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Age-dependent social learning in a lizard

, 2014
Funding: Australian Funding CouncilEvidence of social learning, whereby the actions of an animal facilitate the acquisition of new information by another, is taxonomically biased towards mammals, especially primates, and birds.
Noble, Danial W A, Richard W. Byrne, Martin J. Whiting, Byrne, Richard William, Daniel W. A. Noble, Whiting, Martin J   +5 more
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Exploring equity and inclusion in Malawi’s National Disability Mainstreaming Strategy and Implementation Plan

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Background Equity and inclusion are important principles in policy development and implementation. The aim of this study is to explore the extent to which equity and inclusion were considered in the development of Malawi’s National Disability ...
Ikenna D. Ebuenyi, Emma M. Smith, Alister Munthali, Steven W. Msowoya, Juba Kafumba, Monica Z. Jamali, Malcolm MacLachlan   +6 more
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Partner influences on young women’s risky drug and sexual behavior

Reproductive Health, 2018
Background Adolescent girls with a history of maltreatment are at heightened risk for health-risking behaviors, including unsafe sexual behaviors and drug use.
Miriam Clark, Rohanna Buchanan, Rachel Kovensky, Leslie D. Leve   +3 more
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Adaptive Social Learning [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
The paper investigates social-learning when the information structure is not commonly known. Individuals repeatedly interact in social-learning settings with distinct information structures. In each round of interaction, they use their experience gained in past rounds to draw inferences from their predecessors’ current decisions. Such adaptation yields
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Personalised Professional Development in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Trends in Higher Education
Despite the affordances of professional development (PD) in teaching and learning in facilitating quality teaching and contributing to students’ learning outcomes, there is merit in exploring educators’ needs by enabling conditions to further develop ...
Seo Hong Lim, Lyndon Lim, Che Yee Lye, Wei Ying Rebekah Lim   +3 more
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Social Learning and Addiction

Behavioural Brain Research, 2021
Social learning theory, as originally proposed by Albert Bandura, followed 2000 years of intellectual inquiry into the determinants of human behavior. Reciprocal determinism is a central component of this theory and proposes that human behavior is determined by functional relationships between (1) personal factors, (2) the external environment, and (3)
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On Social Networks That Support Learning [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
It is well understood that the structure of a social network is critical to whether or not agents can aggregate information correctly. In this paper, we study social networks that support information aggregation when rational agents act sequentially and irrevocably.
Itai Arieli, Fedor Sandomirskiy, Rann Smorodinsky   +2 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

FEBS 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

Innovation and cumulative culture through tweaks and leaps in online programming contests

Nature Communications, 2018
The cumulative development of culture has proven difficult to study in the laboratory. Here, the authors examine entries to a series of large programming contests to show that successful entries are usually ‘tweaks’ of existing solutions, but occasional ‘
Elena Miu, Ned Gulley, Kevin N. Laland, Luke Rendell   +3 more
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How teachers manage their classroom in the digital learning environment – experiences from the University Smart Learning Project

Heliyon, 2022
The development of modern technologies facilitated for teachers to integrate and use them in managing their teaching classroom. The aim of this paper is to explore how teachers in the Khon Kaen University (KKU) Smart Learning Project use the smart ...
Lan Thi Nguyen, Issara Kanjug, Grichawat Lowatcharin, Theeradej Manakul, Kornwipa Poonpon, Weerachai Sarakorn, Anucha Somabut, Niwat Srisawasdi, Saksuriya Traiyarach, Kulthida Tuamsuk   +9 more
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