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A tale of six fish: Achieving social presence through discussion forums in an offline learning environment [PDF]

, 2011
It is widely held, through the Socratic tradition, that discussion is at the heart of learning. Moderated discussion forums have been shown to replicate the debate, argument and verbal defence of viewpoints that we have come to expect in face-to-face ...
Lloyd, Margaret
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
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Being-in-the-world-with: Presence Meets Social And Cognitive Neuroscience [PDF]

, 2006
In this chapter we will discuss the concepts of “presence” (Inner Presence) and “social presence” (Co-presence) within a cognitive and ecological perspective.
Riva, Prof. G.
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Investigating design features of a computer-mediated communication system [PDF]

, 2007
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is increasingly used in higher education, but it is not without problems. The effectiveness of CMC depends on many factors, including the characteristics of CMC systems themselves.
Kear, Karen Lesley
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The Fate (Outcome) of Clinically Apparent Single Lesion and Oligofocal Nephroblastomatosis Treated According to SIOP/GPOH Protocols for Wilms Tumor

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
Nils Welter, Jens‐Peter Schenk, Jenny Wegert, Manfred Gessler, Leo Kager, Stefan Wagenpfeil, Marina Müller, Jean‐Michel Wolff, Joerg Fuchs, Steven W. Warmann, Clemens‐Magnus Meier, Jochen Hubertus, Christian Rübe, Christian Vokuhl, Patrick Melchior, Lena Tschirner, Norbert Graf, Rhoikos Furtwängler   +17 more
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Post-Secondary Students' Purposes For Blogging

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2008
The goal of the study was to explore post-secondary students’ purposes for blogging with particular attention to the social and instructional purposes. The sample of blogs came from an all-women’s college in the United Arab Emirates. Content analysis was
Paul Henry Leslie, Elizabeth Murphy
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Do altmetrics correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective [PDF]

, 2014
An extensive analysis of the presence of different altmetric indicators provided by Altmetric.com across scientific fields is presented, particularly focusing on their relationship with citations.
Adie, Costas, Costas, Cronin, Galligan, Haustein, Heneberg, Moed, Piwowar, Piwowar, Rousseau, Seglen, Shema, Shema, Thelwall, Tort, Waltman, Waltman, Waltman, Wouters, Wu, Zahedi   +21 more
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Inpatient Food Insecurity and Pediatric Hematology Oncology Hospitalization Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children with cancer and blood disorders are at risk for food insecurity (FI). We aimed to describe the association of inpatient food insecurity (IFI) and hospitalization outcomes among patients admitted to the pediatric hematology oncology service. Of 325 caregivers screened for IFI, 60 (18.6%) screened positive.
Joanna M. Robles, Greg Russell, Leila H. DeWitt, Kimberly Montez, Callie L. Brown   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adjustment to colostomy: stoma acceptance, stoma care self-efficacy and interpersonal relationships [PDF]

, 2007
‘The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com.’ Copyright Blackwell Publishing. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04446.xThis paper is a report of a study to examine adjustment and its relationship with stoma acceptance and social ...
American Cancer Society, Arora N.K., Baxter A., Bekkers M.J.T.M., Brydolf M., Cazador C., Couper J.W., Diversey Lever, Felton E.A., Ferlay J., Field A., Friedman L.C., Giesse-Davis J., Gordon R., Gutterrez O., Hosmer D.W., IARC GLOBOCAN, ISD Online, Karadag A., Kerr J., Li L., Livneh H., Lutgendork S., Mallinger J., Mc Vey J., McGuire L., McKenzie F., Murray J., Olbrisch M.E., Piwonka A.M., Rashidian A., Smyth J., Soliani P., Sprangers M., White C.A.   +34 more
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Germline TP53 Mutations Causing Diamond–Blackfan Anemia: A French Report

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diamond–Blackfan anemia is a rare congenital erythroblastopenia typically caused by mutations in ribosomal protein genes. Recently, gain‐of‐function mutations in TP53 have been identified as a novel cause of Diamond–Blackfan anemia. We report two French patients who both harbored a heterozygous TP53 deletion (NM_000546.5: c.1077delA; p ...
Rafael Moisan, Lydie Da Costa, Ludivine David Nguyen, Heloise Chosseler, Audrey Riquet, Benedicte Bruno, Melissa Barbati   +6 more
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