There are a wide variety of psychographic and edumetric tests but none capture the totality of what it means to be a systems thinker. At this time systems thinking not only has popularity but also ...

In the first half of 2025, cholera, mpox, measles, dengue fever, chikungunya, malaria, and Zika virus spread globally, and severe outbreaks occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and ...

This chapter describes a particular method—Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing or SAST--for surfacing and critiquing the critical assumptions that underlie all important actions and decisions.

The International Journal of Banking and Finance (IJBF) is part of the ISBF efforts to provide a publication forum for international scholars in banking and finance to disseminate their theoretical, ...

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The aim of the journal is to create a forum for the scientific information exchange with regard to behavioral addictions. The journal is a broad focused interdisciplinary one that publishes ...

Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are widely used in academic personnel decisions as a measure of teaching effectiveness. We show: SET are biased against female instructors by an amount that is ...

Background: Platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule (PECAM-1) is present in the vascular endothelium and plays important roles in various biological processes. Several recent studies have reported ...

This Special Issue develops an analysis of the political economy of Western Sahara. It does so through the lens of its natural resources, with a particular focus on the fisheries sector. Bringing ...

Zoonoses are infectious diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans and/or from humans to animals [1,2]. More than 75% of emerging disease pathogens are zoonotic: 60% of them spread from ...

Background: With distal transradial access (dTRA), the postoperative compression time remains significantly longer than the recommended range via in practice. This study investigated whether ...

In past decades, numerous emerging infectious diseases have markedly affected global health and social-economic development. Consequently, the concept of “disease X” has been developed, and lists of ...