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Revising Letters and Reclaiming Space: The Case for Expanding the Search for Nineteenth-Century Women’s Letter-Writing Rhetoric into Imaginative Literature
Authors: Glascott Brenda
Published: February 2024

The gendered rhetorical constraints imposed on female writers in mid-nineteenth-century letter-writing manuals are challenged by the representations of letter writing in Susan Warner’s  The Wide, Wide World and Maria Cummins’s The Lamplighter, popular mid-century novels. By investigating imaginative literature by women as a site of women’s rhetoric, feminist historians of rhetoric can recognize that the battlefield for expanding women’s rhetorical agency in the mid-nineteenth century is not primarily located at the division between domestic and public realms—the site emphasized in current histories of women’s rhetoric—but is interior, where letter-writing rhetorics seek to police habits of mind.
Beyond the Genre Fixation: A Translingual Perspective on Genre
Authors: Bawarshi Anis
Published: February 2024

This essay examines what a translingual orientation offers to the study and teaching of genre, in particular what we gain when we think of genre difference not as a deviation from a patterned norm but rather as the norm of all genre performance. A translingual perspective draws our attention to genre uptake as a site of transaction where memory, language, and other semiotic resources, genre knowledge, and meanings are translated and negotiated across genres, modalities, and contexts. Focusing on genre uptake performances shifts attention from genre conventions to the interplays between genres where agency is in constant play.
LGBT Literature Courses and Questions of Canonicity
Authors: Pruitt John
Published: February 2024

Through a review of syllabi of LGBT literature courses and interviews with their instructors, this article investigates the rationales behind primary text selection and how texts and course objectives inform one another in the absence of a generally established set of readings. Through such an investigation, questions of canonization emerge, thus shedding a broader light on strategies behind successful means of reading, teaching, and assessing in a course with a generally self-selected group of students.
Editorial: Honoring Our History, Envisioning Our Future
Authors: Johnson Tara Star , Miller sj
Published: February 2024

In their first editorial, new editors Tara Star Johnson and sj Miller discuss their scholarly backgrounds and their plans for the journal, which include a call for work demonstrating diverse perspectives and multidisciplinary approaches.
Provocateur Pieces: “My Black Kids Are Not Sub-Pops”: Reflecting on the Impact of Standardized Testing in English Education
Authors: Laughter Judson
Published: February 2024

This Provocateur Piece recounts the story of Francis from teacher preparation to her decision to exit the profession after five years. I seek to provide a space for English educators to step back and think about how we prepare and support ELA teachers. Francis was prepared and able to celebrate the diversity of her students, and her classrooms were spaces of equity and respect. And yet, she is leaving the profession. Why? What can we do to keep this from happening?
Precocious Knowledge: Using Banned Books to Engage in a Youth Lens
Authors: Niccolini Alyssa D.
Published: February 2024

This piece looks at how banned books can offer an illuminating glimpse into social constructions of “healthy” and “normal” adolescent development. Unease with—certain materials and topics in the secondary classroom can offer productive points of inquiry for both teachers and students.
Sappho through Mimesis, a Pedagogical Approach to Teaching Poetry
Authors: Kennedy Catherine Louise
Published: February 2024

This article explores using Ancient Greek poetry by Sappho as a springboard for students to study Western poetry and create their own poetry.
Mindful Poetry: Making the Strange Familiar
Authors: Robillard Candence , Bach Jacqueline , Gulden Melissa
Published: February 2024

Through the careful observation and analysis of a poetry unit that focuses on the work of one poet, Seamus Heaney, the authors provide mindful strategies to make familiar the processes of reading and appreciating poetry.
Continuous Becoming: Moving toward Mastery: Giving Back: The Rewards of Becoming an Adjunct
Authors: Reissman Rose Cherie
Published: February 2024

“Continuous Becoming: Moving toward Mastery” offers suggestions, ideas, and experiences to help novice and veteran teachers discover their own roadmaps toward mastery.
Speak Out! How Ekphrasis Inspires Writing on the Edge
Authors: Grierson Sirpa , Orme Sarah
Published: February 2024

These teachers use the seminal painting Guernica to engage students in a transferable process focused on three key principles: negotiate (read), decipher (mean), and produce (create). This article promotes active construction of meaning through calculated risk-taking.
Writing as Relationship
Authors: Sincoff Maura
Published: February 2024

This article examines relationships in the writing process and offers some strategies to address student needs on both the cognitive and affective domains.
Using Service Learning to Teach The Other Wes Moore: The Importance of Teaching Nonfiction as Critical Literacy
Authors: Strom Brent
Published: February 2024

This article examines a service-learning project held in conjunction with a reading of the nonfiction text The Other Wes Moore.
A Thousand Writers: Voices of the NWP: Teaching Writers, Not Writing
Authors: Vogel Mindi , Seitz Joe
Published: February 2024

This column seeks to explore the experiences of National Writing Project teachers as writers, teachers of writing, and educational leaders.
Carpe Librum: Seize the (YA) Book--Possible Impossibilities: The Power of Magical Realism for Adolescent Readers
Authors: Ebarvia Tricia
Published: February 2024

