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Optimal educational choice and redistribution when cultural background matters [PDF]

open access: yes
Higher education plays an important role in determining lifetime earnings. In turn, the decision to become educated depends to a large extent on family characteristics, such as wealth and cultural background.
Elena Del Rey, Marìa del Mar Racionero
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BALINESE GAMELAN GONG BERI [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Gamelan Gong Beri is an uniqure ensemble found in two village, i.e., Renon and Semawang in southn Bali. It is unique in its historical background, instrumentation, musical function, and value its society. This study is a preliminary of material
Wayan, Rai. S
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Plecstatin inhibits hepatocellular carcinoma tumorigenesis and invasion through cytolinker plectin

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The ruthenium‐based metallodrug plecstatin exerts its anticancer effect in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) primarily through selective targeting of plectin. By disrupting plectin‐mediated cytoskeletal organization, plecstatin inhibits anchorage‐dependent growth, cell polarization, and tumor cell dissemination.
Zuzana Outla   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the effect of culturally specific audiovisual educational interventions on attaining self-management skills for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking patients: a randomized controlled trial

open access: yesInternational Journal of COPD, 2016
Iraj Poureslami,1,2 Susan Kwan,3 Stephen Lam,4,5 Nadia A Khan,6,7 John Mark FitzGerald 8,9 1Respiratory Division, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 2Department of Graduate ...
Poureslami I   +4 more
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Cultural and psychological background of society for implementation of English education at primary schools and the students’ capability in this regard [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه نوآوری‌های آموزشی, 2009
The main purpose of this study was to survey the “cultural and psychological background of society” and “the students’ capability” to learn English” at elementary level of education. In this study, descriptive–survey method was used.
Mohammad Javad Liyaghatdar   +2 more
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The African-American Intellectual of the 1920s: Some Sociological Implications of the Harlem Renaissance [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
This paper deals with some of the sociological implications of a major cultural high-water point in the African American experience, the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance.
Perry, Robert L., Peters, Melvin T.
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Peroxidasin enables melanoma immune escape by inhibiting natural killer cell cytotoxicity

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Peroxidasin (PXDN) is secreted by melanoma cells and binds the NK cell receptor NKG2D, thereby suppressing NK cell activation and cytotoxicity. PXDN depletion restores NKG2D signaling and enables effective NK cell–mediated melanoma killing. These findings identify PXDN as a previously unrecognized immune evasion factor and a potential target to improve
Hsu‐Min Sung   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of a Reading Comprehension Instrument as It Relates to Cognitive Abilities as Defined by Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

open access: yesCurrent Issues in Education, 2014
More often than not, the assessment of literacy has focused upon how well readers attain various levels of reading comprehension or demonstrate proficiency with specific reading skills rather than reveal a reader’s cognitive abilities as reflected in ...
Lorraine Dagostino   +4 more
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A Study on Animal Drugs in Khaqani’s Divan [PDF]

open access: yesمتن شناسی ادب فارسی, 2014
Difficulty and strangeness are the adjectives which have been ascribed to Khaqani’s Daivan for a long time. A notable part of such difficulties originates from the extensive cultural background on which the poet has based different themes, images and ...
S Mahdavifar
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How important is cultural background for the level of intergenerational mobility? [PDF]

open access: yes
Using results on brother correlations of different groups of second generation immigrants based on administrative data from Denmark, this note analyzes the role of cultural background in the determination of the level of intergenerational mobility.
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.
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