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Principals’ servant leadership practices and teacher motivation: Perspectives from South African rural schools’ context

Perspectives in Education, 2023
This study explored the relationship between principals' servant leadership practices and teacher motivation in selected rural schools in South Africa. It adopted a qualitative research design, collecting data through semi-structured interviews with six
Melesa Shula
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Using mHealth to improve health care delivery in India: A qualitative examination of the perspectives of community health workers and beneficiaries. [PDF]

, 2020
BACKGROUND:mHealth technologies are proliferating globally to address quality and timeliness of health care delivery by Community Health Workers (CHWs). This study aimed to examine CHW and beneficiaries' perceptions of a new mHealth intervention (Common ...
Buback, Laura, Diamond-Smith, Nadia, Fernald, Lia, Gopalakrishnan, Lakshmi, in addition to The CAS Evaluation Consortium, Walker, Dilys   +5 more
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Perceptions of Adolescent Pregnancy Among Teenage Girls in Rakai, Uganda. [PDF]

, 2017
The leading causes of death and disability among Ugandan female adolescents aged 15 to 19 years are pregnancy complications, unsafe abortions, and childbirth.
Baumgartner, Joy Noel, Bonnevie, Erika, Ddaaki, William George, Maly, Christina, McClendon, Katherine A, Nakyanjo, Neema, Nalugoda, Fred Kakaire, Serwadda, David, Wagman, Jennifer A, Wawer, Maria J   +9 more
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English lecturers’ beliefs and practices in vocabulary learning

Studies in English Language and Education, 2020
Vocabulary has an important role in language learning at the college level, but in teaching practice, various obstacles are experienced by lecturers in implementing effective vocabulary learning.
Alpino Susanto, Yunisa Oktavia, Sri Yuliani, Pipit Rahayu, Haryati Haryati, Tegor Tegor   +5 more
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How private is private information?:The ability to spot deception in an economic game [PDF]

, 2013
We provide experimental evidence on the ability to detect deceit in a buyer-seller game with asymmetric information. Sellers have private information about the buyer's valuation of a good and sometimes have incentives to mislead buyers.
Belot, Michele, van de Ven, Jeroen
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Contextual factors for finding similar experts [PDF]

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2010
AbstractExpertise‐seeking research studies how people search for expertise and choose whom to contact in the context of a specific task. An important outcome are models that identify factors that influence expert finding. Expertise retrieval addresses the same problem, expert finding, but from a system‐centered perspective.
Hofmann, Katja, Balog, Krisztian, Bogers, Toine, de Rijke, Maarten   +3 more
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Spatial clustering of mental disorders and associated characteristics of the neighbourhood context in Malmö, Sweden, in 2001 [PDF]

, 2006
Study objective: Previous research provides preliminary evidence of spatial variations of mental disorders and associations between neighbourhood social context and mental health. This study expands past literature by (1) using spatial techniques, rather
Chaix, B., Chauvin, P., Kristersson, H., Leyland, A.H., Merlo, J., Råstam, L., Sabel, C.E.   +6 more
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Presenting a sham treatment as personalised increases the placebo effect in a randomised controlled trial

eLife, 2023
Background: Tailoring interventions to patient subgroups can improve intervention outcomes for various conditions. However, it is unclear how much of this improvement is due to the pharmacological personalisation versus the non-specific effects of the ...
Dasha A Sandra, Jay A Olson, Ellen J Langer, Mathieu Roy   +3 more
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Contextual factors among indiscriminate or larger attacks on food or water supplies, 1946-2015 [PDF]

, 2016
This research updates previous inventories of malicious attacks on food and water to include data from 1946 through mid-2015. A systematic search of news reports, databases and previous inventories of poisoning events was undertaken.
Agence France-Presse, Agence France-Presse, Beilharz N, Bianchin R, Eckholm E, Farwell J, Felongco G, Holloway P, Howitt AM, Koukouliou V, Kroll DJ, Li G, Longworth R, Majumdar D, Motarjemi Y, Rutherford H, Ryan S, Sims C, Sridharan V, Taylor R, Ximin H   +20 more
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Resistance behaviour to change among academics in Indonesia: a mixed method analysis of individual-contextual framework to overcome resistance in academics

Cogent Social Sciences
This study aims to investigate resistance behaviour in higher education in Indonesia, especially in the context of resistance to policy change in reputable international publications.
Sujarwoto, Rindi Ardika Melsalasa Sahputri, Tri Yumarni   +2 more
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