimarlık eleştirisi ışığında ortaya konmuş bir felsefe olarak tanınması, kamusal alanın mimarlık alanı içinde yeniden tasarlanmasında önemli bir adımdır. Bu yaklaşım, Kroll'un kamusal alanlara yaptığı özel vurguyu öne çıkarmaktadır. Katılımcı tasarımın demokrasi için önemini kavramak, siyaset felsefesi, kamu yönetimi ve şehir planlama için olduğu kadar mimarlık için de hayati önem taşımaktadır. Dahası, mimarlıkta demokratik süreçlerin mekânsallaştırılmasını anlamak için özel bir öneme sahiptir. Mimarlık disiplini tipik olarak mekânlara odaklanır ve kamusal mekânların otomatik olarak kamusal alanlar yaratacağını varsayar. Ancak demokrasisi gelişmemiş ülkelerde bu varsayımın geçerliliği sorgulanabilir. Makale, katılımcı tasarımın demokratik süreçlerdeki faydasını kabul eden ve aynı zamanda kamusal mekânların kamusal alanı teşvik etmedeki sınırlılıklarıyla mücadele eden bir entelektüel çerçeveye dayanmaktadır. Kamusal alana ve katılımcı tasarımın mimarlık alanındaki demokratik süreçlere nasıl katkıda bulunabileceğine dair yeni bir teorik perspektif sunmayı amaçlamaktadır. Bunu yaparken makale, Lucien Kroll'un modern mimariye tepki olarak geliştirdiği katılımcı tasarım felsefesinin, kamusal alan odaklı bir yaklaşımla demokratik süreçleri mekânsallaştırma potansiyeline ışık tutuyor. Makale ayrıca, bu mimari felsefenin Arendt, Habermas, Negt ve Kluge gibi demokrasi teorisine odaklanan diğer teorisyenlerin çalışmalarıyla uyumluluğunu ortaya koyuyor. Mimarlık alanında, demokrasi ve kamusal alanlar arasındaki etkileşim üzerine daha fazla araştırma yapılması gerekmektedir. Ayrıca, katılımcı tasarımın demokratik süreçlerdeki rolüne ilişkin daha derin bir kuramsal anlayışa da ihtiyaç vardır. Demokrasi ve kamusal alanın mimari kuramsal çerçevelere dâhil edilmesiyle, katılımcı tasarımın bu bağlamda oynadığı rol üzerine daha derinlemesine bir tartışma yürütülebilir. Makale, kamusal alan üzerinden mimarlık disiplini ve demokrasi kuramları arasındaki ilişkiyi irdelerken, kamusal alanın demokratikleştirilmesine yönelik süregelen eleştirilere de katkıda bulunuyor. Katılımcı tasarımın eşitlikçi bir demokrasiyi teşvik etme potansiyelini kabul eden makale, bu eleştirilerin üstesinden gelmek için mimarlık alanında alternatif bir teorik yaklaşım öneriyor.
Kabin memurlarında duygusal emek düzeyi ve iş tatmini arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi
Authors: Çalışkan Kazım
Published: July 2024

Çalışma yaşamında duygusal emek; çalışanların hizmet verdikleri süre içinde, kendilerinden beklenen duyguları sergilemeleridir. Çalışanların emek sürecine katabilecekleri son olgu duygularıdır. Özellikle hizmet sektörü çalışanlarından. Müşterilere karşı birtakım duyguları sergilemeleri beklenmektedir. Kurumlar, çalışanların bu beklentileri yerine getirmeleri için çalışanlar ise, bu beklentileri karşılamak için bir takım farklı yöntemler benimsemektedir. Bir duygu yönetimi süreci olan duygusal emek, sergilenen duygularla, gerçekte hissedilen duygular arasındaki ilişkiye bağlı olarak çalışanlar ve kurum açısından bir takım olumlu veya olumsuz etkiler yaratabilmektedir.
Bu araştırmada, duygusal emeğin çalışanların iş tatmini üzerinde ne gibi etkilerinin olduğunun incelenmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Bu sayede işletmelerde ya da örgütlerde fiziksel olmayan unsurların bir bütün olarak ne şekilde ele alınabileceği, duygusal emeğin gerek fiziksel unsurlarla gerekse iş tatmini gibi diğer bilişsel unsurlarla ne gibi ilişkisinin olduğunun da ortaya konması, çalışmada temel olarak üzerinde odaklanan husus olmuştur. Bu amaçla İstanbul’da havacılık sektöründe duygusal emeğin yaygınlığını ve biçimini, kabin ekibi çalışanları arasında yapılacak bir araştırma ile tespit edilmeye çalışılacaktır. Ayrıca duygusal emek sürecinin bu çalışan grubu üzerindeki etkileri de araştırılacaktır. Analiz için 260 anket toplanılmış ve “Bağımsız Örnek T testi” ve “tek yönlü ANOVA” testi kullanılmıştır. Katılımcıların beşli Likert ölçeğinde cevap vermeleri istenmiştir.
Analysing the Mediating Influence of Share Markets on the Relationship between GDP Growth and Macroeconomic Variables in MENA and Developed Countries
Authors: Sa’adah Salah , Bardai Barjoyai
Published: July 2024

