bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
‘Another like me’
Authors: Storer Richard
Published: May 2020

During the first ten years of his career as a novelist Walter Besant wrote fiction collaboratively with James Rice, in an unusual partnership that only ended with Rice’s death in 1882. This essay examines the nine Besant and Rice novels and what is known about the partnership that produced them, including what is suggested by the intriguing portrait of the two authors painted around the time of Rice’s death. The Besant and Rice novels are often regarded as insignificant compared to Besant’s later solo work, but this essay argues that they should be considered as integral to Besant’s oeuvre and as essential for understanding of the key themes of his later work, such as social reform and authorship.
Walter Besant and Copyright Reform
Authors: Gillies Mary Ann
Published: May 2020

Walter Besant waged what some would call a relentless campaign for copyright reform in the last twenty-five years of the nineteenth century. At its core was an insistence on proper remuneration for authors, yet his campaign may also be seen as part of his broader aim for authorship to attain the status of a profession on par with medicine or law. In Besant’s hands, copyright reform thus takes on important social and political functions in addition to its more pragmatic aim of protecting authors’ rights.
Besant, Chatto, and Watt
Authors: Eliot Simon
Published: May 2020

Walter Besant was a very successful novelist in the late nineteenth century but his income never quite matched his popularity, which rose in the 1880s and slowly fell thereafter. He did not use the royalty system in his contracts but instead sold his copyrights either outright or for a limited term to book, magazine, and newspaper publishers. This was probably an expression of his doubts about the longer-term success of his work. He was one of the earliest significant novelists to use the services of A. P. Watt, the first formal literary agent in the UK. Watt was able to farm Besant’s literary property by splitting it into UK book rights (usually sold to Chatto and Windus), foreign book rights, first serialisation rights, second serialisation rights, and syndication in various newspaper and magazine markets in the USA, Europe, and British Empire. In the 1890s Besant earned an average of £1,750 for each of his major novels. Besant claimed that Watt had increased his income significantly. There is evidence that Watt did have an effect, but that Besant becoming a solo writer after 1881 – and gaining securer income in the USA from the Chace Act (1891) – were the more important factors.
Workers as Artists
Authors: Çelikkol Ayşe
Published: May 2020

Walter Besant denied that there was any necessary connection between the literary and the commercial value of any given literary work, but in his fiction and nonfiction he acknowledges that literary and commercial experiences often overlap. Besant’s advocacy for professional authorship in The Autobiography and The Pen and the Book and his call for a Palace of Delight in All Sorts and Conditions of Men foreground the intertwining of commerce, utility, and production with art, literature and taste. Both Besant’s fiction and his nonfiction reveal that the presence of the economic in aesthetic experiences is both necessary and productive.
The Ethics of Perception and the Politics of Recognition
Authors: Swafford Kevin
Published: May 2020

In All Sorts and Conditions of Men Walter Besant focuses his novelistic gaze on what he perceived as the neglected “romance” and “possibilities” of the East End of London (as opposed to its more horrific and tragic realities), and famously forwarded a utopian, “cultural solution” to the apparently mind-numbing monotony of East End existence. What is generally missed in the critical approaches to All Sorts and Conditions of Men are the subtle ways in which Besant’s socio-cultural “focus” (the respectable, but dull and neglected East End) and “solution” (cultural philanthropy and paternalistic economic relations) reflect Besant’s attempt to work through and elaborate a kind of relational and perspectival ethics through the generic hybridity (and perhaps, ultimately, limitations) of an “urban romance.”
Walter Besant
Authors: Diniejko Andrzej
Published: May 2020

This chapter discusses the extent of Walter Besant’s indebtedness to Charles Dickens’s oeuvre. It advances the thesis that of all Victorian novelists Dickens exerted a major influence not only on Besant’s literary development, but also on his social ideas and literary technique. In a way, Besant shared Dickens’s belief that benevolence and good-heartedness may help overcome social ills and contribute to cross-class co-operation and solidarity. The mark of Dickens’s style can be seen in many novels written by Besant in collaboration with James Rice or alone, particularly in his slum novels. Besant, now almost forgotten and neglected, was a literary giant of his day, who, like a latter-day Dickens, rendered a harsh indictment of his compatriot’s treatment of the poor.
Conclusion
Authors: Carbonell Curtis D.
Published: May 2020

