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Women Empowerment for a Holistic Development in Nigeria
2012
Review of European Studies
In its role in empowerment the media has a hegemonic function and it is in addition seen as an agent of socialization. ...
Women empowerment as a concept has been related to development, democracy and all kinds of social wellbeing. ...
According to Marguerite Peeters, it is a social engineering process sensitizing women to the inequalities. ...
doi:10.5539/res.v4n2p138
fatcat:brax5gszs5e77bg4ylxiapca6e
Female high heel shoes: a study of comfort
2017
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
the problems caused by it. ...
For this purpose, a questionnaire was designed, aimed at the female audience in order to understand the relevance of women's footwear, their daily relationship with shoes, the specificity of heels and ...
the scope of the project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007136" ...
doi:10.1088/1757-899x/254/23/232001
fatcat:uxb5q4k7cbe4xo4ikcq4evxbhm
What's New
1966
The gifted child quarterly
Engineer, Mechanical: Scientfically gifted
. Engineer, Mining: Scientifically gifted
. Historian: Scientifically gifted
. Judge: Scientifically gifted; Socially gifted
. ...
Chemist: Scientifically gifted
. Clergyman: Socially gifted
. County Agent: Socially gifted
. Dentist: Scientifically gifted
. Editor: Literarily gifted
. Engineer, Ceramic: Scientifically gifted
. ...
doi:10.1177/001698626601000107
fatcat:mufjoqk4bfhxzcjrhwcb6n5r44
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
2021
Family Medicine
Technology, in particular social media, is part of this mix that "distorts our sense of the value of actual contact with friends" (p. 107). ...
Is capitalism in the United States an engine of general prosperity, or a racket for upward redistribution? ...
doi:10.22454/fammed.2021.729703
fatcat:qazm7pqfkzblviesgmpshr5tpm
The internet and self-injury: What psychotherapists should know
2007
Journal of Clinical Psychology
In this article, we review the research on self-injury and Internet use and then make a series of recommendations for clinicians. ...
Proliferation of self-injury message boards, informational Web sites, blogs, and YouTube posts is a clinical challenge. ...
In this article, we present a practice-friendly review of the research followed by a series of recommendations for clinicians. ...
doi:10.1002/jclp.20420
pmid:17932984
fatcat:dx7phadqafbqnnmhgogoopcdqq
Un caso de cine documental de impacto social en Colombia
[chapter]
2017
Donde no habite el olvido
There is now a deeper understanding in Australia about the power of documentary, and the importance of working to create powerful coalitions around important social issues. ...
GOOD PITCH IS A PHENOMENAL OPPORTUNITY TO IDENTIFY SOCIAL ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE AMPLIFIED THROUGH THE POWER OF FILM AND COLLABORATION. ...
doi:10.4000/books.ledizioni.9994
fatcat:vi44mfipbjaabberssgrg6xcie
Internet Marketing Essentials
[article]
2015
Zenodo
This framework for evaluating websites is a useful tool for determining actions that will be most beneficial for the success of a website. ...
Regardless of the type of website one runs, that website's success is measured according to how well it meets the following objectives: (1) generate traffic (visitors to the site), (2) drive conversions ...
A social media consulting firm created it, and though the firm's line of work is not naturally Pinterest-worthy, the firm created a visual depiction of social media recommendations for businesses that ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5913331
fatcat:kghf2ejbrnajnfzmps6u3ok2cu
Public perception of science of undergraduate students from the state of São Paulo: a study through the perspective of biotechnology
2016
ETD: Educação Temática Digital
Thus, this paper presents results of a survey developed from a mixed approach, which evaluated the public perception of science and attitudes in face of the scientific and technological development, from ...
the perspective of biotechnology, in a public composed of undergraduate students from different places of São Paulo State, in Brasil. ...
