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Agile Backward Design: A Framework for planning higher education curriculum
Authors: Dazeley Richard , Goriss-Hunter Anitra , Meredith Grant , Sellings Peter , Firmin Sally , Burke Jenene , Panther Barbie 
Published: October 2024

AbstractIn the last two decades there has been an increase in research and discussion regarding curriculum in Higher Education (HE). The literature in this field tends to focus on curriculum change at either the whole institution or individual program or unit level. Formal writing on HE curriculum also does not offer a framework that openly draws upon context, learner needs, pedagogical approaches, and industry requirements to formulate a collaborative model of curricular development. To fill these gaps in HE curriculum discussion and literature the aim of this study was to develop a cross-disciplinary model applicable to both unit (academic module that makes up a program) and program (degree) levels of curriculum development by enabling academics to generate and structure engaging learning opportunities for students. The research team developed this model by drawing on elements of Agile mindset and Backward Design. We call it Agile Backward Design (ABD). This paper reports on this new approach to curricular design. A critical reflective inquiry approach was used to discuss the development of the model. To report the transformation that was made at the program and unit level a case study was employed. In ABD, the researchers have constructed a dynamic and responsive framework that has been foundational in the design and development of innovative curriculum and pedagogy at the unit and program level of undergraduate degrees in the IT discipline area.
Regenerative Medicine Approaches for Skin Wound Healing: from Allografts to Engineered Skin Substitutes
Authors: Mahajan Naresh , Soker Shay , Murphy Sean Vincent 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Purpose of the Review
Recent advancements in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine have paved the way for innovative solutions in skin regeneration, particularly for extensive burns and full-thickness wounds where traditional approaches are limited. The purpose of the review is to explore the integration of bioactive materials, stem cell therapies, and tissue-engineered skin substitutes and their role in revolutionizing wound healing and skin transplantation.

Recent Findings
Studies leveraging natural and synthetic biomaterials as scaffolds, alongside the regenerative capabilities of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and other cellular therapies, underscore the potential to enhance tissue repair, minimize scarring, and improve overall clinical outcomes. The development of multifunctional biomaterials and the advent of cutting-edge techniques such as 3D bioprinting and nanomedicine further propel the field, offering personalized and effective solutions. As these technologies evolve, they hold promise for more efficient, patient-specific skin grafting, reducing the need for systemic immunosuppression and enhancing graft survival.

Summary
The critical advancements in biomaterials, stem cell therapies, and tissue engineering, outline a course toward more effective and personalized skin regeneration therapies.
The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Small Business Support for Youth Physical Activity Opportunities in Urban, Low-Income, Predominantly Black Neighborhoods
Authors: Suminski Richard R. , Kelly Kristin , Firkin Cora J. 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Background
A relatively low percentage of Black youth meet physical activity (PA) guidelines. An important resource for helping Black youth be physically active is the availability of quality youth physical activity opportunities (YPAO) which manifest, in part, due to support from small businesses. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was a devastating negative societal event that disproportionately burdened the Black community. How the pandemic influenced the relationship between small businesses and YPAOs in this community is vital for understanding the promotion of PA in this high-risk population going forward.

Purpose
To describe small business support for YPAO before and after 2 years of exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods
In-person interviews were conducted June through August 2019 (pre-COVID) and 2021 (post-COVID) with owners and managers at small businesses in 20 urban, low-income, predominantly Black neighborhoods.

Results
The number of YPAOs supported was significantly greater pre-COVID (n = 104) versus post-COVID (n = 52) (t = 4.6; p < .001). From pre-COVID to post-COVID, the types of YPAOs supported by businesses shifted from a diverse mix to mostly (96%) outdoor, community sports teams. Businesses were more likely to provide goods and services (p = .02) for YPAOs pre-COVID than post-COVID. The major reason for not supporting YPAOs pre-COVID was “not being asked for support” then “not being able to locate YPAOs to support” post-COVID.

Conclusion
Exposure to COVID-19 is associated with significant changes in how small businesses support YPAOs. The results are useful for informing strategies and public policies aimed at promoting YPAO support through prominent negative societal events.
Pearls of Wisdom from Teaching Rounds: Reconceptualizing “See One, Do One” as Social Learning
Authors: Newman Jessica R. , Hughes Dorothy 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Background
Experiential education is paramount to clinical instruction in medicine. During teaching rounds, faculty can assess medical knowledge and clinical reasoning while modeling evidence-based patient care and effective communication. This study aimed to describe observed traits common across faculty who contribute to favorable learning environments.