Dread Trident has argued that theorizing the modern fantastic within the context of TRPG texts is important for understanding SF and fantasy as academic disciplines, as well as for understanding the rise of realized worlds. It has worked through case studies of representative TRPGs to provide a variety of examples of this phenomenon, utilizing core concepts such as SF as modern myth-making, the Singularity as a fantasy trope, hyper-embodied language, enchantment-as-magification, fantasy’s challenge to the mundane, gametext harmonization in imaginary worlds, the draconic-posthuman trope, the ‘spectral return’ of the gothic, cosmic horror, cosmic despair, realized-fantasy space, ironic distance, untranslatable and unimaginable representation, ‘nerdy’ categorization of the material, complexity of lore in fantasy gametexts, post-anthropocene posthumanization, etc. In the modern fantastic’s realized worlds of TRPGs we have a wealth of unexamined gametexts that function like engineering tools along with discursive literary objects. They are both. And they are designed for material, embodied gameplay. They form a megatext of shared-world-setting creation far beyond those of any one author. The fantasy they offer provides a way of managing existence within modern, technologized life....
Articulating Bodies
Authors: Hingston Kylee-Anne
Published: May 2020

Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability’s medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and the body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl’s 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Crooked Man” (1893), covering genres that typically relied upon disabled or diseased characters. By tracing the patterns of focalization and narrative structure across six decades of the nineteenth century and across six genres, Articulating Bodies shows the mutability of the Victorians’ understanding of the human body’s centrality to identity—an understanding made mutable by changes in science, technology, religion, and class. It also demonstrates how that understanding changed along with developing narrative styles: as disability became increasingly medicalized and the soul increasingly psychologized, the mode of looking at deviant bodies shifted from gaping at spectacle to scrutinizing specimen, and the shape of narratives evolved from lengthy multiple-plot novels to slim case studies. Moreover, the book illustrates that, despite this overall linear movement from spectacle to specimen in literature and culture, individual texts consistently reveal ambivalence about categorizing the body, positioning some bodies as abnormally deviant while also denying the reality or stability of normalcy. Bodies in Victorian fiction never remain stable entities, in spite of narrative drives and the social, medical, or scientific discourses that attempted to control and understand them.
High Enterprise
Authors: Achinstein Sharon
Published: May 2020

In the course of his research for the divorce tracts “Milton became a modern sort of scholar” as his scholarship changed and developed. Although in the divorce tracts themselves “Milton adheres mostly to Biblical and legal interpretation,” his scholarship “uses up to date methodologies of Biblical philology and reaches across sectarian divides.”
Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry in the Orion Nebula Cluster: Census of Low-mass Runaways
Authors: Platais Imants , Robberto Massimo , Bellini Andrea , Kozhurina-Platais Vera , Gennaro Mario , Strampelli Giovanni , Hillenbrand Lynne A. , de Mink Selma E. , Soderblom David R.
Published: May 2020

We present a catalog of high-precision proper motions in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), based on Treasury Program observations with the Hubble Space Telescope’s (HST) ACS/WFC camera. Our catalog contains 2454 objects in the magnitude range of 14.2 < m
F775W < 24.7, thus probing the stellar masses of the ONC from ∼0.4 M
☉ down to ∼0.02 M
☉ over an area of ∼550 arcmin2. We provide a number of internal velocity dispersion estimates for the ONC that indicate a weak dependence on stellar location and mass. There is good agreement with the published velocity dispersion estimates, although nearly all of them (including ours at

and

mas yr−1) might be biased by the overlapping young stellar populations of Orion A. We identified four new ONC candidate runaways based on HST and the Gaia DR 2 data, all with masses less than ∼1 M
☉. The total census of known candidate runaway sources is 10—one of the largest samples ever found in any Milky Way open star cluster. Surprisingly, none of them have tangential velocities exceeding 20 km s−1. If most of them indeed originated in the ONC, it may compel the re-examination of dynamical processes in very young star clusters. It appears that the mass function of the ONC is not significantly affected by the lost runaways.
Dynamical Properties of Molecular-forming Gas Clumps in Galaxies at the Epoch of Reionization
Authors: Leung T. K. Daisy , Pallottini Andrea , Ferrara Andrea , Mac Low Mordecai-Mark
Published: May 2020

We study the properties of molecular-forming gas clumps (MGCs) at the epoch of reionization using cosmological zoom-in simulations. We identify MGCs in a

prototypical galaxy (“Althæa”) using an H2 density-based clump finder. We compare their mass, size, velocity dispersion, gas surface density, and virial parameter (

) to observations. In Althæa, the typical MGC mass and size are

M
⊙ and

pc, which are comparable to those found in nearby spirals and starburst galaxies. MGCs are highly supersonic and supported by turbulence, with rms velocity dispersions of

20–100 km s−1 and pressure of

(i.e.,

with respect to the Milky Way), similar to those found in nearby and z  ∼  2 gas-rich starburst galaxies. In addition, we perform stability analysis to understand the origin and dynamical properties of MGCs. We find that MGCs are globally stable in the main disk of Althæa. Densest regions where star formation is expected to take place in clouds and cores on even smaller scales instead have lower

and Toomre Q values. Detailed studies of the star-forming gas dynamics at the epoch of reionization thus require a spatial resolution of ≲40 pc (≃

