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Book Review: At This Time: Dialogues In Theological Education, By Corwin Davis And Ted Smith, Eds., Christopher Robershaw

Witness

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Unlocking Affixes In The Esl Community College Classroom: The Language Of Law, Science, And Technology, Patricia George-Hunter Edd

Journal of English Learner Education

Since vocabulary plays a significant role in second language acquisition, expansive vocabulary targets should be set and pursued. This paper explores the results of introducing affixes to develop vocabulary and increase motivation for beginner to intermediate-level English language learners (ELLs) pursuing academic disciplines in law, science, and technology at a New York City community college. Participants included 23 ELLs with diverse linguistic, educational, and sociocultural backgrounds enrolled in an online synchronous Integrative Language Seminar (ILS) designed to develop all areas of English language proficiency. Pre‑, post‑, delayed tests, questionnaires, and post‑intervention interviews were conducted and analyzed to establish the language …

Making The Implicit Explicit For Multilingual Learners: A Language-Based Framework For Literacy Development, Luciana C. De Oliveira

Journal of English Learner Education

Literacy is fundamentally an act of meaning-making that requires bridging micro-level linguistic choices with macro-level text structures across genres. Current literacy policies dominated by Science of Reading (SoR) mandates often overemphasize isolated, word-level foundational skills. This narrow focus creates a one-size-fits-all model that reduces reading to the level of individual words, not appropriate for multilingual learners (MLs) who require access to dense, specialized disciplinary discourse. This article proposes an intentional, language-based literacy framework designed to build high-challenge, high-support classrooms for MLs without lowering academic expectations. Integrating genre-based pedagogy through the Teaching and Learning Cycle (TLC) with the mode continuum, the …

Race, Embodiment, And Professionalism: A Critical Intersectional Analysis Of Brazilian Sign Language Interpreting, Roberto César Reis Da Costa, Sheila Santos

Journal of Interpretation

This paper investigates the intersections of race, corporate professionalism, and somatic regulation within Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) translation and interpretation. While traditional translation scholarship prioritizes linguistic neutrality, this study employs an interdisciplinary critical methodology combining Critical Race Theory (CRT), Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) to deconstruct how standard professional aesthetics inadvertently sustain systemic racism and Eurocentric cultural erasure. Utilizing a textual deconstruction of Article 5 of the National Libras Code of Ethics alongside an autoethnographic mapping of workplace visual ergonomics, we examine how racialized aesthetic expectations regulate and pathologize cultural markers such as braided hairstyles, …

An Exploratory Case Study Of Accredited Interpreter Education Programs In The United States, Len Roberson, Sherry Shaw, Carolyn Ball, Sierra A.W. Rance

Journal of Interpretation

This exploratory qualitative case study examines how undergraduate signed language interpreter education programs accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Interpreter Education (CCIE) maintain programmatic distinctiveness while complying with shared accreditation standards. Drawing on document analysis and semi-structured interviews with program directors from all 19 CCIE-accredited programs in the United States, the study investigates institutional, curricular, and contextual variables that contribute to successful accreditation and program sustainability. The study analyzed publicly available documents alongside interview data to identify commonalities and variations across programs in areas such as curriculum design, faculty composition, admissions and progression requirements, field experience, and institutional support. Findings …

Effects Of Differentiated Physical Education Learning On Physical Fitness And Active Lifestyle Among Junior High School Students: A Quasi-Experimental Study, Asep Akbaruddin, Sumbara Hambali, Wahyu Saputra, Mochamad Fajar Permana

Indonesian Journal of Research in Physical Education, Sport, and Health

Background: Low levels of physical fitness and physical activity among junior high school students remain a significant concern in physical education. Differentiated instruction offers a potentially effective approach by tailoring learning activities, levels of difficulty, and instructional experiences to students’ readiness, interests, and abilities. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effects of differentiated physical education instruction on physical fitness and active lifestyles among junior high school students. Methods: A quantitative approach employing a quasi-experimental, nonequivalent control-group design was adopted. A total of 90 junior high school students participated in the study, with 45 assigned to the experimental group and …

Intersubjectivity, Collaboration, And The Possibilities Of Dialogic Analysis, Karen Ross, Meagan Call-Cummings