Nevertheless, they are still part of the social imaginary and have been widely publicized by the media, whether through textbooks or even by the media in general, such as TV, internet, newspaper or magazines ...
doi:10.20396/etd.v18i1.8635752
fatcat:ftlobehsx5dmlb4c7rg3tdmcqa
Teaching Business Ethics: The use of films and videota
1989
Journal of Business Ethics
Cost overruns at a nuclear power plant being constructed by the Illinois Power Company was the subject of a "60 Minute" investigative reporting broadcast on CBS, in November, 1979. ...
to hire one of their members; (2) opportunity for a R&D manager to exploit a new concept generated at work for personal gain; (3) effort by a supplier to use past friendship and gifts as an excuse for ...
doi:10.1007/bf00383427
fatcat:wrxg7ir42nbhpfffjpujw7pxci
Proliferating illiteracy in the universities: A Nigerian perspective
2008
International Journal for Educational Integrity
While recognising that the educational system is part of a much broader societal predicament, this paper nevertheless makes a number of recommendations for improvements to the Nigerian educational system ...
, including a call for increased government funding of the education system, the need for constructive solutions to end cultism, and a multifaceted approach to entrenched social problems. ...
Author Biographies Anthony Obioma Nwaopara holds a Master of Science Degree (M.Sc.) and a Bachelor of Science degree (B.Sc.) in Human Anatomy. ...
doi:10.21913/ijei.v4i1.194
fatcat:mx2ft6yoyrhrtdjwqc2vptyd5y
Practices and meanings of non-professional stock-trading in Taiwan: a case of relational work
2017
Economy and Society
Pursuing a similar line of analysis, Lainer-Vos (2013) suggests that actors, when confronted by one of the many economic acts in which gift and exchange overlap, generally use clarification practices to ...
power and legitimacy in financial markets. ...
doi:10.1080/03085147.2017.1408214
fatcat:e63on22ifjdm7jvxq7ttnl4dvu
Resurrected Bodies: Individual Experiences and Collective Expressions of Organ Transplant in North America
2010
Bulletin for the Study of Religion
It is also a cultural study of North America's collective expressions of transplant as found in Christian journals, popular media, advocacy literature and public policy statements. ...
I argue that these spiritual seekers traverse a 21 st century terrain shaped by the practices and discourses of what Foucault termed "biopower". ...
The practice of organ donation, as framed by the rhetoric of the gift, is a conduct with social, ontological, eschatological and ritual implications. ...
doi:10.1558/bsor.v39i1.002
fatcat:4pxmcqa4pve43atlctovuplgsm
The Transformation of Archival Philosophy and Practice Through Digital Art
2014
Philosophy Study
More specifically, this paper focuses on the philosophical and technical approaches adopted by creators, conservators, and philosophers involved in the preservation of variable media artworks. ...
The contingencies of fragile and obsolete media-or what new media theorists refer to as "technological obsolescence" (Ippolito 2003a, 47)-require forward-looking solutions to digital arts preservation. ...
Whereas a commodity market ascribes power to those with the most capital, a gift-based market recognizes the act of giving as a value that ensures social cohesion and cultural longevity (Hyde 1999). ...
doi:10.17265/2159-5313/2014.05.006
fatcat:46iby7wlkvgexjrocsk6zvck3y
The Politics of Metrics in Education: A Contribution to the History of the Present
[chapter]
2020
Handbook of Education Policy Studies
It was urgent to train gifted scientists and engineers and to be more rigorous and demanding for curricula in sciences and mathematics. ...
By breaking with the principle of dissection of corpses which allowed anatomy to become a science, Claude Bernard proposed a counterfactual experimental approach to highlight functions and symptoms of ...
doi:10.1007/978-981-13-8347-2_16
fatcat:bntva7tefnapdbrs7ztd2zooba
The Role of Social Movements, Coalitions, and Workers in Resisting Harmful Artificial Intelligence and Contributing to the Development of Responsible AI
[article]
2021
arXiv
pre-print
Perhaps one of the greatest contributions of AI will be to make us ultimately understand how important human wisdom truly is in life on earth. ...
Coalitions in all sectors are acting worldwide to resist hamful applications of AI. ...
This provision in the GDPR was used by journalists to study profiling by dating and social media apps. ...
arXiv:2107.14052v1
fatcat:etqo64ksjzaihmt4kr7b6auxiu
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