In this opening article, we explore how the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement challenges traditional norms and conduct of bourgeois public sphere. Ahmed argues White male body is abstracted in order to achieve a universal status (Ahmed) his ‘invisibility’ power; socially constructed whiteness forces those people considered be colour ‘marked highly visible’ (Purwar). We assert that abstracting w...

Many neural circuits show fast reconfiguration following altered sensory or modulatory inputs to generate stereotyped outputs. In the motor circuit of Xenopus tadpoles, I study how certain voltage-dependent ionic currents affect firing thresholds and contribute to circuit reconfiguration to generate two distinct motor patterns, swimming and struggling. Firing thresholds of excitatory interneuro...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand smartphone use guidance experiences parents elementary school students.Methods: Qualitative data were collected from 10 students through individual in-depth interview January 2022 February 2022. Collected analyzed using the Colaizzi’s phenomenological method.Results: following four categories derived interviews: ‘Ambivalence on children's use...

Male students perform significantly lower than female students on tests that measure writing achievement. The purpose of this study was to explore the use of a visual graphic organizer application to engage elementary-aged male students who struggle with the writing process. The results suggest that teachers of male students should consider using a visual graphic organizer application for writi...

Whether prenatal stress (PNS) and gonadal hormones may influence depressive behavior of rats in the forced swim test was investigated. In Experiment I, adult diestrous female rats had increased immobility, which is indicative of depression, but did not show any significant difference in the duration of struggling compared to intact adult males. In Experiment 2, the behavior of adult intact, cas...

Although often unacknowledged and unrewarded, peer reviewing is a crucial part of the process academic scholarship. Surprisingly, not much has been written on experience reviewing, besides few articles in journals teaching learning higher education. Nor there consideration as critical component project within larger efforts to rethink problematic euro-western, patriarchal neoliberal logics that...

What is transdisciplinarity? I don’t know, but do feel that the majority of those writing about it are not willing to jettison their disciplinary positionality look for something which cannot be realised from what we currently accept as knowledge. Let me clearer. Transdisciplinarity by its nature transcends inter-, multi- and inter-disciplinarity, seeks resist epistemological hegemony disciplin...

This paper describes how feminist beliefs and values should influence nursing practice. Traditionally held patriarchal values are challenged, and the feminist tenets of gender equity, the basis for value to society and personal sovereignty are discussed. Drawing on experience as a nurse practitioner this writer gives examples of nursing practice that are grounded in feminist philosophy.