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Supplemental Material, sj-htm-1-cll-10.1177_09636897211039441 - Comparative Bioactivity Analysis for Off-the-Shelf and Culture–Rescued Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells in a Xeno- and Serum-Free Culture System
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-htm-1-cll-10.1177_09636897211039441 for Comparative Bioactivity Analysis for Off-the-Shelf and Culture–Rescued Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells in a Xeno- and Serum-Free Culture System by Minh Quang Nguyen, Hue T. H. Bui, Anh Nguyen Thi Tuyet, Trinh Thi Hong Nhung, Duc M. Hoang, Nguyen Thanh Liem and Van T. Hoang in Cell Transplantation</p
Narcissism, Social Media Addiction, Self-Esteem, and Haxeco Traits: Exploring Influences on Life Satisfaction Among Generation Z
Full text linkThanh Ngoc Dan Nguyen,1 Hao Yen Tran,2 Giang Hoang Minh Nguyen,2 Yen Kim Nguyen,2 Hoai Thi Mong Dinh2 1Faculty of Business Administration, Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; 2School of Advanced Study, Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamCorrespondence: Thanh Ngoc Dan Nguyen, Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Ho Chi Minh City, 70000, Vietnam, Email [email protected]: This study aimed to analyze the influence of narcissism on self-esteem and social media addiction. In addition, it highlights the consequences of social media addiction through internal factors such as self-esteem and external factors such as life satisfaction. It also examined the regulatory role of personality traits in this context.Participants and Methods: Conducted in Ho Chi Minh City, it surveyed 426 Generation Z individuals aged 13– 26 spending over two hours daily on social media, using convenience sampling. Data analysis and reliability assessment were done with SPSS 29, and SmartPLS 4 evaluated the linear structural model.Results: The study has demonstrated that narcissism among Generation Z significantly influences life satisfaction. The results indicate that narcissism plays a crucial role in determining the self-esteem of Generation Z. Furthermore, individuals exhibit varying levels of narcissism, which are positively related to various online social activities. Therefore, high levels of narcissism are likely to lead to social media addiction. Those who exhibit symptoms of social media addiction tend to have lower self-esteem because they perceive social media as a safe space where they can express themselves. However, each individual possesses unique personality traits, and this study has proven that specific personality traits such as Agreeableness and Openness impact the life satisfaction of Generation Z.Conclusion: The study investigated how narcissism, self-esteem, and social media addiction affect life satisfaction among Generation Z, exploring their complex interplay and mental health implications. It emphasized Gen Z’s widespread social media engagement and addiction risks, impacting mental health and emotional satisfaction. Additionally, it highlighted the influence of personality traits on life satisfaction. The examination scrutinized the intricate relationship between self-esteem and narcissism, stressing its nuances, especially among Generation Z.Keywords: narcissism, social media addiction, self-esteem, life satisfaction, HEXACO traits, Gen
Excerpt from Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon
Full text linkVietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and rewarded, expressions of gratitude for their rescue. Meanwhile, their status as refugees—as opposed to willing immigrants—profoundly influenced their cultural identity. Phuong Tran Nguyen examines the phenomenon of refugee nationalism among Vietnamese Americans in Southern California. Here, the residents of Little Saigon keep alive nostalgia for the old regime and, by extension, their claim to a lost statehood. Their refugee nationalism is less a refusal to assimilate than a mode of becoming, in essence, a distinct group of refugee Americans. Nguyen examines the factors that encouraged them to adopt this identity. His analysis also moves beyond the familiar rescue narrative to chart the intimate yet contentious relationship these Vietnamese Americans have with their adopted homeland. Nguyen sets their plight within the context of the Cold War, an era when Americans sought to atone for broken promises but also saw themselves as providing a sanctuary for people everywhere fleeing communism.
