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Sachs, Easterly and the Banality of the Aid Effectiveness Debate
Daniel Miller
Jan 26, 2012
Abstract: The debate over the effectiveness in foreign aid has existed for decades. Recently it has come to the fore due to the prominence of work and subsequent publicity of Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly. The debate these...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Healing Hearts at Home© Mobile Application Usability and Influence on Parental Perceived Stress
Vanessa Miller, Jennifer Newcombe, Patricia Radovich, Flint Johnston, Ernesto Medina Jr., Anna Nelson
May 01, 2021
In this study, the Healing Hearts and Home© (HHH©) application was piloted to determine the usability and usefulness of the mobile application and whether the application had an effect on caregivers' coping and stress. A...
Published by: IGI Global
A Knowledge Approach for the Library Sciences
Like chemistry's table of elements, the knowledge spectrum organizes a large amount of information about knowledge, dividing intelligent behavior into its essential cognitive elements. This paper describes a way to catalog...
Published by: IGI Global
Detection of Anonymising Proxies Using Machine Learning
Network Proxies and Virtual Private Networks (VPN) are tools that are used every day to facilitate various business functions. However, they have gained popularity amongst unintended userbases as tools that can be used to hide...
Published by: IGI Global
Identifying the Use of Anonymising Proxies to Conceal Source IP Addresses
The detection of unauthorised users can be problematic for techniques that are available at present if the nefarious actors are using identity hiding tools such as anonymising proxies or Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). This...
Published by: IGI Global
Writing Self-Efficacy and Performance Among Students in an Online Doctoral Program
Writing an argument is an essential skill for doctoral students in achieving academic and occupational success. Writing an argument effectively requires the ability to use correct writing mechanics, but doctoral students may...
Published by: IGI Global
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
The Effects of Singer Head Position on Listener Preferences and Perceptions of Vocal Timbre
Amelia A. Rollings
Aug 04, 2017
Some vocal pedagogy textbooks encourage singers to keep the head level with the ground (e.g., McKinney, 1994; Miller, 2004). However, other vocal pedagogy texts and articles recommend singers employ a slightly lowered head...
Published by: The Singing Network
Critical IT Project Management Competencies
Academic computing curricula generally focus on teaching the specific technological skills expected of new graduates in their disciplines. Yet when it comes to hiring these graduates, behavioral skills (also called soft skills)...
Published by: IGI Global
Applying the core-satellite species concept
Masumi Stadler, Malcolm A Barnard, Kadir Bice, Michaela L de Melo, Dipankar Dwivedi, Erika C Freeman, Vanessa A Garayburu-Caruso, Annika Linkhorst, Erick Mateus-Barros, Cheng Shi, Andrew J Tanentzap, Christof Meile
Apr 13, 2023
APOEε4 associates with microglial activation independently of Aβ plaques and tau tangles.
João Pedro Ferrari-Souza, Firoza Z Lussier, Douglas T Leffa, Joseph Therriault, Cécile Tissot, Bruna Bellaver, Pâmela CL Ferreira, Maura Malpetti, Yi-Ting Wang, Guilherme Povala, Andréa L Benedet, Nicholas J Ashton, Mira Chamoun, Stijn Servaes, Gleb Bezgin, Min Su Kang, Jenna Stevenson, Nesrine Rahmouni, Vanessa Pallen, Nina Margherita Poltronetti, John T O'Brien, James B Rowe, Ann D Cohen, Oscar L Lopez, Dana L Tudorascu, Thomas K Karikari, William E Klunk, Victor L Villemagne, Jean-Paul Soucy, Serge Gauthier, Diogo O Souza, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Eduardo R Zimmer, Pedro Rosa-Neto, Tharick A Pascoal
Apr 17, 2023
Animal studies suggest that the apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOEε4) allele is a culprit of early microglial activation in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, we tested the association between APOEε4 status and microglial activation in...
Structural brain alterations associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors in young people
Laura S. van Velzen, Maria R. Dauvermann, Lejla Colic, Luca M. Villa, Hannah S. Savage, Yara J. Toenders, Alyssa H. Zhu, Joanna K. Bright, Adrián I. Campos, Lauren E. Salminen, Sonia Ambrogi, Rosa Ayesa-Arriola, Nerisa Banaj, Zeynep Başgöze, Jochen Bauer, Karina Blair, Robert James Blair, Katharina Brosch, Yuqi Cheng, Romain Colle, Colm G. Connolly, Emmanuelle Corruble, Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro, Kathryn R. Cullen, Udo Dannlowski, Christopher G. Davey, Katharina Dohm, Janice M. Fullerton, Ali Saffet Gonul, Ian H. Gotlib, Dominik Grotegerd, Tim Hahn, Ben J. Harrison, Mengxin He, Ian B. Hickie, Tiffany C. Ho, Frank Iorfino, Andreas Jansen, Fabrice Jollant, Tilo Kircher, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan, Melissa Klug, Elisabeth J. Leehr, Elizabeth T. C. Lippard, Katie A. McLaughlin, Susanne Meinert, Adam Bryant Miller, Philip B. Mitchell, Benson Mwangi, Igor Nenadić, Amar Ojha, Bronwyn J. Overs, Julia-Katharina Pfarr, Fabrizio Piras, Kai G. Ringwald, Gloria Roberts, Georg Romer, Marsal Sanches, Margaret A. Sheridan, Jair C. Soares, Gianfranco Spalletta, Frederike Stein, Giana I. Teresi, Diana Tordesillas-Gutiérrez, Aslihan Uyar-Demir, Nic J. A. van der Wee, Steven J. van der Werff, Robert R. J. M. Vermeiren, Alexandra Winter, Mon-Ju Wu, Tony T. Yang, Paul M. Thompson, Miguel E. Rentería, Neda Jahanshad, Hilary P. Blumberg, Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Lianne Schmaal
Apr 07, 2023