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How Covid-19 is Impacting Prospective International Students Across the Globe
(QS, 2020)The coronavirus, or COVID-19, has radically transformed sectors across the globe, and higher education is no exception. From closing campuses to investing in online learning and supporting isolating students and staff, ... -
How Covid-19 is Impacting Prospective International Students at Different Study Levels
(QS, 2020)The coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has rapidly reshaped how universities operate, teach, communicate, and recruit in the last few months. This report explores how prospective international students are addressing the ... -
How Culturally Responsive Leaders and Teachers Influence the Mathematics Performance of High School and Middle School African American Students in One Urban Virginia School Division
(Virginia Tech, 2020-02-26)Analysis of multiple data sources revealed a prevalent gap between high school and middle school African American students and their White counterparts in mathematics. Based on these data and a gap in the literature, further ... -
How Dare You Scientists Espouse Different Thoughts!
(Virginia Tech, 2010)On May 7, 2010, a letter signed by 255 members of the US National Academy of Sciences deplored attacks on both science and scientists who researched climate science or related fields. The assaults in the letter rely on two ... -
How Data Will Drive the Shift to Hybrid Events of Live and Virtual
(2020-08-27)This article summaries the speech of Jim Sharpe, the CEO of Aventri which is an event software company. Aventri has shifted its business to focus on the virtual and hybrid event after the virus caused huge cancellation of ... -
How Destinations Are Reinventing Themselves Through Virtual Event Platforms
(Event Skift, 2020-09-30)Events DC has changed up the virtual events sphere with it's new release of the GATHER platform. GATHER enables users to select previous events or subscribe to upcoming events to watch within the DC area. Additionally, ... -
How Did The Bartell Hotels’ Call Center Capture 7% More Revenue From 11% Fewer Calls?
(2017-05-10)Founded in 1975, Bartell Hotels is one of San Diego's oldest and largest independent hotel companies with eight hotels, including six that are branded (from 4 different national brands) and two independents. Bartell Hotels ... -
How Did We Get Here? Growth of Federal Student Loans
(The Institute for Higher Education Policy; Lumina Foundation, 2015-12-01)This report follows the expansion of the federal student loan program throughout the years, from its origins in helping middle-income students afford a college education to an eventual rise in student loan borrowing. This ... -
How digital technology is transforming the food retail landscape
(2020-08-14)This paper examines digital technology trends that are influencing the current and future business practices of the food retail landscape, including transnational grocery stores and chain restaurants. It describes trends ... -
How Do Academic Librarians Use Research Impact Metrics? Guest post by Rachel Miles
(The Bibliomagician, 2019-05-08)I’m part of a research team that wanted to test whether claims about librarians’ love for altmetrics were actually true. Along with Sarah Sutton (Emporia State University, Kansas, USA) and Stacy Konkiel (Digital Science, ... -
How Do Electronic Laboratory Notebooks Inspire Researchers?
(2015-10)OBJECTIVES: This research poster explores if and how electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) platforms include features that may facilitate researchers in: collaborating; incorporating research literature in laboratory ... -
How Do Military Veteran Students Write? Exploring the Effectiveness of Current Writing Pedagogy
(2014-04-28)Through Post-911 GI Bill benefits, military veterans are flooding college admissions offices and writing classes at rates not seen since the World War II era. According to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, ... -
How do national markets and price policies affect land use at the forest margin? Evidence from the Philippines
(Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001)Deforestation, land degradation, and watershed degradation commonly result from expansion of upland agriculture in the developing countries of the tropics. This paper examines the influence of market factors on farmers' ... -
How Do Quasars Impact Their Host Galaxies? From the Studies of Quasar Outflows in Absorption and Emission
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-27)``Quasar-mode feedback'' occurs when momentum and energy from the environment of accreting supermassive black hole couple to the host galaxy. One mechanism for such a coupling is by high-velocity (up to $sim$ 0.2c) ... -
How do research projects influence the design of local policies for environmental and natural resource management?
(Makati City, Philippines: Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003)This paper documents and analyzes interactions between environmental and natural resource (ENR) management research and local goverance. It draws from the experiences of the Philippine-based Sustainable Agriculture and ... -
How do rights become real? Formal and informal institutions in South Africa's land reform
(1997)How do legally defined rights to resources become effective command over those resources? What are the limits to social change through legal reform? These questions are having to be confronted, often painfully, by rural ... -
How Do Stream Buffers Reduce the Offsite Impact of Pollution?
(Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2017-11-03)Discusses riparian buffers and how to establish and maintain these areas along streams for erosion and pollution control. -
How Do Stream Buffers Reduce the Offsite Impact of Pollution?
(Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2012-07-30)Summarizes the importance of buffers to reduce pollution and specifically examines where they can be used, how they work, their limitations, required maintenance, performance levels, and expected cost. -
How Do We Measure Antimicrobial Resistance?
(Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2017-10-25)Examines the issue of bacterial resistance to antimicrobial drugs, and the implications for human health.
