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Exploring the Mekong River and the Development of Eco-Cultural Tourism in Northeastern Thailand
Authors: Hongsuwan Pathom , Seemarorit Wantakarn 
Published: December 2024

Aims: This article aims to explore and promote tourism in the Northeastern region of Thailand, specifically focusing on the vibrant culture surrounding the Mekong River. The goal is to stimulate the local economy and enhance the quality of life for the communities in this area. Additionally, the article seeks to establish a sustainable tourism model that preserves the uniqueness of local culture for future generations.

Method: This article employs a qualitative approach using a descriptive research design. It incorporates in-depth interviews, participatory observation, and document analysis to collect information about the experiences and knowledge of communities living along the Mekong River. A purposive sampling technique was used to select relevant locations and participants aligning with the research objectives.

Results: The research findings indicate that the Mekong River significantly impacts the social, cultural, and economic aspects of local communities in Northeastern Thailand. The river offers promising opportunities for tourism development. Key tourist attractions—such as traditional festivals, the sale of local products, and the communities along the river—have been identified as avenues to enhance the area's economy and culture while aligning with sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Conclusion: The article concludes that the growth of ecotourism and cultural tourism in the Mekong River region can generate income and foster pride in local culture. Preserving the community's unique characteristics and cultural heritage is vital. Furthermore, the article emphasizes the importance of planning for sustainable tourism to ensure that both communities and the environment fully benefit in the future.

Research Implications: The findings highlight the significance of developing sustainable tourism in the Mekong River region. They stress the need for strategies that promote equitable economic growth and active community participation. Additionally, the paper advocates for effective water resource management and cross-border collaboration to support tourism development that generates income while preserving the area's cultural and environmental diversity.

Originality/Value: This research is unique and valuable because it examines the relationship between local culture and ecotourism development in the Mekong River region. It provides insights into how the river influences community identity and livelihoods. Additionally, it offers strategies for sustainable tourism development that aim to generate economic benefits while preserving local cultural heritage.
CLIL APPROACH IN KAZAKHSTAN: LEARNERS’ PERCEPTION AND EXPERIENCES
Authors: Yesmuratova A. , Shayakhmetova D. 
Published: December 2024

In modern society, a new education system is being formed and the acquisition of one or more foreign languages is becoming a priority, and it is seen as one of the tools for expanding professional knowledge and opportunities. In this regard, new educational methods appear for teaching a second language. One of them is the Content and Language Integrated Learning approach which is increasingly becoming one of the innovative approaches to teaching and learning foreign languages. However, there exist several issues related to the implementation process of the CLIL approach. Thus, this article aims to demonstrate the senior school students’ perceptions of CLIL. The research questions are concentrated on identifying the challenges that they face while applying the CLIL method and illustrating the benefits of this approach in the teaching and learning contexts. By investigating their attitudes and perceptions toward CLIL, it will be possible to search out solutions for challenges that students face during the CLIL lesson and to improve their skills.
Awareness Level of Farmers on Agricultural Related Softwares for Improved Agricultural Production: Panacea for Food Insecurity in Iseyin Local Government Area of Oyo State
Authors: ADETUNBI, Saheed Ige  , Olayemi Arowolo Jeremiah 
Published: December 2024

Purpose: The study in its main objective assessed the awareness level of farmers on agricultural related softwares for improved agricultural production in Iseyin Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study examined the socio-economic characteristics of respondents; evaluated the level of awareness on agricultural softwares in the study area; investigated the extent of factors influencing usage of agricultural related softwares; assessed the severity of various challenges to usage of agricultural related softwares. The research hypothesis examined significant relationship between the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents and their level of awareness of farmers on agricultural related softwares available to the respondents.
Materials and Methods: A well- structured interview schedule was used to collect primary data. A total of 75 respondents were selected. Both descriptive statistics and inferential statistical analysis were employed in data analysis.
Findings: The study revealed that male (64.0%) population is more than population of female (36.0%) in the study area. Results further revealed that aside automated poultry machine, weather forecasting tools was the most aware agricultural softwares in the study area. The study also deduced that factors influencing usage of agricultural softwares was access to technology with highest frequency of 97.3%. Limited digital infrastructure, regulatory and policy issues, reliability and connectivity issues and awareness and perception was ranked 1st in the challenges facing the respondents to usage agricultural related softwares. Chi-square analysis revealed a significant relationship between socio-economic characteristics of sex (x2 = 5.88, p= 0.015), religion (x2 = 26.16, p= 0.000002), marital status (x2 = 184.94, p= 0.00001), secondary occupation (x2 = 45.02, p = 0.001), year of farming experience (x2 = 6.72, p= 0.035) and aspect of farming enterprise (x2 = 174.54, p= 0.001) meanwhile, educational status do not to have a significant relationship on the awareness level of farmers on agricultural related softwares.
Implications to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study recommended improved awareness of less-known agricultural softwares like precision agronomy and data management tools through targeted educational campaigns and demonstrations that highlight their benefits to farmers, addressing regulatory and policy barriers will be crucial, along with promoting digital literacy programs to increase farmers understanding and perceived benefits of using agricultural related softwares.
<b>Towards Predicting Recurrence Risk of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer with a Hybrid Machine Learning Model</b>
Authors: Chattopadhyay Subhagata 
Published: December 2024