Design
Students completed an Internal Medicine (IM) Student Chief elective at a midwestern United States Academic Tertiary Care Center in which M4s aided Clerkship leadership in near-peer teaching and communicating with students. Chiefs participated in rounds for experiential learning in clinical teaching. For this qualitative, descriptive study, M4s were asked to provide at least three “pearls of wisdom,” on observations about teaching and learning in reflective essays during two consecutive academic years. Twenty-nine M4s participated in the elective and submitted 238 pearls. The research team undertook document review and qualitatively analyzed content of Chiefs’ reflective essays. Detailed codes were organized into primary and secondary themes by each author, and then re-evaluated until they reached consensus. Through thematic analysis, we identified faculty traits students found conducive to learning.

Results
Three primary themes emerged: Attributes, Autonomy, and Achieving Engagement.

Conclusion
Experiential educational encounters are transformative to developing new physicians. Chiefs highlighted positive aspects of teaching rounds described previously including providing clear expectations, promoting goal setting, engagement, and instilling confidence. They also valued humor, recognizing cognitive overload, displaying humility, listening skills, and mentorship. While one attending cannot replicate all described effective techniques simultaneously, faculty development that promotes refining these approaches may improve the clinical learning environment for all learners.
Organizations in the Space of Reasons
Authors: Bernacchio Caleb 
Published: October 2024

AbstractBounded rationality presents a challenge to the notion that virtue is a capacity for knowledge, suggesting that judgments concerning the salience of specific facts are, in some cases, an indication of one’s incapacity to appreciate the full range of normatively salient facts. This problem can be mitigated by linking an account of the virtues with a theory of organizations. From this perspective, virtue is inherently shaped by the norms structuring one’s role(s) and is linked to the complementary set of roles, that is, the organization, in which one is participating through the virtues of loyalty and obedience. Within this perspective, human cognitive limitations are made to be strengths, allowing one to focus on a narrow set of reasons for action linked with one’s role to better achieve salient aims as a member of the organization than one could as an isolated individual.
Chemical weapons investigation mechanisms in Syria: standards of proof and methods of work
Authors: Albalawi Almuntaser , Burck Kristoffer 
Published: October 2024

AbstractSeveral ad-hoc mechanisms were established for fact-finding and attributing responsibility for chemical weapons allegations in Syria. With distinctive mandates, these mechanisms adopted different working methods and applied varying standards of proof to achieve their objectives. This paper presents an analysis of the four main investigation mechanisms on alleged chemical weapons use in Syria, drawing on over forty relevant official reports, documents, and memos. The analysis entails juxtaposing the main attributes of these mechanisms: mandate, founding body, standards of proof, and adopted scientific and technical working methods. By doing so, the paper demonstrates the interdependency between the mechanisms and explains correlations between their constituting attributes. While attribution mechanisms apply a wider range of technologies and work methods, they did not consistently exhibit a higher standard of proof. This challenges the assumption that the mandate and technology use determine the applied standard of proof. Rather, the paper finds that the founding bodies have the most significant influence on standards of proof. United Nations-mandated mechanisms, for instance, employ a higher standard than those founded by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The paper discusses contributing factors to this finding including, political support, anticipated and granted levels of cooperation and access, and reporting of findings.
Horizons of Possibility—Young People’s Encounters with Nature and Their Qualities in Social Programs
Authors: Sørensen Niels Ulrik , Nielsen Anne Mette W. 
Published: October 2024

AbstractThis article presents an analysis of young people’s encounters with nature within a context of social programs. In the intersection between nature and social initiatives, nature is often defined as something that contains a range of inherent properties that can have a positive impact on various aspects of young people’s lives—such as their well-being, development and learning. However, there is a lack of analyses that focus on the manifold, diverse and divergent exchanges and liaisons that young people’s encounters with nature can give rise to. Based on an approach, where humans and nature are considered so intertwined that one cannot be meaningfully understood without the other (Haraway 2021, Latour 2005), the aim of the article is to shed light on the many different types of entanglements and interconnections that unfold in young people’s encounters with nature, as well as on the processes of becoming they are associated with. Drawing on a qualitative study, the article develops a typology of six significant types of entanglements and interconnections between young people and nature. It is a characteristic of these entanglements and interconnections that they unfold depending on how the encounters between young people and nature are framed by the social programs. They are thus not defined by already known outcomes, but can be understood as ‘figurations’ (Braidotti 1994), that contain both a lived here and now and an ‘imagined elsewhere’ (Haraway 1991). The article shows how this perspective confronts deficit discourses, where young people in social programs are seen as either lacking resources and agency or whose resources and agency are going in the wrong direction, as well as those contemporary discourses that position and problematize the overall present youth generation as fragile, hypersensitive and disoriented.
A more accurate Co-Content function calculation, using alternative integration methods, for Current–Voltage curves measured in the zero volt to open-circuit voltage range
Authors: Rangel-Kuoppa Victor-Tapio 
Published: October 2024

