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The Promise of Faculty Inquiry for Teaching and Learning Basic Skills [PDF]
, 2008 Shares insights from the Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges project on how teachers' systematic and collaborative analyses of new approaches and practices foster innovation and improvement in basic English and math ...
Mary Taylor Huber
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Soft Robotic Snake with Tunable Undulatory Gait for Efficient Underwater Locomotion
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This study designs an underwater soft snake robot using 3D‐printed soft actuators, controlled by specific signals to generate sinusoidal undulation. Results show a positive correlation between speed and swing amplitude, with optimal performance at 2/3π phase offset, PLA tail, 1.2 voltage growth rate, and 6s undulation period achieving a maximum speed ...
Huichen Ma, Junjie Zhou, Raye Yeow
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Journal of the Medical Library AssociationOn the occasion of the Medical Library Association’s 125th Anniversary, four librarian leaders with a combined 105 years of engagement in MLA collaborated to reflect on the changes in our profession and our association.
Kristine Alpi +3 more
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What a Generalist Tutor Can Do: A Short Lesson from a Tutoring Session
Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2017 In parallel to the unique history of writing instruction, Canadian writing specialists have drawn on different theories and principles from the U.S. literature in building their writing studies scholarship (Giltrow, 2016; Graves, 1993; Graves & Graves ...
Tomoyo Okuda
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A Compact Optical Sensor to Self‐Assess Skin Health after Sun Exposure
Advanced Sensor Research, EarlyView.This work presents a portable, low‐cost device capable of detecting changes in the skin associated with excessive sun exposure through reflectance measurements. In vitro validation experiments in skin‐mimicking tissue phantoms showed the device can detect relative pigmentation changes as small as 5%.
Ying Zhi Cheong +6 more
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Music as Liberal Art: the Continuing Relevance of Medieval Music Pedagogy in Teacher Education
Musica Docta, 2019 The concepts and ideas of the medieval liberal arts continue to have important relevance in modern training music teachers. The division between a theoretical knowledge about music and a practical experience of musical activities (divisions that might be
Matthew C. Balensuela
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Scholarly Communications Report on Activities 2017-18
, 2018 2017-18 annual report for Scholarly Communications work at Musselman Library, including Gettysburg College\u27s institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College.
Wertzberger, Janelle
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As the Cursor Blinks: Electronic Scholarship and Undergraduates in the Library [PDF]
, 1995 published or submitted for ...
Blandy, Susan Griswold +1 more
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Integrin α8‐Mediated Pericyte Morphogenesis Controls Blood‐Brain Barrier Integrity
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study highlights that ITGA8 impacts pericyte morphology and function, both crucial for BBB integrity, via RhoA/ROCK signaling, thus influencing TGF‐β1 activation through cytoskeletal tension and ECM interactions. Notably, in post‐ischemic recovery models, ITGA8 deficiency exacerbates vascular dysfunction by impairing pericyte‐mediated BBB ...
Chang‐Xiong Gong +16 more
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Distance Education During a Paper Shortage
Journal for the History of KnowledgeThis article examines letters and study guides sent by philosophical faculties of Nazi universities to soldiers enrolled in correspondence courses during World War II. These educational media were produced during a severe paper shortage brought about by
Lotte Schüßler
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