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A Fracture Mechanics-based Method for Prediction of Cracking of Circular and Elliptical Concrete Rings under Restrained Shrinkage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.A new experimental method, utilizing elliptical ring specimens, is developed for assessing the likelihood of cracking and cracking age of concrete subject to restrained ...
Dong, W   +5 more
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Schooling for Democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
oai:democracyeducationjournal.org:home-1000There is a widespread movement today to prepare all students for college, and it is promoted in the name of democracy.
Noddings, Nel
core   +1 more source

Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation: A Hungarian Perspective

open access: yesStudies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2007
The volume, Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation: A Hungarian Perspective, written by Dörnyei, Csizér, and Németh, presents the results of a large survey on motivation in second language learning from over 13,000 Hungarian foreign language ...
Tanja Angelovska
doaj   +1 more source

Refocusing the Agenda of Public Education: District Mission Statements and the Manners of Democracy as a Way of Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Mission statements and public statements of values are widely recognized as important for educational improvement, even if often ignored. The mission statements and supporting documents of Utah\u27s 41 school districts were analyzed to locate prominent ...
Bullough, Robert V
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Examination of the New Tech Model as a Holistic Democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Using the Degrees of Democracy Framework (Woods & Woods, 2012), we examined eight New Tech (NT) high schools to determine the extent to which they demonstrated characteristics of holistic democracy.
Mosier, Gina   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Mindfulness, Democracy, and Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this article, we explain how mindfulness can enhance a democratic way of being, connecting practices of awareness, reflection, dialog, and action to democratic citizenship and social arrangements.
LaPrad, James G, Hyde, Andrea Marie
core   +1 more source

The problem of governance

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
Shadi Hamid’s The Problem of Democracy makes a compelling case for focusing on government over governance. Hamid’s offers a view of a restrained American foreign policy in the Middle East that avoids falling into the trap of a crass isolationism or an ...
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
doaj   +1 more source

Researching Holistic Democracy in Schools. A Reponse to Examination of the New Tech Model as a holistic Democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Bradley-Levine reported in her article how she created an opportunity to explore research data with the aim of examining the degree to which New Tech schools were democratic in the sense conceptualized by the notion of holistic democracy.
Woods, Philip A
core   +1 more source

Circulating microRNA signatures of cachexia and cancer in Canis familiaris as a comparative oncology model for human disease

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Circulating microRNAs as biomarkers of cachexia and sex‐specific cancer in senior dogs. In 25 client‐owned dogs, four circulating miRNAs (miR‐15a, miR‐15b, miR‐16, miR‐140) were downregulated in cachexia, with miR‐16 the strongest individual biomarker (AUC = 0.899).
Soon‐Seok Park   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Response to “Seeking Democracy inside and outside of education” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This response considers the strengths of Carr and Thesee\u27s paper and explores further areas of research related to education for democracy or citizenship ...
Broom, Catherine
core   +1 more source

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