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Review of Eric L. Jenkins, Free to Say No? Free Will and Augustine’s Evolving Doctrines of Grace and Election (Cambridge
Seamus O'Neill
Mar 23, 2016
Eric Jenkins’ Free to Say No? Free Will and Augustine’s Evolving Doctrines of Grace and Election is a relatively concise and highly readable investigation into Augustine’s changing position on the freedom of the will and various...
Assessment of Theses in Design Education
This article explores and proposes a design concept of a co-creative process that aims to support the assessment and grading of theses in design education through automated criteria evaluation. The research is based on a...
Published by: IGI Global
Drug Promotion and Self-Medication Practices in Lagos, Nigeria
Johnson Ayodele
Jan 01, 2021
The study examines the effects of drug promotional practices and self-medication behaviour on public health in Lagos. It used a multistage sampling method to select 315 respondents. The researcher selected 12 in-depth...
Published by: IGI Global
Of Zebra Doves and Prawn Crackers
Marc Benamou
Nov 19, 2013
Both the English and Javanese' languages describe music largely in metaphoric terms. In English, for instance, we use the spatial metaphor "up" and "down" to refer to differences in pitch. In Javanese these same differences are...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Taking Action on Stigma and Discrimination
Social inclusion has increasingly been positioned within research and policy as integral to addressing stigma and discrimination related to mental health and substance use. Yet there is a lack of consensus about the meaning of...
Crowdsourcing the Disaster Management Cycle
Crowdsourcing is a communication platform that can be used during and after a disastrous event. Previous research in crisis crowdsourcing demonstrates its wide adoption for aiding response efforts by non-government organizations...
Published by: IGI Global
Pandemic-Driven Technology Adoption
During the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, around the world, evidence is mounting as to the unenveness of impacts across communities. There are disproportionately more impacts on people who are elderly, economically...
Published by: IGI Global
Ethical Design of Social Technology
Social technology has become ubiquitous in everyday life. Developers of social technologies seek design elements and new technologies, such as machine learning algorithms, aimed at increasing user engagement. Increased user...
Published by: IGI Global
Transacting With Texts
This chapter presents an applied model for supporting preschool children's executive function, skills that serve as protective factors against risks associated with poverty, using Rosenblatt's transactional theory. The authors...
Published by: IGI Global
Modelling the Impacts of Inter-City Connectivity on City Specialisation
There is a high level of interest in investing in inter-city connectivity schemes. The rationale for these schemes is improved economic performance through increased productivity, jobs, and output. The mobility costs of...
Published by: IGI Global
Ensuring Virtual Success
Very few academic programs in pre-service teacher education include opportunities for current and future K-12 educators to develop the necessary skills to teach in an online setting. While limited research has been done related...
Published by: IGI Global
Racially Motivated Police Brutality Is a Community Public Health Issue in the United States
Ongoing global protests against police violence and racism were heightened in 2020 after the deaths of Breana Taylor and George Floyd, whose deaths made headlines worldwide and raised awareness of the Black Lives Matter...
Published by: IGI Global
Researchers' Perceptions of Research Data Management Activities at an Academic Library in a Developing Country
This study investigated researchers perceptions of RDM at the MGGL to recommend measures to enhance managing, sharing, and reusing data. The study was underpinned by the DCC Curation lifecycle model and the CCMF which enabled...
Published by: IGI Global
End Users' Initial Perceptions of mHealth in Nigeria
Mobile health (mHealth) is perceived as a “silver bullet” solution to many of the existing healthcare delivery issues in developing regions. However, the design, development, piloting, implementation, and maintenance activities...
Published by: IGI Global
Domestic Violence Is a Significant Public Health and a Health Administration Issue in the U.S.
This paper discusses domestic violence as a public health concern and a health administration issue. People affected by domestic violence, such as physical, mental, sexual, and financial abuse, experience higher rates of trauma...
Published by: IGI Global
Systematic evaluation of high-level visual deficits and lesions in posterior cerebral artery stroke.
Knowledge about the consequences of stroke on high-level vision comes primarily from single case studies of patients selected based on their behavioural profiles, typically patients with specific stroke syndromes like pure...
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COVID-19 Worries and Insomnia
The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with significant increases in sleep disorder symptoms and chronic worry. We previously demonstrated that worry about the pandemic was more strongly associated with subsequent insomnia than...
Challenging the "old boys club" in academia
In light of global environmental crises and the need for sustainable development, the fields of public health and environmental sciences have become increasingly interrelated. Both fields require interdisciplinary thinking and...