Publisher web page: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/69qdw3cp9780252041358.htm
South African responses to Open Access publishing: a survey of the research community
Full text linkOpen access publishing offers wide benefits to the scholarly community and may also afford relief to financially embattled academic libraries. The progress of the open access model rests upon the acceptance and validation of open access journals and open archives or institutional repositories by the academic mainstream, particularly by publishing researchers. To what extent are the key actors in the South African research system aware of the advantages of open access? This article reports on the findings of a recent survey undertaken to assess the current awareness, concerns and depth of support for open access amongst local researchers, research managers and policy makers in South Africa. The study focuses on issues of quality, article or author charges and the established academic reward system. It concludes that within the prevailing framework, there is little prospect that academics would choose to publish within open access
journals. Recommendations for advocacy by the library community are proposed
Environmental impact assessment of the pangasius sector in the Mekong Delta
No full textIn the past seven years the export of white pangasius fillets grew fast. The culture method shifted to intensive production of striped catfish (Ca Tra) in deep ponds because this is more efficient than the pen and cage culture of Ca Basa. Today, striped catfish comprises more than 90 % of the culture. The increased production was achieved by producers investing in large ponds. The market chain is gearing towards vertical integration. Most farms keep fish at relatively high densities of 15 to 25 fish/m3 in ponds having a depth of up to 4m, and are advised to exchange daily 20 to 40% of the water. The sustainability of the sector is threatened due to the increased environmental pressure, and hampered by the growing cost of inputs and reduced farm-gate prices of the fish. The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) intends to identify measures for preventing or mitigating the environmental impacts of catfish culture in the Mekong Delta. The EIA was a seven-step process during which we interacted twice with part of the main stakeholders. To build trust among the stakeholders from the sector, we conducted the scoping and goal setting with them
Open access self-archiving: An author study
No full textThis, our second author international, cross-disciplinary study on open access had 1296 respondents. Its focus was on self-archiving. Almost half (49%) of the respondent population have self-archived at least one article during the last three years. Use of institutional repositories for this purpose has doubled and usage has increased by almost 60% for subject-based repositories. Self-archiving activity is greatest amongst those who publish the largest number of papers. There is still a substantial proportion of authors unaware of the possibility of providing open access to their work by self-archiving. Of the authors who have not yet self-archived any articles, 71% remain unaware of the option. With 49% of the author population having self-archived in some way, this means that 36% of the total author population (71% of the remaining 51%), has not yet been appraised of this way of providing open access. Authors have frequently expressed reluctance to self-archive because of the perceived time required and possible technical difficulties in carrying out this activity, yet findings here show that only 20% of authors found some degree of difficulty with the first act of depositing an article in a repository, and that this dropped to 9% for subsequent deposits. Another author worry is about infringing agreed copyright agreements with publishers, yet only 10% of authors currently know of the SHERPA/RoMEO list of publisher permissions policies with respect to self-archiving, where clear guidance as to what a publisher permits is provided. Where it is not known if permission is required, however, authors are not seeking it and are self-archiving without it. Communicating their results to peers remains the primary reason for scholars publishing their work; in other words,
researchers publish to have an impact on their field. The vast majority of authors (81%) would willingly comply with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository. A further 13% would comply reluctantly; 5% would not comply with such a mandate
Reproduction and response by author "Within-Firm Productivity Dispersion: Estimates and Implications"
No full textThis is a reproduction of "Within-Firm Productivity Dispersion: Estimates and Implications". The reproduction is available here: https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4rdps/181.htm.
The author's response is available here: https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4rdps/182.htm
The original author is also sharing here asicc2009_mod.csv, which he shared with the replicators as well. This is a file that was missing from the replication package
Reluctant Authorities : the Author in the Classroom
No full textAs in the literary public sphere in general, there is a renewed desire to get close to the author behind the work also in the teaching of Swedish as a school subject. By this we do not mean teachers’ and pupils’ possible tendency to interpret the works through a biographical filter, but rather the author's actual physical presence in the classroom. Each year, more than 2,000 author visits are conducted in Swedish schools. Author visits constitute a large and important part of the recurrent policy efforts to get more culture into schools. Pupils’ literacy development is typically highlighted as a main goal for these efforts. But what actually happens during such author visits?
In an ongoing project, we have followed and documented the highly popular and critically acclaimed Swedish author of books for young people Per Nilsson's visits in three different secondary school classes. In our presentation, we will show how the author’s performance can be described as an interaction between four various roles: author, narrator, debater and actor. In particular, we will focus on how the author’s authority over the interpretation of his own text is subjected to extensive and contradictory negotiations
Retelling racialized violence, remaking white innocence: the politics of interlocking oppressions in transgender day of remembrance
Full text linkTransgender Day of Remembrance has become a significant political event among those resisting violence against gender-variant persons. Commemorated in more than 250 locations worldwide, this day honors individuals who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. However, by focusing on transphobia as the definitive cause of violence, this ritual potentially obscures the ways in which hierarchies of race, class, and sexuality constitute such acts. Taking the Transgender Day of Remembrance/Remembering Our Dead project as a case study for considering the politics of memorialization, as well as tracing the narrative history of the Fred F. C. Martinez murder case in Colorado, the author argues that deracialized accounts of violence produce seemingly innocent White witnesses who can consume these spectacles of domination without confronting their own complicity in such acts. The author suggests that remembrance practices require critical rethinking if we are to confront violence in more effective ways. Description from publisher's site: http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/srsp.2008.5.1.2
Investigation of hardware transactional memory
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-47).Hardware transactional memory is a new method of optimistic concurrency control that can be used to solve the synchronization problem in multicore software. It is a promising solution due to its simple semantics and good performance relative to traditional approaches. Before we can incorporate this nascent technology into high-performing concurrent programs, it is necessary to investigate the physical capacity constraints and performance characteristics of hardware transactions in order to better inform programmers of their abilities and limitations. Our investigation involves the first empirical study of the "capacity envelope" of HTM in Intel's Haswell and IBM's Power8 architectures. We additionally survey how contention parameters, such as transaction size or write ratio, affect HTM performance and we capture these trends in a regression model for predicting the throughput of HTM-enabled concurrent programs. Through our investigation, we aim to provide what we believe is a much needed understanding of the extent to which one can use HTM to replace locks.by Andrew T. Nguyen.M. Eng
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