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Supplementary files for "Growing seeds of sustainability through arts-based educational interventions"
No full textSupplementary files for article "Growing seeds of sustainability through arts-based educational interventions"Addressing the climate and ecological crises requires transdisciplinary, inclusive approaches that integrate creativity, education and community engagement. Arts-based educational research (ABER) serves as a bridge between scientific knowledge and public understanding, fostering connections that drive action. This paper explores the role of ABER in sustainability advocacy through four case studies: Zine-making for youth environmental activism, photovoice for visual storytelling, speculative futurings with children, and intergenerational storytelling for climate adaptation. We explore the application of ABER across six key lenses, namely, art as relationships, research process, data analysis, output, ethics, and hope. These illustrate ABER’s potential to reshape sustainability discourse beyond representation into active engagement and advocacy. Through participatory and place-based methodologies, ABER cultivates critical reflection, empowers communities and mobilizes action for climate justice. Our findings highlight the capacity of ABER to democratize knowledge, foster intergenerational dialogue, and challenge traditional power dynamics in sustainability decision-making. Our chapter calls for the wider adoption of ABER in sustainability education, and advocates for deeper integration of creative methodologies to cultivate transformative learning and social impact, growing seeds of sustainability across diverse communities and generations.© Bloomsbury Publishing, All rights reserved.</p
Interior of a house in Mandela Village, Hammanskraal, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
No full textInside a house in Mandela Village is a blue shelf with various items on it, including a copper tea set. On the wall is an analogue clock that shows the time as thirteen minutes past ten in the morning. Next to the analogue wall clock is a picture of Nelson Mandela in a frame. The picture reads “NELSON MANDELA 1918-2013,” which signifies his birth and death dates.</p
Modernism, translation and book publishing
No full textThis chapter explores how modernism’s internationalism was materially produced through the translation and publication of foreign works in English. Far from an organic flowering of global exchange, modernism in translation depended on early twentieth-century publishing infrastructures—most notably Everyman’s Library, the Modern Library, and presses such as Knopf, Secker & Warburg, Chatto & Windus, Jonathan Cape, and the Hogarth Press. These ventures selected, packaged, and marketed translations of authors like Strindberg, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Proust, Gide and Mann shaping a version of “world literature” that was largely European in scope. Translation thus emerges not merely as a linguistic act but as a process embedded in commerce, pedagogy, and canon formation. By examining how copyright law, market demand, and series branding determined what was made accessible to Anglophone readers, the chapter argues that modernism was also a product of publishing — curated, branded, and sold through translation.</p
Supplementary information files for "Influence of grain arrangement on particle mobility and patterns of variability between gravel bed rivers"
No full textSupplementary information files for article "Influence of grain arrangement on particle mobility and patterns of variability between gravel bed rivers"The grain-scale arrangement of gravel is important in controlling the stability of river beds, sediment supply and geomorphic adjustment of river channels. However, the influence of gravel bed texture on grain mobility is difficult to quantify because differences in flow history and sediment composition influence the development of bed structure between different channels. In this study, gravel surface observations obtained from Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry were compared with particle entrainment resistance forces, obtained using in situ grain force tests across 45 exposed gravel patches (2,921 grains), to investigate the influence of grain arrangement on particle mobility between rivers. Grain sorting, imbrication and surface roughness were predominantly controlled by particle size. Even when differences in grain size were accounted for, correlations between individual surface-structure metrics and grain mobility were weak, suggesting additional complexity between sites such as grain shape variability. Each of the sampled beds was categorized into one of four groupings, based on combinations of bed surface-structure and grain shape, using cluster analysis. Grain mobility was significantly different between bed types; for example, sites with well sorted, flat and imbricate grains were ∼25% more stable than sites with spherical, non-imbricated grains. These findings are important for river modeling and management, because they can be used to develop better predictions for grain mobility thresholds at the-scale. The classification of surface textures according to the four identified bed types could help to predict grain mobility with limited data, but this would require further validation.© The Author(s), CC By 4.0</p
Elite sports development in South Korea: characteristics and debates
No full textThis chapter outlines South Korea’s elite sports development system with a particular focus on its key features and the tensions surrounding Human Rights in Sport policy initiatives. Shaped by policies inherited from the authoritarian regimes of the 1960s–1980s, the current system path-dependently maintains extensive financial support from governmental, public, and private sectors. While its unique mode of incentivising athletic commitment has secured continued international success, it also presents significant risks, such as inherent vulnerability to abuse and a lack of convincing justification for sustained elite sport investment. Since the early 2000s, efforts to address abuse and shift policy priorities towards sports for all have made positive changes. However, the Human Rights in Sport agendas and policies have also faced substantial resistance and debates, largely due to implementation challenges and conflicting views within the sport sector. The chapter concludes by highlighting the need for updated empirical research on individual athletes of today and their engagement with the legacy system.</p
Molecules of personality change”: the interactional structure of Rogerian therapy
