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Bush Tracks
Authors: McConaghy Cathryn , Lloyd Linley , Hardy Joy , Jenkins Kathy 
Published: October 2023

The academic and social achievements of students in rural schools are very uneven and often absenteeism and suspension rates are high. Factors such as globalisation, economic restructuring, unemployment. youth suicide and family trauma, drought and environmental change (see Bourke & Lockie 2001) also impact on rural schooling and add further challenges to good teaching and learning in rural schools. As complex processes involving cognitive, contextual and affective understandings, rural pedagogies need to be situated within rural contexts (McConaghy & Burnett 2002). How do rural teachers respond to the challenges in rural communities and schools that make quality learning for all students a difficult task? What pedagogies do beginning rural teachers use, why and with what effects? What images do beginning teachers have of 'the good teacher' and 'the good student' in rural schools and what are the obstacles to becoming these? What professional learning communities are available to beginning teachers in rural schools, and how effective are they in supporting beginning teachers to work through their identity issues and pedagogical challenges? Our case study and survey data provides valuable information about the lived experiences of rural teachers in relation to their journeys in pedagogy for teacher professional leaming programmes.
Effect of Flow of Information on Student Engagement in Public Universities in Nairobi City County, Kenya
Authors: Maina Cecilia , Mberia Hellen 
Published: October 2023

Purpose: The aim of the study was to examine the effect of flow of information on student engagement in public universities in Kenya
Methodology: The study used a mixed research design with both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The target population was all the students in the public universities within Nairobi City County. A sample of 384 students was drawn from the five public chartered universities’ main campuses, using a combination of various probability sampling techniques including stratified, simple random sampling and systematic sampling. The academic registrar in each of the university was sampled for interviews using purposive sampling. The research instruments for this study were self-administered questionnaires for students and semi-structured interviews for the registrars. Quantitative data was analyzed using the SPSS software and the inferential statistics used were descriptive, correlation, regression and ANOVA analysis. Qualitative data was analyzed for themes, and triangulation of both quantitative and qualitative data done.
Findings: Lateral communication (student-student) is well established in public universities and students easily share information with one another. Downward (management-student) and upward (student-management) communication was however wanting with students feeling that they are not consulted enough even on issues that directly affect them. This is despite having representation by their student representatives at various levels of the decision-making processes in the university. Students also stated that they could not freely communicate their opinions to the management despite being provided with channels to do so.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study was guided by the Organizational Information Theory (OIT). The study therefore recommended that better ways of engaging students directly, such as meetings could also be considered instead of relying on student leadership representation alone. Public universities should establish clear and comprehensive communication policies that outline the channels, frequency, and modes of communication between the institution, faculty, and students.
Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in Strategic Management in Cambodia
Authors: Seang Canata 
Published: October 2023

Purpose: The study sought to analyze the role of corporate social responsibility in strategic management in Cambodia
Methodology: The research was conducted entirely on desktop review method. Secondary data, or data that doesn't require actual observation in the field, are the focus of desk research. Because it requires little more than an executive's time, telephone rates, and directories, desk research is generally seen as a low-cost strategy in comparison to field research. As a result, the research used data that had already been collected and reported. This secondary data was readily available via the internet's digital library and scholarly articles.
Findings: The results show that corporate social responsibility is an important part of the strategic management process and can be used to create value for stakeholders and create competitive advantage. Companies build trust and reputation and create positive relationships with customers, suppliers and investors. It is clear, therefore, that CSR plays an important role in the strategic management process and is essential for business success. CSR is an increasingly important concept in strategic management in Cambodia. There are a number of initiatives that businesses operating in the country can undertake to ensure that their operations are socially responsible and beneficial to the environment.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Future research in strategic management may be grounded in theories like stakeholder theory and legitimacy theory. Policymakers, researchers, and academics from all across the world will all stand to gain from this study's findings. The findings of the study will also be used by the country's top strategic management executives to boost the effectiveness of their organizations' programs and initiatives related to corporate social responsibility. According to the findings, the corporate governance sector would benefit from adopting strategic management strategies that have been shown to increase the effectiveness of key operations and activities.
Approach to Implementation of Configuration Process for Adaptive Software Systems based on Ontologies
Authors: Fedasyuk Dmytro , Lutsyk Illia 
Published: October 2023