The Qualitative Report

This article stems from a desire to counter monologic, or single-voiced, approaches to data analysis and to consider opportunities for a dialogic approach that offers opportunities to engage and discover nuance and complexity in the research process. Drawing on our own research experiences, we offer a discussion of three methods of dialogic analysis: Reconstructive Horizon Analysis (RHA), participatory analysis, and Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR). Locating each of these within a kind of spectrum of dialogism, we illustrate how different forms of dialogic analysis can create space for complexity, nuance, perspective-taking, and in the best case, collaborative, intersubjective meaning making. We …

Inside A Multidisciplinary Grounded-Theory Project On Corruption In Ecuador: Navigating And Negotiating Challenges, Maria-Jose Rivera, Paúl Arias-Medina, Aracely Rojas-Lazo, Dolores Sucozhañay-Calle

The Qualitative Report

Studying day-to-day corruption raises hurdles for qualitative teams that cut across methodological, emotional, and ethical domains. Rather than presenting substantive findings on corruption, this article reports a reflexive analysis of those hurdles as experienced by an eight-member, multidisciplinary research team conducting the qualitative grounded-theory phase of the CIRCLE project in Ecuador - a context where discussing corruption often triggers mistrust, discomfort, and political sensitivities. Drawing on 33 meeting minutes and eight researcher stance memos, we applied Braun and Clarke’s reflexive thematic analysis to team-generated documents to examine how challenges unfolded and were negotiated. We identified three interconnected domains of difficulty. …

Exploring Striking Moments Through Reflexive Inquiry: Case Study Of Action Learning Conversations, Mette Vinther Larsen, Sheila Mcnamee

The Qualitative Report

This paper explores how executive managers reflexively inquire into striking moments, understood as unanticipated instances that unsettle taken-for-granted assumptions, through Action Learning Conversations (ALC). ALC is a structured six-step dialogical process used at a Danish executive MBA program. Grounded in a relational-constructionist stance, the study responds to earlier empirical work showing that reflexivity could not be planned through curricular design but depends instead on relational and reflexive inquiries around unanticipated and striking moments. Using a qualitative, semi-structured case study design, the first author, who taught in the program and generated the data, traces two purposively selected cases; (1) centered on …

Cultivating Gen-Z As Cultural Heirs In The Indigenous Community Of Cireundeu, Sardin Sardin, Ade Romi Rosmia, Mohamad Hadi Ali Mutamam

The Qualitative Report

How do Indigenous leaders teach digital-native youth to value centuries-old traditions? This six-month ethnographic study examined cultural transmission in Cireundeu, an Indigenous Sundanese community in West Java, Indonesia. Existing studies often address Indigenous education and digital youth culture separately, with limited attention to leaders’ perspectives. Conducted from June to November 2024, the study drew on participant observation, interviews with 25 community members, six focus group discussions, and digital artifact analysis. Reflexive thematic analysis identified three interconnected patterns. First, leaders fostered cultural learning through graduated ceremonial participation. Second, elders practiced leader-orchestrated digital bricolage by adapting Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp for cultural …

Reflexive Accounts Of Conducting Qualitative Interviews In The Mena Region, Chaima Mennai, Sana Alzahrani

The Qualitative Report

This paper provides a reflexive account of our experiences conducting qualitative research in the contexts of two Arab countries, from our perspectives as researchers trained in a Western academic context. We explore the challenges and insights gained when recruiting and interviewing participants for qualitative Ph.D. projects within what is a predominantly quantitative research culture. Drawing on Walsh’s reflexive framework, we detail the issues that emerged during the recruitment and interview processes, identifying their potentially significant implications for Ph.D. candidates and early-career researchers who were trained in the West and are choosing to conduct research in contexts where the qualitative research …

Behind The Screen And Behind The Researcher: Reflexivity In Digital Mental Health Inquiry, Lesedi Kgatla

The Qualitative Report

The purpose of this paper is to reflexively examine how researcher positionality, theoretical commitments, methodological choices, and ethical decision-making shaped the interpretation of a previously conducted qualitative study on digital mental health activism. Drawing on my earlier digital ethnographic study of two South African mental health activists who used social media to disclose their experiences of depression, this paper presents a reflexive qualitative re-examination of the research process. The original study identified three themes: visibility through vulnerability, authenticity as activism, and community, connection, and psychoeducation. Rather than revisiting these as empirical findings, this paper examines how they were co-constructed through …

Understanding Gratitude And Thriving At Work Among Rescue Workers, Muhammad Faidhil Iman, Debora Eflina Purba

