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Background similarities as a way to predict students' behaviour
(Sustainability, 2019-12-02)
The number of students opting for online educational platforms has been on the rise in recent years. Despite the upsurge, student retention is still a challenging task, with some students recording low-performance margins ...
Price and income elasticities of demand for cigarette consumption: what is the association of price and economic activity with cigarette consumption in Spain from 1957 to 2016?
(Public Health, 2020-08)
Objectives: Extensive empirical and theoretical studies have been devoted to analyzing the relationship between tobacco and income. The price and income elasticities of demand for cigarette consumption are the main focus ...
Sex-Specific Impact of Changes in job Status on Suicidal Ideation
(CRISIS-The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 2020-03)
Background: Around the globe, 800,000 people die from suicide every year. Despite being one of the leading causes of death, suicide remains a low public health priority. Korea has the second highest total suicide rate among ...
Sustainability and Competitiveness in the Tourism Industry and Tourist Destinations: A Bibliometric Study
(Sustainability (Switzerland), 2019-11-12)
This article presents an analysis of the state of the art on the relationship between tourism, sustainability and competitiveness (TSC); moreover, the analysis also includes a focus on tourism destination (TSCD). To that ...
Finding archetypal patterns for binary questionnaires
(SORT, 2020-06)
One of the main challenges researchers face is to identify the most relevant features in a prediction model. As a consequence, many regularized methods seeking sparsity have flourished. Although sparse, their solutions may ...
Online instruction. A system for educational inclusion in the university setting
(Culture Education, 2020-01-02)
The goal of this article is to analyse online instruction's potential to foster the development of inclusive educational systems within higher education. To do so, it explores knowledge of virtual instruction environments ...
Annapurna expedition game: applying molecular biology tools to learn genetics
(Journal of Biological Education, 2019-10-20)
In this paper, we present an activity called 'Annapurna Expedition' through which students should apply basic concepts of genetics to solve a worldwide pandemic disease. Players take the role of scientists, involved in a ...
Biometric iris recognition using radial basis function neural network
(Soft Computing, 2019-11)
The consistent and efficient method for the identification of biometrics is the iris recognition in view of the fact that it has richness in texture information. A good number of features performed in the past are built ...
Why Not an Opioid Epidemic in Europe Like in the USA?
(AIDS Reviews, 2019-12)
The CDC reported 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017 (Scholl et al., MMWR 2018; 67: 1419-27). Sadly, this yearly rate has been increasing significantly during the past two decades. Opioids, mostly ...
Finding an accurate early forecasting model from small dataset: A case of 2019-nCoV novel coronavirus outbreak
(International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 2020-03)
Epidemic is a rapid and wide spread of infectious disease threatening many lives and economy damages. It is important to fore-tell the epidemic lifetime so to decide on timely and remedic actions. These measures include ...