This study examined the relationship between GDP growth and different macroeconomic variables including foreign direct investment, gross fixed capital formation, government expenditure on education, consumption expenditure, GDP per person employed, exchange rate, market capitalization, and inflation in case of MENA and developed countries. Furthermore, it tried exploring the mediating role of the share market in the relationship between economic development and various macroeconomic variables MENA & developed countries. The study has used panel data from the period of 2002-2021. The data has been taken from multiple sources i.e. World Development Indicators (WDI) by The World Bank, International Financial Statistics (IFS), several economic surveys of respective countries and Central Bank’s publications. The study reveals mixed order of integration among variables. Consumption expenditure is stationary in both panels, while expenditure on education is non-stationary. Real effective exchange rate is stationary under both panels, while GDP per employed persons is non-stationary. GDP growth rate, inflation, and market capitalization are stationary for both developed and Mena countries. However, gross fixed capital formation is stationary at first difference. The correlation matrix results show a weak correlation between consumption expenditure and educational expenditure, with a 9 percent negative correlation. For Mena countries, the study found a negative association between consumption expenditure and educational expenditure, with a 23% correlation. Real effective exchange rate is negatively associated with foreign direct investment, GDP per employed person, gross fixed capital formation, inflation, and market capitalization. For developed countries, the coefficient of FDI increases GDP growth rate by 97%, while gross fixed capital formation decreases GDP growth rate by 10.2 units due to 1 unit increase in gross fixed capital formation. Consumption expenditures increase GDP growth rate by 2% due to 1 unit increase, while inflation increases it by 5.9 units. Exchange rate is also positively related with GDP growth rate, with a 1% increase in exchange rate boosting it by 29%. The study found partial mediation of market capitalization in developed countries and uni-directional causality in Mena countries. Keywords: Market Capitalization, Mediation Analysis, Mena Countries, Economic Growth, Panel Data Analysis
Hedging Using Digital Currencies Against Inflation Risks In Light Of The Globalization Of Economic Activity: A Theoretical Study
Authors: Zaky Hussein Metwally Ahmed , Ramadan Tawfiq Abdalla
Published: July 2024

This theoretical study explores the potential of digital currencies as a hedging tool against inflation risks in the context of globalized economic activity. With the increasing interconnectedness of economies and the volatility of traditional currencies, investors and businesses are seeking alternative ways to protect their wealth from the eroding effects of inflation. Digital currencies, with their unique characteristics such as decentralization and limited supply, have emerged as a potential solution. This research investigates the theoretical underpinnings of using digital currencies for inflation hedging, analyzing their correlation with traditional assets and their performance during periods of high inflation. By examining the factors influencing the effectiveness of digital currencies as a hedge, this study aims to provide insights for investors and policymakers seeking to navigate the complexities of the global economic landscape. Keywords: digital currencies, inflation hedging, globalization, economic activity, theoretical study
Framework for Enhancing the Egyptian Accounting Standards Towards Convergence With International Financial Reporting Standards
Authors: Hussein Amani
Published: July 2024

