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Drug Promotion and Self-Medication Practices in Lagos, Nigeria
Johnson Ayodele
Jan 01, 2021
The study examines the effects of drug promotional practices and self-medication behaviour on public health in Lagos. It used a multistage sampling method to select 315 respondents. The researcher selected 12 in-depth...
Published by: IGI Global
Being a Singer
Brian A. Roberts
Nov 19, 2013
Singers both rejoice and suffer under the weight of their instrument. It becomes not only a major part of their identity but, in many cases, it becomes their central or "master status" (Hughes, 1945). This research examines the...
Published by: Faculty of Education
A Model of Cloud Forensic Application With Assurance of Cloud Log
The key concepts of digital forensic investigation in cloud computing are examination and investigation. Cybercriminals target cloud-based web applications due to presence of vulnerabilities. Forensic investigation is a complex...
Published by: IGI Global
Of Zebra Doves and Prawn Crackers
Marc Benamou
Nov 19, 2013
Both the English and Javanese' languages describe music largely in metaphoric terms. In English, for instance, we use the spatial metaphor "up" and "down" to refer to differences in pitch. In Javanese these same differences are...
Published by: Faculty of Education
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
A Novel Framework Using Zero Shot Learning Technique for a Non-Factoid Question Answering System
Non-Factoid Question Answering (QA) is the next generation of textual QA systems, which gives passage level summaries for a natural language query, posted by the user. The main issue lies in the appropriateness of the generated...
Published by: IGI Global
Researchers' Perceptions of Research Data Management Activities at an Academic Library in a Developing Country
This study investigated researchers perceptions of RDM at the MGGL to recommend measures to enhance managing, sharing, and reusing data. The study was underpinned by the DCC Curation lifecycle model and the CCMF which enabled...
Published by: IGI Global
Sentiment Analysis on Movie Reviews Dataset Using Support Vector Machines and Ensemble Learning
The internet makes it easier for people to connect to each other and has become a platform to express ideas and share information with the world. The growth of the internet has indirectly led to the development of social...
Published by: IGI Global
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
Fully Automatic Detection and Segmentation Approach for Juxta-Pleural Nodules From CT Images
Early detection of all types of lung nodules with different characters in medical modality images using computer-aided detection is the best acceptable remedy to save the lives of lung cancer sufferers. But accuracy of different...
Published by: IGI Global
Optimal Weighted Logarithmic Transformation Converted HMOG Features for Automatic Smart Phone Authentication
This paper intends to develop an automatic behavior-based smart phone authentication model by three major phases: feature extraction, weighted logarithmic transformation, and classification. Initially, from the data related to...
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
Coupling of Dimensionality Reduction and Stacking Ensemble Learning for Smartphone-Based Human Activity Recognition
Human activity recognition (HAR) plays a vital role in the field of ambient assisted living (AAL) for the welfare of the elders who live alone in the home. AAL provides service through ambient sensors, vision systems, smartphone...
Published by: IGI Global
Evaluation of Parameter Settings for Training Neural Networks Using Backpropagation Algorithms
Artificial neural networks (ANN) are widely used for classification, and the training algorithm commonly used is the backpropagation (BP) algorithm. The major bottleneck faced in the backpropagation neural network training is in...
Published by: IGI Global
The Effects of Shoe Heel Heights on Postural, Acoustical, and Perceptual Measures of Female Singing Performances
Amelia A. Rollings
Jan 30, 2014
Voice professionals hold varying opinions about whether shoe heel heights affect vocal performance, but to date no empirical study has addressed this matter. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect, if any...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Modelling the Impacts of Inter-City Connectivity on City Specialisation
There is a high level of interest in investing in inter-city connectivity schemes. The rationale for these schemes is improved economic performance through increased productivity, jobs, and output. The mobility costs of...
Published by: IGI Global
Health Consensus
New tools are needed to facilitate the involvement of health professionals in healthcare participative processes, partially because a relevant segment of healthcare knowledge and decision-making is capillary distributed among...
Published by: IGI Global
Recommendation-Based Meta-Search Engine for Suggesting Relevant Documents Links
The information available online is mostly present in an unstructured form and search engines are indispensable tools especially in higher education organizations for obtaining information from the Internet. Various search...
Published by: IGI Global
Ensuring Virtual Success
Very few academic programs in pre-service teacher education include opportunities for current and future K-12 educators to develop the necessary skills to teach in an online setting. While limited research has been done related...
Published by: IGI Global
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
Parthenogenesis in dipterans
Parthenogenesis has been documented in almost every phylum of animals, and yet this phenomenon is largely understudied. It has particular importance in dipterans since some parthenogenetic species are also disease vectors and...
development Drosophila Reproduction parthenogenesis dipterans Animals Drosophila melanogaster agriculture
Published by: Proceedings. Biological sciences
Consumer Preferences of Organised Retail Outlet in Coimbatore District
Retail industry is an important source of self employment in India since a long ago. As change is the important rule of the environment. So, today, we can also see a drastic change in the retail industry too. Today, retail...
Published by: Singh Publication
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