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The Quest for Comparability: Studying the Invariance of the Teachers' Sense of Self-Efficacy (TSES) Measure across Countries. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Teachers' self-efficacy is an important motivational construct that is positively related to a variety of outcomes for both the teachers and their students.
Ronny Scherer, Malte Jansen, Trude Nilsen, Shaljan Areepattamannil, Herbert W Marsh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

ESEM code generator for Mplus: A convenient tool for ESEM, Bi-factor ESEM, ESEM within CFA, and Hierarchical ESEM code generation in Mplus.

, 2019
The purpose of the De Beer and Van Zyl (2019) ESEM tool is to aid researchers to generate the Mplus syntaxes needed to run several complex ESEM models. Estimating ESEM models within Mplus is rather complex and could become rather tedious.
Llewellyn Ellardus van Zyl (6875243), Leon de Beer (6875252)   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Advancing SafeWax, A Bio‐Inspired Superhydrophobic Coating, Toward Sustainable and Climate‐Resilient Crop Protection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study advances SafeWax, a bio‐inspired, fatty‐acids‐based superhydrophobic coating, by identifying an agriculturally compliant solvent and revealing how solvent‐controlled Fatty acid crystallization governs the coating's microscopic structure and performance.
Niv Ben‐Arie, Iryna Polishchuk, Franziska Tauber, Coralie Schneider, Elena Prudnikov, Alessia Calora, Silvia Milita, Simona Fermani, Mireia Alejandra Ibanez Revert, Ilaria Filippetti, Claudio Ratti, Matthias Kellermeier, Markus Rueckel, Boaz Pokroy   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factorial validity of the Twi versions of five measures of mental health and well-being in Ghana.

PLoS ONE, 2020
BACKGROUND:Mental health is considered an integral part of human health. Reliable and valid measurement instruments are needed to assess various facets of mental health in the native language of the people involved.
Richard Appiah, Lusilda Schutte, Angelina Wilson Fadiji, Marié P Wissing, Amanda Cromhout   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Construct Validation of Self-Determination Theory in Second Language Scale: The Bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
The present study aimed to assess the construct validity of the Self-Determination Theory in Second Language Scale (SDT-L2; Alamer, 2021). The study involved 266 undergraduate students learning English as a second language (L2) in Saudi Arabia.
Abdullah Alamer, Abdullah Alamer
doaj   +1 more source

Melanin's Role in Balancing Mechanical Strength and Reproductive Output in Environmentally Stressed Fungal Spores

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Melanin content directly controls fungal spore mechanical properties, with pigmented spores achieving rupture forces two orders of magnitude higher than hyaline spores. Environmental stress drives this quantity‐quality tradeoff; stressed species invest energy in melanin‐reinforced, mechanically superior thick‐walled, super‐hydrophobic spores, while ...
Atul Agrawal, Steven E. Naleway
wiley   +1 more source

ESEM code generator for Mplus

, 2019
The purpose of the De Beer and Van Zyl (2019) ESEM tool is to aid researchers to generate the Mplus syntaxes needed to run several complex ESEM models. Estimating ESEM models within Mplus is rather complex and could become rather tedious.
van Zyl, Llewellyn Ellardus; id_orcid, de Beer, Leon T.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Intracrystalline Void‐Mediated Toughening of Brittle Crystals in Quail Eggshells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
In quail eggshells, the high density and disordered arrangement of intracrystalline voids inhibit lattice cleavage, suppress long‐range crack propagation, and promote deformation twinning and quasi‐plasticity, serving as an essential toughening motif. We show that these voids remain within a narrow subcritical size range and therefore predominantly do ...
Jingxiao Zhong, Qihang Wang, Andre E. Vellwock, Sinuhe Perea Puente, Tingting Zhu, Jia Hui Lim, Kadda Medjoubi, Sebastian Hoerl, Erika Griesshaber, Wolfgang W. Schmahl, Yannicke Dauphin, Emeline Raguin, Peter Werner, Francesco Stellacci, Michael V. Swain, Peter Fratzl, Shahrouz Amini   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Programmable Carrier‐Free All‐Enzyme Beads for Modular Continuous‐Flow Biocatalysis

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Genetically encoded enzyme building blocks self‐assemble into monodisperse, carrier‐free protein beads via a droplet‐based formulation strategy. These programmable catalytic particles enable modular continuous‐flow biocatalysis, from single‐enzyme reactions to multi‐enzyme cascades and bead–bead coupled reactor systems.
Jennifer Kühne, Julian S. Hertel, André Delavault, Judith Felk, Martin Peng, Lara Reuber, Felix Ott, Kim Wanner, Marc F. Münker, Adrian Neukirch, Alexei Kiselev, Kersten S. Rabe, Christof M. Niemeyer   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reduced Graphene Oxide Enhances the Vascular Organization and Contractile Performance of Fibrin‐Gelatin‐Based Engineered Cardiac Tissue

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Fibrin–gelatin hydrogels functionalized with reduced graphene oxide create a mechanically stable and bioactive 3D environment for engineered cardiac tissue. The composite matrix promotes endothelial lumen formation, enhances sarcomeric protein expression, and increases contractile performance of embedded cardiomyocytes.
Christoph Kuckelkorn, Marie Baiker, Yajuan Jiang, Ebru Aksoy, Kurt Pfannkuche, Horst Fischer   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source