), which is within reach with the Atacama Large (sub-)Millimeter Array and the Next Generation Very Large Array.
Seven new species of spider-attacking Hymenoepimecis Viereck (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) from Ecuador, French Guiana, and Peru, with an identification key to the world species
Authors: Pádua Diego Galvão de , Sääksjärvi Ilari Eerikki , Monteiro Ricardo Ferreira , Oliveira Marcio Luiz de
Published: May 2020

Seven new species of Hymenoepimecis Viereck are described from Peruvian Andes and Amazonia, French Guiana and Ecuador: H. andina Pádua & Sääksjärvi, sp. nov., H. castilloi Pádua & Sääksjärvi, sp. nov., H. dolichocarinata Pádua & Sääksjärvi, sp. nov., H. ecuatoriana Pádua & Sääksjärvi, sp. nov., H. longilobus Pádua & Sääksjärvi, sp. nov., H. pucallpina Pádua & Sääksjärvi, sp. nov., and H. rafaelmartinezi Pádua & Sääksjärvi, sp. nov. In addition, the male of the Hymenoepimecis kleini Pádua & Sobczak, 2015 is described, new faunistic records for the genus provided, as well as an illustrated identification key to all known species of the genus.
A new species of squat lobster of the genus Hendersonida (Crustacea, Decapoda, Munididae) from Papua New Guinea
Authors: RodrÍguez-Flores Paula C. , Macpherson Enrique , Machordom Annie
Published: May 2020

Hendersonida parvirostrissp. nov. is described from Papua New Guinea. The new species can be distinguished from the only other species of the genus, H. granulata (Henderson, 1885), by the fewer spines on the dorsal carapace surface, the shape of the rostrum and supraocular spines, the antennal peduncles, and the length of the walking legs. Pairwise genetic distances estimated using the 16S rRNA and COI DNA gene fragments indicated high levels of sequence divergence between the new species and H. granulata. Phylogenetic analyses, however, recovered both species as sister species, supporting monophyly of the genus.
Analysis of COVID-19 transmission in Shanxi Province with discrete time imported cases
Authors: Li Ming-Tao ,   School of Mathematics, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China, Sun Gui-Quan , Zhang Juan , Zhao Yu , Pei Xin , Li Li , Wang Yong , Zhang Wen-Yi , Zhang Zi-Ke , Jin Zhen ,   Department of Mathematics, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China,   Complex Systems Research Center, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China,   School of Public Health and Management, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, 750004, China,   School of Computer and Information Technology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China,   Center for Disease Control and Prevention of PLA, Beijing 100071, China,   College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310028, China,   Alibaba Research Center for Complexity Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, 311121, China
Published: May 2020

Since December 2019, an outbreak of a novel coronavirus pneumonia (WHO named COVID-19) swept across China. In Shanxi Province, the cumulative confirmed cases finally reached 133 since the first confirmed case appeared on January 22 2020, and most of which were imported cases from Hubei Province. Reasons for this ongoing surge in Shanxi province, both imported and autochthonous infected cases, are currently unclear and demand urgent investigation. In this paper, we developed a SEIQR difference-equation model of COVID-19 that took into account the transmission with discrete time imported cases, to perform assessment and risk analysis. Our findings suggest that if the lock-down date in Wuhan is earlier, the infectious cases are fewer. Moreover, we reveal the effects of city lock-down date on the final scale of cases: if the date is advanced two days, the cases may decrease one half (67, 95% CI: 66–68); if the date is delayed for two days, the cases may reach about 196 (95% CI: 193–199). Our investigation model could be potentially helpful to study the transmission of COVID-19, in other provinces of China except Hubei. Especially, the method may also be used in countries with the first confirmed case is imported.
An Overview of Multilingual Learners' Literacy Needs for the 21st Century
Authors: Christison MaryAnn , Murray Denise E.
Published: May 2020

The most common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write. However, for teachers working with multilingual learners, the development of literacy skills is much more complex than this simple definition would suggest. Notions of literacy in the 21st century have evolved in response to a number of societal changes, such as globalization, large-scale human migration, and advances in digital technologies. This chapter considers how these societal changes have influenced conceptions and practices of literacy. It provides a brief overview of some important theoretical considerations that inform understandings of literacy development for multilingual learners, including critical literacy, multiliteracies, multimodal literacy, and translanguaging, and explores current conceptions of literacy to help second and foreign language (SFL) teachers better understand how to meet the literacy needs of multilingual learners in the 21st century, offering practical suggestions for teaching from a multiliteracies perspective.
Visual Literacy and Young Learners
Authors: Tørnby Hilde
Published: May 2020

