0277-9536/$ – see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.09.011 I read the article ‘‘A meta-synthesis of pregnant women’s decision-making processeswith regard to antenatal screening for Down syndrome’’ by Reid, Sinclair, Barr, Dobbs, and Crealey (2009) with great interest for three reasons. Firstly, it promised to draw together qualitative research concerned with pregnant ...

Motivation and pressure are considered two factors impacting vocational senior high school student learning. New communication technology, especially mobile communication technology, is supposed to be effective in encouraging interaction between the student and the instructor and improving learning efficiency. Social presence and information richness theory was applied to analyze the media and ...

The objective of this study is to clarify the impact and mechanism transfer payment policies on resource dependence resource-depleted cities. Based panel data 113 prefecture-level resource-based cities from 2006 2017, uses a multi-period difference-in-differences model conduct an empirical results are as follows: Firstly, policy can reduce Secondly, there significant difference between eastern ...

The growing number of papers on Responsible Innovation (RI) and Research (RRI) have shaped the popularity usefulness RI RRI as a technology governance concept. This study reviews assesses development research through bibliometric analysis 702 RRI-focused 26,471 secondary references published in Web Science Core Collection database between 2006 2020. Firstly, paper provides broad outline field b...

The aim of this paper is to present how the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has changed our language and way we communicate. article focuses on recent Spanish neologisms that have appeared during year 2020 attempts analyze their word-formation process. theoretical framework study based classification proposed by M.T. Cabré Castellví (2006). Firstly, highlights semantic innovations, is, which are fo...

How to accelerate the reduction of carbon emissions in context “double carbon” target has become a key concern for all sectors society. This paper firstly analyzes influence mechanism foreign direct investment (FDI) agglomeration on emission intensity, from theoretical perspective. Then, based panel data 270 cities China 2006 2019, this uses ArcGIS software visually analyze spatial and temporal...

This study aims to quantify the impact of untapped export potential on ASEAN-6 countries’ high-tech exports for 2006-2016 period. Our innovative aspect sheds new light relationship between in previous year and performance current year. Using a system GMM estimator, we found several significant results. Firstly, last has positive countries' Secondly, effect depends supply competencies (ASEAN-6 h...