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When you log into your class, you might encounter an e-learning course that was carefully designed to be offered online. It is offered through a sophisticated Learning Management System (LMS). The readings are linked to your institution’s digital library, the expectations and assessments are clearly spelled out. Your professor or tutor is prepared to teach online; they are responsive, engaged, and communicative.
Read MoreThere has never been a more relevant time to highlight the role of the research nurse and research delivery teams. The breakthroughs in treatments and potential vaccines for Covid-19 are often in the headlines, but how the drugs get to this point is often overlooked or misunderstood.
Read MoreCOVID-19 has transformed everyone’s lives globally. Early on in the pandemic, our research team became interested in the symptom of anosmia (loss of smell) as an early clinical feature of COVID-19 infection. “Why does this occur?” we wondered, and began exploring further to see if the virus impacted the brain, mental health or had consequences for pregnant women and newborns.
Read MoreDuring moments of uncertainty, political polarization, and escalating social and racial conflict, it is common to hear that humor and laughter may be an effective antidote to the stress, anxiety, and frustration that becomes widespread during such trying times. “Laughter is the best medicine,” is often a common refrain. Yet, what happens when humor and laughter are used to aggravate, rather than alleviate, racial conflict?
Read MoreIn honor of Academic Writing Month, SAGE Publishing has compiled a page of freely accessible resources and tools to help academics with their writing and publishing. With tips drawn from authors, editors, and the social and behavioral sciences, this guide also provides individuals with recommendations for collaborating, learning, and further engaging with the academic writing community.
Read MoreAs we all can reflect so far on 2020, it has been an unprecedented year of uncertainty and unpredictability where life has been turned completely upside down. We as a human species around the globe had to learn a new way to live. We had to learn new ways to work, to go to school, to commute, and even a new way to go out and buy groceries.
Read MoreThis interview focuses primarily on the mental health needs of children in care and, with this objective, has been divided into three sections: exploring institutional care, family and community-based care, and the context in South Asia, respectively.
Read MoreStarting a PhD, at the best of times, is an overwhelming combination of literature reviews, training sessions, orienting oneself to the start of a long academic commitment and, if we're lucky, the excitement of finally pursuing a passion project. But starting a PhD in a pandemic offers a whole set of emotional, technological and logistical upheavals.
Read MoreIndia has arrived on the world stage. In the last three decades, India’s large and rapidly expanding economy coupled with its huge population and its nuclear powers captured international attention and enhanced the image of India with a profound change.
Read MoreSince the publication of our article, Preparing Teachers to Notice Race in Classrooms: Contextualizing the Competencies of Preservice Teachers With Antiracist Inclinations, we have witnessed the structural and ideological dangers that occur when the capacity to notice and acknowledge the racialized experiences of minoritized populations is overlooked.
Read MoreQualitative methods have always played an important role in social research, with the one-on-one interview undoubtedly being the single most common data source. Indeed, the interview may seem so banal as not to require any further explanation. But are all interviews really alike? Is there one best way? More generally, how can social scientists make their interviews more ‘meaningful’ in the light of their research goals?
Read MoreSelf-help groups (SHG) play a significant role in transforming the rural economy. Its unprecedented growth helps the resurgence of the weaker section of society in terms of outreach, social position, and sustainability. Among different SHGs, ‘Kudumbashree’ of Kerala constitute the largest women SHGs in India.
Read MoreThe novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) was first recognized and reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China on December 31, 2019. On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization announced COVID-19 as the sixth public health emergency requiring worldwide attention (World Health Organization, 2020). There are seven types of corona virus which can infect humans, and infections are not uncommon around the globe. As this pandemic continues, we recognize how culture may affect risk of infection and risk of stigmatization.
Read MoreSynapses are points of connections between neurons where information is transmitted, and memories formed. The brain, especially as we get old, can be subject to different neurodegenerative diseases, leading to cognitive and/or motor disorders depending on the area and type of neurons affected. During neurodegeneration, synapses are also affected, either directly by pathological processes, or as a consequence of neuronal loss. The mechanisms leading to synaptic dysfunction and loss are not completely understood, yet, and great efforts are made trying to unravel them.
Read More“No spoilers!” say many directors. Their concern is that if publications or moviegoers reveal plotlines and surprises, the public won’t want to pay for the movie. But is that concern well-founded? Contrary to the concerns of some directors, a new study in the Journal of Marketing finds empirical evidence that spoiler reviews actually have a positive and statistically significant relationship with box office revenue.
Read MoreOctober is ‘Halloween season’ ― a fun cultural holiday for many people worldwide. It represents a socially sanctioned time of year when children and adults alike can escape to a realm of fantasy and mystery that involves the simultaneous expression of the ‘lighter’ and ‘darker’ sides of human nature. In addition to carving pumpkins, dressing in costume, and the nightly ritual of trick-or-treating, a favorite activity this month for many people is the psychosocial phenomenon known as ‘paranormal tourism.’
Read MoreReducing greenhouse gas emissions has been on the world agenda for decades (197 nations formally committed to reducing carbon emissions at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992). But public opinion has reached a point where “business as usual” is becoming increasingly difficult to justify.
Read MoreThis study focused on police organizations in India to examine the role of gender in determining the nature of the relationship between the perceptions of police role expectations, mental health status, and job satisfaction of employees.
Read More‘Enhancing resilience in autistic adults using community-based participatory research: A novel HRD-intervention in employment service provision’ by Farkas, Mendy and Kargas (2020) uses a practice-based method highlighting how the impact of our intervention led to changes in autistic jobseekers positivity and confidence in not only actively looking for but also gaining and retaining employment.
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