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Laying the First Transatlantic Cable
Matthew Alexander
Apr 09, 2013
In the early 1800s the electrical telegraph was developed to transmit written messages through a wire. By 1850 there was a submarine telegraph cable laid beneath the English Channel followed by a cable across the Cabot Strait in...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Mathematical Models of Desire, Need, Attention, and Will Effort
Alexander Ovsich
Jan 25, 2017
According to Spinoza, “Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause”. Author proposes that desire is nothing else but a change of pleasure accompanied by the idea of its cause, that terms...
Biologically-Inspired Computing Computer Science and Information Technology Artificial Intelligence Media and Communications
Published by: IGI Global
Prevention and Resolution of Labor Disputes
The study covers preventive dispute resolution methods in industrial relations, as well as empirical testing of hypotheses regarding labor disputes in Russia. The hypothesis regarding the impact of the number of laid-off...
Published by: IGI Global
Fostering a personal-is-political ethics
This article suggests that interviews about past ethical dilemmas or transgressions can foster ethical skills for navigating interlocking power relations. It shows how narratives claiming relative innocence are widespread and...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Buried graphene heterostructures for electrostatic doping of low-dimensional materials.
Alexander Gumprich, Julian Liedtke, Sarah Beck, Irina Chirca, Teja Potočnik, Jack Alexander-Webber, Stephan Hofmann, Stefan Tappertzhofen
Apr 13, 2023
The fabrication and characterization of steep slope transistor devices based on low-dimensional materials requires precise electrostatic doping profiles with steep spatial gradients in order to maintain maximum control over the...
The Role of Business and Engineering Decisions in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Mark Alexander Reynolds
Apr 09, 2013
On April 20th, 2010, the semi-submersible oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 crew members and allowing crude oil to spill continuously from the seabed. Despite numerous attempts to cap the leak...
Civil Engineering ENGI 8751, CASE STUDY, CIVIL, DEEPWATER HORIZON, OIL SPILL, ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER, BUSINESS ETHICS, OIL RIG
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Dynamic Impact of Government Expenditure and Debt Policy Instruments on Agricultural Growth in Nigeria
This research examined the impact of government expenditure and debt policy instruments on agricultural growth in Nigeria for the period 1980-2018. Findings revealed that, for every billion rise in aggregate government...
Global Information Technology Computer Science and Information Technology Global Information Technology
Published by: IGI Global
Powerpoint Presentation Evaluation Based on Aggregation of Quality Criteria
Today, there is no consensus about proper timing and conditions for integration of PowerPoint presentations into the educational process. But the model-based evaluation can make a decision-making process easier when it comes to...
Published by: IGI Global
Monitoring Practitioner's Skills in Pure-Tone Audiometry
So far, there exists no standard, to evaluate a practitioner's skills in pure-tone audiometry. To narrow the gap, this article presents an artificial patient (AP) emulating various types of hearing impairment. In contrast to...
Published by: IGI Global
Using Digital Technologies to Improve the Efficiency of Discussion Environments for Economics Students During COVID-19
The article is devoted to studying the impact of digital technologies on providing an efficient educational discussion environment against the background of isolation and social distancing caused by COVID-19 preventive measures....
Published by: IGI Global
The Role of Awareness for Complex Planning Task Performance
This study introduces the concept of microgames to support situated learning in order to foster situational awareness (SA) of planners in seaport container terminals. In today's complex working environments, it is often...
Published by: IGI Global
Assessment of association between lower ureteric excision technique and oncological outcomes for upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma
James Peter Blackmur, Etienne Chew, Matthew Trail, Katie Brodie, Nicola Santoni, Flora Rodger, David Hamilton, Fortis Gaba, Sophie Randall, Sarika Nalagatla, Brian Little, Khalid Janjua, Clare Sweeney, Andrew Martindale, Khaver Qureshi, Antony Riddick, Kevin O'Connor, S Alan McNeill, Simon Phipps, Mark L Cutress, Edward AA Mains, Ian Dunn, Sarah Reid, Grant D Stewart, Gavin Lamb, Muhammad Zeeshan Aslam, Steve Leung, Ross Clark, Ian Wilson, Grenville Oades, Alexander Chapman, Alexander Laird
Apr 08, 2023
Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in Educator Leadership Training in Nunavut
Kathy Snow, Darlene Nuqinagaq, Nunia Anoee, Erin Morozoff, Alexander McAuley, Ron MacDonald
Apr 09, 2021
The history of formal K-12 education in Nunavut has been characterized by a gradual shift from "southern" assimilationist models to those more reflective of the language, culture, and aspirations of Nunavummiut (Arnaquq, 2008;...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
The Oxford Agoraphobic Avoidance Scale.
