Discourse Representation of COVID-19 in Editorial Columns in Jordanian Newspapers

This study aims to explore the discourse representation of COVID-19 in editorial columns in Jordanian newspapers. The corpus of the study consists of sixty-four editorial columns from three Jordanian newspapers, namely, Addustour, Al-Rai, and Al-Ghad during the period March to November, 2020. A thematic analysis was used in the data analysis to identify the themes represented by the Jordanian newspapers' editorials concerning COVID-19. A critical discourse analysis (CDA) was also adopted to understand the discourse representation strategies and discursive practices used by the Jordanian newspapers' editorial columns in their representation of COVID-19. The study has found that the editorials used thirteen themes in representing COVID-19, including pandemic, economic consequences, fighting COVID-19, abiding by health measures, crisis, danger, outbreak, lockdown, raising awareness, fear and worry, lifestyle changing, threat to humanity, and killing. Furthermore, the editorials used ten representational discourse strategies to represent COVID-19, namely, positive self-presentation, implication, actor description, authority, example/illustration, evidentiality, lexicalization, metaphor, negative other-presentation, and number game.

AC317 The Plant Phenome Journal editorial board

An initial quality control check was completed for the journal and magazine content and a check of the books content is currently under way. Authors make edits directly to the HTML article file, which cuts down time to publication and reduces errors introduced during typesetting. [...]far we've received positive response and hope to expand this program to additional titles. [...]the group reviewed mismatched guidelines and adopted a standardized Scientific Misconduct Statement for all 13 journals to create uniformity across the journal collection. The JIF is one tool used to evaluate a journal's relative importance when compared with other journals in the same study area.

Editorial Comment: Feminist Methodologies at Play

Discourse concerning the Atlanta Spa Shootings, which happened around the time that this issue first started to come together in March of 2021, has renewed the urgency of thinking about performance and feminism together.1 Given that this issue's publication roughly coincides with the first anniversary of those murders, the violent events in Atlanta have loomed in the background of the editorial process. [...]although the essays in this issue address quite distinct forms of performance and paratheatrical phenomena from state surveillance to fan groups to online participatory audiences, all of the essays use feminist methodologies either explicitly or implicitly. [...]this editorial highlights some of their convergences to think through how the interventions of each author might speak to a feminist knowledge project that is critical in this historical moment. Fans watch events transpire in Wanda's magically created world, which is itself surveyed in the narrative by an extra-governmental agency (elaborated in the comic books if not so much in the television miniseries itself);these source materials give Wanda and Vision their names and provide many backstories for the roster of secondary characters. Barnette suggests that the series also provided a platform to see the ethical conundrums of real-life individuals whose positions of power grant their words authority;witness former president Donald Trump inciting the attack on the Capitol.

Under-researched populations and topics in sport and exercise medicine (SEM)

Correspondence to Dr Sharief Hendricks, Division of Physiological Sciences and Health through Physical Activity, Lifetsyle and Sport Research Centre, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape 7725, South Africa;sharief.hendricks01@gmail.com In this South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA) edition of BJSM, we spotlight work on under-researched populations and topics in sport and exercise medicine (SEM). Youth sport, TGNC athletes and mental health Access to athlete mental health care, like physical care, can be considered a resource that allows athletes to function, cope with stress, perform and achieve their goals. In 2019, the IOC established the Mental Health Working Group to develop an assessment battery for the early identification of mental health symptoms and disorders in elite athletes.3 The internal consistency of the mental health assessment battery has been tested in elite athletes, but can the same internal consistency be shown for student athletes?

Editorials: Inactivated vaccines protection against COVID-19 symptomatic infections

Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 have been become the dominant variant family among more than 100 countries and regions around the world. There are still limited data on how inactivated COVID-19 vaccines prevent Omicron-related symptomatic infection, transmission, hospital admission, and death3. Recently, Dawei Yang et al. published a paper in the to explore the effect of inactivated COVID-19 vaccines on Omicron from the perspective of real-world observation data.

