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Colombia's Fork in the Road? President Santos' Treaty with The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Ella Adriana Chirinos
Aug 22, 2017
Colombia is considered Latin America’s most stable democracy; meanwhile, it is war-torn by the internal conflict with the guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The armed conflict with the FARC has...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Profiling IT Security and Interoperability in Brazilian Health Organisations From a Business Perspective
Rui Rijo, Ricardo Martinho, Adicinéia Oliveira, Domingos Alves, Zilma Reis, Cátia Santos-Pereira, Manuel Correia, Luís Antunes, Ricardo Cruz-Correia
Apr 01, 2020
The proliferation of electronic health (e-Health) initiatives in Brazil over the last 2 decades has resulted in a considerable fragmentation within health information technology (IT), with a strong political interference. The...
Published by: IGI Global
Benefits Measurement of a Plan to Reduce Hypertension in a Healthcare Foundation Using the BCTool
Leandro Pereira, Vânia Patrício, António Fernandes, José Santos, Ricardo Santos, Carlos Jerónimo, Francisco Simões
Nov 01, 2021
The hypertension is a well know problem and associated with a high salt consuming is one of the commonest chronic diseases.To measure the impact of this consuming it has been applied the methodology provided by the Business Case...
Published by: IGI Global
A System Dynamics Model for Sales and Operations Planning
The use of system dynamics techniques to model the sales and operations planning (S&OP), associated with the economic and financial processes, is an innovative proposal. The objectives of this article are to model and simulate...
Published by: IGI Global
A Physiological-Monitoring Electronic Platform for Cattle Grazing Systems
Ricardo Santos, Fabiana Alves, Patrik Bressan, Ricardo Aguiar, Wellington Santos, Rafael Costa
Jul 01, 2020
In this work, we present a non-invasive electronic platform for physiological data acquisition on cattle grazing systems. The platform can be used for dairy and beef cattle to continuously monitor physiological variables such as...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Effect of Technostress on Academic Productivity
The focus of most of the existing studies on technostress is with regard to working professionals. In spite of the explosion of digital device use in education, not many studies have identified its effects on students. This...
Published by: IGI Global
Developing a Safety Climate Assessment Tool for Omani Construction Industry
One of the methods which could improve the safety performance of construction organizations is the safety climate approach which is helpful to know the existing maturity level of the safety climate and to develop plans to...
Published by: IGI Global
Communication Overload in Online Communities in Higher Education
This paper presents part of a research project on the use of information technology by students and teachers to communicate with each other in online community contexts of higher education institutions. The part of this project...
Published by: IGI Global
Outcomes of Social Media Marketing in Sport Brands
In an increasingly globalized world, social networks appear as an indispensable tool for sports clubs, as they make it easier for them to reach a large number of supporters. The main objective of this study is to measure the...
Published by: IGI Global
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Computer vision and image processing procedures could obtain crop data frequently and precisely, such as vegetation indexes, and correlating them with other variables, like biomass and crop yield. This work presents the...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Ingestive Behaviour Activities Based on Bioacoustic Signals in Grazing Cattle
This work focuses on the development of an autonomous, electronic platform based on bioacoustic techniques to monitor animal sounds related to ingestive activities and sub-activities in beef cattle. The authors have developed an...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
The Environmental Effects of FDI
Empirical work on the environmental effects of FDI has produced a mixed bag of results, with hardly any evidence for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. A theoretical model is presented, postulating that whether FDI...
Published by: IGI Global
Transformational Leadership Contributions for Employee Autonomy
The performance of a company is affected by several variables and understanding them and knowing how they work is decisive for management. Therefore, this research aims to address and measure how transformational leadership...
Published by: IGI Global
Local Knowledge Management and Innovation Spillover
Tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs play an essential role in the innovation and competitiveness of tourist destinations. However, existing knowledge about the determinants of the innovation they generate is far from being fully...
Published by: IGI Global
Forming Suitable Groups in MCSCL Environments
Given the peculiarities of mobile computer-supported collaborative learning (MCSCL) environments, forming suitable groups in such learning environments represents a hard and time-consuming task. This is because many conditions...
