Restriction, Resistance, and Humility: by Rowshan Jahan Chowdhury

“… Anglo-American and French feminists focus on women’s equality, women’s experience as writers, and feminine writing. …”
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An MPC Approach for Grid-Forming Inverters: Theory and Experiment by Alessandro Labella, Filip Filipovic, Milutin Petronijevic, Andrea Bonfiglio, Renato Procopio

“…In particular, islanded MGs in which distributed energy resources (DERs) are connected to the infrastructure with power electronic converters have attracted the interest of many researchers of both academia and industry because management, control and protection of such systems is quite different from the case of traditional networks. …”
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Toward sustainability: the role of social entrepreneurship in creating social-economic value in renewable energy social enterprises by Mohammad Jamal Bataineh, Carmen Marcuello, Pedro Sánchez-Sellero

“…This research also illustrates how to adapt Isenberg's model for the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the social enterprises, which shows that the evolution of social enterprises does not occur in a vacuum; rather, the growth of social enterprise ecosystems occurs through interactions and networks with various actors in different fields such as financial politics, law, and academia. Finally, we review the practical applications of social enterprises by highlighting the main benefits of RE social enterprises: energy savings, community awareness, and the creation of favorable social externalities in rural and developing areas. …”
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From romance to decolonial love in The Woman of Colour — a roundtable on The Woman of Colour (1808) : pedagogic and critical approaches (Roundtable) by Barr, Rebecca Anne

“…It is more like the lowest rung in a caste system, the one that underrepresented minorities tend to call home.”2 If academia fre-quently relies on the labor of underpaid minorities, it trades on a phantasm of equal intellec-tual opportunities, which ironically helps sustain a reality of racialized hierarchies. …”
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Accelerating progress towards the SDGs: Collaborative policymaking in sanitation for integrated benefits in Sub-Saharan Africa by K. Bobbins, L. Diep, P. Hofmann, A. OkoWilliams, L.C. Campos, I. Steenmans, M. Lakhanpaul, D.W. Mate-Kodjo, P. Parikh

“…Co-creation between academia and the development sector is critical for consolidating knowledge/research and development practice to influence investment, progress and innovation.…”
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The Gender Gap in Land Sciences: A Review of Women’s Presence on the Editorial Boards of Peer-Reviewed Journals by Somayeh Mohammadi Hamidi, Mohammad Rezaei-Pandari, Sima Fakheran, Christine Fürst

“…Therefore, the low presence of women on editorial boards can be considered a disadvantage indicator for women in academia. This study aims to highlight the gap in women’s contributions in land science journals. …”
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Service Robots in the Healthcare Sector by Jane Holland, Liz Kingston, Conor McCarthy, Eddie Armstrong, Peter O’Dwyer, Fionn Merz, Mark McConnell

“…The reviewed technologies are a collaboration between academia and the healthcare industry, demonstrating the research and testing needed in the creation of service robots before they can be deployed in real-world applications and use cases. …”
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Pharmacometabolomic study of drug response to antihypertensive medications for hypertension marker identification in Han Chinese individuals in Taiwan by Yu-Jen Liang, Kuang-Mao Chiang, Li-li Xiu, Chia-Min Chung, Chi-Jen Lo, Ming-Shi Shiao, Mei-Ling Cheng, Cheng-Chin Kuo, Hsin-Chou Yang, Wen-Harn Pan

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The Role of Autophagy in Chemical Proteasome Inhibition Model of Retinal Degeneration by Merry Gunawan, Choonbing Low, Kurt Neo, Siawey Yeo, Candice Ho, Veluchamy A. Barathi, Anita Sookyee Chan, Najam A. Sharif, Masaaki Kageyama

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Widespread sex ratio polymorphism in Caenorhabditis nematodes by Yun Huang, Yun-Hua Lo, Jung-Chen Hsu, Tho Son Le, Fang-Jung Yang, Tiffany Chang, Christian Braendle, John Wang

