Academic Articles & Research Papers

Paternalism and Public Policy

Wherever a government or state is concerned with the welfare of its citizens, there will probably also exist policies which compel the individual citizen to undertake or abstain from activities which affect that citizen alone. The set of th...

PUBLIC POLICY AND MORALITY IN TRADEMARK LAW

The existence of signs registered as trademarks (national, European, international) is necessary in the public interest, as they serve producers of goods and services and consumers alike. While any sign may in principle constitute a tradema...

Media and cultural policy as public policy

The British Labour government's media and cultural policies since 1997 are analysed as aspects of public policy. This allows assessment of the media and cultural policies of a supposedly centre‐left government in a conjuncture marked by neo...

Complexity and Public Policy

This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to complexity thinking, its application to the social sciences and public policy, and the relevance of some of its various tools to those fields of politics, health, the internat...

Economic Geography and Public Policy

Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North Ameri...

Ethics and Public Policy

Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry, second edition subjects important and controversial areas of public policy to philosophical scrutiny. Jonathan Wolff, a renowned philosopher and veteran of many public committees, introduce...

Public Policy for Democracy.

A fundamental rethinking is under way about the roles of government, citizens, and community organizations in public policy. Can government be reconstructed to make public policies more responsive to citizens and thus more effective? This c...

Editorial

Dear Readers, The September 2026 issue of Science Education International presents 11 original research articles authored by scholars from 11 countries, including Germany, Slovenia and Italy, Finland and South Africa, Brazil, Chile and Arge...

Subsecond optically controlled domain switching in freestanding ferroelectric BaTiO3 membrane

Abstract The quest to develop energy-efficient and fast optoelectronic control of memory devices is essential. In this respect, ferroelectric materials are gaining tremendous importance in information and communication technology. Here, we ...

Microwave Photonic Techniques in Phase-Noise Measurements of Microwave Sources: A Review of Fiber-Optic Delay-Line Methods

Microwave photonics has recently come to the forefront as a valuable approach to generating, processing, and measuring signals in high-performance domains such as communication, radar, and timing systems. Recent studies have introduced a ra...

Transgender Communication Studies

Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories brings scholarship in transgender studies to the forefront of the communication discipline. Leland Spencer and Jamie Capuzza provide a broad foundation that documents th...

SPEECH and COMMUNICATION STUDIES

The Associate Degree in Speech and Communication Studies is designed to provide students with fundamental understanding of the principles of speech communication as well as experience in the application of these principles. Classes prepare ...

Importance of Investigating Linguacultural Variability in Learning Foreign Languages

The aim of the article is to investigate and prove the importance of linguocultural variability in the study of foreign languages. Results. In general, the question “Does language determine culture or culture determins language?” is still d...

Hypothesis-driven methods to augment human cognition by optimizing cortical oscillations

Cortical oscillations have been shown to represent fundamental functions of a working brain, e.g. communication, stimulus binding, error monitoring, and inhibition, and are directly linked to behavior. Recent studies intervening with these ...

Fundamental Statistics in Psychology and Education

Fundamentals of Statistics

Influence of proxy data uncertainty on data assimilation for the past climate

Data assimilation (DA) is an emerging topic in palaeoclimatology and one of the key challenges in this field. Assimilating proxy-based continental mean temperature reconstructions into the MPI-ESM model showed a lack of information propagat...

Geographical information science

. Research papers at conferences such as EGIS and the International Symposia on Spatial Data Handling address a set of intellectual and scientific questions which go well beyond the limited technical capabilities of current technology in ge...

The Geography of Transport Systems

Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geogra...

Poststructuralist Geographies

Poststructuralist Geographies is the first attempt to draw out and develop the inherent quality that is at the heart of postmodern and poststructuralist perspectives. With expertise in both critical human geography and post-war continental ...