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BMC Nursing, 2017 Background Tanzania is a low income, East African country with a severe shortage of human resources for health or health workers. This shortage threatens any gains the country is making in improving maternal health outcomes.
Melissa T. Ojemeni +10 more
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The Use of an Embedded Librarian to Enhance Student Information Literacy Skills: A Pilot Study
Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2020 This pilot study explored an embedded librarian (EL) intervention to enhance occupational therapy student information literacy skills development. The EL provided computer laboratory and in-class instruction, online presence in the classroom website, and
Elaina DaLomba +6 more
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The Role of Physical Activity and Touch in Children's Social Bonding [PDF]
, 2018 Physical activity (PA) and touch, long known to facilitate interpersonal affiliation in adults and non-human primates, are common elements of children's free play.
Cohen, E +6 more
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Frontiers in Oncology, 2014 Drug resistance, de novo and acquired, pervades cellular signalling networks from one signalling motif to another as a result of cancer progression and/or drug intervention.
Alexey eGoltsov +4 more
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Obstacles Affect Perceptions of Egocentric Distances in Virtual Environments
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021 Distance perception in humans can be affected by oculomotor and optical cues and a person’s action capability in a given environment, known as action-specific effects.
Daisuke Mine +2 more
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Stroop Interference and Facilitation Effects in Kinesthetic and Haptic Tasks
Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, 2010 Stroop interference and facilitation effects were documented in the visual, auditory, olfactory, and gustatory modalities. This study extends the Stroop phenomena also for kinesthetic and haptic tasks.
David Hecht, Miriam Reiner
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Gestures in the wild : studying multi-touch gesture sequences on interactive tabletop exhibits [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper we describe our findings from a field study that was conducted at the Vancouver Aquarium to investigate how visitors interact with a large interactive table exhibit using multi-touch gestures.
Hinrichs, Uta, Carpendale, Sheelagh
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Stedelijk Studies Journal, 2016 In my article, I will present as a case study the collection exhibition shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in 2016.[1] The starting point for the exhibition was the metaphor of touch. As a concept, touch is ambivalent: it is more intimate than sight, which has been the traditional metaphor for knowledge in Western thinking.
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Multi-touch pinch gestures: performance and ergonomics [PDF]
, 2013 Multi-touch gestures are prevalent interaction techniques for many different types of devices and applications. One of the most common gestures is the pinch gesture, which involves the expansion or contraction of a finger spread.
Oulasvirta, A. +24 more
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TRPC3 and TRPC6 are essential for normal mechanotransduction in subsets of sensory neurons and cochlear hair cells [PDF]
Open Biology, 2012 Summary Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels TRPC3 and TRPC6 are expressed in both sensory neurons and cochlear hair cells. Deletion of TRPC3 or TRPC6 in mice caused no behavioural phenotype, although loss of TRPC3 caused a shift of rapidly ...
Kathryn Quick +19 more
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