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Pandemic-Driven Technology Adoption
During the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, around the world, evidence is mounting as to the unenveness of impacts across communities. There are disproportionately more impacts on people who are elderly, economically...
Published by: IGI Global
Effect of Coconut Oil-Based Cutting Fluid on Cutting Performance During Turning With Minimal Fluid Application
Robinson Rengiah
Jan 01, 2022
In the present work, an attempt was made to use vegetable oil as a cutting fluid during minimal fluid application to make the process more environmentally friendly. Coconut oil was selected as the vegetable oil in this study...
Published by: IGI Global
Collation of a century of soil invertebrate abundance data suggests long-term declines in earthworms but not tipulids.
Large-scale declines in terrestrial insects have been reported over much of Europe and across the world, however, population change assessments of other key invertebrate groups, such as soil invertebrates, have been largely...
Published by: PLOS ONE
Using Social Media to Facilitate Instruction and Increase Marketing in Global Higher Education
The technological revolution of the past two decades has changed global higher education, particularly with the impact of social media. There are two primary functions of social media in higher education: instruction and...
Social Networking Education Educational Technologies Media and Communications Library and Information Science
Published by: IGI Global
Implementing Social Media
Social media is an important avenue for information dissemination and public communication in emergency management. Through social media content analysis and in-depth interviews, this study explores how county level emergency...
Published by: IGI Global
Neurobiology of Well-Being
This chapter is designed to review much of the research on the neurobiology of well-being. A distinction between hedonic well-being and eudaimonic well-being is made. The brain reward center was discussed in relation to...
Human Behavior & Psychology Social Sciences and Humanities Psychology Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences
Published by: IGI Global
Leadership Moderating the Impact of Personality Traits on Sales Performance
This study aims to detect the impact of three personality traits on agents' sales performance. The moderating role of the unit manager's leadership style is highlighted too. MLQ-5X and Mini-IPIP questionnaires were distributed...
Published by: IGI Global
Attitudes of Undergraduate Social Work Students Toward Interprofessional Health Care Practice and Interprofessional Health Care Education
In 2005, the Centre for Collaborative Health Professional Education at Memorial University in Canada commenced an inquiry into the interprofessional education (IPE) of social work students. In the 2005/2006 academic year...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Telepsychiatry
Numerous challenges have limited access to mental health services in rural areas. Some of these barriers have included transportation, number of providers, poverty, and lack of insurance. The purpose of this review was to...
Published by: IGI Global
The “Mainstreaming” of Online Teaching and Conflicted Faculty Perceptions
The COVID-19 pandemic heavily accelerated the adoption of online education. Technology adoption literature indicates that individuals are motivated to adopt technology as a result of various factors including social influence...
Published by: IGI Global
Learning, Adults, and Competency-Based Education
Michelle Cleary, Kathryn Wozniak, Catherine Marienau, Gretchen Wilbur, Derise Tolliver, Pamela Meyer
Oct 04, 2016
Because competency-based education (CBE) programs ask students to demonstrate what they know and can do and because CBE students often work at their own pace, competence-based learners need to be able to articulate and to manage...
Published by: IGI Global
Direct observation of a superconducting vortex diode.
Alon Gutfreund, Hisakazu Matsuki, Vadim Plastovets, Avia Noah, Laura Gorzawski, Nofar Fridman, Guang Yang, Alexander Buzdin, Oded Millo, Jason W A Robinson, Yonathan Anahory
Apr 17, 2023
The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity can lead to unconventional proximity and Josephson effects. A related phenomenon that has recently attracted considerable attention is the superconducting diode effect, in...
Published by: Nature Communications
Stable endocytic structures navigate the complex pellicle of apicomplexan parasites
Ludek Koreny, Brandon N Mercado-Saavedra, Christen M Klinger, Konstantin Barylyuk, Simon Butterworth, Jennifer Hirst, Yolanda Rivera-Cuevas, Nathan R Zaccai, Victoria JC Holzer, Andreas Klingl, Joel B Dacks, Vern B Carruthers, Margaret S Robinson, Simon Gras, Ross F Waller
Apr 15, 2023
Regulation of immune responses in primary biliary cholangitis
Victoria Mulcahy, Evaggelia Liaskou, Jose-Ezequiel Martin, Prasanti Kotagiri, Jonathan Badrock, Rebecca L Jones, Simon M Rushbrook, Stephen D Ryder, Douglas Thorburn, Simon D Taylor-Robinson, Graeme Clark, Heather J Cordell, Richard N Sandford, David E Jones, Gideon M Hirschfield, George F Mells
Apr 17, 2023
BACKGROUND AIMS: In patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), the serum liver biochemistry measured during treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid-the UDCA response-accurately predicts long-term outcome. Molecular...
GA4GH Phenopackets
Markus S Ladewig, Julius O B Jacobsen, Alex H Wagner, Daniel Danis, Baha El Kassaby, Michael Gargano, Tudor Groza, Michael Baudis, Robin Steinhaus, Dominik Seelow, Nikolaos E Bechrakis, Christopher J Mungall, Paul N Schofield, Olivier Elemento, Lindsay Smith, Julie A McMurry, Monica Munoz-Torres, Melissa A Haendel, Peter N Robinson
Apr 12, 2023
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) is developing a suite of coordinated standards for genomics for healthcare. The Phenopacket is a new GA4GH standard for sharing disease and phenotype information that...