Social Marketing and the School Library: An Effective Path to Collaboration? by Gayle Bogel

“…They were given specific guidelines by the principal investigators that included: • Instructions for designing announcements, leaflets, and conferences as marketing strategies • Instructional unit designs for subject content and information literacy skills • Incentive payments of $200 to be used for library resources as an incentive to collaborate…”
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Evaluation of the international standardized 24-h dietary recall methodology (GloboDiet) for potential application in research and surveillance within African settings by Elom Kouassivi Aglago, Edwige Landais, Geneviève Nicolas, Barrie Margetts, Catherine Leclercq, Pauline Allemand, Olaide Aderibigbe, Victoire Damienne Agueh, Paul Amuna, George Amponsah Annor, Jalila El Ati, Jennifer Coates, Brooke Colaiezzi, Ella Compaore, Hélène Delisle, Mieke Faber, Robert Fungo, Inocent Gouado, Asmaa El Hamdouchi, Waliou Amoussa Hounkpatin, Amoin Georgette Konan, Saloua Labzizi, James Ledo, Carol Mahachi, Segametsi Ditshebo Maruapula, Nonsikelelo Mathe, Muniirah Mbabazi, Mandy Wilja Mirembe, Carmelle Mizéhoun-Adissoda, Clement Diby Nzi, Pedro Terrence Pisa, Karima El Rhazi, Francis Zotor, Nadia Slimani

“…Furthermore, food quantification in shared-plates and -bowls eating situations and interviewing of populations with low literacy skills, especially in rural settings, were acknowledged as requiring further specific considerations and appropriate solutions. …”
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On the nature of morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge in school-age English-Japanese bilingual and monolingual children by Hayashi, Y

“…<p>Morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge are two (among many) components of multi-faceted word knowledge critical for language development and ultimately, academic performance, as they strongly correlate with other essential, literacy-related skills, such as spelling, writing and reading comprehension (Ramirez, Chen, Geva &amp; Kiefer, 2010). …”

Effectiveness of simplified diabetes nutrition education on glycemic control, and other diabetes-related outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Basrah, Iraq by Hashim, Almaliki Saman Agad

“…In Basrah, Iraq, one of the factors affecting glycemic control is low health literacy (HL) level. T2DM patients with low HL have limited ability to understand and apply the regimen to their diabetes self-management. …”
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The Effectiveness of Electronic information Retrieval Training on the Skills of Librarians in Information Retrieval (Case study: public libraries of Mazandaran province) by Marziyeh Fallah Kordabadi, Seyed Ali Asghar Razavi, Safiyeh Tahmasebi Limooni

“…Hence, enhancing computer literacy is particularly essential for these individuals. …”
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A Survey of Provosts Indicates that Academic Libraries Should Connect Outcomes to University Goals by Laura Costello

“…Most provosts preferred the information to be communicated in a formal annual report, and indicated that the report should include information literacy student learning outcomes (SLOs) (50.9%), user satisfaction data (46.11%), correlations with faculty productivity (45.45%), correlations with student success (44.91%), correlations with undergraduate retention (43.11%), correlations with enrollment (42.51%), basic use data (40.12%), and faculty feedback (39.1%). …”
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Construction and Validation of Citizenship Behavior Questionnaire for Students by Elham Irannezhad, Ali Mehdad, Mohsen Golparvar

“…Lastly, the digital citizenship section comprised 23 questions across 4 dimensions, including ethics and responsibilities, online participation, digital literacy, and learning.It is hoped that with the utilization of this constructed and introduced questionnaire, it will be possible to assess the state of citizenship behavior and ensure the effectiveness of education in this domain.…”
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Factors Affecting Ethical Attitude toward Business (Case study: Female Students of Shahid Beheshti University) by Amirhossein Tayebi Abolhasani, Mohammad Khodabakhshi, Zahra Azizian khalkhooran

“…It means that more academic literacy has a more powerful positive moderator effect. …”
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Measuring Iran's success in achieving Millennium Development Goal 4: a systematic analysis of under-5 mortality at national and subnational levels from 1990 to 2015 by Younes Mohammadi, PhD, Mahboubeh Parsaeian, PhD, Parinaz Mehdipour, MSc, Ardeshir Khosravi, Bagher Larijani, ProfMD, Ali Sheidaei, Anita Mansouri, MSc, Amir Kasaeian, PhD, Kamran Yazdani, MD, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, MD, Elaheh Kazemi, Saeide Aghamohamadi, Nazila Rezaei, MD, Maryam Chegini, MPH, Rosa Haghshenas, BSc, Hamidreza Jamshidi, PhD, Farnaz Delavari, Mohsen Asadi-Lari, ProfMD, Farshad Farzadfar, DrMD