Analysis of scientific research on the development of adaptive and self-adaptive software systems is conducted. It is established that the use of machine learning methods and feedback diagrams is an effective way to design and develop adaptive software. It is determined that the existing methods do not fully provide the possibility of dynamic changes and expansion of functional and graphic characteristics. The software adaptation process is designed based on the ontological model using the semantic decision-making mechanism. The proposed method allows us to dynamically determine the necessary system characteristics and perform software adaptation. Modification process takes into account the information about currently active device based on data about the needs and requirements of the user. Using the results of designing an abstract approach to software configuration modification, an experimental study of the speed of generating optimal system settings is conducted. According to the results of the experiment, it is established that the new method demonstrates 20% better indicators of the speed of generating software settings compared to classical approaches.
Classification of Brain Tumor using Dendritic Cell-Squirrel Search Algorithm in a Parallel Environment
Authors: Chakre Rahul R. , Patil Dipak V. 
Published: October 2023

Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a vital imaging tool for detecting brain malignancies in medical diagnosis. The semantic gap between low-level visual information collected by MRI equipment and high-level information stated by the doctor, on the other hand, is the biggest stumbling block in MR image classification. Large amount of medial image data is generated through various imaging modalities. For processing this large amount of medical data, considerable period of time is required. Due to this, time complexity becomes a measure challenge in medical image analysis. As a result, this paper offers analysis for brain tumour classification method named as Dendritic Cell-Squirrel Search Algorithm-based Classifier in the parallel environment. In this paper a parallel environment is proposed. In the experimentation the input dataset is divided into datasets of equal sizes and given as the input on the multiple cores to reduce the time complexity of the algorithm. Due to this, brain tumor classification becomes faster. Here initially, pre-processing is performed applying Gaussian Filter and ROI, it improves the data quality. Subsequently segmentation is done with sparse fuzzy-c-means (Sparse FCM) for extracting statistical and texture features. Additionally, for feature selection, the Particle Rider mutual information is used, which is created by combining Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Rider Optimization Algorithm (ROA), and mutual information. The Dendritic Cell-SSA algorithm, which combines the Dendritic Cell Algorithm and the Squirrel Search Algorithm, is used to classify brain tumors. With a maximum accuracy of 97.79 percent, sensitivity of 97.58 percent, and specificity of 98 percent, the Particle Rider MI-Dendritic Cell-Squirrel Search Algorithm-Artificial Immune Classifier outperforms the competition. The experimental result shows that the proposed parallel technique works efficiently and the time complexity is improved up to 99.94% for Particle Rider MI-Dendritic Cell- Squirrel Search Algorithm-based artificial immune Classifier and 99.92% for Rider Optimization-Dendritic Cell –Squirrel Search Algorithm based Classifier as compared to sequential approach.
The Gospel of the Son of God
Authors: Neumann James M. 
Published: October 2023

James M. Neumann proposes that there is far more at work in Mark’s portrayal of Jesus as Son of God, and what it means for Mark to depict him as such, than past scholarship has recognized. He argues that Mark presents Jesus’s life from beginning to end as the actualization of Psalm 2: a coronation hymn describing the Davidic king as God’s “son,” which was interpreted messianically in early Judaism and christologically in early Christianity. Rather than a simple title, the designation of Jesus as God’s “Son” in Mark contains and encapsulates an entire story of its own.
Beginning with an analysis of why this most important identity of Jesus in the Gospel has been under-studied, Neumann retraces the interpretive traditions surrounding Psalm 2 in early Judaism and Christianity alike. Pointing to Mark’s first introduction of Jesus as God’s Son into the narrative via an allusion to Ps 2:7 and portraying his baptism as a royal anointing, he demonstrates how Jesus begins to realize the implications of his anointment through his disestablishment of Satan’s kingdom. Focusing on the repetition of the allusion to Ps 2:7 at Jesus’s transfiguration and exploring how the Parable of the Vineyard uniquely encapsulates the Gospel as a whole, Neumann traces the use of the psalm throughout the Markan passion narrative, contending that, in Mark’s vision, the hope envisaged by the psalm has been realized: the Son begins to inherit (the worship of) the nations. He concludes that Mark paradoxically portrays the accomplishment of the Messiah’s victory through Jesus’s crucifixion.
Syrian Gulag
Authors: Baker Jaber , Üngör Uğur Ümit 
Published: October 2023

An estimated 300,000 people have been detained or have died in prison since the Syrian uprising broke out. Syrians can be arrested for liking a post on Facebook or for the political activities of a distant relative. They are imprisoned without trial, and tortured and starved, often to death.
This book is the first to expose the worst prisons in the Middle East, if not the world. In previous years it had been too dangerous to undertake research on this subject, but the enormous numbers of Syrians taking refuge in neighboring countries and Europe has allowed unprecedented access to their stories.
Based on interviews with both the victims and perpetrators, survivors’ memoirs and notes, as well as leaked regime archives, leaked photos, and leaked intelligence files, the book is a testament of the internment and imprisonment system in Syria under the rule of the Assads, father and son (1970–2020).
A harrowing account of the machinery of the Assad dynasty, Syrian Gulag is also an urgent exposé on Syria today.
Econarrative
Authors: Stibbe Arran 
Published: October 2023

