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Impact of COVID-19 on digital practice in UK paediatric speech and language therapy and implications for the future
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent measures to reduce transmission risk has led to unprecedented digital transformation across health, education and social care services. This includes UK paediatric speech and...
Salalen aluminium complexes and their exploitation for the ring opening polymerisation of rac-lactide
In this paper we report the first use of Al(iii) salalen complexes for the ring opening polymerisation of rac-lactide. Polylactides with narrow polydispersities (PDIs range from 1.04-1.65) and moderate degrees of...
Salalen aluminium complexes and their exploitation for the ring opening polymerisation of rac-lactide
In this paper we report the first use of Al(iii) salalen complexes for the ring opening polymerisation of rac-lactide. Polylactides with narrow polydispersities (PDIs range from 1.04-1.65) and moderate degrees of...
Choosing a Smuggler
Abstract: This paper explores how transactions between smugglers and migrants come about in the context of irregular migration. We first offer some theoretical reflections on the challenges that such a context poses to both...
Influence of Leadership Potential on the Effectiveness of Managerial Change
The current article puts forward the following hypothesis: leadership potential is the key to the effectiveness of changes taking place within business structures to ensure their functioning in the markets. In this context, the...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
The Relevance of Immigrant Teachers' Experiences to Developing Professional Identity during a Teacher Requalification Program in Norway
As a result of increasing immigration to Norway and other European countries, many higher education institutions see a need to customize their educational programs or establish requalification programs for immigrants with...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Choosing a Smuggler
Abstract: This paper explores how transactions between smugglers and migrants come about in the context of irregular migration. We first offer some theoretical reflections on the challenges that such a context poses to both...
Dr. Daniel F. Mahony Selected as President of Winthrop University
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Mahony will begin his duties on July 1, 2015. The President's House will be home to Mahony, his wife Laura and their two children, Gavin, 15, and Elena, 12. Dr. Daniel F. Mahony, dean of the College of Education, Health and...
Published by: Winthrop University
Winthrop to Host Variety of Events During Annual Come-See-Me Festival
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Several Winthrop University events are part of this year's festival, including the popular Teddy Bear Tea Party which will be hosted by First Lady Laura Mahony and daughter Elena. From dance showcases and plays to athletics and...
Published by: Winthrop University
Effective Use of Rubrics in Student Evaluation
This chapter clarifies first a number of concepts such as evaluation, traditional evaluation methods, alternative evaluation methods, process-centered evaluation, and evaluation of student progress and portfolios as an...
classroom management Education Learning Assessment and Measurement Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
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University Students' Foreign Language Learning Behaviours in the Online Environment
Given that the COVID-19 pandemic has strongly impacted students' learning experiences, the present research aims to reveal some of the challenges brought by the online foreign language classes in higher education and to show a...
Sustainable Development Education Curriculum Development and Instructional Design Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
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Deaths While under Probation Supervision
Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) states that ‘everyone has the right to life’. This right is contained in all human rights treaties that developed from the UDHR, including the European Convention on...
Moodle Learning System as an Effective Tool for Implementing the Innovation Policy of the University
The current study examines Moodle learning management system as an effective tool for implementing the innovation policy of the university. For this, the following methods are employed: (1) monitoring of the Best Global...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
The Interplay Between Career Adaptability and Foreign Language Skills in an Unstable Labor Market
Career adaptability is a soft skill that allows people to cope with professional tasks in an unpredictable labor market. Today's global labor market also requires language skills to facilitate employees' collaboration across...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Personalized Learning Strategy as a Tool to Improve Academic Performance and Motivation of Students
The purpose of the research is to study and scientifically substantiate personalized strategies as the basis for personalized learning aimed at improving academic performance and student motivation. The study involved 65...
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Career Choice With the Serious Game Like2be
Choosing a career is an important biographical event for adolescents. Toward the end of compulsory education, they must decide which career path they want to pursue. The serious game like2be was developed to support adolescents...
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A multi-component screen for feeding behaviour and nutritional status in Drosophila to interrogate mammalian appetite-related genes
Giles Yeo, Jennifer Chalmers, Yi-Chun Loraine Tung, Che-Hsiung Liu, Cahir O'Kane, Stephen O'Rahilly
Nov 20, 2020
Distance Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic
The sudden change in the educational process paradigm with the transition to predominantly distance learning was due to quarantine restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the purpose of the research was to...
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Assessing Stability in the Relationship Between Parties in Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing Projects During the COVID-19 Crisis
This research reviews challenges in building sustainable relationships between the parties involved in the crowdfunding and crowdsourcing projects, which are running in extreme situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This...
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The Use of Information and Communication Technologies to Increase the Motivation of Students When Studying English as a Foreign Language
The research is devoted to the study of the possibilities of using information and communication technologies to increase the motivation of students in the process of learning English. Based on the results of a survey attended...
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FTO is necessary for the induction of leptin resistance by high-fat feeding.
YC Loraine Tung, Pawan Gulati, Che-Hsiung Liu, Debra Rimmington, Rowena Dennis, Marcella Ma, Vladimir Saudek, Stephen O'Rahilly, Anthony P Coll, Giles SH Yeo
Apr 22, 2015
FTO FaT mass and Obesity related Fto GWAS Genome-wide association studies HFD high-fat diet High-fat diet Hypothalamus ICV intracerebroventricular injection Irx3 Iroquois Homeobox 3 Leptin resistance MEF Mouse embryonic fibroblasts NFкB Ob-R leptin receptor PTPs protein-tyrosine phosphatase SNPs single nucleotide polymorphisms SOCS3 SOCS3 suppressor of cytokine signalling TRIP4 Tlr4 Toll-like receptor 4 WAT white adipose tissue Y2H Yeast two-hybrid
Solving Tourism Management Challenges by Means of Mobile Augmented Reality Applications
The purpose of the present article was to examine the use of mobile augmented reality technologies in the process of planning and organizing tourist activities. The analysis of the attitude of TUI Showroom’s clients and managers...
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Chronic Illnesses, Vulnerability, and Uncertainty
The goal of this chapter is to describe some of the recent challenges that modern medicine is facing using patient-centered medicine as a theoretical frame of reference. First, the work will describe the origin, the development...
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