Global lessons are emerging on the enablers of effective knowledge co-production. An inclusion greater reflexivity, which incorporates broad socio-political perspectives and feedbacks, could be next frontier for integrated assessment communities.

This article highlights key theoretical and methodological issues and implications of being an insider/outsider when undertaking qualitative research in international educational settings. It first addresses discourses of ‘self’ and ‘other’, noting that identity and belonging emerge from fluid engagement between researchers and participants. It considers the benefits and challenges of being an ...

This arts-based study serves two interrelated purposes. First, it draws from multiple tales to illustrate reflexivity (and its benefits) between the author, research topic, and participants. Different forms of tales show multiple and diverse human interconnections and the complexity of understanding potential leisure among sex offenders. The importance of prioritizing reflexivity should not be ...

Autocatalytic self-construction in macromolecular systems requires the existence of a reflexive relationship between structural components and the functional operations they perform to synthesise themselves. The possibility of reflexivity depends on formal, semiotic features of the catalytic structure-function relationship, that is, the embedding of catalytic functions in the space of polymeric...

Let E be an ideal of Lo over a σ-finite measure space (Ω,Σ, μ), and let (X, ‖ ·‖X) be a real Banach space. Let E(X) be a subspace of the space Lo(X) of μ-equivalence classes of all strongly Σ-measurable functions f : Ω −→ X and consisting of all those f ∈ Lo(X) for which the scalar function ‖f(·)‖X belongs to E. Let E(X)n stand for the order continuous dual of E(X). In this paper we characteriz...

This book provides a semiotic analysis of computer programs along three axes: models of signs, kinds of signs, and systems of signs. Since computer programs are well defined and rigid, applying semiotic theories to them will help to reorganize the semiotic theories themselves. Moreover, semiotic discussion of programming theory can provide possible explanations for why programming has developed...

We introduce a new measure for planar point sets S that captures a combinatorial distance that S is from being a convex set: The reflexivity ρ(S) of S is given by the smallest number of reflex vertices in a simple polygonalization of S. We prove various combinatorial bounds and provide efficient algorithms to compute reflexivity, both exactly (in special cases) and approximately (in general). O...

The case for undertaking policy analysis has been made by a number of scholars and practitioners. However, there has been much less attention given to how to do policy analysis, what research designs, theories or methods best inform policy analysis. This paper begins by looking at the health policy environment, and some of the challenges to researching this highly complex phenomenon. It focuses...

We associate to a finite digraph D a lattice polytope PD whose vertices are the rows of the Laplacian matrix of D. This generalizes a construction introduced by Braun and the third author. As a consequence of the Matrix-Tree Theorem, we show that the normalized volume of PD equals the complexity of D, and PD contains the origin in its relative interior if and only if D is strongly connected. In...

‎let $x$‎, ‎$y$ and $z$ be banach spaces and $f:xtimes y‎ ‎longrightarrow z$ a bounded bilinear map‎. ‎in this paper we‎ ‎study the relation between arens regularity of $f$ and the‎ ‎reflexivity of $y$‎. ‎we also give some conditions under which the‎ ‎arens regularity of a banach algebra $a$ implies the arens‎ ‎regularity of certain banach right module action of $a$‎ .