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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 ... -
Research on Chewing Gum: Questions of Ethics
(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 ... -
Two Important Issues in Environmental Ethics: Cloning and Genetic Engineering
(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 ... -
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. ... -
Gender Abuse in Intimate Relationships: From Structural Coupling Theory to Emergence of Couple System
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2017-10-17)Is love predictable in its choices? Linear Determinism, Randomness or Complexity? By applying theoretical coordinates of current sociological interpretations of intimacy and conceptual categories of New General System ... -
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 ... -
Implementing a braided home-based parent-support curriculum: Lessons learned
(2017-12)A singular parent-support program is limited in its ability to address multiple child and family needs. One innovative solution is braiding, a process in which two evidence-based programs are systematically combined as a ... -
Imagination and Thematic Reality in the African Novel: A New Vision for African Novelists
(2017-12-21)The present study on the topic “Imagination and thematic reality in the African novel: a new vision to African novelists” aims to show the limitation of the contribution of the African literary works to the good governance ... -
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 ... -
Influence of Environmental and Social Programs on Dimensionality of Triple Bottom Line of Manufacturing SMEs in South Africa
(Online, 2018-01)Over the past decades manufacturing SMEs have played a very crucial role as a driving force behind socio-economic growth and industrial development, acting as prime agents of change and growth of emerging economies. ... -
Children
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)As children grow, so this paper develops many themes that children and we all love, coherently yet freely, and attractively as children are enthralling. -
The Mind-Body Problem: The Perspective of Psychology
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)The paper traces the changes in the conceptualization of body-mind relations in psychology in terms of five sequential phases. The first phase is characterized by the view that there is nothing but the body. The second ... -
An Analogical Hermeneutic Approach to Bioethics
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)Bioethics has the hermeneutical task of interpreting scientific knowledge produced by the biological and social sciences in order to propose moral norms and values that are adequate to it. Therefore, it needs to account ... -
Pre-service primary school teachers’ knowledge of informal statistical inference
(Springer Netherlands, 2018-03)The ability to reason inferentially is increasingly important in today’s society. It is hypothesized here that engaging primary school students in informal statistical reasoning (ISI), defined as making generalizations ... -
When Does My Future Begin? Student Debt and Intragenerational Mobility
(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 ... -
Impact of rotavirus vaccination on rotavirus hospitalisationrates among a resource-limited rural population in Mbita,Western Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018-04)A two-dose oral monovalent rotavirus vaccine (RV1) was introduced into the KenyanNational Immunization Program in July 2014. We assessed trends in hospitalisation for rotavirus-specific acute gastroenteritis (AGE) and strain ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Analysis of Various Biblical Themes
(Scientific Research, 2018-05)The author believes that people are turning away from Christianity because (due to their free will) they cannot believe in the validity of various concepts, such as a unique and universal Crucifixion. They believe that ... -
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 ...