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Urban regeneration and community participation: a critical review of project-based research
Authors: Park Eun Joo , Kang Eunki , Shin Yoon-jeong 
Published: January 2025

PurposeThis study explores how sustainable community participation can be fostered in urban regeneration projects, particularly focusing on improving stakeholder engagement and ensuring equitable collaboration. The study aims to provide insights into who will benefit from these factors, specifically considering community members and policymakers. While cooperative decision-making has been a focus of recent studies, challenges such as ineffective cooperation strategies and unequal interest distribution among stakeholders remain important barriers. A comprehensive and systematic review of existing research is needed to inform future research in this area.Design/methodology/approachThe study employed the PRISMA-ScR checklist in a comprehensive scoping review and created an evaluation framework based on 126 journal papers. The framework comprises three categories of studies that examine community participation in the context of urban regeneration projects: (1) policies and strategies, (2) community participation methods and (3) sustainable approaches.FindingsThe in-depth review of these 30 selected articles revealed several potential ways to examine the mechanisms and interactions related to stakeholders’ engagement for community participation in urban regeneration projects. The findings suggest that sustainable community participation strengthens long-term community involvement and project success by fostering a sense of ownership. The review also identified limitations in current research and proposes concrete future research directions.Originality/valueThis study provides a roadmap for researchers and policymakers, offering strategies to improve collaborative decision-making in urban regeneration. It offers actionable insights for enhancing sustainable community participation and informs the development of effective policies in urban regeneration projects.
The pleasure and power of playful problem solving through storytelling
Authors: Mantei Jessica , Kervin Lisa 
Published: January 2025

PurposeBeing “literate” is well established as key to active civic participation, right from the earliest years of life. Young children’s natural curiosity and motivation to understand the world and their places within it through playful explorations offers rich opportunities for learning. Reported here are findings from a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics) project drawing on problem solving, inquiry and reflection through storytelling.Design/methodology/approachResponding to a playful scenario, children 12 months–6 years examined and tested properties of different materials to make a waterproof prototype for a soft toy. Subsequent testing occurred along with a narrative story about themselves and their toys experiencing different rain events.FindingsEvident in the data was the children’s capacity to take up domain-specific language, intentionality in creating their own artifacts and stories, and the development and control of narratives within the play.Originality/valueArgued here is that the arts, particularly making and storytelling, are powerful platforms from which to support young children’s complex knowledge and literacy development for active participation in the world.
Fostering college access literacy for students and educators in school-university partnerships: a culturally responsive approach
Authors: Savick Stephanie L. , Dunn Molly , Durham Rachel 
Published: January 2025

PurposeThis practitioner-based manuscript describes the development and implementation of Focus on College Understanding and Success (FOCUS), a school-university programmatic model to develop College Access Literacy (CAL) among both students and educators in a Professional Development School (PDS) network. With an emphasis on teacher training, supplemental learning opportunities for students, and faculty-student-parent mentor/partnerships, this model was designed to apply a culturally responsive approach to achieving equity in college readiness programming.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is conceptual in that it presents an innovative idea to stimulate discussion, generate new ideas, and advance thinking about a collective impact school-university partnership initiative focused on supporting underrepresented students in pursuing higher education goals through participation in the FOCUS program. A thematic analysis was completed on focus group data collected for both educators and students who participated in the project. Data focused on the identification of both strengths and challenges of program development and implementation.FindingsThe paper provides insights and ideas related to how to structure a college access and success program that focuses on the assets that underrepresented students bring to college readiness opportunities designed for them by centering their struggles while uplifting their personal, unique abilities. Our results validate a college readiness program design and implementation process that relies on asset-based theoretical frameworks including Yosso’s (2005) Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) model and Moll et al.’s (1992) Funds of Knowledge (FoK) framework.Originality/valueThis study shows how school-university partnerships are uniquely positioned to capitalize on the strengths of students and their families in designing college readiness programming. By considering the local context and culturally responsive approaches to program development and implementation, programs like FOCUS can build on community resources and the teacher-student relationship to increase College Access Literacy (CAL) in both students and their teachers.
From low to high elevations, flowers adapt traits and phenology to climate, but phenology‐trait relationships weak
Authors: Ahmad Mustaqeem , Rathee Sonia , Krishnadas Meghna 
Published: January 2025

Abstract

Flowering phenology is central to plant reproductive success and can relate to morphological traits such as size and quality of flowers, but phenology–trait associations of flowers remain unclear. Phenology–trait associations can vary within and among species, especially across climate gradients, due to allocational trade‐offs in response to selective pressures from abiotic stress and/or biotic factors such as pollinator availability. It is unknown whether floral morphology and phenology experience coordinated selection across climate gradients or vary independently.

