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Catch ''A Piece of the Irish Dream'' at Winthrop Conference
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Professors Marguerite Quintelli-Neary and Rory Cornish will co-direct the Irish Studies' Southern regional conference. Speakers will be poet Greg Delanty and Irish/Scottish scholar Patrick Crotty.
Published by: Winthrop University
Transformational Tourism Experiences
Transformational tourism is an emergent research field, reflecting a broader paradigm shift that encompasses changes in tourist profiles that challenge tourism businesses to deliver experiences that meet the expectations of...
Credits Earned, Credits Due: Forging New Degree Completion Pathways for Post-Traditional Students with the Aid of Prior Learning Assessment Portfolios
In recent years, there has been a surge in the number of adult students who have expressed interest in returning back to school to complete their undergraduate degrees. Research, however, shows that many adult students who start...
Published by: Winthrop University
"If I Don't Have Land, How Am I Going To Die?: Land and Food Insecurity in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala"
Greg Odum
Jan 01, 0001
This research looks at how rural families in Guatemala deal with land precarity. This research finds that families develop partial solutions that involve crop diversity, land reorganization, and the sale of food.
Published by: Winthrop University
Restrictiveness and guidance in support systems
Restrictiveness and guidance have been proposed as methods for improving the performance of users of support systems. In many companies computerized support systems are used in demand forecasting enabling interventions based on...
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School Counsellors’ Perspectives and Practices Regarding Informed Consent
Laura Palmer, Greg Harris
Mar 17, 2017
Obtaining informed consent can be challenging when counselling youth in a school setting.  This study explored how school counsellors (n=123) in Newfoundland and Labrador obtained informed consent when counselling youth. Surveys...
Target templates specify visual, not semantic, features to guide search
Top-down search templates specify targets' properties, either to guide attention toward the target or, independently, to accelerate the recognition of individual search items. Some previous studies have concluded that target...
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Reimagining the diagnostic pathway for gastrointestinal cancer.
A crisis is looming for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal cancers, one grounded only partly in the steady increase in their overall incidence. Public demand for diagnostic tests to be undertaken early and at lower levels of risk...
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Which cuff should I use? Indirect blood pressure measurement for the diagnosis of hypertension in patients with obesity
OBJECTIVE: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of different methods of blood pressure (BP) measurement compared with reference standards for the diagnosis of hypertension in patients with obesity with a large arm circumference....
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School Counsellors’ Perspectives and Practices Regarding Informed Consent
Obtaining informed consent can be challenging when counselling youth in a school setting.  This study explored how school counsellors (n=123) in Newfoundland and Labrador obtained informed consent when counselling youth. Surveys...
Resolving Recent Plant Radiations
Disentangling species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships within recent evolutionary radiations is a challenge due to the poor morphological differentiation and low genetic divergence between species, frequently...
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Cortical, muscular, and kinetic activity underpinning attentional focus strategies during visuomotor control.
Focusing internally on movement control or bodily sensations is frequently shown to disrupt the effectiveness and efficiency of motor control when compared to focusing externally on the outcome of movement. Whilst the behavioral...
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Fractionating the stare-in-the-crowd effect
Direct gaze-someone gazing at you-is an important social cue that might be expected to capture visual attention, even in the presence of other faces. Consistent with this, direct gazing eyes are often detected more rapidly in...
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Restrictiveness and guidance in support systems
Restrictiveness and guidance have been proposed as methods for improving the performance of users of support systems. In many companies computerized support systems are used in demand forecasting enabling interventions based on...
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