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Personal Relevance in Secondary School Students’ Nature Experiences
Authors: Hammann Marcus 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThis study examines secondary school students’ out-of-school, free choice nature experiences from the perspective of perceived personal relevance. We asked secondary school students (n = 70; aged 10–18 years) to portray a particularly memorable moment in nature. Furthermore, we asked the students to rate the perceived personal relevance of that moment, as well as the frequency of such moments. Perception of personal relevance was associated with age, gender, inner aspects (explicit positive evaluations) and outer aspects (type of setting) of the nature experience. Furthermore, perception of personal relevance was positively correlated with the frequency of the nature experience. This finding supports the hypothesis that secondary school students who perceive their own nature experiences as personally relevant are likely to re-engage in them. Most secondary school students attached considerable importance to personal experiences with nature and advocated opportunities for nature experiences in biology instruction. Future research should examine the role of personal relevance as a motivator to re-engage with one’s own nature experiences to counteract the extinction of experience. For promoting personally relevant nature experiences, educators need to acknowledge the diversity of nature experiences because the construction of perceived personal relevance is individual and subjective.
Problematisation, Narrative and Fiction in the Science Classroom
Authors: Bruguière Catherine , Orange Ravachol Denise 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThis paper focusses on the didactic functions of problematisation, narrative and fiction in the science classroom. The approach we propose to address these issues takes into account the epistemological specificities of biology (functionalist and historical sciences). Based on this epistemological foundation, we will first present the theoretical framework of problematisation developed over more than 20 years in France, before exploring the more recent notion of realistic fiction by situating it in relation to work in biology didactics that borrows from the frameworks of narrative and/or fiction. Our two-part paper aims to initiate a dialogue between these different theoretical frameworks and to question their points of convergence and divergence through examples taken from our research work (blood circulation, molecular renewal, animal metamorphosis). To what extent can fictional narratives contribute to constructing problematised biological knowledge? How does the shift to extra-ordinary modes of reasoning allow us to move away from storytelling?
Promoting Digitally Supported Inquiry Learning in Diverse Classrooms Through Teacher Training
Authors: Weidenhiller Patrizia , Miesera Susanne , Nerdel Claudia 
Published: December 2023

AbstractIn order to effectively use digital media to promote low-barrier inquiry learning, teachers need professional knowledge and skills, as well as positive attitudes and self-efficacy assumptions. This study examines the effectiveness of in-service training on changing teachers’ attitudes and self-efficacy assumptions in the area of inclusion and digitalization as important prerequisites for being able to design digital learning environments for doing science in inclusive settings. The single-factor study design included a three-stage variation of teacher training sessions, in which 141 Bavarian biology teachers participated in small groups in a one-day webinar. Teachers planned and performed a digitally supported experimentation and were trained to meet the needs of diverse learners. There are significant improvements in attitudes toward digitalization and in teachers’ self-efficacy assumptions, regardless of the training group. However, there are no statistically significant differences between the training groups. Thus, although the training is effective overall, the influence of the theoretical discussion is too small compared to other phases of the intervention, such as the practical experimentation. There is also a correlation between attitudes towards inclusion and digitalization after the training. Overall, there is a demand for inclusion and digitalization to be used in a more integrated way in teacher training, and thus to further promote the participation of all students in doing science.
Implementation Processes: Sustainable Integration of Biotechnology Experiments into Schools
Authors: Großbruchhaus Sara , Schöppner Patricia , Nerdel Claudia 
Published: December 2023

AbstractProfessional development (PD) enables teachers to keep abreast of new technologies and innovations. Biotechnology is a fast-expanding field with well-established basics, which relies on technological equipment that is mainly absent from schools (e.g. for polymerase chain reaction). An evaluated PD addresses that issue by qualifying teachers to borrow the equipment needed, while allowing them to design its implementation. This study targets those implementation processes. We investigated teachers’ strategies to implement the biotechnology experiments into their lessons. We interviewed 20 teachers from different schools and analysed the transcripts following Mayring’s typecasting strategy. We determined three main implementation formats: regular lessons, block lessons and special events. Furthermore, a school that integrated the experiments into its curriculum was assessed more thoroughly. The biology teachers developed their implementation process over several years to fit their schools’ needs perfectly. This demonstrates that a one-time PD has the potential to initiate school curriculum development under certain conditions.
Energy Justice—The First Step in an Energy Decision Today
Authors: Heffron Raphael J. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe first step in any energy decision today should be how to factor in energy justice. This will have the result of ensuring that there is a just outcome for society. One powerful effect of placing energy justice at the forefront for all decision-makers will be that it can balance the 3Rs which are ‘Risk, Reward, and Responsibility’. Ensuring justice is applied across these 3Rs will ensure that a decision-maker has future-proofed their decision and in due course they can therefore demonstrate their accountability and process in their decision-making. The balancing of these 3Rs can provide the platform for developing what will be the new social contract between energy sector stakeholders. A new social contract is vital for taking energy justice further into decision-making in society.
Social Acceptance for Renewable Energy Technologies: The Role of the Energy Justice Framework
Authors: Hazrati Mohammad 
Published: December 2023