Published by: IGI Global
Service Design From Staffing to Outsourcing
The term outsourcing has become a conventional means of describing anything associated with the transaction of services that enables client organisations to blur core activities and thereby reduce their internal workforce and...
Published by: IGI Global
Impact of Leadership on the Relationship Between Innovation and Performance
Leadership, innovation, and performance are essential factors to achieve the desired sustainable profitability of companies. The relationship between these variables is one of the keys to the organizational success, although...
Business and Management Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management Hospitality, Travel, & Tourism Management
Published by: IGI Global
A Descriptive 3D City Information Model Built From Infrastructure BIM
This study developed a descriptive 3D city information model (CIM) using only infrastructural building modeling tools to create maps and analyzed the model according to needs identified in interviews with public-sector actors...
Published by: IGI Global
Developing a Commercial Ethics Framework for Analysing Marketing Campaigns
This study integrates the relationship of business ethics in marketing campaigns and the importance of the repercussion on organizational performance with the aim of creating a guide of business ethics in marketing campaigns for...
Published by: IGI Global
A novel nano-iron supplement versus standard treatment for iron deficiency anaemia in children 6-35 months (IHAT-GUT trial)
Nuredin I Mohammed, James Wason, Thomas Mendy, Stefan A Nass, Ogochukwu Ofordile, Famalang Camara, Bakary Baldeh, Chilel Sanyang, Amadou T Jallow, Ilias Hossain, Nuno Faria, Jonathan J Powell, Andrew M Prentice, Dora Ia Pereira
Apr 07, 2023
BACKGROUND: Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is the leading cause of years lost to disability in most sub-Saharan African countries and is especially common in young children. The IHAT-GUT trial assessed the efficacy and safety of...
Two Decades of Research on Consumer Behaviour and Analytics
Mitchell Ross, Sara Quach, Achint Nigam, Vijay Pereira, Nirma Jayawardena, Abhishek Behl, Park Thaichon, Thanh Le
Jan 01, 2022
The present study is a systematic literature review that identifies the context of consumer behaviour and analytics in business to forecast the future of consumer behaviour with changing business trends through TCCM (theory...
Published by: IGI Global
Antigen discrimination by T cells relies on size-constrained microvillar contact.
Edward Jenkins, Markus Körbel, Caitlin O'Brien-Ball, James McColl, Kevin Y Chen, Mateusz Kotowski, Jane Humphrey, Anna H Lippert, Heather Brouwer, Ana Mafalda Santos, Steven F Lee, Simon J Davis, David Klenerman
Apr 17, 2023
T cells use finger-like protrusions called 'microvilli' to interrogate their targets, but why they do so is unknown. To form contacts, T cells must overcome the highly charged, barrier-like layer of large molecules forming a...
T-Lymphocytes microvilli Receptors Antigen T-Cell Antigens Lymphocyte Activation Signal Transduction
Published by: Nature Communications
Blocking dPerk in the intestine suppresses neurodegeneration in a Drosophila model of Parkinson's disease.
Rebeka Popovic, Amrita Mukherjee, Nuno Santos Leal, Lydia Morris, Yizhou Yu, Samantha H Y Loh, L Miguel Martins
Apr 17, 2023
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterised by selective death of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the midbrain and motor function impairment. Gastrointestinal issues often precede motor deficits in PD, indicating that the gut-brain...
Animals Drosophila Drosophila melanogaster Parkinson Disease Drosophila Proteins Unfolded Protein Response Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
Published by: Cell Death & Disease
A Multimethodology for Supporting the Boundary Selection of System Dynamics Models
Leandro Duarte dos Santos, Sandro Schlindwein, Erwin Filho, Caroline Vaz, Mauricio Maldonado, Alfredo Fantini, Mischel Belderrain
Oct 01, 2021
System dynamics models can produce knowledge for decision-makers and, consequently, provide better choices. To be effective in its purpose, a model must reproduce an observed problem situation effectively. Hence, the...
Published by: IGI Global
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