Academic Articles & Research Papers

Using and integration of ICT in a diverse educational context of Santander (Colombia)

The integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the academic context caused a change in the way teaching and learning is carried out. It also broadened the usually formal educational contexts and the way these are acc...

Determinants and socioeconomic inequalities in vitamin A-rich food consumption among children aged 6–23 months in Somalia: a multilevel analysis of the 2020 Somalia Health and Demographic Survey (SHDS)

IntroductionVitamin A deficiency (VAD) remains a public health concern, particularly among children in resource-limited settings. This study aimed to evaluate the consumption of vitamin A-rich foods and associated socioeconomic inequalities...

Practical Recommendations for Supporting a Systems Biology Cyberinfrastructure

Projects in the life sciences continue to increase in complexity as they scale to answer deeper and more diverse questions. They employ technologies that generate increasingly large ‘omic’ datasets and research teams regularly include exper...

Communication Studies: An Alternative Programme

Two of the major problems involved in teaching communication studies to electrical engineering students are motivating the students and creating favourable attitudes towards the subject. This paper describes how these problems can be overco...

Post-Truth and Critical Communication Studies

Abstract While the periodizing concept “post-truth” (PT) initially appeared in the United States as a key word of popular politics in the form “post-truth politics” or “post-truth society,” it quickly appeared in many languages. It is now t...

Evaluation of students' mental and social health promotion educational programs: A systematic review

INTRODUCTION: Various programs are implemented internationally to promote the mental and social health of the students in schools. This study systematically reviewed and categorized all resources, indicators, and criteria for evaluating men...

Improving communication skills in the Southeast Asian health care context

The aim of these two PhD thesis are to develop a guideline on doctor-patient communication skills based on cultural characteristics of Southeast Asian context and to develop communication skills training for nurses to enhance their contribu...

Investigating Undergraduate Students’ Learning Styles and Preferences in English as a Second Language: The Case of a Public University in Ghana

This study examines selected undergraduate students’ learning styles and preferences at a public university in Ghana. These participants were Level 100 students pursuing the Bachelor of Information Technology programme. The study sought to ...

Satisfaction Rate from the Communication Skills of Family Physicians in Rural Health Centers at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Since that one of the basic points in the competences of physicians, is the communication skill to carry out their professional duties properly, several studies suggest that manyphysicians can not communicate to th...

Psychological and Pedagogical Support for Parents of Children with Special Educational Needs

This study primarily aimed to develop a program that aids parents of children with Special Educational Needs (SEN), placing emphasis on the challenges encountered in communication and understanding. The Eidemiller and Justizkis’s (2008) Fam...

THE EMERGENCE OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES

This article charts the vast multiplicity of phenomena that can be brought under the ‘communication’ umbrella. The author denies that these can be integrated within a framework of communication regarded as a discipline in its own right. He ...

Spatio-temporal analysis of childhood vaccine uptake in Nigeria: a hierarchical Bayesian Zero-inflated Poisson approach

Abstract Background Globally, child mortality and morbidity remain a serious health challenge and infectious diseases are the leading causes. The use of count models together with spatial analysis of the number of doses of childhood vaccine...

Impact of MiniMedJob as medical career intervention program

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Medical career exploration is a continuous process that one should invest on throughout their academic life. However, lack of resources and time are the main barriers in establishing suitable intervention. Therefore, the...

Enhancing clinician participation in quality improvement training: implementation and impact of an evidence-based initiative to maximise antenatal clinician participation in training regarding women’s alcohol consumption during pregnancy

Abstract Background There are significant challenges in ensuring sufficient clinician participation in quality improvement training. Clinician capability has been identified as a barrier to the delivery of evidence-based care. Clinician tra...

Fatores que determinam o desenvolvimento rural nas microrregiões do Brasil

Rural development in Brazil’s microregions: a multidimensional study. Because the rural Brazilian population has heterogeneous characteristics of social, technical and regional aspects, we studied how the rural development is distributed al...

Centuries of Heat Waves over India during 20th and 21st Century

An assessment of temperature extremes is made for the Indian subcontinent to identify the changes since 1951 to 2015, and for the future climate periods till 2100 for all the 21 CMIP5 (Coupled Model intercomparision Project phase 5) models ...

A survey about sports investments in Iran: Comparison between 1998 & 2016 without inflation

Background: Sports Investments is one of the most unique sports events, in the country dealing both with collectors and dealers.Aim: The purpose of this study was to compare the sports investment o Iran in 2016 and 1998. Therefore, we estim...

Journal of Statistics Education Referees 2016–2107

Implementation of non-pharmacological recommendations and its associated factors among hypertensive patients on follow-up in hospitals of South Omo and Gofa zones, Southern Ethiopia: A facility based cross sectional study.

Hypertension is a major public health issue and inadequately controlled in a large proportion of patients globally. It can be adequately managed both pharmacologically and non-pharmacologically. This study aimed to assess the implementation...

Fundamental Statistics in Psychology and Education