This column serves as a space dedicated to conversation about Young Adult literature and to celebrate adolescents, their reading, and their experiences by reviewing the texts that engage them.
Painting a Portrait of Visible Teaching with an Activist Educator
Authors: McGovern Elexia Reyes
Published: February 2024

This article uses data from a year-long ethnographic study to paint a portrait of one Chicana veteran teacher who enacts an activist pedagogy in the secondary English language arts classroom.
Book Reviews
Authors: Bender-Slack Delane
Published: February 2024

The “Book Reviews” column examines professional texts with cutting-edge information for the rapidly changing field of education.
Disabling Assumptions: Exploring Assistive Technology
Authors: Helquist Melissa
Published: February 2024

This column explores how paying attention to disability—both to the rich contributions made by people with disabilities and to the sometimes negative attitudes in society that can interfere with those contributions—can foster classroom interactions that are more democratic, more inclusive, and more equitable.
CEL’s Tribute to Kent Williamson’s Exemplary Leadership
Authors: Porter Wanda
Published: February 2024

CEL names their leadership award in honor of the late NCTE Executive Director
Transforming Instruction: How Collaborative Professional Development Changed the Teaching of Argumentative Writing
Authors: S. Collet Vicki
Published: February 2024

This article explores questions about how to create meaningful PD experience related to the effective teaching of argumentative writing, providing suggestions that could be adapted and incorporated by literacy leaders hoping to influence instruction and student achievement in academic writing. These insights may also have broader application, as leaders look for ongoing ways to support teacher learning.
Flipped Mentoring: Embracing Role Change
Authors: Marchiano Tina , Mattessich Valerie
Published: February 2024

This infographic visually articulates the changing and emerging roles of mentors and mentees.
Theory as Method: Queer Theory, LGBTQ Literature, and a Path to Professional Development
Authors: Meixner Emily S.
Published: February 2024

Lack of teacher knowledge about and sensitivity to the needs of LGBTQ youth are a significant contributing factor to LGBTQ students’ ongoing discomfort and disengagement in schools. Yet teachers continue to be under- or uninformed. For English teachers, specifically, this lack of knowledge often means a lack of familiarity with the growing body of LGBTQ literature, including children’s, middle level, and young adult LGBTQ literature, available to them and their students. The author presents several strategies and resources for teachers to use gender and queer theory as a lens of analysis to understand how representations of adolescence, gender, sexual identity, and sexual orientation in a collection of LGBTQ young adult novels geared toward specific sensitivities they may encounter in their classrooms.
Bil Chinn Remembered
Authors: Scott Tom , Porter Wanda
Published: February 2024

Rememberances of Bil Chinn, secretary for the CEL Executive Committee and chair of the Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program.
Bilingual Picturebook Making in the Elementary School Classroom
Authors: Zapata Angie , Valdez-Gainer Nancy , Haworth Corinna
Published: February 2024

In this alternatively formatted article, three teacher-researchers explore how third- and fourth-grade students in English-As-A-Second Language classrooms learn to read and write bilingual picturebooks. Seeking more innovative and culturally responsive writing processes and products for children, the authors consulted research on multilingual and multimodal composition and the art of the picturebook to design and enact curriculum. Authors share their instructional design and materials and showcase how two students were mentored by Latino children’s authors and illustrators to craft their own picture books.
Research and Policy: How Should Readers Develop across Time? Mapping Change without a Deficit Perspective
Authors: Aukerman Maren
Published: February 2024

When reading comprehension is primarily treated as the ability to reach sanctioned interpretations or to use sanctioned interpretive techniques, students’ existing reading practices that do not fit expectations are often treated as problems to be fixed. While some scholars have been troubled by this notion, justly aligning it with a deficit perspective, few of them have offered a way of conceptualizing comprehension development that honors all student textual sensemaking while still allowing educators to trace patterns of growth across time. This conceptual article provides such a framework, elaborating on six developmental domains for comprehension that stem from a transformative perspective rather than a deficit perspective on students’ reading development across time. These developmental domains are literate identity, intellectual integrity, textual curiosity, imaginative engagement, sociopragmatic agency, and textual dexterity. The article details these domains and some of their pedagogical implications.—
#theStandards: Knowledge, Freedom, and the Common Core
Authors: Bridges-Rhoads Sarah , Cleave Jessica Van
Published: February 2024

Despite the assurance of professional autonomy provided in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) document, teachers often do not feel free to teach in ways they believe best serve students. In this article, we demonstrate how we read the CCSS in ways that might help literacy teachers see all sorts of available options for acting/thinking/teaching in relation to the standards. Specifically, we used Foucauldian theories and the metaphor of the hashtag both to understand how the standards limit the circulation of diverse ideas about literacy teaching and to insert complexity into the standards when we felt limited. Such an analysis renders the CCSS flexible enough to be rewritten in multiple contexts-an absolute necessity to prepare students for 21st-century literacies yet to come.
Perspectives on Practice:Twitter in the Elementary Classroom: A Teacherâ€™s Journey
Authors: Marich Holly
Published: February 2024