Thyroid cancers (TC) often recur. This paper tests a novel unsupervised and supervised hybrid machine learning model to predict the recurrence risk (RR) and its score (RRS) in a population of "differentiated thyroid cancer" (DTC) cases as the prognostic measure. The DTC data (383 × 13) are collected from the UCI library. The population is grouped into "high risk of recurrence" (HRR) and "no high risk of recurrence" (NHRR) using the agglomerative clustering algorithm (ACA). Prior, the dataset is log-normalized [0,1], column-wise as a preprocessing step. Log-normalized values of the predictors, their corresponding coefficients, and the constant/intercept are used to construct a multiple linear regression to compute the RRS. Further, RRS values are normalized [0,1] using a log-sigmoidal function and termed "RRS_norm". RRS_norms closer to the average RRS_norms of HRR and NHRR determine the predicted group. The model’s performance is measured with a confusion matrix, and RRS_norm results are matched with the RR labeled within the dataset. The result shows that ACA can correctly cluster the dataset into HRR and NHRR by 63.4%. Based on the coefficient values, predictors such as "Age", "Gender", "Smoking", "History of smoking", "History of Radiotherapy", "Adenopathy", and "Tumor staging" which comprise 53.84% of the total number of predictors show a positive correlation with "recurrence". However, while matching the RRS_norms with the actual RRs, a 21.68% mismatch is observed, which mandates investigations with other DTC datasets.

Received: 26 September 2024 | Revised: 18 November 2024 | Accepted: 29 November 2024

Conflicts of Interest
The author declares that he has no conflicts of interest to this work.

Data Availability Statement
The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in Kaggle at https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/joebeachcapital/differentiated-thyroid-cancer-recurrence, reference number [14].

Author Contribution Statement
Subhagata Chattopadhyay: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Visualization, Supervision, Project administration.
Montenegro and Serbia
Authors: Morrison Kenneth , Garčević Vesko 
Published: December 2024

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the oft-divergent paths taken by Montenegro and Serbia in the tumultuous period between the late 1980s and the present day. Utilising both primary and secondary sources, many previously unpublished in English, this book provides a detailed examination of the complex relations between Montenegro and Serbia in the Yugoslav context and their bilateral relationship since they parted ways in 2006.
Montenegro and Serbia: A Velvet Divorce?offers a broader overview of the internal political developments in both countries, their interactions and the forging of their own distinct, and ultimately divergent, domestic and foreign policies.
Kenneth Morrison and Vesko Garcevic also explore the relationships that Montenegro and Serbia have had, and continue to have, with Russia, China, the EU and NATO, making this a highly relevant study for those interested in global power politics, as well as contemporary political dynamics in the Western Balkans.
Drawing Analogies
Authors: Burrows David , Cussans John , Kenning Dean , Yacoob Mary 
Published: December 2024

