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Colombia's Fork in the Road? President Santos' Treaty with The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Ella Adriana Chirinos
Aug 22, 2017
Colombia is considered Latin America’s most stable democracy; meanwhile, it is war-torn by the internal conflict with the guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The armed conflict with the FARC has...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Socio-economic Inequality and the Rational Candidate
Kathryn Wesley
Oct 07, 2014
Socio-economic inequalities began increasing in many Western-liberal democratic countries, including Canada and the United States, approximately three decades ago. The middle class has become polarized leading to an income gap...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Integrating Mobile Mixed Reality to Enhance Learning Before, During, and After Physical Field Trips
Physical field trips have long been used in education, but virtual field trips are increasingly being used to enhance them. This article focuses on the use of mixed reality to enhance a physical field trip before, during, and...
Published by: IGI Global
A System Dynamics Model for Sales and Operations Planning
The use of system dynamics techniques to model the sales and operations planning (S&OP), associated with the economic and financial processes, is an innovative proposal. The objectives of this article are to model and simulate...
Published by: IGI Global
Newfies, Cajuns, Hillbillies, and Yoopers
Kathryn A. Remlinger
Sep 30, 2014
This paper investigates how popular media representations of Newfies, Cajuns,Yoopers, and Hillbillies maintain gender-based language stereotypes. The authenticity of these locals is in part due to their language use; they are...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Shaping and Sharing Techniques for Sight-Singing
Kathryn Smith Bowers
Nov 19, 2013
Between John Cabot's discoveries in the New World and the turn of the new millennium lay five hundred years of a remarkable English and American choral music tradition. The body of choral literature on which this tradition...
Published by: Faculty of Education
A Physiological-Monitoring Electronic Platform for Cattle Grazing Systems
Ricardo Santos, Fabiana Alves, Patrik Bressan, Ricardo Aguiar, Wellington Santos, Rafael Costa
Jul 01, 2020
In this work, we present a non-invasive electronic platform for physiological data acquisition on cattle grazing systems. The platform can be used for dairy and beef cattle to continuously monitor physiological variables such as...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Resilience in Crisis
Teacher action research serves as a framework that can transform practice while supporting inquiry, investigation, and problem-solving. This chapter provides a research report on the challenges experienced, strategies used, and...
Research Methods Education Curriculum Development and Instructional Design Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
Published by: IGI Global
Developing a Safety Climate Assessment Tool for Omani Construction Industry
One of the methods which could improve the safety performance of construction organizations is the safety climate approach which is helpful to know the existing maturity level of the safety climate and to develop plans to...
Published by: IGI Global
Communication Overload in Online Communities in Higher Education
This paper presents part of a research project on the use of information technology by students and teachers to communicate with each other in online community contexts of higher education institutions. The part of this project...
Published by: IGI Global
Fenômica
Computer vision and image processing procedures could obtain crop data frequently and precisely, such as vegetation indexes, and correlating them with other variables, like biomass and crop yield. This work presents the...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Ingestive Behaviour Activities Based on Bioacoustic Signals in Grazing Cattle
This work focuses on the development of an autonomous, electronic platform based on bioacoustic techniques to monitor animal sounds related to ingestive activities and sub-activities in beef cattle. The authors have developed an...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Benefits Measurement of a Plan to Reduce Hypertension in a Healthcare Foundation Using the BCTool
Leandro Pereira, Vânia Patrício, António Fernandes, José Santos, Ricardo Santos, Carlos Jerónimo, Francisco Simões
Nov 01, 2021
The hypertension is a well know problem and associated with a high salt consuming is one of the commonest chronic diseases.To measure the impact of this consuming it has been applied the methodology provided by the Business Case...
Published by: IGI Global
Self-Directed/Community-Supported Learning
MOOC designers seeking to address evolving ambitions of MOOCs to support workforce development confront a fundamental design dilemma: on the one hand, the self-paced nature of online learning is efficient for busy learners...
Instructional Design Education Educational Technologies Media and Communications Computer Science and Information Technology
Published by: IGI Global
Forming Suitable Groups in MCSCL Environments
Given the peculiarities of mobile computer-supported collaborative learning (MCSCL) environments, forming suitable groups in such learning environments represents a hard and time-consuming task. This is because many conditions...
Published by: IGI Global
Impact of Leadership on the Relationship Between Innovation and Performance
Leadership, innovation, and performance are essential factors to achieve the desired sustainable profitability of companies. The relationship between these variables is one of the keys to the organizational success, although...
Business and Management Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management Hospitality, Travel, & Tourism Management
Published by: IGI Global
Developing a Commercial Ethics Framework for Analysing Marketing Campaigns
This study integrates the relationship of business ethics in marketing campaigns and the importance of the repercussion on organizational performance with the aim of creating a guide of business ethics in marketing campaigns for...
Published by: IGI Global
Learning, Adults, and Competency-Based Education
Michelle Cleary, Kathryn Wozniak, Catherine Marienau, Gretchen Wilbur, Derise Tolliver, Pamela Meyer
Oct 04, 2016
Because competency-based education (CBE) programs ask students to demonstrate what they know and can do and because CBE students often work at their own pace, competence-based learners need to be able to articulate and to manage...
Published by: IGI Global
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
Blocking dPerk in the intestine suppresses neurodegeneration in a Drosophila model of Parkinson's disease.
Rebeka Popovic, Amrita Mukherjee, Nuno Santos Leal, Lydia Morris, Yizhou Yu, Samantha H Y Loh, L Miguel Martins
Apr 17, 2023
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterised by selective death of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the midbrain and motor function impairment. Gastrointestinal issues often precede motor deficits in PD, indicating that the gut-brain...
Animals Drosophila Drosophila melanogaster Parkinson Disease Drosophila Proteins Unfolded Protein Response Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
Published by: Cell Death & Disease
A Multimethodology for Supporting the Boundary Selection of System Dynamics Models
Leandro Duarte dos Santos, Sandro Schlindwein, Erwin Filho, Caroline Vaz, Mauricio Maldonado, Alfredo Fantini, Mischel Belderrain
Oct 01, 2021
System dynamics models can produce knowledge for decision-makers and, consequently, provide better choices. To be effective in its purpose, a model must reproduce an observed problem situation effectively. Hence, the...
Published by: IGI Global
The presence of territorial damselfish predicts choosy client species richness at cleaning stations.
Katie Dunkley, Kathryn E Whittey, Amy Ellison, Sarah E Perkins, Jo Cable, James E Herbert-Read
Apr 17, 2023
Mutualisms are driven by partners deciding to interact with one another to gain specific services or rewards. As predicted by biological market theory, partners should be selected based on the likelihood, quality, reward level...
Profiling IT Security and Interoperability in Brazilian Health Organisations From a Business Perspective
Rui Rijo, Ricardo Martinho, Adicinéia Oliveira, Domingos Alves, Zilma Reis, Cátia Santos-Pereira, Manuel Correia, Luís Antunes, Ricardo Cruz-Correia
Apr 01, 2020
The proliferation of electronic health (e-Health) initiatives in Brazil over the last 2 decades has resulted in a considerable fragmentation within health information technology (IT), with a strong political interference. The...
Published by: IGI Global
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