This article focuses on a primary teacherâ€™s eight-week journey using an unfamiliar microblogging technology and its positive impact on her teaching as well as her studentsâ€™ learning.
Social Justice Literature and Writing: The Case for Widening Our Mentor Texts
Authors: Smith-Buster Emily
Published: February 2024

Emily E. Smith, the 2015 recipient of the Donald H. Graves Writing Award, explains how she designed curriculum to amplify student voices through a social justice lens.
Language Arts Lessons: Committing to Culturally Relevant Literacy Teaching as an Everyday Practice: It’s Critical!
Authors: Souto-Manning Mariana , Martell Jessica
Published: February 2024

This article invites readers to enter a New York City dual-language, second-grade classroom and see the power and possibilities of engaging in culturally relevant literacy teaching as an everyday practice.
Invited Dialogue: From Uptown to Trombone Shorty and Beyond: An Invited Dialogue with Bryan Collier
Authors: Bailey Alan R.
Published: February 2024

In this candid interview, award-winning illustrator and author Bryan Collier shares thoughts and wisdom acquired throughout his artistic journey that began at the age of 15.
Forum: Where the Machine Stops: Software as Reader and the Rise of New Literatures
Authors: Lynch Tom Liam
Published: February 2024

Technology is a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives in and out of schools, yet it escapes the sustained scrutiny of education researchers who contribute to the wider “orthodoxy of optimism” (Selwyn, 2014) accompanying all things technological. Challenging such orthodoxy begins with greater precision in language, replacing the broadness of technology with the more accurate specificity of software (Kitchin & Dodge, 2011). This essay conceptually frames how software space—a term I use to refer to complex computational assemblages—affects the teaching of literature, arguing that software-powered technologies can be conducive to rigorous forms of literary study and research if they are used with an understanding of both the nature of software and the contexts in which software is produced and promoted. I draw on English education and related fields to propose the establishment of what I call new literatures.
Toward a Critical ASD Pedagogy of Insight: Teaching, Researching, and Valuing the Social Literacies of Neurodiverse Students
Authors: Walters Shannon
Published: February 2024

In this article, I report on the results of a case study of two students with self-identified Asperger Syndrome (AS) in first-year university writing courses. After exploring existing conversations that tend to ignore the voices of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), I propose a methodology based on the concept of ASD as insight, rooted in critical disability studies, in which the perspectives of neurodiverse students are prioritized. My findings reveal the neurotypical assumptions of some traditional writing pedagogies, such as those based on a process model and the understanding of writing as a social activity. These approaches often do not value the critical literacies and social activities involved in writing done by neurodiverse students outside the classroom. Drawing from my participants’ insights, I explore the potentials of critical pedagogy for valuing the neurodiverse social literacies of ASD students. I demonstrate how a critical pedagogy better attuned to neurodiversity can support the alternative social literacies of neurodiverse students and resist stereotypes of ASD writers as asocial.
Feature: Reading-Writing Integration in Developmental and First-Year Composition
Authors: Marsh Bill
Published: February 2024

Based on research conducted at Wilbur Wright College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, this article explores the strategies, methods, and theoretical frameworks used by English instructors to teach reading-writing connections in developmental and credit-level writing courses.
Feature: A Dubious Method of Improving Educational Outcomes: Accountability and the Two-Year College
Authors: Toth Christie , Sullivan Patrick , Calhoon-Dillahunt Carolyn
Published: February 2024

Responding to the Obama administration’s efforts to establish postsecondary performance based funding, the authors critique the neoliberal accountability movement’s misunderstandings of two-year colleges and their students, calling instead for a frame of mutual responsibility.
Feature: “In This Article, I Argue”: An Analysis of Metatext in Research Article Introductions
Authors: Thonney Teresa
Published: February 2024

This article argues that students should be encouraged to use metatext to announce the purpose and organization of their academic papers.
What Works for Me: Using Alfred Hitchcockâ€™s Psycho to Demonstrate the Importance of Thoughtful Reading and Writing
Authors: Bressmer Allison
Published: February 2024

Appreciating the details of a famous movie scene helps todayâ€™s visually oriented students recognize the importance of reading and writing with careful thought and awareness.
Review Essay: The Good Work of Writing Assessment That Reveals What the Field Lacks
Authors: Inoue Asao B.
Published: February 2024

Books reviewed: Assessing and Improving Student Writing in College: A Guide for Institutions, General Education, Departments, and Classrooms
Socialization to Writing: When Writing Is Not “School-Like”
Authors: Lee Cheu-jey , Lee Penn
Published: February 2024

Cheu-jey Lee and his eight-year-old daughter Penn demonstrate through their written conversations how writing is a social practice that is both situated within and informed by multiple Discourses.
“Even Though You Don't Have Pretty Clothes, You Are Still a Princess”:Unpacking Princess Images in Picture Books
Authors: Robinson Ariel
Published: February 2024

The author critiques princess images in picture books and looks at their influence on children, especially girls. She advocates teaching media literacy so children can—become more informed decision makers.
Researching and Writing History through Community Collaboration
Authors: Berg Leer Elizabeth
Published: February 2024

