Transport: general interest
The early phases of the Covid-19 pandemic challenged healthcare organisations to rethink how to provide care and deal with their infrastructure differently. Hospitals were forced to amend the use and organisation of their buildings at very short notice in order to separate Covid from non-Covid patients
Art & Design schools, coming into the 21 century realized the growing need to keep up with advancing technologies, the global consumer markets, and especially how people are learning. The global pandemic served an inevitable disruption across all industries. It was necessary to adapt and figure out ‘Hybrid’ learning methods
Many of the challenges especially those associated with sustainability and conservation are indeterminate and wicked requiring the transcendence of typical disciplinary domains. This is both in terms of the teams and individuals associated with the solution development. The solutions themselves also need to be adaptable and open-ended
This chapter discusses monogamism as a type of systemic oppression enacted through ideas and practices that valorise monogamous people and relationships while systematically devaluing polyamorous and multi-partnered relationships. Instead of focusing on polyamorous/multi-partnered people, this chapter will apply the critical gaze of a sex and relationship therapist with polyamorous lived experi…
This is a concise guide for authors, translators, revisers, copy-editors, and proof-readers involved in the production of manuscripts for publications. A brief overview of successive stages in the production process is given along with guidelines on how to prepare and submit work. The Guide also contains pointers on grammar, and American-English punctuation and spelling; instructions on citing …
This is the first comprehensive grammar of a non-Indo-European language from the Northwest Caucasian family in a language other than Russian. Kabardian is complex at every level. The language treated is not the literary standard, but Kabardian as it was found in texts and in the mouths of Kabardians. This study is an advance over grammatical sketches of related languages in that it gives a comp…
Western Subanon Grammar is the first ever comprehensive description of Western Subanon, a highly endangered indigenous Austronesian minority language in the southern Philippines. Written by a native speaker and the result of intensive fieldwork, the book's 26 chapters cover the phonological, morpho-syntactic, and discourse properties of the language. Special attention is devoted to the salient …
This open access book explores epistemic justice in mental healthcare, bringing together perspectives from psychologists, psychiatrists, philosophers, activists, and lived experience researchers. Through eight chapters, authors identify threats to the agency of people who hear voices, experience depression, have psychotic symptoms, live with dementia, are diagnosed with personality disorders, a…
Scientific writing is a key skill for researchers. Scientific writing develops critical thinking, helps scientists connect their local results with global understanding, and helps scientists identify appropriate next questions to explore. Increased scientific writing capacity within a research group allows more study results to be shared with the practitioner community and policy makers…