Understanding the drivers of trait variation and its implications for floral phenology may be especially relevant in mountains where climate and abiotic gradients change sharply with elevation. At higher elevations, increasing cold and aridity may favour higher quality, stress‐tolerant flowers that withstand harsher conditions better than cheaper flowers, but trade‐off with size and showiness to pollinators. Relatively benign conditions at lower elevations may permit more flexible phenotypes and weaker association between trait and phenology by allowing species more leeway for flowering times compared with the short growing season at higher elevations.

We examined trait–phenology associations within and among 250 herbaceous species in the Western Himalayas, spanning 2000–4500 m AMSL. Intraspecific variation in traits and phenology decreased from low to high elevation at the community scale, but species showed idiosyncratic responses. Trait–trait correlations indicated stronger selection and constraints on phenotypes and phenology at higher elevations. However, trait–phenology correlations were relatively weak throughout, suggesting independent selection on flower morphology vs. phenology.

Overall, climate imposed strong selection on flower traits and regulated floral phenology, but without any strong or consistent associations between traits and phenology. It is likely that flower morphology responded to multiple abiotic and biotic drivers, within and across elevations, whereas phenology mainly responded to temperature and thaw. Our findings suggest that selection from ongoing warming will operate separately on floral morphology and phenology of alpine plant communities, and mechanisms and consequences should be evaluated using experiments.

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Soil fauna trophic multifunctionality mediates the release of elements from decomposing typhoon‐generated leaf litter
Authors: Wang Lifeng , See Craig R. , Wang Huibin , Cao Rui , Liang Guopeng , Zhang Ajuan , Wang Zhuang , Wang Qin , Wang Zhihui , Liu Benjuan , Yang Wanqin 
Published: January 2025

Abstract

Tropical cyclones (i.e. hurricanes, typhoons) cause large pulse fluxes of leaves that have not undergone senescence (i.e. green litter) to forest soils, with consequences for biogeochemical cycling. Energy and mineral nutrient concentrations of green litter are higher than the naturally senesced litter, likely affecting rates of decomposition and nutrient release, as well as the structure and composition of detrital food webs, but these effects have not been well quantified.

During the typhoon ‘Hagubit’, we collected green and senesced litter from three common urban greening species, and then conducted a 316‐day field experiment to evaluate substrate quality affected the trophic multifunctionality of soil faunal communities and ultimately elemental release from the decomposing litter.

Nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), sodium (Na), calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) were released at significantly higher rates from green litter than senesced litter. Aluminium (Al), manganese (Mn) and iron (Fe) displayed a net accumulation during litter decomposition, and the immobilization of these elements was significantly higher in green than senesced litter. Litter substrate chemistry directly affected the release rates of elements, but its influence was stronger in decomposing senesced litter compared to green litter. Detritivores dominated green and senesced litter faunal communities relative to predators, omnivores and herbivores, and these distinct fauna functional groups showed significantly positive correlation during decomposition, but soil fauna trophic multifunctionality was significantly higher in green litter and stimulated the release of elements.

These findings suggest that typhoons dramatically alter the dynamics of nutrient release during litter decomposition, and the influences are mediated in part by its substrate quality and changes in soil fauna trophic multifunctionality, which has significant implications for the magnitude and timing of soil nutrient availability after typhoon disturbances.

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Policy shifts and drifts: From intention to implementation of Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme
Authors: Hummell Eloise , Foster Michele , Burns Kylie , Rimmer Sue Harris 
Published: January 2025

AbstractIt is not uncommon that original aspirations of social policy go astray during implementation. Issues that are the focus of social policy are often tied to various competing social, political, and value positions, making them unfailingly ‘wicked’ and rendering the design and implementation of solutions inherently challenging. Such is the case with Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which has been plagued by implementation problems and criticised for straying from its original objectives and principles. In this article, interview data from 31 stakeholders identify perceptions of congruence of the NDIS with its original objectives and values during the decade since inception, particularly focused on decision‐making of reasonable and necessary supports. The perceived shift from disability rights to fights for entitlements and changing narrative of cost containment is indicative not only of implementation challenges but the inevitability of ongoing value disputes that often plague complex social issues. At a time of major NDIS reform amid ongoing tensions and debates, goal clarity and better decision guidance remain critical for future policy design and implementation.Points for practitioners
Perspectives from diverse stakeholders across Australia explore where and why the NDIS may have drifted away from its original values, especially pertaining to reasonable and necessary supports.
While stakeholders identified cost, sustainability, and consistency as increasingly significant issues in NDIS implementation, initial rights‐based and person‐centred objectives envisioned during policy design were seen as retreating.
The inherent value tensions and contestations within the reasonable and necessary criteria have been under‐recognised and inevitably persist in NDIS implementation.
Critical insights for future policy reform can be gained from thinking about implementation issues and understanding when and why good intentions wander off course.
Policy success and failure in Australia
Authors: Dowding Keith , Leslie Patrick , Taflaga Marija 
Published: January 2025