The SCOPE (Student Community Outreach Program Experience) program is a model for engaging students in literacy activities across disciplines. It serves as an exemplar for what is possible when students are provided the opportunity for authentic learning, adequate guidance to support the learning, and necessary resources through community support and collaboration. Not only are students developing literacy skills, but they are directly applying those skills in important, real-world contexts. They are learning that literary practices have relevance beyond the classroom, and that through these practices, they have the power to positively impact their communities.
CODA: Teaching Literacy in the Disciplines: More Complicated Than We Think!
Authors: D.Wilhelm Jeff
Published: February 2024

This article makes the case for Shulman’s notion of “pedagogical content knowledge” when it comes to disciplinary teachers teaching students HOW to read and compose texts from the discipline and that do disciplinary work. Using examples from science, this article explores how next-generation standards and assessments, such as the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards, require teachers to know HOW to teach students HOW to do the discipline, including how to read, compose, and solve problems in the discipline. The article further explores ideas for framing and delivering instruction that helps students to read and compose complex texts in disciplinary settings in ways that meet next-generation standards as well as the demands of disciplinary expertise.
An Urban School Shapes Young Adolescents’ Motivation to Read
Authors: Francois Chantal
Published: February 2024

Findings from a yearlong study at an urban middle and high school affirm that as much as reading motivation is intrinsic, it is also contextual. Consistent independent reading, talk about books, and the principal’s enthusiasm about students’ reading characterized this school’s reading culture. In turn, students expressed appreciation of these factors. These findings suggest that adults in schools can shape young adolescents’ motivation to read in schools in ways that have positive effects on their reading identity, efficacy in reading, and ability to read well.
More Than Skin Deep: Professional Development That Transforms Teachers
Authors: Dean Deborah , Heaton Melissa , Orme Sarah , Woodward Gary
Published: February 2024

The best professional development for many writing teachers is provided by sites of the National Writing Project. In this article, four teachers of various levels of instruction share what makes the summer institute experience so valuable to them in their teaching lives and in the lives of their student writers. One common thread is the way the projects help teachers see themselves as writers who can identify with their student writers.
Designing Writing Instruction That Matters
Authors: Dostal Hannah , Gabriel Rachael
Published: February 2024

Many teachers admit a lack of confidence in their own writing or knowledge about writing. Even with all the available tools and programs for teaching writing, it can be difficult to know where to begin. In this article we present two tools teachers have been using to ensure their writing instruction is balanced, engaging, and authentic.
Using Writers’ Notebooks to Support Inquiry and Digital Composing
Authors: Chandler-Olcott Kelly
Published: February 2024

This article describes how writers’ notebooks can support student inquiry and the construction of informative digital texts. A heterogeneous group of students enrolled in a summer writing institute used their notebooks for various purposes, including to notice features of exemplar texts, take notes, brainstorm ideas, and evaluate their progress in constructing new texts and new understandings. Sample entries from students with varying profiles demonstrate that such notebooks are an "elastic" toolâ€”one that stretches to accommodate varying student needs in inclusive literacy classrooms.
Failure and Persistent Inquiry: How Teaching a Digital Curriculum Serves as a Model for Lifelong Learning
Authors: Hrepich Jeana M.
Published: February 2024

A digital curriculum offers teachers and students ample opportunities to start over, solve problems, and persist in inquiry. The article takes up a sixth-grade research paper assignment’s use of Google Forms and Google Sites as a starting point for how a teacher’s relationship with technological failure is a model for lifelong learning.
“Smarter Than We Give Them Credit For”: Assumptions and Disruptions in a Summer Reading Program
Authors: Groenke Susan , Savitz Rachelle S.
Published: February 2024

Research supports the claim that teachers’ assumptions about middle level readers can influence classroom practice, including how students are positioned for success—or marginalized—in the ELA classroom. Assumptions are part of teachers’ larger belief systems, which can act as “mental parameters within which teachers conceptualize the teaching and learning process “ (Donaghue, 2003). Researchers call on literacy teacher- educators to create spaces where such parameters are “disrupted,” and teachers’ assumptions about young readers become visible, leading to transformed understandings and actions. This article reports on such a space that was created in a summer reading program where secondary literacy teachers’ assumptions about middle level readers were disrupted when they worked with middle level “book buddies” around the youths’ text choices
Fostering Authentic Science Writing through Shared Inquiry
Authors: McCann Thomas , D’Angelo Rebecca , Greska Mary , Galas Nancy
Published: February 2024

Two fifth-grade teachers, a school librarian, and a university professor report about the surprising emotional, social, and intellectual maturity that middle level learners displayed when they joined together in grappling with difficult science-related topics. Through a shared inquiry and dialogic process, the collaborating teachers tapped into the students' desire to interact with peers while focusing on a task they deemed important. In following learners through a shared inquiry process, the collaborators learned much about how students can write meaningfully about a complex science problem, and by extension, about many problems that confront the contemporary world.
The Digital Pencil Project: Annotating Electronically in the Middle Grades
Authors: Lubke Jennifer K. , Dabney Lesli
Published: February 2024

