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Survey Versus Interviews: Comparing Data Collection Tools for Exploratory Research
The purpose of the paper is to offer a comparison between survey and face to face interviews as tools for data collection in qualitative exploratory research. This study aims at encouraging new researchers to experiment with different data collection tools and then select the one that fits best to the research. Memos documented during data collection served as the basis for analysis. The memos were analyzed using a systematic three-step coding process to identify the challenges and benefits of using each of the two data collection tools. Using content analysis of the memos and field notes that were documented during the research, the author compares the challenges and benefits of each methodology for the selected case study. Interviews, when followed systematically, offer a useful alternative to surveys for exploratory research. This study can be extended to compare other research methodologies as well as further data collection tools.
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Beyond exception : new interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula
\"This book analyzes what the theory of exceptionalism in the Arabian Peninsula does, how it is used by various people, and how it helps shape power relations in the societies that the authors study\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Manufacturing Statelessness
Having recently emerged from its unenviable status as the runt of international law, the phenomenon of statelessness nonetheless eludes traditional international legal instruments. Confronted with questions of nationality that typically fall within the domain of sovereignty, international and regional human rights bodies struggle to rein in the increasingly creative measures that states adopt to obscure the production and persistence of statelessness. This Article uncovers and dissects the different ways in which states manufacture statelessness not through explicitly discriminatory laws and unequal treatment, but through manipulating ostensibly neutral criteria for nationality. The Article identifies three such criteria that are not traditionally considered “suspect” categories for the grant or denial of nationality: time, territory, and administrative practice. It also suggests doctrinal, policy, and strategic tools for identifying and responding to the types of statelessness that are not a collateral consequence of state failure or incompetence, but the outcome of state intentionality.
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Green polymer chemistry and composites : pollution prevention and waste reduction
\"This new book examines the latest developments in the important and growing field of producing conventional polymers from sustainable sources. With recent advancements in synthesis technologies and the discovery of new functional monomers, research shows that green polymers with better properties can be produced from renewable resources. This volume describes these advances in synthesis, processing, and technology and provides not only state-of-the-art information but also acts to stimulate research in this direction. Green Polymer Chemistry and Composites: Pollution Prevention and Waste Reduction illustrates how chemical industries play an essential role to sustain the world economies and looks at forthcoming technologies and scientific developments in novel products, less toxicological materials, and industrial procedures with high efficiency and renewable energy products. Green chemistry seeks for the design of innovative chemical products with higher efficiency and lowest hazardous substances for the health and the environment. This book offers an excellent resource for researchers, upper-level graduate students, brand owners, environment and sustainability managers, business development and innovation professionals, chemical engineers, plastics manufacturers, biochemists, and suppliers to the industry to debate sustainable, economic solutions for polymer synthesis\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Indian doctors threaten strikes as homeopaths approved to practise medicine
Several medical associations have urged Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis to intervene and reinforce the legal authority of the MMC as the exclusive regulator of modern medicine.2 The state had originally amended the Maharashtra Homoeopathic Practitioners Act and Maharashtra Medical Council Act in 2014, when the Medical Education and Drugs Department gave permission for homeopaths to enrol on a pharmacology course. “The move is unprecedented and poses a serious threat to public health, medical ethics, and the credibility of our profession,” the Association of Medical Consultants (Mumbai) said in a statement. Doctors argue that the justification offered by the homeopathic community—that they will serve rural areas facing a shortage of medical doctors and support emergency care—is misleading and false, as civil hospitals and primary health centres are already run by qualified doctors.
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Future challenges of cities in Asia
Since 1978 China's urbanization has risen from 18 to 45 per cent, over 350 million farmers have moved to cities or transformed their villages into towns, and the number of cities rose from under 200 to more than 650. These numbers are unprecedented in the course of human history and underscore the need for our attempt to understand what is going on in China as it rapidly urbanizes. This book examines China's urban environment to try and understand what is going on, and suggests improvements for planning the future while simultaneously preserving the past. The research in this book was conducted as part of the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA), an international research staff exchange scheme funded by the European Union's Marie Curie Actions and a continuation of the series of UKNA publications that includes Ideas of the City in Asian Settings, Cities in Asia by and for the People, and Future Challenges of Cities in Asia.
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Covid-19: Indian health ministry refutes links between sudden cardiac death and vaccination
” “Sudden cardiac deaths can result from a range of factors, including genetics, lifestyle, pre-existing conditions, and post-covid complications,” it said. Karnataka’s health minister, Dinesh Gundu Rao, said that sudden deaths in people under 45 would now be treated as a notifiable disease with mandatory autopsies.3 Prompted by the ongoing public speculation, a panel of doctors convened to share early findings from their ongoing study, conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in collaboration with Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).4 The results so far show that myocardial infarction is the leading cause of death in 18-45 year olds. “In younger people, the causes of sudden cardiac arrest differ from those in older adults.
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أبحاث في الطاقة الحيوية : تحويل نفايات الكتلة الحيوية إلى طاقة
يعد هذا الكتاب ترجمة مميزة تسلط الضوء على الطاقة الحيوية كأحد البدائل المستدامة والواعدة للوقود الأحفوري، لما تمتاز به من تجدد وصداقة للبيئة. يقدم الكتاب تغطية علمية شاملة تجمع بين استكشاف مصادر نظيفة للطاقة وسبل إنتاجها بطريقة فعالة من حيث الجدوى الاقتصادية والأثر البيئي. ويمثل العمل خطوة أولى على طريق طويل نحو تعزيز استخدام الطاقة النظيفة في المملكة العربية السعودية والعالم العربي، بما يسهم في حماية البيئة وخدمة البشرية جمعاء.
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Basement membrane damage by ROS- and JNK-mediated Mmp2 activation drives macrophage recruitment to overgrown tissue
Macrophages are a major immune cell type infiltrating tumors and promoting tumor growth and metastasis. To elucidate the mechanism of macrophage recruitment, we utilize an overgrowth tumor model (“undead” model) in larval
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imaginal discs that are attached by numerous macrophages. Here we report that changes to the microenvironment of the overgrown tissue are important for recruiting macrophages. First, we describe a correlation between generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and damage of the basement membrane (BM) in all neoplastic, but not hyperplastic, models examined. ROS and the stress kinase JNK mediate the accumulation of matrix metalloproteinase 2 (Mmp2), damaging the BM, which recruits macrophages to the tissue. We propose a model where macrophage recruitment to and activation at overgrowing tissue is a multi-step process requiring ROS- and JNK-mediated Mmp2 upregulation and BM damage. These findings have implications for understanding the role of the tumor microenvironment for macrophage activation.
The molecular mechanisms regulating macrophage recruitment to tumors are unclear. Here, the authors use a
Drosophila
overgrowth model to show how damaged basement membranes recruit macrophages to undead tissue, via an interdependent effect of reactive oxygen species and matrix metalloproteinase 2.
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