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Economic and Cultural Peripheralization in the Eurozone
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-11-22)Copyright © 2014 Antonio Luigi Paolilli. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ... -
The Effective Power of Music in Africa
(Scientific Research, 2015-03)This article investigates the role of music in Africa. The study is primarily motivated by the fact that music plays an indispensable role in the being of Africans at work, in politics, in their socioeconomic engagements, ... -
Effects of a cognitive-behavioral intervention program on the health of caregivers of people with autism spectrum disorder
(University of Valencia, Spain, 2015-01)Caregivers of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are chronically exposed to high levels of stress. In turn, such stress is associated with high rates of negative health outcomes. However, few studies have analyzed ... -
The Effects of Communication Efficacy on Information-Seeking Following Events That Increase Uncertainty: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis
(Published Online, 2012-05)This study examined how past information-seeking experience influences individuals’ information-seeking decision process following an event that increases uncertainty in close relationships. To examine this issue, a two-wave, ... -
Effects of prototype training package on attitudes and constructive participation behavior in university activities of Rajabhat University students
(2018-01)This research investigated using different levels of a training package on the psychological traits and constructive participation behavior of Rajabhat University students. The effect of training was studied using a ... -
English Language Learning Strategies of Malaysian Secondary School Students: Implication for Inter-Cultural Communication
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-03-21)English is unquestionably the contemporary language of science, technology, commerce, intercultural communication and scholarship. It is consists of accomplished growing importance in the world. Consequently, in Malaysia ... -
Environment and Philosophy: The Aesthetics and the Natural Environment
(Scientific Research, 2018-06)In this study, after initially identifying the field of Aesthetics and the concept of Aesthetically Remarkable (Beautiful), we are going to analyze the aesthetic categories, which constitute a basic element of Aesthetics, ... -
Ethnophilosophy and Public Morality in an African Tribe
(Scientific Research, 2015-03)The paper is a field research work delving into the ethnophilosophy of Ogba religion. Its focal point is on the people’ worldview, as it pertains to life, public morality, value and Adamic sins in Ogba Land Rivers State, ... -
Evaluation of effective threshold displacement energies and other data required for the calculation of advanced atomic displacement cross-sections
(Elsevier, 2017-08)Minimum displacement threshold energy, averaged displacement threshold energy, effective displacement energy, and parameters of arc-dpa equations were estimated for 70 materials from Li to U using available experimental ... -
Everyone Vegetarian, World Enriching
(Scientific Research, 2014-05)This essay advocates global vegetarian diet. Firstly, seven personal health benefits and four global benefits of vegetarian dinners are specified to enrich the entire globe, and then, secondly, I explore concretely how ... -
Examination of Entrepreneurship from Humanistic Values Perspective
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-05-29)This study attempts to examine the influence of humanistic values people prefer on their entrepreneurship. The study is a qualitative study and the data were collected and analyzed using this method. Besides, rela- tional ... -
Examining levels, distribution and correlates of healthinsurance coverage in Kenya
(Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com), 2017-09)objectiveTo examine the levels, inequalities and factors associated with health insurance coveragein Kenya.methodsWe analysed secondary data from the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS)conducted in 2009 and 2014. ... -
Examining progress in research on public value
(2017-12)This article reviews a new three-volume collection of previously published articles on how public or private organizations are operationalizing the principles of public value: firstly, ‘Measuring the public value of ... -
An Exploration of the Canon of Hausa Prose Fiction in Hausa Language and Translation: The Literary Contest of 1933 as a Historical Reference
(2017-01-04)The paper premises that the literary contest of 1933 has been a very important historical reference and a determining condition for the emergence of the canon of Hausa prose fiction (Furniss, 1991, 1996). As a consequence, ... -
The Extent of Students’ Initiation of Ideas in The Classroom
(University Of Port Harcourt, 2012-02-01)This study sought to identify the extent of students’ initiation of ideas in the classroom using three classroom interaction techniques. All senior secondary schools in Port Harcourt Local Government Area, ... -
Formulation of Ceramic Water Filter Composition for the Treatment of Heavy Metals and Correction of Physiochemical Parameters in Household Water
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-11)The process of using ceramic water filter to remove contaminants and microbes in water processing is becoming more effective and popular among ceramists and homes in developing countries. However, ceramic filters are not ... -
Frames of Rights, Entitlement, Need, and Deservingness in the Affordable Care Act
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-09-30)I analyze four frames deployed by members of United States Congress on the floor of the House of Representatives before the initial passage of the Affordable Care Act on November 7, 2009. Of the four frames—need, rights, ... -
Free Will, Subjectivity and the Physics of the Nervous System
(Scientific Research, 2018-05)We want to stress the irreducibility of subjectivity to a pure physical process and, related to this the existence of an actual free will. A discussion on the existence of free will goes back at least to the Middle Ages. ... -
From Second Chance Learners and Second-Class Citizens to Competent Addiction Practitioners
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-04-28)The idea that clinicians who are in recovery from addiction or substance abuse working as addiction practitioners seems deeply counter-intuitive. Compounding this is the problem that many have incurred criminal records, so ... -
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Demonstrates That Hypnosis Is Conscious and Voluntary
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-07-05)Hypnosis is a condition of modified consciousness (monoideism) resulting from a mental representation able to produce psychological and physical effects. The general belief is that hypnosis is conscious and voluntary, ...
