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From despair to somewhere: activating students in a distance learning environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Student engagement in part-time and distance learning is critical in terms of retention and progression. But ideas about engagement often focus on academic priorities and on students who collude with the concept of being “active” learners. To establish a
Foley, Karen   +2 more
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No Place to Hide that Bytes won't Reveal: Sniffing Location-Based Encrypted Traffic to Track a User's Position

open access: yes, 2015
News reports of the last few years indicated that several intelligence agencies are able to monitor large networks or entire portions of the Internet backbone. Such a powerful adversary has only recently been considered by the academic literature.
Ateniese, Giuseppe   +4 more
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Diabetes‐induced vascular calcification is associated with low pyrophosphate and its oral supplementation prevents calcification in diabetic mice

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Induction of diabetes in three different mouse strains uniformly resulted in an increase in TNAP activity and a reduction in pyrophosphate (PPi) in the circulation. Inhibition of TNAP restored plasma PPi. Diabetes‐induced calcification in the media layer of the aorta was detected only in the Abcc6−/− strain, which is predisposed to ectopic ...
Krisztina Fülöp   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

12–14 September 2003 in Cambridge: 8th Orbis Aethiopicus Conference

open access: yesAethiopica, 2012
Conference ...
David L. Appleyard
doaj   +1 more source

Coloniser discourses in Capital Television nightly news, Waitangi Day 1996 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Philosophy in Development Studies at Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Coloniser's discourses which attempted to justify and redeem many of the devastating processes of colonisation around the world have been (re)constructed and repeated in Aotearoa since the 1840's.
Collett, Jenny Alison
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Impact of a senior research thesis on students' perceptions of scientific inquiry in distinct student populations

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study addressed how a senior research thesis is perceived by undergraduate students. It assessed students' perception of research skills, epistemological beliefs, and career goals in Biochemistry (science) and BDC (science‐business) students. Completing a thesis improved confidence in research skills, resilience, scientific identity, closed gender‐
Celeste Suart   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Historians in the news [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Historians in the News” acknowledges some of the many successes of historians in Canada, including their engagement outside academia and with the public. If you know of someone who has delivered a public lecture, given an interview, written an editorial,

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Navigating new norms: a systematic review of factors for the development of effective digital tools in higher education

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
What factors make for an effective digital learning tool in Higher Education? This systematic review identifies elements of a digital tool that published examples reveal to be features of an engaging and impactful digital tool. A systematic literature search yielded 25 research papers for analysis.
Akmal Arzeman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Higher Education: The Ultimate Winner-Take-All Market? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
[Excerpt] John Maynard Keynes once compared investing in the stock market to picking the winner of a beauty contest. In each case, it’s not who you think will win, but who you think others will pick.
Frank, Robert H
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