The main aim of this study was to explore the application of chaos/complexity theory in the learning of verbal tense and aspect in Maltese as a second language (MSL). Hence C/CT main characteristics were integrated to comprehend more what is happening in the learner’s brain while learning the verbs of a second language (L2).

The dynamic capabilities approach underscores the role of experience accumulation as a firm- specific resource in sustaining a competitive advantage through evolutionary paths. However, little is known about experience transition and its effect on firm performance. This topic is important because it touches upon a long-standing debate about strategy commitment and flexibility. To explain and predict experience transition, this study draws insights from sequence analysis to examine the effects of sequence stability. Drawing from the acquisition sequences of 234 publicly traded firms within the biotechnology industry from 2012 to 2019, this study corroborates with the dynamic capabilities approach and finds that the significantly negative effect of sequence stability is contingent upon complementary assets. While a negative relationship exists between sequence stability and advertising investment, the causal direction reverses when the interaction term shifts to physical capital investment. This study contributes to the resource-based view by highlighting that successful experience transition depends on resource alignment with corporate strategy.

Monthly, even weekly, information systems security researchers seem to report thousands of Information Systems Network (ISN) node attacks and hundreds of new attack vectors. The current view of networking nodes does not account for their roughness and complexity. This paper presents a theory, Fractal Network Security (FNS), which is more dynamic and natural and the only theory addressing hardware nodes on ISNs.

This was a cross-sectional study, applied a qualitative approach to explore how cultural otherness was produced and practiced within the Harijan community. The studied population live in a separate geographical location due to their traditional occupation.

This study investigates the informing effects of communication in political campaigns from a geospatial perspective. The results from analyzing survey data collected during the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections in the U.S. generally suggest that the main forms of traditionalcommunication, i.e., print newspapers and network and cable television news—but with the exception of local TV news—play a significant role in informing citizens about political campaigns. Political discussion also plays a role in this regard. The implications of the respective roles of a number of news forms in a democracy are discussed.

Monocultural notions of intelligence are crippling the field of gifted education and often, whether explicitly or implicitly, perpetuate inequity and disproportionality in both theory and practice, especially regarding how children are identified as gifted (Cross, 2021; Owens et al., 2018). This paper briefly examines the history of the conceptualization of giftedness and posits that gifted programming identification procedures represent a unique and dangerous hidden curriculum. Drawing from theory on critical hope and positionality, two tables are presented; one to examine hokey versus critical gifted programing practices, and one to examine dehumanizing versus humanizing gifted identification procedures. These tables are intended to generate discussion on what happens when new ways of conceptualizing giftedness meet old ways of understanding, informing, and ordering the field of gifted education. @font-face {font-family:“Cambria Math”; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:“”; margin:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:“Times New Roman”,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:“Times New Roman”;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-family:“Calibri”,sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:“Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;}

The data consist two citation texts of prominent civil servants in Nigeria. There are two reasons for this choice of data: first, these texts have explicit intertextual relations to oral delivery being a text configured for the ear and second, there is the network of features associated with the Yoruba oriki social culture that is pervasive in the performance modes of personal citation

Coined in the early 1940s by Katz and Blumler (1974), the uses and gratifications theory deals with understanding why people use certain types of media, what needs do they have to use them, and what gratifications do they get from using them. Historically, the theory was first introduced to understand why people chose to consume the various forms of media that were present at the time in 1940s.

In the framework of Indian society, this abstract explores the complex relationship between intimacy and identity. It emphasises the lack of public dialogue on these ideas as well as their significant ramifications. It suggests that a lack of identity creation during maturity may lead to its formation through close relationships. With reference to literary phrases in Urdu and Hindi poetry, the shifting impact of intimacy on one’s identity is examined. Notably, the abstract emphasises the significant number of Indian youth—more than 229 million people—and investigates the changing dynamics of intimacy and identity within this demographic.  The study emphasises the need of self-awareness as a requirement for establishing intimate relationships by drawing on psychological models, particularly Erikson’s developmental stages. Furthermore, it highlights the pivotal roles of intimacy and identity play in an individual’s well-being, citing the works by many psychologists. The purpose of the study is to explore different perspectives on intimacy among people ages 18 to 24 is briefly hinted at in the abstract.

During March of 2018, a Cambridge Analytica-employed contractor reportedly gained unauthorised access to personal data stored on Facebook servers (Lapaire, 2018). Using a ‘scraping program’, Aleksandr Kogan obtained the personal data of approximately 87-million Facebook users (Lapaire, 2018; Lotrea, 2018). This data was later lawfully sold to Cambridge Analytica and used to create detailed profiles of Facebook users’ identities. Zuboff (2015) states the instigator for legislative change rectifying deficiencies allowing such happenings is the general public’s understanding of commodifying identity as threatening to privacy. The United States of America and the European Parliament heard requisite testimonies by Mark Zuckerberg regarding these events, but Australia did not. The alternate attitudes towards personal data on Facebook within Australia gave merit to the current study’s likewise investigation. A 25-item attitudinal questionnaire was administered via a Qualtrics survey to a snowball sampling of 65 participants. Via exploratory factor analysis the remaining 19-items which comprised the tool labelled the ‘Commodi-5’ was deemed valid for use with participants and similar populations. Additionally, the tool was deemed appropriately reliable via Cronbach’s reliability coefficient. Significance testing of the recorded data demonstrated participants desired the legislative change which Zuboff (2015) describes; however, legislative change has not yet occurred in Australia. This study proposes this may be because the attitudes possessed by the Australian general public are not uniform to those possessed by appointed officials. The implications of which should be the focus of future research.

