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Waiting for a Release: The Expectation in Virtual Gaming Communities

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how virtual gaming communities influence and maintain player expectations before, during, and after a game's release. A mixed‐methods study was conducted, comprising a netnography followed by an experiment. First, a netnographic study was conducted over 12 months, tracking communities to understand player behavior and ...
Lucas Lopes Ferreira de Souza   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

KatAWARE the game. A rol-playing game to support local multi-stakeholder negotiations around water management in the Kat river valley [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This report illustrates a Role Playing Game (RPG), which is being developed within the Water Research Commission (WRC) project "A stakeholder driven process to develop a Catchment Management Plan for the Kat River Valley", hereafter quoted as "the Kat ...
Farolfi, Stefano
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Exploring the Anti‐Diabetic Potential of Anthocyanins: From Biochemical Pathways to Human Trials

open access: yesChronic Diseases and Translational Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a global health challenge with increasing prevalence rates, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries. Anthocyanins (ACs) are potential bioactive compounds found in various fruits and vegetables, attracting the attention of researchers due to their possible role in managing diabetes and its complications ...
Lakshay Panchal   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bottom‐up Strategies for Generating Polymer Protocells That Mimic Cellular Communication

open access: yesChemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.
This review focuses on polymeric protocells produced using a bottom‐up approach. Polymer‐based assemblies guarantee stability and designability by adjusting the properties of the amphiphilic copolymers used. The review covers protocell architectures, production, and their intra‐ and intercellular communication mechanisms.
Gloria Saorin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cabbage leaves: Cabbage leaves are poor man's poultice

open access: yesBMJ, 2003
EDITOR–Freshly washed cabbage leaves are known in European folk medicine as the poor man's poultice. …
openaire   +3 more sources

Pesticide Use on Fruit and Vegetable Crops in Ohio 1990 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
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Etzkorn, David S.   +2 more
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Effect of soiling agents on disinfection efficacy of a pulsed‐xenon UV lamp towards Listeria monocytogenes on stainless steel surfaces

open access: yesThe Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
This study quantifies the effects of different soils found in the food processing environment on the efficiency of pulsed‐xenon UV disinfection. Abstract Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne illness that poses a significant threat to human health in young, old, and immunocompromised persons and accordingly, prevention of Listeria contamination is of ...
Nazanin Yasoubi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pollinator-attracting semiochemicals of the wasp-flower Epipactis helleborine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The orchid genus Epipactis is represented by 25 species in Europe (Richards 1982). Epipactis helleborine (L.) Crantz is the most common and widely distributed species of the genus (Wiefelspütz 1970), and is a prime example for wasp-flowers, because it is
Ayasse, Manfred   +3 more
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