“…Possible recommendations for such strategies include enhancing the level of education and health literacy among women, tackling sex discrimination, and improving incomes for families. …”
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Visual semiotic mode of perfume advertisements by Yevheniia Nikiforova, Olena Popivniak, Elizaveta Galitska

“…N3 (1), 5-24 [in English]. • Multimodal Literacy (2003). [ed. by C. Jewitt., G. Kress]. New York: Peter Lang, 196 p. …”
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Training teachers in classroom management to improve mental health in primary school children: the STARS cluster RCT by Tamsin Ford, Rachel Hayes, Sarah Byford, Vanessa Edwards, Malcolm Fletcher, Stuart Logan, Brahm Norwich, Will Pritchard, Kate Allen, Matthew Allwood, Poushali Ganguli, Katie Grimes, Lorraine Hansford, Bryony Longdon, Shelley Norman, Anna Price, Abigail Emma Russell, Obioha C Ukoumunne

“…Despite no main effect on educational attainment, subgroup analysis indicated that the intervention’s effect differed between those who did and those who did not have poor mental health for both literacy (interaction p = 0.04) and numeracy (interaction p = 0.03). …”
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A Survey of Online Resources on the Development of Lifelong Learning among Students of National Open University of Nigeria by Angela Ebele Okpala

“…Some challenges that were found to militate against the use of online information resources were: too many online databases (M=2.95), slow internet speed (M=2.89), slow internet connectivity (M=2.89), inadequate guidance and training (M=2.89) and lack of information literacy skills (M=2.87). It was recommended that students should be encouraged to use online information resources. …”
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MIDDLE CLASS IN UKRAINE: GOVERNMENT OR OPPOSITION? by Denys Yakovlev, Liliya Yakovleva, Vitaly Koltsov

“…This enables them to check facts on the basis of media literacy, to distinguish truth from lies, rational argumentation from populism. …”
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Ten lessons on the resilience of the EU common fisheries policy towards climate change and fuel efficiency - A call for adaptive, flexible and well-informed fisheries management by Francois Bastardie, David A. Feary, Thomas Brunel, Laurence T. Kell, Ralf Döring, Sebastien Metz, Ole R. Eigaard, Oihane C. Basurko, Valerio Bartolino, Jacob Bentley, Benoit Berges, Sieme Bossier, Mollie E. Brooks, Ainhoa Caballero, Leire Citores, Georgi Daskalov, Jochen Depestele, Gorka Gabiña, Martin Aranda, Katell G. Hamon, Manuel Hidalgo, Stelios Katsanevakis, Alexander Kempf, Bernhard Kühn, J. Rasmus Nielsen, Miriam Püts, Marc Taylor, George Triantaphyllidis, Konstantinos Tsagarakis, Agurtzane Urtizberea, Luc van Hoof, Jasper van Vlasselaer

“…Overall, to effectively manage EU fisheries within a changing climate, flexible, adaptive, well-informed and well-enforced management is needed, with incentives provided for innovations and ocean literacy to cope with the changing conditions, while also reducing the dependency of the capture fishing industry on fossil fuels. …”
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Embracing Nature-based Solutions to promote resilient marine and coastal ecosystems by Bethan C. O'Leary, Catarina Fonseca, Cindy C. Cornet, Mindert B. de Vries, A.Karima Degia, Pierre Failler, Elisa Furlan, Joaquim Garrabou, Artur Gil, Julie P. Hawkins, Dorte Krause-Jensen, Xavier Le Roux, Myron A. Peck, Géraldine Pérez, Ana M. Queirós, Grzegorz Różyński, Agustín Sanchez-Arcilla, Rémy Simide, Isabel Sousa Pinto, Ewan Trégarot, Callum M. Roberts

