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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
Racial Diversity in Publicly Traded Companies
This article shares some of the results of a thesis investigating the relationship between the racial diversity of the board of directors in Canadian companies that traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). The central...
Published by: IGI Global
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
EMG-Based Essential Tremor Detection Using PSD Features With Recurrent Feedforward Back Propogation Neural Network
Natarajan Sriraam
Nov 01, 2021
Essential tremors (ET) are slow progressive neurological disorder that reduces muscular movements and involuntary muscular contractions. The further complications of ET may lead to Parkinson’s disease and therefore it is very...
Published by: IGI Global
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
“Solve the Big Problems”
Blended learning remains at the top of higher education/technology issues lists despite having been in practice on college and university campuses for 20 years. However, a review of blended learning research literature suggests...
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
Native Hawaiian Interdisciplinary Health Program
Michael C. DeMattos
Dec 14, 2019
In Spring of 2012, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence, and the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work Baccalaureate Program partnered and created the...
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...
Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Big Data Classification
In broad, three machine learning classification algorithms are used to discover correlations, hidden patterns, and other useful information from different data sets known as big data. Today, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and...
Published by: IGI Global
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
Multi-ancestry phenome-wide association of complement component 4 variation with psychiatric and brain phenotypes in youth.
Leanna M Hernandez, Minsoo Kim, Pan Zhang, Richard A I Bethlehem, Gil Hoftman, Robert Loughnan, Diana Smith, Susan Y Bookheimer, Chun Chieh Fan, Carrie E Bearden, Wesley K Thompson, Michael J Gandal
Apr 07, 2023
Background
Increased expression of the complement component 4A (C4A) gene is associated with a greater lifetime risk of schizophrenia. In the brain, C4A is involved in synaptic pruning; yet, it remains unclear the extent...
Brain complement Genetics Schizophrenia Gene Expression Psychosis Neuroimaging Humans Cognition Mental Disorders Phenotype Complement C4
Published by: Genome biology
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
Circulating proteins to predict COVID-19 severity
Abstract Predicting COVID-19 severity is difficult, and the biological pathways involved are not fully understood. To approach this problem, we measured 4701 circulating human protein abundances...
Chen-Yang Su, Sirui Zhou, Edgar Gonzalez-Kozlova, Guillaume Butler-Laporte, Elsa Brunet-Ratnasingham, Tomoko Nakanishi, Wonseok Jeon, David R Morrison, Laetitia Laurent, Jonathan Afilalo, Marc Afilalo, Danielle Henry, Yiheng Chen, Julia Carrasco-Zanini, Yossi Farjoun, Maik Pietzner, Nofar Kimchi, Zaman Afrasiabi, Nardin Rezk, Meriem Bouab, Louis Petitjean, Charlotte Guzman, Xiaoqing Xue, Chris Tselios, Branka Vulesevic, Olumide Adeleye, Tala Abdullah, Noor Almamlouk, Yara Moussa, Chantal DeLuca, Naomi Duggan, Erwin Schurr, Nathalie Brassard, Madeleine Durand, Diane Marie Del Valle, Ryan Thompson, Mario A Cedillo, Eric Schadt, Kai Nie, Nicole W Simons, Konstantinos Mouskas, Nicolas Zaki, Manishkumar Patel, Hui Xie, Jocelyn Harris, Robert Marvin, Esther Cheng, Kevin Tuballes, Kimberly Argueta, Ieisha Scott, Celia MT Greenwood, Clare Paterson, Michael A Hinterberg, Claudia Langenberg, Vincenzo Forgetta, Joelle Pineau, Vincent Mooser, Thomas Marron, Noam D Beckmann, Seunghee Kim-schulze, Alexander W Charney, Sacha Gnjatic, Daniel E Kaufmann, Miriam Merad, J Brent Richards
Apr 17, 2023
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...
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