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The Role of Interests in STEM Pursuit and Academic Performance
A good fit between students' interests, academic major, and subsequent career is critical for occupational success and satisfaction. Substantial work has examined how individual differences in interests are linked with academic...
Guidelines for Data Collection to Measure SDG 4.7.4 and 4.7.5
In an effort to promote robust and comparable measurements of SDG 4 in this Decade of Action as nations strive to meet education targets, the UIS has spearheaded a methodological program on learning outcomes. Drawing from the...
Guidelines for Data Collection to Measure SDG 4.7.4 and 4.7.5
In an effort to promote robust and comparable measurements of SDG 4 in this Decade of Action as nations strive to meet education targets, the UIS has spearheaded a methodological program on learning outcomes. Drawing from the...
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...
Divided Scholarship Over Divided Government: Why do the President and Congress Seem Unable to Work Together?
Nicholas J. McIntyre
Jan 01, 0001
David Mayhew's book Divided We Govern (1991, 2005) has profoundly affected the way political scientists not only study but also understand "divided government" in American national politics. By analyzing hundreds of...
Published by: Ursinus College
Climate Uncertainties
This essay takes a brief personal look at aspects of the climate problem. The emphasis will be on some of the greatest scientific uncertainties, as suggested by what is known about past as well as present climates...
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The Democracy to Come? An Enquiry Into the Vision of Blockchain-Powered E-Voting Start-Ups
Miranda Imperial
Apr 23, 2021
This research sets out to analyze the message promoted by start-up enterprises that apply blockchain technologies for the purpose of e-voting [blockchain-powered e-voting (BPE)], and their perceived effects of this...
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Poverty on a College Campus
Poverty is a reality for many individuals and families - including the college student. Unless you have experienced it yourself, it is difficult to understand. Join us for an interactive discussion on poverty: the complex and...
Published by: Winthrop University
“Unusual Greenness”
Miranda Griffin
Nov 05, 2018
The books reviewed in this essay bring together various strands of thought that center on the material and the nonhuman in the Middle Ages: the things and landscapes that furnish, ground, and transmit medieval texts, but that...
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Regionalisation of a PDM Model for Catchment Runoff in a Mountainous region of Korea
This study aims to regionalize a rainfall-runoff model within the mountainous Geum River catchment, Korea. A version of the Probability Distributed Moisture model is applied to 19 gauged sub-catchments. A Monte Carlo based...
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Protocol for Extraction and Electron Microscopy Visualization of Lipids in Viburnum tinus Fruit Using Cryo-Ultramicrotomy.
We recently reported that Viburnum tinus fruit generates its metallic blue color using globular lipid inclusions embedded in its epicarpal cell walls. This protocol describes steps to visualize the lipidic nature of the...
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Regionalisation of a PDM Model for Catchment Runoff in a Mountainous region of Korea
This study aims to regionalize a rainfall-runoff model within the mountainous Geum River catchment, Korea. A version of the Probability Distributed Moisture model is applied to 19 gauged sub-catchments. A Monte Carlo based...
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Gait pattern alterations during walking, texting and walking and texting during cognitively distractive tasks while negotiating common pedestrian obstacles

Objectives Mobile phone texting is a common daily occurrence with a paucity of research examining corresponding gait characteristics. To date, most studies have participants walk in a straight line vs. overcoming barriers and...

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Feedback from Outcome Measures and Treatment Effectiveness, Treatment Efficiency, and Collaborative Practice
Due to recent increases in the use of feedback from outcome measures in mental health settings, we systematically reviewed evidence regarding the impact of feedback from outcome measures on treatment effectiveness, treatment...
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Co-registration of optoacoustic tomography and magnetic resonance imaging data from murine tumour models.
As optoacoustic tomography (OT) emerges as a mainstream pre-clinical imaging modality, understanding the relationship between optoacoustic and other imaging biomarkers in the context of the underlying tissue biology becomes...
Published by: Photoacoustics
Engineering short, strong, charge-assisted hydrogen bonds in benzoic acid dimers through co-crystallisation with proton sponge
A series of molecular complexes of the proton sponge 1,8-bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene (DMAN) with mono-substituted halobenzoic acids are reported, illustrating the designed exploitation of the characteristics of the proton...
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