This chapter explores visual literacy from theoretical and practical perspectives. Ideas of what is meant by visual literacy and why this is important are presented through a selection of studies. The impact that visual literacy may have on students' learning and development is further elaborated. A case study from a Norwegian first-grade classroom is included to shed light on the ways in which visual work in the classroom can be implemented. In addition, exemplars of students' written verbal and visual texts are thoroughly examined. A tendency in the material is that the illustrations are detailed and elaborate, and carry a distinct sense of the written text. Hence, the visual text may be understood as the more important text and may be vital in a child's literacy development.
Sharpening Students' Critical Literacy Skills Through Corpus-Based Instruction
Authors: Patsala Paschalia , Michali Maria
Published: May 2020

In the past, corpora were primarily employed by linguists. Recently, there has been a growing interest from teachers and researchers in the pedagogical applications of corpora. However, literature of corpus-based instruction has little explored whether corpus-based instruction can reinforce English Foreign Language (EFL) learners' critical literacy. This chapter builds on research and practices that explore how corpus-based teaching may enhance learners' critical literacy skills, offering recommendations to teachers of English as a foreign language. The main features of critical literacy teaching are presented, and consideration is given to tools and techniques through which educators can encourage EFL learners to critically look at authentic language data and question both the language and the reality they are exposed to, affecting or enabling social change.
Linking Criticality and Creativity
Authors: Hanssen Jessica Allen , Jensvoll Maja Henriette
Published: May 2020

This chapter provides specific examples of how current English teaching practices can further engage what can be seen as an interpretative and creative link between comprehension, opinion formation, and language production. Based on awareness of English Language Teaching (ELT) trends in Nordic textbooks and national curricula, with particular respect to curricular developments and trends in Norway and in other Nordic countries, the authors propose specific changes to the subject contents of English education to better prepare future teachers for the exciting prospects of integrating multiliteracy in their lessons through a new emphasis on criticality. To this effect, this chapter provides a new practical model that can help streamline the sprawling interdisciplinarity of critical theory into a manageable and readily applicable context for working with literature during English lessons.
East-Asian Philosophical Concepts as Analytical Framework for Interpreting Non-Western Images in Children's Picturebooks
Authors: Huynh Ngoc Tai , Thomas Angela , To Vinh Thi
Published: May 2020

In contemporary Western cultures, picturebooks are a mainstream means for young children to first attend to print and start learning to read. The use of children's picturebooks has been reported as supporting intercultural awareness in children. Multiliteracies researchers suggest that other theoretical frameworks should be applied in addition to the semiotic approach of interpreting picturebooks, especially picturebooks from non-Western cultures. This chapter theorizes how Eastern philosophical concepts influence the meaning-making potential of illustrations in Eastern picturebooks. To do this, the authors first discuss the cultural constraints when applying a contemporary semiotic framework in analyzing non-Western images. The authors introduce a framework developed based on philosophical concepts that have influenced East-Asian art forms, particularly that of painting, to understand the Eastern artistic traditions. The chapter demonstrates how to apply this framework for interpretation of non-Western images to working with multicultural picturebooks.
Bridging the Gap
Authors: Moody Stephanie Michelle , Matthews Sharon D. , Eslami Zohreh R.
Published: May 2020

Shared readings have long been recognized as one of the most significant contributors to the development of literacy skills in young children. Shared readings are frequently found in both the home and at school, but discrepancies in how they are enacted can contribute to low student achievement. This may be particularly true for bilingual students, whose home literacy practices often involve heritage language use and/or translanguaging. This chapter provides recommendations for teachers interested in incorporating family literacy practices into their classroom shared readings. Recommendations include guidelines for building a multicultural library, tips on how to evaluate children's books for quality, steps to enacting translanguaging in shared readings, and suggestions for increasing parental involvement in the classroom.
Supporting Advanced Multilingual Speakers as Individuals
Authors: Skein Etienne , Knospe Yvonne , Sullivan Kirk P. H.
Published: May 2020

Translanguaging is a concept that is increasingly used in multilingualism studies with disparate definitions and uses in the literature. In this chapter, students who are advanced multilingual speakers at home, school, and elsewhere are in focus. The chapter examines historical and contemporary definitions of translanguaging and shows that not all definitions view the literacy practices of advanced multilingual speakers as translanguaging. However, those that see these speakers as having a unitary linguistic system allow the literacy practices of advanced multilingual speakers to be viewed as translanguaging. Working from this perspective, the chapter argues for translanguaging writing spaces to be created in schools as a way to foster learning. The chapter also presents ways in which teachers can support the creation of these spaces in multilingual classrooms and considers how translanguaging writing spaces can be maintained when advanced multilingual speakers move to writing for monolingual readers. The challenge of this move is also discussed.
Creating Space for Dynamic Language Use
Authors: Neokleous Georgios , Park Koeun , Krulatz Anna
Published: May 2020