Annotation is a recommended strategy for supporting comprehension and developing metacognition while reading, but now that we are digitizing, archiving, and sharing texts by way of course management sites and mobile technologies, we need new methods for marking text. So, “what’s next” in annotation? How do we introduce and promote digital annotation in the middle grades? In response to these questions, a sixth-grade teacher implemented a four-week unit in which she and her students read, annotated, and responded to short story PDFs on iPads. This article summarizes insights and implications resulting from this pilot project.
Development of Ice Jellyger Beverage Products as a Business to Train the Spirit of Entrepreneurship Among Students Through Social
Authors: Oktalia Maida , Hasanah Anisa , Maharani Puri , Risdianto Eko
Published: February 2024

In addition to marketing products through social media and having an entrepreneurial spirit, sellers or students or entrepreneurs must choose a business that is contemporary and can compete in the social media market such as the Es Jellygar (Fresh Jelly) beverage product business. This research aims to train the spirit of entrepreneurship among students in developing and marketing Ice Jellygar beverage products. This research is an R&D research, the development model used is the 4D model (Define, Design, Develop, and Disseminate). The data analysis method used in this study was carried out through product acceptance tests on consumers. The result of this research is the development of Es Jellygar beverage products, which go through four stages of development: Define, Design, Develop, and Disseminate. The Define stage focuses on finding reference recipes, the Design Stage creates prototypes or product designs, the Develop Stage involves evaluation by experts and prototype testing, and the Disseminate Stage is about introducing products to the public through exhibitions and consumer testing. Marketing products through social media and having an entrepreneurial spirit, sellers or students or entrepreneurs must choose businesses that are contemporary and can compete in the social media market such as the Es Jellygar (Fresh Jelly) beverage product business.  So it can be concluded that this business can be an opportunity for entrepreneurs or students as an easy side business, and can compete in the sales field.
Analysis of Needs for the Development of Nearpod-Based Interactive Learning Media to Improve Student Learning Outcomes in Class XI at SMAN Bengkulu City on Parabolic Motion Material
Authors: Pazah Guti Ameda , Risdianto Eko , Purwanto Andik
Published: February 2024

This study set out to examine the demands of educators and learners with reference to the creation of Nearpod application-based learning resources for high school students studying parabolic motion. The information used in this study came from a review of the literature, interviews with physics instructors, and class XI students at SMAN 01, SMAN 03, and SMAN 09 in Bengkulu City. This study employs a qualitative descriptive research methodology. The methods utilized to collect the data are interviews, observations, and literature reviews. Observation and interview sheets made up the research instrument. Qualitative data analysis is used in data analysis procedures. Interactive learning materials are required in classrooms, as indicated by the findings of observations and interviews. This is a result of the fact that professors continue to employ a conventional learning approach and that pupils struggle to understand the information. The usage of interactive learning media in the learning process is necessary as a medium that promotes the learning process, according to the study's findings and discussion.
The Effect of Number Media Games on the Counting Ability of 5-6 Year Old Children at Dharma Wanita Kindergarten, Kedurang District
Authors: Iswi Rinzi , Ardina Mona , Wembrayarli
Published: February 2024

The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of the number block media on the numeracy ability of group B TK Dharma Wanita Kedurang District. This study used a quantitative approach with the type of research True experimental with Pretest-posttest Control Group Design. The population in this study was  26 children of group B. Determination of the sample in this study using saturated sampling. The data collected by using observation and test methods. Data analysis techniques to test in this study using the t-test. Based on the analysis by using a t-test, the t count was (4,005) while the t table was (2.056), which means t count > t table. So based on these results, it concluded that HO can't be accepted and Ha is accepted. Thus, it can be concluded that there is a significant effect of numbers media on the numeracy ability of group B children in Dharma Wanita Kindergarten, Kedurang District. It suggested that the teachers could follow up on the use of numbers media on early childhood numeracy ability and teachers should make other games that can also determine children's numeracy abilities.
A Review of Virbia (Formerly Holomelina) of America North of Mexico (Arctiidae: Arctiinae: Arctinii)
Authors: Zaspel J. M. , Weller S. J. , Cardé R.T.
Published: February 2024

The tiger moth genus Virbia Walker (Arctiinae: Arctiini) is redescribed and its biology and taxonomic history are reviewed. The recent placement of Holomelina Herrich-Schäffer as its junior synonym is examined. North of Mexico, 14 Virbia species are recognized, including two new species, V. fergusoni Zaspel and V. rindgei Cardé. Adult habitus photographs, a checklist, diagnoses, and complete descriptions are provided for all species. Genitalia of the new species are illustrated, and diagnostic character illustrations are provided for separating all previously described species. Locality information from over 12,000 specimens representing 16 museum collections [in the United States and Canada] is compiled and available in an electronic database on the Diversity of Life Website (at www.diversityoflife.org/virbia.html). As some species appear to be habitat specialists (e.g., V. lamae in bogs), photos of selected habitats are provided.
A middle Eocene fossil plant assemblage (Powers Clay Pit) from western Tennessee
Authors: Dilcher David L. , Lott Terry A.
Published: February 2024

