E-skills are a central aspect of European policies to boost competitiveness, productivity and employability of the workforce. Europe needs to ensure that the knowledge, skills, compe- tences and inventiveness including but not limited to IT…
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A national Kaiser Family Foundation survey of older Americans found that as the Internet becomes an increasingly important resource for informing decisions about health and health care options, less than a third (31%) of seniors (age 65 and older)…
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The main aim of this paper is to present findings from a major research project into public participation in political and current affairs programming in the UK, and their associated websites. The project forms part of the British Economic and…
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Pretende-se cobrir neste artigo três áreas específicas de relação entre o e -learning e as abordagens que os estudantes utilizam para aprender no ensino superior. Começa-se por analisar como estas abordagens à aprendizagem se exprimem nas situações…
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Ecosystem-based management can be an important complement to existing fisheries management approaches. When fishery managers understand the complex ecological and socioeconomic environments in which fish and fisheries exist, they may be able to…
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Purpose At the English local authority level, there has been significant investment in e-government infrastructure (e-channels) in the last five years, but take-up of these e-channels is low. This paper aims to look at e-citizen, a 3 million project…
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"Horchata" is a vegetable milk obtained from tiger nuts. The solid waste from horchata production was analyzed for physicochemical and microbial properties, aiming to determine its potential use as a fiber source for the food industry. The solid…
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A new sense of urgency about environmental problems has changed the relationship between ecology, other disciplines, and public policy. Issues of uncertainty and scientific inference now influence public debate and public policy. Considerations that…
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Desertification is defined by the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification as land degradation in arid, semiarid and dry subhumid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities. Land degradation is in turn…
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The article is an editorial that discusses authorship trends in "MIS Quarterly" publications during the years 2000-2010. The periodical's editorial policies on authorship and the perspective of the information-systems community on authorship in…
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The article presents a guide for the use of structural equation modeling (SEM) methods in scholarly writing. The author discusses the advantages of SEM, then describes how to choose an SEM technique. Several selection criteria are covered including…
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This study investigated the contributions of curriculum approach and parent involvement to the short- and long-term effects of preschool participation in the Title I Chicago Child-Parent Centers. Data came from the complete cohort of 989 low-income…
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O principal objetivo neste artigo é discutir e clarificar os concei- tos de moderação, mediação, moderadora-mediadora e efeitos in- diretos em modelagem de equações estruturais. Para aplicar tais conceitos, um modelo teórico foi proposto, em que as…
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Despite the recent popularity of prescribed burns in the southeast USA, little research is available on the effects of prescribed fire on herpetofauna in the western coastal plain (Gulf Coast, USA). We assessed the effects of a restoration…
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This paper reviews empirical evidence, especially from Europe, on how education and training policies can be designed to advance both efficiency and equity. Returns to educational investments tend to decrease over the life cycle. Moreover, they seem…
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Presently, 50% of the human population relies on nitrogen (N) fertilizer for food production. The world today uses around 83 million metric tons of N, which is about a 100fold increase over the last 100 years. About 60% of global N fertilizer is…
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This study analyses income, expenditure and food consumption data in Ethiopia to help explains the countryâs high probability of national food consumption shortfalls. The study argues that to reach the goal of increased national food security, it is…
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Research and theory on the role of emotion and regulation in morality have received considerable attention in the last decade. Much relevant work has concerned the role of moral emotions in moral behavior. Research on differences between…
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In the absence of strong government policies, the IEA projects that the worldwide use of oil in transport will nearly double between 2000 and 2030, leading to a similar increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Biofuels, such as ethanol, biodiesel, and…
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End-consumer movements, defined as the movements made by the consumer transporting the purchased goods, are identifies with shopping trips. Whereas the logistics movements (freight distribution and urban part of the supply chain) are well studied in…
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