With English as an Additional Language (EAL) classrooms increasingly becoming culturally and linguistically diverse, the use of the students' home language(s) (HLs) can equip emergent bilinguals/multilinguals with the essential accoutrements that optimize their learning experience. To meet the realities and demands of contemporary classrooms, current research encourages teachers to make use of the students' entire linguistic repertoires and create space for a fluid and dynamic oscillation between the HL(s) and the target language (TL), which has been labelled as translanguaging pedagogy. Despite the constraints imposed by today's education policies, translanguaging is believed to have the potential to enhance the teaching of these students. Through the description of activities, this chapter discusses how taking up translanguaging theory can contribute towards fostering meaningful and affirming ways of teaching and learning EAL literacy.
Leveraging Learner Experience
Authors: Farrelly Raichle , Fakhrutdinova Iuliia
Published: May 2020

This chapter builds on the pedagogical knowledge base of educators who work with refugee-background adult language learners. The chapter introduces refugee-background adults who have experienced interruptions in their formal education. The authors present a framework for pedagogical scaffolding that emerges from a sociocultural perspective on learning. An overview of research underscores the benefits of recognizing and building upon learners' strengths, lived experiences, and oral traditions. Classroom-based approaches that integrate pedagogical scaffolding into meaningful learning opportunities to enhance the language and literacy practices of adult learners are highlighted. The chapter sustains innovation and conversation among educators working with refugee-background adults, ideally in collaboration with the learners themselves, to cultivate pedagogical practices that foster learner success in the classroom and beyond.
Facing the Challenges of Higher Education in a Second Language
Authors: Hendry Clinton , Ruivivar June
Published: May 2020

This chapter reports on a needs analysis on a joint science program in which students spend two years each in China and Canada. Students take ESL courses in China to help them transition to the English curriculum in Canada. Since many of these students plan to work in Canada upon graduation, the authors aimed to determine how the program prepared them not only for university, but also for out-of-class interactions. They interviewed students currently in the Canadian stage of the program, a science teacher, and two ESL teachers. Students were well prepared for academics, but struggle with informal talk. The science teacher found the students to perform well, though were reluctant to speak up. In contrast, the ESL teachers commented on their lack of motivation. All parties noted that a specialized English for academic purposes (EAP) course might address these issues. The authors discuss implications for cross-cultural curriculum design and the need for communication between domain and language experts.
Becoming Interculturally Adaptable
Authors: Rao Xiaofei , Kew Kristin , Hernández Anita
Published: May 2020

The prevailing picture of intercultural adaptation among international student sojourners features a reified process of overcoming culture shock or culture-related stress and anxiety. In the context of increasing recruitment of Chinese students by German higher education institutions, there has been a growing interest in understanding Chinese students' intercultural adaptation experiences, and in exploring approaches that can be adopted by Chinese and German higher education to support these sojourners' learning experience. Drawing on a six-month mixed-methods study of 84 Chinese students attending German universities, researchers explored their intercultural experience regarding psychological, sociocultural, and educational aspects to university life. The challenges faced by these students are discussed in terms of psychological, sociocultural, and educational adaptations.
Transforming the Education of Immigrant Youth
Authors: Duval Sandra , Foerster Luu Anne Marie
Published: May 2020

Educational programs for immigrant students must be guided by multidisciplinary research that centralizes the voices of the “other.” The authors re-conceptualizes what is meant by integration and meaningful inclusion in order to address opportunity gaps experienced by many immigrant students. The data gathered through quantitative, qualitative, and auto-ethnographic research resulted in the Roots and Wings Transformative Model. This model can be adapted by schools to implement a transcultural and transformative program for immigrant students built on equity and teaching towards freedom in varied contexts across the globe. Included are concrete examples of ways to implement this model in the classroom and a collaborative needs-assessment tool. Students' ways of knowing and their communities' contributions become the pillars upon which learning the standards and educational experiences are built. A brief standards-based lesson plan for content and concept mastery and English language development is also presented.
Multilingual Youth Perspectives on Humanizing Core Practices
Authors: Fredricks Daisy E. , Peercy Megan Madigan
Published: May 2020

In this chapter, the authors draw upon the teaching practices multilingual youth identified as important to their learning in the classroom, to add to the field's understanding of core practices for teaching multilingual learners. This qualitative study highlights various strategies that secondary immigrant multilingual youth recommend teachers use when supporting learning in the classroom, some that bolster the existing research base on learning English as an additional language, and others that were relatively new contributions based on youth perspectives. A close examination of the multilingual youth perspectives and experiences has implications for creating and sustaining humanizing and equitable pedagogical practices in the classroom.
The Evolution of Drawing as an Equitable Way to Assess ELLs in a Middle School Science Classroom
Authors: Latimer Amanda M. , Monreal Martha E.
Published: May 2020