Plant megafossils are described, illustrated and discussed from Powers Clay Pit, occurring in the middle Eocene, Claiborne Group of the Mississippi Embayment in western Tennessee. Twenty six species and eight types of plants, and two species of insect larval cases are represented in this study. They include Lauraceae, Annonaceae, Smilacaceae, Platanaceae, Altingiaceae, Myrtaceae, Fabaceae, Fagaceae, Salicaceae, Moraceae, Rhamnaceae, Sapindaceae, Nyssaceae, Theaceae, Apocynaceae, Rubiaceae, Araliaceae, Oleaceae, entire margin morphotype 1-5, tooth margin morphotype 1, reproductive structure morphotype 1, Folindusia, and Terrindusia. Specimens collected from Powers Pit are compared to those from previous studies from western Tennessee, the Claibome Group in general, and assessed in terms of extant relationships. The extant relationships of plant megafossils described in this study provide clues to the paleoenvironment of western Tennessee during the middle Eocene. The paleoenvironment may have been subtropical accommodating warm tropical to cool temperate plant species.
Some landsnails of the genus Humboldliana from Chihuahua and western Texas
Authors: Thompson Fred G.
Published: February 2024

Humboldtiana (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Helicoidea, Humboldtianidae) is endemic to higher elevations of central and northern Mexico, and southwestern Texas. The fauna of the Mexican State of Chihuahua is reviewed. Thirteen species are recorded from there. This is estimated to be a small percent ofthe species that occur in Chihuahua. Humboldtiana presidii Pilsbry, 1939 from Texas is redescribed and is elevated to specific status. Formerly it was classified as a subspecies of H. hogeana (Martens, 1892). New taxa are Gymnopallax n. subgen. for H. cicatricosa n. sp. (referred species: H. sylvania Thompson & Mejia, 2006); Clydonacme n. subgen. for H. regula (referred species: H. spectabile n. sp., H. titania n. sp., H. oberon n. sp., H. princeps n. sp. and H. hogeana Martens 1892); Aglotrochus n. subgen. for H. tanymastix n. sp. Humboldtiana balanites n. sp. and H. corruga Thompson & Mejia, 2006 are referred tentatively to the subgenus Humboldtiana. The primary types of H. hogeana Martens, 1892; H. presidii Pilsbry, 1939, and H. torrei Pilsbry 1935 are refigured. The subgeneric affinities of Humboldtiana torrei Pilsbry, 1935 and H. eulatioe Metcalf, 1984 are uncertain.
Multisensor Remote Sensing Data Integration
Authors: Kulo Nedim
Published: February 2024

The integration of remote sensing data involves combining various data to get better information, or more information about an area or phenomenon of interest. When it comes to combining data, it usually refers to multi-hour, multi-resolution or multi-sensor data linking. The subject of multi-sensor data integration is the combining of data collected by different sensors. A common example of this type of integration is the integration of multispectral optical data with radar imagery. Both spectrally different modes of representation complement each other: optical data is ''in charge'' of detailed spectral information (used to differentiate soil types) while radar data show structural details on the surface.
Application of Scientific Software GAMIT/GLOBK for Geodynamics in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Authors: Ćatić Jasmin , Krdžalić Dževad
Published: February 2024

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are used for different purposes in geodesy, like engineering geodesy, land management, real estate cadastre, land surveying, etc. However, high-precision GNSS measurements are used primarly for determination of reference networks, and for investigation of geodynamical phenomena as tectonic plates movements, which is the focus of this paper. An active GNSS network of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIHPOS) was used for calculation of coordinates and velocities of networks' stations. Data from 23 stations were processed using scientific software GAMIT/GLOBK (version 10.7), developed on MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). A sub-centimeter accuracy of coordinates is achieved and accuracy of calculated velocities is better than 1 mm/year. Station velocities interpretate geodynamics of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Six IGS stations were used, as reference datum stations. Reference stations analysis results are in good match with EUREF Permanent GNSS Network velocities, while BIHPOS stations velocities (at 13 stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina) show very similar trend to the velocities obtained from regional geodynamic campaigns (CERGOP).
GIS Analysis of Accessibility and Spatial Distribution of Health Care Institutions on the Example of Zadar City, Croatia
Authors: Šiljeg Silvija , Marić Ivan , Živko Marko
Published: February 2024

The accessibility of health care organizations plays a key role in promoting health equality and quality of life. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the accessibility of health care organizations in the city of Zadar. Data on the locations of general practitioners’ clinics, dental care clinics, pediatric clinics, pharmacies, private practice offices and general hospitals were used in the GIS analysis. The addresses of health care organizations were taken from the website of the Croatian Health Insurance Fund (HZZO) and then geocoded. Data on the transport network of the settlement of Zadar were taken from the Geofabrika website. Topological verification and data correction were performed. Healthcare accessibility zones were derived in the ArcMap 10.1 Network Analyst extension. Accessibility zones were derived according to the travel time criterion and classified with respect to minutes on foot (5-10-15). Data on statistical circles and population were taken from the Central Bureau of Statistics. It has been found that there are significant differences in statistical circles regarding the accessibility of health care organizations in the city of Zadar. The highest concentration of health care organizations has been marked in the statistical circles of Poluotok, while the scarcity of institutions was noted in the statistical circles of the eastern part of the city.
Geostrategic Position of Bosnian Banovina at the End of the 12th Century
Authors: Kozličić Mithad
Published: February 2024