By exploring diagrams, diagramming and the diagrammatic across a range of disciplines and arts-led practices, this open access book addresses the gap between diagrams as a widely valued mode of visual representation and their under-examined status within arts and art education
Informed by Charles Sanders Peirce’s understanding of a diagram as an analogy of relations,Drawing Analogiesdraws on its authors’ creative use of diagrams as artists, educators and arts researchers, and on fields of inquiry that bring the arts into alignment with other disciplines – most notably anthropology, critical theory, pedagogy, philosophy, psychology, semiotics and the physical and life sciences. This range of disciplines is evident in the artists and writers discussed, such as Gregory Bateson, Black Quantum Futurism, Salvador Dali, Phillipe Descola, Aristotle, Hilma af Klint, Rosalind E. Krauss, Yayoi Kusama, Louis Hjelmslev, Susanne Leeb, Jacques Lacan, Pauline Oliveros, and George Widener.
While the authors approach diagramming as both a technicalandpoetic activity, their emphasis is on creative, embodied and exploratory modes of diagramming practices, which are capable of engendering new forms, thoughts and experiences. By taking an artistic approach to diagrams and diagramming, by incorporating diagramming as a method of enquiry within chapters, and by exploring their interdisciplinary and multi-perspectival potentials,Drawing Analogiesproposes giving new life to the art of diagramming and widening the arena of artistic practice and creative research.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University College London.
Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation
Authors: Nakamura Ellen Gardner 
Published: December 2024

At the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice. In this book, Ellen Gardner Nakamura reconsiders the story of the adoption of Western medicine through the eyes of six medical practitioners.
The men who took the lead in transforming Japanese medicine under the new Meiji government were Western-style Japanese physicians, an enthusiastic minority who had studied European medical texts and techniques in the era before the ‘opening’ of Japan. Their achievements in creating the institutions of modern Japanese medicine are celebrated in almost every Japanese medical history book.Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation, on the other hand, focuses on a selection of lesser-known men and women whose roles in the transformation of Japanese medicine were important but unspectacular. The Japanese doctors discussed here had various educational backgrounds. Most trained in the Dutch-style medicine which had become popular in the middle of the Tokugawa era, but they ultimately struggled with the transition to modernity. To what extent was their background in premodern Western-style medicine an advantage in adapting to the Meiji era? Who were the winners and who were the losers in the modernization process? What personal and professional challenges did they face? This book is shaped by these broad questions and the informative life trajectories of six fascinating contemporaries.
Prayer and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing
Authors: Ludlow Elizabeth 
Published: December 2024

In the 19th century, an era that saw a reconfiguration of the relationship between the self, the world and the divine, women writers probed the theological depths of embodied faith in new ways through poetry, fiction, devotional prose and life writing.
Elizabeth Ludlow explores how, through this process, they articulated what it means to pray, and thereby understand one’s place in a world of individual and communal bodies. The eight women writers discussed – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Josephine Butler, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dora Greenwell, Felicia Hemans, Adelaide Procter and Christina Rossetti – provide accounts of prayer that stress that the only way to experience and respond to something of the transcendent is through embracing lived experience and through a recognition of the connectedness of all bodies.
In detailing how these writers engage with new ways of thinking about faith, desire and the material world, Ludlow argues that they offer models for ethical modes of being in the world and pave the way for later theologies of embodiment.
Globalizing through the Vernacular
Authors: Dutta Aniruddha 
Published: December 2024

Globalizing through the Vernacularanalyzes the relation between dominant frameworks of LGBTQ+ identity in India and non-elite, non-metropolitan communities such as kothis and hijras, a spectrum of feminine-identified people usually assigned male at birth.Going beyond the well-known ‘third gender’ hijra community, this is the first book to study the discourses and practices of related but underrepresented groups like kothis and dhuranis in small-town and rural India while simultaneously examining their relation to and role within LGBTQ+ identity politics.
Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the book demonstrates that non-elite groups facilitate the transregional expansion of organized queer politics and become more consolidated as gender/sexual identities in the process. Yet, they often remain irreducible to emerging identity categories and become subordinated through hierarchies of scale and language that serve to contain such communities and related discourses as local and vernacular. The book shows how this process, in effect, denies them an equal role in transnational LGBT politics; reinforces class/caste hierarchies within and beyond queer communities; and delegitimizes or erases articulations of gender/sexual difference that contravene dominant understandings of gender/sexual identity aligned with transnational capitalism, liberalism, or nationalism. Simultaneously, it reveals how non-elite communities rearticulate dominant identity categories in more equal, liberatory ways.
Technics of Existence
Authors: Berger-Soraruff Amélie 
Published: December 2024

