Zhi Feng, Guoqiang Hu, Guanghui Wen
Summary This paper studies a distributed coordinated control problem for a class of linear multi‐agent systems subject to two types of attacks. The problem boils down to how to achieve secure consensus tracking for multi‐agent systems with connected and disconnected (paralyzed) directed switching to...
Jonathan H. Epstein, Simon J. Anthony, Ariful Islam, A. Marm Kilpatrick et al.
Significance Nipah virus (NiV) is a zoonotic virus and World Health Organization (WHO) priority pathogen that causes near-annual outbreaks in Bangladesh and India with >75% mortality. This work advances our understanding of transmission of NiV in its natural bat reservoir by analyzing data from a...
Davy Tsz Kit Ng, Wenjie Wu, Jac Ka Lok Leung, Thomas K. F. Chiu et al.
Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy is at the top of the agenda for education today in developing learners' AI knowledge, skills, attitudes and values in the 21st century. However, there are few validated research instruments for educators to examine how secondary students develop and perceive the...
Silvia E Rabionet
Qualitative interviewing is a flexible and powerful tool to capture the voices and the ways people make meaning of their experience Learning to conduct semi-structure interviews requires the following six stages: (a) selecting the type of interview; (b) establishing ethical guidelines, (c) crafting ...
Omnia El Omrani, Alaa Dafallah, Blanca Paniello-Castillo, Bianca Q. R. C. Amaro et al.
BACKGROUND: With deteriorating ecosystems, the health of mankind is at risk. Future health care professionals must be trained to recognize the interdependence of health and ecosystems to address the needs of their patients and communities. Health issues related to, e.g. climate change and air pollut...
Ali A. Rabaan, Raghavendra Tirupathi, Anupam Sule, Jehad Aldali et al.
Real-time RT-PCR is considered the gold standard confirmatory test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, many scientists disagree, and it is essential to understand that several factors and variables can cause a false-negative test. In this context, cycle threshold (Ct) values are being ...
Hanna Papanek
Women adapt in different ways to the demands of their husbands' occupations. In the United States, the "two-person single career" is a special combination of roles whereby wives are inducted by the institutions employing their husbands into a pattern of vicarious achievement. The two-person career p...
Anne T. Coghlan, Hallie Preskill, Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas
Abstract Appreciative inquiry is an approach to seeking what is right in an organization in order to create a better future for it. How and when it might be used in evaluation practice is explored in this chapter.
Eve Gregory
Over the past three decades numerous studies from the English-speaking world have pointed to the advantages for young children of family involvement in their literacy development. However, their emphasis has always been firmly and almost exclusively upon parentsworking with children in specific ways...
M. Obaidul Hamid, Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen, Richard B. Baldauf
One major impact of globalisation on education is denoted by the growing trend to use English, the global language, as a medium of instruction (MOI) in emerging polities that are trying to enhance their English-speaking capacities. This article emphasises developing an understanding of MOI from a la...
Chris Gibbons, Martin Dempster, Marianne Moutray
AIM: This paper is a report of a study to identify experiences that led to both distress and eustress and to make recommendations to help students cope with course demands. BACKGROUND: Much of the research on stress in nursing students is quantitative in focus and all draws on their experience of di...
Kupiri Ackerman-Barger, Dowin Boatright, Rosana Gonzalez-Colaso, Regina Orozco et al.
PURPOSE: To describe how racial microaggressions may affect optimal learning for under-represented health professions students. METHOD: The authors conducted focus groups and individual interviews from November 2017 to June 2018 with 37 students at University of California, Davis and Yale University...
Md Hosne Mobarak, Mariam Akter Mimona, Md. Aminul Islam, Nayem Hossain et al.
This comprehensive review investigates the multifaceted applications of machine learning in materials research across six key dimensions, redefining the field's boundaries. It explains various knowledge acquisition mechanisms starting with supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement, and deep learning t...
Momtazur Rahman
English for Specific Purposes, known as acronym-‘ESP', has been a distinct activity in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) since 1960s. The flowering period of ESP has been identified due to many incidents like the second world war in 1945, the rapid expansion in scientific, the growth of s...
Eve Purdy, Brent Thoma, Joseph Bednarczyk, David Migneault et al.
UNLABELLED: Introduction Online educational resources (OERs) are increasingly available for emergency medicine (EM) education. This study describes and compares the use of free OERs by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) EM residents and program directors (PDs) and investi...