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Adoption of Renewable Energy Sources
Energy is the determining factor of well-being and sustainable development. Global energy consumption depends on fossil fuels, such as natural gases, oil, and coal, contributing to global economic progress. However, this situation has deteriorated human health, social well-being, and environmental sustainability, with issues such as air pollution, acid rain, and global climate change. Consequently, sustainable development strategies have been widely followed around the world. 
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  • 13 Nov 2023
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Immersive Virtual Classroom in Synchronous Remote Learning
Immersive virtual classroom (IVC) is a streaming platform that incorporates an augmented reality component into the materials used in synchronous learning and allows the production of engaging audiovisual educational resources as instructional videos. It requires no post-production time and was developed during the COVID-19 pandemic at the University of Cauca. IVC performs a live composition of audiovisual material (type slides) with video of the instructor, allowing an online interaction between the instructor and their slides while the interlocutors watch in a live transmission in full HD quality (1920 × 1080 pixels) and interact with the instructor via audio using a conventional videoconferencing platform.
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  • 13 Nov 2023
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Relationship between Prosocial Behavior/Well-Being in Vocational Education
Prosocial behaviors, which benefit others and promote harmonious interpersonal relationships, have been linked to well-being. Engaging in prosocial behaviors provides individuals with a sense of purpose and fulfillment, promotes positive feelings and moods, and enhances social integration and connection, leading to the development of interpersonal relationships. These factors contribute to an improved sense of self-worth, belonging, and connectedness, which ultimately enhances well-being.
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  • 12 Nov 2023
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Sport and Abuse in Uganda
Uganda, officially known as the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in east central Africa and is one of the 49 sub-Saharan countries. It is bordered by Kenya in the east, the Democratic Republic of Congo in the west, South Sudan in the north and Tanzania and Rwanda in the south and southwest, respectively. It is also known as the ‘Pearl of Africa’, which is an expression affiliated to Winston Churchill who used it to describe the country’s flora and fauna. There are 49 ethnic groups in Uganda.
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  • 10 Nov 2023
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Computational Thinking and Gender Equality
Researchers evaluated the computational thinking skills according to gender of a group of male and female students of industrial engineering and systems engineering from universities located in the Andean region of Peru; the five key skills were evaluated: abstraction, decomposition, generalization, algorithmic design, and evaluation. To strengthen computational thinking, activities related to agriculture, livestock, the environment, safety, and education were proposed, which are of interest to the community where the students live.
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  • 10 Nov 2023
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Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Teachers
The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework consists of three components: Content Knowledge (CK), Pedagogical Knowledge (PK), and Technological Knowledge (TK). Additionally, it encompasses four composite factors that arise from the intersection of these three components. These composite factors include Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), Technological Content Knowledge (TCK), Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK), and Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK).
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  • 09 Nov 2023
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Natural Disasters, Economic Growth, and Carbon Emissions
China has complex geographical and climatic conditions, as well as a wide variety of natural disasters, and this country has the highest frequency of natural disasters in the world. Floods, droughts, earthquakes, typhoons, mudslides, forest fires, and other disasters occur every year, and they have obvious regional, seasonal, and phased characteristics. These frequent natural disasters have severe consequences, such as high death tolls, the destruction of infrastructure, and stagnated regional economic development.
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  • 09 Nov 2023
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D-VET Education and Academic Engagement and Academic Burnout
In Spain, vocational education and training (VET) is a type of non-university higher education leading to the award of Higher Vocational Training Technician qualifications, with a MECES 1 level (Spanish Framework of Qualifications for Higher Education), equivalent in the context of the European Union to an EQF 5 level (European Qualification Framework).
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  • 09 Nov 2023
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Heterogeneity of Crime Distribution
Urban crimes are not homogeneously distributed but exhibit spatial heterogeneity across a range of spatial scales. 
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  • 08 Nov 2023
Topic Review
Mindful Self-Compassion Practices as Self-Care
All professionals are vulnerable to burnout based on various types of organizational stressors, but burnout is of particular concern for health care service providers who may need to adopt a stance of detachment or emotional distance as relief from intense workloads with clients.
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  • 07 Nov 2023
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