(k) Satire (in YouTube channels)

Characterizing Videos, Audience and Advertising in Youtube Channels for Kids

Online video services, messaging systems, games and social media services are tremendously popular among young people and children in many countries. Most of the digital services offered on the internet are advertising funded, which makes advertising ubiquitous in children’s everyday life. To understand the impact of advertising-based digital services on children, we study the collective behavi...

Satire for Dummies, Ver. 2.0

The role of ATP-dependent K+ channels in antinociception, tolerance and morphine dependence

  Tolerance and dependence are two main problems that have limited morphine administration as an analgesic drug and they might be as a result of changes in the number and affinity of receptors, dysfunction of adenylate cyclase, impaired coupling between activated µ receptor and K+ channels, and changes in the K+ and Ca2+ channels. There are several reports concerning the role of some of these...

Yes, Minister: Satire in Information Systems Research

This paper explores the use of the alternative genre of satire in conjunction with conventional academic discourse in order to provide insight into information systems development and implementation in government. An outsourcing project for the development and implementation of a new payroll system for the New Zealand education sector provides the focus; this project was just one of a series of...

Microbial K+ Channels

A survey of the currently available genomes shows that K channels are found in most free-living bacteria, archaea, and protists, indicating early evolution before the divergences of the three major domains of life. Though vertically descended from the primordial K channels, more recent lateral transfers of K channel genes must also have occurred. Variations in the motifs of transmembrane or cyt...