In this chapter, the authors discuss what they observed and learned as drawing was integrated into assessments already in use in a middle school science classroom. Informed by a growing body of evidence that supports the notion that allowing students to draw answers on assessments disrupts normative assessment practices, promoting more equitable assessments for ELLs. Their overall goal was to add to the understanding of how drawing can provide a more complete picture of ELL students science content understanding. This chapter begins with the historical importance of drawing in science, and then the intersection of ELLs, drawing, science, and assessment, followed by a description of how drawing was adapted into middle school science assessments. Examples of how middle school students responded to prompts to draw answers on assessments are included followed by implementation barriers that were confronted by their teachers. The authors then conclude this chapter with a discussion focusing on recommendations to fellow teachers.
There Are No Spanish-Speaking Therapists Here
Authors: Delgado-Romero Edward Anthony , Mahoney Grace Ellen , Muro-Rodriguez Nancy J. , De Los Santos Jhokania , Romero-Heesacker Javier L.
Published: May 2020

This chapter involves the issues in the creation of a bilingual and culturally competent psychological clinic in a university town in a southern state in the United States known as one of the most Latinx immigrant hostile states in the country. Prior to the creation of the clinic, there were virtually no options for Spanish speakers for culturally or linguistically competent psychological services, and the population of bilingual/bicultural graduate students in psychology and the college of education was very low. This chapter is written from the perspective of the faculty founder of the clinic and the women who have served as clinic coordinators and sacrificed much time and energy in addition to their significant program requirements so that the local Latinx immigration could have linguistically and culturally competent psychological services. Thus, this chapter will blend the available research literature with the experiences of creating and running a clinic that supports many Latinx immigrant students and their families.
Teachers Working With Refugee Children and Families
Authors: Allexsaht-Snider Martha , Karsli-Calamak Elif , Tuna Mana Ece
Published: May 2020

In this chapter, the authors tell the story of the GÖÇ-MAT project in Turkey, a two-year professional learning project designed to foster early childhood education teachers' development of competencies for teaching students with refugee status. The authors elucidate the different aspects of the GÖÇ-MAT project implementation and some of their findings from the research with teachers and with families having refugee status. Their goal, then, is to provide a possible roadmap for programs of professional learning in other settings around the globe. The authors hope to motivate other educators to take inspiration from the lessons learned in the GÖÇ-MAT project in Turkey to create professional learning spaces for teachers adapted to the unique contexts in which they are working. These professional learning spaces can support teachers' development of new ways to provide inclusive and equitable quality education for students with refugee or migrant statuses.
Interpreting Solidarity
Authors: Rodríguez-Castro Mónica , Salas Spencer , Acosta Jatnna
Published: May 2020

In metro Charlotte, North Carolina, dynamic newcomer Latinx communities have changed the demographics of K-8 education as the region has emerged as a new gateway for an influx of immigrants and migrants. Today, in what has come to be known as “the New Latino South,” K-12 teachers are eager to expand their knowledge base for working with this relatively new population. To that end, bilingual (Spanish/English) educators are increasingly tapped to serve as impromptu interpreters as monolingual administrators and teachers interact more frequently with Spanish dominant communities. Drawing from an in-depth interview sequence, the chapter narrates a Dominican-American's lived experience with simultaneous K-12-based interpreting as a K-12 student teacher, and a licensed early-grades educator. This chapter theorizes the layered emotional and professional advocacy of heritage-language bilingual school-based professionals and their agency in advancing access and equity to public resources with recommendations for policy and practice.
Fake News and Aggregated Credibility
Authors: Faraon Montathar , Jaff Agnieszka , Nepomuceno Liegi Paschoalini , Villavicencio Victor
Published: May 2020

The accelerated spread of fake news via the internet and social media such as Facebook and Twitter have created a debate concerning the credibility of sources online. Assessing the credibility of these sources is generally a complex task and cannot solely rely on computer-based algorithms as evaluation still requires human intelligence. The research question guiding this article deals with the conceptualization of a theoretically anchored concept of a participatory and co-creative medium for evaluation of sources online. The concept-driven design research methodology was applied to address the research question, which consisted of seven activities that unify design and theory. The result of this article is a proposed concept that aims to support the assessment of the credibility of sources online using crowdsourcing as an approach for evaluation. The practical implications of the proposed concept could be to constrain the spread of fake news, strengthen online democratic discourse, and potentially improve the quality of online information.
Research and Statistics
Authors: Mustafa Nasir
Published: May 2020

A newly identified coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is spreading across the globe. Most of our work focuses on large problems that humanity has faced for a long time, such as child mortality, natural disasters, poverty, and almost 100 other problems. This article focuses on a new, emerging global problem: the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The outbreak started in China in late 2019, and by March 2020 the disease has spread to countries around the world. The number of infections appearing each day has since plummeted in China, owing in large part to containment efforts, but the outbreak is now a global pandemic. Large outbreaks in South Korea, Iran, Italy, and elsewhere have propelled a spike in international cases across more than 180 countries.
Using Publicized Information to Determine the Sustainable Development of 3-PL Companies
Authors: Law Kris M.Y. , Breznik Kristijan , Ip Andrew W. H.
Published: May 2020

