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Chronicles of film tourism:an integrative review and future research directions
No full textThis study triangulates historiographical and scientometric reviews to provide a systems perspective on film tourism. The three phases of historiographical analysis (exploration, growth, and maturity) correspond to the three clusters of scientometric analysis: (i) initial research exploring film tourism development and management, (ii) growing the field through studies on film tourists’ perceptions and practices, and (iii) reaching maturity through extending research into different cultural contexts and meaning-making processes. Based on the analysis, we offer a set of directions for future research, including the need to integrate sustainability research and film tourism studies in developing country contexts, as well as intertextuality and its impact on film tourism. We further recommend research on developments in media consumption and its impact on film tourism, investigation of the relationship between digitalization and film tourism, and the need for interdisciplinary research. Finally, we suggest combining product life cycle analysis to complement historiographical analysis for robustness.</p
“We were taught how to think about ourselves – as less than – and we accepted it”. Reflections on racial injustice in South Africa
No full textThis autoethnography examines how internalised racism shaped my self-perception growing up under apartheid-era South Africa. Drawing on personal memories during the turbulence of Nelson Mandela’s imprisonment and release, I explore how apartheid’s racial logics extended beyond formal segregation to produce internalised hierarchies within communities of colour. Through narrative and critical reflection, this paper interrogates how apartheid-era laws, such as the Group Areas Act and Separate Amenities Act, stratified people of colour into hierarchies of privilege based on complexion, while everyday interactions reinforced these biases long after apartheid’s dismantling. It exposes the psychological toll of internalised colourism, showing how racialised individuals were conditioned to devalue themselves and others based. By positioning autoethnography as a method of resistance, the paper contributes to scholarship on internalised racism, advocating for epistemic and psychological decolonisation and a rejection of colonial constructs of colour in the pursuit of self-acceptance, solidarity, and racial justice
Making waves:breaking bottlenecks in forward osmosis through strategic integration with other techniques for resource recovery
No full textForward osmosis (FO) has emerged as a promising technology for recovering nutrients, biofuels, metals, and minerals from diverse water sources, including wastewater and salt-lake brines. However, significant bottlenecks such as membrane fouling, draw solution regeneration, concentration polarization (CP), and reverse solute diffusion (RSD) continue to hinder its broader application. Current research has focused primarily on intrinsic solutions, including the development of advanced membrane materials, antifouling coatings, and hydrodynamic optimizations. While these strategies have shown potential, their scalability and general applicability remain limited. Forward osmosis-integrated (FOI) systems offer innovative solutions by leveraging hybrid mechanisms to address these challenges. Herein, we examine recent advancements in FOI systems, emphasizing their role in enhancing draw solute recovery, improving resource extraction efficiency, mitigating fouling, and reusing RSD. FOI systems highlight their transformative potential through integration with biological, membrane-based, and electrochemical methods. These hybrid approaches not only address key challenges but also provide new insights into resource recovery and wastewater treatment, underscoring their critical role in advancing FO toward sustainable and efficient solutions.</p
MTS-Net:Dual-enhanced positional multi-head self-attention for 3D CT diagnosis of May-Thurner Syndrome
No full textMay-Thurner Syndrome (MTS) is a vascular condition that affects over 20% of the population and significantly increases the risk of iliofemoral deep venous thrombosis. Accurate and early diagnosis of MTS using computed tomography (CT) remains a clinical challenge due to the subtle anatomical compression and variability across patients. In this paper, we propose MTS-Net, an end-to-end 3D deep learning framework designed to capture spatial–temporal patterns from CT volumes for reliable MTS diagnosis. MTS-Net builds upon 3D ResNet-18 by embedding a novel dual-enhanced positional multi-head self-attention (DEP-MHSA) module into the Transformer encoder of the network's final stages. The proposed DEP-MHSA employs multi-scale convolution and integrates positional embeddings into both attention weights and residual paths, enhancing spatial context preservation, which is crucial for identifying venous compression. To validate our approach, we curate the first publicly available dataset for MTS, MTS-CT, containing over 747 gender-balanced subjects with standard and enhanced CT scans. Experimental results demonstrate that MTS-Net achieves average 0.79 accuracy, 0.84 AUC, and 0.78 F1-score, outperforming baseline models including 3D ResNet, DenseNet-BC, and BabyNet. Our work not only introduces a new diagnostic architecture for MTS but also provides a high-quality benchmark dataset to facilitate future research in automated vascular syndrome detection. We make our code and dataset publicly available at: https://github.com/Nutingnon/MTS_dep_mhsa.</p
Rethinking the gradual release of responsibility in ITE mentoring:an andragogical perspective
No full textConsistent, high-quality mentoring is essential in initial teacher education (ITE), as mentoring effectiveness significantly influences preservice teachers’ learning during classroom professional experience. Yet, ITE mentoring practices are often informal rather than structured or reflective. This qualitative case study, conducted within a government-funded university-school partnership in Victoria, Australia, investigates a targeted intervention aimed at enhancing mentoring. It explores how primary school teachers applied the familiar Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR) framework to mentor second-year preservice teachers. Data from interviews and focus groups affirm that the GRR framework provides mentors with a structured, systematic, but somewhat linear approach to mentoring. By adopting a mentoring-as-andragogy paradigm, the study provides new insights into how adult learning theory can support mentor development and improve practice. The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of how effective mentoring structures can bridge informal practices with more deliberate, theoretical approaches.</p
