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Factors Influencing Academic Motivation of Ethnic Minority Students: A Review [PDF]

Sage Open, 2018
The aim of this study to create a comprehensive overview of factors that may influence motivation of ethnic minority students from their own perspective. A systematic review was conducted in PubMed, ERIC, and PsycINFO to find studies in which the motivation of ethnic minority students was studied.
Martijn W. Heymans, Ulviye Isik, Ulviye Isik, Elise P. Jansma, Gerda Croiset, Gerda Croiset, Martijn Meeter, Rashmi A. Kusurkar, Rashmi A. Kusurkar, Omaima El Tahir   +9 more
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Influence of Dystrophin Isoform Deficiency on Motor Development in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective In Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), lack of the shorter dystrophin isoforms Dp140 and Dp71 is associated with increased central nervous system (CNS) involvement. We aimed to investigate how CNS involvement affects motor development in young DMD boys.
Mary Chesshyre, Deborah Ridout, Georgia Stimpson, Laurent Servais, Giovanni Baranello, Adnan Manzur, UK NorthStar Clinical Network, M. Scoto, A. Sarkozy, P. Munot, S. Robb, E. Chan, V. Robinson, W. Girshab, V. Crook, E. Milev, L. Abbott, A. Wolfe, E. O’Reilly, J. Watts‐Whent, N. Burnett, R. Thomas, R. Terespolsky, O. Martinaeu, J. Longatto, V. Straub, C. Bettolo, M. Guglieri, J. Diaz‐Manera, G. Tasca, M. Elseed, R. Muni‐Lofra, M. James, D. Moat, J. Sodhi, K. Wong, E. Robinson, E. Groves, R. Rabb, D. Parasuraman, H. McMurchie, H. Chase, Tracey Willis, C. Rylance, N. Birchall, E. Wright, A. Childs, K. Pysden, C. Martos, D. Roberts, L. Pallant, S. Walker, A. Henderson, R. Madhu, R. Karuvattil, Y. Balla, S. Gregson, S. Clark, E. Wraige, H. Jungbluth, V. Gowda, M. Vanegas, J. Sheehan, A. Schofield, C. Smith, I. Hughes, E. Whitehouse, S. Warner, E. Reading, N. Emery, J. Moustoukas, K. Strachan, M. Ong, M. Atherton, N. Mills, S. Sanchez Marco, A. Saxena, K. Skone, J. TeWaterNaude, H. Davis, C. Wood, A. Majumdar, A. Murugan, I. Guarino, R. Tomlinson, H. Jarvis, L. Wills, C. Frimpong, J. Watson, G. Cobb, G. Robertson, P. Brink, J. Burslem, C. Adams, J. Wong, S. Joseph, I. Horrocks, J. Dunne, M. DiMarco, S. Brown, S. McKenzie, K. Torne, R. Mohamed, V. Velmurugan, M. Prasad, S. Sedehizadeh, A. Schugal, R. Keetley, S. Williamson, K. Payne, E. Dowling, P. Fenty, C. de Goede, A. Parkes, K. Baxter, M. Illingworth, N. Bhangu, S. Geary, J. Palmer, K. Shill, S. Tirupathi, A. Shah, D. O’Donogue, J. McVeigh, J. McFetridge, G. Nicfhirleinn, H. Beattie, T. Leyland, K. Stevenson, N. Hussain, D. Baskaran, Z. Lambat, R. Sullivan, L. Locke, G. Ambegaonkar, D. Krishnakumar, J. Taylor, J. Moores, E. Stephen, J. Tewnion, S. Ramdas, M. Sa, A. Skippen, M. Khries, C. Lilien, H. Ramjattan, F. Taylor, H. English, K. Stewart, F. Flint, E. Bartram, R. Noble, Francesco Muntoni   +152 more
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Improving Savings, Health, and Happiness by Making Small Modifications to Your Home

EDIS, 2012
Intended for an academic audience, this 7-page fact sheet introduces readers to the concept of overall home performance and offers suggestions of minor conservation measures, maintenance items, and family operations that could help the family improve the
Randall A. Cantrell
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Do memory concerns and self-efficacy predict academic performance in undergraduate students with memorization practice?

