Critical Adult Learning of Immigrant Workers: A Social Network Perspective

Why does one immigrant worker get involved in critical learning whereas another does not? This study attempted to answer the question by revealing how social ties of immigrant workers play a key role in mediating critical learning to a particular political attitude. The results of the study suggested that immigrant workers who showed a resistant political attitude, which is linked to the process of critical learning, tended to have more social ties and occupy more important socio-structural positions in their network than other peer workers

The History of UNESCO’s Lifelong Learning Policy Discourses: A Enduring Social Democratic Liberalist Project of Global Educational Development

This article exposes precisely what ideological influences have been situated as authoritative and as marginal within UNESCO’s lifelong learning policy discourses over time, periodizing those discourses in terms of their political-economic contexts. As such, analysis reveals UNESCO’s continuous commitment to extending social democratic liberalist lifelong learning discourses of global educational development in the interest of global justice

Multislice Electron Tomography using 4D-STEM

Electron tomography offers important three-dimensional (3D) structural information which cannot be observed by two-dimensional imaging. By combining annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy (ADF-STEM) with aberration correction, the resolution of electron tomography has reached atomic resolution. However, tomography based on ADF-STEM inherently suffers from several issues, including a high electron dose requirement, poor contrast for light elements, and artifacts from image contrast nonlinearity. Here, we developed a new method called MultiSlice Electron Tomography (MSET) based on 4D-STEM tilt series. Our simulations show that multislice-based 3D reconstruction can effectively reduce undesirable reconstruction artifacts from the nonlinear contrast, allowing precise determination of atomic structures with improved sensitivity for low-Z elements, at considerably low electron dose conditions. We expect that the MSET method can be applied to a wide variety of materials, including radiation-sensitive samples and materials containing light elements whose 3D atomic structures have never been fully elucidated due to electron dose limitations or nonlinear imaging contrast.Comment: 26 pages, 9 figure

A Cyber Command and Control Framework for Psychological Operation Using Social Media

Global threats, international terrorist groups and North Korea, paralyze political decisions by attacking and neutralizing the credibility of the main policy makers in the state and simultaneously manipulate the public opinion, which results in distrust and disconnection between each other. These threats use social media as their biggest core routine to conduct such attacks. This paper presents a series of processes and frameworks on how a commander should make a decision when performing a cyber psychological operation using social media. Based on the Endsley model, which is a situational awareness model, the paper compares the strengths and weaknesses of the three social media operations (IGMO, DeSMO, OSMO) performed by the military and proposes a guideline for performing an operation

"EU enlargement and small states: Their effect on CFSP"

With the EU expanding its physical boundaries to the South and the East, one of the main questions preoccupying its member states is how to deal with the growing number of small applicant states. Research has concentrated on the potential effect of large candidate countries on the enlarged EU, but most of this has concentrated on large countries. This paper aims to examine some of the political effects which small applicant states would have on the enlarged EU, with particular reference to its common foreign and security policies. To this end, this paper will analyze the characteristics of small candidate countries in order to deduce their likely positions and patterns of behavior and, consequently, their effect on the future development of the CFSP. In particular, their impacts will be examined on the basis of three following questions. First, how will heterogeneous and diverse interest of the acceding small states effect the cohesion and autonomy of the CFSP? Second, how will they affect its operational efficiency? Lastly, how will they then influence the remit of the CFSP, focusing on the relationship between the EU and the U.S., Russia, etc.