Artbotics is a collaboration between faculty in computer science, the arts, and the social sciences. It is a complex project that involves the following elements: • High school and university students with diverse backgrounds coming together to create interactive, microprocessor-enabled installation art. • A collaboration among faculty from different departments and intersecting interests who a...

Although intergenerational patterns of punitive physical punishment garner considerable research attention, the mechanisms by which historical, cognitive, and contextual factors interplay to influence disciplinary responding remains poorly understood. Disciplinary attitudes have been shown to mediate the association between disciplinary history and disciplinary responding. The present study inv...

This paper explores sub-disciplinary variations and generic structure of research article introductions (RAIs) within three sub-disciplines of applied linguistics (AL); namely, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Psycholinguistics, and Sociolinguistics, using Swales’(1990) CARS model. The corpus consisted of 90 RAIs drawn from a wide range of refereed journals in the corresponding sub-discipli...

There is an ongoing debate in Community Informatics about the need for a stronger conceptual and theoretical base in order to give the field disciplinary cohesion and direction. By investigating the body of reflective thinking in Information Systems, researchers in Community Informatics can develop a more rigorous theoretical context for their work. Information Systems can be considered as a fr...

In the Exchanges, we present conversations with scholars and practitioners of community engagement, responses to previously published material, other reflections on various aspects community-engaged scholarship meant provoke further dialogue discussion. this section, invite our readers offer their thoughts ideas meanings understandings engaged scholarship, as practiced in local or faraway commu...

IZINDABA 626 Protracted inaction, avoidance, broken undertakings and suspicion have greeted Izindaba attempts to report the fate of a top official in the national health department's Foreign Workforce Management Programme (FWMP) found guilty internally of taking kickbacks. Besides confirming that Sean-Allen Smith, a pivotal player in the ongoing placement of foreign doctors and a deputy directo...

INTRODUCTION Pediatric guidelines emphasize the importance for healthcare providers to view children in the context of family and community, and promote community resources at visits. In 2006, a Family Help Desk (FHD) was established in an urban academic-based clinic in Baltimore, MD to assist healthcare providers in educating families about available community-based resources. METHODS A long...

shiffman has argued that some actors have a great deal of power in global health, and that more reflection is needed on whether such forms of power are legitimate. global health is a new and evolving field that builds upon the historical fields of public and international health, but is more multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary in nature. this article argues that the distribution of power ...

The Biology Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has requested that organismal biologists develop a vision and articulate the grand research challenges that will drive the future of organismal biology and the large-scale community-wide efforts that would be needed to address those challenges. Over the past decade, organismal animal biologists have been slow to develop community-...