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A Cyclopedia of Girls and Physical Education
(Springer, 2026-09-07) Ingram, Toni; Thompson, Kylie
This article experiments with form to offer readers a sense of girls’ experiences of physical education in Aotearoa New Zealand. Inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s (2014) Cyclopedia of an Arctic Expedition, and theoretical ideas from new materialisms and postqualitative inquiry, we assemble an alphabetised cyclopedia of participant comments that evoke varied scenes and sensations. Rather than arranging girls’ comments into stable themes that develop a cohesive argument, the cyclopedia functions more as an invitation to an encounter where meaning emerges relationally in the act of reading. Reading is conceptualised as an ‘event’ that is open-ended, where impressions always become anew. The cyclopedia begins with a preface to set the scene, and concludes with an afterword that provides further methodological context for the reader.
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Upload: Navigating Privilege, Power, and Perpetuity in Digital Afterlife
(Routledge, 2025-08-19) Bhargava, Deepti
Fictional portrayals of digital afterlife have gained prominence in popular culture, offering both imaginative narratives and critical reflections on the socio-political, legal, and philosophical implications of digital immortality. Amazon Prime’s Upload (2020–) envisions a near future where human consciousness can be transferred into corporate-controlled virtual afterlives. The series follows Nathan Brown, who is uploaded to Lakeview, a premium digital afterlife owned by the tech giant Horizen, with access dictated by financial privilege. Unlike The Good Place, which follows a similar comedic arc of self-discovery, Upload offers a critical inquiry of digital eternity, highlighting inequalities that persist beyond death. This chapter examines Upload as a cautionary satire that exposes the commodification of afterlife technologies, raising key questions about power, control, and access in the expanding digital death industry.
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Generative AI and Social Science Research: Editor’s Introduction
(SAGE Publications, 2026-08-13) Connelly, Roxanne; Boyask, Ruth; Harrison, Eric
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Things That Cannot Be Seen in Any Other Way: Painting the Third Space
(Auckland University of Technology, 2026) Reynolds-Hatem, Armani; Amundsen, Fiona; Guo, Tony
This practice led research explores how painting can construct a third space that holds lived experiences of identity, home, and family. It is grounded in my position as both Māori and Syrian. The project responds to the difficulty of locating identity within a singular cultural framework. I position identity as something formed across and between positions. Drawing on Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of ‘third space’, I explore how an Oasis can operate as a conceptual and material framework for world-building within painting. Oasis acts as a constructed environment where memory, culture, and lived experience coexist in flux, resisting singular definitions of identity. My research questions how painting can make visible these lived experiences whilst allowing them to remain partial and not fully resolved. The project is methodologically grounded in everyday encounters of home and family, which function as both method and subject. Beginning with diaristic watercolour sketches and translating into large scale oil paintings, symbols and figures emerge through lived encounters and work as a visual language that holds experience without fixing it. Informed by Édouard Glissant’s ideas concerning the ‘right to opacity’, full transparency is resisted allowing meaning to remain partially hidden. Utilising installation strategies, I explore how paintings can function as thresholds that must be physically navigated. Viewers are invited to enter a space yet not fully grasp it.
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Bag Size for Manual Ventilation During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Adult Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review
(Elsevier BV, 2026-09-01) Dewan, ML; Johnson, NJ; Masterson, S; Bray, JE; Bradfield, M; Brooks, SC; Cash, RE; Chung, SP; Considine, J; Dainty, KN; Dassanayake, V; Debaty, G; Dicker, B; Folke, F; Ikeyama, T; Hansen, CM; Lukas, G; Lagina, A; Morley, PT; Nehme, Z; Morrison, LJ; Norii, T; Olasveengen, T; Perkins, GD; Pocock, H; Raffay, V; Ristagno, G; Samantaray, A; Semeraro, F; Singh, B; Smith, CM; Smyth, MA; Spartinou, A; Vaillancourt, C
Background: Smaller-capacity self-inflating bags have been proposed to limit delivered tidal volume during adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). This review evaluates whether using smaller-capacity self-inflating bags, compared with standard-size adult bags, for manual ventilation during CPR affects patient and ventilation outcomes. Methods: We conducted a systematic review using the ILCOR Continuous Evidence Evaluation approach, searching MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, and CENTRAL from inception to May 7, 2026 (PROSPERO CRD420251266387). Eligible studies included randomized and non-randomized designs in humans and simulation. Critical outcomes were survival to discharge or 30 days with and without favorable neurological outcome. Important outcomes included survived event, return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), tidal volume, ventilation rate, and adverse events. Certainty of evidence was assessed using GRADE. Results: No randomized trials were identified. Evidence comprised one before-and-after observational study ( n = 1994 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients with advanced airways) and two cross-over simulation studies. The observational study compared periods using smaller ventilation bags (450–700 mL) with standard adult bags (1000–1685 mL). Compared with the standard-bag period, the smaller-bag period was associated with lower survival with favorable neurological outcome (AOR 0.65, 95% CI 0.43–0.99) and lower event survival (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 0.73, 95% CI 0.60–0.90). Survival to discharge and ROSC did not differ significantly. Simulation studies demonstrated inconsistent effects of bag size on guideline-consistent tidal volume delivery. The certainty of evidence was very low for all outcomes. Conclusions: Although evidence is very limited and of very-low certainty, smaller bags may influence delivered tidal volume and worsen patient outcomes. Routine substitution of standard adult bags with small bags during CPR is not supported.