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Controlling Behaviors in Couple Relationships in the Digital Age: Acceptability of Gender Violence, Sexism, and Myths about Romantic Love

open access: yesPsychosocial Intervention, 2020
Young people have incorporated information and communication technology (ICT) and its influence on socialization as a new instrument to exercise controlling behaviors in their relationships.
M. Dolores Sánchez-Hernández   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The myths of the digital native and the multitasker

open access: yes, 2017
Current discussions about educational policy and practice are often embedded in a mind-set that considers students who were born in an age of omnipresent digital media to be fundamentally different from previous generations of students.
P. Kirschner, P. Bruyckere
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The geopolitics of renewable energy: Debunking four emerging myths

open access: yesEnergy Research & Social Science, 2019
This article seeks to nip in the bud four emerging myths about the geopolitics of the rise of renewable energy and the concomitant increase in electricity usage.
Indra Overland
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Delivering Pediatric Palliative Care: From Denial, Palliphobia, Pallilalia to Palliactive

open access: yesChildren, 2018
Among the over 21 million children with life-limiting conditions worldwide that would benefit annually from a pediatric palliative care (PPC) approach, more than eight million would need specialized PPC services.
Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, Eduardo Bruera
doaj   +1 more source

El Paraíso en el Nuevo Mundo de Antonio de León Pinelo

open access: yesTerra Brasilis, 2022
This essay is a study of Antonio de León Pinelo and his work El Paraíso en el Nuevo Mundo (1656). It highlights how the author formulates an apologetic discourse of the New World in the form of a natural history focused on the exotic and the wonderful ...
Domingo Ledezma
doaj   +1 more source

Peculiarities of Nostalgia in Ayn Rand’s Novel Atlas Shrugged

open access: yesHumanities, 2018
Quite a number of Russian writers could not accept the October Revolution in 1917 and left the country. Their nostalgia for their motherland in emigration is a well-known fact.
Kamila Mirasova
doaj   +1 more source

Women in agriculture: Four myths

open access: yesGlobal Food Security, 2017
Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG) on gender equality and women’s rights and at least 11 of the 17 SDGs require indicators related to gender dynamics.
C. Doss   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Targeted drug delivery to tumors: Myths, reality and possibility

open access: yesJournal of Controlled Release, 2011
The ultimate goal of drug delivery research is to help patients by developing clinically useful formulations. During the last several decades controlled drug delivery technology has advanced significantly, leading to the development of various clinical ...
Y. Bae, Kinam Park
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Demystifying the myths about COVID-19 infection and its societal importance

open access: yesAsian Journal of Psychiatry, 2020
Myth is commonly considered as a folklore genre consisting of narratives/stories that play a fundamental role in human beings' everyday lives. These are often endorsed by leaders/rulers/religious preachers and explain to a great extent the functioning of
Swapnajeet Sahoo   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring the experiences of persons living with albinism in Ghana

open access: yesCogent Education
Albinism is typically misunderstood, resulting in myths and misconceptions about the condition in different parts of the world. This study explores the misconceptions about albinism in Ghana through the lens of lived experiences of persons living with ...
Andrew Kwame Daklo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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