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Towards an E-Learning Support Strategy for the Retail Sector in South Africa
E-learning is of increasing importance in delivering flexible and distributed programmes for workforce skill development such as induction, product knowledge, systems compliance, and customer service. This research consists of a...
Published by: IGI Global
How Marketers Conduct Mixed Methods Research
Roger Baran
Mar 17, 2016
The complimentary nature of qualitative and quantitative research methods are examined with respect to a study assessing the market's view of a training and development institute in the Middle East. The qualitative portion...
Published by: IGI Global
Can Video Gameplay Improve Undergraduates' Problem-Solving Skills?
In this study, the authors investigated if two distinct types of video gameplay improved undergraduates' problem-solving skills. Two groups of student participants were recruited to play either a roleplaying video game (World of...
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
Direct quantification of skeletal pneumaticity illuminates ecological drivers of a key avian trait.
ecological adaptation Body mass Humerus skeletal architecture skeletal pneumaticity air-filled bones Humerus Animals Birds air Phylogeny Fossils X-Ray Microtomography Biological Evolution Cortical Bone
Published by: Proceedings. Biological sciences
The Spin of a Newborn Black Hole
Paul A. Draghis, Mayura Balakrishnan, Jon M. Miller, Edward Cackett, Andrew C. Fabian, James Miller-Jones, Mason Ng, John C. Raymond, Mark Reynolds, Abderahmen Zoghbi
Apr 18, 2023
The origin and distribution of stellar-mass black hole spins are a rare window into the progenitor stars and supernova events that create them. Swift J1728.9-3613 is an X-ray binary, likely associated with the supernova remnant...
Published by: The American Astronomical Society
Severity and Longitudinal Course of Depression, Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress in Paediatric and Young Adult Cancer Patients
Ainsley Ryan Yan Bin Lee, Chun En Yau, Chen Ee Low, Jiaqi Li, Roger C M Ho, Cyrus Su Hui Ho
Apr 11, 2023
Background
A diagnosis of cancer and treatment may constitute a highly traumatic period for paediatric cancer patients (PYACPs). However, no review has comprehensively analysed how the mental health of PYACPs is acutely...
Depression Meta-Analysis Anxiety Post-traumatic stress Childhood Cancer Psychosocial Oncology Supportive Care In Cancer paediatric cancer
Published by: Journal of clinical medicine
Exercise improves depression through positive modulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). A review based on 100 manuscripts over 20 years.
Monèm Jemni, Rashid Zaman, Frederick Robert Carrick, Neil David Clarke, Michel Marina, Lindsay Bottoms, Jagdeep Singh Matharoo, Roger Ramsbottom, Norman Hoffman, Shad James Groves, Yaodong Gu, Ferman Konukman
Apr 17, 2023
The aim of this review was to explore the relevant neurobiology and the association between peripheral levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and acute and short to long-term exercise regimes, as well as its relation...
Published by: Frontiers in Physiology
Retinoic acid signaling modulation guides in vitro specification of human heart field-specific progenitor pools.
Dorota Zawada, Jessica Kornherr, Anna B Meier, Gianluca Santamaria, Tatjana Dorn, Monika Nowak-Imialek, Daniel Ortmann, Fangfang Zhang, Mark Lachmann, Martina Dreßen, Mariaestela Ortiz, Victoria L Mascetti, Stephen C Harmer, Muriel Nobles, Andrew Tinker, Maria Teresa De Angelis, Roger A Pedersen, Phillip Grote, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, Alessandra Moretti, Alexander Goedel
Apr 17, 2023
Cardiogenesis relies on the precise spatiotemporal coordination of multiple progenitor populations. Understanding the specification and differentiation of these distinct progenitor pools during human embryonic development is...
Myocardium Heart Myocytes Cardiac Pluripotent Stem Cells Animals Humans Mice Tretinoin Cell Differentiation
Published by: Nature Communications