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Across the Great Divides: How do gender dynamics influence intercultural conflict and creative collaboration?
Finding out why some collaborations are more successful than others is complex, and includes factors of culture, gender, and attitudes to conflict and creativity.
Associate Professor Roy Chua of Singapore Management University and Assistant Professor Mengzi Jin of Peking University have been investigating the way that men and women interact with people from other cultures when they face creative challenges.
Read the original research: https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2016.1319 -
Preventing sudden unexpected death in infancy
Sudden unexpected death in infancy, or SUDI, is the leading category of death after the first month of life, and it usually happens when babies are sleeping. Modification of unsafe sleep environments therefore provides a focus for possible intervention.
One such intervention in Australia and New Zealand, the Pēpi-Pod® Program, is literally saving lives. Professor Jeanine Young of the School at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Young is a registered nurse, midwife, and neonatal nurse who has provided nursing and midwifery care for parents who have lost their children.
Read more about their work in Research Features
Read the original research : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2019.06.022 -
Updated NICE guidance on the PLASMA system
Treatment for an enlarged prostate depends on the severity of symptoms, with various treatments available. In rare cases, however, surgery is needed to reduce the size of an enlarged prostate by cutting away sections of the gland, known as a ‘Transurethral Resection of the Prostate’.
A team of researchers at the Cedar Healthcare Technology Research Centre in Wales, UK, present updates on a treatment known as the PLASMA system, an innovative approach which differs to traditional forms of treatment and reduces hospital stay for patients, thereby effectively cutting treatment time and costs.
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Newly discovered actions of ketamine in pain and breathing regulation
Chronic pain is difficult to treat and affects the individual’s quality of life, often leading to severe disability. Ketamine was initially used in anaesthesia, but since the 1990s it has also been used in a much lower dose as a treatment for acute and chronic pain. and also works as an antidepressant
Professor Albert Dahan and colleagues at the Leiden University Medical Center managed to unlock some of ketamine’s previously unknown mechanisms of action against pain, its psychedelic effects, and also new actions on the heart and breathing mechanism.
Read the original research: https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000004176
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Governance, Risk, and Compliance in Digital Transformation
The trend of companies using technologies to improve their products, processes, and teams effectively is collectively described as a digital transformation. As digitization proliferates, companies are beginning to put more emphasis on their governance, risk, and compliance - but do investors understand their values and impacts?
Researchers from Singapore Management University surveyed non-professional investors on themes surrounding investment practices regarding GRC to find out the importance their placed on its role in digital transformation.
Read their original article: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4276136 -
Culturally responsive teaching
Culturally responsive teaching is the recognition that culture is a strength that can be used as a resource in the classroom to improve academic and social achievement. But what does this teaching approach look like, what historical methods is it influenced by, and what specific outcomes are achieved for students?
Magnus O. Bassey, Professor in Secondary Education and Youth Services at Queens College, explains how this method can help teachers to create a more inclusive and equitable learning environment for all students. In becoming culturally responsive, teachers may help to bring about wider social change.
Read the original article: https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci6040035
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