Sustainability issues have been seen as a promising paradigm for achieving a better future. Firms in the logistics service sector are still lacking clear value propositions on sustainable development. While many organizations publish their mission statements publicly as kinds of public information, reviewing mission statements is an appropriate means to evaluate an organization's strategy. This study focuses on the public information such as mission statements of the top 50 global 3-PL companies and the relevant sustainable development. A comprehensive content analysis identified four major content dimensions of mission statements relating to sustainability development. The dimensions are driving forces, approaches, responsibility to stakeholders, and competitive values. This paper offers a good methodological reference for researchers or practitioners managing the public information of organizations. Network analysis reveals that the location of companies has a limited effect on their mission and strategy as they all provide global service.
Modelling Virtual Machine Workload in Heterogeneous Cloud Computing Platforms
Authors: Fati Suliman Mohamed , Jaradat Ayman Kamel , Abunadi Ibrahim , Mohammed Ahmed Sameh
Published: May 2020

Cloud computing, as a trend technology, has stemmed from the concept of virtualization. Virtualization makes the resources available to the public to use without any concern for ownership or maintenance cost. In addition, the hosted applications in cloud computing platforms are highly interactive and require intensive resources. The new trend is to duplicate these applications in multiple virtual machines based on demand. Such a scheme needs an efficient resource provisioning to manage the resource assignment to multiple virtual machines properly. One of the issues in the current resource provisioning technique is assigning the resources proactively without predicting the workload of hosted applications, which cause load imbalance and resource wasting. Thus, this paper proposes a new model to predict the application workload. The experimental results show the ability of the proposed model to allocate more virtual machines and to balance the workload among the physical machines.
A new insight on postural tachycardia syndrome in 102 adults with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome/hypermobility spectrum disorder
Authors: Celletti Claudia , Borsellino Beatrice , Castori Marco , Censi Federica , Calcagnini Giovanni , Camerota Filippo , Strano Stefano
Published: May 2020

There is an association between joint hypermobility, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) and different forms of orthostatic intolerance. Objective: to explore autonomic profile in a large cohort of adults with hEDS and hypermobility spectrum disorder (hEDS/HSD) with a multimodal approach. In this observational retrospective study, heart rate, blood pressure and baroreflex sensitivity were estimated in 102 hEDS/HSD subjects during deep breathing, Valsalva maneuver, standing up: 30-15 ratio, Head-Up Tilt and sustained handgrip. Abnormal results and head-up tilt test were common and included postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS; 48%), orthostatic intolerance (25.5%) and hypotension (3.9%). Baroreflex sensitivity was significantly different in individuals with POTS compared to the others. This study confirms the high rate and heterogeneity of abnormal autonomic regulation in hEDS/HSD, and suggests the baroreflex sensitivity might distinguish comorbid POTS from other profiles in this subgroup of patients. Abnormal autonomic regulation is common in adults with hEDS/HSD and should be regularly assessed for tailoring the management approach.
The Origins of Contemporary Moral Education and Political Ideology in Confucian-Marxist Hồ Chí Minh’s Vietnam
Authors: Ali Forkan
Published: May 2020

As an emerging East-Asian country, Vietnam has been influenced by the forces of communism, colonialism and predominantly Confucianism. Though Confucianism has an enduring operational history in Vietnam, Singapore, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan, after the nineteenth century it takes a different turn and plays an effective role in contemporary social, political and cultural milieus in this emerging part of the world. In the context of the genealogical ups and downs of Confucianism in East Asian countries like Vietnam, this critical analytical essay discusses Confucianism as trans-national phenomena and a certain way of thinking which has been transformed historically across generations and influenced moral educational and political ideologies of the peoples of Asia. Confucian values have strong practical implications with regard to Asian societies, politics, cultures, religions and education systems. In particular, this article attempts to demonstrate how Confucianism continues to function despite the influences of Marxism and European colonialism in Vietnam, and how it contributed to shaping the present-day country.
Deleuzian (Re)interpretation of Zhu Xi
Authors: Ott Margus
Published: May 2020

I propose an interpretation of Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130–1200) seen through the ontology of Gilles Deleuze. Zhu Xi is one of the most prominent Chinese philosophers, the figurehead of the so-called Neo-Confucian school, and Deleuze is arguably one of the most important Western philosophers of the twentieth century. Both philosophers presented an ontology of differentiation, whose main aspects or stages I try to analyse in the paper: Deleuze’s notions of the virtual, dark precursor, field of individuation, intensities and the actual; and parallel to these, Zhu Xi’s notions of the veins (li 理), supreme ultimate (taiji 太極), energy (qi 氣), and things (wu 物). It is argued that a Deleuzian (re)interpretation of Zhu Xi is possible and that it may open new tools of analysis for studying Chinese philosophy as well as create a conceptual space that can bring together concepts and practices from different traditions.
Does higher education change value perceptions?
Authors: Yigit Mehmet Fatih
Published: May 2020

