Community-based participatory research (CBPR) increasingly is being used in both developed and developing countries to study and address community-identified issues through a collaborative and empowering action-oriented process. In 2003-2005, a study was undertaken to document the impacts of CBPR on healthy public policy in the US. From an initial review of 80 partnership efforts, 10 were selec...

Camera / Camera For safety and operability of drivers while operating a vehicle, it is very important to obtain a wide field of vision. However, the space available for setting up windows is limited. Therefore, we BlindSpot BlSot propose a transparent cockpit," in which the image of a blind spot is displayed on the inner wall of the vehicle using a retro-reflective projection technology. In thi...

The paper presents a theoretical cornerstone in my current, ongoing PhD project which overall aim is to investigate relations between gamers’ corporeal, digital, and communicative practices. The present paper explores, in a beginning way, one of the more overlooked perspectives on the gamer, namely, the gamer as a ‘tool-wielding, moving body.’ It considers the theoretical and analytical questio...

The emergence and continuing development of digital technologies is disrupting reshaping traditional business practices throughout the service industries, gambling industry no exception. On one hand, have opened door to a landscape new sports betting opportunities. other, introduction brings responsibility challenges for companies. This policy paper outlines features corporate responsibility, p...

Monte and Conie play the famous Three-Door Game. The quiz-team hides the prize behind one of the doors. Conie, who does not know where the prize was hidden, is asked to choose one of the doors as a first guess. Monte, who saw where the prize was hidden, will reveal then one of the doors which does not conceal the prize, but never the door chosen by Conie. Finally, Conie will be offered to eithe...

The revolving door between the government and the private sector has long been presumed to lead to the capture of regulators by industry interests. A growing body of empirical literature, however, either finds no conclusive evidence of a capture effect or finds evidence of an opposite effect that the revolving door indeed results in more aggressive, not less aggressive, regulatory actions. To a...

A s is widely appreciated by all medical and surgical specialties, atrial fibrillation is the most common significant cardiac arrhythmia seen in practice; approximately 5 to 7 million patients in the United States have atrial fibrillation, with the numbers expected to increase to approximately 16 million by 2050 (1), and there are 200,000 to 250,000 new cases each year. Although symptoms vary w...