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Local realities, global discourses and decolonising the curriculum in a post‐92 UK context: Academic voices on enacting decolonial curriculum change

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explored how lecturers in a post‐92 UK university conceptualise and enact decolonial curriculum principles within their teaching and programme design. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with academic staff across multiple disciplines, the research adopts a qualitative, phenomenologically informed approach to examine the interplay
Reece Sohdi
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Analysis of Metal Preloading Technologies in Batteries and Capacitors

EcoEnergy, EarlyView.
Metal preloading strategies play an important role in efficient batteries and hybrid capacitors to compensate for the consumed metals at the first discharge. This article reviews recent progress in preloading technologies in lithium‐ion and other metal‐ion systems.
Xuexue Pan, Yu Zhang, Zhazira Supiyeva, Qamar Abbas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ukraine in Popular Culture: Editorial for a Special Issue

Czech Journal of International Relations
This special issue explores how popular culture shapes local, regional, national, and global perceptions of Ukraine amid the ongoing war with Russia. Integrating literatures on popular geopolitics, vernacular and aesthetic IR, and Ukraine studies, we ...
ELIZAVETA GAUFMAN, Bohdana Kurylo
doaj   +1 more source

Fears for the future: the incommensurability of securitisation and in/securities among southern African youth [PDF]

, 2017
Over the past two decades, southern Africa has experienced both exceptionally high AIDS prevalence and recurrent food shortages. International institutions have responded to these challenges by framing them as security concerns that demand urgent ...
Ansell, Nicola, Hajdu, Flora, Robson, Elsbeth, van Blerk, Lorraine   +3 more
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For the Few, Not the Many: Tracing the Residualist and Compensatory Nature of British Energy Support

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on extensive documentary analysis, this article traces the evolution of British energy policy support since World War II. It analyses shifts in policy design through two interpretive lenses: eligibility (residualist vs. universalist) and function (compensatory vs. preventive).
T. M. Croon, M. G. Elsinga, J. S. C. M. Hoekstra, M. Sunikka‐Blank, R. Galvin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategy Computer Games and Discourses of Geopolitical Order

Eludamos, 2010
This article presents some thoughts on the forms and functions of ‘hidden’ knowledge in popular strategy games. It concentrates specifically on discourses of geopolitical thinking to argue that actual games use and reproduce specific forms of a ...
Rolf F. Nohr
doaj   +1 more source

Social medicine and international expert networks in Latin America, 1930–1945 [PDF]

, 2018
This paper examines the international networks that influenced ideas and policy in social medicine in the 1930s and 1940s in Latin America, focusing on institutional networks organised by the League of Nations Health Organization, the International ...
Carter, Eric D.
core   +2 more sources

Robust Control Using a Matrix Converter to Enhance Wind Turbine Systems

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
This study uses a more efficient and effective solution to improve the operational performance of a wind turbine‐based power system. This system uses a doubly fed induction generator and relies on a matrix converter and fractional‐order proportional–integral controller.
Sihem Ghoudelbourk, Habib Benbouhenni, Adil Yahdou, Zakaria Mohamed Salem Elbarary, Nicu Bizon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution, Complex Systems and the Dialectic

Journal of World-Systems Research, 2015
The status of large scale historical macro-theories is contested both in world-systems theory and in sociology as a whole. I distinguish three types of such dynamic models: evolutionary models, systems models and dialectical models.
Peter Knapp
doaj   +1 more source

Term Spread Volatility as a Leading Indicator of Economic Activity

Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the macroeconomic predictive power of the volatility of the US Treasury yield curve slope (term spread volatility). Our forecasting exercise shows that US term spread volatility has significant predictive power for US industrial production and employment growth.
Anastasios Megaritis, Dimitrios Bakas, Theodora Bermpei, Athanasios Triantafyllou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source