The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) which are theoretically unique to each country, it provides standards for evaluating and comparing the financial position of companies. However, the International Accounting Standard (IAS), are developed to be used by all countries. The convergence of these national and international accounting standards is important for attracting foreign investors and potential domestic investors. Egypt has undergone serious steps towards convergence, such as the introduction of new standards or converging of old standards to be consistent with the international standards. A number of complex standards has been understood either by separating them into two or more standards or by adding supplements or guidelines to some of them. Alternatives of some of accounting standards are reduced to avoid differences in practices and manipulating profits. This research developed a framework towards convergence of Egyptian accounting standards and International accounting standard that include a number of viable points: started with determining the objective of the financial reports, determining the methods of applying the international standards, the importance of studying the cultural influence, developing accounting education, the need to develop professional organizations concerned with the profession of accounting and for implementing and follow-up of standards. Keywords: International accounting standard, convergence, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Egypt.
Design and Manufacture of Electric Car Chasis Frame for Two Passengers With Solidworks Modeling 2020
Authors: Zaenuri Ahmad , Sunardi Ade , Kasum
Published: July 2024

An electric car is a car that is driven by a DC motor using energy stored in thebattery. The use of electric cars is considered more effective in addition to notcausing air pollution and a simpler engine construction and as an alternativemeans of transportation. The frame/chassis is the main part of the car thatfunctions to support other components such as the engine, battery, steeringsystem, braking system, driver's seat and other vehicle equipment, and also asa vibration damper if the vehicle runs on various types of road surfaces andvarious modes of motion. From the vehicle, the frame used is a ladder framewhich has a simpler and stronger structure. This study aims to design andmanufacture the frame of an electric car and analyze the load received and themaximum load that the frame can withstand. This research begins with thedesign of the frame, then the assembly of the frame will be carried out thendata will be collected on the frame which will then be processed to determinethe load received by the frame and analyze the value of the welding stress onthe frame.
Determination of better insulating oil for power transformer oil application using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)
Authors: Arief Yanuar Z. , Abd Hamid Nazirah , Izzwan Saad Mohd Hafiez , Al Hakim Rosyid R
Published: July 2024

The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) which was developed by Saaty is a decision-making tool in the year of 1970s. The system is able to solve the complex analysis which could not be performed by the human brain. In this project, the AHP system is chosen to select a better insulating oil for power transformer oil application since the insulation is the most important part of a transformer. In this research method based on the AHP technique, there are six criteria are involved in the model, namely breakdown voltage, dissipation factor/tan delta, pour point, kinematic viscosity, density, and flash point. While, the given alternatives are palm oil, canola oil, palm fatty acid ester (PFAE) oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, and soybean oil, respectively. A spreadsheet software application (Microsoft Excel) was employed in this study. As the result, it is found that the PFAE oil is the best insulating oil that able to be used in a real power transformer oil application. All requirements as insulating oil for transformer oil of PFAE oil are met significantly.
Steel Structure Analysis of Workshop Facility in PT Pamapersada Nusantara
Authors: Halim Mirza Abdul , Rutama Dedy , Sari Ribut Nawang
Published: July 2024

Structural planning in every building construction, aims to take into account the ability to withstand the loads that occur. The structural elements must be designed and calculated based on the appropriate combination of standard loads. Workshop facility project at PT. Pamapersada Nusantara uses a steel structure with steel profiles for columns and beams. The function of the steel profile as a cross section of the structure is very important, for that it is necessary to analyse and design the right steel profile for the structural elements of steel columns and beams at the Workshop Facility Project of PT. Pamapersada Nusantara. The method used in this research is based on a case study on the object of research in the project. This building structure planning was analysed using a computer-based structural calculation program, namely the SAP2000 v.22 program, referring to SNI 1729-2020 concerning Procedures for Planning Steel Structures for Buildings and SNI 1726:2019 Procedures for Planning Earthquake Resistance for Building Structures and Non-Building and SNI 1727:2020 Minimum Load for Design of Buildings and Other Structures and Indonesian Loading Regulations for Buildings (PPIUG 2019). The result of structure analysis using SAP2000 V.22, indicates that there are no failed frames/structures with structural susceptibility > 1.0 (red) meaning that they are unable to carry the load that will occur. Meanwhile, frames/structures < 1.0 (grey, blue, green, yellow, orange) mean that they are capable of bear the brunt of what is to come.
Deletion Graph Problems Based on Deadlock Resolution
Authors: Carneiro Alan Diêgo Aurélio , Protti Fábio , Santos Uéverton S.
Published: July 2024