AbstractIn this article, the application of the Newton–Cotes quadrature formula, the 3/8 rule, the Boole’s rule, and order 5 and 6 integration techniques, are explored to more accurately calculate the Co-Content function, of Current–Voltage (IV) measurements done between 0 V and the open circuit voltage, which include a percentage noise of the short circuit current. Their impact on the extraction of the five photovoltaic devices’ parameters (within the one-diode model) is investigated and reported. The shunt resistance, series resistance, ideality factor, and photocurrent can be obtained with less than 10% error, using these integration techniques and 101 measured points per volt, when the percentage noise is 0.05% or less, of the short circuit current. It is not possible to obtain the saturation current with less than 10% error. These integration techniques are implemented in photovoltaic devices, such as solar cells and single-crystalline silicon, CdTe, CIGS, and heterojunction with intrinsic thin-layer solar panels IV curves, to extract the five solar cell parameters.
Aerospike nozzle contour design using Angelino’s method and CFD validation
Authors: Silva João C. , Brójo Francisco 
Published: October 2024

AbstractThe goal of the present study is to implement an algorithm capable of designing linear aerospike contours and develop a numerical investigation of the altitude adaptive behavior and performance of high enthalpy flow expanded with such contoured nozzle. The contour was designed using Angelino,s rapid method, targeting an exit Mach number of 4.16. An inviscid model and viscous model (employing the realizable k-$$\epsilon$$
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for turbulence) were considered and the results compared, showing that turbulent effects must be taken into account to properly simulate important flowfield aspects such as static pressure, static temperature, entropy and viscous losses. The specific impulse is used as the performance criterion and it was observed that it increased with altitude, with only a 2$$\%$$
%
decrease from an ideal bell nozzle for an underexpanding operation, situation where a nearly axial exhaust plume is obtained. Conversely, when turbulent effects are taken into account, overexpanded conditions have the lowest specific impulse, being lower than a quasi-1D analysis and the inviscid case. The findings summit the advantages of the aerospike nozzle over conventional nozzles. Conventional nozzles not only typically struggle in underexpansion scenarios, but also have high side-loads in overexpansion, due to flow detaching from the nozzle’s wall. A further conclusion is that the realizable k-$$\epsilon$$
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turbulent model proved a reliable and fast tool to evaluate turbulent effects that characterize the aerospike flowfield.
Learning a generalizable re-identification model from unlabelled data with domain-agnostic expert
Authors: Liu Fangyi , Ye Mang , Du Bo 
Published: October 2024

AbstractIn response to real-world scenarios, the domain generalization (DG) problem has spurred considerable research in person re-identification (ReID). This challenge arises when the target domain, which is significantly different from the source domains, remains unknown. However, the performance of current DG ReID relies heavily on labor-intensive source domain annotations. Considering the potential of unlabeled data, we investigate unsupervised domain generalization (UDG) in ReID. Our goal is to create a model that can generalize from unlabeled source domains to semantically retrieve images in an unseen target domain. To address this, we propose a new approach that trains a domain-agnostic expert (DaE) for unsupervised domain-generalizable person ReID. This involves independently training multiple experts to account for label space inconsistencies between source domains. At the same time, the DaE captures domain-generalizable information for testing. Our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of this method for learning generalizable features under the UDG setting. The results demonstrate the superiority of our method over state-of-the-art techniques. We will make our code and models available for public use.
Geochemical characterization and reserve estimation of the economic heavy minerals of Sonadia Island, Bangladesh
Authors: Hossain Md Sakaouth , Rahman Md. Shahriar , Taki Golam , Jahan Maftuha 
Published: October 2024

AbstractThe goal of the current study is to understand the elemental concentration, reserve assessment, mineralogical composition, and distribution of heavy minerals in the dune sands, foreshore, and backshore of Sonadia Island, Southeast Bangladesh. The study area yielded a number of drill hole composite sand samples that were used for density and magnetic separation of heavy minerals. These samples were then subjected to petrographic characterization, grain counting, mineralogical analyses using scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM–EDX), x-ray diffraction (XRD), and bulk sand geochemistry using X-ray fluorescence (XRF). The results of heavy liquid separation show that the total heavy mineral (THM) enrichments in foreshore sand (about 4.86%), backshore sand (about 9.03%), and dune sand (about 22.28%) are significantly higher. After characterizing the sand samples from Sonadia Island based on the abundance of each mineral species, the average content values relative to total economic heavy minerals (TEHM) were determined to be 38.14% ilmenite, 5.74% magnetite, 51.52% garnet, 1.01% zircon, 3.57% rutile, and 0.01% monazite. An SEM–EDX examination reveals that the elemental concentration of ZrO2 in zircon is 66.60%, while the average TiO2 content in rutile is ~ 95%, whereas TiO2 is 45% and the total Fe2O3 is 45.70% in ilmenite. Major phases including amphibole (tremolite) 45.9%, muscovite 15.6%, quartz 12.6%, garnet (almandine) 10.9%, dolomite 7.9%, ilmenite 4.1%, and kaolinite 1.3% are also identified by the XRD pattern. There are an estimated 19,794 tons of garnet in the foreshore sand, 47,324 tons in the backshore sand, and 276,868 tons in the dune sand within the reserve, making it the most prevalent heavy mineral. Ilmenite is the second most common heavy mineral, with quantities detected in the foreshore (15,016 tons), backshore (30,487 tons), and dune sand (215,092 tons).
Edcraft: Gamified Handicrafts as an Inspiration for Teenagers to Practice Upcycling
Authors: Tan Xin Yee , Cheng Kin Meng , Chong Chin Wei , Koo Ah-Choo 
Published: October 2024

AbstractThis qualitative research study investigates the effectiveness of gamified handicrafts as an inspiration for teenagers to practice recycling and upcycling. The study utilises focus group interviews and thematic analysis to explore the perceptions and experiences of 15 teenagers who participated in an educational programme called Edcraft, which combines gamification and handicrafts to promote sustainable practices among youth. The findings reveal that Edcraft successfully motivates teenagers to engage in recycling and upcycling activities through its gamified approach, which includes challenges, rewards and social interaction. Themes such as ‘social connections are vital’, ‘convenience and rewards are significant motivators’, ‘gamified activities help attract and engage teens’ and ‘environmental knowledge is crucial to prolonging recycling’ emerged from the thematic analysis. The results also highlight the positive impact of Edcraft on teenagers’ attitudes towards the environment and their willingness to adopt sustainable behaviours beyond the programme. The implications of these findings for promoting environmental education and sustainability among teenagers are discussed, and recommendations for future research and practice are provided.
Normalizing and Mainstreaming the French Radical Right: Divergences in Leadership Communication during a Summer of Inland and Borderland Tensions
Authors: Lamour Christian 
Published: October 2024

AbstractThe radical right has become a central political force in most Western democracies. This process has been the result of the normalization and mainstreaming of its political leaders, discourses, and visions of society, notably involving the scapegoating of immigration and the use of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory. However, the normalization and mainstreaming of radical right actors competing for the leadership of their overall political family remain an under-researched topic. The scope of the current article is to explore this phenomenon by considering the case of France, which after the United States, is the largest Western state that could potentially be ruled by a radical right president with extensive executive powers. The analysis shows that actors competing for the leadership of the radical right in a given country can generate diverging strategies of normalization and mainstreaming to secure their political distinction. Immigration and the Great Replacement constitute, respectively, a topic and a conspiracy theory that are emphasized and/or downplayed by opportunistic stakeholders weaving a web of interactions to define their comparative legitimacy and supremacy in the public sphere.
Zinc and iron biofortification of crops grown in a vertical farm
Authors: Bucky A. , Pičmanová M. , Porley V. , Pont S. , Johnstone A. , Stewart D. 
Published: October 2024

With the growing global population and climate change, achieving food security is a pressing challenge(1). Vertical farming has the potential to support local food production and security. In the UK population females and younger adults appear to be particularly vulnerable to micronutrient shortfalls from food sources alone. Levels of micronutrient intakes including zinc and iron are below the recommended daily intake(2). As a Total Controlled Environment Agriculture (TCEA) system, vertical farming employs hydroponics using a nutrient solution which offers opportunities to modulate nutrient uptake, and thus influence plant mineral and vitamin composition(3).In this study we aimed to determine the suitability of different crop types for soilless agronomic biofortification with zinc and iron to achieve biofortified crops.In this study, we investigated the effect of the addition of 20ppm (+20 mg L−1) of zinc (ZnSO4) or iron (Fe-EDTA) to the nutrient solution on the growth and nutritional components in pea microgreens, kale microgreens and kale baby leaf plants. The growth conditions were kept identical throughout the treatments with photoperiod 18 h d-1, temperature 20-22°C and relative humidity at 70-80%. Plant growth, mineral composition, glucosinolate content and protein content were evaluated. Results were analysed using ANOVA (p<0.05, Tukey’s test).It was determined that higher amounts of zinc in the nutrient solution resulted in significantly higher levels of zinc in all three crops (p<0.05), with increases of 205% in pea microgreens, 264% in babyleaf kale and 217% in kale microgreens compared to the control plants. Higher amounts of iron in the nutrient solution resulted in significantly higher levels of iron only in pea microgreens, with an increase of 38% (p<0.05). Neither dosing regimen negatively influenced the overall crop performance.These results suggest that the three different crops are suitable for soilless biofortification with zinc and iron, although pea microgreens were the only crop that had a significant increase in iron upon iron-dosing.