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Copper Black Coatings for the Absorption of Solar Concentration With an APPJ SiO2 Super-Hydrophobic Protection
Solar thermal energy can be captured on absorbent surfaces, but coatings tend to deteriorate, due to changes in hue, thermal shocks, or detachment of all layers. There is a great challenge in reducing the deterioration because...
Sustainable Development Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
The Spin of a Newborn Black Hole
Paul A. Draghis, Mayura Balakrishnan, Jon M. Miller, Edward Cackett, Andrew C. Fabian, James Miller-Jones, Mason Ng, John C. Raymond, Mark Reynolds, Abderahmen Zoghbi
Apr 18, 2023
The origin and distribution of stellar-mass black hole spins are a rare window into the progenitor stars and supernova events that create them. Swift J1728.9-3613 is an X-ray binary, likely associated with the supernova remnant...
Published by: The American Astronomical Society
An Introduction to Anti-Black Sanism
Sanism is an oppression. It makes normal the practice of discrimination, rejection, silencing, exclusion, low expectations, incarceration, and other forms of violence against people who are othered through mental ‘illness’...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Voices in the Desert
Xeturah Woodley
Jul 01, 2019
The experiences of Black women educators are important, and yet their personal and professional experiences are rarely included as part of the faculty narrative at most North American higher education institutions. The continued...
Published by: IGI Global
Toward Holistic and Community-Based Interventions in the Mental Health of Black and Filipino Youth
The field of social work needs critical education on how colonialism and oppression have impacted the mental-health experiences of Black and Filipino youth. The psychological and socio-political factors impacting these...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
COVID-19
For the last few decades, the business practices have primarily been focusing on the green and sustainable practices that mainly focus on the preservation of the environment and correspond to corporate social responsibility. But...
Published by: IGI Global
An Exploration of COVID-19 and Its Consideration as a Black Swan for the Construction Industry in Switzerland
COVID-19 and its devastating yet unforeseeable effects affect the entire global economy value chain. Effects will be long-lasting and interfere with the way construction worked so far. Losses in the industry are expected to run...
Geoinformatics Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Concrete Ceilings
This research consisted of qualitative interviews with 21 Black women who currently held, had held, or were qualified for managerial-level positions in the public service sector. The research questions were as follows: (1) What...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
An Intersectional Exploration
Intersectionality is gaining ground as a desired way of deepening our understanding of persisting inequalities engendered by poverty. Combining an intersectional framework and the idea of strategic gender needs developed by...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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
Monocular Depth Matching With Hybrid Sampling and Depth Label Propagation
This paper proposes a monocular depth label propagation model, which describes monocular images into depth label distribution for the target classification matching. 1) Depth label propagation by hybrid sampling and salient...
Published by: IGI Global
Factors Affect the Sorption and Degradation of and Rostenedione in Three Typical Agricultural Soils From Different Regions
Androstenedione is a natural steroid hormone and endocrine disruptor. Batch and laboratory microcosm experiments and studies were conducted to investigate its adsorption and degradation in three soils. The Freundlichparameter Kf...
Published by: IGI Global
Dedication
Exectutive APLA
Sep 30, 2014
On the occasion of his retirement, the Atlantic Provinces LinguisticAssociation lakes the opportunity to dedicate this issue ofLINGUISTICA ATLANTICA to James Black - Professor, former Chair of the Linguistics Department and...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
3D-Printed Conductive Filaments Based on Carbon Nanostructures Embedded in a Polymer Matrix
Conductive and magnetic filaments are revolutionizing three-dimensional printing (3DP) to a new level. This review study presents the current state of the art on the subject, summarizing recent high impact studies about main...
Public Health & Healthcare Delivery Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Healthcare Administration
Published by: IGI Global
Water Insecurity in Indigenous Canada
Water insecurity in Northern Indigenous communities in Canada is pervasive and complex with multiple dimensions and impacts. Yet the relevant literature is sparse, especially for Labrador. Our case study aimed to understand the...
Developing an Explainable Machine Learning-Based Thyroid Disease Prediction Model
Healthcare and medicine are key areas where machine learning algorithms are widely used. The medical decision support systems thus created are accurate enough, however, they suffer from the lack of transparency in decision...
Published by: IGI Global
How Do You Double the Number of High School Graduates? A Snapshot of Schooling in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT
Mangilaluk School in Tuktoyaktuk has seen large increases in the number of graduates over the last 10 years. This article describes the factors that are thought to be behind this achievement, according to Tuktoyaktuk residents...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
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...
Culture & Population Studies Education Curriculum Development and Instructional Design Social Sciences and Humanities Media and Communications
Published by: IGI Global
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