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Understanding student relationship management and its effects on university students

, 2009
There are many problems happening with tertiary students such as enrolment and completion. Each student has faced with various problems to survive and succeed in higher education.
Kongsakun, K., Kajornrit, J.
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Promotion with and Without Learning: Effects on Student Enrollment and Dropout Behavior [PDF]

Many educators and policymakers have argued for lenient grade promotion policy – even automatic promotion – in developing country settings where grade retention rates are high.
Orazem, Peter, Paterno, Elizabeth M., King, Elizabeth M.   +2 more
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Phosphoinositides and inositol phosphates as molecular glues

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Inositol phosphates (IPs) and phosphoinositides (PIPs) regulate diverse eukaryotic processes. Beyond recruiting signaling proteins or acting as structural cofactors, recent studies suggest they mediate protein–protein interactions as natural molecular glues.
Aleshia Seaton‐Terry, Alexander J. Cutright, Mong Na Claire Loi, Jessica Martin, Joseph W. Gilligan, Jakub N. Kubina, Michael J. Arambula, Susanna Tanada Palmu, Daniella Zhou, Raymond D. Blind   +9 more
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Determinants of Student Retention of Microeconomic Concepts [PDF]

In this study, we examine a variety of individual, institutional, and course-specific factors that influence students' retention of concepts from the microeconomics principles course.
Larry Spizman, John Kane
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Three phosphatase families form a community: The phosphohydrolases that act upon inositol pyrophosphates

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Inositol pyrophosphates are energy‐rich signaling molecules that perform critical functions in cells. Three different families of phosphatases hydrolyze the β phosphate of the inositol pyrophosphate molecules: two have narrow specificities and one is promiscuous.
Ronda J. Rolfes
wiley   +1 more source

Continuing Education and Knowledge Retention: A Comparison of Online and Face-to-Face Deliveries

, 2007
Objective: Drawing upon earlier research that surveyed students’ grasp of subject knowledge after taking either an online or face-to-face EBM course, this paper explores the effectiveness of a Web-based professional continuing education course ...
Garrison, Julie A
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Obtaining high retention and completion rates in a New Zealand ODL environment: A case study of strategies employed by Information and Library Studies Faculty at the Open Polytechnic

Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2011
Open and distance learning (ODL) provides unique challenges for student retention and course completion. In an increasingly competitive educational environment, measures such as retention and completion form the basis for the evaluation of institutional
Sandra Elizabeth Maathuis-Smith, Shannon Wellington, Amanda Cossham, Alison Fields, Jan Irvine, Sarah Welland, Mary Innes   +6 more
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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik, İsmail Güderer, Yi Wang, Tayyaba Alvi, Prasoon Pandey, Handan Melike Dönertaş   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Influence of Student Involvement With Campus Life on the Retention of African American Students Enrolled at A Public Historically Black University

, 2006
The retention of students in higher education is an ongoing problem. In an effort to alleviate this problem, postsecondary institutions invest in a variety of programs designed to improve student retention. Even though a great amount of time and money is
Townsend, Richard Darryl
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Course grades and standardized tests as predictors of successful completion of the associate degree nursing program at Lakeshore Technical College [PDF]

, 2001
Plan BDue to the increasingly severe shortage of registered nurses, Lakeshore Technical College (LTC) is now more aware of, and more determined to deal with the issues of student recruitment and retention.
Gabsch, Susan A.
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