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Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Implications for Honey Bee Health
(PLoS Pathogens, 2014-07-31)
Author Summary The mysterious outbreak of honey bee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in the US in 2006–2007 has attracted massive media attention and created great concerns over the effects of various risk factors on bee ...
The electoral effects of the descriptive representation of ethnic minority groups in Australia and the UK
(Party Politics, 2014-10-30)
In this article we assess the electoral effects of the nomination of ethnic minority candidates. We argue that descriptive representation is an important factor in how parties in SMD systems establish their coalitions over ...
Social Entrepreneurship Questioning the Status Quo: Waste as a Resource
(2014-12-07)
There has been an increasing interest in social entrepreneurs' roles in creating social value, fostering economic development, and advancing environmental sustainability. In institutional economics, there is extensive ...
Undergraduate Conductors’ and Conducting Teachers’ Perceptions of Basic Conducting Efficacy
(Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2014-10-23)
The purpose of this study was to examine undergraduate conductors’ and conducting teachers’ perceptions about basic conducting efficacy. At the beginning and end of the semester, undergraduate students (N = 19) enrolled ...
Checked Your Bias Lately? Reasons and Strategies for Rural Teachers to Self-Assess for Grading Bias
(2014)
Multiple factors influence teachers' grading and scoring of students' class work, homework, projects and tests. Put simply, bias in grading is giving different grades on student work of essentially equal quality, based on ...
Diversity Issues: Exploring “Critical” Through Multiple Lenses
(Advances in Developing Human Resources, 2014-11-01)
The Problem Social identity diversity is a concept that links an individual to the social world and to other contexts where interactions occur. However, issues that emerge from social identity diversity may not necessarily ...
Community Informatics Studio: A Conceptual Framework
(2014)
This paper extends the theoretical framework underlying the Community Informatics (CI) Studio. The CI Studio has been described as the use of studio-based learning (SBL) techniques to support enculturation into the field ...
Optimization of Network Topology in Computer-Aided Detection Schemes Using Phased Searching with NEAT in a Time-Scaled Framework
(2014-10-13)
In the field of computer-aided mammographic mass detection, many different features and classifiers have been tested. Frequently, the relevant features and optimal topology for the artificial neural network (ANN)-based ...
Violence in the Lives of Rural, Southern, and Poor White Women
(Violence Against Women, 2014-05-01)
Poor White single mothers and their children in non-urban communities in the American South experience high levels of domestic violence. We report selected findings from a life history study among White, low-income, unmarried ...
Insulin signaling regulates neurite growth during metamorphic neuronal remodeling
(2014-01-15)
Although the growth capacity of mature neurons is often limited, some neurons can shift through largely unknown mechanisms from stable maintenance growth to dynamic,
organizational growth (e.g. to repair injury, or during ...