How do we answer the question "Why do so many Americans use so many drugs?"

Americans, constituting 5% of the world population, consume 85% of the world's illicitly produced drugs and 80% of the world's opiate based pharmaceuticals. The numbers are so disproportionate as...

10 November 2015 8,597 4 View

Do you know of an informal caregiver of a person who has recently received a bone marrow transplant?

We are conducting a pilot study of an intervention for informal caregivers of persons who have recently received a bone marrow transplant in the US. If you know of anyone who might be interested,...

13 February 2021 9,174 1 View

Does Location Map of Informal Settlements in South Africa exist?

I urgently need a map that shows the point locations of informal settlements in South Africa. I am currently working on a study that seeks to relate protests location to the location of informal...

02 February 2021 4,113 7 View

Are there existing studies in economic sociology that have applied Kalyan Sanyal's theoretical framework as a methodological basis?

To be precise, I am looking for studies on informal labour that have taken on board Sanyal's category of the Need Economy and his 'Politics of Exclusion' in studying the political-economy of...

26 January 2021 4,219 3 View

Is recycling a challenge to the governments of developing countries?

Is recycling a challenge to the governments of developing countries? A strong will for more serious aggressively organized recycling initiatives, embedded with strict regulations supported through...

12 January 2021 510 13 View

Does these studies, and research based recommendations bring any positive change.?

A strong will for more serious aggressively organized recycling, embedded with strict regulations supported through public awareness projects/programs to be instituted both by formal and informal...

03 January 2021 3,202 2 View

Is there any cheaper IoT workload/stress testing tools?

Previously, I decided to use iotify.io as the testing platform for IoT application. They provide MQTT/HTTP, etc and well documented & visualization, but it spent too much cost for me because I...

28 December 2020 5,911 3 View

Whether to use reversed score or original values in correlation?

Hi, I'm conducting a research on fraudulent financial reporting. One of the variables score has been reversed, I wonder if I should refer to the total score that has computed the reversed items or...

08 November 2020 209 0 View

Can IoT device support more than one communication protocols such as MQTT, CoAP or HTTP etc.?

IoT devices needs a set of communication protocols at different layers such as at the network layer (e.g. IPv4, IPv6), transport layer (e.g. TCP, UDP) and application layer (CoAP, HTTP, MQTT). My...

05 November 2020 5,776 4 View

How informal learning can impact the learning culture of the organization?

Need to know specific parameters which impact the learning culture variables.

23 September 2020 233 4 View

How do we formalize peer learning?

22 September 2020 8,688 16 View