“…Here, we provide explanations for this lag and propose the following three research priorities to advance marine and coastal NBS: (1) Improve understanding of marine and coastal biodiversity-ecosystem services relationships to support NBS better designed for rebuilding system resilience and achieving desired ecological outcomes under climate change; (2) Provide scientific guidance on how and where to implement marine and coastal NBS and better coordinate strategies and projects to facilitate their design, effectiveness, and value through innovative synergistic actions; (3) Develop ways to enhance marine and coastal NBS communication, collaboration, ocean literacy and stewardship to raise awareness, co-create solutions with stakeholders, boost public and policy buy-in, and potentially drive a more sustained investment. …”
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Development of a multi-component intervention to promote participation of Black and Latinx individuals in biomedical research by Maria I. Danila, Jeroan J. Allison, Karin Valentine Goins, Germán Chiriboga, Melissa Fischer, Melissa Puliafico, Amy S. Mudano, Elizabeth J. Rahn, Jeanne Merchant, Colleen E. Lawrence, Leah Dunkel, Tiffany Israel, Bruce Barton, Fred Jenoure, Tiffany Alexander, Danny Cruz, Marva Douglas, Jacqueline Sims, Al Richmond, Erik D. Roberson, Carol Chambless, Paul A. Harris, Kenneth G. Saag, Stephenie C. Lemon

“…Methods: We used a community-engaged approach to develop an integrated, culturally, and literacy-sensitive, multi-component intervention that addresses barriers to research participation during the informed consent process. …”
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Differences in SARS-CoV-2 infections during the first and second wave of SARS-CoV-2 between six ethnic groups in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: A population-based longitudinal serolog... by Liza Coyer, Anders Boyd, Janke Schinkel, Charles Agyemang, Henrike Galenkamp, Anitra D.M. Koopman, Tjalling Leenstra, Yvonne T.H.P. van Duijnhoven, Eric P. Moll van Charante, Bert-Jan H. van den Born, Anja Lok, Arnoud Verhoeff, Aeilko H. Zwinderman, Suzanne Jurriaans, Karien Stronks, Maria Prins

“…Having household members with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection, larger household size, and low health literacy were common determinants of SARS-CoV-2 incidence across groups. …”
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Social Marketing and the School Library: An Effective Path to Collaboration? A Review of: Immroth, Barbara and W. Bernard Lukenbill. “Teacher-School Library Media Specialist Collab... by Gayle Bogel

“…They were given specific guidelines by the principal investigators that included:<br>• Instructions for designing announcements, leaflets, and conferences as marketing strategies <br>• Instructional unit designs for subject content and information literacy skills<br>• Incentive payments of $200 to be used for library resources as anincentive to collaborate.…”
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Medidas de controle da circulação do livro didático para o ensino de leitura e escrita em São Paulo: atuação da commissão revisora de 1918 - Control measures for circulation of the... by Fernando Rodrigues de Oliveira, Thabatha Aline Trevisan, Brasil

“…</p><p>Key-words: textbook, teaching reading and writing, history of literacy, history of education.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>MEDIDAS DE CONTROL DE MOVIMIENTO DE LOS LIVROS DE TEXTO SOBRE ENSEÑANZA DE LA LECTURA Y LA ESCRITURA EN SÃO PAULO: EL PAPEL DE LA COMISIÓN DE REVISIÓN, 1918</strong></p><p>Resumen</p><p>Con el objetivo de contribuir a la comprensión de la historia de la enseñanza de la lectura y la escritura y la historia del movimiento de los libros de texto en São Paulo, Brasil, se presentan los resultados del análisis de los documentos producidos por la Comisión de revisión de los libros de texto, establecida en 1918 por el Consejo General de Educación de São Paulo. …”
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General Public’s knowledge, awareness, and perception of Cardiometabolic diseases: data from a Singapore study population by Vickram Vijay Anand, Rachel Sze Jen Goh, Benjamin Nah, Sky Wei Chee Koh, Sky Wei Chee Koh, Jieyu Lim, Nicholas W. S. Neo, Jocelyn Chew, Yuan Ying Lee, Yip Han Chin, Bryan Chong, Gwyneth Kong, Bryan Tan, Zhiwen Low, Chin Meng Khoo, Chin Meng Khoo, Lay Hoon Goh, Lay Hoon Goh, Poay Huan Loh, Poay Huan Loh, Poay Huan Loh, Ping Chai, Ping Chai, Mayank Dalakoti, Mayank Dalakoti, Mark Chan, Mark Chan, Roger Foo, Roger Foo, Mark Muthiah, Mark Muthiah, Mark Muthiah, Nicholas W. S. Chew

“…BackgroundHealth literacy and illness perception play crucial roles in tackling the cardiometabolic disease epidemic. …”
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