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Enhancing Inclusive Education through Ghanaian Sign Language (GhSL), Artificial Intelligence, and Creative Learning for the Deaf in Ghana
No full textDeaf and hard-of-hearing students in Ghana face major barriers to inclusive and quality education despite national and international commitments such as Ghana’s Inclusive Education Policy (2015) and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The lack of Ghanaian Sign Language (GhSL) in the national curriculum, inadequate teacher training, and limited technological resources have excluded many of the estimated 110,000 deaf individuals from equitable learning and participation. This three-year project (2026–2028) seeks to transform inclusive education in Ghana by integrating GhSL into the national curriculum, building teacher capacity, and promoting access to science, technology, and creative learning for deaf students. The goal is to enhance educational equity and participation through innovation, capacity building, and policy integration, aligning with Ghana’s Inclusive Education Policy and Sustainable Development Goal 4. The project’s key objectives are to integrate GhSL into the national curriculum and advocate for its recognition as a national language, develop an AI-powered GhSL translation tool for schools and public use, train and certify 200 teachers in inclusive pedagogy and GhSL proficiency, expand Abacus and STEM competitions to all 17 schools for the Deaf, introduce robotics, art, and sports mentorship programs, and establish local and international exchange programs for deaf students. Implementation will begin at the Demonstration School for the Deaf in Mampong Akuapem and expand to all 17 deaf schools nationwide. The project will directly benefit about 500 deaf students and 200 teachers, with indirect benefits for families, policymakers, and the wider community.The total estimated cost is USD 485,000, allocated as follows: Curriculum Integration & Policy Advocacy (80,000), AI Translation Tool (120,000), Teacher Training & Certification (100,000), Abacus & STEM Competitions (100,000), Robotics, Art & Sports Mentorship (55,000), Exchange Programs (30,000), Monitoring & Evaluation (50,000), and Administration & Overheads (30,000). Over 80% of funds will directly support implementation. By 2028, the project will deliver a nationally adopted GhSL curriculum, an operational AI translation tool, 200 certified inclusive teachers, and active Abacus, STEM, and mentorship programs in all schools for the Deaf. These outcomes will establish a sustainable foundation for inclusive, equitable, and technology-driven education for deaf learners across Ghana
Experiment 2: Remembrance of the Peaceful Revolution in Germany
No full textThis pre-analysis plan (PAP) describes the research design for a survey experiment to be conducted for the project Echoes of the Past. The goal of the project is to analyze how remembrance of the Peaceful Revolution of 1989 in Germany activates citizens’ feelings of political efficacy and their intent to participate democratically. With a series of experiments, we seek to identify the most effective modes of remembrance in this regard. We will randomly assign respondents to information treatments, which consist of video footage from actual German remembrance messaging about the Peaceful Revolution. These video treatments vary with regard to (1) the sender of the remembrance message, (2) the emphasis placed on ordinary citizens or political elites as the primary drivers of political change, and (3) the assessment of the Peaceful Revolution as a success or failure. Overall, we will conduct multiple survey experiments with different combinations of video treatments.
This PAP describes an experiment, which focuses on the manipulation of the sender of the remembrance message. The research design is largely the same as in a pretest conducted in November/December 2025. The exploratory pretest study was conducted with a convenience sample of 800 German citizens, recruited via Prolific. However, for this follow-up experiment, we incorporate the results from the pre-test for our expectations and hypotheses and test them with a representative quota sample provided by Yougov.
Each respondent in our survey will be randomly exposed to a video with the following different senders of remembrance messaging:
1. Politician from East Germany
2. Politician from West Germany
3. Contemporary witness report
For the remembrance messaging by politicians, we use edited video footage of actual speeches about the Peaceful Revolution given by two German Federal Presidents – Joachim Gauck and Frank-Walter Steinmeier - on the occasion of the 25th and 30th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution. For the treatment condition of remembrance messaging via contemporary witness reports, we rely on the Zeitzeugen-Portal – an archive which provides real video footage of interviews with contemporary witnesses of German history. We picked two contemporary witness videos, one male and one female, describing the events of the Peace Revolution and their feelings and motivation. All messages describe the events as successful mass mobilization paving the way to democracy. Considering previous research in memory studies and the literature on the long-term effects of revolutions, we expect that exposure to these remembrance messages will increase respondent’s feelings of political efficacy and their intent to participate in democracy, relative to the control condition of not being exposed to such information treatments. We employ two different control conditions; a passive control where respondents do not watch a video and an active control where respondents watch an unrelated video about salt gathering in Germany
In Silico and In Vitro Approaches to Evaluate Microplastic Toxicity in Aquatic Organisms
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8. Results Tables and Supplementary Material
No full textThis material strengthens transparency and reproducibility
CULTURAL COMPETENCY-BASED INTERVENTIONS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN EUROPE: A SCOPING REVIEW
No full textCultural competence in European healthcare
The Yugoslav War and the Dayton Peace Accords
No full textThe paper analyses the breakup of Yugoslavia, the escalation of the Bosnian war, and the evolution of international peace diplomacy, in order to clarify the political and military conditions that led to the 1995 Dayton Accords. It argues that Yugoslavia’s collapse stemmed not from a simple state breakup but from the interaction of complex ethnic configurations, deep economic crisis, and nationalist mobilisation by political elites, especially hardline Serbian nationalism which shattered federal cohesion and made Bosnia and Herzegovina’s multiethnic landscape a focal point of violent contestation and international concern. Comparing Slovenia and Croatia, where ethnic homogeneity, limited territorial objectives, and early international recognition facilitated relatively short conflicts, with Bosnia, where highly mixed populations and overlapping territorial claims produced protracted, all‑out war, the paper shows why Bosnia required full‑scale external intervention. Humanitarian and strategic crises such as the Sarajevo siege, the Srebrenica massacre, and mass displacement exposed the powerlessness of traditional UN peacekeeping and the ineffectiveness of diplomacy without credible force. The study then traces how fragmented and militarily unsupported early initiatives by the UN, EU, and the United States gradually gave way, under the pressure of changing battlefield dynamics, sanctions, domestic politics in Western states, and U.S. congressional pressure to a more unified Western strategy that combined military pressure with coercive diplomacy. It highlights the decisive role of active U.S. engagement, which shifted from conflict management to conflict resolution and leveraged the interests of Milošević, Tuđman, and Izetbegović to push negotiations forward. Overall, the thesis concludes that the Bosnian conflict was structurally produced by intertwined domestic and international factors, and that an effective peace settlement became possible only when military and diplomatic instruments were aligned under a strategy capable of exerting clear coercive leverage, offering broader lessons about the possibilities and limits of international intervention in civil wars