How ought we to live with new technologies? What future do we want in light of the many changes they bring to human existence? At a time when responsible innovation is on everyone’s lips and academics turn to applied ethics to tackle these issues, this book questions the lack of a strong and coherent ethics of the self within the current discipline of the philosophy of technology.
Drawing on Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential phenomenology, Michel Foucault’s biopolitics, and Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy of the amateur, Amélie Berger-Soraruff examines the crucial importance of developing a politics of the self in contemporary technoculture. Refreshingly original, this work frames Stiegler as a philosopher of the human and situates his contributions in continuity with those of Sartre and Foucault, while reasserting their relevance in a field of research that often prioritizes technological enhancement over individual emancipation.
It presents Stiegler’s thought as a contemporary echo of Sartrean existentialism and reflects on the Foucauldian elements of his philosophy. Extending Stiegler’s views to the fields of media studies and STS, this book brilliantly nuances his portrayal of technoculture, which he perceived as increasingly alienating, yet not devoid of alternatives.
Incarceration in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn
Authors: Careless Eleanor 
Published: December 2024

The first full-length study of the poet, artist and activist Anna Mendelssohn (1948-2009), this book consolidates Mendelssohn’s reputation as one of the most important avant-garde British poets of her generation and explores her contribution to the powerful tradition of women writing enclosure and escape.
Mendelssohn was herself incarcerated in Holloway women’s prison between 1971-76, and her bold and inventive poetry foregrounds and subverts, but does not triumphantly overcome, conditions of constraint. Informed by extensive original archival research, this book reads her highly experimental lyric alongside the poetry of her forerunners and contemporaries, including Nancy Cunard, Muriel Rukeyser and Denise Riley, restoring to view a lost network of radical, Jewish and feminist modernism. With chapters on the poetry of the Spanish Civil War, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Women’s Liberation Movement, the transformation of HMP Holloway in the 1970s and prison abolitionism,Incarceration in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohnilluminates the historical, political and literary contexts that shape this work and argues that Mendelssohn advances a poetics not of emancipation, but of abolition.
One Nation, Many Faiths
Authors: Sutherland Liam T. 
Published: December 2024

This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in institutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societies through the case study of Interfaith Scotland.It analyzes the organization and their literature, demonstrating the ways in which they have cultivated a particular model of religious pluralism compatible with a secular civic-cultural nationalism. It places this case into a comparative discussion of the interfaith movement as an emerging global phenomenon.
In this case study, the author considers how Interfaith Scotland presents ‘religions’ as equivalent, compatible bodies of ethical teachings through selective appeals to textual traditions or in some cases, their construction. It has also depended on conforming to the ‘world religions paradigm’, where it is only religions with global reach and cohesive characteristics which require representation.
Liam Sutherland discusses how Interfaith Scotland encouraged a common, seemingly ‘apolitical’ attachment to Scotland’s democratic institutions and cultural heritage, especially in relation to the question of independence. This case study sheds light on the wider relationship between the global interfaith movement and nationalism – both in protecting religions against prejudice and exclusion but also pursuing integrationist goals.
State Formation and Conflicts in Sri Lanka
Authors: Bastian Sunil 
Published: December 2024

This book explores how the history of postcolonial Sri Lanka suggests a new paradigm for understanding state-formation as an ever-shifting and evolving process.
The Sri Lankan state has formed under the pressure of multiple conflicts: around capitalist transition on the one hand, and the deteriorating relationship between the state and Tamil minority populations on the other. Sunil Bastian demonstrates the way these conflicts have overlapped, with international support for the introduction of neoliberal policies – from Japan, the West and institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF – helping to prop up a state engaged in armed ethnic conflict.State Formation and Conflict in Sri Lankaexplores the role played by these two forces in the nation’s recent economic crises.
Facing Our Futures
Authors: Badminton Nikolas 
Published: December 2024

A fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future.
Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable to prepare for these specific events. But, through innovation, strategizing and an open-minded approach, they can restructure their organization and practices in order to mitigate (or even take advantage of) the impact of such events.
InFacing Our Futures, Nikolas Badminton draws upon his decades of experience as a consultant and futurist to provide readers with the skillset and outlook they need to prepare their organization, team and themselves for whatever obstacles the future may hold. CEOs, executive teams, government leaders and policy makers need to gain a broader perspective and a firmer grasp on how their relevant industry, society or community is evolving and changing. Once they have acquired this foresight, they need to then discover how to fully harness it – by strengthening their foundations, forecasting and establishing a resilient and adaptable strategy.
Facing Our Futuresacts as a primer on the value of seeing how bad things can get and the power in imagining these futures. It also provides a proven strategic planning and foresight methodology - the Positive Dystopia Canvas (PDC) - that allows leaders to supercharge their teams to build evocative visions of futures that strengthen planning today.