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Watch Out! E-scooter Coming Through!: Multimodal Sensing of Mixed Traffic Use and Conflicts Through Riders' Ego-centric Views
No full textE-scooters are becoming a popular means of urban transportation. However, this increased popularity brings challenges, such as road accidents and conflicts when sharing space with traditional transport modes. An in-depth understanding of e-scooter rider behaviour is crucial for ensuring rider safety, guiding infrastructure planning, and enforcing traffic rules. In this paper, we investigated the riding behaviours of e-scooter users through a naturalistic study. We recruited 23 participants, equipped with a bike computer, eye-tracking glasses and cameras, who traversed a pre-determined route, enabling the collection of multi-modal data. We analysed and compared gaze movements, continuous speed, and video feeds across three different transport infrastructure types: a pedestrian-shared path, a cycle lane and a roadway. Our findings reveal that e-scooter riders face unique challenges, including difficulty keeping up with faster-moving cyclists and motor vehicles due to the capped speed limit on shared e-scooters, issues in safely signalling turns due to the risks of losing control when using hand signals, and limited acceptance from other road users in mixed-use spaces. Additionally, we observed that the cycle lane has the highest average speed, the least frequency of speed change points, and the least head movements, supporting the suitability of dedicated cycle lanes - separated from motor vehicles and pedestrians - for e-scooters. These findings are facilitated through multimodal sensing and analysing the e-scooter riders' ego-centric view, which show the efficacy of our method in discovering the behavioural dynamics of the riders in the wild. Our study highlights the critical need to align infrastructure with user behaviour to improve safety and emphasises the importance of targeted safety measures and regulations, especially when e-scooter riders share spaces with pedestrians or motor vehicles. The dataset and analysis code are available at https://github.com/HiruniNuwanthika/Electric-Scooter-Riders-Multi-Modal-Data-Analysis.git.</p
Why do (or don’t) people protect nature? insights from conservation practice and environmental psychology to respond to the biodiversity crisis
No full textUnderstanding and shaping human action towards nature conservation is critical to reversing the biodiversity crisis. Psychological science provides tools for understanding individual and collective behaviours, but also for understanding how the behaviour of individuals can drive human–environment systems transitions. As researchers and practitioners spanning distinct disciplines, we draw on our collective knowledge in environmental psychology, systems thinking, economics, and conservation biology, along with experience in practice and government, to consider reasons why people do (or don’t) protect nature. We outline dimensions important to fostering individual conservation behaviour and systems transformation. Such individual dimensions include values, personality traits, and psychological distancing. Broader system influences include cultural, economic, and environmental factors that shape the way people interact with, and care for, nature. Finally, we describe potential tools that may support increasing conservation actions and systems transformation, including strengthening connection with and access to nature, values-based and solutions-focused framing, collective action, and propagating optimism.</p
Mapping the landscape of employer value propositions in Asian hotels through online job postings analysis
No full textThis study explores how Asian hotels leverage job postings, an often-overlooked branding channel, to commu nicate Employer Value Propositions (EVPs) as an employer branding tactic. Analyzing 4603 job postings from Indeed, a prominent job search website, the research categorizes EVPs into Economic, Functional, and Psycho logical types (E− , F-, P-EVPs) and reveals their frequency of communication across five key Asian cities. The findings indicate that approximately three-quarters of job postings convey at least one type of EVP, with F-EVPs and P-EVPs being more prevalent than E-EVPs. Chain hotels demonstrate a higher frequency of EVP commu nication compared to independent hotels, with no discernible differences between non-managerial and mana gerial positions. These findings offer valuable resources for hotels to assess their EVP strategies through benchmarking and identifying areas for improvement. It also pioneers the application of signaling theory to job advertisements, contributing to the theoretical fields of employer branding, talent management, and recruitment research.</p
<i>Digital Journalism </i>(Studies): An Agenda for the Future
No full textDigital Journalism has an important role to play in encouraging and publishing research with societal relevance that advances digital journalism studies as a field. In this article we discuss the multiple types of articles we publish: research articles, conceptual articles, review articles, advancing methods articles and commentaries. We also introduce you to several great examples of such articles, as well as introduce the growing number of articles that have received outstanding article awards over the years. Finally, we present our revised editorial agenda that will guide our priorities for the editorial processing of article submissions in the year(s) to come. The editorial agenda consists of five key thematic areas, each featuring carefully selected bullet points outlining our key research priorities. We set the context for each of these thematic areas by positioning them in relation to some of the research we have published in recent years.</p
Media Perspectives of Sustainable Development
No full textContributions in this special issue engage with the theme of Media Perspectives of Sustainable Development which examines the discursive construction of sustainability as an ethical, political, economic, and social concept. Here the terms of “sustainable development” and “sustainability” are used interchangeably as these denote both intent and strategy. The authors featured in this work have produced interdisciplinary studies which reflects the nature of media and communications as a discipline. Their research considers key areas such as political economy, media ethics, public relations, and representation all grounded in the highly fragmented context of the Philippines. Limited attention has been given concerning the discursive construction of sustainability from the standpoint of media and communications in Southeast Asia. We are pleased to respond to this opportunity in this special issue, featuring contributions from experienced and emerging scholars alike, all centered on the media ecologies of the Philippine context.</p
