Duckietown: An Innovative Way to Teach Autonomy by Tani, Jacopo, Paull, Liam, Zuber, Maria, Rus, Daniela L, How, Jonathan P, Leonard, John J, Censi, Andrea

“…All of the teaching materials and code is released online in the hope that other institutions will adopt the platform and continue to evolve and improve it, so to keep pace with the fast evolution of the field.…”
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Evolution of Production Spaces: A Historical Review for Projecting Smart Factories by Merve Pekdemir Başeğmez, Burak Asiliskender

“…Factories are also transforming to keep up with these rapid and continuous physical and fictional innovations. This study focuses on the architectural evolution of factories by following the technological revolutions of the industry. …”
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Art. Feliche. “Memories of the Actress” (Lyudmila Andreevna Yamshchikova-Dmitrieva: On the 130th Anniversary) by Tatyana N. Stepanova

“…We dedicate the publication of a fragment of the fictionalized autobiography of Lyudmila Andreevna Yamshchikova-Dmitrieva (1893‒1978), “Aktrisa” (“The Actress”), to her memory and her 130th anniversary. …”
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La scomparsa di Majorana: il saggio-inchiesta di Sciascia e la rivisitazione grafica di Riccioni-Rocchi a confronto by Inge Lanslots

“…However, at the same time, Sciascia’s text was appreciated for the fictionalization of historical context typical of Sciascian writing.In 2015, precisely forty years after the publication of Sciascia’s La Scomparsa di Majorana, Francesca Riccioni and Silvia Rocchi call into question the scientific contribution and disappearance of the Sicilian physicist by transposing Majorana’s story into a contemporary context. …”
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Phonosemantic Interference: Multiple Motivation in the Imitative Word Coinage (on the Material of Invented Languages) by V. A. Davydova

“…The study is conducted within the framework of the phonosemantic approach developed by Stanislav Voronin on the material of artificially constructed words from well-known fictional languages Lapin, Klingon, Elvish, and Navi. …”
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Mapping flows by Marc Angélil, Cary Siress

“…Maps generate and maintain particular discourses about the world, whether factual or fictional, with very real repercussions either way for the territory depicted. …”
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Writing Irish nurses in Britain by Murray, Tony

“…After independence, the sense of national pride envisaged by Éamon de Valera as ‘joyous with the sounds of industry’, rather than being realized in the fields and mountains of Ireland, had, as a result of continuing emigration, to be found on the building sites and hospital wards of its neighbouring island. …”
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No other world? Postcolonial inheritance in Anglophone world writing by Ang, A

“…Anglophone world texts are textured by the play of enlarged, decentred cartographies (ch 1) and the contours of fictional memory, which inscribe alternative historical loci (ch 2). …”

Joanna McClelland Glass’ Mrs. Dexter and Her Daily and the Inter-play among Age, Gender and Class by Núria Casado-Gual

“…As a naturalistic two-hander which constructs its protagonists through realistic psychological portraits, the last play that this Canadian-American playwright has published to date presents two female characters in their mid-sixties whose old age is not only submitted to “the double standard” through which women’s aging is measured, to borrow from Susan Sontag’s words, but also conditioned by their diverse social positions and distinctive fictional biographies. Using theater semiotics and the latest theories of cultural gerontology as the two main methodological frameworks for this particular case study, this paper hopes to demonstrate that the theater continues to be an invaluable source of inquiry with regard to significant aspects of human life. …”
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Prototyping a Useless Design Practice: What, Why & How? by Søren Rosenbak

“…Part II elucidates the ambiguous relationship between the useless and the useful through the related critical/conformist dichotomy present in Dunne & Raby’s A/B Manifesto as well as through useless and useful design fictions. From here the unuseless chindōgu by Kawakeni and the unfindable objects by Carelman together frame the useless as a “useful overdrive.” …”
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Two Forms of Humanism: André Malraux and Romain Gary by Jean-François Hangouët

“…It is tactfully expressed in a way that stimulates hope. And its fictionalized form is masterly, not only in terms of novel-writing (Gary’s books being so unlike thesis novels) but also in terms of analytical thinking and philosophical foundation. …”
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Japan, Religion, History, Nation by Timothy Fitzgerald

“…The invention of these powerful fictions in Japan was a specific, localised example of a global process. …”
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Women empowerment through cultural and socialist ecofeminism in Kaine Agary’s yellow-yellow and Christie Watson’s tiny sunbirds far away by Elizabeth, Ikechi Chioma

“…But my research strives to focus on fictional characters who suffer double exploitation but still strive to continue life irrespective of the challenges. …”
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Essays on the Economics of Climate Action by Page, Lucy

“…In an online experiment with 6,000 participants, we first show that learning about the policy progress of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) somewhat increases political efficacy, or beliefs about government responsiveness to citizen action, but also reduces demand for continuing climate policy. However, pairing information about the IRA with a fictional story that ties policy progress to citizen action yields large increases in political-efficacy beliefs and continuing climate action. …”
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The methods of power transferring in Iranian Folktales by Mostafa Saadat

“…Several folktales are about theses fictional characters. Real events of society have been fictionalized by the creators of the folktales. …”
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Application of CAST to hospital adverse events by O'Neil, Meaghan (Meaghan Marie)

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Fattened flattened tongue ties: performing maternality online and offline by Benigson, H

“…Taking up this subjective, intuitive and embodied position, I identify (m)otherhood in a digital, networked age, as an entangled condition, where the push and pull between online and offline space is amplified, where the (m)othering body is particularly “tied” to others and where a continual disruption of agency and articulacy is at play. …”

Violence, crime, and psychiatry in the Spanish punk imaginary; General portrait by Fabián Pavez, Erika Saura, Pedro Marset

“…These media provide both factual and fictional content (intertextuality). Other artistic manifestations can equally contribute to the interdiscursive ambit. …”
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Post-COVID Public Health Surveillance and Privacy Expectations in the United States: Scenario-Based Interview Study by John S Seberger, Sameer Patil

“…The interviews focused on how people perceive the short- and long-term privacy concerns associated with a fictional smart thermometer app deployed to mitigate the “outbreak of a contagious disease.” …”
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Media Representation of Hacker as an Edge worker: Toward a Cultural Criminological Analysis of Blue Whale Series by Zahra Farhadi Alashti, Abdolreza JavanJafari Bojnordi, Mahdi Seidzadeh Sani

“…It examines how the meaning of crime and its control is continuously constructed in the nonlinear cultural, criminal, and crime control processes. …”
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