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Cultural taboos in mediating science in a Namibian bilingual primary school

Reading & Writing, 2023
Background: The need to meet the demands of education in the 21st century has seen Namibia move, after democracy in 1990, from a segregationist educational system to an inclusive one in a bid to develop students’ capacities to think critically ...
Joanne Hardman, Beata Set
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Bubbles and Bees: Historical Exploration of Psychosocial Thinking [PDF]

, 2011
This paper is written from the belief that there is considerable benefit from a historical exploration of psychosocial thinking. It examines the work of Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733), who wrote what became a somewhat infamous piece of social theory in ...
Jones, David
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Transcriptional network analysis of PTEN‐protein‐deficient prostate tumors reveals robust stromal reprogramming and signs of senescent paracrine communication

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Combining PTEN protein assessment and transcriptomic profiling of prostate tumors, we uncovered a network enriched in senescence and extracellular matrix (ECM) programs associated with PTEN loss and conserved in a mouse model. We show that PTEN‐deficient cells trigger paracrine remodeling of the surrounding stroma and this information could help ...
Ivana Rondon‐Lorefice, Jose I. Lopez, Aitziber Ugalde‐Olano, Maite Zufiaurre, Ianire Astobiza, Natalia Martin‐Martin, Laura Bozal‐Basterra, Saioa Garcia‐Longarte, Amaia Zabala‐Letona, Sofia Rey, Aida Santos‐Martin, Miguel Unda, Ana Loizaga‐Iriarte, Mariona Graupera, Paolo Nuciforo, Arkaitz Carracedo, Isabel Mendizabal   +16 more
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Adopt a cultural-historical perspective to adapt misinformation interventions: Reflecting on Harjani et al.

Journal of Trial and Error
Harjani et al. (2023) conducted a gamified inoculation intervention against misinformation in rural India. Despite the ingenuity of the intervention design, the study revealed no significant effects on participants' ability to detect misinformation ...
Folco Panizza, Thomas Camminga, Stefan Gaillard, David Joachim Grüning   +3 more
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New functionalism: rejuvenating historical and cultural heritage through urban revival

International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology, 2019
The better protection and utilization of historical and cultural heritage sites, objects, and practices (especially intangible aspects of cultural heritage) based on anthropological research can work in the field of urban planning and design, an applied ...
Jijiao Zhang
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Cultural-Historical Activity Theory in the Framework of the “Functional Paradigm”

Культурно-историческая психология, 2020
The aim of the paper is to highlight the peculiarity of the present state of the Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) in psychology, as compared to previous periods of its development in the general context of theory development in psychology.
Leontiev D.A.
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Sustainable Urban Revitalization within a Historical Urban Neighborhood-A useful Approach to Complete [PDF]

, 2019
The historically important urban neighborhoods are practically a significant entity, a rich reservoir of social and economical milieu and cultural inheritance.
BONAFEDE, Giulia, LO PICCOLO, Francesco, RAHMAN, MD. MUSTAFIZUR,   +2 more
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Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of single circulating tumor cells in the follow‐up of high‐grade serous ovarian cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Single circulating tumor cells (sCTCs) from high‐grade serous ovarian cancer patients were enriched, imaged, and genomically profiled using WGA and NGS at different time points during treatment. sCTCs revealed enrichment of alterations in Chromosomes 2, 7, and 12 as well as persistent or emerging oncogenic CNAs, supporting sCTC identity.
Carolin Salmon, Rui P. L. Neves, Nikolas H. Stoecklein, Sven‐Thorsten Liffers, Jens Siveke, Jan D. Kuhlmann, Pauline Wimberger, Paul Buderath, Rainer Kimmig, Sabine Kasimir‐Bauer   +9 more
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Is Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Threatened to Fall Short of its Own Principles and Possibilities as a Dialectical Social Science?

Outlines, 2006
In recent years, many researchers engaged in diverse areas and approaches of “cultural-historical activity theory” (CHAT) realized an increasing international interest in Lev S. Vygotsky’s, A. N. Leont’ev’s, and A. Luria’s work and its continuations. Not
Ines Langemeyer, Wolf-Michael Roth
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Persuasive argumentation as a cultural practice [PDF]

, 2014
In this article author traces relation between argumentation and cultural practice. The first part focuses on definition of argumentation in informal logic tradition.
GAŁKOWSKI, Paweł
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