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Researchers investigating what led to the deadly poisoning of two dogs at a Halifax-area lake three years ago believe the pair likely ate pieces of toxic bacteria that originated in a nearby stream bed and later washed up on the shoreline.Their new study attempts to piece together the origins of the toxins behind the 2021 incident, and comes amid growing concerns about cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green algae, being discovered during the spring and summer months in Nova Scotia lakes."I think that we should…

The study shows that job autonomy must be coupled with low job ambiguity and high procedural justice for organizational citizenship behavior to be seen within a public administrative organization. Credit: WIPO | OMPI from Openverse, CC by 2.0 Although change-oriented behaviors are critical to high-quality public service delivery, encouraging employees to embrace and pursue change in the public sector is difficult. Even with…

Breadcrumb Trail LinksMusicMovies'This was her time to tell her story. She's not a sidekick, not an accessory,' filmmaker Kristen Vaurio tells Postmedia Get the latest from Mark Daniell straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Jan 27, 2024  •  Last updated 11 minutes ago  •  3 minute read A still of June Carter Cash featured in June, streaming on Paramount+. Photo by Don Hunstein /Sony Music EntertainmentArticle contentAfter director Kristen Vaurio’s work on films dealing with Scientology, the National Enquirer and…

The elements of social practices. Sociotechnical practices, like motion capture, inherit assumptions that are baked into their elements, including earlier versions of those elements. Assumptions that give rise to the practice in the first place also spread by way of those elements being combined and recombined. As practices evolve and stabilize, the assumptions that undergird them solidify. Credit: arXiv (2024). https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10877v1…

Credit: Alex Green from Pexels An Australian-first study by researchers at Monash University has examined the impact of long COVID on victim-survivors' experiences of intimate partner violence. The report Disconnected & insecure: The intersection between experiences of long COVID and intimate partner violence will be launched on Tuesday 23 January…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The COVID-19 pandemic was not the first time a crisis swept through the nation and beyond, forcing businesses and media to find ways to reach people in uncertain times. A new study from the University of Kansas has analyzed newspaper advertising strategies from the Great Depression to see what one historic crisis can teach communicators about reaching people today. …

The European Union's competition regulator said Tuesday it was looking into Microsoft's investment into ChatGPT developer, the CEO Sam Altman-led OpenAI to see if it merits further investigation under the bloc's merger rules. The European Commission said in a statement it was "checking whether Microsoft's investment in OpenAI might be reviewable under the EU Merger Regulation".The move is part of efforts by Brussels to make sure its oversight can catch up with the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence and stop…

An Italian tax claim against Facebook parent Meta has been escalated to the EU Commission's VAT committee for evaluation, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters, in a test case for how the tech sector is taxed.The U.S. corporation, which also owns the Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus platforms, faces a potential tax bill of around 870 million euros ($954 million) in Italy after Milan prosecutors launched an investigation into the company on the basis of a tax police audit.Elevate Your Tech Prowess…

Share of respondents (in percent) who stated that a containment measure placed a (very) strong burden on them in winter 2021/2022. The legend shows different containment measures and the correlation between answers on the 5-point scale and life satisfaction. Correlations are based on OLS regressions to control for baseline life satisfaction from fall/winter 2019. Credit: European Sociological Review (2023). DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcad077…

Graphical abstract Teacher training courses are integral to teacher education programs. However, they often offer limited opportunities for novice teachers to practice teaching and receive feedback on their performance. In this regard, peer evaluation of a teacher's recorded teaching video or "microteaching" is promising. Recently, this method has been integrated into many teacher education programs.…