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Realizing the Promise of Disaggregated Data and Analytics for Social Justice Through Community Engagement and Intersectoral Research Partnerships by Angela Kaida, Jillian Anderson, Christine Barnard, Lyn Bartram, Daniel Bert, Sheelagh Carpendale, Charmaine Dean, Donald Estep, Josephine Etowa, Maya Gislason, Genesa Greening, Mehrdad Hariri, Dawn Hoogeveen, Dalya Israel, Am Johal, Angel Kennedy, Kwame McKenzie, Ruby Mendenhall, Nahed Mourad, Valerie Nicholson, Kelly Nolan, Zoe Osborne, Fred Popowich, Alexa Reedman, John Simpson, Julia Smith, Malinda Smith

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Efficient pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass with high recovery of solid lignin and fermentable sugars using Fenton reaction in a mixed solvent by Hui-Tse Yu, Bo-Yu Chen, Bing-Yi Li, Mei-Chun Tseng, Chien-Chung Han, Shin-Guang Shyu

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Determination of three-dimensional atomic positions from tomographic reconstruction using ensemble empirical mode decomposition by Po-Nan Li, Zong-Han Wu, Chien-Nan Hsiao, Ting-Kuo Lee, Chien-Chun Chen

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Radial and Local Density Dependence of Star Formation Properties in Galaxy Clusters from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey by Hung-Yu Jian, Lihwai Lin, Bau-Ching Hsieh, Keiichi Umetsu, Carlos Lopez-Coba, Masamune Oguri, Connor Bottrell, Yoshiki Toba, Yusei Koyama, Yu-Yen Chang, Tadayuki Kodama, Yutaka Komiyama, Surhud More, Kai-Yang Lin, Atsushi J. Nishizawa, Ichi Tanaka

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Brazil's Imaginative Geographies under Postcolonial Thoughts: An Analysis Based on Gilberto Freyre's China Tropical by Bao Yu, Chen Haoran

“…Therefore, in China Tropical, Freyre advocates for the equality of Brazilian civilization by imagining its structure, continuing Boas's thoughts, and developing a series of postcolonial critiques. …”
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A personal reflection upon navigating into a senior academic role by Bernadine D. Idowu, Bernadine D. Idowu

“…I used this to put together the BME Early Career Researcher (ECR) conference—How to Stay in Academia. After 6 years, it is still going strong. …”
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Is Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Threatened to Fall Short of its Own Principles and Possibilities as a Dialectical Social Science? by Ines Langemeyer, Wolf-Michael Roth

“…Not so long ago, Yrjö Engeström noted that the activity approach was still “the best-held secret of academia” (p. 64) and highlighted the “impressive dimension of theorizing behind” it. …”
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“Screwed from the start”: How women perceive opportunities and barriers for building a successful research career by Åsa Berggren, Cecilia Almlöv, Alexandra D’Urso, Ann Grubbström

“…The noticeable male dominance in who receives resources and positions within the university and the lack of women as role-models signals to WECRs that they are not wanted in academia. The WECRs suggest several ways to improve the possibilities for a successful research career for women on more equal terms as their male collegues: these include transparent processes for resource allocations, equal opportunity officers in all hiring processes, and mandatory gender training for all senior research and administrative staff. …”
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Using Community-Partnered Participatory Research to Value the ?Community Lens? and Promote Equity in Community?Academic Partnerships

“…Results: A total of 38 racial-ethnically diverse participants volunteered from the total conference audience of 62 community and academic partners from various sectors including community-based organizations, health care, social services, academia, or policy within Los Angeles County. Analysis led to development of three themes: Being cautious with the extractive tendency of academia and the need for anti-racism within CAPs; Leveraging community power to resist the top-down lens of academia; and bridging two worlds through an equitably structured table. …”
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A Comparative Study of Gender Disparities in Geoscience and Mining in Mongolia by Gerel Ochir, Munkhtsengel Baatar, Myagmarsuren Sanjaa, Helen Williams

“…Mongolian women enjoy equal rights and actively participate in various sectors of the national economy, including the mineral and mining industry. …”
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