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionThe main aim of the present study was to examine the extent to which self-reported prospective and retrospective memory concerns and academic self-efficacy predict academic attainment in sophomore and junior undergraduate students ...
Maura Pilotti, Maura Pilotti, Dana Alzahid, Dana Alzahid, Nouf Faisal, Nouf Faisal, Arifi Waked, Arifi Waked, Omar J. El-Moussa, Omar J. El-Moussa   +9 more
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The Teacher Academic Buoyancy Scale: Is it possible to keep TABS on students' academic buoyancy?

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2018
Academic buoyancy (AB) is the ability toovercome minor academic setbacks. However, although it seems as though teacherswould be well placed to comment on this characteristic in students, noteacher-report measure of AB exists.
Lisa Reidy, Scott Johnson, Diarmuid Verrier   +2 more
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Determining the mediating role of hope for the future in the relationship between mental health and academic socialization: Case study of Ilam universities students [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2019
The present article aims at determining the mediating role of hope for the future in the relationship between mental health and academic socialization. The research method is survey and analysis using Structural Equations Modeling (SEM).
O. Mohammadzade, S.H. Marjaei, A. Vedadhir, M.R. Kolahi   +3 more
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BCS1L‐Associated Disease: 5′‐UTR Variant Shifts the Phenotype Towards Axonal Neuropathy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To investigate the consequences of a pathogenic missense variant (c.838C>T; p.L280F) and a 5′‐UTR regulatory variant (c.‐122G>T) in BCS1L on disease pathogenesis and to understand how regulatory variants influence disease severity and clinical presentation.
Rotem Orbach, Nunziata Maio, Russell J. Butterfield, A. Reghan Foley, Sarah Silverstein, Yan Li, Katherine Chao, Tanya J. Lehky, Abigail Potticary, Tracey A. Rouault, Sandra Donkervoort, Carsten G. Bönnemann   +11 more
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Academic Perceptions of Immigrant and Minority Postsecondary Students

Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2018
This investigation compared postsecondary students whose mother tongue was English and who were natives of Canada (TV = 117) with minority students (N = 91) in terms of: a) the perceived importance of a university education and the perceived likelihood of academic success; b) the estimated likelihood of success at both competitive and noncompetitive ...
Philip C. Abrami, Bette DeBellefeuille
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Minority children and academic resilience in the Nordic welfare states [PDF]

International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 2017
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to summarise and analyse empirical research on protective factors that promote academic resilience in ethnic minority children mainly aged between 13 and 18 years attending schools in the Nordic countries.Design/methodology/approachThis paper was opted for a literature review of 23 peer-reviewed quantitative articles
Johnsen, Anja, Ortiz-Barreda, Gaby M., Årdal, Guro, Iversen, Anette Christine   +3 more
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Durable B‐Cell Impairment While Sparing IgA B Cells After Ocrelizumab Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Ocrelizumab (OCR), a humanized anti‐CD20 monoclonal antibody, is highly efficient in relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (RR‐MS). We assessed early cellular B‐cell profiles in patients prior to OCR treatment, on OCR treatment, and after 15 months of therapy discontinuation.
Alexandra Garcia, Stephane Rodriguez, Emilie Dugast, Christine Lebrun‐Frenay, Eric Thouvenot, Jérôme de Sèze, Emmanuelle Le Page, Sandra Vukusic, Inès Doghri, Eric Berger, Olivier Casez, Pierre Labauge, Aurélie Ruet, Catarina Raposo, Fabienne Le Frère, Arnaud B. Nicot, Sandrine Wiertlewski, Pierre‐Antoine Gourraud, Laure Michel, Laureline Berthelot, David‐Axel Laplaud   +20 more
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