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Digital Twin for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
This chapter focuses on the context in which patients such as those with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) are placed and what possibilities information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer to keep them in touch with...
Virtual Communities & Virtual Reality Social Sciences and Humanities Human Aspects of Technology Computer Science and Information Technology Media and Communications
Published by: IGI Global
Fiscal Responsibility and Multi-Level Governance
Public-policy assumptions regarding sub-national governments' financial behavior are based on economic rationality. Therefore, to achieve fiscal stability at the macro level, central governments use fiscal rules both to...
Published by: IGI Global
Westernization and Music in China during and after the Qing Dynasty
Anna Chen
Jan 30, 2014
Before the Revolution of 1911, China was a mighty empire dominated by various Chinese ethnic groups in different time periods. In particular, the Han people of the Tang1 and Ming Dynasty and the Man people of the Qing Dynasty2...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Nuclear Imminence in Contemporary Indo?Pakistani Conflict
Anna Tobin
Aug 17, 2009
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Impact of Open Access on Library Collections and Collection Development Services
The growth of open access (OA) journals has been rapid and substantial. While still not the predominant form of journal publishing, OA journals of varying types have impacted the scholarly communication ecosystem in a profound...
Information Resources Management Library and Information Science Information Resources Management Education Government and Law
Published by: IGI Global
Introduction
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Palestinian Zombie
Anna-Esther Younes
Dec 14, 2022
The modern zombie myth is as fascinating as it is often anxiety-inducing to the viewer of horror movies. On the other hand, the zombie is a potent history of racialized physical pain, psychological trauma, alienation...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Advancing English Language Learners' Speaking Skills Using VoiceThread in Mobile Learning for Russian Tertiary Context
Maria Zemlyanova, Natalia Muravyeva, Svetlana Masterskikh, Lyudmila Shilova, Anna Shevtsova
Nov 01, 2021
This research examines the effectiveness of using the VoiceThread (VT) application (both web and mobile-based) for the development of oral English skills of Russian university students. The study involved 44 full-time bachelor...
Published by: IGI Global
Ever Upward
In a world where skilling, upskilling, reskilling, and career shifting are becoming the norm, and where lifelong learning is a requirement, models of higher education designed to best support the needs of learners and the...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
Published by: IGI Global
Removing Barriers from Choral Singing
Rita Ferrer Miquel, Ivet Farres i Cullell, Joan de la Creu Godoy Tomàs, Anna Ribera Gironell
Aug 04, 2017
Choral singing is a collaborative activity which educates singers so as to make them more competitive in today's world.People often judge or assess a choir by the way they sing, based on whether they like their voice or not....
Published by: The Singing Network
Raising Consent Awareness With Gamification and Knowledge Graphs
Sven Rasmusen, Manuel Penz, Stephanie Widauer, Petraq Nako, Anelia Kurteva, Antonio Roa-Valverde, Anna Fensel
Jan 01, 2022
Consent is one of GDPR’s lawful bases for data processing and specific requirements for it apply. Consent should be specific, unambiguous and most of all informed. However, an informed consent request does not guarantee having...
Published by: IGI Global
Gamification Increases Completion Rates in Massive Open Online Courses
Krzysztof Nesterowicz, Ulkar Bayramova, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Ana Scarlat, Anthony Ash, Anna Augustyn, Tamás Szádeczky
Jan 01, 2022
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) aim at unlimited participation and open access via the web. There are concerns about the actual value of such courses. This is predominantly due to higher dropout rates. According to studies...
Published by: IGI Global
Phylodynamics and migration data help describe HIV transmission dynamics in internally displaced people who inject drugs in Ukraine.
Ganna Kovalenko, Anna Yakovleva, Pavlo Smyrnov, Matthew Redlinger, Olga Tymets, Anna Korobchuk, Anna Kolodiazieva, Anna Podolina, Svitlana Cherniavska, Britt Skaathun, Laramie R Smith, Steffanie A Strathdee, Joel O Wertheim, Samuel R Friedman, Eric Bortz, Ian Goodfellow, Luke Meredith, Tetyana I Vasylyeva
Apr 09, 2023
Internally displaced persons are often excluded from HIV molecular epidemiology surveillance due to structural, behavioral, and social barriers in access to treatment. We test a field-based molecular epidemiology framework to...
The Healing Hearts at Home© Mobile Application Usability and Influence on Parental Perceived Stress
Vanessa Miller, Jennifer Newcombe, Patricia Radovich, Flint Johnston, Ernesto Medina Jr., Anna Nelson
May 01, 2021
In this study, the Healing Hearts and Home© (HHH©) application was piloted to determine the usability and usefulness of the mobile application and whether the application had an effect on caregivers' coping and stress. A...
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
Spatial multiomics map of trophoblast development in early pregnancy.
Anna Arutyunyan, Kenny Roberts, Kevin Troulé, Frederick C K Wong, Megan A Sheridan, Ilia Kats, Luz Garcia-Alonso, Britta Velten, Regina Hoo, Elias R Ruiz-Morales, Carmen Sancho-Serra, Jarrod Shilts, Louis-Francois Handfield, Luca Marconato, Elizabeth Tuck, Lucy Gardner, Cecilia Icoresi Mazzeo, Qian Li, Iva Kelava, Gavin J Wright, Elena Prigmore, Sarah A Teichmann, Omer Ali Bayraktar, Ashley Moffett, Oliver Stegle, Margherita Y Turco, Roser Vento-Tormo
Apr 17, 2023
The relationship between the human placenta-the extraembryonic organ made by the fetus, and the decidua-the mucosal layer of the uterus, is essential to nurture and protect the fetus during pregnancy. Extravillous trophoblast...
