Learning from urban projects: why and how we should unlock the learning potential of urban development projects and programmes by Forbes Davidson

“…I have written this opinion piece based on my experience both in practise in the public and private sectors and in teaching and research. …”
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The normalisation of Food Aid: What happened to feeding people well? [version 1; peer review: 3 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Robbie Davison, Martin Caraher

“…It also appears that there is far greater emphasis on dealing with  the symptoms as opposed to solving the root causes of the problem. As an opinion piece, this paper reflects on some of the prevalent issues, and suggests some ways forward.…”
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Making the metaverse real by Tatiana Zalan, Paolo Barbesino

“…The purpose of this opinion piece aimed primarily at practitioners is to explore the key question: What is needed to make the metaverse real? …”
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Definitions of the Terms Open, Distance, and Flexible in the Context of Formal and Non-Formal Learning by Simon Paul Atkinson

“… This opinion piece seeks to define and contextualise educational terms that are used, and appear to be misused, in contemporary academic literature and practice. …”
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How to reset metabolic setpoint in obesity management by Sanjay Kalra, Saurabh Arora, Nitin Kapoor

“…This expert clinical opinion piece shares pragmatic suggestions on how to achieve this. …”
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Researching Rural Development: Selected Reflections by Anthony Michael Fuller

“…With these impediments and opportunities in mind, I offer some of my own reflections, in the form of an opinion piece, on rural development research over the past 50 years. …”
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The normalisation of Food Aid: What happened to feeding people well? [version 2; peer review: 4 approved] by Robbie Davison, Martin Caraher

“…It also appears that there is far greater emphasis on dealing with  the symptoms as opposed to solving the root causes of the problem. As an opinion piece, this paper reflects on some of the prevalent issues, and suggests some ways forward.…”
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Malaria control in India: A national perspective in a regional and global fight to eliminate malaria by P J Guerin, M Dhorda, N K Ganguly, C H Sibley

“…That reality has led to reflection on the strategy for malaria elimination, noting that focusing only on low transmission sites has competed with the efforts in countries that still have foci with high malaria burdens. This opinion piece outlines the collaboration of the ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research (ICMR–NIMR) and other partner Institutions in India with the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN), one part of a global effort to manage the spread of Plasmodium falciparum parasites associated with antimalarial resistance.…”
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One Health or… some health? by Bruce Kaplan, DVM

“…This is intended to be all-inclusive among the scientific disciplines of human medicine, veterinary medicine and all other related scientific health disciplines. This reprinted Opinion piece, ‘One Health…or some health?’ highlights a potentially serious disconnect within the One Health movement viz. the trend towards excluding the One Health comparative medicine research and clinical advances resulting from the utilisation of One Health principles. …”
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A plea for Global Health Action bottom-up by Ulrich Laaser, Stephen Dorey, Joanna Nurse

“…This opinion piece focuses on global health action by hands-on bottom-up practice: Initiation of an organizational framework and securing financial efficiency are – however - essential, both clearly a domain of well trained public health professionals. …”
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In all languages? How minority languages are excluded from scholarly publishing by Huw Grange

“…This is the provocative question we ask in this opinion piece, drawing on our experience of publishing the world’s only academic journal in our minority language. …”
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A new bloom – adding ‘collaborate’ to Bloom’s taxonomy by Richard Heller

“…Collaborate is sited between ‘apply’ and ‘analyse’ in the revised Bloom’s taxonomy hierarchy, and the new version named the New Bloom. This opinion piece expands on the concept and adds the specific objective of ‘work or share with others’ with keywords ‘share, cooperate, reciprocate, achieve consensus’. …”
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Theory of Constraints and Bitcoin: Introducing a New Fulcrum by Rupert L. Matthews

“…Much less attention is given to bitcoin’s potential role as a unit of account. This opinion piece proposes that bitcoin has potential to provide a consistent unit of account for organisations to adopt, but also to assist them in making and measuring meaningful business developments. …”
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THE PHOBIA CORONA (COVID 19) - WHAT WE CAN DO by Medani P. Bhandari

“…The question is what we can do to stop this pandemic and what price we will have to pay for it. This opinion piece of ASEJ editorial team member Prof. Medani P. …”
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From Anonymous to Public Enemy: How Does a Mosquito Become a Feared Arbovirus Vector? by Didier Fontenille, Jeffrey R. Powell

“…The past few decades have seen the emergence of several worldwide arbovirus epidemics (chikungunya, Zika), the expansion or recrudescence of historical arboviruses (dengue, yellow fever), and the modification of the distribution area of major vector mosquitoes such as <i>Aedes aegypti</i> and <i>Ae. albopictus</i>, raising questions about the risk of appearance of new vectors and new epidemics. In this opinion piece, we review the factors that led to the emergence of yellow fever in the Americas, define the conditions for a mosquito to become a vector, analyse the recent example of the new status of <i>Aedes albopictus</i> from neglected mosquito to major vector, and propose some scenarios for the future.…”
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Exercise and Physical Activity Diversity by Sanjay Kalra, Madhur Verma, Nitin Kapoor

“… In this reflective opinion piece, we introduce the concepts of exercise diversity and physical activity diversity. …”
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On Academia, Critical Pedagogy and ‘Coming Out’ as a Third Space Practitioner by Eileen Pollard

“… This opinion piece situates the practice of an experimental module I taught as an academic – Chester Retold: Unspoken Stories, Put into Words – within some theories of ‘community learning’.[1] Community learning is understood here to articulate and enact a combination of concepts taken from critical pedagogy (Freire, 2018; hooks, 1994), experiential learning (Kolb, 2015; Gibbs, 1988) and learning development (Webster, 2017). …”
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The Potential Role of Nonhuman Primate Models to Better Comprehend Early Life Immunity and Maternal Antibody Transfer by Julie Sartoretti, Christiane S. Eberhardt

“…Given their limitations especially in the transfer biology of maternal antibodies and the lack of infectivity of numerous human pathogens, this opinion piece discusses the potential and prerequisites of the nonhuman primate model in studying early life immunity and maternal antibody transfer.…”
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Homo Philosophicus: Reflections on the Nature and Function of Philosophical Thought by Said Mikki

“…The following text can be considered a contribution to metaphilosophy, written as a structured opinion piece, encompassing a series of reflections drawn from the writer’s own experience as a philosopher. …”
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THE PHOBIA CORONA (COVID 19) - WHAT WE CAN DO by Medani P. Bhandari

“…The question is what we can do to stop this pandemic and what price we will have to pay for it. This opinion piece of ASEJ editorial team member Prof. Medani P. …”
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