SAJM Special Issue (29.5) on "Green Economy for Sustainable Development: Indian Initiatives"

Universal Business School (UBS), one of the first management institutes to release its own Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) report, hosted the 2nd edition of 'UBS International Research Conference & Workshop' from March 24 to 26, 2022 on the theme: "Green Economy, A Necessity for Sustainable Future", which included a pre-conference workshop held on March 24, 2022. On March 24, 2022, a pre-conference workshop was conducted for doctoral scholars and academicians from UBS and across the country by Dr Ajay Chauhan, DirectorFPM, UBS, on "High Quality Research Paper Writing Tips" wherein he provided insights to aspiring scholars on topic selection, data-collection and analysis methods and journal selection for potential publications. Pedagogical Changes during Covid Times and their Impact on Learning Outcomes and Employment Prospects: Perceptions of PG Students Dr. Sapna A. Narula, President of the Global Network for Sustainable Development, and Professor and Dean of the School of Management Studies at Nalanda University, spoke in her plenary address about the transition from carbon-heavy economies to net-zero economies that seek to balance supply and demand and explained how businesses can contribute to a greener future.

Celebrating 60 years of general practice training programs in Australia

Over the years, training for general practice has undergone several iterations, with profession-led training starting this year.2 Yet, the mission is essentially unchanged and follows the lead of the RACGP through acknowledging that the patient is at the centre of care, supported in the first instance by their regular GP to provide patient-centred, comprehensive, high-quality, continuous, coordinated, and accessible care.3 This year also heralds the arrival of a new triennium of continuing professional development (CPD) standards for Australian GPs. With that in mind, AJGP will now publish the answers to the clinical challenge in the following issue, to ensure that all current and aspiring GPs, regardless of location and circumstances, may benefit from this program. GPs continue to be the most common health professional seen by the Australian public, with 84% having at least one consultation each year, rising to 95% for those with a chronic disease,5 leading us full circle to the RACGP mission, which places patients at the forefront.

Introduction: Domestication of War

This Special Section broadens and qualifies the terms through which the relationship between home and militarization has been understood. We do this by joining a vibrant and growing field of transdisciplinary scholars who address the militarization of everyday life by attending to domesticity and practices of domestication. We grapple with how the home naturalizes and becomes a catalyst for militarism: How do ordinary and domestic objects, technologies, spaces, and infrastructures make violence feel at home in the world? We are concerned with the domestic life of militarization as oikos: the household, habitat, and milieu of violent material relationships that are both ongoing and latent. The domestic is not just a discrete, private space;it also extends into public spaces like neighborhoods, local businesses, waste disposal infrastructures, hospices, and crop fields. Developed within an editorial process rooted in a feminist ethos, the articles collected here provide critical and alternative methodologies and disciplinary forms for considering militarism's aesthetics, affects, and modes of appearance. This collection resists conventional spatialities, temporalities, and incarnations of war while calling attention to the obscuring of violence through practices of care and marketing operations.

Guest editorial

Corporate governance and sustainable development in Africa The African continent faces many challenges including extreme poverty, rampant corruption, human rights abuses, environmental degradation (due to extractive industry activities), extreme inequalities, HIV/AIDS, conflicts and weak rule of law. In the context of these many challenges, Africa is strongly featured in the UN 2030 Sustainable Development agenda as most vulnerable and deserving special attention (United Nations General Assembly, 2015). [...]SDGs are particularly relevant to Africa among other development countries. NEPAD in particular, an initiative by the African leadership, emphasises the importance of good governance for achieving sustainable development in Africa and sets out principles to strengthen, not only political governance, but also economic and corporate governance (Hope, 2005). [...]there has always been acceptance that effective firm-level corporate governance is paramount in supporting sustainable development in Africa on the continent (Hope, 2005). Most studies examining the impact of corporate governance in African firms' decision-making processes have focused on firm performance (Mangena et al., 2012;Darko et al., 2016;Assenga et al., 2018;Erena et al., 2022;Abang'a et al., 2022) and corporate reporting (Waweru et al., 2019;Chijoke-Mgbame et al., 2020). [...]our knowledge about whether and how corporate governance contributes to the SDGs or sustainable development principles in Africa remains very limited.