Econarratives are all around us, describing and shaping human interactions with other species and the physical environment. This book provides a foundational theory of econarrative, drawing from narratology, human ecology, critical discourse analysis, and ecolinguistics, and offering insights from a rich variety of texts including:
Creation mythsIndigenous podcastsEthical leadership speechesHaiku poetryDocumentary filmsNew nature writingAdvertisements and campaignsApocalyptic stories
Adopting a global, transdisciplinary approach, it conducts in-depth analysis of specific works, including the Cherokee myth How the World Was Made, the speeches of Vandana Shiva, Nightwalk by Chris Yates, Naomi Klein’s documentary This Changes Everything, the podcasts of Mohawk seed-keeper Rowen White, the Book of Revelation, and the Dark Mountain Manifesto.
Raising awareness of the powerful role that language plays in structuring our lives and society, the book reveals narratological and linguistic features that convey activation, emotion, empathy, identity, placefulness, enchantment, compassion and other key factors that shape interactions with the natural world. If we want real, fundamental change, then we must search for new econarratives to live by.
Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine
Authors: Bartov Omer 
Published: October 2023

This book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, which have repeatedly both enriched and clashed with each other, whilst convincingly arguing for the importance of local history and individual testimony in grasping the nature of mass murder. He goes on to critically examine how legal discourse has served to both uncover and deny individual and national complicity. Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine outlines how first-person histories provide a better understanding of events otherwise perceived as inexplicable and, lastly, draws on the author’s own personal trajectory to consider links between the fate of Jews in World War II and the plight of Palestinians during and in the aftermath of the establishment of the state of Israel.
Bartov demonstrates that these five perspectives, rarely if ever previously discussed in a single book, are inextricably linked, and shed much light on each other. Thus the Holocaust and other genocides must be seen as related catastrophes in the modern era; understanding such vast human tragedies necessitates scrutinizing them on the local and personal scale; this in turn calls for historical empathy, accomplished via personal-biographical introspection; and true, open-minded, and rigorous introspection, without which historical understanding tends toward obfuscation, bringing to light uncomfortable yet clarifying connections, such as that between the Holocaust and the Nakba, the mass flight and expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948.
The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature
Authors: Tenngart Paul 
Published: October 2023

An exploration of the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture.
Few scholars would deny that the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious literary award in the world. But what mechanisms made it possible for 18 Swedish intellectuals to become the world’s most influential literary critics? Paul Tenngart argues that the Nobel Prize in literature has become a special kind of international canonization: exerted from a non-central, semi-peripheral position, the award sometimes confirms and reinforces hierarchical relations between literary languages and cultures, and sometimes disturbs established patterns of dominance and dependence.
Drawing from a wide range of contemporary theories and methods, this multifaceted history of the Nobel Prize questions how the Swedish Academy has managed to keep the prize's global status through all the violent international crises of the last 120 years; how the selection of laureates shaped the idea of 'universal' literary values and defined literary quality across languages and cultures; and what impact the prize has had on the distribution and significance of particular works, literatures and languages.
The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature explores the history and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature from the first award in 1901 through recent controversies involving Bob Dylan and #MeToo, arguing that the prize is a unique performative act that has been – and still is – central in our continual and collective construction of world literature.
Access to Justice for the Chinese Consumer
Authors: Zhou Ling 
Published: October 2023

This book offers a socio-legal exploration of localised consumer complaint processing and dispute resolution in the People’s Republic of China – now the second largest consumer market in the world – and the experiences of both ordinary and ‘professional’ consumers.
Drawing on detailed analysis of an impressive body of empirical data, this book highlights local Chinese understandings and practice styles of ‘mediation’, and identifies in popular consciousness a continuing sense of reliance on the government for securing consumer rights in China. These are not only important features of consumer dispute processing in themselves, but also help to explain why no ombudsman system has emerged.
This innovative book looks at the nature of China’s distinctive dispute resolution and complaints system, issues within that system, and the experiences of consumers within it. The book illustrates the access to justice processes locally available to aggrieved consumers and provides a unique contribution to comparative consumer law studies in Asia and elsewhere.
Volume 11 in the series Civil Justice Systems
The Prescription Drug Problem
Authors: Schroeder Ryan D. , Ford Jason A. , Higgins George E. 
Published: October 2023