A deadlock occurs in a distributed computing when a group of processes wait indefinitely for resources from each other. Such a property is stable, that is, once occurs into a global state it also will exist in any subsequent global state. Distributed computations are usually represented by wait-for graphs, where the behavior of processes is determined by a deadlock model. In this paper we consider the scenario where deadlock was detected in a system and then some deadlock-breaking set must be found and removed. Hence, given a “snapshot” G of a deadlocked distributed computation which operates according to a deadlock model M, we investigate the complexity of vertex deletion and arc deletion problems whose goal is to obtain the minimum number of removals in order to turn G free of graph structures that characterize deadlocks. The complexity of such problems depends on the deadlock model which governs the computation as well as the type of structure to be removed. The results of this paper are NP-completeness proofs and polynomial algorithms for general and particular graph classes. In special, we show that the arc deletion problem on the OR Model can be solved in polynomial time, and the vertex deletion problem on the OR Model remains NP-Complete even on graphs with Δ(G) = 4, but it is solvable in polynomial time on graphs with Δ(G) ≤ 3.
Edge-colouring of triangle-free graphs with no proper majors
Authors: Zatesko Leandro M. , Carmo Renato , Guedes André Luiz P.
Published: July 2024

The problem of determining the chromatic index of a graph, even when triangle-free, is NP-hard. However, the Overfull Conjecture implies that this problem can be solved in polynomial time for graphs with large maximum degree. In order to prove the conjecture, it is sufficient to show that all nonsubgraph-overfull graphs with Δ > n/3 are Class 1. A special case of non-subgraph-overfull graphs are the graphs with no proper majors. We show that all triangle-free graphs with no proper majors, regardless of maximum degree, are Class 1. We also provide a polynomial-time algorithm to colour such graphs.
Uma generalização dos Códigos Hamming
Authors: Pedroza N. , Pinto P. E. D. , Szwarcfiter J. L.
Published: July 2024

Apresentamos uma construção recursiva de códigos lineares ótimos de comprimento n ≥ 3 e distância Hamming 3, bem como os processos de codificação e decodificação com desempenho eficiente. Em particular, para n da forma 2r − 1 temos exatamente os códigos Hamming binários.
Facility Leasing with Penalties
Authors: de Lima Murilo Santos , San Felice Mário César , Lee Orlando
Published: July 2024

In this paper we study the facility leasing problem with penalties. We present a 3-approximation primal-dual algorithm, based on the algorithms by Nagarajan and Williamson for the facility leasing problem and by Charikar, Khuller, Mount and Narasimhan for the facility location problem with penalties.
The Least-Dependency Constrained Spanning Tree Problem
Authors: Viana Luiz Alberto , Campêlo Manoel
Published: July 2024

We introduce the Least-Dependency Constrained Spanning Tree Problem, which consists of finding a spanning tree where each edge has at least one edge of its dependency set, if non-empty, also in the tree. The dependencies on the input graph G are described by a digraph D where the vertices are the edges of G, and the in-neighbors of a vertex are its dependency set. We show that the optimization problem is NP-hard even if G is a chordal cactus with maximum degree 3 or diameter at most 2, and D is a disjoint union of arborescences of height 2. The same complexity is proved when G is planar bipartite, and each component of D is an oriented cycle or an anti-arborescence of height 1. We also report two polynomial cases.
Uma técnica para obtenção de atratores de autômatos celulares elementares
Authors: Ruivo Eurico L. P. , de Oliveira Pedro P. B.
Published: July 2024

Autômatos celulares são sistemas dinâmicos totalmente discretos, apresentando uma dinâmica definida localmente. Apesar da simplicidade, tais sistemas são capazes de apresentar comportamento emergente global complexo. Uma questão fundamental no estudo dos autõmatos celulares é sobre seu comportamento global para uma evolução temporal infinita do sistema. Aqui apresentamos uma técnica para inferir atratores de autõmatos celulares elementares, tomando como base a análise das expressões regulares que descrevem as evoluções temporais finitas de um autômato celular elementar em particular.
Tight bounds for gap-labellings
Authors: Weffort-Santos C. A. , Campos C. N. , Schouery R. C. S.
Published: July 2024

An ordered pair (π, cπ) is said to be a gap-[k]-edge-labelling (gap-[k]-vertex-labelling) if π is an edge-labelling (vertex-labelling) on the set {1, . . . , k}, and cπ is a proper vertex-colouring induced by a gap-function based on π. Gap-[k]-edge-labellings and gap-[k]-vertex-labellings were first introduced by M. Tahraoui et al. [7] and A. Dehghan et al. [2], respectively. The edge-gap number (vertex-gap number) is the least k for which there exists a gap-[k]-edge-labelling (gap-[k]-vertex-labelling) of a graph. In this work, we study the edge-gap number, χgE, and the vertex-gap number, χgV, of cycles, crowns and wheels.
Finding Quality Early Childcare
Authors: Vanover Sarah
Published: July 2024