Sinead Lambe, Jessica C Bird, Bao Sheng Loe, Laina Rosebrock, Thomas Kabir, Ariane Petit, Sophie Mulhall, Lucy Jenner, Charlotte Aynsworth, Elizabeth Murphy, Julia Jones, Rosie Powling, Kate Chapman, Robert Dudley, Anthony Morrison, Eileen O Regan, Ly-Mee Yu, David Clark, Felicity Waite, Daniel Freeman
Apr 17, 2023
BACKGROUND: Agoraphobic avoidance of everyday situations is a common feature in many mental health disorders. Avoidance can be due to a variety of fears, including concerns about negative social evaluation, panicking, and harm...
Uncovering spatiotemporal patterns of atrophy in progressive supranuclear palsy using unsupervised machine learning.
William J Scotton, Cameron Shand, Emily Todd, Martina Bocchetta, David M Cash, Lawren VandeVrede, Hilary Heuer, 4RTNI Consortium PROSPECT Consortium, Alexandra L Young, Neil Oxtoby, Daniel C Alexander, James B Rowe, Huw R Morris, Adam L Boxer, Jonathan D Rohrer, Peter A Wijeratne
Apr 17, 2023
To better understand the pathological and phenotypic heterogeneity of progressive supranuclear palsy and the links between the two, we applied a novel unsupervised machine learning algorithm (Subtype and Stage Inference) to the...
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
A single-cell comparison of adult and fetal human epicardium defines the age-associated changes in epicardial activity
Vincent R. Knight-Schrijver, Hongorzul Davaapil, Semih Bayraktar, Alexander D. B. Ross, Kazumasa Kanemaru, James Cranley, Monika Dabrowska, Minal Patel, Krzysztof Polanski, Xiaoling He, Ludovic Vallier, Sarah Teichmann, Laure Gambardella, Sanjay Sinha
Apr 11, 2023
A single-cell comparison of adult and fetal human epicardium defines the age-associated changes in epicardial activity.
Retinoic acid signaling modulation guides in vitro specification of human heart field-specific progenitor pools.
Dorota Zawada, Jessica Kornherr, Anna B Meier, Gianluca Santamaria, Tatjana Dorn, Monika Nowak-Imialek, Daniel Ortmann, Fangfang Zhang, Mark Lachmann, Martina Dreßen, Mariaestela Ortiz, Victoria L Mascetti, Stephen C Harmer, Muriel Nobles, Andrew Tinker, Maria Teresa De Angelis, Roger A Pedersen, Phillip Grote, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, Alessandra Moretti, Alexander Goedel
Apr 17, 2023
Cardiogenesis relies on the precise spatiotemporal coordination of multiple progenitor populations. Understanding the specification and differentiation of these distinct progenitor pools during human embryonic development is...
Myocardium Heart Myocytes Cardiac Pluripotent Stem Cells Animals Humans Mice Tretinoin Cell Differentiation
Published by: Nature Communications
Glycan masking of a non-neutralising epitope enhances neutralising antibodies targeting the RBD of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.
George W Carnell, Martina Billmeier, Sneha Vishwanath, Maria Suau Sans, Hannah Wein, Charlotte L George, Patrick Neckermann, Joanne Marie M Del Rosario, Alexander T Sampson, Sebastian Einhauser, Ernest T Aguinam, Matteo Ferrari, Paul Tonks, Angalee Nadesalingam, Anja Schütz, Chloe Qingzhou Huang, David A Wells, Minna Paloniemi, Ingo Jordan, Diego Cantoni, David Peterhoff, Benedikt Asbach, Volker Sandig, Nigel Temperton, Rebecca Kinsley, Ralf Wagner, Jonathan L Heeney
Apr 12, 2023
The accelerated development of the first generation COVID-19 vaccines has saved millions of lives, and potentially more from the long-term sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The most successful vaccine candidates have used the...
neutralising antibodies receptor binding domain (RBD) SARS-CoV-2 antibody pseudotype neutralisation glycan masking Humans Polysaccharides Epitopes Antibodies Neutralizing covid-19 SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Vaccines
Published by: Frontiers in immunology
In vivo interrogation of regulatory genomes reveals extensive quasi-insufficiency in cancer evolution.
Anja Fischer, Robert Lersch, Niklas de Andrade Krätzig, Alexander Strong, Mathias J Friedrich, Julia Weber, Thomas Engleitner, Rupert Öllinger, Hsi-Yu Yen, Ursula Kohlhofer, Irene Gonzalez-Menendez, David Sailer, Liz Kogan, Mari Lahnalampi, Saara Laukkanen, Thorsten Kaltenbacher, Christine Klement, Majdaddin Rezaei, Tim Ammon, Juan J Montero, Günter Schneider, Julia Mayerle, Mathias Heikenwälder, Marc Schmidt-Supprian, Leticia Quintanilla-Martinez, Katja Steiger, Pentao Liu, Juan Cadiñanos, George S Vassiliou, Dieter Saur, Olli Lohi, Merja Heinäniemi, Nathalie Conte, Allan Bradley, Lena Rad, Roland Rad
Apr 17, 2023
In contrast to mono- or biallelic loss of tumor-suppressor function, effects of discrete gene dysregulations, as caused by non-coding (epi)genome alterations, are poorly understood. Here, by perturbing the regulatory genome in...
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