Liquid Metal Electrocatalyst with Ultralow Pt Loading for Ethanol Oxidation
No full textDeveloping efficient and durable electrocatalysts for ethanol electro-oxidation is crucial for enabling the application of direct ethanol fuel cell technology. Herein, it is demonstrated that Pt–Ga liquid metal-based nanodroplets can serve as an efficient electrocatalyst to drive ethanol oxidation. The mass activity of Pt is significantly improved by alloying with liquid gallium. Guided by machine learning neural networks, a low-concentration alkaline electrolyte is specifically formulated to allow electrodes with ultralow Pt loading to demonstrate remarkable activity toward ethanol oxidation with a mass activity as high as 13.47 A mg−1Pt, which is more than 14 times higher than that of commercial Pt/C electrocatalysts (i.e., 0.76 A mg−1Pt). Computational studies reveal that the superior activity is associated with the presence of Ga oxides adjacent to Pt on the catalyst surface which leads to energetically favorable pathways for the oxidation process. The findings reveal untapped opportunities in the realm of liquid metal catalysis and hold great promise for the future development of high-performance alcohol fuel cells.</p
Mentoring interpreters of new and emerging languages for Australian courts and tribunals
No full textQuality interpreting in courts and tribunals requires high competence in language and contextual knowledge, as well as interactional management and ethical reasoning skills. But a cohort of the interpreting workforce in Australia – particularly those from the so-called “new and emerging” language backgrounds – has been disadvantaged due to a lack of access to university or vocational training for interpreters. These interpreters, therefore, work in specialised areas such as courts and tribunals with little or no formal training. This paper describes a pilot project that operationalised Optimal Standard 3 of Australia’s Recommended National Standards for Working with Interpreters in Courts and Tribunals regarding the provision of mentorship to interpreters who are under- or untrained. The project comprised two stages: in Stage 1, interpreters attended a tailored professional development course on legal interpreting; then in Stage 2, a group of thirteen interpreters selected from Stage 1, plus four recruited mentors, participated in mentorship reflecting Optimal Standard 3. The outcomes show the potential applicability and utility of this Standard for its intended purpose. However, for such initiatives to be viable, they require additional support, including administrative and financial resources from the courts and other stakeholders, as well as a rethinking of interpreter employment models.</p
Generative AI & journalism: Content, journalistic perceptions, and audience experiences
No full textThis evidence-based report aims to familiarise the reader with a wide array of AI in journalism use cases, provide grounding on the legal and ethical issues that journalists and audiences identify regarding this technology within journalism, and reveal news audiences’ expectations regarding how this technology should or should not be used. The report ends with a series of questions for journalists and news organisations to consider as they work through their experimentation with and guidelines around AI use in journalism. This report brings together six discrete research and engagement activities over a three-year period (2022-24), drawing on fieldwork in seven countries (Australia, Germany, USA, UK, Norway, Switzerland, and France), and focuses on AI in journalism within three broad domains: AI-generated content in journalism, journalists’ perceptions of and use of AI in journalism, and news audiences’ perceptions of and reactions to this technology being used in journalism
Insufficient Evidence to Recommend Shu Mian Capsule in Managing Depression With or Without Comorbid Insomnia: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis
No full textAim: This systematic review with trial sequential analysis (TSA) aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Shu Mian Capsule (SMC), a commercial Chinese polyherbal preparation, for managing depression with or without comorbid insomnia.Methods: Controlled clinical trials assessing SMC against waitlist control, placebo or active controls, or as an adjunct treatment were searched across seven databases. Risk of bias and evidence quality were assessed using Cochrane criteria and GRADE framework, respectively.Results: Fourteen studies were analyzed, involving 1207 participants. Trials comparing SMC with placebo or standard antidepressive treatments were limited. In depressed patients without comorbid insomnia, combining SMC with antidepressants reduced the incidence of antidepressants-induced sleep disorders (from 12.2% to 3.8%) but did not significantly lower Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D) scores compared to antidepressants alone [SMD = − 0.09, 95% CI (− 0.32, 0.14), p = 0.45]. In depressed patients with comorbid insomnia, the combination of SMC and psychotropic drugs significantly reduced HAM-D [SMD = − 1.29, 95% CI (− 1.96, − 0.62), p Conclusion: The effectiveness of SMC as an alternative to conventional antidepressive treatment is unclear. For depressed patients with comorbid insomnia, adding SMC to standard care demonstrates augmented efficacy and improved safety, though the supporting evidence is methodologically limited. Further rigorous trials are warranted to confirm SMC’s short-term efficacy and explore its medium- to long-term effects as either an alternative or complementary therapy. Current evidence precludes recommendations for the administration of SMC in depression.</p
“For Sustained Change, We Need Everyone on Board”: Australian Outsourced Provider Perspectives on Relationships and Sexuality Education for Young People
No full text(1) Schools often rely on outsourced providers to deliver relationships and sexuality education (RSE) to young people. However, there is limited research that has focused on outsourced provider practices and perceptions of RSE, particularly as it relates to sexual violence prevention. (2) The current qualitative study interviewed 15 outsourced providers in Australia to glean their perspectives on the effective features of, and barriers to the implementation of, RSE for young people, with a focus on sexual violence prevention. (3) Through a reflexive thematic analysis, we found that outsourced providers valued a whole-of-school approach to RSE and advocated for content on pornography literacy. They raised conservative gatekeeping, precarious funding, and limited time as key implementation barriers. The findings also highlighted inconsistent views and approaches to RSE among outsourced providers, with questions surrounding who should deliver RSE, which theoretical framework underpins their work, and whether to take a gendered approach. (4) Implications for educators, policymakers, and young people are discussed.</p