Psychological Research on Urban Society

Thriving at work, characterized by sustained vitality and continuous learning, is a critical psychological state for personnel navigating high-risk rescue environments. Drawing on the Socially Embedded Model of Thriving (SEMT), this study investigates gratitude at work as a key undefined personnel resource that fosters thriving at work through the mediating mechanism of meaningful work. Furthermore, we hypothesized that a toxic contextual environment, specifically abusive supervision, would act as a boundary condition hindering grateful individuals from deriving meaningfulness from their work. Using a cross-sectional design, data were collected from 238 first responders across the Fire and Rescue Department, the Disaster Management …

Communication, Identity, And Resilience Among Fisherwomen Of Padang City: A Phenomenological Study, Elva Ronaning Roem, Winda Vanisya, S. Bekti Istiyanto, Sarmiati Sarmiati, Vitania Yulia, Revi Marta, Nadra Ideyani Vita

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Fisherwomen constitute an essential yet frequently overlooked workforce in small-scale fisheries, particularly in coastal communities where intercultural dynamics shape everyday working relationships among fisherwomen, fishermen, traders, and buyers. Along the coast of Padang City, these interactions take place within the distinctive socio-cultural context of Minangkabau society, where communication involves ongoing negotiations of meaning across differing cultural expectations, kinship values, and gender roles embedded in the coastal work environment. Although previous studies have examined fisherwomen’s economic participation and gender inequality, limited attention has been paid to communication as an intercultural and lived process through which fisherwomen construct identity, solidarity, and resilience …

The Effect Of Multisensory Virtual Forest Bathing On Stress Among College Students, Shinta Mustika, Tiara Ditha Puspita, Tasya Berlian Cittra Friyanti, Wilis Srisayekti, Yanti Rubiyanti, Asteria Devy Kumalasari, Yuliana Hanami

Psychological Research on Urban Society

Stress is a common psychological problem among university students and may be caused by academic, social, and environmental demands. This study aimed to examine the effect of multisensory virtual forest bathing (VFB) on reducing stress among university students. A randomized pretest-posttest waitlist-control design was employed. Participants were 58 undergraduate students from the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Padjadjaran with moderate-to-high stress levels based on the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), after outliers were removed. The experimental group received a ±9-minute 360° forest video intervention delivered through virtual reality (VR) with auditory and olfactory stimulation, while the waitlist control group received no intervention …

Integrating Esg Principles Into Innovation, Entrepreneurship, And Human Development For Sme Performance: Evidence From The Creative Industry In Lombok, Adi Septiawan, Erne Suzila Kassim, T Ramayah, Sri Rahayu Hijrah Hati

The South East Asian Journal of Management

Research Aims: The current study investigated the influence of ESG-integrated innovation strategies, entrepreneurial orientation, and human capital development on the organisational performance of creative-industry SMEs in Lombok, Indonesia, using the resource-based view (RBV) as a theoretical perspective.

Design/Methodology/Approach: A survey was conducted among a total of 200 SMEs in the creative industry in Lombok, Indonesia. The data were collected using structured questionnaires and analysed on the SmartPLS 4.0 software for structural equation modelling (SEM).

Research Findings: The current results indicated ESG-aligned leadership, innovation, entrepreneurial orientation, and human capital development significantly enhanced the level of organisational performance among creative-industry SMEs in …

After-Hours Digital Connectivity, Emotional Exhaustion, Service Quality, And Turnover Intention Among Hotel And Resort Employees, Badaruddin Badaruddin, Fatmasari Fatmasari, Sitti Mujahida, Muhammad Azizurrohman

The South East Asian Journal of Management

Research Aims: This research evaluates whether after-hours digital connectivity is associated with emotional exhaustion among frontline hotel and resort employees in Indonesia and whether exhaustion transmits its effects to service quality and turnover intention. It also tests psychological detachment as a boundary condition.

Design/Methodology/Approach: A cross-sectional survey was conducted from December 2025 to February 2026. Purposive sampling produced 294 usable responses from frontline employees who routinely used digital communication for work coordination. The model was estimated using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM), including direct, indirect, and interaction effects.

