scholarly journals Approaches and challenges to the study of loess—Introduction to the LoessFest Special Issue

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 563-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall J. Schaetzl ◽  
E. Arthur Bettis ◽  
Onn Crouvi ◽  
Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons ◽  
David A. Grimley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Union ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Loess Deposits

AbstractIn September 2016, the annual meeting of the International Union for Quaternary Research’s Loess and Pedostratigraphy Focus Group, traditionally referred to as a LoessFest, met in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA. The 2016 LoessFest focused on “thin” loess deposits and loess transportation surfaces. This LoessFest included 75 registered participants from 10 countries. Almost half of the participants were from outside the United States, and 18 of the participants were students. This review is the introduction to the special issue forQuaternary Researchthat originated from presentations and discussions at the 2016 LoessFest. This introduction highlights current understanding and ongoing work on loess in various regions of the world and provides brief summaries of some of the current approaches/strategies used to study loess deposits.

International approaches to school-based mental health: Intent of the Special Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney L. McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Health It ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
School Based ◽  
The World

This article provides an overview of the special issue on international approaches to school-based mental health. It introduces the significance of the issues associated with mental health across the world and introduces the reader to the four articles highlighting different aspects of school-based mental health. Across these four articles, information about school-based mental health (SBMH) from the United States, Canada, Norway, Liberia, Chile, and Ireland are represented. The special issue concludes with an article introducing new methodology for examining mental health from a global perspective.

scholarly journals Editorial for the Special Issue on “Nanoalloy Electrocatalysts for Electrochemical Devices”

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
César A. C. Sequeira
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Materials Synthesis ◽  
Exciting Field ◽  
The World ◽  
Electrochemical Devices ◽  
Nanoscale Science

Nanoscale science and technology dealing with materials synthesis, nanofabrication, nanoprobes, nanostructures, nanoelectronics, nano-optics, nanomechanics, nanodevices, nanobiotechnology, and nanomedicine is an exciting field of research and development in Europe, the United States, and other countries around the world [...]

A map of South Africa’s perennial rivers. Non-perenn

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sukh Mantel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fish Movement ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
African Region ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Conservation Awareness

<p>Maps can be many things: colourful, or dull; complex, or very simple; helpful, or very difficult to read. They also have the potential to support the public’s knowledge of environmental and social issues, and to lay out paths towards behavioural changes and conservation consciousness.</p> <p>This potential is already being explored in some parts of the world. For example, the <a href="https://greatlakesconnectivity.org/fishApp">FishWerks App</a> uses maps to highlight the barriers to fish movement in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Based on the ongoing work with <a href="https://theconversation.com/what-we-learned-when-our-map-of-southern-africas-rivers-went-viral-110735">a map of southern African rivers</a> that went viral two years ago, the same potential exists to drive conservation awareness and action in the southern African region.</p>

American Perspectives and Blind Spots on World Politics

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff D Colgan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
The World ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
Previous Scholarship ◽  
Blind Spots

AbstractScholars of international relations (IR) from the United States, like any country, view the world with particular perspectives and beliefs that shape their perceptions, judgments, and worldviews. These perspectives have the potential to affect the answers to a host of important questions—in part by shaping the questions that get asked in the first place. All scholars are potentially affected by national bias, but American bias matters more than others. This special issue focuses on two issues: attention and accuracy in IR research. While previous scholarship has raised principally normative or theoretical concerns about American dominance in IR, our work is heavily empirical and engages directly with the field's mainstream neopositivist approach. The collected articles provide specific, fine-grained examples of how American perspectives matter for IR, using evidence from survey experiments, quantitative datasets, and more. Our evidence suggests that American perspectives, left unexamined, negatively affect our field's research. Still, the essays in this special issue remain bullish about the field's neopositivist project overall. We also offer concrete steps for taking on the problems we identify, and improving our field's scholarship.

A map of South Africa’s perennial rivers. Non-perenn

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sukh Mantel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fish Movement ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
African Region ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Conservation Awareness

<p>Maps can be many things: colourful, or dull; complex, or very simple; helpful, or very difficult to read. They also have the potential to support the public’s knowledge of environmental and social issues, and to lay out paths towards behavioural changes and conservation consciousness.</p> <p>This potential is already being explored in some parts of the world. For example, the <a href="https://greatlakesconnectivity.org/fishApp">FishWerks App</a> uses maps to highlight the barriers to fish movement in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Based on the ongoing work with <a href="https://theconversation.com/what-we-learned-when-our-map-of-southern-africas-rivers-went-viral-110735">a map of southern African rivers</a> that went viral two years ago, the same potential exists to drive conservation awareness and action in the southern African region.</p>

Introduction

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Olivier Zunz ◽  
Françoise Mélonio
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Political Liberty ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Assembled to commemorate the bicentennial of Alexis de Tocqueville's birth, this special issue is more than a circumstantial celebration of a great writer's life and times. What makes it special is not only the anniversary date but the fascination Tocqueville inspires today among so many intellectuals of diverse backgrounds. All contributors to this volume find in Tocqueville a common mentor. They share a special appreciation for the way a young French traveler, after spending only nine months in the United States in 1831-32, brilliantly framed modern history as a continuous struggle between political liberty and social equality and produced a body of work that has helped Americans and others around the world think of themselves and their civil societ).

Sex Differences in Mass Media Preferences Across Four Asian Countries

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malini Ratnasingam ◽  
Lee Ellis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Evolutionary Explanation ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Preferences

Background. Nearly all of the research on sex differences in mass media utilization has been based on samples from the United States and a few other Western countries. Aim. The present study examines sex differences in mass media utilization in four Asian countries (Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Singapore). Methods. College students self-reported the frequency with which they accessed the following five mass media outlets: television dramas, televised news and documentaries, music, newspapers and magazines, and the Internet. Results. Two significant sex differences were found when participants from the four countries were considered as a whole: Women watched television dramas more than did men; and in Japan, female students listened to music more than did their male counterparts. Limitations. A wider array of mass media outlets could have been explored. Conclusions. Findings were largely consistent with results from studies conducted elsewhere in the world, particularly regarding sex differences in television drama viewing. A neurohormonal evolutionary explanation is offered for the basic findings.

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