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Living Through a Changing Climate: Stress, Trauma, and Gendered Resilience Among Women in Coastal and Northern Ghana

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is reshaping everyday life in Ghana through coastal erosion, flooding, erratic rainfall, water scarcity, extreme heat, and agricultural insecurity. This study examines how these changes produce stress, trauma, and gendered resilience among women in Salakope and Choggu Yapalsi, two climate‐vulnerable communities in coastal and ...
Jacob Kwakye
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Assessment: The Role of Entropy‐Based Indicators for Reconnecting Human' Subjectivity and Civilization With Natural Tendency of Ecosystems

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability represents a complex issue in which scientific knowledge inevitably coexists with the subjective perception of humans in its turn influenced by civilization, cultural but also unconscious aspects. These results emerge with evidence from a critical analysis of the main definitions of sustainability delivered by credited entities (
Francesco Di Maria, Hamid Safarzadeh
wiley   +1 more source

The Ubiquity of Twisted Flux Ropes in the Quiet Sun

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Models and observations have demonstrated that twisted flux ropes (TFRs) play a significant role in the structure and eruptive dynamics of active regions.
Tahar Amari, Aurélien Canou, Marco Velli, Zoran Mikic, Frederic Alauzet, Eric Buchlin, Jean-François Luciani, Jean-Jacques Aly, Lucas A. Tarr   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Constructing Difference: Maternal Boundary‐Work in Science‐Based and Natural Mom Groups on Facebook

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Boundary‐work describes the activities of social groups as they seek to differentiate themselves from others to establish credibility, authority, or to protect their interests. While a growing body of literature explores occupational boundary‐work in health care, limited research has focused on how lay actors practice boundary‐work online.
Darryn DiFrancesco
wiley   +1 more source

Hinode/EIS Observation of the Alfvénic Fluctuations in the Quiet Sun

The Astrophysical Journal
Alfvénic fluctuations in the corona are regularly observed in EUV imaging and infrared spectroscopic data. We report here on the Doppler velocity fluctuations within the data from the Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on board Hinode.
Edris Tajfirouze, Richard Morton, Peter R. Young   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quiet Leader: A Woman's Autoethnographic Leadership Study [PDF]

, 2012
Leadership is widely researched and discussed across many disciplines. Most research indicates that good leaders are often thought to exhibit traits such as extraversion, or have certain abilities, like excellent communication skills, that make them ...
Gunderson Gallagher, Nancy Jean
core  

When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Galit Itzhaki Draizin, Agamit Gelb   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Handwritten Versus Typed Notes: The Impact of Note‐Taking Modes in Second Language Listening Tests

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Technological advancements have influenced note‐taking practices in classrooms as well as their treatment in standardized language assessments. Many high‐stakes English listening tests (e.g., TOEFL iBT, IELTS) include varying note‐taking guidelines, often established without empirical support.
Jieun Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Lexical Syllabus in Elementary and Secondary Education: Construction and Implementation

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Nonnative language users operate with significantly limited vocabularies compared to native speakers, particularly when the language is learnt in school contexts. This paper demonstrates how empirical research on vocabulary learning combined with experience in teaching and curricula design has informed the principled construction of a lexical ...
Batia Laufer
wiley   +1 more source

Den attendance by Arctic foxes experiencing 10 years of increasing tourism

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Wildlife tourism is a growing industry, and an increasing number of people seek to observe and interact with wild animals in their natural surroundings. In Iceland, the native Arctic fox Vulpes lagopus is widespread and has been under heavy hunting pressure for centuries.
Ester Rut Unnsteinsdóttir, Borgný Katrínardóttir, Bruce J. McAdam   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source