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ABSTRACT Background Student involvement in extracurricular activities (ECAs) possesses multiple benefits and has attracted substantial interest in medical education. Most studies on ECAs have been conducted in Western contexts, and findings on the association between ECAs and academic achievement are mixed.
Hirohisa Fujikawa +10 more
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Predicting areas of wildlife damage can reduce long‐term costs. We developed and tested models of the geographic distribution of damage by woodpeckers to utility infrastructure and delineated areas of greater importance. Abstract Predicting areas of wildlife damage to human development has the potential to reduce long‐term costs associated with ...
Hannah C. Wright +4 more
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Survival in a Declining Industry: The Case of Baseball Cards [PDF]
The baseball card industry provides a case study of survival in a declining industry. The case study shows how manufacturers have varied their strategic behavior in response to changes that have occurred within the industry in the last 20 years.
Arthur Zillante
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Life and Science With Dr. Matthew Platz
Photochemical processes are utilized for treatment of blood products to prevent transfusion transmitted diseases. My work with Matt Platz focused on exploring methods to treat blood to prevent disease transmission. These efforts led to understandings resulting in new products utilized over the past 20 years demonstrated to improve blood safety ...
Raymond P. Goodrich
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ABSTRACT Preservice elementary science teachers' beliefs and practices influence the kinds of adaptations they make to curriculum materials and the extent to which they are able to enact justice‐oriented science lessons. Through this qualitative study, we explored the beliefs and practices of five focal preservice teachers through an analysis of their ...
Jessica Bautista, Elizabeth A. Davis
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Baseball and society in the Caribbean
[First paragraph] The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic. Rob Ruck. Westport CT: Meckler, 1991. x + 205 pp. (Cloth n.p.) Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba. Tom Miller.
Andrew Zimbalist
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ABSTRACT Freewriting is a writing technique where individuals write continuously for a set time without editing or revising. This study examines its effects on English as a foreign language (EFL) writing fluency, emotions, and learner perceptions among 149 Korean 8th‐grade students. Over ten weeks, students participated in eight five‐minute freewriting
Yi Seul Choi, Minkyung Kim
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Tilting the Playing Field: Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance [PDF]
It has traditionally been argued that the organizer of a sports league would prefer more competitive balance to the level that emerges in a noncooperative equilibrium.
Stefan Szymanski
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Multiple Changepoint Detection for Non‐Gaussian Time Series
ABSTRACT This article combines methods from existing techniques to identify multiple changepoints in non‐Gaussian autocorrelated time series. A transformation is used to convert a Gaussian series into a non‐Gaussian series, enabling penalized likelihood methods to handle non‐Gaussian scenarios.
Robert Lund +3 more
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