The COVID-19 pandemic and the explosion of infodemiology has brought into sharp focus the role of social media in disseminating science-based health information and its impact on consumers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors.
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The life and livelihood of coastal farming communities in Bangladesh are highly vulnerable to climate and environmental change. Diversification of farmers’ income sources beyond agriculture can be an effective way to cope with the adverse impacts of environmental change. Analyze the options and determinants of livelihood diversification (LD) strategies adopted by farmers in the coastal region of Bangladesh.
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Road lighting makes us safer and feel safer when walking outdoors at night, and brighter lighting may be better still. But the use of road lighting has unwanted consequences such as sky glow and detrimental impact on nocturnal life. There is a need for compromise between the needs of pedestrians and the needs of the wider environment.
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Much has been said about how China’s rapidly growing economy has led to increasing power disparity between India and China over the last two decades. China’s economic growth in this period has been spectacular, but it is not clear whether that gives a good sense of how effective its military capabilities are against India.
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Place-based giving is one factor that shapes and is shaped by a foundation’s identity and felt sense of responsibility to place, and multiple interpretations, dimensions, and confluences of place within public foundations are recognized. Conceptions of place may be a primary or secondary factor in decision-making processes and agenda and go far beyond geographic in nature.
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Since the coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020 started to disrupt people’s normal lifestyle, the virtual world has come to the rescue. Across the globe, shopping, entertainment, work, and education moved online. The spread of COVID-19 has had profound effects on education globally. As schools and universities closed, many turned to technology to try to continue the teaching and learning process.
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As the insurgents stormed the Capital, there could no longer be any remaining doubt – democracy was in danger. The warning signs had been gathering for years. Not just in the United States, but throughout most of the developed world. In fact, rich and compelling empirical evidence makes it clear that democracy has been eroding across a broad spectrum of national and institutional contexts.
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COVID-19 has left the institutions worldwide, with no choice but an emergency shift to virtual learning, creating several arguments associated with digital infrastructure, digital divide, digital literacy, technical and pedagogic skills of teachers, digital contents, and so on.
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Scientists have been studying entrainment of circadian rhythms as long as they have studied circadian clocks. Entrainment, the process by which internal rhythms are reset in order to match the period of the entraining cycle, has properties that are common across many life forms. Indeed, theory of entrainment is one of the factors that unites the field of chronobiology, with principles that can apply to all life forms.
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The past two decades have seen substantial changes in the global economy and geopolitical trends, with the rise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on the global and regional stage.
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Video Journal of Sports Medicine (VJSM) is a new open access video journal focusing on video-based teaching and learning and aims to provide useful surgical, rehabilitation, and physical examination techniques as well as other demonstrations for providers across orthopaedic sports medicine disciplines in an effort to support the health of all athletes.
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After a year since the UK went into a nationwide lockdown, the Research Hive Scholars at the University of Sussex asked their fellow Doctoral Researchers to tell them about their experiences of completing a PhD during a pandemic. There has been much discussion about the difficulties that PhD students have faced over the past year, funding difficulties, challenges fostering a working environment, and field work delays to name a few.
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There is a growing demand in the recent management field for firms to be responsive to the demands of stakeholders. The impact of this pressure on managers to adopt ethical and best practices and high-performance achievement has been strongly established in the literature. As the manager’s roles and the values created affect business operations and human development, the empirical understanding of these roles and values is important for the effective design of organizational systems.
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Right from its independence at midnight on 14/15 August 1947, India’s political ties with the US government did not start on a friendly note. Scholars of international relations have shown that during the early years of the Cold War period, India, led for many years by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, refused to join any superpower-led military alliance that would seek to curtail India’s independence in terms of following its foreign policy. I
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Higher education students often find themselves suddenly dealing with the new stressors of university life without the supports they were used to. From moving away from home for the first time, to adapting to new academic environments and unforeseen financial hardships, to attempting to make new friends and maintain existing relationships, students often experience a level of stress that may affect their emotional wellbeing.
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The news is awash with discussions about the effectiveness and reported side effects of specific vaccines, and ongoing patterns of infections, hospitalisations and fatalities. We routinely use numbers from catching a train to buying a house, and read news reports on elections and polls, currency conversion rates and shares, sports scores and weather forecasts. Numbers are needed for all research, because all researchers have to read and judge the trustworthiness of the research of others, including research that involves numbers.
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COVID-19 and social justice movements have shed further light on systemic and structural racism within the U.S. education system. Racist policies and practices in U.S. education systems have historically disenfranchised students of color, particularly students of color with disabilities.
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Many high-performing teams have one thing in common. They feature psychological safety—a specific type of team climate where members feel safe to be themselves and take interpersonal risks such as asking for help, suggest improvements or admit mistakes. Studies have shown that psychological safety allows for speaking one’s mind, learning and innovation.
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Episodes of populism have emerged lately in Africa as a viable electoral strategy. Amid the upward trend is the dimension of the populist strategy that amplifies the reactionary sentiments of China’s growing role and influence in the country for political ends.
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