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Intelligent Multiparameter Fiber-Optic Sensing for Ocean Observation
With the increasing needs for the protection of marine and fresh water environment, there is surging demand for effective technologies to monitor different environmental parameters. Among different new technologies, fiber-optic...
Trace Element Analysis of Water with Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry
Trace element analysis of the drinking water in the area of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada has been investigated by an Agilent 7700X inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The results indicate that the levels...
Opto-Microfluidics for Monitoring Salinity and Temperature of Sea Water
The success of ocean observation relies on effective monitoring technologies with increased functionalities, minimized size, and reduced cost, which can only be achieved through the development of new technologies....
Men, Masculinities, and the Global Pandemic
This article reflects on and analyzes interlocking relations of power pertaining to the politics of masculinities during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Situated within the context of the current global pandemic, we...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Phenomenon of Singing in the Study of Troubadour Poetry
Elizabeth Brodovitch
Nov 19, 2013
The poetry and music of the troubadours who lived in the medieval kingdoms of southern France known collectively as Occitania contributed to a flowering of literary, musical and artistic culture in the eleventh and twelfth...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Plenary Keynote Presentation IV Teaching men to sing
Scott McCoy
Jan 17, 2014
Plenary Keynote Presentation IV: Panel Presentation from The Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium VIII. Held at Memorial University, St. John's NL, 2011. Introduction by Caroline Schiller (Memorial University of...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Social Networking Services and Social Trust in Social Commerce
Osama Sohaib
Mar 01, 2021
This study researches the mediating consequence of social trust (identification-based trust and information-based trust) on the relationship between social networking services (SNS) use and social commerce intention. The study...
Published by: IGI Global
Study on Brain Tumor Classification Through MRI Images Using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network
Brain tumor (Glioma) is one of the deadliest diseases that attack humans, now even men or women aged 20-30 are suffering from this disease. To cure tumor in a person, doctors use MRI machine, because the results of MRI images...
Published by: IGI Global
Racialized Communities, Producing Madness and Dangerousness
Frank Keating
Dec 29, 2016
This article seeks to explore how issues of dangerousness and madness inform the experiences of racialized groups in England. It draws on insights from critical race theory and intersectionality to analyze the intersections...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Challenging the "old boys club" in academia
Sara Dada, Kim Robin van Daalen, Alanna Barrios-Ruiz, Kai-Ti Wu, Aidan Desjardins, Mayte Bryce-Alberti, Alejandra Castro-Varela, Parnian Khorsand, Ander Santamarta Zamorano, Laura Jung, Grace Malolos, Jiaqi Li, Dominique Vervoort, Nikita Charles Hamilton, Poorvaprabha Patil, Omnia El Omrani, Marie-Claire Wangari, Telma Sibanda, Conor Buggy, Ebele R I Mogo
Apr 17, 2023
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...
Published by: PLOS global public health
High prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors amongst young adults in the United Arab Emirates
Fatima Mezhal, Abderrahim Oulhaj, Abdishakur Abdulle, Abdulla AlJunaibi, Abdulla Alnaeemi, Amar Ahmad, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, Ayesha S Al Dhaheri, Eiman AlZaabi, Fatma Al-Maskari, Fatme Alanouti, Fayza Alameri, Habiba Alsafar, Hamad Alblooshi, Juma Alkaabi, Laila Abdel Wareth, Mai Aljaber, Marina Kazim, Michael Weitzman, Mohammad Al-Houqani, Mohammad Hag Ali, E Murat Tuzcu, Naima Oumeziane, Omar El-Shahawy, Rami H Al-Rifai, Scott Sherman, Syed M Shah, Thekra Alzaabi, Tom Loney, Wael Almahmeed, Youssef Idaghdour, Luai A Ahmed, Raghib Ali
Apr 15, 2023
Background
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the world. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), it accounts for 40% of mortality. CVD is caused by multiple cardiometabolic risk factors (CRFs)...
Hypertension obesity cardiovascular disease Dyslipidemia Central obesity Non-communicable disease cardiometabolic risk factors Dysglycemia Humans Cardiovascular Diseases prevalence Risk Factors Adult United Arab Emirates Female Male Dyslipidemias Young Adult obesity Abdominal
Published by: BMC cardiovascular disorders
Narcissistic Personality and Financial Risk Tolerance
Süleyman Şen
Jan 01, 2022
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between an individual’s narcissistic personality and his/her financial risk tolerance in an emerging country sample. The sample consists of undergraduate university...
Published by: IGI Global
Determinants of Financial E-Transparency in Honduran Municipalities
This paper contributes to the scarce literature on e-government transparency in Central America by analyzing the impact of political, financial and socio-economic factors on municipal financial e-transparency in Honduras. The...
Published by: IGI Global
Life Turned Against Itself
Jean-Sébastien Hardy
Dec 20, 2016
Michel Henry is known to be the contemporary thinker who has given the most privileged status and the deepest philosophical significance to affectivity. His whole work—from his interpretation of Biran’s ontology of subjectivity...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
False Start
Heather R. Nelson
Jan 30, 2014
In the aftermath of the Civil War, higher education in the South had been all but depleted. Vanderbilt University was inaugurated in 1875 to begin to fill the gap in education for Southern men. Rigdon McCoy McIntosh, a prolific...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Predicting Seminal Quality and its Dependence on Life Style Factors Through Ensemble Learning
The awareness related to fertility is of great importance due to the change in lifestyle habits. Semen analysis is a reliable confirmatory test to check the fertility in men. The supervised machine learning models of base...
Published by: IGI Global
Schleiermacher’s Interpretation of the Bible
Ian S. Wishart
Jan 08, 2020
Interpretation of the bible is often considered to be the task of communicating the message of the scriptures in an age whose thought and common life have little in common with ancient Palestine. The problem of communication is...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
"Rape me, I’m Irish"
Jemma Tosh
Dec 31, 2015
Well documented experiences of the Irish diaspora in England include humiliation, discrimination, and higher rates of suicide and psychiatric intervention (Hickman, 2000). However, the construction of the Irish in relation to...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
"YOU DEAL WITH WHAT SHE SENDS"
Nicholas Hartmann
Dec 09, 2013
ON A FREQUENT BASIS IN the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, a father, knowing that he will not be able to say goodbye to his children in the early hours of the morning, gives them a more intense goodnight hug before...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
“The Unity that is Indivisibly Present in Each Thing”
Benjamin Brewer
Dec 20, 2020
On May 15th, 1801, Schelling sent Fichte a copy of his recently published Presentation of my System of Philosophy along with a letter. In the letter Schelling claims to “stand on a point whose discussion falls outside this...
Published by: Memorial University Libraries
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
The Owl, the Fox, and the Mole
Declan Seviour
Jul 05, 2022
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Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland