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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The linkage between cognitive diversity and team innovation: Exploring the roles of team humor styles and team emotional intelligence via the conservation of resources theory

, 2022
Researchers have displayed considerable interest in how and when team cognitive diversity leads to improved or impaired team innovation. When addressing this issue, scholars have adopted the information/decision making and social categorization ...
Gavin M. Schwarz, Alannah E. Rafferty, Schwarz, GM, Sanders, K, Rafferty, AE, Phong T. Nguyen, Karin Sanders, Nguyen, PT   +7 more
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Modular Control of PEG‐Poly(2‐Oxazoline) Co‐Assembly Enables Tunable Aggregate Properties for Intraocular Pressure Management

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A thermo‐responsive poly(2‐oxazoline)‐based injectable formulation is developed to modulate intraocular pressure (IOP) in both normal and hypotonic eyes. By adjusting the PEG content, the aggregation behavior is finely tuned, enabling IOP elevation without long‐term deposition.
Yuji Tanaka, Shohei Morikawa, Shigehito Osawa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A funny thing did not happen at work: Humor styles are not strongly correlated with vocational interests

Current Research in Behavioral Sciences
The role of humor in the workplace has received great attention. What is less known is how humor, specifically humor styles, correlate with vocational interests.
Julie Aitken Schermer, Đorđe Čekrlija
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Modeling the Association between EFL Instructors’ Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment and Humor Styles

Journal of Language and Education, 2023
Background: Positive psychology in the field of applied linguistics has recently shifted its focus from L2 learners to L2 teachers as teachers have been revealed to be a pivotal external affordance for the emergence of learners’ positive emotions such ...
Mehdi Solhi, Majid Elahi Shirvan
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Enhanced Human Antigen‐Specific B Cell Responses Using In Vitro 3D Tonsil Cultures Containing Stromal Cells

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
We developed a fully human 3D tonsil cell culture system incorporating supportive stromal cells that better sustains and activates immune cells than conventional methods. The model generates stronger, more targeted antibody responses to viral antigens and vaccines, providing a physiologically relevant and entirely human platform for studying immune ...
Maaike V. J. Braham, Marlon de Gast, Liubov Babii, Sabine Kruijer, Theo M. Bestebroer, Mathilde Richard, Mathieu Claireaux, S. Marieke van Ham, Jelle de Wit, Cécile A. C. M. van Els, Anja ten Brinke, Marit J. van Gils   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Burnout and humor relationship among university lecturers

, 2007
This research is aimed to identify the relationship between burnout and the variables of lecturers' humor styles, demographic information, occupational conditions, and ability to cope with humor in general.
Tümkaya S.
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Aptamer‐Based Delivery Systems for VEGF and NGF Modulation in Ocular Therapies

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Aptamer‐based delivery systems targeting NGF and VEGF hold significant potential for precise and sustained treatment of complex diseases affecting both the anterior and posterior segments of the eye. This review critically summarizes current strategies for NGF and VEGF delivery as well as VEGF sequestration, providing a clinical perspective on how ...
Nadine Best, Gizem Karabiyik, Gerd Geerling, Sarah Barbara Zwingelberg, Gregor Lang, Martin Humenik   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Utilizing Humor to Enhance Leadership Styles in Higher Education Administration

International Journal of Educational Leadership and Management, 2019
This article examined the literature addressing humor as a potential trait that may be adapted to enhance leadership styles in higher educational administration. The paper provides an overview of humor research from several disciplines of the effects on
Beverlyn Elanda Grace-Odeleye, Jessica Santiago   +1 more
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMOR STYLE AND DEATH ANXIETY OF PALLIATIVE CARE PATIENTS

International Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2021
This descriptive and relational study was conducted to examine the relationship between palliative care patients' humor styles and death anxiety. The study sample consisted of 282 palliative care patients treated in the palliative care clinics of a ...
Tuğba MENEKLİ, Runida DOĞAN
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