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The temperature in the Arizona desert is over 100 degrees F, and as we walk and drive around replenishing water caches meant to help migrants on the trails, we wonder what motivates these volunteers to leave the comfort of their home and go do this kind of volunteer work. It is scorching hot, and the volunteers rarely encounter or see the migrant they intend to help. Why do they do this?
Read MoreIn this inaugural blog from our flagship organization journal, the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD)’s Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, I am choosing to highlight chronic wasting disease (CWD), an infectious prion disease affecting cervids that has a big impact on big-game and deer farmers. CWD is the same group of fatal diseases as mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
Read MoreAnalyses growing pressures on faculty in Central Asia to publish research in high-quality international journals and how faculty attempt to meet publishing mandates from institutions motivated to join world rankings. This is important because of the scarcity of Central Asian scholarship in peer-reviewed journalism and mass communication (J&MC) journals due to the challenges faculty face publishing their work internationally.
Read MoreWork, that is employed and paid work, and private life are often spoken of as separate worlds. Yet, the notional separation of the public and the private clearly varies immensely by class, occupation, gender, ethnicity and racialisation. Women have always worked in the home, mainly unpaid, and for many this was and still is their main workplace.
Read MoreRecently, SAGE garnered accolades for three of these resources at the thirty-third annual APEX awards, winning a Grand Award for Together Apart: The Psychology of COVID-19, an Award of Excellence for the How to Get Published webinar, and an Award of Excellence for the Structural Racism and Police Violence microsite.
Read MoreIn light of the current ecosystem of technological advancements in telecommunication and enhanced capability of devices, the present work brings to the fore the changes in consumers’ media consumption. The shift from conventional media to over-the-top (OTT) media, particularly in the lockdown period due to the COVID-19, has resulted in a war between streaming service providers to attract and retain customers.
Read MoreAs Aanchal, Devyn, and Louise wrap up their time as SAGE Research Hive Scholars at the University of Sussex, they reflect on the experience of supporting a PhD community at Sussex. They have sailed the Hive through several faculty strikes and a global pandemic, while undertaking their PhDs and multiple side projects.
Read MoreSince the Covid-19 vaccination programme began in the UK, it has hardly been possible to discuss vaccine confidence without referring to the variation between different ethnic groups. When we at RSPH polled the public in December 2020, we found a significant disparity in acceptance of the Covid-19 vaccine, with 57% of respondents from ethnic minority backgrounds saying they were likely to receive the vaccine if advised to by their GP or healthcare professional, compared to 79% of white respondents.
Read MoreSAGE Publishing has released the five-year Journal Impact Factors (JIF) for the third year running, as part of a wider initiative to broaden the scope of alternative measures of research impact.
Read MoreThis article investigates the excess volatility in Bitcoin prices using an unbiased extreme value volatility estimator. We capture the time-varying nature of the excess volatility using bootstrap, multi-horizon, sub-sampling and rolling-window approaches.
Read MoreIndia has a large youthful population; this ‘young nation’ is both a national and international resource that facilitates global value added. Such gains would accrue only when the youth are adequately educated, skilled and occupied in gainful employment. India, however, is staring at a missed opportunity that favours harnessing demographic dividends offered by demographic transition.
Read MoreWhat are journal editors, funders, and publishers doing to support researchers of all backgrounds – specifically those who have been underrepresented, unheard, and underprivileged? What impact does this effort have on the research environment and even for the research itself? And what can we learn from each other to enable new changes that address shortcomings?
Read More‘I don’t think there’s a task you can name that a machine can’t do—in principle. If you can define a task and a human can do it, then a machine can, at least in theory’
The days of decisions based on heuristics/intuition are numbered thanks to AI-based interventions.
Read MoreThe JIV diversity requirement, established in 2016 calls on interpersonal violence (IPV) researchers to address diversity and inclusion in the questions they pose, the literature they build upon, and in their methods, analyses and findings.
Read MoreAs Editor in Chief of the Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, I’m excited to announce the publication of a special issue on Emerging Neuropsychiatric Concepts in Parkinson’s Disease. Parkinson’s Disease (PD), the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder among older adults, currently affects more than 10 million persons in the world.
Read MoreWhile some immigrants considered themselves to be fully assimilated in their job environment, they did not consider this to be true in the social and political sphere. Because racism in the USA exists, it works as a deterrent to the assimilation of Indian immigrants into mainstream American society.
Read MoreKnow the effects of social media marketing, corporate social responsibility, and price promotion on word of mouth in the fast-food industry.
Read MoreAs the world negotiates a return to physical workplaces, it is clear that the changing nature of the work environment will need careful management and planning. The pandemic has revealed the potential for a different way of working, and many are not prepared to return to full-time office work. However, most employees do value time spent with their colleagues and would prefer a more flexible way of working.
Read MoreChildren have always played – in every society and culture, at every point during history. Whilst there have been flurries of debate about whether their time would be better spent working (be that up a chimney, or behind a desk at school), no aspect of play has proved quite so contentious as digital play.
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