Myometrium Decidua Organoids Stem Cells Trophoblasts Placenta Humans Transcription Factors maternal-fetal relations Cell Communication Cell Differentiation Cell Movement Pregnancy Pregnancy Trimester First Female Single-Cell Analysis Transcriptome multiomics
Published by: Nature
Impact on alcohol selection and online purchasing of changing the proportion of available non-alcoholic versus alcoholic drinks
Natasha Clarke, Anna K M Blackwell, Jennifer Ferrar, Katie De-loyde, Mark A Pilling, Marcus R Munafò, Theresa M Marteau, Gareth J Hollands
Apr 17, 2023
Background
Increasing the availability of non-alcoholic options is a promising population-level intervention to reduce alcohol consumption, currently unassessed in naturalistic settings. This study in an online retail...
Published by: PLoS Medicine
Primitive haematopoiesis in the human placenta gives rise to macrophages with epigenetically silenced HLA-DR.
Jake R Thomas, Anna Appios, Emily F Calderbank, Nagisa Yoshida, Xiaohui Zhao, Russell S Hamilton, Ashley Moffett, Andrew Sharkey, Elisa Laurenti, Courtney W Hanna, Naomi McGovern
Apr 17, 2023
The earliest macrophages are generated during embryonic development from erythro-myeloid progenitors (EMPs) via primitive haematopoiesis. Although this process is thought to be spatially restricted to the yolk sac in the mouse...
MACROPHAGES Placenta Animals Humans Mice HLA-DR Antigens Hematopoiesis Embryonic Development Pregnancy Female
Published by: Nature Communications
Provision of palliative and end-of-life care in UK care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic
Andy Bradshaw, Sophia Ostler, Claire Goodman, Izabele Batkovskyte, Clare Ellis-Smith, India Tunnard, Anna E Bone, Stephen Barclay, Martin Vernon, Irene J Higginson, Catherine J Evans, Katherine E Sleeman
Apr 17, 2023
Introduction
Little consideration has been given to how the provision of palliative and end-of-life care in care homes was affected by COVID-19. The aims of this study were to: (i) investigate the response of UK care...
Policy Palliative Care care homes end-of-life care mixed methods observational covid-19 Humans Terminal Care Cross-Sectional Studies Pandemics United Kingdom covid-19
Published by: Frontiers in public health
Tailoring the Surface Chemistry of PEDOT
Konstantinos Kallitsis, Anna‐Maria Pappa, Zixuan Lu, Alberto Alvarez‐Fernandez, Ioanna Charalambous, Sina Schack, Walther C Traberg, Quentin Thiburce, Karan Bali, Graham Christie, Stefan Guldin, Susan Daniel, Alberto Salleo, Róisín M Owens
Apr 14, 2023
This communication reports on a versatile and substrate‐agnostic method to tune the surface chemistry of conducting polymers with the aim of bridging the chemical mismatch between bioelectronic devices and biological systems. As...
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
Antigen discrimination by T cells relies on size-constrained microvillar contact.
Edward Jenkins, Markus Körbel, Caitlin O'Brien-Ball, James McColl, Kevin Y Chen, Mateusz Kotowski, Jane Humphrey, Anna H Lippert, Heather Brouwer, Ana Mafalda Santos, Steven F Lee, Simon J Davis, David Klenerman
Apr 17, 2023
T cells use finger-like protrusions called 'microvilli' to interrogate their targets, but why they do so is unknown. To form contacts, T cells must overcome the highly charged, barrier-like layer of large molecules forming a...
T-Lymphocytes microvilli Receptors Antigen T-Cell Antigens Lymphocyte Activation Signal Transduction
Published by: Nature Communications
Prediction of recurrence from metabolites and expression of TOP2A and EZH2 in prostate cancer patients treated with radiotherapy.
Studying Trends of Auto-Regulation in Severe Head Injury in Paediatrics (STARSHIP)
Shruti Agrawal, Michal M Placek, Deborah White, Esther Daubney, Manuel Cabeleira, Peter Smielewski, Marek Czosnyka, Adam Young, Suzanna Watson, Anna Maw, Peter John Hutchinson
Apr 11, 2023
Introduction
Studying cerebral autoregulation, particularly PRx (Pressure Reactivity Index), is commonly employed in adult traumatic brain injury (TBI) and gives real-time information about intracranial pathophysiology...
Physiology TRAUMA MANAGEMENT neurological injury paediatric intensive & critical care Humans Prospective Studies Homeostasis Cerebrovascular Circulation Intracranial Pressure Adult Child Multicenter Studies as Topic Pandemics Observational Studies as Topic Brain Injuries Traumatic covid-19
Published by: BMJ Open
Solving the conundrum of intra-specific variation in metabolic rate: A multidisciplinary conceptual and methodological toolkit: New technical developments are opening the door to an understanding of why metabolic rate varies among individual animals of a species
Neil B Metcalfe, Jakob Bellman, Pierre Bize, Pierre U Blier, Amélie Crespel, Neal J Dawson, Ruth E Dunn, Lewis G Halsey, Wendy R Hood, Mark Hopkins, Shaun S Killen, Darryl McLennan, Lauren E Nadler, Julie JH Nati, Matthew J Noakes, Tommy Norin, Susan E Ozanne, Malcolm Peaker, Amanda K Pettersen, Anna Przybylska-Piech, Alann Rathery, Charlotte Récapet, Enrique Rodríguez, Karine Salin, Antoine Stier, Elisa Thoral, Klaas R Westerterp, Margriet S Westerterp-Plantenga, Michał S Wojciechowski, Pat Monaghan
Apr 12, 2023
Researchers from diverse disciplines, including organismal and cellular physiology, sports science, human nutrition, evolution and ecology, have sought to understand the causes and consequences of the surprising variation in...
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