Haruna, Hussein Zainuddin, Zamzami Kingsley OKoye Mellecker, Robin R. Hu, Xiao Chu, Samuel Kai Wah Hosseini, Samira
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Interactive Learning Environments
This study evaluates the effect of game mechanics by employing serious games and gamification for improving learning outcomes. This is done by considering the performances of the students in terms of the test scores. In the quasi-experimental set-up, which consists of 108 students in their intact three classes attended a series of lessons on sexual...
Noel B. Salazar
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Tourism Geographies
Migration and tourism are interconnected forms of human mobility, similar but different. It is impossible to draw neat boundaries around the two because they constantly intersect, sometimes within one and the same individual. Tourism and migration often fuel each other, thereby raising two interesting questions that are rarely asked, namely ‘What w...
Öcal, Adem Cvetković, Vladimir M. Baytiyeh, Hoda Tedim, Fantina Maria Santos Zečević, Miodrag
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Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk
A new coronavirus emerged in December 2019 and quickly spread globally, causing unprecedented social, psychological, and economic damage. This study aimed to investigate people’s emotional reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. The dataset for this study consisted of 2,013 adults (962 males and 1,053 females) in four countries (Italy, Lebanon, Portuga...
Portela, Clara Paulina Pospieszna Skrzypczyńska, Joanna Walentek, Dawid
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Journal of European Integration
In response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine in 2014, the EU introduced sanctions on Moscow. Despite increasing polarisation among member states after imposition, the sanctions package was consistently renewed. How can sanctions persistence be explained? While scholarly accounts highlight German leadership, commitment to norms, and policymakers’ enga...
Nezha MEJJAD Laissaoui, Abdelmourhit Fekri, Ahmed Hassen, Nour El Houda Benmhammed, Ayoub El Hammoumi, Ouafa Benkdad, Azzouz Amsil, Hamid
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International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry
Chemical analysis, grain size distribution and short-lived radionuclides (210Pb and 137Cs) were combined to investigate the sedimentary processes in the Oualidia lagoon. Grain size and major elements profiles indicate an unexpected change in the layers characterising 1978 and 1986. Sediment accumulation rates (SAR) depth profiles exhibited the same...
Lew, Alan A. Cheer, Joseph M. Haywood, Michael Brouder, Patrick Noel B. Salazar
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Tourism Geographies
This special issue is a reflection by tourism scholars on the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world, with travel and tourism being among the most significant areas to bear those impacts. However, instead of an analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism places and sectors, as is the emphasis for many other journal special issues ...
Brouder, Patrick Teoh, Simon Noel B. Salazar Mostafanezhad, Mary Pung, Jessica Mei Lapointe, Dominic Higgins Desbiolles, Freya Haywood, Michael Hall, C. Michael Clausen, Helene Balslev
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Tourism Geographies
The large number of commentaries in this special issue reflect the need that so many people have to express themselves as a way of releasing the anxieties and integrating the hopes that the COVID-19 pandemic has engendered in individuals and groups around the world. The guest editors of this special issue provide the following comments in reflectin...
Sharabi, Shirley Bresler, Yael Ravid, Orly Shemesh, Chen Atrakchi, Dana Schnaider-Beeri, Michal Gosselet, Fabien Dehouck, Lucie Last, David Guez, David
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Drug delivery
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is limiting transcellular and paracellular movement of molecules and cells, controls molecular traffic, and keeps out toxins. However, this protective function is the major hurdle for treating brain diseases such as brain tumors, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, etc. It was previously demonstrated that high pu...
Hichri, F. Omri, A. Hossan, ASM Ben Jannet, H.
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Pharmaceutical Biology
Context: The substantial increase in the number of diabetics has encouraged the search for new pharmacological strategies to face this problem. In this regard, triazole and its derivatives have attracted considerable attention for the past few decades due to their pharmacological significance. Objective: Evaluation of the inhibitory activity of α-g...
Maqsoom, Ahsen Mughees, Abdul Hafiz Zahoor Nawaz, Adnan Mazher, Khwaja Mateen
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Applied Economics
This paper aims to explore the impact of employee age and industrial experience on extrinsic psychosocial stressors that may influence the productivity of workers. Using an integrated theoretical approach, this study examines four extrinsic psychosocial stressors, i.e. work environment, infrastructure, economy and country environment. The data were...
