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Narrating Catastrophe, Cultivating Hope
Elizabeth Phillips
Jan 23, 2019
Apocalypticism has been widely denounced as a framework that devalues the world and its history, funding moral dualism. While this is certainly true of many forms of apocalypticism, it is not an accurate understanding of ancient...
Digital Literacy and E-Governance Adoption for Service Delivery in Cross River State Civil Service
Gabriel Inakefe, Virtue Bassey, Okey Ikeanyibe, Chris Nwagboso, Uno Agbor, Joseph Ebegbulem, Frank Mbonu, George Ike
Jan 01, 2023
The study used a case study technique to investigate why the implementation of e-governance and ICT in government service provisioning has not resulted in a commensurate improvement in service delivery in Cross River State...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
International Interventions and Normative Prudence as a ‘Forgotten’ Virtue of Statecraft
Wali Aslam
Dec 31, 2021
This article presents a case for making normative prudence key to the debates concerning international interventions and statebuilding. Despite a rich conceptual history, contemporary IR literature seems to have forgotten the...
International Interventions and Normative Prudence as a ‘Forgotten’ Virtue of Statecraft
Wali Aslam
Dec 31, 2021
This article presents a case for making normative prudence key to the debates concerning international interventions and statebuilding. Despite a rich conceptual history, contemporary IR literature seems to have forgotten the...
An Ethnographic Account of the British Equestrian Virtue of Bravery, and Its Implications for Equine Welfare
Rosalie Jones McVey
Jan 16, 2021
This article describes the virtue of bravery in British equestrian culture and suggests that riders’ tactics for bolstering bravery may have negative implications on equine welfare. These observations are based on 14 months of...
“Fridays Are Racist”
Lana Medina
Jan 01, 2024
Social media platforms have become a threat to democracy and human flourishing. Critics have previously expressed alarm that our ever-increasing technological habits are negatively influencing human values and virtues. This...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
An Ethnographic Account of the British Equestrian Virtue of Bravery, and Its Implications for Equine Welfare.
Rosalie Jones McVey
Apr 12, 2021
This article describes the virtue of bravery in British equestrian culture and suggests that riders' tactics for bolstering bravery may have negative implications on equine welfare. These observations are based on 14 months of...
Structural Origins of Voltage Hysteresis in the Na-Ion Cathode P2-Na<sub>0.67</sub>[Mg<sub>0.28</sub>Mn<sub>0.72</sub>]O<sub>2</sub>
Euan N Bassey, Philip J Reeves, Michael A Jones, Jeongjae Lee, Ieuan D Seymour, Giannantonio Cibin, Clare P Grey
Aug 26, 2021
P2-layered sodium-ion battery (NIB) cathodes are a promising class of Na-ion electrode materials with high Na+ mobility and relatively high capacities. In this work, we report the structural changes that take place in...
Alkaliphilic <i>Bacillus</i> species show potential application in concrete crack repair by virtue of rapid spore production and germination then extracellular calcite formation
Aims: Characterisation of alkaliphilic Bacillus species for spore production and germination and calcite formation as a prelude to investigate their potential in micro-crack remediation in concrete.
Methods and Results...
Methods and Results...
Alkaliphilic <i>Bacillus</i> species show potential application in concrete crack repair by virtue of rapid spore production and germination then extracellular calcite formation
Aims: Characterisation of alkaliphilic Bacillus species for spore production and germination and calcite formation as a prelude to investigate their potential in micro-crack remediation in concrete.
Methods and Results...
Methods and Results...
Review of Byron Williston, The Anthropocene Project
Jay Foster
Jan 07, 2019
Byron Williston has titled his thoughtful and engaging book on virtue ethics and climate change\ The Anthropocene Project. Here Williston is grappling with an issue that vexes most of us. The science of anthropogenic...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Making a virtue out of virtual communities
All libraries need an effective process of governance to guide the planning, development and improvement of resources and services. Library committees must be able to relate both to the high-level strategic policies and vision...
