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Improving Multimedia Learning With Emotional Design: Depicting Key Elements With Positive Features

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Volume 41, Issue 3, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Introduction While prior research has delved into the emotional aspects of instructional design, it has not extensively examined whether integrating affective features specifically relevant to the theme of the learning materials is essential for enhancing learning effectiveness compared to incorporating general affective features.
Fangzheng Zhao, Richard E. Mayer
wiley   +1 more source

Equatorial African Lightning: Past. Present and Future [PDF]

arXiv
Lightning strikes are one of the leading causes of death among natural disasters in tropical regions. The Congo rainforests host the highest rates of lightning flashes in the world and the lightning properties in this region have a strong seasonality owing to the cross-equatorial movements of the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) throughout the ...
arxiv  

Periodicities of Peak Current and Flash Multiplicity in Cloud to Ground Lightning [PDF]

, 2012
Research on lightning has been conducted on various topics including thunderstorm electrification and climatology of lightning strikes however; there are still some characteristics of lightning that are not well known, such as flash multiplicity and peak
Gibbs, Alexander R
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Triaging in Mass Casualty Incidents: A Simulation‐Based Scenario Training for Emergency Care Senior Residents

The Clinical Teacher, Volume 22, Issue 3, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Mass casualty incidents (MCIs) are events where the number of patients may exceed the resources available for emergency management. In emergency departments (ED), MCIs go along with high patient allocation in a short time period.
Daisy Rotzoll, Claudia Pott, Robert Stöhr, Thomas Hartwig, André Gries   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Striking Distance Characteristics of Lightning Flashes Striking at and Below the Top of the Canton Tower

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 52, Issue 9, 16 May 2025.
Abstract A total of 19 lightning flashes observed by high‐speed video cameras were selected for analyzing the two‐dimensional striking distance (SD) before the first return stroke of downward negative cloud‐to‐ground lightning flashes striking at the Canton Tower (CT) (600 m high).
Qi Qi, Bin Wu, Fanchao Lyu, Ying Ma, Lyuwen Chen, Weitao Lyu   +5 more
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Seductive Details in Learning Text—Less Harmful if They Are Grouped Together Instead of Interspersed?

Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 39, Issue 3, May/June 2025.
ABSTRACT This study examined if the number of interruptions caused by interesting side notes in learning text is critical for the detrimental effect that is generally found when such seductive details are included, and consequently, if this effect can be mitigated by grouping these details together instead of interspersing them.
Lukas Wesenberg, Felix Krieglstein, Sascha Schneider, Günter Daniel Rey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Societal Trends and Opportunities in the Aftermath of the Nova Psychedelic Trance Rave, Through Lilla and Benjamin

Future Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 1, May 2025.
ABSTRACT This fiction article is about trauma and grief, resilience and the celebration of life. It also addresses the role psychedelics can play in bringing about change in our traumatized society by inspiring us and showing us how to use the present as a possibility for fundamental transformation.
Demian Halperin, Tal Bar On, Nir Tadmor, Alma Maria Simon, Aaron David Cherniak, Guy Simon   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coal Mine Safety and Health [PDF]

, 2008
[Excerpt] Safety in the coal mining industry is much improved compared to the early decades of the twentieth century, a time when hundreds of miners could lose their lives in a single accident and more than 1,000 fatalities could occur in a single year ...
Levine, Linda
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Assessing Cardiopulmonary Safety of Intramedullary Bone Graft Harvesting: A Comparative Study of the RIA 2 System and the ARA Concept

Journal of Orthopaedic Research, Volume 43, Issue 5, Page 984-993, May 2025.
ABSTRACT The management of large osseous defects requires innovative intramedullary bone graft harvesting techniques to optimize healing while minimizing complications. Intramedullary bone graft harvesting is, however, associated with potential cardiopulmonary adverse events due to embolic phenomena and systemic inflammation.
Markus Laubach, Agathe Bessot, Siamak Saifzadeh, Craig Simon, Wolfgang Böcker, Nathalie Bock, Dietmar W. Hutmacher, Jacqui McGovern   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making the case for democracy: A field‐experiment on democratic persuasion

European Journal of Political Research, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 559-579, May 2025.
Abstract Ordinary citizens can serve as a critical defence against democratic backsliding. But beneath the surface, citizens' commitment to democracy is sometimes fragile, with crises exacerbating existing anxieties. We introduce ‘democratic persuasion’ as an actionable intervention to foster the resilience of citizens' commitment to liberal democracy.
ALEXANDER WUTTKE, FLORIAN FOOS
wiley   +1 more source