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Engaging student voice in Rwandan secondary schools: Understanding factors supporting learning in STEM and future aspirations

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study engages student voice in Rwandan secondary schools as a mechanism for understanding factors influencing learning in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects, attitudes towards learning these disciplines and pupils' future aspirations.
Aurora Lixinhao Gao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effectiveness of music therapy for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

open access: yesJournal of Education, Health and Sport
Introduction: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the most prevalent cause of dementia. It is caused by the degeneration of brain cells due to the accumulation of intracellular hyperphosphorylated tau - containing ...
Dominka Rehan   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond the Metronome: Auditory Events and Music May Afford More than Just Interval Durations as Gait Cues in Parkinson's Disease

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2016
Among the most apparent and adverse symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) are disturbances in gait. These include shuffling (small amplitude steps), instability (asymmetry and variability between steps), freezing of gait (cessation of movement and ...
M. Rodger, C. Craig
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Romantic Genius? The Experience of Knowledge that Shaped Werner Heisenberg's Scientific Persona

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
In 1976, the year that Werner Heisenberg passed away, Armin Hermann published a short biography, titled Werner Heisenberg in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Since then, historians and biographers have offered their accounts on Heisenberg's life and his contributions to modern physics. Many of these biographies present Heisenberg as a genius.
Elena Schaa
wiley   +1 more source

Weighted Thresholding and Nonlinear Approximation

open access: yes, 2017
We present a new method for performing nonlinear approximation with redundant dictionaries. The method constructs an $m-$term approximation of the signal by thresholding with respect to a weighted version of its canonical expansion coefficients, thereby ...
Nielsen, Morten, Ottosen, Emil Solsbæk
core  

Inferring Networks of Substitutable and Complementary Products [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In a modern recommender system, it is important to understand how products relate to each other. For example, while a user is looking for mobile phones, it might make sense to recommend other phones, but once they buy a phone, we might instead want to ...
Bennett J.   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Digital Technologies: Description, Classification, and Links to Circular Economy

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital technologies (DTs) and circular economy (CE) are currently two topics that are expected to contribute significantly to sustainable development, and digitization is generally considered a key enabler of CE. However, most studies only cover the most known Industry 4.0 technologies, and very limited research detailing how DTs can support ...
Laura Piedra‐Muñoz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sound for Fantasy and Freedom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Sound is an integral part of our everyday lives. Sound tells us about physical events in the environ- ment, and we use our voices to share ideas and emotions through sound. When navigating the world on a day-to-day basis, most of us use a balanced mix of
Liljedahl, Mats
core   +3 more sources

Shared structuring resources across domains : double task effects from linguistic processing on the structural integration of pitch sequences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Many studies have reported evidence suggesting that resources involved in linguistic structural processing might be domain-general by demonstrating interference from simultaneously presented non-linguistic stimuli on the processing of sentences (Slevc ...
Hartsuiker, Robert   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Can Sustainability Disclosure Affect Crowdfunding Success?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability has emerged as a critical element in entrepreneurial finance, yet its role in reward‐based crowdfunding (RBC) remains underexplored. Existing studies on sustainability and crowdfunding primarily focus on equity‐based models, specific project types, or single‐country analyses, leading to mixed findings and limited ...
Simona Barone
wiley   +1 more source

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