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A. Culyer, A. Wagstaff

D. Hamermesh, G. Pfann

C. Podilchuk, E. Delp

S. Donaldson

R. Piekkari, Catherine Welch, E. Paavilainen

Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai

H. Kelejian, I. Prucha

W. Hopp, M. Spearman

Gloria Chicote

Mi contribución a este Homenaje consiste en efectuar una reflexión sobre la presencia del romancero en la vida académica de Aurelio González. El estudio del romancero atraviesa todas sus líneas de investigación desde distintos lugares de asedio al género: el romancero viejo, el romancero tradicional moderno, el romancero americano. La poética y la gramática del romancero lo preocuparon y ocuparon desde su tesis de doctorado dedicada al estudio de las formas y funciones de los principios en el romancero viejo en 1984, hasta el romancero americano al que dedicó los últimos 20 años de su vida. Asimismo, el estudio de la tradición oral moderna lo tuvo como participante de las grandes encuestas realizadas en España a fines del siglo XX coordinadas por Diego Catalán. Estas páginas constituyen un recorrido a través de los estudios romancísticos de Aurelio González que pone de manifiesto su insoslayable contribución al campo.

Whatley, Katherine G.T.

This article tells the story of a diasporic Jewish family across generations, continents, and languages through a shared name—Katherine—showing how names serve as talismans, linking present and past. Centered on the author’s grandmother, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who lived in Europe and Australia, and the author, raised in Japan, it explores how Jewish names act as markers of memory, identity, politics, and religion. The author argues that Jewish naming rituals reflect the diasporic, cosmopolitan nature of prewar Jewish society. She examines tensions between assimilation and non-assimilation, secularism and mysticism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, advocating for a renewed sense of multilingual, cosmopolitan Jewish identity. Drawing on Judaism, Buddhism, and esoteric mysticism, the author presents multilingualism and cosmopolitanism as inherent strengths of Jewish diasporic life—and as vital in today’s world. Through her own translational upbringing and family history, she offers a deeply personal narrative intertwined with 20th-century upheavals and calls for a revival of prewar Jewish cosmopolitanism.

Iryna Kushnir

This paper addresses the growing popularity of thematic analysis (TA) in education research and the lack of a comprehensive guide tailored specifically for this field. Despite the frequent citation of prominent psychologists like Braun and Clarke, there remains a gap in methodological guidance for education scholars. Through a systematic literature review of TA in education from 2014 to 2024 (n = 30 articles), this study synthesises and critiques the meaning, application and limitations of TA as discussed in relevant scholarship. The findings are used to develop a much-needed revised TA guide for researchers specifically in the field of education, highlighting the significance of this study for research practice.

Svein Larsen

Wenzhong Zhang, Hong Ji, Yan Wu et al.

Background The number of patients undergoing joint replacement procedures is continuously increasing. Tele-equipment is progressively being employed for postrehabilitation of total hip and knee replacements. Gaining a comprehensive understanding of the experiences and requirements of patients undergoing total hip and knee arthroplasty who participate in telerehabilitation can contribute to the enhancement of telerehabilitation programs and the overall rehabilitation and care provided to this specific population. Objective To explore the needs and experiences of total hip and knee arthroplasty patients with telerehabilitation. Design Systematic review and qualitative synthesis. Methods Electronic databases PubMed, Web of Science, The Cochrane Library, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus, ProQuest, CNKI, Wanfang Data, VIP, and SinoMed were systematically searched for information on the needs and experiences of telerehabilitation for patients with total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty in qualitative studies. The search period was from the creation of the database to March 2024. Literature quality was assessed using the 2016 edition of the Australian Joanna Briggs Institute Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care Quality Assessment Criteria for Qualitative Research. A pooled integration approach was used to integrate the findings inductively. Results A total of 11 studies were included and 4 themes were identified: the desire to communicate and the need to acquire knowledge; accessible, high-quality rehabilitation services; positive psychological experiences; the dilemmas of participating in telerehabilitation. Conclusions This study's findings emphasize that the practical needs and challenges of total hip and knee arthroplasty patients’ participation in telerehabilitation should be continuously focused on, and the advantages of telerehabilitation should be continuously strengthened to guarantee the continuity of patients’ postoperative rehabilitation and to promote their postoperative recovery.

Maria Vittoria Conti, Sara Santero, Chiara Breda et al.

ObjectiveIndividuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often exhibit a low dietary diversity due to food selectivity that leads them to a marked preference for high-energy-density food, exposing them to risk of malnutrition. Despite these aspects, specific recommendations and targeted menus for this population are missing. The pilot study FOOD-AUT addresses this issue by developing canteen menus meeting the nutritional and sensory needs of adults with ASD, aiming to reduce their food selectivity, and consequently improving their health.MethodsThe project, funded by Gruppo Pellegrini S.p.A, was conducted at the daycare service of Sacra Famiglia Onlus Foundation, between March-2022 to March-2023. The study was divided into two phases. Observational phase: a comparison was made between the enrolled subjects’ nutritional needs and the nutrient content of the administered menus during the daycare service. Then mealtime compliance was assessed using standardized meal evaluation forms, both quantitative and qualitative. Intervention phase: canteen menus targeted to the individuals’ nutritional and sensory needs were administered and their acceptability was evaluated.ResultsTwenty-two individuals with ASD, aged 19–48, 72.7% males, were enrolled. Overweight and obesity prevalence were 54.5 and 18.2%, respectively. The observational phase showed how the most accepted foods had specific sensorial characteristics in line with the scientific literature. Adapting the menus improved food acceptance and reduced food waste.ConclusionThe results highlighted the need for adapted menus and greater attention to the way meals are delivered and consumed to improve nutritional status and therefore health of this population at increased risk of malnutrition.Clinical trial registrationClinicalTrial.gov, unique identifier: NCT05978895.

Sofía Palacios-Pacheco, Berta Martín-López, Mónica Expósito-Granados et al.

Human-carnivore relations in Europe have varied throughout history. Because of recent conservation efforts and passive rewilding, carnivore populations are recovering, which translates into more interactions with humans. Thus, unraveling these interactions as well as the multiple contributions carnivores provide to people is crucial to their conservation. We examined the literature conducted in Europe since 2000 and used the nature’s contributions to people (NCP) framework to identify factors that have shaped human-carnivore relations. To do so, we examined the state of scientific knowledge and relationships among types of NCP from carnivores, countries, and carnivore species; and between NCP, actors, and management actions. Results indicated that research has been oriented toward large carnivore species and their detrimental contributions to people. Further, the effectiveness of carnivore management strategies has only been evaluated and monitored in a limited set of all the research. To balance any negative views on carnivores, we suggest that the recognition of the duality of carnivores, as providers of both beneficial and detrimental contributions, should be included in EU conservation policies.

M. Hewstone

Félix Terrones, Catherine Pélage

Martin Sterchi, Lorenz Hilfiker, Rolf Grütter et al.

Abstract The problem of identifying the source of an epidemic (also called patient zero) given a network of contacts and a set of infected individuals has attracted interest from a broad range of research communities. The successful and timely identification of the source can prevent a lot of harm as the number of possible infection routes can be narrowed down and potentially infected individuals can be isolated. Previous research on this topic often assumes that it is possible to observe the state of a substantial fraction of individuals in the network before attempting to identify the source. We, on the contrary, assume that observing the state of individuals in the network is costly or difficult and, hence, only the state of one or few individuals is initially observed. Moreover, we presume that not only the source is unknown, but also the duration for which the epidemic has evolved. From this more general problem setting a need to query the state of other (so far unobserved) individuals arises. In analogy with active learning, this leads us to formulate the active querying problem. In the active querying problem, we alternate between a source inference step and a querying step. For the source inference step, we rely on existing work but take a Bayesian perspective by putting a prior on the duration of the epidemic. In the querying step, we aim to query the states of individuals that provide the most information about the source of the epidemic, and to this end, we propose strategies inspired by the active learning literature. Our results are strongly in favor of a querying strategy that selects individuals for whom the disagreement between individual predictions, made by all possible sources separately, and a consensus prediction is maximal. Our approach is flexible and, in particular, can be applied to static as well as temporal networks. To demonstrate our approach’s practical importance, we experiment with three empirical (temporal) contact networks: a network of pig movements, a network of sexual contacts, and a network of face-to-face contacts between residents of a village in Malawi. The results show that active querying strategies can lead to substantially improved source inference results as compared to baseline heuristics. In fact, querying only a small fraction of nodes in a network is often enough to achieve a source inference performance comparable to a situation where the infection states of all nodes are known.

Philip Cass

Royal Tour Picture Album, by Elizabeth Morton. London, UK: Sunday Graphic/Pitkin Pictorials Ltd, 1953. 104 pages. ONE of the joys of travelling the world and collecting books is the historical oddities that turn up in the most unexpected places. I have a splendid copy of the complete works of Shakespeare dating to the Second World War, completely re-set, so the frontispiece notes, due to the original plates having been ‘destroyed by enemy action’. One wonders at the perfidy of the Luftwaffe in trying to blow up the Bard.

Bao Yanli, Hua Hefeng

This article uses case study of a very famous tourism enterprise in China to explore what motivates tourism enterprises to implement service innovations. On the base of literature review, through semi-structured interviews, on-site observation and secondhand data, driving forces of service innovation in Chinese tourism enterprises are concluded by data analysis. Major internal driving forces include development vision, enterprise leaders, and organizational culture. Major external driving forces include changing demand of Chinese residents, demand of the local government to enhance municipal influence, ccompetitive ppressure of surrounding attractions. These internal and external forces motivate Chinese tourism enterprises to carry out service innovations continuously to satisfy tourists’ demands.