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Litter addition decreases plant diversity by suppressing seeding in a semiarid grassland, Northern China

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2019
Plant community diversity is conducive to maintain the regional ecosystems stability and ecosystem services. Seed germination is one of the main ways to regulate plant diversity, owing to seedling recruitment as a basis for plant community renewal ...
Ang Zhang, Dong Wang, Shiqiang Wan
doaj   +1 more source

How Does Vulnerability Framing by Microfinance Institutions Leverage Funding Success in Crowdfunding?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability‐oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre‐campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding.
Ana Paula Matias Gama   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recognising informal elearning with digital badging: evidence for a sustainable business model

open access: yesOpen Praxis, 2015
Digital badging as a trend in education is now recognised. It offers a way to reward and motivate, providing evidence of skills and achievements. Badged Open Courses (BOCs) were piloted by The Open University (OU) in 2013.
Patrina Law
doaj   +3 more sources

Relational Healing: Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Their Experiences of Connection, Disconnection, and Growth

open access: yesJournal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this interpretive phenomenological analysis, we interviewed 10 women to make meaning of their lived experiences of sex trafficking and mental health challenges and how relational dynamics influenced their healing and sense of self. Our analysis revealed four themes: (a) central relational paradox, which described internalized shame and ...
Claudia G. Interiano‐Shiverdecker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Open Digital Badges in Teacher Education: a Case Study from India

open access: yesJournal of Learning for Development, 2020
This case study concerns findings from a workshop with senior teacher educators from three Indian states as part of the TESS-India teacher professional development initiative.
Freda Wolfenden   +2 more
doaj  

Functional richness shows spatial scale dependency in Pheidole ant assemblages from Neotropical savannas

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2019
There is a growing recognition that spatial scale is important for understanding ecological processes shaping community membership, but empirical evidence on this topic is still scarce.
Karen Neves   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

When Work Integrated Learning Costs Too Much: The Hidden Toll of Clinical Placements

open access: yesJournal of Medical Radiation Sciences, EarlyView.
Medical imaging students face major financial stress during unpaid clinical placements, with costs for travel, accommodation, and lost income impacting mental health and study success. This stress can affect their mental health, studies, and even lead some to consider leaving their course. Urgent action is needed to provide support and ensure workforce
Vicki Braithwaite   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Suicidal selection: Programmed cell death can evolve in unicellular organisms due solely to kin selection

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2019
Unicellular organisms can engage in a process by which a cell purposefully destroys itself, termed programmed cell death (PCD). While it is clear that the death of specific cells within a multicellular organism could increase inclusive fitness (e.g ...
Anya E. Vostinar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating AI Convergence in Human–Artificial Intelligence Teams: A Signaling Theory Approach

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Teams that combine human intelligence with artificial intelligence (AI) have become indispensable for solving complex tasks in various decision‐making contexts in modern organizations. However, the factors that contribute to AI convergence, where human team members align their decisions with those of their AI counterparts, still remain unclear.
Andria Smith   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Validation of a smartphone app to map social networks of proximity

open access: yes, 2017
Social network analysis is a prominent approach to investigate interpersonal relationships. Most studies use self-report data to quantify the connections between participants and construct social networks. In recent years smartphones have been used as an
Boonstra, Tjeerd W.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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