The purpose of this study is to look at whether higher education has an effect on value perceptions of students. In particular, the researcher will examine the role of 'foundation' or 'private' universities on the priorities of value perceptions. The results are limited to the 115 students participated in the study. In order to have a more generalizable and comprehensive analysis, large number of students from other universities should  also be studied. That way we could have a more convincing claiming about whether university education have negative or positive effects on the change of certain values. However, for the current study we can claim that university education is changing the level of value perceptions of students mostly in negative ways.
The School Curriculum and Its Influence on Teacher Motivation in Curriculum Implementation in Kenya
Authors: Kagema Josphat
Published: May 2020

A review of empirical studies on teacher motivation indicates decreasing levels of motivation among secondary school teachers ultimately leading to minimal achievements of the projected Kenya’s Vision 2030. This study examined the school curriculum as a determinant of secondary school teacher motivation in Kenya in curriculum implementation. The research adopted a survey study design, adopting mixed methods research approach with an aim of fortifying and converging both quantitative and qualitative data. The respondents were sampled from 46 secondary schools located in Nyeri and Kirinyaga counties of Kenya. The findings of this study inform curriculum planners, education leadership and policy makers on the school curriculum as a core determinant of teacher motivation in secondary schools that influence curriculum implementation in Kenya.

Key Words: School Curriculum; Teacher Motivation; Curriculum Implementation
Multicultural for who? A review of a comprehensive multicultural textbook
Authors: Halpern Clarisse
Published: May 2020

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Editorial 2019: (2)1, Special Issue
Authors: Lafer Stephan , Tarman Bulent
Published: May 2020

Culture is a phenomenon that is a potent force in the lives of human beings and many believe that respect for a person’s culture is essential to respecting the person.  The adverse, that to disrespect a person’s culture is to disrespect the person, gives rise to an important concern that is to be considered in this edition.  Because culture does influence character and is a force in shaping character, honest critique of culture and cultures is too often avoided for concern for the personal offense such might cause.  Out of what is said to be the respect for individuals who are culture bound and sensitive about their culture, honest criticism of culture is pursued with overabundance of caution.
Exposing Bias through a Deficit Thinking Lens Using Content-Analysis of Macro Level Policies
Authors: Palmer Dusty L , Witanapatirana Kumudu
Published: May 2020

Educational policies can affect students in a negative or positive way depending on the context and interpretation within the policy. Unfortunately, deficit thinking policies exist that prevent all students from receiving equitable learning experiences.  This study focuses on a content analysis approach to expose deficit thinking vocabulary or language that maybe embedded at the macro-level of educational policy.  The article is intended to make policymakers aware of their own biases when creating policies.  The study aims to provide ways to identify and address thinking by examining the vocabulary and language within macro-level policies.
An Exploratory Study: Mobile Device Use For Academics
Authors: Hoffmann Malia
Published: May 2020

This exploratory study surveyed how undergraduate students and higher education instructors at two small faith-based universities in Southern California used mobile devices in and outside of the class for academic purposes. The researcher cross-referenced the results from the two groups to make correlations. The results of this study showed that nearly all instructor participants had multiple devices and almost half of the student participants had two or more devices as well. Those devices are being used in and outside of formal class for academics in very basic and emerging way that are just touching the surface of their capabilities. This study found that students use their devices in class to read, reference, or search materials. Faculty reported using their devices as presentation devices most often.
Advance Placement and The Achievement Gap in the 21st Century: A Multiple Linear Regression of Marginalized Populations in AP Enrollment
Authors: Bittman Bonnie , Davies Alex , Russell William B. , Goussakova Ekaterina
Published: May 2020

The analysis of the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) enrollment focused on marginalized populations' (i.e., African American, Hispanic, and poor students) limited access and the schools' efforts to bridge the gaps. Little research has been done on marginalized populations' AP passage rates. The researchers of this correlational study investigated AP enrollment and passage rates in public and charter high schools in Florida (n = 355) by comparing the enrollment and passage proportions amongst Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic students as well as the proportions of students who received free or reduced lunch. The results showed a weak, positive relationship between proportions of Hispanic, African American, and Caucasian students passing AP exams and the proportion of AP students enrolled. There was a strong, positive relationship amongst the proportions of African-American, Hispanic, and Caucasian students who passed the exam. However, a weak, negative relationship was found between the proportions of students who were enrolled in AP classes and those who received free or reduced lunch. There was also a negative relationship between Hispanic, African American, and Caucasian students passing the AP exam and the percentage of the school's population enrolled in free or reduced lunch. The findings suggest that schools with high poverty rates have a low enrollment rate of students in AP courses. The focus on AP enrollment rates for minority students has led to increased rates of minorities successfully completing advanced coursework, but there is still a need for similar focus on high poverty schools.