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Potentials of Reflection for Better Practice
This chapter describes how adult learners in competency-based degree programs learn to reflect actively on their learning and performance. Vignettes of adult learners portray what they perceive as the benefits of reflective...
Drives and Motives During Online Degree Completion
Catherine Cherrstrom
Jan 01, 2024
This study examined the motives and drives of adult students during online degree completion, including the commonalities among and differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic adult students. Participants included 364 adult...
Educating China on the Move
The landscape of global higher education is changing rapidly in response to and alongside the geopolitical and geosocial global transformations and China and East Asia are becoming key players in higher education. As China’s...
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Educating China on the Move
The landscape of global higher education is changing rapidly in response to and alongside the geopolitical and geosocial global transformations and China and East Asia are becoming key players in higher education. As China’s...
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Citizenship and Social Studies Curricula in British Columbia, Canada
Catherine Broom
Jan 31, 2020
This chapter begins by reviewing the history of citizenship education in social studies curricula in British Columbia (BC), Canada, as a way of framing how the topic has been understood. It then discusses the latest curriculum...
Twenty-First Century Immersion Technologies in Health Professions Pedagogy
Catherine Hayes
Jul 01, 2024
This encyclopedia entry provides insight into the justification of pedagogy in the context of extended reality (XR), which itself encompasses virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed/hybrid reality (MR), and how...
Digital Social Media in Adolescents' Negotiating Real Virtual Romantic Relationships
Previous grounded theoretical analyses of rural adolescents' romantic relationship discussions identified media as critical conditions in negotiating gender expectations in intimate relations. More recent emergent fit analyses...
Exogenous misfolded protein oligomers can cross the intestinal barrier and cause a disease phenotype in C. elegans.
Misfolded protein oligomers are increasingly recognized as highly cytotoxic agents in a wide range of human disorders associated with protein aggregation. In this study, we assessed the possible uptake and resulting toxic...
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Exogenous misfolded protein oligomers can cross the intestinal barrier and cause a disease phenotype in C. elegans
Abstract: Misfolded protein oligomers are increasingly recognized as highly cytotoxic agents in a wide range of human disorders associated with protein aggregation. In this study, we assessed the possible uptake and resulting...
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Exogenous misfolded protein oligomers can cross the intestinal barrier and cause a disease phenotype in C. elegans.
Misfolded protein oligomers are increasingly recognized as highly cytotoxic agents in a wide range of human disorders associated with protein aggregation. In this study, we assessed the possible uptake and resulting toxic...
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Ed Tech in Adult Online Learning
Educational technology facilitates convenient access to online programs for adult students but also presents challenges. Using a conceptual framework of Knowles' andragogy process of program development and learner interaction...
Transmission dynamics and control measures of COVID-19 outbreak in China
COVID-19 is reported to have been brought under control in China. To understand the COVID-19 outbreak in China and provide potential lessons for other parts of the world, in this study we apply a mathematical model with multiple...
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A Study on Pollution in Livestock and Poultry Breeding in Shiyan City
With the investigation and research of agricultural ecology situation, the pollution characteristics of livestock manure were indicated by the statistical analysis of data as well as the effect of livestock and poultry breeding...
A think-aloud method of investigating translanguaging strategies in learning Chinese characters

Asian scripts that are significantly different from Roman-derived alphabets usually impose difficulties in learning. Translanguaging has therefore been explored as a pedagogical tool for the language classroom, including...

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Matrix-free GPU implementation of a preconditioned conjugate gradient solver for anisotropic elliptic PDEs

Many problems in geophysical and atmospheric modelling require the fast solution of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in “flat” three dimensional geometries. In particular, an anisotropic elliptic PDE for the...

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Construction of the influenza A virus transmission tree in a college-based population
BACKGROUND: Co-infection of different influenza A viruses is known to occur but how viruses interact within co-infection remains unknown. An outbreak in a college campus during the 2009 pandemic involved two subtypes of...
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A think-aloud method of investigating translanguaging strategies in learning Chinese characters

Asian scripts that are significantly different from Roman-derived alphabets usually impose difficulties in learning. Translanguaging has therefore been explored as a pedagogical tool for the language classroom, including...

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Writing and Worship in Deng Zhimo’s Saints Trilogy
N Ganany
Jan 30, 2022
Around the turn of the seventeenth century, the prolific writer-editor Deng Zhimo produced three illustrated books narrating the lives of Lü Dongbin (The Flying Sword), Xu Xun (The Iron Tree), and Sa Shoujian (The...
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