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From obligation to opportunity: Language coaching as a positive institutional strategy in a public body

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores how positive psychology interventions enhanced staff confidence and well‐being in fulfilling official languages (OL) obligations within an Irish university. The 14‐month participatory action research (PAR) study aimed to address challenges relating to language anxiety and foster a more collaborative and empowering language ...
Deirdre Ní Loingsigh
wiley   +1 more source

Screen Façade Pattern Design Driven by Generative Adversarial Networks and Machine Learning Classification for the Evaluation of a Daylight Environment

open access: yesBuildings
This research seeks to identify optimised screen façade patterns and ratios for the effective management of daylight ingress and glare effects. It employs generative adversarial networks (GANs) to generate pattern variations and further evaluates the ...
Hyunjae Nam, Dong Yoon Park
doaj   +1 more source

The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Case Report: Color as a Therapeutic Intervention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Peer reviewedFinal Accepted ...
AD Baddeley   +15 more
core   +2 more sources

Living in the Mycelial World

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Uniformity and Glare Improvement with Low Energy Efficiency Losses in Street Lighting LED Luminaires Using Laser-Sintered Polyamide-Based Diffuse Covers

open access: yesEnergies, 2018
Energy saving in street lighting is garnering more interest and has become a priority in municipal management. Therefore, LED luminaires are gradually becoming prevalent in our cities.
Alfonso Gago-Calderón   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Finding Stars: Mapping the Geography of the World's Scientific Elites

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Scientific excellence is clustering ever more tightly in a few ‘superstar’ cities. Four—New York, Boston, London and the San Francisco Bay Area—now host 12% of the world's top scientists. In contrast, the Global South remains largely absent, with the notable exception of Beijing's dramatic rise.
Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Side-View Atmospheres under Outdoor Midday High Luminance

open access: yesBuildings, 2016
This work deals with daylighting for indoor quality atmospheres, considering building skins and side-views. We also tested the vision perception provided by highly glazed façades.
Urtza Uriarte   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Simple Simon and the Cult of Certainty: How Case Studies Offer What Pop Leaders Cannot

open access: yesJournal of Leadership Studies, Volume 19, Issue 4, Winter 2026.
Popular leadership ideas gain influence through clarity and certainty, often at the expense of nuance and theoretical depth. This paper examines the tension between popular leadership discourse and scholarly research, drawing on Bourdieu's field theory to explain why visibility and charisma tend to outweigh rigor in the marketplace of ideas.
Derrick Neufeld, Julian Birkinshaw
wiley   +1 more source

Telecological Collapse: The Inevitability of Climate Breakdown in the Transmedial Podcast Drama Forest 404

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a close‐hearing analysis of Forest 404, a transmedial audio drama that was released to BBC Sounds in 2019. Despite the drama's eco‐dystopian critique of teleological ‘progress’ narratives (that enable and perpetuate the destruction of the natural world), I argue that the series ultimately propagates a sense of inevitability
Matilda Jones
wiley   +1 more source

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