AbstractMoving from fossil fuels to renewable energy is a key part of creating sustainable energy systems for the future. Governments worldwide are implementing policies and frameworks to facilitate this transition, albeit at different levels. The public also recognizes the importance of this shift and the need to address climate change by adopting renewable energy sources. However, despite such public acceptance, there are still local communities that resist the deployment of renewable energy technologies. As renewable energy projects become more prevalent, they are increasingly facing resistance from local communities. This challenges the earlier assumption that the construction of new renewable energy facilities would only accelerate when renewable energy costs became more competitive with fossil fuels. Surprisingly, many renewable energy projects still face resistance, even when they are cost-effective. This highlights the need for a holistic approach to policy design during the energy transition. In addition to technical and economic considerations, it is crucial to understand social acceptance initiatives for renewable energy technologies within the context of the energy justice framework. To fully comprehend the issue of social acceptance in the light of the energy justice framework, it is essential to consider all principles of energy justice simultaneously, without sacrificing one for another.
Breaking Barriers: Integrating Energy Justice to Overcome Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Roadblocks to Climate Change Mitigation Efforts
Authors: Elemo Demilade Isioma 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThis chapter examines the relationship between investment, energy security, and the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) regime, an area often overlooked in energy justice conversation. The ISDS regime, designed to safeguard foreign investments, faces a legitimacy crisis exacerbated by its perceived misalignment with climate change mitigation efforts. Through the lens of energy justice, this chapter explores the criticisms against the ISDS regime by framing them as “energy injustices”. Distributive injustices manifest in unfair cost allocation, favouring investors over just transition efforts and placing a disproportionate burden on developing nations. Restorative injustices arise from the potential for opportunistic claims and excessive compensation claims, hindering the just transition. Cosmopolitan injustices occur when tribunals fail to address human and environmental rights issues in investment disputes. The chapter proposes that the ongoing reforms of the ISDS regime be guided by energy justice principles, emphasising equitable cost-sharing, clear criteria for damages, and integrating human and environmental rights into investment agreements. Aligning reforms with energy justice principles can help legitimise the regime, ensuring it plays an effective role the transition to a low-carbon economy and contributing to global energy justice.
Australian Petroleum and Coal Resources: Taxation, Emissions and Energy Justice
Authors: Kraal Diane 
Published: December 2023

AbstractTwo forms of energy justice provide insight on Australia’s petroleum and coal problematic policy issues. First, distributive justice is used to cover the implications of low revenues from critical energy minerals; and fair allocations of resource income. Unfortunately, calls for true reform by the Australian community has resulted in a weak response from government. Second, cosmopolitan justice is used to consider the global effects of Australia’s fossil fuel extraction and use. Petroleum and coal exports result in GHG being emitted beyond the borders of the source country. However, there is now pressure in Australia to limit the opening of coal mines that supply the export market, but no such limit is applied to gas exports.
Minimum Standards of Access to Energy Services: Underpinning Energy Justice and Legal Action
Authors: Mose Tedd Moya 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe just energy transition is not simply about moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Justice in energy systems is about establishing a framework that identifies when and where injustices occur and how best law and policy can respond. This chapter proposes that access to energy services should have irreducible minimum standards in transitioning energy systems for fairer and sustainable global development. It surmises that these minimum standards should help define what the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 on ‘access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all’ look like in practical terms. And that this ought not to be a mere aspirational target, but a legal norm. On a global scale, using energy justice as a core principle of international energy law to achieve this, it suggests that the five tenets of the energy justice framework (distributive, procedural, recognition, cosmopolitan, and restorative justice) are interdependent and could remedy global disparities in the just energy transition. It concludes that two tenets (restorative and recognition justice) are pivotal in establishing a minimum acceptable standard of universal energy access.
Diffusing Energy Justice into the New ‘Social Contract’ for Society
Authors: Heffron Raphael J. , de Fontenelle Louis 
Published: December 2023

