Purpose: The aim of the study is to compare the perceived benefits of public libraries between five culturally different countries: Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, South Korea and the U.S. Design/methodology/approach: The data was based on representative samples of Finnish, Norwegian, Dutch, Korean and American adult library users. In Finland a mail survey was used and in other countries web ...

The innovation ecosystem term has increasingly been attracting the interest of scholars and practitioners for fifteen years. Contrary to flourishing landscape, knowledge in this field is criticized as being fragmented. While past reviews revealed conceptual theoretical connections between other related concepts, there still a lack comprehensive appreciation intellectual structure state-of-the-a...

Early life factors encompassing parental, foetal and postnatal characteristics, have an important influence on individual disease risk. Of particular importance is the role of maternal lifetime nutrition and metabolic reserves, and the impact on offspring birth outcomes. Birth weight, in turn, affects disease risk in later life. Being born small and showing rapid weight gain during childhood ar...

Type-1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) caused by autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing beta-cells essentially requires treatment with exogenous insulin therapy. Despite the education, technology and improvements in insulin formulations, patients face the ongoing life-threatening hypoglycaemia with poor quality of life as well as progressive disease leading to microand macro-vascular complication...

The current article provides a review of adoption research since its inception as a field of study. Three historical trends in adoption research are identified: the first focusing on risk in adoption and identifying adoptee–nonadoptee differences in adjustment; the second examining the capacity of adopted children to recover from early adversity; and the third focusing on biological, psychosoci...

In this short review we provide a synopsis of recent developments in oxysterol research highlighting topics of current interest to the community. These include the involvement of oxysterols in neuronal development and survival, their participation in the immune system, particularly with respect to bacterial and viral infection and to Th17-cell development, and the role of oxysterols in breast c...

Contemporary discipline-based physics education research can trace its roots to the post-Sputnik era beginning in the late 1950s. The task of mapping out the history of a recent and growing field spanned by diverse agendae will undoubtedly be colored by one’s own experiences and interests. Therefore, our description of the foundations and frontiers of the field presented in this paper is a pers...

The Information Systems (IS) discipline is a relatively young and rapidly evolving field of study, and its roots can be found within diverse disciplines. While these roots have been studied thoroughly and discussed at length, little is known about the emergent areas of research within the discipline. In this study, we map the IS discipline based on all publications in the top IS journals from 2...

Surya Prakash Bhatt, Anoop Misra* and Naval K. Vikram Fortis C-DOC Centre of Excellence for Diabetes, Metabolic Diseases, and Endocrinology, B-16, Chirag Enclave, New Delhi 110 048, India Diabetic Foundation (India) and National Diabetes Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation, New Delhi 110 016, India Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep Disorders and Department of Medicine, All India Institu...

Samuel Hobbs, Finny Monickaraj, Paul McGuire and Arup Das* Department of Surgery/Ophthalmology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, MSC 10 8000, 1600 University Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA New Mexico VA Health Care System, Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, MSC 10 8000, 1600 University Blvd. NE, Al...