With the advent of the RQF quality assessment exercise in Australia and similar exercises being undertaken in New Zealand and elsewhere, assessing research performance is now a topic of major importance to marketing academics. Using publicly available information on Google Scholar and the freely available Publish or Perish software system, this paper presents an overview of the research perform...

Smart home technology with situation-awareness is important for seniors to improve safety and security. With the development of context-aware computing, wearable sensor technology, and ubiquitous computing, it is easier for seniors to manage their health problem in smart home environment. For monitoring senior activity in smart home, wearable, and motion sensors-such as respiration rate (RR), e...

Currently in the literature, there is a dearth of empirical research that confirms whether international junior success is a reliable predictor for future international senior success. Despite the uncertainty of the junior-senior relationship, federations and coaches still tend to use junior success as a predictor for long-term senior success. A range of former investigations utilising a retros...

conclusion investigative assessment of breast us by residents is inadvisable. we recommend continued professional resident training to improve the degree of agreement and performance. results for the faculty members, fair-to-good agreement was obtained in all descriptors and final assessment, while for residents, poor-to-moderate agreement was obtained. the areas under the roc curves were 0.78 ...

Investigators Shingo Kazama, Ph.D. Group Leader, Chief Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Katsunori Yogo, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Teruhiko Kai, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Ikuo Taniguchi, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Kazuya Goto, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Shuhong Duan, Ph.D. R...

background: culturally specific care requires that nursing students know, understand, and identify cultural factors related to client care, and conduct their nursing practice accordingly. the aim of this study was to identify the cultural self-efficacy of baccalaureate nursing students in a greek university. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a transcultural self-efficacy too...