This study seeks to understand the role played by social factors in the diffusion of parasitology to Puerto Rico, in particular those affecting the work of Bailey K. Ashford between 1898-1934. Most studies of Ashford to date focus mainly on the intellectual framework per se, and rarely on the surrounding social environment. In order to achieve…[Read more]

This article presents a commentary on the recent resurgence of interest in the practice of rights retention in scholarly publishing. Led in part by the evolving European policy landscape, rights retention seeks to ensure immediate access to accepted manuscripts uploaded to repositories. The article identifies a trajectory in the development of…[Read more]

In the 1930s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences implemented a technical standard—known as Academy Mono, or the Academy Curve—that dramatically impaired the sound quality of motion pictures. This article accounts for why the major studios agreed to this restrictive standard. I argue that they adopted Academy Mono to curtail the pow…[Read more]

In the 1930s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences implemented a technical standard—known as Academy Mono, or the Academy Curve—that dramatically impaired the sound quality of motion pictures. This article accounts for why the major studios agreed to this restrictive standard. I argue that they adopted Academy Mono to curtail the pow…[Read more]

Using a qualitative method of research, the study investigated the increasing use of traditional medicine in Ghana, focusing on Afigya Kwabre South District. Traditional medicine has gone through various stages since time immemorial, especially with regard to how its patronage has evolved over time. The period ranges from the pre-colonial era,…[Read more]

Using a qualitative method of research, the study investigated the increasing use of traditional medicine in Ghana, focusing on Afigya Kwabre South District. Traditional medicine has gone through various stages since time immemorial, especially with regard to how its patronage has evolved over time. The period ranges from the pre-colonial era,…[Read more]

You read it everywhere. Everyone talks about it, always as a value in itself. We are all haunted by it, not least at universities, not least in the humanities, by the ubiquitous requirement to be innovative. Projects that do not require innovation would not receive the grace of funding in an academic system that is both bloated and thinned out at…[Read more]

This paper offers an articulation of a teaching methodology that I call Gamemaking in Education (GME). This educational approach emphasizes student gamemaking rather than gameplay. In this paper, I discuss what GME is, review some cases in which other educators have used what might be called GME in college classrooms, and situate GME as an…[Read more]

La formación de profesionales especializados en archivística o gestión documental en Cuba ha sido una necesidad constante. No existe a nivel nacional un programa de formación que permita constituir un referente para llevar a cabo acciones de superación para profesionales que se desempeñan en el sistema institucional de archivos. A partir de lo an…[Read more]

The dataset aims to guide undergraduate students, particularly those in the music
department, who complete proposals and theses in their final year of study. Its purpose
is to enable students to replicate and reconstruct research with appropriate scientific
value. The dataset was created based on the author’s scientific experience from…[Read more]

This is a poem about fire.

If postmodernism renders the replicant Rachael legible as a glossy simulacrum, then #MeToo renders her brutally legible as a victim of sexual violence.

La reproducción de paradigmas transmisivos y unidireccionales en la rutina productiva de la televisora CNTV limita instituir dinámicas participativas en el género spot de bien público. La situación antes descrita favorece que se planteen como objetivos de la investigación: 1) fundamentar la función social de los medios de comunicación desde l…[Read more]

The climate impacts of the information and communications technology sector—and Big Data especially—is a topic of growing public and industry concern, though attempts to quantify its carbon footprint have produced contradictory results. Some studies argue that information and communications technology’s global carbon footprint is set to rise dra…[Read more]

Article about the composer Pauline Viardot

Article about the Spanish composer, teacher and musicologist Felipe Pedrell, founder of the Modern Musicology in Spain

Article about the Spanish composer, teacher and musicologist Felipe Pedrell, founder of the Modern Musicology in Spain

An overview of the principles, evolution and context of media and information literacy in university libraries is offered, as well as the fundamental role that professionals who work in libraries play as trainers. It is, therefore, a proposal for a synthesis of the path traveled by the media and information literacy in Higher Education, an…[Read more]

Novel has created as many forms as the novels have been written so for. Starting from realism it has went through a lot of transformations and adopted or invented generic techniques to narrate almost everything human. In Urdu, novel usually concerned more about the social life and social change it depicted. By maintaining a liquidating equilibrium…[Read more]

The nautical motif of the ex-voto (votive offering) is a lyric genre that reflects poetically the possible experience of a shipwreck survivor. Paradoxically, many of the poets who evoke the perils of sea travel never left Spain or, at most, sailed only the waters of the Mediterranean. Their writing of the sea remained consistently codified in…[Read more]