AbstractWith the current climate emergency, a new social contract between society and the energy sector will prove crucial to the health and livelihoods of nature and all citizens. There is no more time to wait and energy justice principles need to be infused into this social contract. Transformative change is needed across society that also involves changes in education and also in practice including for example with lawyers, accountants and financiers in particular. In this context, these decision-makers need to ensure they future-proof their decision-making. In the future, there may be liability issues with these decisions as energy and climate litigation trends are pointing in this direction. There are key justice risks that must be solved in society today and this is what the new social contract can address. This is why the next step for energy justice is to move towards developing this social contract, and delivering a just transition to a low-carbon economy.
Energy Justice and Energy Law—An Approach to the Differences Between Both Concepts
Authors: del Guayo Íñigo 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThis chapter contains a brief set of reflections on the relationship between energy law and energy justice. There is the need to move towards a new energy system. This need is based on evident exigencies of energy justice. Justice is not only a driver for transition, but also an ideal future situation whereby justice rules the relation between the various agents of the energy system. In that context, law should not be an obstacle to the transition, but rather a useful instrument. This means that the energy transition needs a new law, which reflects the moral content of energy justice.
Cross-Border Energy Investment, Energy Justice and International Economic Law
Authors: Yang Chung-Han 
Published: December 2023

AbstractCross-border energy investments are crucial for achieving a global transition to net-zero emissions. However, these investments, often involving extensive infrastructure projects, can also have significant adverse effects on the environment, human rights, and sustainable development. This brief chapter argues that the concept of energy justice, which encompasses distributive, procedural, and recognition justice, can extend its influence beyond domestic regulations and be effectively applied to cross-border transactions. By embracing a broader understanding of energy justice, it has the potential to create synergies among international economic treaties, energy laws, human rights provisions, environmental agreements, and other domestic regulations and soft law instruments. Alongside national policy reforms and bilateral agreements, energy treaties like the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and mega-regional economic integrations such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RECP) should consider incorporating principles of energy justice. Another potential approach is the development of an international soft law instrument dedicated specifically to energy justice and responsible investment within the context of global energy transactions. Established frameworks like the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights or the OECD’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises can serve as valuable references in shaping this international instrument.
Enforcing Energy Justice Through the Legal System: A Cascade of Four Conditions
Authors: Sokołowski Maciej M. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractMaking the energy transition just, where no one is left behind, requires energy justice. This results from the usefulness of energy justice, which enables assessing of energy policies and their tools. This evokes an issue of energy justice leaving the academic realm to reach the real world, where the theory becomes the practice. In 2023, enforcing energy justice through the legal system seems to be in the near future. The literature and research offer some solutions; however, a solid legal analysis is needed, and concrete proposals should be presented to the members of governments and parliaments. This study takes a step toward enforcing energy justice in the legal system and identifies a cascade of four conditions (definition, recognition, enhancement, and supervision) which is needed in this regard.
Managing Anomalies in Energy Time Series for Automated Forecasting
Authors: Turowski Marian , Neumann Oliver , Mannsperger Lisa , Kraus Kristof , Layer Kira , Mikut Ralf , Hagenmeyer Veit 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe increasing number of recorded energy time series enables the automated operation of smart grid applications such as load analysis, load forecasting, and load management. However, to perform well, these applications usually require clean data that well represents the typical behavior of the underlying system. Unfortunately, recorded time series often contain anomalies that do not reflect the typical behavior of the system and are, thus, problematic for automated smart grid applications such as automated forecasting. While various anomaly management strategies exist, a rigorous comparison is lacking. Therefore, in the present paper, we introduce and compare three different general strategies for managing anomalies in energy time series forecasting, namely the raw, the detection, and the compensation strategy. We compare these strategies using a representative selection of forecasting methods and real-world data with inserted synthetic anomalies. The comparison shows that applying the compensation strategy is generally beneficial for managing anomalies despite requiring additional computational costs because it mostly outperforms the detection and the raw strategy when the input data contains anomalies.
Planungsverfahren für die Integration automatisierten Fahrens
Authors: Jaquet Dennis , Korte Gregor , Rosenkranz Paul , Rudloff Christian 
Published: December 2023

