INTRODUCTION: There are no formal guidelines for whether CT-guided or fluoroscopy-guided TFESI should be undertaken for patients with symptoms of lumbar nerve root irritation and corresponding nerve impingement. Here, we sought...
Daniel A. Helminiak is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of West Georgia. He holds PhDs in theology and psychology and has published widely in these fields and their applications to spirituality and sexuality. Among...
This article examined the historical evolution of organization and management theories and their applicability to practice in modern enterprise. Management and organizational theories each add something to the awareness of what...
This study aims to assess the effectiveness and impact of Aristotle's rhetorical triangle—ethos, pathos, and logos—on the behavior of consumers, focusing particularly on consumer product. Quantitative and qualitative methods...
In the context of long-term archival of digital assets, file formats that are standardized and designed for longevity such as PDF/A are preferred. However, due to the complexity of and ambiguities in PDF standards, it is far...
This study examines the effect of consumers’ perceived credibility of information on SNS on their attitude and intention to adopt this information in the Arab world. The study adopted a quantitative research approach using a...
The review critiques 'This Is Esports (And How to Spell It): An Insider’s Guide to the World of Pro Gaming', a book written by Paul Chaloner and Benjamin Sillis. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of the history of the...
Most modern relational database systems use triggers to implement automatic tasks in response to specific events happening inside or outside a system. A database trigger is a human readable block code without any formal...
The study aims to evaluate perceived impediments and anticipated solutions to HR while implementing Industry 4.0 initiatives in SMEs. A group of 10 decision-makers from these SMEs was tasked with assigning ratings to a variety...
This article discusses national and local strategies for confronting COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis sheds light on how societal context, institutional arrangements, knowledge culture, and technology deployment manifest in...
The aim of this paper is to examine the Porter hypothesis which defines that environmental regulations, under certain circumstances, could have positive effects on corporate environmental and economic performance. The majority...
This study identifies coping strategies to examine the behaviors adopted by team managers in addressing technostress. It evaluates the choice of coping strategies to increase performance. A study involving 3 companies and 45...
Predicting stock indexes is a common concern in the financial world. This work uses neural network, support vector machine (SVM), mixed data sampling (MIDAS), and other methods in data mining technology to predict the daily...
Students report poor learning goals and study strategies. Educators may encourage better learning by requiring students to complete assessments that promote generative learning. The benefits of engaging in generative processes...
Pretopology is a mathematical model developed from a weakening of the topological axiomatic. It was initially used in economic, social and biological sciences and next in pattern recognition and image analysis. More recently, it...
Brazil is a biofuel superpower and a pioneer in the large-scale production and use of sugarcane ethanol. The country has plans to replace 10 percent of the world's fossil fuels by 2025 with biofuels (Novo et al., 2010). Brazil...
COVID-19 pandemic mandates the transformation of the traditional healthcare delivery model from facility-based to virtual care worldwide. The use of technology in delivering health care has always been debated and faces...
The landscape of higher education is moving in a direction of greater variation, leaving traditional academic institutions at risk of obsolescence amidst the myriad of accessible, responsive, flexible learning opportunities...
Although critiques of participatory development attend to knowledge/power, Anglo- American literature on community-based participatory research (CBPR) is largely silent on the politics of these collaborations. As the “will to...
Low quality healthcare services can hinder economic and social development, result in premature death and disability, and waste human capital. To compound pre-pandemic healthcare access and equity issues, the quality of care...
“The ultimate end goal of the finite I and the not-I, i.e., the end goal of the world,” writes Schelling in Of the I as Principle of Philosophy, “is its annihilation as a world, i.e., as the exemplification of finitude” (SW I...
This article describes how every learner is a unique creative individual responsible for paving his/her own way of learning in a preclusion of external restraints. Learners apply a bunch of idiosyncratic means to segue the...