This research includes the most important geographical maps preserved to date, which show a noticeable delay in mapping the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is not different situation even with the other countries in the near and far interior. From the presented and analyzed cartographic works, it is noticeable that Bosnia is represented only on the map of Cardinal Nikolaus von Kues. On this map Bosnia is highlighted as the Kingdom of Bosnia, with the note that what historiographical knowledge implies by that Kingdom is not fully shown. Essentially, all other maps represent only the Banovina of Bosnia of the great Ban Kulin. It is not difficult to see that Francesco Rosselli's map from the end of the 16th century had an impressive number of mapped diverse geographical materials, including textual markings of the borders of "his" Bosnia. On Martin Waldseemüller's map from 1513, the name of Bosnia stands out in the title for the first time. Taken as a whole, the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina, even at such an early time, proved to be geostrategically extremely important, as a dividing line between the West, to which it has always belonged, and the East, which began on the right bank of the river Drina. The basis of this statement is the year 1054 and the schism within the church. Bosnia was and remains with the Roman church and the pope. Therefore, the great Kingdom of Hungary had the last geostrategic defensive bastion in medieval Bosnia against the Byzantine Empire and their subject states. In the end, it can be concluded that Bosnia of the great Ban Kulin was really very spacious, respectable in terms of military strength and economically quite advanced. It will be the basis for future Bosnian rulers, especially Tvrtko the 1st.
Analog Cadastral Maps in the Function of Interpretation of Location of Watermills of the Settlements Kasapovići and Isakovići in Novi Travnik
Authors: Topoljak Jusuf , Mulahusić Admir , Kljajić Ivka
Published: February 2024

Cadastral data can be used for different purposes because it represents important data created in different time periods. Analog cadastral maps like parts of the cadastral register offer graphical data about the locations of the watermills. On the cadastral maps are written a year of the creation of the graphic representation. The year of creation of the plan and the black color of the symbol of the watermill means that it was built before of survey. In the paper, the depictions of watermills in the settlements of Kasapovići and Isakovići in the municipality of Novi Travnik on the cadastral maps of the old and new survey and some historical data were analyzed. Some of the watermills existed on the terrain, but they were not registered in the cadastral register. The locations where watermills exist and where existed were explored. Additional information about watermills collected on the terrain as well as from individual residents of the mentioned settlements was given.
Detection and Monitoring of Land Subsidence By the PSInSAR Method
Authors: Bojić Mirnes
Published: February 2024

The InSAR technique is a powerful tool for monitoring land subsidence, which has the potential to provide millimeter-accurate displacement determinations. By using the free Sentinel-1 images, which have a very large spatial coverage and a high frequency of repeated passes over the same area, the InSAR technique can offer good spatial and temporal displacement analysis with high accuracy. Considering the existence of a significant number of free research software, and the need to engage a smaller number of professional staff, this technique is significantly more financially favorable than other methods.
Spatio-Temporal Landuse/Landcover (LU/LC) Changes of Significant Landscape „Barćeve Špilje“
Authors: Marić Ivan , Smajo Luka
Published: February 2024

Changes in the land use/land cover (LU/LC) model caused by different anthropogenic and natural factors are an important object of numerous scientific research. In this paper, an analysis of the spatio-temporal changes (LUCCs) for the area of Significant landscape (SL) of the „Baraćeve špilje“ in the period from 1960 to 2021 was performed. Using aerial photographs and a hybrid classification method, LU/LC models and spatio-temporal changes (STCs) analysis were performed. The research showed that the abandonment of agriculture and the slow disappearance of anthropogenic influence led to the disappearance of low vegetation in the form of lawns, meadows and pastures, while the bushy vegetation and forest gradually prevailed. Finally, in accordance with the degree of protection of the studied area guidelines for stopping negative trends in LU/LC changes were considered.
O conselho nacional de educação: a indispensável construção de uma elite política
Authors: Auer Franceila , Negreiros Heitor Lopes , Santos Wagner dos , Araújo Vania Carvalho de
Published: February 2024

Este artigo tem como objetivo problematizar a constituição da Câmara de Educação Básica do Conselho Nacional de Educação no período da elaboração da Base Nacional Comum Curricular do Ensino Médio (2015 a 2018) na perspectiva de uma elite política segundo a definição de Hannah Arendt. Caracteriza-se como uma pesquisa qualitativa do tipo documental. Adota-se como fontes de análise os Currículos Lattes dos conselheiros e as portarias nº 187, de 13 de março de 2012; nº 323, de 9 de abril de 2014; nº 174, de 4 de abril de 2016 e nº 103, de 8 de fevereiro de 2018 do Ministério da Educação. Utiliza-se como instrumento de auxílio o software Gephi. Os resultados apontam que a referida Câmara do Conselho Nacional de Educação foi formada a partir das indicações de instituições com concepções de educação alinhadas ao Executivo Federal. Conclui-se que ela se distancia de uma elite política em um sentido democrático, sobretudo pelo desprezo à pluralidade em sua formação e pela não constituição de canais de interlocução pública que pudessem garantir o direito à participação e a representação da sociedade no período analisado.
Global Waste Management Outlook 2024 - Beyond an age of waste: Turning rubbish into a resource
Authors:   United Nations Environment Programme,   International Solid Waste Association
Published: February 2024

