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Association Between Individualized Education for Kidney Replacement Therapy Modality Selection and Peritoneal Dialysis Initiation: A Cross‐Sectional Study

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an established home‐based kidney replacement therapy (KRT), but its uptake remains low in Japan. We evaluated whether individualized education in a dedicated outpatient clinic was associated with the initiation of PD.
Yasuko Ito   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making meaning and meaning making: memory, postmemory and narrative in Holocaust literature

open access: yes, 2013
This paper explores links between narration and memory in Holocaust literature and examines ways in which individuals construct memory and postmemory.
Flower, Annie
core  

MAKING MEANING OF ALGEBRA 2 TEACHERS: A CASE STUDY OF ONE SCHOOL [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
As the variety of curriculum materials available to teachers multiplies, understandings of the process by which mathematics teachers make meaning of curriculum materials must be revisited and revised.
Raymond, Kate
core  

Affordances of physical objects as a material mode of representation: A social semiotics perspective of hands-on meaning-making

open access: yes, 2022
This paper examines the affordances of physical objects (e.g. apparatus, models, manipulatives) as they were used by teachers and students to make meaning in coordination with their speech and gestures.
K. Danielsson (23469583)   +3 more
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The Impact of Tenapanor on Body Composition and Blood Pressure in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients: A Pilot Study

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Instruction Tenapanor potentially affects fluid volume and blood pressure. This study explored its effects on these parameters in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD). Methods We conducted a single‐arm, prospective observational study that enrolled 10 patients on PD with hyperphosphatemia who were newly initiated on tenapanor.
Shun Yoshida   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting post-traumatic growth in cancer patients: a randomized controlled trial of guided written disclosure

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
BackgroundCancer is a life-threatening disease that triggers not only vulnerability to distressing symptoms but also a meaning-making process that may lead to post-traumatic growth.
Valentina Cafaro   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

Human Communication: A Meaning-Making Experience

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2012
The article reviews some modern approaches to human communication. It highlights the approach, which is relatively new to the Russian social science and humanities tradition, that is: communication as social construction. The social construction approach
O I Matyash
doaj  

Residual tail twisting in ascidian larvae is stabilized by asymmetric myofibrils that resist bilateral symmetry restoration

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Ascidian Ciona larvae initially show strong clockwise tail twisting, which is largely corrected during development. However, a small residual twist remains. This study shows that organized helical myofibrils in tail muscles mechanically stabilize this residual asymmetry, preventing complete restoration of bilateral symmetry and revealing how embryos ...
Yuki S. Kogure   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

METAPHOR AND MULTIMODALITY IN MEANING-MAKING

open access: yesLinguagem em Foco, 2019
When talking with people face to face, we usually complement verbal language with gestures, facial expressions and sometimes images and sounds present in the speech scene, which constitutes multimodality.
Antônio Suárez Abreu   +2 more
doaj  

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