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    • Research on Chewing Gum: Questions of Ethics 

      Vieira, Sonia (Scientific Research, 2017-08)
      Guidelines for clinical research and ethics committees are significant contributions to decision made in science and law. But since research methods need to follow the changes and the development of science, guidelines ...

    • Revisiting the Catalogue Cards in University Libraries in Nigeria 

      Nkechi, Obiozor-Ekeze Roseline (Scientific Research, 2015-03)
      The card catalogues are neglected in the university libraries in Nigeria because of the introduction of OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) which is rarely seen in most of university libraries. After conducting a ...

    • Social security reforms in Kenya: Towards a workeristor a citizenship-based system? 

      Künzler, Daniel (University of Fribourg, Department of Social Sciences, Switzerland, 2016-05)
      With social security provisions in Kenya remainingunder-reported in the more recent literature, this overviewcovers recent reforms in key areas of the country’ s social secu-rity system. In the health sector and in old-age ...

    • “Soul Stealer: 1768 Chinese Sorcery Scare” in Social Crisis 

      Wang, Di (Scientific Research, 2015-01)
      The “Soul Stealer: Chinese Sorcery Scare 1768” written by Alden Kuhn is a successful example to research more profound problem areas by use of legal history. In the aura of prosperity and good governance by the determination ...

    • Study on Implicit Ideological and Political Education Theory and Reform in Higher Vocational Colleges 

      Zhang, Yanling (Scientific Research, 2015-05)
      The rapid development of higher vocational education in our country, to higher vocational ideological and political education work has brought serious challenges, researching the effectiveness of the ideological and ...

    • Study on the Development of Rural E-Commerce against the Backdrop of Rural Revitalization 

      Wang, Qingxiang (Scientific Research Publishing Inc., 2018-07-06)
      Under the trend of “Internet+”, the analysis of the development of rural e-commerce will reveal some of its deficiencies such as a single booster, the lack of standards of the products, the difficulties of building the ...

    • Theoretical Model of Special Product Design for the Elderly 

      Zheng, Gangqiang; Dong, Teng; Deng, Yuwei (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-02)
      As ageing in current society is gradually increasing, it is urgent to study product design for the elderly, exploring the theoretical system of elderly product design is of great significance. In order to guide product ...

    • Time-Logic 

      Wu, Kuang-Ming (Scientific Research, 2017-05)
      Time-logic is ever at work as story-logic in open coherence. This theme and its enormous significance, both sadly, totally, and usually neglected, are elucidated in this essay. This essay has five headings: time as not ...

    • Two Important Issues in Environmental Ethics: Cloning and Genetic Engineering 

      Tsekos, Christos A.; Bissa, Marianna N. (Scientific Research, 2017-09)
      This paper aims to investigate the moral dilemmas that arise in two contemporary issues, those of Cloning and Genetic Engineering. Firstly, we examine some purely technical aspects of these two issues. Secondly, we attempt ...

    • Use of Computers/Apps and the Negative Effects on Children’s Intellectual Outcomes 

      Gerardi, Steven (Scientific Research, 2017-07)
      The accelerated development of computer/Apps has had a negative effect on children’s intellectual outcomes. This effort will suggest that the simple nature of this technology can affect critical thinking in children. ...

    • Users’ Perception of University Library Resources and Services in South East Zone of Nigeria 

      Nkechi, Obiozor-Ekeze Roseline (Scientific Research, 2015-03)
      This study seeks to determine how users of the university libraries perceive the services rendered to them. Department of Mechanical Engineering was chosen as the population of this study. It is heavily populated with ...

    • When Does My Future Begin? Student Debt and Intragenerational Mobility 

      Elliott, William; Rauscher, Emily (Scientific Research, 2018-04)
      Higher education financing policy largely assumes that college graduates enjoy equal opportunities for economic mobility regardless of how they finance their degrees. To examine this contention, this study uses data from ...

    • Why Judaism and Islam Prohibit Eating Pork and Consuming Blood as a Food? 

      Brondz, Ilia (Scientific Research, 2018-06)
      To date, many influential religious leaders from both Judaism and Islam have attempted to provide answers to the question of why both these religions prohibit eating pork. The most straightforward answer is that the Lord ...

    • Why the Bible Cannot and Should Not Be Taken Literally 

      Firestone, Randall S. (Scientific Research, 2014-08)
      This paper argues that there are at least five reasons why the claim that the Bible is to be taken literally defies logic or otherwise makes no sense, and why literalists are in no position to claim that they have the ...

    • X-ray radiography investigation of structural conditions of Fe-15Cr-35Ni11W steel irradiated by ion-plasma fluxes 

      Malynkina, V.G.; Platonova b, E.V. (Elsevier, 2017-08)
      It was found that structural-phase transformations induced by radiation in the highly doped heat resistant Fe-15Cr-35Ni-11W alloy under the effects of treatment with ion-plasma beams differ from the transformations in ...