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Digital Leadership
Simon Hensellek
Jan 01, 2020
Advances in digitalization place completely new demands on both political and economic leaders as well as on society as a whole. In addition to technical skills as a basis for dealing with and understanding digital technologies...
Published by: IGI Global
Photoplethysmography Heart Rate Monitoring
Research conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2018 demonstrated that the worldwide threat of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) has increased compared to previous years. CVDs are very dangerous: if timely treatment is...
Published by: IGI Global
COVIDiots and Cogency
The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States spawns a perplexing polemic. Intransigent coronavirus skeptics who defy public health recommendations often get cast as ideological zealots or as perniciously ignorant. Both...
Published by: IGI Global
Participation in Software Development
Participatory planning holds important lessons for improving local government capabilities and responsiveness, but overall procedural regulations and statutory frameworks make its relevance for participatory IT development often...
Published by: IGI Global
Phonological priming and phonetic carry-over in two Danish-English bilinguals
In this study we investigate whether the phonetic carry-over effects (or gestural drift) reported in the literature as occurring in the speech of bilinguals after long-term phonological priming (i.e., several months), also occur...
Considerations for Setting Up Play Therapy Training Clinics
When setting up a play therapy training clinic, there are many considerations to explore regarding designing a therapeutic space, selecting toys and other materials, exploring the rationale for the toy selection and examining...
Published by: IGI Global
Modelling Uptake Sensitivities of Connected and Automated Vehicle Technologies
Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies and services are rapidly developing and have the potential to revolutionise the transport systems. However, like many innovations, the uptake pathways are uncertain. The focus...
Published by: IGI Global
Tools for Sustainable Change
This research focuses on the ability of spatial decision-support tools (SDST) to transform urban regeneration processes through collaborative planning between authorities and communities. This article presents what was learned...
Published by: IGI Global
Modelling the Impacts of Inter-City Connectivity on City Specialisation
There is a high level of interest in investing in inter-city connectivity schemes. The rationale for these schemes is improved economic performance through increased productivity, jobs, and output. The mobility costs of...
Published by: IGI Global
A Semantic Framework Supporting Multilayer Networks Analysis for Rare Diseases
Understanding the role played by genetic variations in diseases, exploring genomic variants and discovering disease-associated loci are among the most pressing challenges of genomic medicine. A huge and ever-increasing amount of...
Published by: IGI Global
Kinova Modular Robot Arms for Service Robotics Applications
This article presents Kinova's modular robotic systems, including the robots JACO2 and MICO2, actuators and grippers. Kinova designs and manufactures robotics platforms and components that are simple, sexy and safe under two...
Published by: IGI Global
The evolution of the Galápagos mantle plume.
The lavas associated with mantle plumes may sample domains throughout Earth's mantle and probe its dynamics. However, plume studies are often only able to take snapshots in time, usually of the most recent plume activity...
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Maternal immunisation against Group B Streptococcus

Background

Group B Streptococcus (GBS) can cause invasive disease (iGBS) in young infants, typically presenting as sepsis or meningitis, and is also associated with stillbirth and preterm birth. GBS vaccines are under...
Published by: PLoS Medicine
Research priorities relating to the delivery of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation programmes
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR) research priority setting project (PSP) was to identify a top 10 list of priority research questions for cardiovascular...
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Antigen discrimination by T cells relies on size-constrained microvillar contact.
T cells use finger-like protrusions called 'microvilli' to interrogate their targets, but why they do so is unknown. To form contacts, T cells must overcome the highly charged, barrier-like layer of large molecules forming a...
Published by: Nature Communications

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