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Capacity and Opportunity: Predicting Engagement for Middle School Students With Behavioral Disorders
(Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2014-11-20)
This study examined the capacity and opportunity scores of 36 middle school students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) on the student version of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) Self-Determination ...
Claiming Space: An Autoethnographic Study of Indigenous Graduate Students Engaged in Language Reclamation
(2015)
This article explores the critical role of an emerging generation of Indigenous scholars and activists in ensuring the continuity of their endangered heritage languages. Using collaborative autoethnography as a research ...
FXN Promoter Silencing in the Humanized Mouse Model of Friedreich Ataxia
(PLos One, 2015-09-22)
Background Friedreich ataxia is caused by an expanded GAA triplet-repeat sequence in intron 1 of the FXN gene that results in epigenetic silencing of the FXN promoter. This silencing mechanism is seen in patient-derived ...
Innovative Visualizations Shed Light on Avian Nocturnal Migration
(PLos One, 2016-08-24)
Globally, billions of flying animals undergo seasonal migrations, many of which occur at night. The temporal and spatial scales at which migrations occur and our inability to directly observe these nocturnal movements makes ...
A Pectate Lyase-Coding Gene Abundantly Expressed during Early Stages of Infection Is Required for Full Virulence in Alternaria brassicicola
(PLos One, 2015-05-21)
Alternaria brassicicola causes black spot disease of Brassica species. The functional importance of pectin digestion enzymes and unidentified phytotoxins in fungal pathogenesis has been suspected but not verified in A. ...
Developing a Pricing Strategy for the Los Angeles Dodgers
(2014-06-22)
The article discusses the downfall of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California, and also suggests to develop pricing policies for its revival. It mentions that the number of ...
Accurate characterization of moisture absorption in polymeric materials
(2017-01-29)
The importance of using the exact solution of the hindered diffusion model is demonstrated on experimental data from a nanoclay/epoxy composite.
Volunteering Movement in Russia: Regional Presence and Future Perspectives
(University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2015)
This study provides an overview of the volunteering movement in Russia. Particularly, authors concentrate their discussion around major particularities of the volunteer development in Russia: the regional volunteerism, ...
Do Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Predict Anti-China Attitudes?
(2010)
This paper addresses the question of why some Americans hold negative attitudes toward China’s government and people, and the impact that such attitudes have on their preferred China policies. We hypothesized that the ...
ADDIE: Perspectives in Transition
(2011)
in an asynchronous forum responding to a prompt positing that ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation) might be used in teaching instructional design (ID) as a safety net for designers without ...