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AbstractA rising trend is that analysts bundle earnings forecasts for multiple firms on the same day, and such forecast bundling is associated with low‐quality forecasts. We explore target price bundling and recommendation bundling. Factors driving bundling revisions of an output for multiple firms vary across three outputs: forecasts, target prices, and recommendations. Target price (recommendation) revisions bundled for firms are less informative than stand‐alone revisions. Although consistency in the direction of revisions between different outputs is typically associated with higher perceived quality, consistent revisions between outputs are not associated with higher informativeness of revisions bundled for multiple firms.

It can be argued that nearly thirty years of heavily centralised intervention into English pedagogy, curriculum and assessment have had a deprofessionalising effect on teachers. The accountability stranglehold means it is safer for English teachers to implement accepted strategies that are perceived to enable pupils to negotiate assessment hurdles, rather than to take risks with their practice and teach English in a way that reflects their own beliefs and political ideas about the transformative power of the subject for children. History shows us that some of the most radical reformers of subject English harnessed their political ideals in their pursuit of a progressive pedagogy; is it possible now to adopt such an approach?

Spanning an international evidence base, this book traces the development of contemporary theory, policy and practice within the field of mental health. Drawing on snapshots from across the lifespan, it assesses the impact of issues such as gender and sexuality, and explores the range of global perspectives on mental ill health.

The study investigated the effectiveness of implanting a Self-Directed Learning (SDL) approach in teaching Biology to grade nine students. The research was conducted in Bhutan over the course of one year, utilizing a convergent parallel mixed method design. Data were meticulously collected from a diverse group of students and teachers. This comprehensive datasets were obtained through closed-ended survey questionnaires (32 students: Experimental Group), face-to-face semi-structured interviews (5 students, 1 Biology teacher), and Content Achievement Tests (64 students: both experimental and control group). For data analysis, quantitative data were subjected to descriptive and inferential statistical analyses using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 22, while qualitative data were analyzed thematically.
The findings of this study unveiled three significant outcomes. The application of the self-directed learning approach demonstrated a substantial enhancement in students' performance in Biology compared to conventional lecture-based classroom instruction, with a mean difference of 1.81 and a P value of .02. Moreover, the marginal mean difference between post-test and delayed post-test results for the experimental group (mean difference = 0.06) indicated that self-directed learning positively impacted the knowledge retention of the learners. Gender-based analysis, however, revealed no statistically significant differences (P = .73). Thus, this study affirms that the self-directed learning approach had a positive medium effect size compared to conventional lecture-based methods, highlighting the effectiveness of the self-directed learning approach as a valuable strategy for achieving high-quality teaching outcomes and enhancing students' performance in learning Biology.

Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This edited volume brings together practitioners and researchers to discuss climate-related resilience from the building to the city scale. This book highlights North American cases that deal with issues such as climate projections, public health, adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations, and design interventions for floodplains, making the content applicable to many locations around the world. The contributors in this book discuss topics ranging from how built environment professionals respond to a changing climate, to how the building stock may need to adapt to climate change, to how resilience is currently being addressed in the design, construction, and operations communities. The purpose of this book is to provide a better understanding of climate change impacts, vulnerability, and resilience across scales of the built environment. Architects, urban designers, planners, landscape architects, and engineers will find this a useful resource for adapting buildings and cities to a changing climate.

Contents -- Jewish Linguistic Spectrum -- Introduction: Where Are Jewish Languages? - Anita Norich and Joshua L. Miller -- Part 1 | Contesting Perceptions -- Chapter 1. The Joint Literary Historiography of Hebrew and Yiddish - Chana Kronfeld -- Chapter 2. A German Gentleman-Scientist in Hebrew/Yiddish Garb: Translating Freud - Ruth Ginsburg -- Chapter 3. "Thou Shalt Make Thee an Image": Yiddish Writers Representing Their Language - Avraham Novershtern -- Chapter 4. The Question of Judeo-Arabic(s): Itineraries of Belonging - Ella Shohat -- Part 2 | Resituating Languages -- Chapter 5. Hebrew in the Crucible: Multilingual Voices in Israel Zangwill's The Melting Pot - Hana Wirth-Nesher -- Chapter 6. The "Spanish Jewish Project": Reciprocity in an Age of Westernization - Aviva Ben-Ur -- Chapter 7. Saving Yiddish, Saving American Jewry: Max Weinreich in 1940s New York City - Kalman Weiser -- Part 3 | Multi-languages -- Chapter 8. "With the changing of horizons comes the broadening of the horizon": Multilingual Narrative Modes in M. Y. Berdichevsky's Miriam - Na'ama Rokem -- Chapter 9. A gast af a vayl zeyt af a mayl: Distance, Displacement, and Dislocation in Dovid Bergelson's Mides ha-din and Alfred Döblin's Reise in Polen - Marc Caplan -- Chapter 10. The Politics of the Hebrew Hassidic Tale in the Russian Empire - Hannan Hever -- Part 4 | Across Time -- Chapter 11. Il-ʿarabi dyālna (Our Arabic): The History and Politics of Judeo-Arabic - Benjamin Hary -- Chapter 12. Twenty-First-Century Talk about Judezmo on the Ladinokomunita Website - David M. Bunis -- Chapter 13. "¿Qué pasa, Moishe?": Language and Identity in Jewish Latin America - Ilan Stavans -- Part 5 | Writers Reflect -- Chapter 14. When Spelling Counts - Dara Horn -- Chapter 15. Holiness and Jewish Rebellion: "Questions of Accent" Twenty Years Afterward - Murat Nemet-Nejat

