Be Your Sister’s Keeper: Personal Experience of Travelling a Lonely Journey in Academia by Duduzile Mzindle

“…I argue that as black women, we need to create spaces where we can offer another not only a shoulder to cry on but encourage each other to navigate the academy and its mazes. I am convinced that my experiences and personal journey in academia add a voice to novice academics who must still navigate the bureaucratic ladder. …”
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Lies from Outer Space: The Martians’ Famous Invasion of New Jersey by Alessandra Calanchi

“…It was not a hoax or a fake, either – it was, in narratological terms, what is commonly called the suspension of disbelief pushed to its extreme. In this essay I am going to reconsider this event mainly in the light of two main conditions concerning lying, namely untruthfulness and the intention to deceive. …”
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Eesti dekadentlik sonett by Rebekka Lotman

“…Paul Verlaine’s seminal sonnet Langueur, published in 1883, opens with the well-known line: Je suis l’Empire à la fin de la décadence (“I am the Empire at the end of decadence”). This sonnet had an enormous impact on fin de siècle poetry, earning recognition as both the ars poetica of decadence and its most representative example. …”
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Advances in AI for web integrity, equity, and well-being by Srijan Kumar

“…Together, these thrusts give a set of holistic solutions to combat cyberharms. I am also passionate about putting my research into practice—my lab's models have been deployed on Flipkart, influenced Twitter's Birdwatch, and now being deployed on Wikipedia.…”
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Graduating University as a Woman with Down Syndrome: Reflecting on My Education by Rachel High, Sally Robinson

“…I gained skills and confidence whilst being at university, as well as the ability to see where I am going in life. This experience made me feel more part of society. …”
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CULTIVATING COMIDA: Finding Comida in Our Everyday Lives by Teresa M. Mares

“…First paragraph: As a professor, I am convinced that tinkering with a course syllabus is one of the best parts of the job. …”
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Parents' and guardians' acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for children in Ghana: An online survey. by Frank Kyei-Arthur, Sylvester Kyei-Gyamfi, Martin Wiredu Agyekum, Grace Frempong Afrifa-Anane, Bernard Akyeampong Amoh

“…Also, parents/guardians who neither agreed nor disagreed that "the best way to avoid the complications of COVID-19 is by being vaccinated", those who agreed that "I am of the notion that physiological/natural community is better compared to vaccine-induced immunity" and "I believe the vaccine programming may be likened to the new world order" were less likely to accept COVID-19 vaccine for their children. …”
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Cynical hostility increases whereas sense of coherence decreases the odds for current suicidal thoughts: A cross‐sectional study of the general adult population sample by Raimo Palmu, Timo Partonen

“…Of the specific items of cynical hostility, the item “I am sure that most people do not have problems with lying for their own good” was associated most strongly with current suicidal thoughts (p < 0.001). …”
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Improving the Quality of Learning in Law Schools by Improving Student Assessment by Nicolette Rogers

“…Whilst it is essential when considering how to encourage students to adopt qualitative learning approaches to consider the effect of all elements in the learning “eco-system” on the student, it is my thesis that student assessment plays not only an important, but a critical role in influencing their approaches to learning tasks. I am encouraged by the similar sentiments expressed by such pre-eminent writers as Paul Ramsden, William Twining and Professor Kahn-Freund. …”
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Knowledge Representation and Digital Scholarly Editions in Theory and Practice by Tanya Clement

“…One aspect of textual performance theory I am exploring within In Transition concerns the social text network. …”
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Exploring technology as enabler for sustainable teaching and learning during Covid-19 at a university in South Africa by Nkhangweleni Patrick Mafenya

“…This sudden transition has without doubt caused an incredible amount of harm and disruption in our education system. In view of this, I am interested in exploring how a traditional, face-to-face university used technology effectively as a delivery tool to sustain teaching and learning during the Covid-19 crisis. …”
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‘Rents in the Veil of Time’: Annie Besant’s Auto-biographies of Giordano Bruno by Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

“…Her first autobiography, Autobiographical Sketches, appeared in book form in 1885, the year she joined the Fabian Society, a decision she justified in 1886 with Why I Am a Socialist. When Besant converted to Theosophy in 1889, she wrote Why I Became a Theosophist, and her revised autobiography, Annie Besant: An Autobiography, was published in 1893, preceded by 1875 to 1891: A Fragment of Autobiography. …”
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Reflections as a settler person doing research in collaboration with Indigenous peoples. by Benjamin Harrap, Alison Gibberd, Melissa O'Donnell, Koen Simons, Sandra Eades

“…Listening to Indigenous voices and collaborating with Indigenous peoples at all stages of my research – from my PhD supervisor to investigators on the broader study, to members of the community and policy reference groups – will be key to improve my understanding of the data from a system and context I am unfamiliar with. Results Collaboration has been cyclical, with results from the qualitative research and discussion with the reference groups informing the initial quantitative research direction. …”
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The logical effect of Aristotle on the geometry of Euclid by Mohamed Farhan

“…Before answering these two questions, I am obliged to define the dimensions of the topic covered in this study, and the method used in it. …”
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The Black Mirror of the Pupil of the Eye: Around the Eye that Sees and Is Seen: Ibn al-ʿArabī, Bill Viola by Antoni Gonzalo Carbó

“…Ibn al-ʿArabī and Shabistarī have had an explicit influence on the work of the reputed American video artist Bill Viola (Queens, New York, 1951), specifically in his two video/sound installations—<i>He Weeps for You</i> (1976) and <i>I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like</i> (1986)<i>,</i> in which the common image of the mirror pupil of the eye summarizes the entire ancient Neoplatonic conception of the θεωρία (<i>contemplatio</i>, <i>speculatio</i>).…”
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The Iron Age Shepherd Sling by David Jackson

“…What we must consider is that people of the Iron Age would have been very practically minded with transferable skills, potentially; making the use of the sling much easier for the common person of this period. As I am a qualified weapons expert in Kobujutsu and Ninjutsu, I intended to put this theory to the test and see if my skills were transferable. …”
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Understanding the lived-experience and support-needs of people living with antimicrobial resistance in the UK through interpretative phenomenological analysis by Ryan A. Hamilton, Benjamin Lond, Lucina Wilde, Iain Williamson

“…Participants experienced marginalisation and isolation but also empowerment; described across three major themes: (1) I live in fear and stigma: The long-term impact of AMR; (2) I am battling on my own: A journey toward self-advocacy; and (3) I like to share my story: The role of AMR communities. …”
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Parents’ and guardians’ acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for children in Ghana: An online survey by Frank Kyei-Arthur, Sylvester Kyei-Gyamfi, Martin Wiredu Agyekum, Grace Frempong Afrifa-Anane, Bernard Akyeampong Amoh

“…Also, parents/guardians who neither agreed nor disagreed that “the best way to avoid the complications of COVID-19 is by being vaccinated”, those who agreed that “I am of the notion that physiological/natural community is better compared to vaccine-induced immunity” and “I believe the vaccine programming may be likened to the new world order” were less likely to accept COVID-19 vaccine for their children. …”
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Enhancing the professional direction of university students: on the experience of the academic curator by Galina Vitalievna Buyanova

“…The study of the level of awareness of respondents about their future profession was carried out using the author's questionnaire "I am in the profession." The result of the study was a significant shift in the experimental group from a lower level to a higher one in all indicators of the studied component of the professional orientation, which confirms the positive experience of the academic curator.…”
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Modern Russian Poetry in Olympiad Assignments in Literature

“…Gandelsman’s poem “In the morning, right after dawn, I am at the foot…” (2018) was offered to students at a trial competition in “Sirius”. …”
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