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Reviewing the Ethics and Philosophy Behind Social Media's Crowdsourced Panopticon
Amanda Furiasse
Jan 01, 2022
Philosopher Jeremy Weissman theorizes a new approach to social media surveillance by utilizing a familiar theoretical model: the Panopticon. In effect, Weissman argues that social media has transformed ordinary people into...
Published by: IGI Global
Brought, Sought, and Taught
Skillification is a powerful concept that can drive better outcomes for students, employers, and institutions of higher education (IHEs). Successful use, however, requires IHEs to adopt a systems thinking mindset more than...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
Published by: IGI Global
On Trampled Ground
Amanda Warner
Mar 24, 2021
In her work, Rossiter (2011) considered the violence inherent in representation and called for a critical social work that is committed to an unsettled practice. In following Rossiter’s call to action , this article works to...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Civic Value of National Service
Research from one large public university highlights that on average, of the 10,000 students who graduate, 650 students, or 8% of participating graduates, indicate ‘volunteering' or ‘taking time off' as their immediate next step...
Published by: IGI Global
Ekphrastic Inquiry into the Neolithic Mind in the Islands of Scotland and Wales
Amanda Nicole Gulla
Apr 09, 2021
In a world of schooling that is increasingly driven by the measurable and quantifiable, poetry provides a rare experience of the ineffable. While there are indeed many other things teachers need to learn besides the reading and...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Navigating the Brick Wall
For newcomer students, inequities exacerbated by COVID-19, including racism, unfold within their educational landscapes. School settlement workers perform a critical role in newcomer students’ educational trajectories. COVID-19...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Mapping Out Indigenous and Racialized Critical Community-Based Perspectives and Experiences in the Time of COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has had many implications for the lives, health, and well-being of Indigenous and racialized queer individuals and communities across the globe. In this article, three queer social workers (two Indigenous...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Evaluation of a hybrid peer-teaching method for undergraduate medical microbiology
Background Microbiology in undergraduate medical education has been traditionally taught through didactic lectures. However, alternative educational strategies such as case-based learning and peer-teaching can be effective...
Pedagogical Innovation in Higher Education
Bernadette Knewstubb, Jae Major, Sandi Tait-McCutcheon, Robin Averill, Amanda Gilbert, Anita Mortlock, Liz Jones
Jul 01, 2020
Quality teaching in higher education (HE) is gaining increasing international attention and pedagogical innovation is seen as an important construct of quality teaching. The drivers for pedagogical innovation include the need...
Published by: IGI Global
Drug-induced loss of imprinting revealed using bioluminescent reporters of Cdkn1c.
Andrew Dimond, Mathew Van de Pette, Victoria Taylor-Bateman, Karen Brown, Alessandro Sardini, Chad Whilding, Amelie Feytout, Rab K Prinjha, Matthias Merkenschlager, Amanda G Fisher
Apr 06, 2023
Features Selection Study for Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using Thermographic Images, Genetic Algorithms, and Particle Swarm Optimization
Amanda Rodrigues da Silva, Maíra Araújo de Santana, Clarisse Lins de Lima, José Silva de Andrade, Thifany Silva de Souza, Maria Jacinto de Almeida, Washington Azevedo da Silva, Rita Fernandes de Lima, Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos
Jul 01, 2021
Early detection of breast cancer is critical to improve treatment efficiency and chance of cure. Mammography is the main method for breast cancer screening; however, it has some limitations. Infrared thermography is a technique...
Published by: IGI Global
Features Selection Study for Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using Thermographic Images, Genetic Algorithms, and Particle Swarm Optimization
Amanda Rodrigues da Silva, Maíra Araújo de Santana, Clarisse Lins de Lima, José Silva de Andrade, Thifany Silva de Souza, Maria Jacinto de Almeida, Washington Azevedo da Silva, Rita Fernandes de Lima, Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos
Jul 01, 2022
Early detection of breast cancer is critical to improve treatment efficiency and chance of cure. Mammography is the main method for breast cancer screening; however, it has some limitations. Infrared thermography is a technique...
Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Medical Technologies Medical Informatics Computer Science and Information Technology Science and Engineering
Published by: IGI Global
Solving the conundrum of intra-specific variation in metabolic rate: A multidisciplinary conceptual and methodological toolkit: New technical developments are opening the door to an understanding of why metabolic rate varies among individual animals of a species
Neil B Metcalfe, Jakob Bellman, Pierre Bize, Pierre U Blier, Amélie Crespel, Neal J Dawson, Ruth E Dunn, Lewis G Halsey, Wendy R Hood, Mark Hopkins, Shaun S Killen, Darryl McLennan, Lauren E Nadler, Julie JH Nati, Matthew J Noakes, Tommy Norin, Susan E Ozanne, Malcolm Peaker, Amanda K Pettersen, Anna Przybylska-Piech, Alann Rathery, Charlotte Récapet, Enrique Rodríguez, Karine Salin, Antoine Stier, Elisa Thoral, Klaas R Westerterp, Margriet S Westerterp-Plantenga, Michał S Wojciechowski, Pat Monaghan
Apr 12, 2023
Researchers from diverse disciplines, including organismal and cellular physiology, sports science, human nutrition, evolution and ecology, have sought to understand the causes and consequences of the surprising variation in...