In response to Resolution 2/7 from the second session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) and reaffirmed in Resolution 4/7 from its fourth session, the Global Waste Management Outlook offers an updated assessment of global waste management and an analysis of data concerning municipal solid waste management worldwide. Jointly published with the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), the report evaluates three potential scenarios of municipal waste generation and management, examining their impacts on society, the environment, and the global economy. Furthermore, it presents potential strategies for waste reduction and enhanced management, following the waste hierarchy, to treat all waste materials as valuable resources.
La estructural des/conexión gobernantes-gobernados como sentido de dominación en el Ecuador
Authors: Zambrano Andrade Rolando Fabián , Guillem López María Ivonne , Suarez Quishpe Juan Carlos
Published: February 2024

El presente trabajo aborda la constitución estatal del Ecuador bajo los postulados eurocéntricos republicano-liberal, sustentos fundacionales como forma de dominación poscolonial ejercida por facciones oligárquicas (1830-1950), desarrollista urbana- burguesa industrial sustituida de importaciones (1950-1979), electoralista neoliberal subordinada a la dominación global-tecnológica y del capital (1980-2007), reconfigurada política, económica, social y territorialmente con el neoconstitucionalismo del 2008 a la actualidad; supuestos-presupuestos edificantes del modelo estatal con actorías determinantes del statu quo imperante sin logros en democracia, superación de pobrezas y/o desigualdades. Argumentos sustanciales que concluyen en estructurales pesimismos, insumos insuficientes que incidan en correcciones y/o perspectivas que alteren el patrón de dominación local, nacional e internacional.

Palabras claves: desconexión, gobernantes, gobernados, Estado, dominación.
Pertanggungjawaban Pidana Korporasi Terhadap Pengguna Jasa Debt Collector dalam Melakukan Penagihan Pinjaman Online Yang Berimplikasi Tindak Pidana
Authors: Kusumaningrum Yuli Dinata , Amrullah M. Arief , Susanti Dyah Ochtorina
Published: February 2024

Pada prakteknya penagihan dalam proses perdata mebutuhkan waktu yang panjang perlu menggunakan upaya somasi atau gugatan perdata, sehingga perusahaan merasa tidak efisien dengan prosedur ini, untuk memepersingkat waktu dan mendapat keuntungan, perusahaan pinjaman online memilih dengan cara mengancam menggunakan konten asusila dan pornografi untuk menakut nakuti debitur. Cara ini dinilai perusahaan lebih cepat dan efektif  memangkas prosedur umumnya yang Panjang, perbuatan ini didasari atas preferensi seseorang dalam memilih perbuatan yang paling menguntungkan serta efektif bagi diriya. Selain itu motivasi untuk mendapat keuntungan yang sebesar besarnya merupakan dorongan yang kuat sehingga korporasi dalam mengoperasikan niaganya secara langsung atau tidak langsung mengarah pada keterlibatan atau melibatkan diri dalam kejahatan. Pada masalah ini perusaahaan pinjaman online ikut serta dalam kejahatan korporasi yang termasuk pada tindak pidana yang dilakuan oleh karyawan korporasi atau korporasi itu sendiri untuk kepentingan korporasi. Pada masalah ini kesalahan yang dilakukan  debt collector dapat digantikan oleh korporasi sebab adanya hubungan subordinasi antara pemberi kerja dan pelaku yang melakukan tindak pidana, serta keuntungan yang diperoleh pelaku sebenarnya bukanlah keuntungan pelaku melaikan keuntungan perusahaan sehingga korporasi dapat dimintai pertanggungjawaban pidana karena pelakunya merupakan karyawan korporasi dan bertindak dalam lingkup perkerjaan serta atas nama korporasi.
Botryoid odontogenic cyst
Authors: Cunha John Lennon Silva , Silva Amanda Feitoza da , Silva Joao Vitor Rocha , Fonte Juliana Batista Melo da , Bezerra Bruno Torres , Sousa Sílvia Ferreira de , Albuquerque-Júnior Ricardo Luiz Cavalcanti de
Published: February 2024

Botryoid odontogenic cyst (BOC) is a rare variant of the lateral periodontal cyst (LPC). As the biological behavior of BOC is variable and the literature is limited to that of individual case reports, there is no accepted consensus on the best management strategy. A 43-year-old Caucasian male was referred to a private dental clinic for routine radiographic examination. Extraoral and intraoral evaluations revealed no alterations. Panoramic radiography, periapical radiography, and cone beam computed tomography revealed a well-circumscribed osteolytic lesion of 2.0 cm in diameter, extending from the region of teeth 33 to 35. The provisional diagnostic was odontogenic keratocyst or lateral periodontal cyst. Histological analysis of the incisional biopsy revealed multiple cystic cavities lined by a thin nonkeratinized epithelium, exhibiting focal plaque-like thickenings, surrounded by a dense fibrous capsule. The diagnosis was BOC. The purpose of this study was to critically analyze the clinical and radiologic features of BOC based on case reports and case series published in the literature from 1973 to 2018 and to add a new one from our files.