Correction to: Mixed methods research: what it is and what it could be

Gene therapy : what it is , what it is not and what it will be

Gene therapy is the therapeutic procedure based on the introduction of healthy genes using recombinant DNA techniques. the first successful clinical trial of this technique was published in 1990. Despite the occurrence of adverse effects in certain clinical trials, some of them serious, both laboratories and companies are continuously developing novel materials and establishing both safer and m...

Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, and What It Should Be

What Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the current time is not what it should be. The mainstream works in the field are on domain-specific problems and solutions. Instead, AI should focus on general-purpose systems that are adaptive to its environment, and can work with insufficient knowledge and resources. AI in this sense is unified with Cognitive Science at a general level, with the latter ...

health communication what it is and what is not

Motivation to e-Learn within organizational settings: What is it and how could it be measured?

e-Learning is expected to support organizations in being more adaptable and competitive, and individuals in becoming or staying more employable. However, current acceptance levels do not show expected results. In this paper, we explored, within a defined e-learning framework, the content of a variable called "motivation-to-elearn" associated to the concept of "just-in-time learning". Since lear...

Corporate Democracy – What It Is, What It Isn’t, and What It Should Be

2 See, e.g., Stephen Deane, The ISS Institute for Corporate Governance, Majority Voting in Director Elections: From the Symbolic to the Democratic, at 1 (noting that advocates who favor majority voting in director elections view the issue as a “question of democratic principle” and, if implemented, majority voting “would transform the current symbolic process, in which shareholders can withhold...