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An Antecedent Study of Mobile Social Game Addiction vs. Virtual Goods Purchase
This study aims to investigate how cognitive antecedents impact on social game addiction and virtual properties purchase among Generation Y players in Malaysia. Using a quantitative method with 341 Generation Y gamers and...
Published by: IGI Global
Assessment of Substrate and TBC Damage Effects on Resonance Frequencies for Blade Health Monitoring
The reliability of critical aircraft components continues to shift towards onboard monitoring to optimize maintenance scheduling, economy efficiency and safety. Therefore, the present study investigates changes in dynamic...
Published by: IGI Global
Schelling and the Satanic
Jason M. Wirth
Dec 20, 2020
In her unsettling book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert quotes Joseph Mendelson, a herpetologist at Zoo Atlanta: “I sought a career in herpetology because I enjoy working with animals. I did not...
Published by: Memorial University Libraries
Contextual Word2Vec Model for Understanding Chinese Out of Vocabularies on Online Social Media
In this chapter, the authors propose to use contextual Word2Vec model for understanding OOV (out of vocabulary). The OOV is extracted by using left-right entropy and point information entropy. They choose to use Word2Vec to...
Published by: IGI Global
A Cross-Continent Analysis of the Invariance of Product Information in Cross-Border Electronic Commerce
Cross-border electronic-commerce (CBEC) is growing. However, due to differences in culture, habits, history and language among other factors, consumers in different regions may have different perception towards the same product...
Published by: IGI Global
Role of Multilevel Governance In Urban Public Transit
Jason D. Waters
Jan 05, 2017
In an increasingly urbanized society, Canadian governments face considerable challenges in guiding economic development and facilitating services within their jurisdictions. For densely populated and growing cities and regions...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Letter from the Editors
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Letter from the Editors
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
“Prophetic, Dreaming on the Mounds of Heaven”
Hölderlin, it must be said, was always ahead of his time! His was an experience of Heracleitean time, as the later hymns would conceive it, one in which the liveliness within poetry is transfigured into the ever-living fire of...
Published by: Memorial University Libraries
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Labor Market Integration Policies in EU Member States Using PROMETHEE
From an economic point of view, the rational response towards migration is the labor market integration of immigrants. Within the above framework, several actions have been developed by the European Union member states over the...
Published by: IGI Global
Can We Fight EU-Racism in Football?
The current study aims to examine the phenomenon of racism in football. The researchers collected data from people of all ages in the countries of Italy, Romania, Greece, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, and a number of experts from...
Published by: IGI Global
Letter from the Editors
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
F.W.J. Schelling - On the Relationship of the Plastic Arts to Nature
Jason M. Wirth
Apr 05, 2022
This is Schelling’s most notable public address. Its length and difficulty prompt one to wonder how many of his audience were able to follow it, but it remains a seminal text to read and study, one that brings together in...
Published by: Memorial University Libraries
Letter from the Editors
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Are the relationships between mental health issues and being left-behind gendered in China
BACKGROUND: While most existing studies reveal left-behind children (LBC) are prone to suffering from mental health issues, some other literature fails to develop a statistical significance between being left-behind and facing...
Heal the Voice-Heal the Person
Published by: Faculty of Education
Achieving climate justice, safeguarding planetary health
Renzo R Guinto, Thilagawathi Abi Deivanayagam, Paccha Turner Chuji, Azmal Hossan, Anpotowin Jensen, Laura Jung, Eric Njuguna, Rhiannon Osborne, Melvine Anyango Otieno, Ayisha Siddiqa, Amiteshwar Singh, Bernard Kato Ewekia Taomia
Apr 17, 2023
Published by: PLOS global public health
Direct observation of a superconducting vortex diode.
Alon Gutfreund, Hisakazu Matsuki, Vadim Plastovets, Avia Noah, Laura Gorzawski, Nofar Fridman, Guang Yang, Alexander Buzdin, Oded Millo, Jason W A Robinson, Yonathan Anahory
Apr 17, 2023
The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity can lead to unconventional proximity and Josephson effects. A related phenomenon that has recently attracted considerable attention is the superconducting diode effect, in...
Published by: Nature Communications
Potent Stimulation of the Androgen Receptor Instigates a Viral Mimicry Response in Prostate Cancer.
Mohammadreza Alizadeh-Ghodsi, Katie L Owen, Scott L Townley, Damien Zanker, Samuel PG Rollin, Adrienne R Hanson, Raj Shrestha, John Toubia, Tessa Gargett, Igor Chernukhin, Jennii Luu, Karla J Cowley, Ashlee Clark, Jason S Carroll, Kaylene J Simpson, Jean M Winter, Mitchell G Lawrence, Lisa M Butler, Gail P Risbridger, Benjamin Thierry, Renea A Taylor, Theresa E Hickey, Belinda S Parker, Wayne D Tilley, Luke A Selth
Apr 15, 2023
UNLABELLED: Inhibiting the androgen receptor (AR), a ligand-activated transcription factor, with androgen deprivation therapy is a standard-of-care treatment for metastatic prostate cancer. Paradoxically, activation of AR can...
Genetic forms of primary progressive aphasia within the GENetic Frontotemporal dementia Initiative (GENFI) cohort
Kiran Samra, Amy M MacDougall, Arabella Bouzigues, Martina Bocchetta, David M Cash, Caroline V Greaves, Rhian S Convery, Chris Hardy, John C van Swieten, Harro Seelaar, Lize C Jiskoot, Fermin Moreno, Raquel Sanchez-Valle, Robert Laforce, Caroline Graff, Mario Masellis, Maria Carmela Tartaglia, James B Rowe, Barbara Borroni, Elizabeth Finger, Matthis Synofzik, Daniela Galimberti, Rik Vandenberghe, Alexandre de Mendonça, Chris R Butler, Alexander Gerhard, Simon Ducharme, Isabelle Le Ber, Isabel Santana, Florence Pasquier, Johannes Levin, Markus Otto, Sandro Sorbi, Jason D Warren, Jonathan D Rohrer, Lucy L Russell, Genetic Frontotemporal dementia Initiative (GENFI)
Apr 17, 2023