Finding Quality Early Childcareis a tool for parents to use in selecting quality childcare that best meets the needs of their family. This book reviews foundational elements of childcare, such as health and safety features, while explaining educational strategies, including styles of teaching and daily classroom activities. Finding Quality Early Childcare also covers types of specialized childcare, such as infant care and childcare for children with special needs, reviews Transitional Kindergarten, and discusses when children are ready to transition from preschool to Kindergarten.
Beautiful Risks
Authors: Beghetto Ronald A.
Published: July 2024

This book is about knowing when creative action is worth the risk and when it is not. This includes developing the awareness, courage, and confidence to support and take risks when it is beneficial to do so in the classroom. It also includes being able to recognize when certain risks should be avoided. The key is knowing when and how to take creative action in a way that not only makes sense for the situation at hand, but also stands to make a positive contribution to others. The aim of this book is to help you and your students identify the kinds of risks that are worth taking, better anticipate and navigate potential hazards associated with those risks, and maximize the potential benefits.
Seen and Not Heard
Authors: Mohr Lone Jana
Published: July 2024

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title

How might society benefit if children were recognized as independent thinkers, capable of seeing clearly and contributing in valuable ways to our world? How would children’s lives change if what they said was not often ignored or patronized?

In a series of conversations with children about many of life’s important philosophical questions, Seen and Not Heard reveals children as perceptive and original thinkers. Guided by discussions about the meaning of childhood, friendship, justice and fairness, happiness, and death, the book invites us to rethink our beliefs about children and become more receptive to the ways we can learn from them.
Reframing Mental Health in Schools
Authors: Keith Erin , Maich Kimberly
Published: July 2024

The book includes first-hand stories and experiences collaborating with school teams as they work with, support and program for students from around the globe displaying a wide variety of mental health concerns. The student stories embrace mental health-related concerns such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, suicidal ideations, among others, and outline inclusive strategies school staff can facilitate and scaffold with students that builds their resiliency, social-emotional / healthy relationship skills, and supports healthy healing and a path to recovery.
Community College Student Mental Health
Authors: Latz Amanda O.
Published: July 2024

Community college student mental health is a critical topic among community college leaders, faculty, and staff. Mental health concerns among community college students are more prevalent and more pronounced than among students at four-year institutions. The recent pandemic has further amplified students’ mental health concerns. Poor mental health can negatively affect student success outcomes such as persistence within courses, grade point average, and credential completion. Even though the research in this area is growing, additional work is necessary to fully grasp the scope and details of the issue.

Within this book, Latz outlines the contours of the issue by explaining what is already known. She then uses data from a study involving interviews with community college faculty to further explain the issue from their unique and important vantage points. Readers will learn about both the professional lives of community college faculty and their experiences with and perspectives of their students, many of whom navigate mental health issues. The book is concluded with robust recommendations for community college leaders who are seeking ways to better support their students.
Teaching Science in Elementary Schools
Authors: Gandy S. Kay , Hendrick Harmony , Roberts Jessica
Published: July 2024

This book provides teachers with 50 dynamic activities to teach science, through music, food, games, literature, community, environment, and everyday objects. The authors share tried and tested ideas from their collective 75 years of teaching experiences. For the busy teacher with little time to plan lessons, resources are provided that include guided worksheets for activities, pre, post and during ideas to accompany activities, and vocabulary and literature connections. With this book in hand, teachers can create opportunities for students to see science in application, and to think logically as they ask questions, test ideas, and solve problems.
The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture
Authors: Hayden Karen E.
Published: July 2024

The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture: All Too Familiar studies how the mythology of the primitive rural other became linked to evolutionary theories, both biological and social, that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. This mythology fit well on the imaginary continuums of primitive to civilized, rural to urbanormative, backward to forward-thinking, and regress versus progress. In each chapter of The Rural Primitive, Karen E. Hayden uses popular cultural depictions of the rural primitive to illustrate the ways in which this trope was used to set poor, rural whites apart from others. Not only were they set apart, however; they were also set further down on the imaginary continuum of progress and regress, of evolution and devolution. Hayden argues that small, rural, tight-knit communities, where “everyone knows everyone” and “everyone is related” came to be an allegory for what will happen if society resists modernization and urbanization. The message of the rural, close-knit community is clear: degeneracy, primitivism, savagery, and an overall devolution will result if groups are allowed to become too insular, too close, too familiar.
Psychophysiological Methods in Language Research
Authors: Hardacre Bahiyyih
Published: July 2024