Published by: European Association for Health Information & Libraries
Review of Byron Williston, The Anthropocene Project
Jay Foster
Jan 07, 2019
Byron Williston has titled his thoughtful and engaging book on virtue ethics and climate change\ The Anthropocene Project. Here Williston is grappling with an issue that vexes most of us. The science of anthropogenic...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Ethics in Organization and Management
Thomas Joseph
Dec 21, 2023
A fundamental challenge for scholars and practitioners of organization and management is the integration of theoretical ethics with practical decision-making. This article discusses the historical evolution of ethics in...
Policy & Reform Business and Management Business Ethics and Law Government and Law Social Sciences and Humanities
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Ethics in Organization and Management
Thomas Joseph
Jul 01, 2020
A fundamental challenge for scholars and practitioners of organization and management is the integration of theoretical ethics with practical decision-making. This article discusses the historical evolution of ethics in...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Forfeiture and the Effect of Section 33A of the Wills Act 1837
Brian Sloan
Feb 25, 2021
The forfeiture rule is “the rule of public policy which in certain circumstances precludes a person who has unlawfully killed another from acquiring a benefit in consequence of the killing”. The focus of this paper is not on...
A pipeline for making 31P NMR accessible for small- and large-scale lipidomics studies.
Samuel Furse, Huw EL Williams, Adam J Watkins, Samuel Virtue, Antonio Vidal-Puig, Risha Amarsi, Marika Charalambous, Albert Koulman
Jun 03, 2021
Adipose Tissue-Liver Cross Talk in the Control of Whole-Body Metabolism
Adipose tissue and the liver play significant roles in the regulation of whole-body energy homeostasis, but they have not evolved to cope with the continuous, chronic, nutrient surplus seen in obesity. In this review, we detail...
Adipose Tissue Fatty Acid Flux metabolism Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease adipokines Adipose Tissue Adiposity Animals Blood Glucose Energy Metabolism Humans Hyperglycemia Inflammation Mediators Insulin Resistance Liver non-alcoholic fatty liver disease obesity Prognosis Risk Factors Signal Transduction
17 O NMR Spectroscopy in Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode Materials
Euan N. Bassey, paragon-plus: 4913107, Philip J. Reeves, paragon-plus: 3625662, Ieuan D. Seymour, paragon-plus: 5343341, Clare P. Grey, paragon-plus: 1387404
Oct 24, 2022
Modern studies of lithium-ion battery (LIB) cathode materials employ a large range of experimental and theoretical techniques to understand the changes in bulk and local chemical and electronic structures during electrochemical...
Lipid zonation and phospholipid remodeling in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Zoe Hall, Nicholas J Bond, Tom Ashmore, Francis Sanders, Zsuzsanna Ament, Xinzhu Wang, Andrew J Murray, Elena Bellafante, Sam Virtue, Antonio Vidal-Puig, Michael Allison, Susan E Davies, Albert Koulman, Michele Vacca, Julian L Griffin
Feb 08, 2017
Animals Biopsy Needle Diet High-Fat Diet Western Disease Models Animal Eicosanoids Fatty Liver Humans Immunohistochemistry Liver Cirrhosis Liver Neoplasms Liver Regeneration Male Mass Spectrometry Mice Mice Inbred C57BL non-alcoholic fatty liver disease Phospholipids Prognosis Random Allocation Risk Assessment Severity of Illness Index Spectrometry Mass Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
Calcium Channel CaV2.3 Subunits Regulate Hepatic Glucose Production by Modulating Leptin-Induced Excitation of Arcuate Pro-opiomelanocortin Neurons.
Mark A Smith, Loukia Katsouri, Samuel Virtue, Agharul I Choudhury, Antonio Vidal-Puig, Michael LJ Ashford, Dominic J Withers
Oct 09, 2020
Leptin acts on hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons to regulate glucose homeostasis, but the precise mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we demonstrate that leptin-induced depolarization of POMC neurons is associated...
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