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Promoting engagement in embryology through gamified student‐developed small group sessions

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Learning embryology is often challenging for students as it requires conceptualizing morphological changes to embryologic structures across time. To further complicate the process, while some structures transition to permanent structures, others disappear or degenerate.
Jessica N. Byram, Sabrina C. Woods, Elizabeth R. Agosto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Market potential of biobased chemicals: a qualitative network analysis of adoption dynamics in South Africa’s bioeconomy

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.
Abstract The premise of a bioeconomy is the replacement of nonrenewable and unsustainable fossil‐derived resources and associated technologies with more sustainable alternatives. The adoption of biobased chemicals contributes toward the growth of a bioeconomy and is dependent on market and industry requirements.
Prisha Mandree, George Alex Thopil, Santosh Ramchuran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social History and Historical Sociology [PDF]

Historicka Sociologie, 2013
This paper deals with exchanges and misunderstandings between the German school of social history (most prominently represented by scholars from the University of Bielefeld (such as Hans-Ulrich Wehler) and Anglo-American trends in historical sociology ...
Wolfgang Knöbl
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Sociology and postcolonialism: another 'missing' revolution? [PDF]

, 2007
Sociology is usually represented as having emerged alongside European modernity. The latter is frequently understood as sociology's special object with sociology itself a distinctively modern form of explanation.
Badham, R., Bhabha, H.K., Chakrabarty, D., Eisenstadt, S.N., Eisenstadt, S.N., Giddens, A., Giddens, A., Gilroy, P., Gurminder K. Bhambra, Habermas, J., Habermas, J., Hawthorn, G., Heilbron, J., Holmwood, J., Ladner, J.A., Marshall, B.L., Nisbet, R.A., Parsons, T., Said, E.W., Singh, N.P., Stacey, J., Thapar, R., Wittrock, B.   +22 more
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Re‐thinking teachers' professional development: An analysis of National Professional Qualifications for school leaders in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers how teachers' professional development could be redeveloped to help address the current crisis in teacher recruitment and retention by offering greater intellectual rigour and more opportunities for intellectual growth. Our analysis is focused on the UK government's current policy for leadership development in schools in
Mark Innes, Elizabeth Gregory, Louisa Dawes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat’: Assessing theRelationship Between Economic Performance and Ethnonationalismin Bosnia and Herzegovina (2002-2022)

Contemporary Southeastern Europe
It has been postulated that encouraging the financial recovery of Bosnia and Herzegovinawill promote the easing of its ethnic polarization. However, when juxtaposing the resultsof Bosnian parliamentary elections from 2002 to 2022 with the country’s ...
Merlino, Benedetta, Waters, Adrian, Ugurgieri, Lorenzo, Pimentel, Samuel D., Pimentel, David   +4 more
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The Politics of Modernization and the Misleading Approaches to Development

World Review of Political Economy, 2016
This article deconstructs the theory of modernization and argues that the theory is a political propaganda to mislead the people of Third World countries; the social transformation the theory advocates is not for the development of Third World countries.
Ndinawe Byekwaso
doaj   +1 more source

Increasing territorial capitalization by incorporation of small enterprises into clusters [PDF]

, 2017
Modernization of the Russian national economy depends on small businesses and their involvement in capitalization of the territorial potential. This article discusses methods, models, and mechanisms of territorial capitalization based on incorporation of
Chernova, O. A., Matveeva, L. G.
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Strategic Sustainability Assessment in the Construction Sector: A Multidimensional Index for Decision Making in Decentralised Economies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article evaluates the average business performance of construction firms across Spain's 17 autonomous communities within a decentralised governance framework. A regional composite sustainability index is developed, integrating economic, social and environmental intensity indicators.
Francisco José Castillo‐Díaz, Luis J. Belmonte‐Ureña, Pedro Fernandes da Anunciação, Francisco Camacho‐Ferre   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Germans of St. Petersburg from the 1860s to 1914: Number, Distribution, and Economic Activities

RUDN Journal of Russian History
The authors examine the situation of the German community in St. Petersburg in the second half of the XIX - early XX century. The research is based on the published materials of the urban population censuses of 1869 and 1900 and the First General Census ...
Vladimir N. Shaidurov, Nikita A. Osipov
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