Psychophysiological Methods in Language Research: Rethinking Embodiment in Studies of Linguistic Behaviors by Bahiyyih Hardacreis a guide for adopting a transdisciplinary and multidimensional approach to language research. Language research areas that could benefit from psychophysiological methods are first/second/foreign language learning, teaching, use, assessment, performance, anxiety, motivation, attitudes, ideologies, perceptions, and identities, among others. To aid researchers in deciding on a suitable physiological measurement method, this book provides an overview of each of the most popular physiological measurements today, along with their potential applications in language research. Bahiyyih Hardacre explains what each of the physiological methods can tell us, illustrates how each physiological method can inform language research by citing a few language studies that used that particular measurement, and provides information about the appropriate procedures for data collection and data processing.
When Communication Became a Discipline
Authors: Eadie William F.
Published: July 2024

When Communication Became a Discipline argues that speech and journalism professors embraced the concept of communication between 1964 and 1982. They changed the names of their scholarly societies and journals and revised their academic curricula. Five “strands” of scholarship became and remain central to this transformation. Communication is not a traditional academic discipline, but its scholars convinced their colleagues to understand and embrace it. When Communication Became a Discipline presents an argument with historical evidence that illustrates scholarly creativity at its finest.
Everyday Violence Against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities
Authors: Brooks Siobhan
Published: July 2024

In Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities, Siobhan Brooks argues that hate crimes and violence against Black and Latinx LGBT people are the products of institutions and ideologies that exist both outside and inside of Black and Latinx communities. Brooks analyzes families, educational systems, healthcare industries, and religious spaces as institutions that can perpetuate and transform the political and cultural beliefs and attitudes that engender violence toward LGBT Black and Latinx people.
Decolonial Futures
Authors: Hong Christine J.
Published: July 2024

A book on teaching and learning in theological education, Decolonial Futures: Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education is guided by the questions, "What makes education intercultural and interreligious?" "How might we rethink and redesign spaces of learning to be hospitable to cultural and religious differences as well as to dismantle the coloniality of theological education?" "How might we subvert traditionally colonial spaces to model the engaged intercultural and interreligious world that we seek?" The book helps educators and practitioners of intercultural and interreligious learning both deconstruct and reconstruct spaces of learning by centering interreligious and intercultural intelligence through the voices, experiences, and narratives of minoritized people.
Scramble for the Skies
Authors: Goswami Namrata , Garretson Peter A.
Published: July 2024

With a focus on China, the United States, and India, this book examines the economic ambitions of the second space race. The authors argue that space ambitions are informed by a combination of factors, including available resources, capability, elite preferences, and talent pool. The authors demonstrate how these influences affect the development of national space programs as well as policy and law.
Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds
Authors: Almassi Ben
Published: July 2024

“One of the penalties of an ecological education,” wrote Aldo Leopold,” is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Ideally we would not do each other or the rest of our biotic community wrong, but we have, and still do. We need non-ideal environmental ethics for living together in this world of wounds. Ethics does not stop after wrongdoing: the aftermath of environmental harm demands ethical action. How we work to repair healthy relationality matters as much as the wounds themselves.

Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds discusses the possibilities and practices of reparative environmental justice. It builds on theories of justice in political philosophy, feminist ethics, indigenous studies, and criminal justice as extended to non-ideal environmental ethics. How can reparative environmental justice provide a useful perspective on ecological restoration, human-animal entanglements, climate change, environmental racism, and traditional ecological knowledge? How can it promote just practices and policies while enabling effective opposition to business as usual? And how does reparative justice look different when we go beyond narrowly construed human conflicts to include relational repair with ecosystems, other animals, and future generations?
A Qualitative Study of Black Atheists
Authors: Swann Daniel
Published: July 2024

