What if becoming information literate were an adventure? This question was posed in a keynote for the Creating Knowledge Conference 2021.It was answered in a thought piece by examining adventure-based ways to prepare students to be information literate adults through the principles and mechanisms that people find arousing and pleasurable Tattooing
Blackness as a non-monolithic lived experience surrounds us at all times, permeating across institutions and platforms.Within this antiblack singularity where Black is rendered visible through violence and cruelty, Look @ Me Now: Black (In)Visibility across Institutions and Platforms seeks submissions highlighting Black joy, activism, exploration,
A scholarly communication system needs to register, distribute, certify, archive, and incentivize knowledge production.The current article-based system technically fulfills these Emergency Lighting functions, but suboptimally.I propose a module-based communication infrastructure that attempts to take a wider view of these functions and optimize the
We estimated the prevalence of HIV, HBV and HCV infections among injecting and non-injecting drug users treated within public drug-treatment centres in Italy to determine the correlates Wovens of infection.In the sample of 1330 drug users, the prevalence of HIV was 14.4% among drug injectors and 1.6% among non-injectors; the prevalence of HBV was 7
We report on an ultra-compact, low loss Denim and broadband TM-pass polarizer, which is constructed by two interleaved subwavelength-gratings (SWGs) waveguides inserted in the center of the strip waveguide on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform.The device structure is optimally engineered to support Bloch mode for fundamental TM polarization only