"This Transmedia Cultures Companion will show that Transmedia, and indeed Transmedia storytelling are fundamental to the human experience of being in the world and to creating the stories of who we are both as individuals and communities. Transmedia then is not just about the Star Wars or Harry Potter franchises or narratives that are exclusive to platforms and devices under the umbrella of New Media, but is anything that creates a believable, navigable space. As such this Companion will take a holistic approach broadening out the areas of everyday life that are implicated and entangled within Transmedia Cultures and world-building and the levels of engagement/immersion that they, purposely or otherwise, create. Of great importance within this are the ways in which Transmedia can facilitate or censor non-normative and individual identities both online or in terms of physical or economical access to technology. This volume then will not so much complicate the topic of Transmedia Cultures but reveal the ever increasing levels of entanglement it has within our real-lives and with those we experience in other more imaginative or creative ones bringing into focus exactly what is at stake in the 'worlds' we choose to call our own"--

While the South African legislation is an enabler for equity, inclusiveness, social justice and the advancement of women for academic leadership roles, institutional cultures and structures are often debilitating. This paper presents the development trajectory of a Black woman as an academic development leader in a South African University of Technology. It examines structural and cultural factors acting as enablers or constraints to leadership development and career advancement for Black women. It analyses dominant structural frames and undertakings of different University stakeholders (agents), which cause stagnation and resistance to morphogenesis and government's transformation agenda. Using Participatory Narrative Inquiry (PNI), I narrate personal experiences and insights as a participant researcher. I interrogate the experiences, observations and influence of various structural and cultural modalities within Margaret Archer's (1995) social realist framework of structure, culture and agency. I highlight the implications of these for development of a Black female academic development leader.Keywords: career advancement, equity and transformation, Higher Education, narrative inquiry, resistant cultures

People are today located in media ecosystems in which a variety of ICT devices and platforms coexist and complement each other to fulfil users' heterogeneous requirements. These multi-media affordances promote a highly hyperlinked and nomadic habit of digital data management which blurs the long-standing boundaries between information storage, sharing and exchange. Specifically, during the pervasive sharing and browsing of fragmentary digital information (e.g. photos, videos, online diaries, news articles) across various platforms, life experiences and knowledge involved are meanwhile classified and stored for future retrieval and collective memory construction. For international migrants who straddle different geographical and cultural contexts, management of various digital materials is particularly complicated as they have to be familiar with and appropriately navigate technological infrastructures of both home and host countries. Drawing on ethnographic observations of 40 Chinese migrant mothers in Singapore, this article delves into their quotidian routines of acquiring, storing, sharing and exchanging digital information across a range of ICT devices and platforms, as well as cultural and emotional implications of these mediated behaviours for their everyday life experiences. A multi-layer and multi-sited repertoire of 'life archiving' was identified among these migrant mothers in which they leave footprints of everyday life through a tactical combination of interactive sharing, pervasive tagging and backup storage of diverse digital content.

The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Art, Literature, and Culture is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on the contribution of Bourdieu's thought to the study of cultural production

Turns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearms smuggled south from the United States to Mexico and their ricochet effects. American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction--following the guns from dealers in Arizona and Texas to crime scenes in Mexico. An expert work of narrative nonfiction, Exit Wounds provides a rare, intimate look into the world of firearms trafficking and urges us to understand the effects of lax US gun laws abroad. Jusionyte masterfully weaves together the gripping stories of people who live and work with guns north and south of the border: a Mexican businessman who smuggles guns for protection, a teenage girl turned trained assassin, two US federal agents trying to stop gun traffickers, and a journalist who risks his life to report on organized crime. Based on years of fieldwork, Exit Wounds expands current debates about guns in America, grappling with US complicity in violence on both sides of the border.

AbstractSince the 1979 Revolution, Iranian pilgrims have engaged in saint visitation (ziyarat) to sites in Syria. By travelling via Turkey on buses, and venerating Sayyida Zainab at their destination, these pilgrims disrupt conventional conceptions of not only Islamic ritual, but also Iranian mobility under sanctions. Their experiences venerating Sayyida Zainab – emerging out of a self‐described 'poverty of mobility' – demonstrate the utility of a more expansive conceptualization of ritual in anthropology. Instead of taking ritual for a scripturally canonized 'manual for' pious self‐cultivation, here I approach ziyarat as a traffic of pilgrims, goods, and ideas across Iran, Turkey, and Syria. This approach produces a dynamic and spatial conception of ziyarat as a ritual of mobility. Ethnographic attention to these pilgrims' politically conditioned and regionally networked spatial practices reveals that their movements are irreducible to ethical projects of cultivating piety alone. What is at stake in Iranian pilgrims' movements is nothing short of the extra‐religious conditions of religion – those of the economy and the polity. These stakes illuminate how religious practices interarticulate with political and social institutions – including bazaars, borders, and shrines – that remain understudied in recent anthropological scholarship on Islamic piety.