A Qualitative Study of Black Atheists: "Don’t Tell Me You’re One of Those" is an interdisciplinary examination of a group that is rarely the study of inquiry, Black Atheists. Using in-depth, qualitative interviews, Daniel Swann builds a foundation for understanding Black Atheist identities, how Black Atheists conceive of themselves, how they perceive, internalize, and manage stigma, how they view in-group belonging, and how they understand their experiences as Atheists to be racialized. The author argues these unique circumstances have produced a distinctive identity at this particular intersection of race and religion.
Faculty Success through Mentoring
Authors: Bland Carole J. , Taylor Anne L. , Shollen S. Lynn , Weber-Main Anne Marie , Mulcahy Patricia A.
Published: July 2024

Few things are more essential to the success of an academic institution than vital faculty members. This book is a rich combination of findings from the literature and practical tools, which together assist academic leaders and faculty in implementing and participating in a successful formal mentoring program that can be used as a strategy for maintaining the vitality of a diverse faculty across all stages of an academic career.

In Faculty Success through Mentoring, the authors describe the tangible benefits of formal, traditional mentoring programs, in which mentor-mentee interactions are deliberate, structured, and goal-oriented. They outline the characteristics of effective mentors, mentees, and mentoring programs, and cover other models of mentoring programs, such as group and peer mentoring, which are particularly suited for senior and mid-career faculty.

Also included are tools that institutions, mentors, and mentees can use to navigate successfully through the phases of a mentoring relationship. One of the unique features of this book is its explicit attention to the challenges to effective mentoring across genders, ethnicities, and generations. No matter what role one plays in mentoring, this book is an invaluable resource.
Disparagement Humor in Social Life
Authors: Miczo Nathan
Published: July 2024

In this book, Nathan Miczo demonstrates that humor operates at different levels of identity, exploring how within- and between-group dynamics shape the creation and reception of disparagement humor. While positive forms of humor arise in interpersonal settings, negative forms reflect the activation of group-based, communal identities. Building on this dual sociality view, Miczo critiques the superiority theory of disparagement humor, rooted in Hobbes’s definition of laughter, and tied to his notion of a “war of all against all.” Miczo employs the agōn (Greek for contest) to replace the Hobbesian metaphor with a view that groups use disparagement humor to pursue rival goals. This perspective forwards the multifunctional utility of humor in social life, analyzing examples of naturally occurring interaction drawn from studies in Communication, Psychology, and Anthropology. Scholars of humor studies, communication, and anthropology, will find this book of particular interest.
The Cyber Meta-Reality
Authors: Sipper Joshua A.
Published: July 2024

As one begins to explore the many complexities of quantum computing, nanotechnology, and AI, it becomes clear that there is an underlying reality within cyberspace that is comprised of other realities and that these realities all have their own biomes, ecosystems, and microbiomes built on information, energy, and human creative reality and potential. It is clear that there has not been much research on this , especially the piece dealing with the cyber microbiome, which looks at the part of the iceberg that is “under the surface” and makes up most of cyberspace, much like how our human microbiome is many orders of magnitude larger than our human cells. The microbiome is extremely important from the perspective of how to treat diseases in humans, especially bacterial infections. The same is true for how to treat “diseases” in the cyber meta-reality. Thus, knowing all we can about the cyber meta-reality, biome, and microbiome is absolutely necessary in ensuring this world’s growth, care, and flourishing.
Different Approaches on Central Asia
Authors: Usman Sahibzada Muhammad
Published: July 2024

This book explains Central Asia's different perceptive, especially in the economic, security, and energy fields. The book also clarifies the influence of America, Russia, Europe, and China on Central Asian countries. Central Asia and international players' current association depends on geographic, political, economic, and security factors. Central Asia sits at the center of the Asian continent, a region rich in history and culture. This region benefits from a mixture of national identities that have been developed carefully for many decades.

Central Asia consists of five former Soviet nations, as it is currently defined: Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. This book discusses several issues involves in Central Asia.
Mentored to Perfection
Authors: Dennis Simone , Behie Alison
Published: July 2024

Mentored to Perfection: The Masculine Terms of Success in Academia examines how mentoring programs between women tend to replicate the hierarchical relations of patriarchy that they are meant to dismantle. Simone Dennis and Alison Behie argue that, while paradigmatic mentoring programs look like networking support services for neophytes, these mentorships nevertheless replicate the very institutional structures they seek to uproot. The generosity that senior women show to junior women as they share their tips and offer their support ironically obscures participants’ involvement in debt relations and the biases of replicating a particular type of success. This book considers the possibilities for disrupting our tendency to reproduce ourselves in the masculine terms of success.
Religious Experience and Religious Lives
Authors: Stepanenko Walter Scott
Published: July 2024

