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The Evolving Role of Community Colleges in Workforce Development
Community colleges play a crucial role in developing a skilled workforce through preparation. The questions that this chapter addresses are: How are community colleges ensuring that they are addressing current workforce and...
Published by: IGI Global
China's Infrastructure Financing and the Role of Infrastructure in Awakening African Economies
Michael Ehizuelen
Jul 01, 2021
African economies, through Agenda 2063, recognize that developing infrastructure – transport, electricity, energy, water, and e-connectivity – will be critical for the region to assume a lasting place in the global economic...
Published by: IGI Global
Institutional Ownership Board Characteristics and Firm Performance
This research study attempts to investigate the moderating role of financial institutions with corporate governance and firm performance variables in the light of a purposely developed contingent theoretical framework. The...
Published by: IGI Global
A deep hierarchy of predictions enables online meaning extraction in a computational model of human speech comprehension.
Understanding speech requires mapping fleeting and often ambiguous soundwaves to meaning. While humans are known to exploit their capacity to contextualize to facilitate this process, how internal knowledge is deployed online...
Published by: PLoS biology
Susceptibility to prosocial and antisocial influence in adolescence following mindfulness training.
Mindfulness training programmes have shown to encourage prosocial behaviours and reduce antisocial tendencies in adolescents. However, less is known about whether training affects susceptibility to prosocial and antisocial...