AbstractThis paper introduces the seven articles in the symposium on policy success and failure together with a short introduction to the large literature on policy success and failure. The issue brings together an analysis of success and failure within seven discrete policy domains, including Indigenous policy; immigration; foreign policy; water; government roll‐outs; education; and foreign aid. Previous case studies have not looked as systematically at both success and failure within the same policy domain, and so the direct comparison in a most similar systems framework has not previously been adopted. Each paper sets its own criteria for what it considers success and failure, allowing for the forthcoming analyses to remain relevant to their specific context and parameters. However, despite their differences, the papers reflect on the importance of institutions, implementation processes—specifically their attentiveness to the on‐ground conditions and target groups—political dimensions, time, expectations, and memory. This suggests that while it may be difficult to compare across policy domains, our within‐policy domain comparison reveals that good governance, despite some failures, is not a lost art.Points for practitioners
The criteria for success or failure of government policy is relative to time, perspective, ideology, and context.
The criteria for success or failure of government policy might vary across policy domains; what is appropriate for some domains might not be for others.
We can consider policy success and failure in terms of programme, outcome, or political agenda.
Programmes can succeed in some aims and fail in others.
Case studies are the appropriate means for examining success and failure, and capturing the narrative is important in how a policy is viewed.
The influence of religious institutional logic in frontline work
Authors: Magri Giordano , Cortez Ana Cláudia , Costa Maria Izabel Sanches , Carvalho Adriana , Lotta Gabriela , Miranda Juliana Rocha 
Published: January 2025

AbstractThis research analyses the influence of religion—as an institutional logic—on the work of frontline workers (FLWs) in hybrid public policy implementation contexts. We conducted semi‐structured interviews and used vignettes with 37 therapeutic communities (TCs) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, which provide care for individuals with problematic drug use. Through our analysis, we discovered variations in how FLWs from faith‐based and secular organisations categorise their clients and provide them with alternative services. These differences were evident in their perceptions of problematic drug use, desired outcomes for clients, and the methods they utilise to achieve these goals. In practice, faith‐based TCs prioritise behavioural categories and emphasise support from family and work as treatment alternatives, whereas secular TCs employ professional language and offer alternatives based on psychological and medical support. This study enhances the understanding of religion as an institutional logic and underscores the significance of analysing institutional logics to comprehend the actions of FLWs in cases of hybridity, particularly the role of faith‐based organisations in service delivery.Points for practitioners
The religion of organisations can have an impact on the work of frontline workers (FLWs).
This impact becomes especially clear in the categorisation process, as it shapes FLWs’ understanding of their work and the referrals they make based on that understanding.
Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Authors: Poulsen Simon 
Published: January 2025

AbstractThis paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy. It discusses two exemplary lexemes with a limited regional or topological distribution, which have been argued to be borrowings into intermediate proto‐languages between the dissolution of Proto‐Indo‐European and the protolanguages reconstructible for the daughter branches: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ (limited to Indo‐Iranian and Greek; allegedly from a Semitic language) and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’ (limited to “Balkanic”, “Indo‐Slavic” or both; allegedly North‐East Caucasian). The paper brings to light how diverging analyses of these lexemes have been and may be used as phylogenetic arguments for different subgroupings. It further discusses the problems with the loan word origins of the lexemes: Although there is a Semitic root *p‐l‐q ‘cut’, it is impossible to derive the noun *pelek̑u‐ from it in Semitic and in Indo‐European; and while there is a reconstructed Proto‐North‐East‐Caucasian form comparable to *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐, the connection is dependent on idiosyncrasies. The main point of the paper is that loanword judgements and linguistic reconstruction are interdependent. This does not discredit the discipline, but it does call for awareness of the assumptions underlying the linguistic analyses on which the phylogenetic results rest, no matter the approach.
What Do Farmer Collectives Need to Enhance Biodiversity, Water Quality and Climate Action in Rural Areas?
Authors: Dik Lyda , Runhaar Hens , Termeer Katrien 
Published: January 2025