No full textRogerian therapy has shaped discourses and practices of person-centred care across therapeutic, medical, and social contexts, but its interactional structure has not previously been described systematically. Although Rogers did not specify a fixed structure for person-centred therapy sessions, he did recommend recording and analysing the psychotherapeutic processes. In this paper we use Conversation Analysis (CA) to provide the first systematic interactional account of the structure of person-centred therapy, based on Rogers’ recorded psychotherapy sessions from the 1950s to 1980s. Drawing on a detailed sequential and multimodal analysis of all ten publicly available ‘open data’ video recordings, we identify the routine interactional phases and structures that constitute Rogerian person-centred therapy in practice. The opening phase involves a) co-present recognition, b) greeting and identification, and c) settling in. The ‘telling’ phase involves eliciting and sustaining topical talk using a core practice we conceptualise as the ‘telling-formulation-iteration’ sequence, which repeats until the session closing phase. Closing is conducted by a) announcing future closing, b) pre-closing actions such as ‘making arrangements’, then c) a final ‘terminal exchange’. This overall interactional structure shows how Rogerian therapy is co-produced as a distinctive institutional interaction, as opposed to everyday troubles-tellings and other institutional interactions such as medical consultations. By specifying the interactional architecture through which person-centredness is constructed in practice, this study advances conversation analytic work on institutional talk and establishes an empirical benchmark for analysing and comparing person-centred interaction across settings.</p
Magnetic domain wall computer
No full textThis thesis develops a 'magnetic domain wall computer' concept in which information is encoded by the presence or absence of a domain wall propagating through nanoscale ferromagnetic thin-film nanowires. It establishes a theoretical framework that reduces the Landau'Lifshitz'Gilbert description of magnetisation dynamics to an effective sine-Gordon model, allowing domain walls to be treated as robust soliton excitations whose timing and synchronisation can be analysed and engineered. Building on this, the thesis introduces geometry as an active control knob: by incorporating spatially varying film width into the sine-Gordon Lagrangian, it shows how tailored width profiles can inject kinetic energy and modulate domain-wall velocity under an otherwise constant driving field, enabling controlled traversal of junction barriers. The proposed mechanisms are validated through numerical simulations in specially designed T- and Y-junction architectures, demonstrating feasible routes to domain-wall pinning, merging/cloning, and the realisation of logic-gate functionality within thin-film devices.</p
Culture of migration and symbolic violence: the racialised mobilities of Black and minoritised Italians
No full textThe migration trajectories and intra-European mobilities of Black and minoritised Europeans have received limited scholarly attention. This is despite Europe’s large and diverse population of racialised Europeans born to migrant parents and raised in Europe. Based on biographical research, this article focuses on Black and minoritised Italians of African descent who migrated to the UK, examining their pre-migration experiences of racialisation and their motivation to leave Italy. Using the concept of symbolic violence, the article exposes how the association of Italian identity with whiteness and the normalisation of racism within Italian society shape participants’ experiences of growing up in Italy and their reasons to leave. In their narratives, racial exclusion becomes a key driver of mobility, adding a racialised dimension to the established ‘Italian culture of migration’. The analysis illustrates how participants respond to this exclusion and actively reshape Italy’s evolving national culture, offering critical insights into the intersection of race, migration, citizenship, and belonging. </p
Supplementary files for "The relationship between training load and injury risk in taekwondo: a systematic review"
No full textSupplementary files for article "The relationship between training load and injury risk in taekwondo: a systematic review"Background While training load is a recognized modifiable risk factor for injury in team sports, its impact in individual combat sports like taekwondo remains underexplored. This review aims to synthesize current evidence on the association between training load and injury risk in taekwondo athletes.Methods Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, a comprehensive search of the Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, EBSCOhost, and Embase databases was conducted up to May 1st, 2025. Eligible studies were required to report injury risk in taekwondo athletes in relation to internal or external training load. The injury risk metrics included incidence rate ratio, odds ratio, injury incident ratio, and relative risk. Study quality was assessed using the Newcastle–Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale.Results Twenty-one studies were included in the final analysis. Among these, 18 studies explored the relationship between external load and injury risk, while 3 studies examined the relationship between internal load and injury risk. Strong evidence supports an association between rapid weight loss (RWL) and injury risk in taekwondo athletes. Moderate evidence links external load, especially competition exposure, training frequency, and duration, to injury risk. Limited evidence links technical execution, sleep quality, and neuromuscular function to injury risk.Conclusion Due to the limited number of high quality studies, further prospective research is needed to confirm the current evidence linking training load to injury risk in taekwondo athletes. RWL shows the most consistent evidence of association with injury risk, underscoring the importance of structured weight management strategies. In addition, moderate evidence supports associations between competition exposure, training frequency/duration and injury risk, while technical execution, neuromuscular function, and sleep quality are supported only by limited evidence.CC BY NC-ND 4.0</p
Physiologically based pharmacokinetic model of magnesium implant absorption and distribution in tissue and organs
No full textThe long-term accumulation of magnesium (Mg(II)) ions in human patients resulting from the biodegradation of clinical Mg (alloy) implants is investigated using a physiologically-based pharmakinetic (PBPK) mathematical model. In severe cases, excess of Mg in blood (hypermagnesemia) causes a range of health concerns and potentially death. Studies investigating clinical Mg devices generally indicate that there is little risk in healthy patients, however there is concern that excessive Mg accumulation may occur in patients who are elderly, have osteoporosis and/or renal disease. The PBPK model describes the time evolution of Mg concentrations in blood, tissue and bone compartments in response to Mg sourced from diet and implant(s) devices, over the implant’s lifetime. It predicts that Mg absorption in the tissue and bone compartments is the key factor in modulating long-term serum levels due to their large volume and Mg load. Furthermore, the timescale of observable accumulation can take several months to years, suggesting that for vulnerable patients the Mg levels should be monitored throughout the lifespan of an Mg implant. Most of the model parameters can be estimated from simple patient measurements, thus the model is a first step towards a practical patient-specific framework for Mg and for other biodegradable implant devices to inform medical treatments in response to the potential long-term accumulation of biodegraded products.</p