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Working Inside the Box
Societal and financial changes impacting higher education present great opportunities alongside great risks to traditional, large public institutions. While many such colleges and universities have defined goals to enroll more...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
Published by: IGI Global
Book Review: Tying the Autocrat's Hands
Hayley Alexandra Russell
Aug 22, 2017
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Will Enough ever be Enough?
Hayley Alexandra Russell
Sep 11, 2018
This paper examines the apparent discrepancy between public opinion and congressional action with regards to the implementation of further gun control policies within the United States. Through the examination of the history of...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Unequal Under the Law
Hayley Russell
Sep 11, 2018
This paper examines the use of two contrasting doctrines of judicial interpretation utilized within Canadian constitutional jurisprudence. On one hand, the Supreme Court of Canada interprets cases involving non-indigenous...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Service, Openness and Engagement as Digitally-Based Enablers of Public Value?
Jeffrey Roy
Jul 01, 2019
Public value creation is increasingly viewed as a central pivot of a government's digital transformation. The objective of this article is twofold: to better understand some of the major inhibitors of public value creation...
Published by: IGI Global
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
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
Russell Cochrane
Jan 05, 2017
Questions of how people influence and skew polling outcomes as respondents have long been at the core of methodological debates for empirical political scientists. In the study of public opinion and voting intentions, though...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Impact of Financial Inclusion on Female-Owned Small to Medium Enterprises
This study sought to understand the impact of financial inclusion on female-owned small to medium enterprises in Harare urban of Zimbabwe. A mixed methodology was used for the study while a case study of Siyaso Market in Harare...
Published by: IGI Global
The Principle of the World and the Call to Faith
Jeffrey Bloechl
May 14, 2013
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Analysis of Asymmetric Quantity Commitment in Decentralized Supply Chains
Quantity commitment chosen by firms in competition has been demonstrated by previous studies to mitigate price competition. This study demonstrates that asymmetric quantity commitment can always arise when one firm (e-tailer)...
Published by: IGI Global
Sachs, Easterly and the Banality of the Aid Effectiveness Debate
Daniel Miller
Jan 26, 2012
Abstract: The debate over the effectiveness in foreign aid has existed for decades. Recently it has come to the fore due to the prominence of work and subsequent publicity of Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly. The debate these...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Explanatory Adequacy in Phonology
Eric Russell Webb
Aug 01, 2013
This work reexamines phonological variation particular to the /R/ of convergent French, departing from the hypothesis that a deductive approach to this question can offer explanatory advantages. In contrast to data-driven...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Overview of Big Data-Intensive Storage and its Technologies for Cloud and Fog Computing
Computing systems are becoming increasingly data-intensive because of the explosion of data and the needs for processing the data, and subsequently storage management is critical to application performance in such data-intensive...
Published by: IGI Global
Can Social Media Make Us More Trusting?
The usage of social networking sites requires continuous trusting actions through the sharing of personal information. According to social cognitive theory, such behavior and resulting experiences should have an impact on the...
Published by: IGI Global
Smart Technologies, Digital Competencies, and Workforce Development
A mixed methods case study of the Government of Canada provides a lens through which the skills development and training and development challenges confronting the public sector in an era of digitization and smart technologies...
Published by: IGI Global
Technological and Disruptive Innovations in a Nation's Industrialization and Leadership Development
The turn of this new century has been witnessing the effort of various leading developed and developing countries in their attempt to materialize next round of industrialization by emphasizing on innovations. To potentially...
Published by: IGI Global
Incorporating Spirituality in the Classroom
This study tested the extent to which professors could be trained to help enhance students’ experiences of spirituality in their classes. Three areas of focus that may be important to incorporating spirituality into the...
Published by: IGI Global
Market Competition and Economic Effects of Government Policies
By utilizing systems methodology and thinking logic, this paper derives a general theorem to characterize when and how a market signals for additional competition from market players. Then, it establishes conditions for when...
Published by: IGI Global
Primitive haematopoiesis in the human placenta gives rise to macrophages with epigenetically silenced HLA-DR.
Jake R Thomas, Anna Appios, Emily F Calderbank, Nagisa Yoshida, Xiaohui Zhao, Russell S Hamilton, Ashley Moffett, Andrew Sharkey, Elisa Laurenti, Courtney W Hanna, Naomi McGovern
Apr 17, 2023
The earliest macrophages are generated during embryonic development from erythro-myeloid progenitors (EMPs) via primitive haematopoiesis. Although this process is thought to be spatially restricted to the yolk sac in the mouse...
MACROPHAGES Placenta Animals Humans Mice HLA-DR Antigens Hematopoiesis Embryonic Development Pregnancy Female
Published by: Nature Communications
Reassessment of weak parent-of-origin expression bias shows it rarely exists outside of known imprinted regions.
Carol A Edwards, William MD Watkinson, Stephanie B Telerman, Lisa C Hulsmann, Russell S Hamilton, Anne C Ferguson-Smith
Apr 12, 2023
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