Providing an indispensable resource for undergraduate students, graduate students, and policymakers interested in the prescription drug abuse crisis in the United States, this book summarizes the current state of prescription drug abuse and its growth over the past 20 years.
The Prescription Drug Problem analyzes the growth of the prescription drug abuse problem from 1994 to 2014 and includes comparisons to marijuana and hard drug use during the same period. Specific attention is given to prescription opiate abuse and the transition from prescription opiates to heroin.
The book begins with a broad overview of the prescription drug problem in the U.S., while the text presents stories of celebrities who have struggled with prescription drug abuse, highlights a handful of ordinary Americans who are battling prescription drug abuse, and examines as case studies a few communities that have been ravaged by prescription drug abuse. Drawing upon demographic patterns of abuse to identify causes of and factors contributing to prescription drug abuse as well as possible solutions to the problem, the book is designed to provide a broad overview of the prescription drug abuse problem in the U.S. and stimulate additional research.
Prison Rape
Authors: Singer Michael 
Published: October 2023

Rape is a fact of life for the incarcerated. Can American society maintain the commitment expressed in recent federal legislation to eliminate the rampant and costly sexual abuse that has been institutionalized into its system of incarceration?
Each year, as many as 200,000 individuals are victims of various types of sexual abuse perpetrated in American prisons, jails, juvenile detention facilities, and lockups. As many as 80,000 of them suffer violent or repeated rape. Those who are outside the incarceration experience are largely unaware of this ongoing physical and mental damage—abuses that not only affect the victims and perpetrators, but also impose vast costs on society as a whole. This book supplies a uniquely full account of this widespread sexual abuse problem.
Author Michael Singer has drawn on official reports to provide a realistic assessment of the staggering financial cost to society of this sexual abuse, and comprehensively addressed the current, severely limited legal procedures for combating sexual abuse in incarceration. The book also provides an evaluation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 and its recently announced national standards, and assesses their likely future impact on the institution of prison rape in America.
Public Library Programs and Services for Midlife and Beyond
Authors: Bennett-Kapusniak Reneé K. 
Published: October 2023

A manual of public library programming and services for adults ages 50+. Inspired by trends in U.S. public libraries, this book teaches librarians how to create a welcoming environment that enriches, enlightens, and engages their library's growing aging community. The number of adults aged 50+ coming to public libraries is steadily increasing. These patrons include active, healthy, tech-savvy professionals; people who have little or no computer training; retirees; travelers; and those who have age-related health and behavior issues. Public libraries have an opportunity to provide services for this growing and varied group. This book teaches librarians how to develop and expand adult public library programming and services, turning their library into a welcoming environment for the aging community. Public Library Programs and Services for Midlife and Beyond offers practical examples in areas including community collaboration, outreach, marketing, engagement, technology and social media, funding, and lifelong learning. It also incorporates up-to-date findings from the ALA's Guidelines for Library Services with 60+ Audience: Best Practices. Examples gathered by the author from extensive interviews with public librarians and directors illustrate what a range of libraries is successfully doing for the midlife-and-beyond community and encourage creative thinking about new programs and services.
• Offers ways to create and expand adult library programs and services and cultivate an appreciation of lifelong learning
• Combines engagement techniques in community collaboration and outreach with practical strategies in marketing and funding
• Explores strategies within current U.S. public library adult services and programs for patrons middle-aged and older
• Details up-to-date ALA guidelines for the 60+ adult population
Spreadsheets for Librarians
Authors: White Bruce 
Published: October 2023

Work smarter and save time with the librarian's guide to the hidden-in-plain-sight secrets of Excel, Sheets, and other types of spreadsheets.
While some librarians have become very skilled at using the full power of Excel and Sheets to turn data into useful and valuable information, for many librarians the relevance of spreadsheets–and how to use them–is not necessarily obvious.
This book demystifies Excel and other spreadsheets. Starting from basic concepts, the book progresses to advanced implementations important to librarians in such areas as collection management, including evaluation and benchmarking; research assessment through the creation of sophisticated bibliometric measures; and library design based on an analysis of patron behavior or the creation of a keyword map of physical collections. Real-life examples highlight a variety of techniques and shortcuts that can be immediately applied to libraries of all kinds.
Spreadsheets for Librarians is a book for the desk, not only the library shelves. No prior knowledge of spreadsheets is needed, and readers can expect to learn skills that will enhance their reputation as information and data professionals.