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Petrobras P-36 Accident
Sara Whelan
Apr 09, 2013
Petrobas P-36 was a floating offshore production unit operating in the Roncador Field, off the coast of Brazil, commencing operations May 2000. This structure was originally designed as a floating drilling unit and was modified...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
ETMIS
Sara Alotaibi
Jan 01, 2022
Although there are many education information management systems (EMISs) that currently apply administrative development, they contain limited powers, thus leading to the emergence of problems—the most important and damaging of...
Published by: IGI Global
A New Internet of Things (IoT) Framework for Public Sectors
Sara Alotaibi
Jan 01, 2022
Due to tremendous technological improvements, over the past several years the world has witnessed, and continues to witness, digitalization, which has received a wealth of attention. Technology and connectivity have made it...
Published by: IGI Global
How do we frame singing education and culture?
Sara Clethero
Aug 04, 2017
Cognitive linguist, George Lakoff, in the run-up to the 2004 USA election, wrote a heartfelt plea to progressives to own the “frame”. In an earlier publication, he discussed the metaphor of political discourse. He distinguished...
Published by: The Singing Network
Developing Integrated Learning Environments for Improved Outcomes
This chapter addresses the use of design thinking in created integrated learning environments where student learning is captured across curricular and co-curricular experiences. The chapter outlines the current context and...
Published by: IGI Global
Public Libraries in the Post-COVID-19 Era
The COVID-19 pandemic created a new reality for the educational sector in both formal and informal institutions. Educators in the UAE continued to offer classes and to communicate with their students virtually. Libraries, too...
Published by: IGI Global
Crowdsourcing the Disaster Management Cycle
Crowdsourcing is a communication platform that can be used during and after a disastrous event. Previous research in crisis crowdsourcing demonstrates its wide adoption for aiding response efforts by non-government organizations...
Published by: IGI Global
COVID-19
The recent pandemic named COVID-19 has led to a worldwide panic as a consequence of its deadly nature. This pandemic has a catastrophic impact on the hospitality area, one of the world’s largest sectors that changed the...
Published by: IGI Global
The Role of Teacher Dispositions in a Global Teaching Context
Dispositions are a vital aspect to teacher preparation. Dispositions provide the holistic view to teaching future teachers that is often missing in teacher preparation programs. Commonly, the focus of training in teacher...
Published by: IGI Global
Transacting With Texts
This chapter presents an applied model for supporting preschool children's executive function, skills that serve as protective factors against risks associated with poverty, using Rosenblatt's transactional theory. The authors...
Culture & Population Studies Education Curriculum Development and Instructional Design Social Sciences and Humanities Media and Communications
Published by: IGI Global
Navigating the Brick Wall
For newcomer students, inequities exacerbated by COVID-19, including racism, unfold within their educational landscapes. School settlement workers perform a critical role in newcomer students’ educational trajectories. COVID-19...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Determinants of eWoM in Social Commerce
The influence of eWoM use for s-commerce in the context of Arab region remains unexplored. To bridge this gap, this study develops a model for eWoM use for s-commerce post adoption. This model link three antecedents-factors...
Published by: IGI Global
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Sustaining the E-Commerce Ecosystem
A large number of customers have used traditional e-commerce portals, where there are no assurance of product quality, display of all features, picture search, virtual chat service, product recommendation and tracking facility....
Published by: IGI Global
Customer Satisfaction Model
In the service industry, one of the main challenges is to provide customer satisfaction. Though the number of budget hotel in Bangladesh is increasing, but customer satisfaction of these hotels are still ignored. The aim of the...
Business and Management Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management Hospitality, Travel, & Tourism Management
Published by: IGI Global
Interobserver agreement of computed tomography in detecting calcified intervertebral discs in comparison with radiography in a population of 13 healthy British Dachshund dogs.
Background
The aims of this retrospective study were to estimate interobserver agreement in detecting disc calcification with computed tomography (CT) and to compare the number of calcified intervertebral discs...
Published by: Veterinary record open
GC/MS Profiling of the Essential Oil and Lipophilic Extract of <i>Moricandia sinaica</i> Boiss. and Evaluation of Their Cytotoxic and Antioxidant Activities.
Shaza H Aly, Nariman H Kandil, Roqaya M Hemdan, Sara S Kotb, Sara S Zaki, Omnia M Abdelaziz, Mohamed M M AbdelRazek, Hadia Almahli, Mahmoud A El Hassab, Sara T Al-Rashood, Faizah A Binjubair, Wagdy M Eldehna
Apr 11, 2023
The genus Moricandia (Brassicaceae) comprises about eight species that were used in traditional medicine. Moricandia sinaica is used to alleviate certain disorders such as syphilis and exhibits analgesic...
