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Environmental footprint analysis of an urban community and its surrounding bioregion

Environmental or ecological' footprints have been widely used as partial indicators of sustainability; specifically of resource consumption and waste absorption transformed in terms of the biologically productive land area...

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Environmental footprint analysis of an urban community and its surrounding bioregion

Environmental or ecological' footprints have been widely used as partial indicators of sustainability; specifically of resource consumption and waste absorption transformed in terms of the biologically productive land area...

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Supporting Teacher Candidates' Development of Critical Thinking Skills Through Dialogue and Reflection
Trevor Stewart
Jan 25, 2019
This chapter employs a dialogic, sociocultural perspective to describe ways teacher educators can support teacher candidates as they develop the critical thinking skills needed to make the transition from student to teacher in...
Charlotte Minister to Speak on Imani at Dec. 1 Kwanzaa Celebration
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
The Rev. Trevor Beauford '00, who earned his B.A. in history at Winthrop, is the keynote speaker for this year's Kwanzaa celebration. The celebration will be held Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. in the DiGiorgio Campus Center ballroom.
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Reflections of an Academic Father
Trevor Stewart
Apr 15, 2022
This chapter discusses the complexity of balancing the professional and personal goals and identities that can often seem incongruent as teacher educators manage the demands of life in the academy. The author explores that...
Less is more in physics
This article reports on a Writing in the Disciplines (WiD) intervention for first year undergraduate physics (and joint Honours) students. A short (200-250 word) assignment was designed to maximise students’ learning of specific...
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Fractionating impulsivity
The ability to make decisions and act quickly without hesitation can be advantageous in many settings. However, when persistently expressed, impulsive decisions and actions are considered risky, maladaptive and symptomatic of...
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The role of noradrenaline in cognition and cognitive disorders.
Many aspects of cognition and behaviour are regulated by noradrenergic projections to the forebrain originating from the locus coeruleus, acting through alpha and beta adrenoreceptors. Loss of these projections is common in...
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A novel setup for simultaneous two-photon functional imaging and precise spectral and spatial visual stimulation in Drosophila
Abstract: Motion vision has been extensively characterised in Drosophila melanogaster, but substantially less is known about how flies process colour, or how spectral information affects other visual modalities. To accurately...
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Computational psychopharmacology
RATIONALE: Psychopharmacology needs novel quantitative measures and theoretical approaches based on computational modelling that can be used to help translate behavioural findings from experimental animals to humans, including...
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A flexible e-learning resource promoting the critical reading of scientific papers for science undergraduates
An important aim of undergraduate science education is to develop student skills in reading and evaluating research papers. We have designed, developed, and implemented an on-line interactive resource entitled “Evaluating...
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A flexible e-learning resource promoting the critical reading of scientific papers for science undergraduates
An important aim of undergraduate science education is to develop student skills in reading and evaluating research papers. We have designed, developed, and implemented an on-line interactive resource entitled “Evaluating...
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Developing intercultural competence in a ‘comfortable’ third space

With the number of international postgraduate students in UK universities steadily increasing, there is great interest in understanding how institutions can more effectively meet these students’ expectations and needs through...

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Positive and Negative Symptoms Are Associated with Distinct Effects on Predictive Saccades.
The predictive saccade task is a motor learning paradigm requiring saccades to track a visual target moving in a predictable pattern. Previous research has explored extensively anti-saccade deficits observed across psychosis...
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Developing intercultural competence in a ‘comfortable’ third space

With the number of international postgraduate students in UK universities steadily increasing, there is great interest in understanding how institutions can more effectively meet these students’ expectations and needs through...

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Memory-Guided Saccades in Psychosis
The memory-guided saccade task requires the remembrance of a peripheral target location, whilst inhibiting the urge to make a saccade ahead of an auditory cue. The literature has explored the endophenotypic deficits associated...
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Less is more in physics
This article reports on a Writing in the Disciplines (WiD) intervention for first year undergraduate physics (and joint Honours) students. A short (200-250 word) assignment was designed to maximise students’ learning of specific...
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Better together
The interferon-induced proteins with tetratricopeptide repeats (IFITs) are a family of antiviral proteins conserved throughout all vertebrates. IFIT1 binds tightly to non-self RNA, particularly capped transcripts lacking...
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Cognitive Rigidity, Habitual Tendencies, and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Recent theories have posited a range of cognitive risk factors for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), including cognitive inflexibility and a maladaptive reliance on habits. However, empirical and methodological...
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