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Parent Engagement Practices Improve Outcomes for Preschool Children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Supporting parents' efforts to help their children develop during the preschool years improves a child's school readiness, reduces behavior problems, enhances social skills, and promotes academic success.The IssueChildren begin learning at home before ...
Karen Bierman   +2 more
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Academic confidence as a predictor of physical activity engagement among students enrolled in physical education classes

open access: yesDavao Research Journal
The purpose of this study is to determine whether academic confidence predicts university physical education students' physical activity (PA) engagement.
Niña Alyssa M Santiago
doaj   +1 more source

Engaging Nursing Staff in Research: The Clinical Nurse Specialist Role in an Academic-Clinical Partnership [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to describe the processes of exploring and implementing an academic-clinical study, engaging nursing staff in research, and maintaining their enthusiasm within the context of an academic-clinical research ...
Boaz, Lesley   +3 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Mediating Role of Lecturer Competence in the Relationship Between Service Quality and Academic Engagement in Higher Education

open access: yesÜniversite Araştırmaları Dergisi
The higher education sector has witnessed significant changes in recent years, with an increasing emphasis on service quality, lecturer competence, and academic engagement as important determinants of academic success.
Aydin Aslan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamics of the Mammalian Placental Metabolome in Placentogenesis and Embryonic Development

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This study identifies three metabolic stages (E8.5, E9.5–10.5, E11.5–14.5) and two transition periods (E8.5–9.5, E10.5–11.5) in mouse placental development. NAD(H) emerges as a key dynamic metabolite that enhances embryonic growth through accelerated segmentation and increased proliferation of mouse embryonic stem cell (mESC)‐induced presomitic ...
Gang Chen   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grantmakers and Thought Leaders on Out-of-School Time: Survey & Interview Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This report takes a look at the priorities of grantmakers that support afterschool or other expanded learning efforts. It also examines the perspectives of key field leaders, including heads of youth-serving nonprofits and researchers.
Kathleen Traphagen
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Gut Microbiota‐Derived Anandamide Mediates the Therapeutic Effects of Urolithin A on Alcohol‐Induced Cognitive and Social Dysfunction via CB1R‐DRD2‐RAP1 Signaling Axis

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This study reveals that Urolithin A (UA) counteracts alcohol‐induced cognitive and social dysfunction (AICSD) via a gut microbiome‐dependent mechanism. UA‐enriched Bacteroids sartorii and Parabacteroids distasonis elevate anandamide (AEA), which activates the CB1R‐DRD2‐Rap1 signaling cascade to drive synaptic repair and reduce neuroinflammation ...
Hongbo Zhang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of web technologies on student-lecturer relationship [PDF]

open access: yes
This poster aims to investigate the impact of using web resources as a source of knowledge on the student-lecturer relationship in Saudi Arabia. The investigation covers five aspects of the relationship; expert power and referent power which are part of
Alshahrani, Saeed, Ward, Rupert
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