Research Findings: After-hours digital connectivity significantly increased emotional exhaustion. Exhaustion, …

The Flexibility Of The Rule Against Perpetuities As Applied To Mineral Top Leases, John W. Ponder

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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From Pore Space To Policy Space: The Costs, Benefits, And Constitutionality Of North Dakota’S Ccs Long-Term Liability Transfer Standard, Lainey Morrow

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Opening The Door: Copyrightability Of Interpreted Seismic Models After Gsi V. Tgs, David Logan

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Beneath The Surface: Addressing The Ownership And Development Rights Of Geothermal Energy Resources Under Oklahoma Property Law, Kobe K. Gipson

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Aesthetic Considerations In Nuisance Claims Against Texas Wind Farms, Ellie Duggan

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Ownership Of Produced Water And The Path To Domestic Lithium And Critical Mineral Commercialization, Emily Davis

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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The Eleventh Circuit’S Narrow Interpretation Of Nepa In Alligator Alcatraz, Madison Crow

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Editor's Introduction & Front Pages, Louis W. Krivanek Iv

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Promoting Safety In Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome: A Proactive Nursing Process Framework, Julie Anne C. Comia, Elizabeth Card

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Background

Alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) is a potentially life-threatening response to the abrupt cessation or reduction of heavy, prolonged alcohol use. Untreated, it can progress to delirium tremens (DT), a medical emergency historically associated with mortality as high as 40%. Agitation and hallucinations during withdrawal also pose safety risks to the health care team in addition to the patient. Because deterioration follows a predictable course, timely nursing recognition and intervention are central to protecting both the patient and the care team from avoidable harm. The evidence-based framework is intended as an educational tool to help nurses anticipate and avoid harm; …

The Use Of Infra-Red Spectroscopy To Assess Intact Skin Of Various Skin Tones, Mary Lee A. Potter, Stacie Sosa, Charlott Polm, Sherry Campton, Wisam Salameh, Ronnie Klein, Yaniv Cohen

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Background

Pressure injuries (PI) continue to be a serious medical complication in the acute care setting. Industry leaders advocate for the use of objective technologies to provide accurate and quantifiable skin assessments for all patients across diverse skin tones. The Infra-Red Spectroscopy Scanner (IRSS) is a novel non-invasive decision support system (DSS) electro-optic technology that uses near infra-red spectroscopy to examine and assess physical and chemical changes prior to visual skin breakdown in real-time.

Methods

A 2-phase prospective open-label pilot device study was launched under protocol IRM-02-1123 (USA version 3.0, November 1, 2023). In both Phase 1 and Phase 2, …

The Indonesian Propensity To Morally Disengage Scale Short Form: Adaptation And Psychometric Evaluation, Maryam Abidah Masykuroh, Fivi Nurwianti

Psychological Research on Urban Society

Research on moral disengagement has evolved beyond its original focus on children and adolescents to encompass adult populations. Accumulating evidence demonstrates that moral disengagement predicts various antisocial behaviorsamong emerging adults, including findings from Indonesian samples. The present study contributes to this literature by adapting a concise Indonesian version of the moral disengagement measurement scale. This adaptation offers methodological advantages by increasing research flexibility and enabling the examination of broader nomologicalnetworks surrounding moral disengagement, including its antecedents and outcomes. This study adapted the brief 8-item The Propensity to Morally Disengage Scale (S-PMD), which operationalizes Bandura’s eight cognitive mechanisms of moral disengagement. …

The Fluidic Unification Of Cosmological Anomalies: Resolving Dark Matter, Dark Energy, And The Neutrino Cusp Under Material Volumetric Monism, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Standard Lambda-CDM cosmology relies on independent, unverified parameters—specifically cold dark matter particles and an ungrounded vacuum energy density scalar (Lambda)—to force mathematical consistency within rigid Riemannian spacetime models. This paper unifies these macroscopic anomalies under the Material Volumetric Monism paradigm, demonstrating that what mainstream models observe as distinct "dark" phenomena are phase states of a continuous, 2D pre-geometric viscoelastic substrate phase fluid projecting 3D volumetric fields.

By evaluating the system's global wave mechanics and informational processing costs, we eliminate open thermodynamic data sinks. We demonstrate that dark matter is a macroscopic manifestation of localized substrate pushback shear stress, while dark …

Emotional Demands And Service Quality Among Non-Teaching Staff In Public Universities In Lagos And Ogun States, Nigeria, Dr. Adekunle A. Akeem

International Journal for Research in Education

The non-teaching staff in universities are crucial to the success of the day-to-day administrative functioning of the institution, and provision of worthwhile experience for students. In spite of their indispensability, these categories of staff members are often confronted with considerable emotional demands in their routine interactions, which can have implications on the quality of services provided. This study, therefore, investigated the emotional demands and quality of service of non-teaching staff in public universities in Lagos and Ogun States, Nigeria. In line with the objectives of the study, three research questions were raised and answered. The study adopted descriptive correlational research …