Writing is a crucial skill and tertiary education students face difficulties in academic writing. This paper aimed to identify the setbacks or solutions experienced by Indonesian A survey was used as method of this study. The data were collected through questionnaire using Google form distributed 26 fifth-semester taking Academic course English Language Education Study Program Sanata Dharma Uni...

The aim was to examine the effects of group training techniques in job-search training on later reemployment and mental health. The participants were 278 unemployed workers in Finland in 71 job-search training groups. Five group-level dimensions of training were identified. The results of hierarchical linear modeling demonstrated that preparation for setbacks at the group level significantly pr...

Iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) alone are suitable for a broad spectrum of applications, but the low stability and heterogeneous size distribution in aqueous medium represent major setbacks. These setbacks can however be reduced or diminished through the coating of MNPs with various polymers, especially biopolymers such as polysaccharides. Polysaccharides are biocompatible, non-toxic a...

The present study examined the relationship between goal-striving stress and well-being in a survey of 399 college-educated Black American men who were members of a Black fraternal organization. Regression analyses revealed that goal-striving stress was associated with decreased psychological well-being, controlling for demographics and various psychosocial factors. When asked to explain their ...

This article starts by reviewing the setbacks that the recent Science and Technology Studies literature has identified in the functioning of technologies of democracy, the different arrangements that look to enact deliberation on technoscientific issues. Putting a focus on the Citizen Consensus Conference, it then proposes that several of these setbacks are related to the kind of "work" that th...

In this month's editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors discuss the challenges of addressing a growing population with Alzheimer disease and dementia amidst disappointing news from the pharmaceutical industry.

The rapidly increasing global wave of obesity associated with cardiometabolic risk factors portends a daunting increase of cardiovascular disease. Consequently, the search for effective and safe drugs and new therapeutic avenues to fight obesity stands at the frontline because of a market with enormous opportunities. Rimonabant is a selective CB1 endocannabinoid receptor antagonist that was the...