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Creating safe spaces to prevent unintentional childhood injuries among the Bedouins in southern Israel: A hybrid model comprising positive deviance, community-based participatory research, and entertainment-education.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundDespite several intervention programs, the Bedouin population living in the Southern District of Israel has the highest mortality rate among children and adolescents from unintentional injuries.
Anat Gesser-Edelsburg   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

P3b reflects periodicity in linguistic sequences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Temporal predictability is thought to affect stimulus processing by facilitating the allocation of attentional resources. Recent studies have shown that periodicity of a tonal sequence results in a decreased peak latency and a larger amplitude of the P3b
Abel, Cornelius Benjamin   +4 more
core   +13 more sources

Optimizing the colour and fabric of targets for the control of the tsetse fly Glossina fuscipes fuscipes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: Most cases of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) start with a bite from one of the subspecies of Glossina fuscipes. Tsetse use a range of olfactory and visual stimuli to locate their hosts and this response can be exploited to lure tsetse ...
CH Green   +44 more
core   +8 more sources

On how religions could accidentally incite lies and violence: folktales as a cultural transmitter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Folklore has a critical role as a cultural transmitter, all the while being a socially accepted medium for the expressions of culturally contradicting wishes and conducts.
Ho, Manh-Toan   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Concepts of positive deviance in pedagogical action in an Ethnomathematics program

open access: yesRevista de Ensino de Ciências e Matemática, 2017
An important dilemma in mathematics education is its overwhelming bias against a local orientation in its research paradigm. Thus, a search for innovative methodologies such as ethnomathematics is useful for recording historical forms of mathematical ...
Milton Rosa, Daniel Clark Orey
doaj   +1 more source

Not all the bots are created equal:the Ordering Turing Test for the labelling of bots in MMORPGs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article contributes to the research on bots in Social Media. It takes as its starting point an emerging perspective which proposes that we should abandon the investigation of the Turing Test and the functional aspects of bots in favor of studying ...
Becker H.   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

Saudi SCD patients’ symptoms and quality of life relative to the number of ED visits [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Background Individuals living with sickle cell disease (SCD) have significantly increased emergency department (ED) use compared to the general population. In Saudi Arabia, health care is free for all individuals and therefore has no bearing on increased
Ahmed, Anwar E.   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

A Note on the Names of Selected Characters and Villains in Dick Tracy

open access: yesNames, 2009
This article provides a brief history of the comic strip Dick Tracy (1931) and its creator, author, and illustrator Chester Gould (1900-1985). Gould was very inventive and creative in naming the characters that populated his strip.
Frank Nuessel
doaj   +1 more source

Choreography, controversy and child sex abuse: Theoretical reflections on a cultural criminological analysis of dance in a pop music video [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article was inspired by the controversy over claims of ‘pedophilia!!!!’ undertones and the ‘triggering’ of memories of childhood sexual abuse in some viewers by the dance performance featured in the music video for Sia’s ‘Elastic Heart’ (2015).
Adshead J   +33 more
core   +1 more source

CONCEPT GENIUS IN THE ENGLISH SCIENTIFIC IMAGE OF THE WORLD

open access: yesЗаписки з романо-германської філології, 2018
The article is dedicated to the investigation of the peculiarities of verbalization of the concept GENIUS in the English scientific image of the world.
Л. В. Строченко
doaj   +1 more source

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