Academic Articles & Research Papers

The impact of the student-supervisor relationship on graduate student mental health: An integrative review

In recent years, the mental health of graduate students has become a prominent concern in higher education, with many students experiencing elevated levels of stress, anxiety, depression, burnout, and psychological distress. These challenge...

CSNTSteg: Color Spacing Normalization Text Steganography Model to Improve Capacity and Invisibility of Hidden Data

The rapid growth of online communication has increased the demand for secure communication. Most government entities, healthcare providers, the legal sector, financial and banking, and other industries are vulnerable to information security...

Developing and defining core climate and environmental epidemiology competencies for field epidemiology training programs in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a Delphi study

BackgroundClimate change, environmental degradation, and chemical hazards increasingly shape population health risks, particularly in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), where water scarcity, rapid urbanization, conflict, and fragile he...

¿Hacia dónde va la psicolingüística? What is the new course of psycholinguistics?

Este trabajo revisa de modo introductorio la preocupación de destacados pensadores en la historia de los estudios de la relación lenguaje-pensamiento. Del mismo modo se analizan los periodos de la psicolingüística como ciencia de la comunic...

Science communication scholarship in Lithuania: A scoping study

This study analyzes the extent, range and nature of science communication scholarship in Lithuania. The purpose of this study is to explore whether there is a presence of this research field in the Lithuanian academic context and if there e...

Pattern Distribution of Connexins in the Ortho- and Parakeratinized Epithelium of the Lingual Mucosa in Birds

Connexins are important proteins involved in cell-to-cell communication and cytodifferentiation during renewal and cornification of the multilayered epithelia. So far, there is a lack of reports on this subject in birds’ structurally differ...

Perception of hate speech in the 2023 presidential political campaigns on voter behaviour in Nigeria

The 2023 general elections in Nigeria were characterised by a surge in hate speech, particularly across digital platforms, significantly shaping the political landscape and influencing voter behaviour. The study highlights how ethno-religio...

Modeling and analysis for dynamical Doppler shifts on terahertz communication signals propagating in inhomogeneous hypersonic plasma sheath

Previous studies have shown that terahertz (THz) signals could penetrate hypersonic plasma sheaths. Thus, it is considered to be a potential solution to the “blackout” problem. Nevertheless, although previous studies have systematically rev...

Social Justice Mathematics and Public Health Equity: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Literacy in Health Decision-Making

Background: Public health decision-making increasingly requires individuals to interpret numerical information such as risks, probabilities, treatment benefits, and epidemiological trends. However, disparities in quantitative literacy may c...

The Evanescent Bouquet of Individual Bear Fingerprint

The evanescent and invisible communication carried by chemical signals, pheromones, or signature mixtures or, as we prefer, the pheromonal individual fingerprint, between members of the same species is poorly studied in mammals, mainly beca...

Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies

The Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies has provided students and the general public alike with a gateway into the study of intercultural communication, public relations and marketing communications since 1984. In this 9th edition...

Evaluating Urban–Rural Disparity of Public Facilities Provision in Chengdu–Chongqing: An Equity Index Approach with Multi-Source Data

Urban–rural public facility disparity is a systemic challenge that reflects dysfunctional feedback loops within and across social and technical subsystems. Traditional administrative-unit-based analyses cannot capture such systemic alignmen...

Diagnosis of Teleworking in Argentina during the Pandemic: Application of the Telework Efficiency Index

Present the most significant findings that were obtained within the framework of the Support Program for Teaching Researchers “PROAPI2021” of the Secretariat of Research and Technological and Institutional Linkage of the National University...

Editorial: Institutional adaptation and transformation for climate resilience

Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration

Liberal democracy is at risk. Its hallmark institutions – political pluralism, separation of powers, and rule of law—are coming under pressure, as authoritarian sentiment is growing around the globe. While liberal-democratic backsliding fea...

Democratic Backsliding, Populism, and Public Administration

Abstract What happens to public administration when populists are elected into government? This article argues that populists seek to realize an anti-pluralist reform agenda, thereby fuelling trends of democratic backsliding. Against this b...

Import Competition, Labor Market Flexibility, and Skill Premium-Evidence from China Based on the Dynamic Threshold Model

This paper examines the impact of import competition on skill premium and the moderating effect of labor market flexibility on it, using panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2010 to 2019. A dynamic panel threshold model with instrumen...

طراحی داشبورد شهر هوشمند مردمی در بستر دولت دیجیتال با رویکرد فراترکیب

در دهه‌های اخیر، ظهور دولت دیجیتال و توسعه فناوری‌های نوین، تحولی اساسی در نحوه اداره امور شهری و تعامل با شهروندان ایجاد کرد. در این میان، داشبوردهای شهری به‌عنوان ابزاری کلیدی برای نظارت، تحلیل و تصمیم‌گیری هوشمند در شهرهای هوشمند شناخته ...

Public Administration

What is understood by “public administration” in the contemporary UK higher education setting? Is it still being taught and, if so, why? These questions initially appear to be fairly straightforward but any review of the topic quickly poses...

The Political Economy of Public Administration

This book applies the basic ideas and models of economics to develop a single transactions framework to explain the key institutional arrangements across the whole range of public sector organization: the regulatory commission, the executiv...