Understanding the differences in the effects of environmental contamination on children and adults is an important part of environmental policymaking; however, unless environmental health policies reflect the differences between adults and children, this knowledge will have little practical effect. The authors of this article consider how the unique vulnerabilities of children challenge environ...

This paper attempts to evaluate a teaching textbook used in the Greek Merchant Marine Center of Further Education: School Mechanics. The evaluation considers adult learners’ needs and practices prescribed this institution. has been for long time and, though it includes proper ESP knowledge, is considered need embellishment satisfy growing needs, especially as concerns engineering vocabulary. re...

Australia’s 23rd prime minister, Bob Hawke, is celebrated for a world record set at the University of Oxford in 1950s fastest consumption yard ale. The beer apocryphal, having five evidential flaws. However, embellishment—or fabrication—of was crucial to “larrikin-leader” dual image Hawke constructed over course 1970s as he manoeuvred enter parliament. Hawke’s appealed widely from onwards becau...

This exploratory study investigates the challenges for heritage tourism industries in UAE by focusing on strategies and policies adopted during COVID-19 pandemic. aims to identify business strategies, analyze contextual service providers, explore how providers managed these A multi-case approach is with 12 renowned leading (CEOc, managers, relationship managers) Additionally, four academics int...

For children with profound disabilities affecting communication, it can be extremely challenging to identify salient emotions such as anxiety. If left unmanaged, anxiety can lead to hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and other psychological diagnoses. Physiological signals of the autonomic nervous system are indicative of anxiety, but can be difficult to interpret for non-specialist caregive...

Monitoring of critical systems such as large server parks require suitable visualization tools that draw the attention to essential aspects of system state to ensure continuous operation. Moreover, administration is increasingly performed using mobile devices giving operators more freedom. Mobile device form factors limit the amount of data that can be displayed. This study explores if visual e...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of culture on the creative and stylistic features children employ when producing narratives based on wordless picture books. METHOD Participants included 60 first- and second-grade African American, Latino American, and Caucasian children. A subset of narratives based on wordless picture books collected as part of a larger study was...

Since the 1998 “wind of falsification and embellishment,” Chinese official GDP statistics have repeatedly come under scrutiny. This paper evaluates the quality of China’s GDP statistics in four stages. First, it reviews past and ongoing suspicions of the quality of GDP data and examines the evidence. Second, it documents the institutional framework for data compilation and concludes on the impl...

Recent accounts of pretense have been underdescribed in a number of ways. In this paper, we present a much more explicit cognitive account of pretense. We begin by describing a number of real examples of pretense in children and adults. These examples bring out several features of pretense that any adequate theory of pretense must accommodate, and we use these features to develop our theory of ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether two applicants who misrepresented their accomplishments in applications for gastroenterology fellowships reflected isolated incidents or whether misrepresentation was more wide-spread. DESIGN Retrospective review of all 236 applications submitted for fellowship in a recent year for confirmation of research experience and cited publications. RESULTS 138 applica...