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Meditation Effective in Reducing Teacher Burnout and Improving Resilience: A Randomized Controlled Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2021
Teacher burnout affects job performance and mental and physical health. This study evaluated the effects of a meditation-based wellness program on burnout, resilience, psychological distress, and fatigue.
Laurent Valosek   +8 more
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Inequality in remote learning quality during COVID-19: student perspectives and mitigating factors

open access: yesLarge-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Background Remote learning, or synchronous or asynchronous instruction provided to students outside the classroom, was a common strategy used by schools to ensure learning continuity for their students when many school buildings were forced to shut down ...
Alec I. Kennedy   +2 more
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Modulation of gut microbiota and fecal metabolites by corn silk among high-fat diet-induced hypercholesterolemia mice

open access: yesFrontiers in Nutrition, 2022
Corn silk (CS) is known to reduce cholesterol levels, but its underlying mechanisms remain elusive concerning the gut microbiota and metabolites. The aim of our work was to explore how altered gut microbiota composition and metabolite profile are ...
Lin Ding   +9 more
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Factors related to students’ psychological distress during COVID-19 disruption across countries

open access: yesLarge-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
Background The global outbreak of the novel COVID-19 virus presented a significant threat to students’ well-being across the globe. In this paper, we construct a measure of student psychological distress related to COVID-19 disruption.
Mojca Rožman   +2 more
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University Students’ Expectations For Mentoring High-Poverty Youth

open access: yesJournal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 2022
What are the motivations of college students who mentor youth from high-poverty backgrounds? Our team surveyed university students before and after an elective service-learning course that included voluntary mentoring of high-poverty youth. Mentors were
Carolyn Hughes, Sara J. Dykstra
doaj   +1 more source

Lifestyle modification for weight loss: Effects on cardiorespiratory capacity in patients with class II and class III obesity

open access: yesObesity Science & Practice, 2022
Background The prevalence of obesity has increased worldwide. Obesity affects the lungs and airways, limits peak oxygen uptake, and hampers physical performance; however, objective data are scarce. Does lifestyle modification for weight loss (LM) have an
Finn Wammer   +5 more
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Syntheses and characterization of anti-thrombotic and anti-oxidative Gastrodin-modified polyurethane for vascular tissue engineering

open access: yesBioactive Materials, 2021
Vascular grafts must avoid negative inflammatory responses and thrombogenesis to prohibit fibrotic deposition immediately upon implantation and promote the regeneration of small diameter blood vessels (
Meng Zheng   +10 more
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Achievement and Enhancement [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Philosophy, 2019
AbstractWe engage with the nature and the value of achievement through a critical examination of an argument according to which biomedical “enhancement” of our capacities is impermissible because enhancing ourselves in this way would threaten our achievements. We call this the argument against enhancement from achievement.
Lisa Forsberg, Anthony Skelton
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Beclin1 controls caspase-4 inflammsome activation and pyroptosis in mouse myocardial reperfusion-induced microvascular injury

open access: yesCell Communication and Signaling, 2021
Background Myocardial reperfusion injury is often accompanied by cell death and inflammatory reactions. Recently, pyroptosis is gradually recognized as pivotal role in cardiovascular disease.
Wenjing Sun   +10 more
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Implementing the Montessori approach in an undergraduate marketing course: A case study

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2022
The objective of this case study is to offer a new perspective on innovation in higher education pedagogy by exploring how Montessori principles can be applied in an elective upper-level undergraduate marketing analytics course.
Angela K. Murray   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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