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Colonial Vocabularies: Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970
Full text linkLanguage teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans’ colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, “Oriental language teachers” – as they were termed prior to the Second World War – were fundamental. European state nationalisms influenced and increasingly competed with each other by promoting their languages and cultures abroad, by means of both private and governmental actors. At the same time, learning Arabic became more prominent around the Mediterranean. The first half of the twentieth century corresponded with the emergence of new media; language was thought of as a cultural product to be exported into new cultural spaces. However, many blind spots remain in the history of linguistic thought and practices, including the forgotten and neglected voices of those involved in learning and teaching Arabic. This volume aims to revisit aspects of this linguistic encounter, including its vision, profile, priorities, trajectories, and practices
Exploring the impact of school shoe flexibility on walking and running biomechanics in children aged 7–9 years, compared to barefoot movement
No full textLevelling Up the Screen Industries?: Film and Television Production as Regenerative Strategy in Places Left Behind
No full textThis timely book examines how screen industry development has emerged as a vital strategy for economic and cultural regeneration in England's post-industrial regions.
While Bristol, Manchester, and Liverpool have become established creative hubs, this study shifts focus to three underrepresented areas—The Solent and South Hampshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire, and Sunderland—each grappling with decline and persistent underinvestment. Through comparative case studies, the book reveals how these regions are attempting to address these issues by developing screen industry initiatives despite having only limited resources. It analyses how local stakeholders navigate the interplay of infrastructure, governance, cultural capital, and narrative positioning to build creative ecosystems that strengthen cultural identity and promote place-based storytelling.
Set against the backdrop of devolution, regional policy failures, and "Levelling Up" rhetoric, this research offers practical insights into how historically excluded areas can challenge established patterns of creative investment concentration. As such, it is essential reading for policymakers, creative professionals, researchers, and students in media studies, cultural policy, regional development, and economic geography interested in place-based cultural regeneration strategies
Dynamics of Global Trade Diplomacy: An Artificial Intelligence Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Preferential Trade Agreements
No full textThis study leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, including clustering and network analysis, to examine 381 Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) from 1958 to 2021, providing new insights into global trade diplomacy. By utilizing predictive modelling, the research identifies key patterns and strategic alignments within PTAs based on the similarity of provisions, enabling the optimization of trade policy decisions. The network analysis highlights the central role of Europe in shaping global trade, revealing the interconnectedness of trade agreements and their influence on regional integration and competition policies. Additionally, the study offers prescriptive insights by assessing the impact of specific provisions, such as competition policy and state aid, on national and international trade outcomes. This machine learning-assisted framework provides a structured and reproducible approach to uncovering hidden patterns in PTA provisions and trade relationships. While not designed for causal inference or direct simulation, it offers valuable empirical insights that can support exploratory policy analysis and inform future trade diplomacy. The findings demonstrate the potential of AI in optimizing trade strategies and support the development of more informed, data-driven decisions in the global trade landscape
Curvature estimation techniques for advancing neurodegenerative disease analysis: a systematic review of machine learning and deep learning approaches
Full text linkNeurodegenerative diseases present complex challenges that demand advanced analytical techniques to decode intricate brain structures and their changes over time. Curvature estimation within datasets has emerged as a critical tool in areas like neuroimaging and pattern recognition, with significant applications in diagnosing and understanding neurodegenerative diseases. This systematic review assesses state-of-the-art curvature estimation methodologies, covering classical mathematical techniques, machine learning, deep learning, and hybrid methods. Analysing 105 research papers from 2010 to 2023, we explore how each approach enhances our understanding of structural variations in neurodegenerative pathology. Our findings highlight a shift from classical methods to machine learning and deep learning, with neural network regression and convolutional neural networks gaining traction due to their precision in handling complex geometries and data-driven modelling. Hybrid methods further demonstrate the potential to merge classical and modern techniques for robust curvature estimation. This comprehensive review aims to equip researchers and clinicians with insights into effective curvature estimation methods, supporting the development of enhanced diagnostic tools and interventions for neurodegenerative diseases
Archaeological entanglements: Palestinian refugee archaeologists in Cyprus, Libya and Jordan
No full textIn 1948 Stephan Hanna Stephan, a long-time employee of the Palestinian Archaeological Museum and respected historian and ethnographer, became a refugee, along with at least 700,000 other Palestinians. He and his family fled to Lebanon, but the passport of one of his sons from this period is filled with stamps indicating journeys to and from Cyprus. Stephan died of a heart attack in 1949, but an article by A.H.S. Megaw, head of the Department of Antiquities in Cypris, is a tantalising suggestion as to how Stephan’s career might have proceeded, taking a course plotted by his links through the various British-run archaeological institutions of the Eastern Mediterranean.
If this had occurred, Stephan would not have been alone. At least two Palestinian refugee archaeologists from the Mandate government’s Department of Antiquities took up jobs in the British-run Department of Antiquities in Cyrenaica. Several others made the shorter transfer to the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, headed by Lankester Harding. As such, a scholarly Palestinian refugee diaspora was mapped onto British colonial and postcolonial involvement in archaeology across the Eastern Mediterranean.
This paper locates Cyprus as part of that network via Stephan’s work, highlighting the ways in which middle-ranking archaeological professionals from British colonies participated in webs of knowledge production, and how their linguistic and cultural skills were utilised by British colonial institutions in contingent and shifting ways and circumstances. I argue that while British colonialism often exploited and sidelined indigenous archaeology and archaeologists across the region, the latter found ways to create opportunities within it. Archaeology under the British in Cyprus is thus entangled with other sites of British control and influence from Jordan to Libya, creating unexpected routes for survival in colonial and postcolonial settings
Broadband dual channel mode filter based on triple-core photonic crystal fiber
No full textA novel mode filter based on a triple-core photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with a large bandwidth was proposed. The device uses silica as the substrate material, and its main core can support three modes: LP01, LP11, and LP21. By coating gold film on the inner walls of the air holes in the cladding of the side cores, the coupled LP01 and LP11 modes from the main core experience significant attenuation when propagating in the side cores. This enables the mode filter to output only the LP21 mode. The structure of the mode filter was optimized by using the eigenmode finite difference method and the eigenmode expansion method. The results indicate that when the input wavelength is 1.55 μm, the mode suppression ratios (MSRs) for the filtered LP01 and LP11 modes exceed 20 dB. Moreover, the mode filter operates in two working bands with bandwidths of 125 nm (1.5–1.625 μm) and 53 nm (1.766–1.819 μm), covering the S, C, and L bands. The total length of the device is only 46.5 mm. Especially, at 1550 nm, the insertion loss (IL) is as low as 0.024 dB, and the MSR is 19.84 dB. Owing to the advantages of wide bandwidth, low IL, high MSR, and compact structure, this mode filter will find great potential for applications in mode-division multiplexing fiber-optic communication/sensing, quantum information systems, and related fields
Our Long Poem of Walking (The Six Towns)
Full text linkA poem 'found' in an essay written to explore the experience of walking each and between the six towns which constitute the city of Stoke on Trent. The selection of poetic phrases, images and linguistic sounds is itself an expression of 'walking through' the essay and finding new paths, new trajectories, the footsteps
Community Iftar 2025
No full textPublic engagement event hosted by the University of Staffordshire in partnership with Staffordshire Police, Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service and the local community
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