Two Decades of Research on Consumer Behaviour and Analytics
Mitchell Ross, Sara Quach, Achint Nigam, Vijay Pereira, Nirma Jayawardena, Abhishek Behl, Park Thaichon, Thanh Le
Jan 01, 2022
The present study is a systematic literature review that identifies the context of consumer behaviour and analytics in business to forecast the future of consumer behaviour with changing business trends through TCCM (theory...
Published by: IGI Global
Effective Online Engagement Strategies Through Gamification
Gamification has recently been discovered as an excellent user engagement strategy that has the potential to improve online education, online brand engagement, and information system engagement. Even though the number of studies...
Published by: IGI Global
Business Analytics in Sport Talent Acquisition
Recruitment of young talented players is a critical activity for most professional teams in different sports such as football, soccer, basketball, baseball, cycling, etc. In the past, the selection of the most promising players...
Published by: IGI Global
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
Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk.
Nick Shrine, Abril G Izquierdo, Jing Chen, Richard Packer, Robert J Hall, Anna L Guyatt, Chiara Batini, Rebecca J Thompson, Chandan Pavuluri, Vidhi Malik, Brian D Hobbs, Matthew Moll, Wonji Kim, Ruth Tal-Singer, Per Bakke, Katherine A Fawcett, Catherine John, Kayesha Coley, Noemi Nicole Piga, Alfred Pozarickij, Kuang Lin, Iona Y Millwood, Zhengming Chen, Liming Li, Sara R A Wijnant, Lies Lahousse, Guy Brusselle, Andre G Uitterlinden, Ani Manichaikul, Elizabeth C Oelsner, Stephen S Rich, R Graham Barr, Shona M Kerr, Veronique Vitart, Michael R Brown, Matthias Wielscher, Medea Imboden, Ayoung Jeong, Traci M Bartz, Sina A Gharib, Claudia Flexeder, Stefan Karrasch, Christian Gieger, Annette Peters, Beate Stubbe, Xiaowei Hu, Victor E Ortega, Deborah A Meyers, Eugene R Bleecker, Stacey B Gabriel, Namrata Gupta, Albert Vernon Smith, Jian'an Luan, Jing-Hua Zhao, Ailin F Hansen, Arnulf Langhammer, Cristen Willer, Laxmi Bhatta, David Porteous, Blair H Smith, Archie Campbell, Tamar Sofer, Jiwon Lee, Martha L Daviglus, Bing Yu, Elise Lim, Hanfei Xu, George T O'Connor, Gaurav Thareja, Omar M E Albagha, Karsten Suhre, Raquel Granell, Tariq O Faquih, Pieter S Hiemstra, Annelies M Slats, Benjamin H Mullin, Jennie Hui, Alan James, John Beilby, Karina Patasova, Pirro Hysi, Jukka T Koskela, Annah B Wyss, Jianping Jin, Sinjini Sikdar, Mikyeong Lee, Sebastian May-Wilson, Nicola Pirastu, Katherine A Kentistou, Peter K Joshi, Paul R H J Timmers, Alexander T Williams, Robert C Free, Xueyang Wang, John L Morrison, Frank D Gilliland, Zhanghua Chen, Carol A Wang, Rachel E Foong, Sarah E Harris, Adele Taylor, Paul Redmond, James P Cook, Anubha Mahajan, Lars Lind, Teemu Palviainen, Terho Lehtimäki, Olli T Raitakari, Jaakko Kaprio, Taina Rantanen, Kirsi H Pietiläinen, Simon R Cox, Craig E Pennell, Graham L Hall, W James Gauderman, Chris Brightling, James F Wilson, Tuula Vasankari, Tarja Laitinen, Veikko Salomaa, Dennis O Mook-Kanamori, Nicholas J Timpson, Eleftheria Zeggini, Josée Dupuis, Caroline Hayward, Ben Brumpton, Claudia Langenberg, Stefan Weiss, Georg Homuth, Carsten Oliver Schmidt, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Alanna C Morrison, Ozren Polasek, Igor Rudan, Joo-Hyeon Lee, Ian Sayers, Emma L Rawlins, Frank Dudbridge, Edwin K Silverman, David P Strachan, Robin G Walters, Andrew P Morris, Stephanie J London, Michael H Cho, Louise V Wain, Ian P Hall, Martin D Tobin
Apr 13, 2023
Lung Humans Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive Genetic Predisposition to Disease Smoking Polymorphism Single Nucleotide Genome-Wide Association Study
Published by: Nature genetics