ZusammenfassungDas Kap. 5 setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, wie die künftige Planung von Verkehrsräumen erfolgen könnte, die die Integration eines automatisierten ÖPNV berücksichtigt, insbesondere da unsere bestehenden Planungsvorgaben dafür keine Vorgaben machen. Hinzu kommt, dass derzeit die Gesellschaft und Städte sich in einem starken Veränderungsprozess befinden und wir damit für die Integration eines automatisierten ÖPNV nicht von heute bekannten Verhaltensweisen ausgehen können. Parallel umgesetzte Maßnahmen lassen es unmöglich erscheinen, das Mobilitätsverhalten und damit die Nachfrage vorauszusagen. Das Kap. 5 gibt einen Einblick, wie mit Modellen diesem Umstand Abhilfe geschaffen werden kann. Das Kapitel schließt mit Vorschlägen und Beispielen für die Neugestaltung des Straßenraums.
Associated production of neutrino and dark fermion at future lepton colliders
Authors: Ge Shao-Feng , Ma Kai , Ma Xiao-Dong , Sheng Jie 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Fermionic dark matter can be pairly produced and hence searched with missing energy at colliders. We extend such probe to the associated production of a neutrino and a dark sector fermion at the future e+e− colliders such as CEPC, FCC-ee, ILC, and CLIC. Two typical processes, the mono-photon and electron-positron pair productions associated with missing energy, can serve the purpose. While the mono-photon search prevails at CEPC, FCC-ee, and ILC, the "Image missing" channel has more significant contributions at CLIC with much higher collision energy $$ \sqrt{s} $$

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. The beam polarizations can help further suppressing the SM backgrounds to enhance the signal significance while differential cross sections can distinguish the Lorentz structure of various effective operators. The combined sensitivity can reach well above 1 TeV at CEPC/FCC-ee and ILC while it further touches 30 TeV at CLIC. Comparing with the updated results from the direct detection experiments (XENON1T, PandaX-II, PandaX-4T, LZ, and XENONnT), astrophysical X/γ-ray observations, and cosmological constraints for the sub-MeV absorption dark matter, the collider searches are actually more sensitive and hence can provide a complementary approach to addressing the dark fermions.
Savior curvatons and large non-Gaussianity
Authors: Lodman Jackie , Lu Qianshu , Randall Lisa 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Curvatons are light (compared to the Hubble scale during inflation) spectator fields during inflation that potentially contribute to adiabatic curvature perturbations post-inflation. They can alter CMB observables such as the spectral index ns, the tensor-to-scalar ratio r, and the local non-Gaussianity $$ {f}_{\textrm{NL}}^{\left(\textrm{loc}\right)} $$

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. We systematically explore the observable space of a curvaton with a quadratic potential. We find that when the underlying inflation model does not satisfy the ns and r observational constraints but can be made viable with a significant contribution from what we call a savior curvaton, a large $$ \left|{f}_{\textrm{NL}}^{\left(\textrm{loc}\right)}\right| $$

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> 0.05, such that the model is distinguishable from single-field inflation, is inevitable. On the other hand, when the underlying inflation model already satisfies the ns and r observational constraints, so significant curvaton contribution is forbidden, a large $$ \left|{f}_{\textrm{NL}}^{\left(\textrm{loc}\right)}\right| $$

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> 0.05 is possible in the exceptional case when the isocurvature fluctuation in the curvaton fluid is much greater than the global curvature fluctuation.
Transverse momentum dependent distribution functions in the threshold limit
Authors: Kang Zhong-Bo , Samanta Kajal , Shao Ding Yu , Zeng Yang-Li 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
We apply the joint threshold and transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization theorem to introduce new threshold-TMD distribution functions, including threshold-TMD parton distribution functions (PDFs) and fragmentation functions (FFs). We apply Soft-Collinear Effective Theory and renormalization group methods to carry out QCD evolution for both threshold-TMD PDFs and FFs. We show the universality of threshold-TMD functions among three standard processes, i.e. the Drell-Yan production in pp collisions, semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering and back-to-back two hadron production in e+e− collisions. In the end, we present the numerical predictions for different threshold-TMD functions and also transverse momentum distributions at pp, ep, and e+e− collisions.
Decoherence effects on lepton number violation from heavy neutrino-antineutrino oscillations
Authors: Antusch Stefan , Hajer Jan , Rosskopp Johannes 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
We study decoherence effects and phase corrections in heavy neutrino-antineutrino oscillation ($$ N\overline{N}O $$
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s), based on quantum field theory with external wave packets. Decoherence damps the oscillation pattern, making it harder to resolve experimentally. Additionally, it enhances lepton number violation (LNV) for processes in symmetry-protected low-scale seesaw models by reducing the destructive interference between mass eigenstates. We discuss a novel time-independent shift in the phase and derive formulae for calculating decoherence effects and the phase shift in the relevant regimes, which are the no dispersion regime and transverse dispersion regime. We find that the phase shift can be neglected in the parameter region under consideration since it is small apart from parameter regions with large damping. In the oscillation formulae, decoherence can be included by an effective damping parameter. We discuss this parameter and present averaged results, which apply to simulations of $$ N\overline{N}O $$
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s in the dilepton-dijet channel at the HL-LHC. We show that including decoherence effects can dramatically change the theoretical prediction for the ratio of LNV over LNC events.