Despite claims that social networks lack theoretical foundations, this paper is part of a larger movement in relational sociology that aims to move beyond structuralist explanations of social networks and develop a more sound and theoretically supported understanding of what networks actually are. It connects various bodies of literature ranging from sociological theory to research on interpersonal relationships and social network analysis. It places the relational approach to analysing communication within the larger field of organizational communication, and seeks its fit with organisational and organisational communication theories. The paper majorly reviews works of sociologists like George Simmel, Harrison White, Pierre Bourdieu and Niklas Luhmann, along with research by active or visible contemporary relational sociologists like Fuhse, Crossley, P. Donati, Charles Tilly, and Liang and Liu to explain the impact of relational sociology on thoughts of structure and social network in organization. Key words: Relationalism, structuration, organization, organisational communication, Theory in Social Network Analysis 

Using the hashtag #CapitolInsurrectionHoax on Twitter as a case study, this research examines how a specific alt-right narrative of January 6th evolved into a discursive network, and whether it remained marginalized or became mainstream in MAGA communities.

The launch of app-based for-hire vehicle (FHV) services like Uber and Lyft has led to increased mobility options, but the associated increase in vehicular traffic has also presented challenges. In New York City, the number of FHVs tripled between 2010 and 2019, to over one hundred thousand, due to the advent of such companies. This study seeks to understand the impact this increase in FHV usage has had on greenhouse gas emissions in New York City. The study uses data collected by the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission, which regulates the FHV and taxi industries, and the NYC Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, which publishes the City’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory. The main result of the study is that although the overall per-vehicle efficiency of the fleet has improved, the high growth in registered vehicles has led to emissions from FHVs and taxis increasing 66 percent from 2010 to 2018. Electric vehicles present an opportunity for emissions reductions in New York City’s FHV fleet if barriers to vehicle adoption are adequately addressed and if adoption of EVs does not outpace vehicle attrition.

Students with emotional and behavioral difficulties are prevalent in elementary classrooms, making classroom management one of teachers’ leading concerns. Although evidence-based instructional and behavior management practices for supporting these students are well documented, teachers have difficulties in implementing these practices in their daily praxis. The current study investigated relations between an observational assessment of instructional and behavior management practices and student emotional and behavior risk, and how brief teacher performance feedback may change this relationship. Participants included 31 Greek elementary school teachers who completed the Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BESS) Teacher Form for 115 students. Observational data and brief performance feedback were collected with The Classroom Strategies Assessment System (CSAS). Multilevel analyses revealed that assessment of instructional and behavior management strategies were significantly associated with student risk for emotional and behavior difficulties prior to feedback, but not associated following brief performance feedback. Implications for practice and research are discussed.

Since the end of the 20th century football has become an ever-expanding business, especially in European economies. It has created internal pressures in the systemization of processes, regulatory control, professionalization of tasks and organizational modernization in general. In addition, the increasing social weight of football has led to calls for more ethical and responsible business practice, more consistent with the contemporary social values currently gaining ground in other sectors. From this perspective, we assess the reactions of the Spanish professional football sector to the compulsory application of responsible corporate management criteria (Economic Control Regulation). We carried out a study of the coming into effect of such regulation in professional clubs financial performance in two seasons, 2010-11 and 2014-15 (before and after, respectively, the imposition of the ECR). Our findings show a marked improvement in financial indicators. The central discussion of this paper focuses on ways that responsible management improves company profitability.

The article ‘Rumours and Realities of marriage Practices in Contemporary Samin Society’ published on Humaniora (June 2010) confirmed that the myths of the practices of ‘virginity tests’ and ‘stray marriages’ to be discredited. In contrast, the Samin community through their marriage system show a world full of respect for women, a world that is egalitarian. The rumours have made Samin people vulnerable and marginalised. Those who were mostly insulted by the rumours were women. This article explores the history of Samin society and its social political context to reveal the reasons behind the rumours.

COVID-19 has caused a wave of research findings to be published in academic and pre-print outlets which have resulted in several high-profile retractions. Given the need to publish policy- and practice-relevant research swiftly, the peer review process may issue fewer checks and balances compared to those present in non-COVID related scholarly works. This urgency to publish has led to publication of manuscripts with major methodological challenges falling through the cracks. In this perspective, we discuss this issue in light of a recent manuscript by Piquero et al. (2020). In the study, the association between stay-at-home orders and family violence was not statistically significant; however, a 12.5% increase in family violence offenses was widely disseminated by media outlets. The inaccurate dissemination of research findings can have important implications for policy and the virus mitigation efforts, which might urge policymakers to terminate stay-at-home orders in an effort to reduce family violence and other social risk factors. Changes may ultimately result in more COVID-related deaths as stay-at-home orders are prematurely and inappropriately lifted to prevent purported injuries in the home. Therefore, the widespread propagation of these claims in the absence of scientific evidence of an increase has great potential to cause harm.

Women-only leadership development program are crucial in addressing the global gender gap on senior management levels. Yet, there is a paucity of research related to the impact of these programs. This study explores the impact of a transformational women’s development program on the self-confidence of female academics in a higher education institution in South Africa. This was addressed in this mixed method study via a quantitative component to determine whether there is a significant difference in women leaders’ ability to communicate with confidence and a subsequent qualitative component offering insights on their experiences in the process of learning new behaviour patterns. The quantitative findings suggest that the program had a significant effect on the three Communicating with Confidence constructs measured namely, point of view, presence, and preparation, and as such, was effective in fostering transformational change. The qualitative component demonstrated how the women leaders in the program experienced the process of learning new behaviour patterns in four phases of transformational learning moving from i) Encountering a disorienting dilemma, ii) Meaning making, iii) Achievement of Transformational insight and iv) Connecting insight to leadership practice. Recommendations for future research and guidance to effectively develop, evaluate, and implement leadership programs for women in higher education are presented. It, therefore, makes a valuable contribution to women-only research in the field of leadership development.