Religious Experience and Religious Lives: An Epistemology defends a moderate approach to religious experiences in which they can contribute to the justification of central religious beliefs, most importantly belief in God. Epistemologists of religion disagree about what evidential value religious experiences have. Some argue that religious experiences have no evidential value while others argue that religious experiences constitute proof of God’s existence. However, Walter Scott Stepanenko argues that religious experiences can contribute to these justificatory cases in several distinct ways and that several justificatory cases are philosophically viable. This book contends that this joint justificatory viability is best explained by the diversity and development of religious lives: as religious believers grow in a faith tradition, their access to an evidential base can develop and the contributory work religious experiences provide in defense of religious belief can change. This suggests that various epistemologies of religious experience implicitly emphasize different life stages or different prototypical religious believers and that a fully adequate epistemology of religious experience will be expansive, pluralistic, and responsive to the diversity of religious believers and their development in a religious tradition.
Benched Justice
Authors: Braaten Claire Nolasco , Braaten Daniel
Published: July 2024

This book delves into the complex and often politicized world of asylum claims and asylum rights of children seeking sanctuary in the United States. This eye-opening book asks two vital questions: do immigration judges base their asylum decisions on more than just the law, and how have federal courts responded to executive policies and programs that significantly affect the rights of these minors? With over 12,000 immigration court decisions and 200 federal court cases as its backbone, this book uncovers how both legal and political factors shape the fate of children seeking asylum. The findings reveal that while political factors do influence the decision-making process, courts still strive to protect the legal rights of unaccompanied minors, pushing back against some of the more harmful and legally dubious immigration policies pursued by various Presidential administration This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the intricacies of asylum claims and asylum rights of unaccompanied minors in the United States.
Little Vast Rooms of Undoing
Authors: Blumenthal Dara
Published: July 2024

Public toilets are places where individual identity is put to the test through experiences of fear, anxiety, shame, and embarrassment, yet also places where we shore up, confirm, and check the status of our gendered identities. In these highly gendered and sex-segregated places, people of various and varied identities come together and separately conduct their ‘business’ through socially contingent toileting habits and behaviors.

Based on empirical research with men, women, gender non-conforming, and trans individuals who have a range of sexual identities, Little Vast Rooms of Undoing attempts to understand a nearly universal aspect of daily life in the contemporary West.

Through a meditation on socially dictated practices and their associated emotions, it argues that experiences within public toilets expose the fissures of individual identity construction and understanding and opening the possibilities for a more relational and cohesive experience of the embodied self.
Ricoeur and the Post-Structuralists
Authors: Michel Johann
Published: July 2024

In this important and original book, Johann Michel paves the way for a greater understanding of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy by exploring it in relation to some major figures of contemporary French thought—Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Castoriadis.

Although the fertile dialogue between Ricoeur and various structuralist thinkers is well documented, his position in relation to the post-structuralist movement is less-widely understood. Does Ricoeur's philosophy stand in opposition to post-structuralism in France or, on the contrary, is it in fact a unique variation of that movement? This book defends the latter statement. Michel speaks of post-structuralisms in the plural form and engages them in a dynamic confrontation between Ricoeur and his contemporaries in the French intellectual scene. The result is a better understanding of Ricoeur's thought and also of the distinctive issues that emerge through confrontation between Ricoeur and each of these post-structuralist thinkers.
Justifying Same-Sex Marriage
Authors: Richardson-Self Louise
Published: July 2024

There is massive public interest in same-sex marriage, a controversial topic that is rarely out of the media. This book investigates the extent to which legalizing same-sex marriage can contribute to ending the discrimination and social stigma faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender men and women (LGBT) in the Western world.

This issue breaks down into several further questions: can marriage equality be defended without reinforcing the idea that marriage is the most/only valuable form of intimate relationship? Can marriage equality be defended without further marginalizing non-conforming LGBT people? What kind of equality should LGBT people strive for? What critical agency might they lose when this equality is achieved? What institutional legacies should we embrace? The book focuses on human rights arguments supporting same-sex marriage and questions whether they are likely to both justify legal change and encourage shifts in the sociopolitical reception of LGBT people. After critically analyzing various arguments in favor of same-sex marriage, the author puts forward a justification that allows for marriage equality and does not result in the assimilation of queer identities into heteronormative identity.