Editorial

[...]IRRODL has been including articles reflecting the educational community's response to the pandemic. Innab, Albloushi, Alruwaili, Alqahtani, Alenazi, and Alkathiri in their COVID-19 related paper The Influence of Sense of Community and Satisfaction With E-Learning and Their Impact on Nursing Students' Academic Achievement underscore the importance of student-student interaction and engagement in providing quality online programs. [...]in our Notes section, Rawson, Okere, and Tooth in Using Low-immersive Virtual Reality in Online Learning: Field Notes from Environmental Management Education explore the role of low-immersive VR as a desktop tool for online distance learning students.

Empathic Projections: Visual Anthropology, Design, and Acknowledgement

Averting or embracing our capacity for acknowledgement results from what we are willing to take-in what there is to see. In this sense, the photo essay in general confronts us with the limits of our capacities. This essay attempts to examine how it is that the photo essay and its design contend with imagination and acknowledgment. Considering recent editorial initiatives and a redesign of Visual Anthropology Review, and, in greater depth, Feldman and Pérez's photo essay "Living at the LUX: Homelessness and improvisational waiting under COVID-19," this essay asks: How does the photo essay-and relatedly, the photograph-in its looks face the possibility of a resistance to acknowledge the reality it depicts?

Chasing Societal Impact, Not Impact Factor: A Reflection as Outgoing Editor

Je me réjouis de l'occasion qui m'a été donnée d'etre, depuis janvier 2019, le rédacteur en chef de la revue Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne. Aux côtés de mon équipe de rédaction formée des professeurs Sharpe, Godbout et Greenman, j'ai mis un point d'honneur, au cours des quatre dernieres années, a mettre en valeur l' excellent travail des scientifiques du domaine de la psychologie et, ce faisant, a renforcer la pertinence de notre profession au regard des enjeux critiques de la société. Nous avons réalisé de grands progres en vue de réaffirmer l' engagement de la revue a publier dans tous les domaines touchant a la psychologie, a établir un cadre de publication équitable et inclusif, et a promouvoir la formation ainsi que le mentorat d'un bout a l'autre du processus de publication. Dans cet éditorial, je réfléchis aux progres accomplis en vue de matérialiser la vision rajeunie du journal, soit d'avoir une incidence sociale plus grande et d'etre un moteur de « Pintérét public ». Nous avons notamment lancé notre Programme de mentorat en evaluation d'articles pour les étudiants et les étudiantes diplômés, publié cinq numéros spéciaux et avons vu deux de nos articles faire partie du top 10 des articles de l'American Psychological Association publiés en 2021 les plus téléchargés.Alternate :Since January 2019, it has been such a pleasure to be the editor of Canadian Psychology /Psychologie canadienne. Along with my editorial team, Professors Sharpe, Godbout, and Greenman, I have taken great pride over these past 4 years in showcasing the excellent work of psychological scientists and, by doing so, consolidating the relevance of our profession to society's critical questions. We made great strides in reaffirming the journal's commitment to publishing in all areas of psychological inquiry, to an equitable and inclusive publishing framework, and to promoting training and mentoring through the publication process. In this editorial, I reflect on our progress in realizing the journal's rejuvenated vision of having a wider societal impact and being an engine of the "public good," including launching our Graduate Student Reviewer Mentorship Program, creating five special issues, and having two articles in the top 10 downloads of all American Psychological Association journal articles published in 2021.

Why Nature needs to stand up for science and evidence

When participants were then prompted to read information from different sources about vaccine efficacy against new COVID-19 variants, Trump supporters who had been shown the summary of Nature's editorial were less likely to trust Nature's information on COVID-19, and also reported more mistrust in US scientists. Trump had laid waste to science and scientific institutions at home on issues from COVID-19 to climate change, and had gutted environmental regulations even in the face of increasing climate risk. When individuals seeking office have a track record of causing harm, when they are transparently dismissive of facts and integrity, when they threaten scholarly autonomy, and when they are disdainful of cooperation and consensus, it becomes important to speak up.