Academic Articles & Research Papers

Medical Biotechnology

Social Media Listening to Understand the Lived Experience of Individuals in Europe With Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Systematic Search and Content Analysis Study

BackgroundDespite a wealth of real-world data on metastatic breast cancer (mBC), insights into the lived experience are lacking. This study aimed to explore how the lived experience of mBC is described on social media.MethodsA predefined se...

Introduction to Communication Studies

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining ‘Why Fiske Still Matters’ for today’s students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell New...

Globalization and Public Administration

This article discusses globalization and its implications for public administration. Using a political economy approach, an analysis is made of different meanings and perspectives of globalization, of causes and consequences of globalizatio...

The spirit of public administration

Introduction: Understanding Public Administration Part One: Governance, Politics, and the Public 1. Finding the Public in Public Administration 2. The Political Context of Public Administration 3. Public Administration as Governance Part Tw...

International Relations

Abstract “International relations” refers to relations that cross national boundaries, especially political relations among states. At the root of international relations is international politics, though social, cultural, economic, and geo...

Avaliação da qualidade de vida e toxicidades em pacientes com câncer colorretal tratados com quimioterapia adjuvante baseada em fluoropirimidinas Evaluation of the toxicity and quality of life in patients with colorectal cancer treated with chemotherapy

RACIONAL: O câncer colorretal é a quarta causa de câncer no Brasil e o 5-fluourouracil uma das principais drogas usadas no tratamento adjuvante e paliativo dessa doença. A toxicidade da quimioterapia e as alterações de qualidade de vida, ca...

Bourdieu in International Relations

Series Editor's Introduction Iver B. Neumann, NUPI Preface Emanuel Adler, University of Toronto Introduction Rebecca Adler-Nissen, University of Copenhagen 1. Bourdieu's concepts Vincent Pouliot, McGill University and Frederic Merand, Unive...

The Concept of “Miracle in a Fiery Furnace” in Byzantium and Its Later Reminiscences

Introduction. The article discusses the motive of a “miracle in a fiery furnace”, based on the story of the Three Holy Children in the Book of Daniel. Methods. The study provides a comparative analysis of the Biblical topos about the trial...

Los servicios de información y documentación en el Parlamento Británico

SUMARIO: 1. Introducción. —2. La biblioteca de la Cámara de los Comunes.—2.1. Historia, fondos y catálogos.—2.1.1. Desde sus orígenes hasta 1830.—2.1.2. Desde 1834 hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial. — 2.1.3. Desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial ha...

Elaborating a Methodology for Gauging a Politician’s Communicative Personality

Communicative behaviour studies require using numerous methodological approaches depending on the goal and tasks of research. Linguopolitical personology conceives of political communication as an institutionalized phenomenon aimed at holdi...

Inside/outside: international relations as political theory

In this book Rob Walker offers an original analysis of the relationship between twentieth-century theories of international relations, and the political theory of civil society since the early modern period. He views theories of internation...

Anglo-Italian interdisciplinary networks 1765-1767. Frisi, Beccaria, the Verris and the Fellows of the Royal Society

The aim of this paper is to shed light on an under-researched area of study: that of the relations that the leading members of the «Caffé» – Paolo Frisi, Cesare Beccaria and the Verri – established with the Royal Society’s Anglo-Italian cir...

Ukraina w narracjach Władimira Putina – studium dekonstrukcyjne

Celem artykułu jest zdekonstruowanie wybranych narracji Władimira Putina o Ukrainie w oparciu o dostępną typologię narracji strategicznych. Pozwala to na wyjście poza wierzchnią warstwę komunikatów, których treść ewoluuje, dynamicznie dosto...

A Review of Stimuli-Responsive Smart Materials for Wearable Technology in Healthcare: Retrospective, Perspective, and Prospective

In recent years thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), the demand for the development of miniaturized and wearable sensors has skyrocketed. Among them, novel sensors for wearable medical devices are mostly needed. The aim of this review is...

Squeaky wheels: Missing data, disability, and power in the smart city

Data about the accessibility of United States municipalities is infrastructure in the smart city. What is counted and how, reflects the sociotechnical imaginary (norms and values) of a time or place. In this paper we focus on features ident...

IoT-enabled real-time outdoor monitoring of perovskite BIPV system under real climatic conditions

This study presents a first-of-its-kind IoT-enabled outdoor investigation of perovskite Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) subsystems under real environmental operating conditions at Peshawar, Pakistan. Two architecturally distinct per...

Engineering protein translocation pathway to improve recombinant proteins in Pichia pastoris

Pichia pastoris is one of the most commonly used hosts for producing heterologous proteins, whereas production levels vary depending on the protein of interest and are also regulated by regulatory factors. We conducted RNA-seq by expressing...

Water conservation in arid and semi-arid basins exhibits a nonlinear effect on water quality improvement

Study region: The Weihe River Basin (WRB), a typical arid and semi-arid basin in China. Study focus: Water conservation regulates hydrological processes and pollutant transport, yet the response mechanisms of water quality to water conserva...

Genome‐wide association studies of fruit quality traits in jujube germplasm collections using genotyping‐by‐sequencing

Abstract Chinese jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) is an important fruit crop and harbors many highly diverse traits of potential economic importance. Fruit size, stone size, and fruit cracking have an important influence on the commercial val...