Editorial by Mani Man Singh Rajbhandari

“…This is a type of learning that JIS initiates through the journal’s vision “Enriching Beautiful Minds towards Intelligent Minds” Our next issue will be published in November 2021 for which we invite researchers, managers, leaders, scientists, students and others for paper submission. The call for paper submission is also announced in the journal’s announcement portal http://journalofinterdisciplinarysciences.com/announcement/ The Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) is an open access, which offers free submissions, free publication and open access to download its published research paper from the journal’s website http://journalofinterdisciplinarysciences.com/ It is recommended that all author(s) submitting their manuscript to JIS are advised to read the author guidelines from the journal website http://journalofinterdisciplinarysciences.com/submit-your-papers/authors-guidelines/ Let us join and collaborate together to ENRICH the BEAUTIFUL MINDS TOWARDS INTELLIGENT MINDS Mani Man Singh Rajbhandari. …”
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Teaching and learning to support climate-neutral transitions: Exploring opportunities and challenges for interdisciplinary design courses by Robin A. Chang, Nikoo Mohajermoghari, Wang Yu, Agnieszka Wendland

“…The final insights acknowledge the method as an effective way to enhance instructor-student relationship dynamics and interdisciplinary opportunities. …”
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Risk assessment and simulation optimization of evacuation in large public building fires: A case study by Qiang Li, Zaohong Zhou, Yunbin Sun, Hongjun He

“…Taking a cafeteria for primary and secondary school students as an example, the results indicate that the fire evacuation risk level of the student cafeteria is “moderately high risk.” …”
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Roughness of two simultaneous harmonic complex tones in various pitch registers by Joanna SZCZEPAŃSKA-ANTOSIK

“…Twelve sound engineering students judged each dyad for roughness by the method of absolute magnitude estimation. …”
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“Geographical memories” in honour of Professor Yorgos Photis by Maria Pigaki

“…I’m certain that the colleagues, the students and the graduates of the department having the luck and the honour to meet him, will continue his work inspired by his ethics and values. …”
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Penerapan Teknik Collaborative Writing (CW) terhadap Peningkatan Emotional Intelligence (EI) by Eka Fajar Rahmani

“…This study investigates the implementation of collaborative writing technique in developing emotional intelligence of students. The participants are students of Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Inggris Pontianak who took Essay Writing and Literary Criticism class. …”
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Hepatic encephalopathy and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis are associated with increased liver-related readmissions in cirrhosis by Shan Wang, Shan Wang, Lin Zhang, Jin Li, Jiajun Feng, Jie Gao, Rui Huang

“…Differences between groups were analyzed using Student’s t-test and chi-square test. Logistic and multiple linear regression analyses were performed to identify predictors associated with readmission and the length of the first hospitalization.ResultsIn total, 1,285 patients were diagnosed with cirrhosis. …”
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Molecular genetic techniques in current biomedical research. Part II: PCR applications in diagnostics of human infectious diseases by A. N. Volkov, L. V. Nacheva, Yu. V. Zakharova

“…The lecture is primarily designed for students of biomedical specialties and healthcare professionals using molecular genetic techniques in their practice.…”
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Using blended and online learning to increase appreciation of learning outcomes: case of a problematic game design unit by Isaiah T. Awidi, Tauel Harper, David Savat

“…An online survey was administered via the LMS to 137 enrolled students, with 101 responses collected over a four-week period. …”
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PRACTICE OF USING PODCASTS AND VIDEOCASTS IN INTEGRATED BUSINESS ENGLISH TEACHING by Tatiana L. Gerasimenko, Tatiana M. Gulaya

“…The use of the above technologies enhances the learning motivation of students, provides them with possibilities to realize their intellectual and creative potential and contributes to their more efficient professional training.…”
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Implementation of verbal and written feedback classroom practices by teachers by Zamira Gashi Shatri, Naser Zabeli

“…Teachers use feedback to modify student thinking or behaviour to improve their learning. …”
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Preparing Future Teachers for the Digitalization of Preschool Education by A. I. Klimina, O. V. Krezhevskikh

“…At the same time, the most significant results for all four components of the readiness of future teachers for the digitalization of preschool education were revealed in the Experimental Group 3, where two pedagogical conditions were implemented: the initial level decreased from 13% (4 students) to 0% (0 students), the functional level decreased from 60% (18 students) to 47% (14 students) and the progressive level increased from 27% (8 students) to 53% (16 students). …”
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Understanding the psychological pathways from ocean literacy to pro-environmental behavior: the mediating roles of marine responsibility and values by Linzhao Wang, Tao Gao, Yanjie Shi, Li Zhang

“…IntroductionThis study investigates the psychological mechanisms underlying the relationship between ocean literacy and pro-environmental behavior, with a particular focus on the mediating roles of marine environmental responsibility and marine values.MethodsA large-scale survey was conducted with 1,206 university students from 23 universities across 11 provinces in China. …”
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Graph Knowledge Structure for Attentional Knowledge Tracing With Self-Supervised Learning by Zhaohui Liu, Sainan Liu, Weifeng Gu

“…As intelligent education advances and online learning becomes more prevalent, Knowledge Tracing (KT) has become increasingly important. KT assesses students’ learning progress by analysing their historical performance in related exercises. …”
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Verification of biological markers of subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus via TMT labelling proteomics combined with transcriptome data by Yuan Tao, Guo Hua, Sun Min, Lu Xiao-hong, Jiang Jia-hui, Tang Biao, He Cai-feng, Zhang Cheng, Ci Chao, Wu Jian-ping

“…Data were presented as the mean ± standard deviation or frequency and were analysed using Student’s t-test, Chi-square test and one-way ANOVA between the groups. …”
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Inclusive assessment in primary school: addressing diversity and freedom by Saadet Garan

“…The study group consists of 11 primary school teachers with disadvantaged students in their classes in Istanbul. According to the information obtained, teachers stated that they did not take inclusivity/multiculturalism education courses at the Faculty of Education; therefore, they did not consider themselves sufficient, the materials necessary for inclusive education in their classrooms were not sufficient, they did not devote enough time to students with differences due to the large number of students in their classes, they could not cooperate with families. …”
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La mediación lingüística y cultural: algunas observaciones acerca de su complejidad conceptual y su colocación en el contexto universitario italiano / Linguistic and cultural media... by Giuseppe Trovato

“…This subject is becoming increasingly popular among students and is discussed from an educational, didactic as well as a methodological perspective. …”
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Variant Branching Pattern of Axillary Artery: A Case Report by Swamy Ravindra Shantakumar, K. G. Mohandas Rao

“…During routine dissection of an approximately 50-year-old male cadaver for the undergraduate medical students at Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, we came across a variation in branching pattern of right axillary artery. …”
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Employing Dynamic Assessment and Concept-based Instruction for the Development of English Phrasal verbs in an EFL Classroom by Fatemeh Akbari, Seyed Mohammad Reza Amirian, gholam reza zareian

“…Moreover, the students' performance in the follow-up stage is explored to see whether they experience a conceptual development in a new context. …”
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Między nieklasyczną narracją i klasyczną dramaturgią. "Taki pejzaż" Jagody Szelc by Patrycja Rojek

“…Jagoda Szelc’s Such a Landscape   An abandonment of classical narration and a search for unconventional dramaturgical techniques are increasingly observed in the works of students from the Łódź Film School. One such short fi lm illustrating this tendency is Such a Landscape, directed by Jagoda Szelc. …”
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