SummaryThe EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has recently broadened the scope of public services that collaborating groups of farmers (farmer collectives) can provide. In addition to biodiversity measures via agri‐environment schemes (AES), they can apply for the implementation of water quality and climate mitigation measures. But what does this require from farmer collectives and from the public administrations that contract them? We address these questions based on previous and additional research on the farmer collectives in the Netherlands. To this purpose, we looked at the strategies of farmer collectives. The focus was on: what is the scope of services to be deployed to create public value; how is legitimacy and support ensured; and what does this imply for the organisation of the farmer collective, the qualifications of people involved in the farmer collective and managing external networks? We identify three types of farmer collectives with distinct needs, critical points of attention, and different roles for public administrations: 1) farmer collectives that only implement AES; 2) farmer collectives that also implement public and private funded projects; 3) farmer collectives that act as risk‐taking, entrepreneurial organisations. In other Member States, additional types of farmer collectives may emerge. Recognising the heterogenity of farmer collectives, by Member State and by farmer collective, is key to effective and legitimate biodiversity, water quality and climate action.
Evaluating the antioxidant, anti‐inflammatory, and neuroprotective potential of fruiting body and mycelium extracts from edible yellow morel (Morchella esculenta L. Pers.)
Authors: Haider Rida , Agnello Luisa , Shah Shahid Masood , Sufyan Muhammad , Khan Nimra , Nazir Abdul , Ciaccio Marcello , Rehman Sidra 
Published: January 2025

AbstractScopeThis study aimed to assess the antioxidant, anti‐inflammatory, and acetylcholinesterase activities of fruiting bodies (FB) and mycelium (M) extracts of Morchella esculenta L. collected from various regions of Pakistan. The samples included Skardu fruiting body (SKFB) and mycelia Skardu (SKM), Malam Jaba fruiting body (MJFB) and Malam Jaba mycelia (MJM), Krair Mansehra fruiting body (KMFB) and Krair Mansehra mycelia (KMM), and Thandiani fruiting body (TFB) and Thandiani mycelia (TM).Methods and resultsThe IC50 values for free radical scavenging activity of all samples revealed that fruiting body SKFB and MJFB of M. esculenta are significantly involved in relieving oxidative stress. Bovine serum albumin conformation destruction assay showed a significantly increased anti‐inflammatory activity of SKFB with an IC50 value of 10.94 ± 0.098 µg/mL. The human red blood cell protection assay showed that TFB has a lower EC50 value as compared to other samples. KMFB and KMM extracts of M. esculenta showed significantly higher anti‐acetylcholinesterase activity compared to the standard drug, donepezil. The lower IC50 value of M. esculenta extracts suggested higher efficacy for acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibition. Enzyme kinetics results showed that KMFB of M. esculenta is a competitive inhibitor, while KMM and Donepezil are noncompetitive AChE inhibitors. Further, molecular docking, physicochemical properties and ADMET analysis of M. esculenta constituents showed smooth drug diffusion and protection against neurodegenerative disorders.ConclusionThis study indicates that M. esculenta extracts may hold significant therapeutic potential for neurodegenerative diseases, opening a path for potential therapeutic strategies.
Evaluation of natural polysaccharides from edible mushrooms for the treatment of male testicular injury caused by X‐ray
Authors: Jiang Nan , Huang Yu‐lin , Zhang Zihui , Qi Qi , Li Changtian 
Published: January 2025

AbstractRadiation exposure can lead to reproductive damage (RD), for which there is currently no effective treatment. Natural compounds, particularly fungal polysaccharides, have shown promising therapeutic potential for RD. Due to limited availability of effective polysaccharides, research has turned to alternative sources from edible mushrooms. This study evaluated polysaccharides from Pleurotus eryngii, Agaricus bisporus, Coprinus comatus, and Pleurotus citrinopileatus for their effects on male mice subjected to X‐ray radiation. Histological analysis demonstrated significant damage to testicular tissue following X‐ray exposure, alongside altered antioxidant markers, such as malondialdehyde (MDA), superoxide dismutase (SOD), and glutathione peroxidase (GSH‐Px). Blood tests revealed mild leukopenia, erythropenia, and thrombocytopenia. Notably, the positive control groups treated with A. bisporus polysaccharides (ABPs) and Pleurotus eryngii polysaccharides showed increased SOD and GSH‐Px levels by 46.5% and 7.3%, and 15.9% and 10.1%, respectively, compared to the untreated group. MDA levels were reduced by 62.4% with ABP and by 32.1% with Coprinus comatus polysaccharides. ABPs were the most effective, significantly enhancing WBC, RBC, hemoglobin, and platelets by 58.3%, 8.9%, 30.6%, and 24.6%, respectively. These findings highlight the potential of polysaccharides from edible fungi as natural therapeutic agents for mitigating radiation‐induced reproductive damage. Future research on such compounds may pave the way for effective RD treatments.