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College, Covid, and Questions: Tips and Advice for Incoming Freshmen, Undergraduates, Transfer Students, and Parents

open access: yesJournal of College Orientation, Transition, and Retention, 2021
Suzy Beamer Bohnert’s College, Covid, and Questions: Tips and Advice for Incoming Freshmen, Undergraduates, Transfer Students, and Parents is a pocket guide, answering questions incoming students frequently have about college and university life.
Michael Almond, Gina Cilluffo
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the players'performance in the game of bridge: A fuzzy logic approach

open access: yes, 2014
Contract bridge occupies nowadays a position of great prestige being, together with chess, the only mind games officially recognized by the International Olympic Committee.
Voskoglou, Michael Gr.
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The amazing, but far from new world of political correctness [PDF]

open access: yesСоциологический журнал, 2013
The article discusses the book “Divnyi, Novyi Mir Politkorrektnosti” (2012) by Leonid Ionin. The definition of political correctness (PC) as an ideology and the theoretical justification given by the author are analyzed.
I. V. Zhezhko
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Sharing Books and Stories: Book Clubs That Book Talk [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
“When does the book club start?” a student asks as he passes me in the hall. “It begins during Teen Read Week in October,” I reply. He replies, “Aww…that long?” I get this almost every day throughout September.
McGlaun, Kristina
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Exercise Interventions in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults With Paediatric Bone Tumours—A Systematic Review

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bone tumours present significant challenges for affected patients, as multimodal therapy often leads to prolonged physical limitations. This is particularly critical during childhood and adolescence, as it can negatively impact physiological development and psychosocial resilience.
Jennifer Queisser   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating DEI in Public Library Book Clubs

open access: yesJournal of New Librarianship
The killing of George Floyd in 2020 propelled the Black Lives Matter movement into the global spotlight, calling attention to the racial inequities still persisting in America. In response, public libraries have hosted anti-racist book clubs as a way to
Wei Goh
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An exploratory study on consumer travel agency information sources: an Australian regional analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
[Abstract]: The research reported in this paper explores why regional consumers choose to book their travel arrangements with travel agencies. Consumers can now access on-line bookings for airlines, accommodation, transportation, sightseeing tours and ...
Brown, Les, Cassidy, Frances, Ng, Eric
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Testing A Personalized Approach to Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Older Veterans

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective We aimed to test the efficacy of personalized treatment of older Veterans with chronic low back pain (CLBP) delivered by Aging Back Clinics (ABC) as compared with usual care (UC). Methods Two hundred ninety‐nine Veterans age 65‐89 with CLBP from 3 VA medical centers underwent baseline testing, randomization to ABC or UC and 12 months follow ...
Debra K. Weiner   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Time and Islands: the spatial politics of football’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper was originally delivered at the eass (European Association for Sociology of Sport) Conference in Münster, Germany (2007), and is the first to examine the territoriality of football clubs as an alternative way of understanding European ...
Bottazzi, Roberto
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Functional Materials for Environmental Energy Harvesting in Smart Agriculture via Triboelectric Nanogenerators

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores functional and responsive materials for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) in sustainable smart agriculture. It examines how particulate contamination and dirt affect charge transfer and efficiency. Environmental challenges and strategies to enhance durability and responsiveness are outlined, including active functional layers ...
Rafael R. A. Silva   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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