Amid profoundly unstable and vulnerable times, conventional education systems continue to reflect the dominant ideology in modernity that has contributed to the current global polycrisis. This study explores how educators engage in vernacular pedagogical practices, locally grounded, relational and often situated outside standard curricula, that act as counterpoints to the conventional constraints using a Place-Based Education (PBE) approach. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 14 educators from the Southeast Michigan Stewardship (SEMIS) Coalition, the research investigates how educators experience job satisfaction, define their roles and navigate tensions between dominant norms and community-rooted learning. Findings suggest that educators embrace indeterminism as a source of creativity, responsiveness and growth, weaving together interlaced strands of personal, cultural and ecological meaning in their vernacular pedagogical practices. Educators carve out alternative ways of knowing and relating, positioning PBE as a cultural stance that enables responsive, locally rooted reform amid today’s complex, uncertain and interconnected crises.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, described by Chancellor Olaf Scholz as a Zeitenwende (turning point) triggered a fundamental rethinking of German foreign, security, and defence policy. This article conceptualises the invasion as a temporal shock to Germany’s ontological security. Building on the ‘temporal turn’ in International Relations, we argue that the war not only violated Ukraine’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity, but it also disrupted a broader sense of chronological continuity in European security, long defined by reduced defence spending and the assumption that interstate war was obsolete. Where previous studies have focused on the interrelationship of ontological security and temporality built around the concepts of biographical continuity, collective memory, and mnemonical security, this paper focuses instead on narrative disruption and the retiming of national security and identity via the perception of external shocks. We contend that the Zeitenwende narrative challenged historical concepts of German ontological security, such as Ostpolitik and Wandel durch Handel, that were deeply embedded in a strategic culture of military reticence by calling for the revitalisation of German military power. Yet this retiming remains constrained by incremental policy implementation and historical associations with Germany’s militaristic past, creating ongoing ontological insecurity about Germany’s role in European security.

Benjamin Britten’s Noye’s Fludde (1958) was arguably the first community opera with an environmental message. It explored the potential extinction of animal and human life, and since then environmentalism as a social issue has begun to emerge in community operas as a distinctive trope. This article examines some more recent examples produced in the UK, from The Split Goose Feather (1979) by Christopher Brown, to Timber! (1990) by Timothy Kraemer, to Russell Hepplewhite’s Till the Summer Comes Again (2012) inspired by Glyndebourne’s wind turbine. It concludes with some reflections on the questions that arise in relation to contemporary opera, the environment and sustainability – notably how the professional operatic world can respond to concerns about the environment, and what steps are necessary to ensure the sustainability of opera for the future.

To synthesize evidence on the relations among multiple constructs, measures, or concepts, meta-analyzing correlation matrices across primary studies has become a crucial analytic approach. Common meta-analytic approaches employ univariate or multivariate models to estimate a pooled correlation matrix, which is subjected to further analyses, such as structural equation modeling. In practice, meta-analysts often extract multiple correlation matrices per study from various samples, study sites, labs, or countries, thus introducing hierarchical effect size multiplicity into the meta-analytic data. However, this feature has largely been ignored when pooling correlation matrices for meta-analysis. To contribute to the methodological development in this area, we describe a multilevel, multivariate, and random-effects modeling approach, which pools correlation matrices meta-analytically and, at the same time, addresses hierarchical effect size multiplicity. Specifically, it allows meta-analysts to test various assumptions on the dependencies among random effects, aiding the selection of a meta-analytic baseline model. We describe this approach, present four working models within it, and illustrate them with an example and the corresponding R code.

This paper explores the impact of handle silicon substrate resistivity on substrate noise coupling and its influence on the spectral purity of voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs). Three VCOs were designed using the 28 nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology and fabricated on process-of-reference wafer featuring a handle Si substrate resistivity value of 10 Ω.cm and also on high-resistivity (HR) Si handle wafer of 1 kΩ.cm. The output spectrum of the VCOs was measured under two conditions: with and without a 0 dBm noise signal injected into the substrate. The results demonstrate that passivated HR substrates achieve more than 26 dB reduction in parasitic spurs induced by substrate noise. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this work presents the first fabrication and measurement of VCOs on HR substrates in FD-SOI technology, highlighting their effectiveness in mitigating substrate noise coupling.

Answering a question of Kaye, we show that the compositional truth theory with the full collection scheme is conservative over Peano Arithmetic. We demonstrate it by showing that countable models of compositional truth which satisfy the internal induction or collection axioms can be end-extended to models of the respective theory.

Assessing fit in common factor models solely through the lens of mean and covariance structures, as is commonly done with conventional goodness-of-fit (GOF) assessments, may overlook critical aspects of misfit, potentially leading to misleading conclusions. To achieve more flexible fit assessment, we extend the theory of generalized residuals (Haberman & Sinharay, 2013), originally developed for models with categorical data, to encompass more general measurement models. Within this extended framework, we propose several fit test statistics designed to evaluate various parametric assumptions involved in common factor models. The examples include assessing the distributional assumptions of latent variables and the functional form assumptions of individual manifest variables. The performance of the proposed statistics is examined through simulation studies and an empirical data analysis. Our findings suggest that generalized residuals are promising tools for detecting misfit in measurement models, often masked when assessed by conventional GOF testing methods.

One barrier to patients’ compliance in following instructions to take prescription medication is their memory of those instructions. Effective communication can be challenging with older adults, since people can use ineffective strategies to compensate for older adults’ presumed communication difficulties. The purpose of this study was to test whether older adults would benefit from gestures and/or props in hearing explanations of the appropriate use of prescription medication. Participants were 181 adults 65 years or older. They evaluated pharmacy students on their communication. Each participant watched video clips of pharmacy students explaining how to use fictional medications in three conditions: (1) speech only, (2) speech and gestures, and (3) speech and props. Participants were tested on their memory and rated the effectiveness of the communication of each pharmacy student. Participants showed no differences in memory across conditions. These findings do not support the use of gestures and/or props in effective communication with older adults.