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E-book consumers’ characteristics and behaviour

open access: yesAustral Comunicación, 2015
Technological innovation could play an integral role in the future of content delivery in the publishing industry. New technologies are posing fresh challenges and forcing publishers to rethink their businesses and make novel plans for development ...
Barbara Symeonidou   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Embedding QR codes in the Bournemouth University print collection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
During the 2011/12 academic year, Library and Learning Support (LLS) at BU have been working on a project to embed QR codes within the library print collection to highlight available e-books from heavily used areas of the ...
Ford, Neil
core  

Liquid Metals in Radio Frequency Applications: A Review of Physics, Manufacturing, and Emerging Technologies

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
This paper reviews the physics of liquid metals in RF devices, including the influence of mechanical strain on resonance as well as fabrication methods and strategies for designing tunable and strain‐tolerant inductors, capacitors, and antennas.
Md Saifur Rahman, William J. Scheideler
wiley   +1 more source

Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Old Books and E-Books [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The crisis in academic publishing has reached a point where young scholars in many fields of the humanities may no longer be able to communicate their research in the time-honoured manner - that is, in the form of a traditional codex printed by a ...
Darnton, Robert
core   +1 more source

Analyzing individual rent price ratios in eastern German agricultural land markets: A GAMLSS approach

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Cultural Capital Using Book Collections. What Are We Missing by Not Asking About Digital Objects?

open access: yesMeasurement Instruments for the Social Sciences
Even though Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital is often criticized as poorly defined and vague, it remains a central and widely used concept in research on the reproduction of social inequality.
Dave Balzer   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building Mobile Learning Capacity in Higher Education:E-books and iPads [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The growing popularity of e-books, e-book readers and tablet devices is forcing a reappraisal of the various functions of ‘the book’ in education. Furthermore, e-books are becoming a more salient element in the ecology of mobile learning, as new devices ...
Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes, Smith, Martin
core  

Advanced Experiment Design Strategies for Drug Development

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Wang et al. analyze 592 drug development studies published between 2020 and 2024 that applied design of experiments methodologies. The review surveys both classical and emerging approaches—including Bayesian optimization and active learning—and identifies a critical gap between advanced experimental strategies and their practical adoption in ...
Fanjin Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

E-books

open access: yesASCILITE Publications, 2011
Macquarie University Accessibility Services (MQAS) converts learning materials into accessible formats for students with access needs. The process is time and labour intensive and with unrealistic timelines can result in materials being delivered late.
Andrew Lovell-Simons, Sharon Kerr
openaire   +1 more source

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