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What kinds of voice and representation do American workers want on the job? Our recent national survey experiment answers this question, and in doing so lays out a clear and ambitious reform agenda for the next president and Congress, as well as strategies for unions and worker advocates.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a rapid shift to delivering remote care and rehabilitation. Pre-COVID-19, delivering health care rehabilitation via remote, online technologies was limited, especially in Occupational Therapy.
Read MoreAdolescents’ alcohol consumption has been widely discussed and researched, as have different approaches to alcohol prevention. This study aims to pilot methods for the involvement and empowerment of adolescents regarding alcohol consumption and situational abstinence and the possibilities of adolescent-created narratives in alcohol abuse prevention.
Read MorePreprints can represent a number of points on the timeline of scholarly communications, be it posted before submission to a journal or archived after a paper is already published, or even as an end goal itself. In the simpler times before COVID-19, an author may have decided to post a paper to a preprint server in order to get credit for research or get comments from other researchers before ultimately submitting to a journal. They then would have submitted their research to a journal and waited several months for their paper to go through peer review.
Read MorePeer reviewers elevate the quality of the work they review with the feedback they provide. They challenge their peers to higher standards of research and scholarly communication. Most importantly, their feedback protects the integrity of the academic record. They are essential contributors to the academic publishing process.
Read MoreAfter months or years of research and writing the last thing you want is an unnecessary delay with the peer review of your paper. Sometimes turnaround times are beyond your control, however, there are some simple things you can do to ensure that your paper gets through peer review as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Read MoreTransparent peer review, where the exchanges between peer reviewers and authors accompany published articles, continues to be both lauded and critiqued by the scholarly community. Together with managing editor of Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease (TAR), Phillip Shaw, I discuss the possibilities and limitations brought by a switch to transparent peer review, how increased transparency may help us in improving the author experience and help abate increasing issues of trust in scholarly results.
Read MoreAt SAGE, high quality peer review is a cornerstone of our approach to journal publishing, which is why we’re once again supporting Peer Review Week, taking place September 21 – 25.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has shed a disturbing light on the health and quality of care of older adults. The truth is that the quality of life and care for this vulnerable population should have been of concern long before the pandemic ever began. This is especially true for older adults and families affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias – a group of memory impairment disorders that primarily affect older adults and gravely impact the cognitive, physical, mental, and social abilities of those diagnosed.
Read MoreResearchers have found that the relative importance of industry, corporate, and business unit effects vary depending on the broad economic sector in which a company is participating, or the country in which the corporation is operating. While this research has taken us a long way in understanding the effects of internal and external factors on the performance variance of a firm, our understanding of how generalizable those findings are across various ownership categories are scarce.
Read MoreSAGE is hosting a free How to Be a Peer Reviewer Webinar during Peer Review Week 2020. Jennifer Lovick, Executive Editor of Cancer Control and Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment and Bailey Baumann, Managing Editor of SAGE Open will present, followed by an engaging Q&A session with a panel of peer review specialists and journal Editors from various disciplines.
Read MoreTelevideo offers an enhanced option for patient visits, particularly with chronic illness where travel to a clinic can make things worse – in particular, chronic pain syndromes and situations where exposure to others elevates infectious risk for office staff and patients. In the wake of COVID-19, there has been an exodus from clinic visits to televideo, in an effort to reduce the contagion and possible ubiquitous transmission of this deadly disease to patients and clinicians.
Read MoreNot all pregnancies follow the textbook. Miscarriage or stillbirth occurs in 1 in 5, and in 1 in 20 an anomaly is found which could signal the presence of a health condition. Pregnancy complications are extremely distressing for expectant parents and increase women’s risk of experiencing depression, anxiety and trauma.
Read MoreCrime is a universal phenomenon. No society primitive or modern, developed or developing is free from its clutches. The tail-end of the criminal justice system is the prison. In the era of mass incarceration a question arises how can a prisoner be restored to live a successful life after incarceration?
Read MoreWhile the origins of the electronic dance music (EDM) subculture in the United States differ, most accounts situate it as emerging in the late 1980s as a political dissident subgroup whose subcultural values were articulated around the concept of peace, love, unity and respect (PLUR). Members of the subculture produced their events in secret venues, utilizing technological developments in computing technologies to create new forms of music
Read MoreAlthough economic growth constitutes a necessary condition to reduce poverty, economists agree that its efficiency in terms of poverty reduction largely depends on the level of wealth inequality. Nowadays, most countries pursue a pro-poor growth policy that not only promotes economic growth but also reduces wealth inequality.
Read MoreOn July 19, 2015, Samuel DuBose was stopped by University of Cincinnati Police Division (UCPD) Officer Raymond Tensing near the University for a minor traffic violation. After a brief exchange, DuBose, an unarmed 43-year old black male, was shot and killed by Officer Tensing. This fatal encounter sparked major city-wide controversy, resulting in the Tensing’s immediate termination and subsequent indictment for murder.
Read MoreInformation technology (IT) in the twenty-first century no doubt has increased the high-speed interactive digital network for multilingual voice, video, print, data communication worldwide, revolutionising how nation states communicate with one another in the international system.
Read MoreThere are some benefits of hitting a crisis in that difficult things become easier to think about and the spectres at the feast who have been critical of national mental health agendas find themselves increasingly amongst friends.
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