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Is Anyone Listening? Audience Engagement through Public Media Related to the Scottish Independence Referendum
(MDPI, 2019-08-23)This paper explores perspectives from which citizen participation in media debates on civic issues can be reconsidered by means of a review of the existing literature on this subject and a qualitative study of how one ... -
Is Basque a difficult language to learn for students? Teachers’ beliefs on the complexity to learn the curricular languages in the Basque Country
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-10)The present research focuses on studying teachers’ beliefs about the complexity of learning the curricular languages in the Basque Country, with special focus on Basque, the minority language. The study adopts a mixed-methods ... -
Is Basque an Agglutinative Language? A Proposal for the Diachrony of Nominal Morphology
(University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009)The title of this paper is reminiscent of de Rijk’s (1969) “Is Basque an SOV language?”. This SOV pattern, together with agglutination and ergativity are maybe the most characteristic features of Basque, or at least the ... -
Is Bilingualism Associated With Enhanced Executive Functioning in Adults? A Meta-Analytic Review
(Psychological Bulletin, 2018)Because of enduring experience of managing two languages, bilinguals have been argued to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals. Despite extensive investigation, there is, however, no consensus ... -
Is Brief Exposure to Green Space in School the Best Option to Improve Attention in Children?
(MDPI, 2021-07-13)The positive effects of Green Spaces on health are thought to be achieved through the mechanisms of mitigation, instoration and restoration. One of the benefits of Green Spaces may be the restoration of attention and so ... -
Is clindamycin effective in preventing infectious complications after oral surgery? Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
(Springer, 2022)[EN] Objective To determine the effect of clindamycin in the prevention of infection after oral surgery. Material and Methods This systematic review and meta-analysis followed the PRISMA statement, the PICO-framework ... -
Is Connectivity a Desirable Property in Urban Resilience Assessments?
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Is conscious awareness needed for all working memory processes?
(Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2016)Stein and colleagues argue there is no yet conclusive evidence for nonconscious working memory (WM) and that is critical to probeWMwhile ensuring null sensitivity to memory cues. While this stringent approach reduces the ... -
Is digital slow journalism valued? An analysis of its audience in Spain
(OberCom, 2022-06-09)[EN] Due to the emergence of rapid information consumption habits, journalism has been submerged into a deep crisis of credibility. There is a need to rethink the direction of the sector and find ways in which the relevance ... -
Is Gender Inequality a Barrier to Economic Growth? A Panel Data Analysis of Developing Countries
(MDPI, 2021-01-03)This study provides empirical evidence about the effects of various dimensions of gender inequalities (education, labour market and institutional representation) on economic growth. We use data from the World Bank Development ... -
Is General Relativity a simplified theory?
(IOP Publishing, 2013)Gravity is understood as a geometrization of spacetime. But spacetime is also the manifold of the boundary values of the spinless point particle in a variational approach. Since all known matter, baryons, leptons and gauge ... -
Is high-speed rail a sustainable mobility option? A life-cycle assessment of the Basque Y project in Spain
(Elsevier, 2023-11)The Basque Y High Speed Rail connection between Madrid and the Basque Autonomous Community is, quite exceptionally, a mixed freight and passengers HSR line, that has been presented as a fundamental step towards a more ... -
Is inbreeding avoidance driving female mate choice in Verreaux's sifaka lemurs?
(2014-07-21)Females of different species might exert female mate choice for different reasons, one of them the aim of avoiding inbreeding. In this study I examine the implication of inbreeding avoidance as a mechanism driving female ... -
Is it all about supply? Demand-side effects on the Spanish electricity market following Covid-19 lockdown policies
(Utilities Policy, 2023)A key characteristic of electricity prices is their sensitivity to changes in supply and demand. In this sense, the Covid-19 lockdown policies modified electricity consumption patterns at both business and household levels, ... -
Is it desirable, necessary and possible to perform research using case studies?
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa (Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU), 2016-11)[EN] Articles on the research methodology to be used in Business Economics generally address the key aspects involved in designing the research, such as procedure, techniques of evidence gathering and analysis and associated ... -
Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ roles in conserving biodiversity
(One Earth, 2024-01-01)As conservation initiatives expand in response to biodiversity loss, there remains limited understanding about what forms of governance and roles for different actors produce the best ecological outcomes. Indigenous peoples’ ... -
Is it possible to measure social entrepreneurship in firms?
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa (Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU), 2016-04)[EN] This study defines and proposes a measurement scale for social entrepreneurship (SE) in its broadest sense. The broad definition of SE covers for-profit firms that use social aims as a core component of their strategy. ... -
Is It Possible to Monetarily Quantify the Emotional Value Transferred by Companies and Organizations? An Emotional Accounting Proposal
(Frontiers Media, 2022-01)[EN] Social accounting focuses on value transactions between organizations and their stakeholders; both market ones, where the value perceived by the different stakeholders is identified, and non-markets ones, where ... -
Is Longevity Acceleration Sustainable? An Entropy-Based Trial of the Population of Spain vs. Japan
(MDPI, 2021-07-30)Longevity risk is a major concern for governments around the world as they have to address social benefits, whether in the form of pensions, healthcare, or caring for dependents and providing long-term care, and so forth, ... -
Is my professional future biased for gender perceptions? A study for the Spanish case with public policy proposals on education
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa (Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU), 2018-06-01)[EN] This article deals with the ‘glass ceiling’ phenomenon based on the fact that a disproportionately low number of women access managerial positions by analyzing gender differences in the ‘educational profile’ and ...