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Cytosolic Phosphoenoylpyruvate Carboxykinase Deficiency: Clinical, Biochemical, and Genetic Features of Five Non‐Finnish Patients

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cytosolic phosphoenoylpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK‐C) is an essential, rate‐limiting enzyme in the gluconeogenesis pathway. PEPCK‐C deficiency presents with hypoglycaemia, hyperlactataemia and hepatopathy, and was first reported in association with bi‐allelic PCK1 variants in 2014.
Isaac Bernhardt, Polona Le Quesne Stabej, Claire Hart, Mark De Hora, Sarah Hulley, Mark Anderson, Harry G. Leitch, Hugh Lemonde, Bryony Ryder, James Davison   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Identity Positioning in Facebook Posts During Second Language Study Abroad: One Teen’s Language Use, Experience, and Awareness

Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2016
Teens who post on the popular social networking site Facebook in their home environment often continue to do so on second language study abroad sojourns.
Roswita Dressler, Anja Dressler
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Medical education abroad: experience and perceived learning effects of German medical students in an international cardiology elective

Frontiers in Medicine
BackgroundWith the aim of increasing study abroad courses the University Clinic for Cardiology and Angiology at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (Magdeburg, Germany) in collaboration with the Istituto Cardiocentro Ticino (Lugano, Switzerland ...
Christian Albert, Christian Albert, Katrin Werwick, Marc Gottschalk, Anna Aschoff, Angelo Auricchio, Rüdiger C. Braun-Dullaeus, Philipp Stieger   +7 more
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Person to Person in Japan [PDF]

, 2019
While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries
Decker, Jackson
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Social Determinants of Health and Health‐Related Quality of Life: The Potential Mediating Role of Social Activities, Access to Medical Services, and Access to Social Services

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster, Ashleigh Powell, Claire Hutchinson, Richard Leibbrandt, Svetlana Bogomolova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the Housing and Support Experience of People With Complex Disability in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis of Submissions to the Disability Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz, Fiona Carey, Libby Witts, Jessie Spence, Peter Mulherin, Megan Topping, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Language Practice and Study Abroad [PDF]

, 2018
The present study measures the impact that pragmatic intervention has when students are exposed to targeted language practice during a six-week study abroad programme in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The intervention had three goals.
Hernández, Todd A.
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‘I Don't Babysit’: Stay‐at‐Home Dads' Perspectives and Experiences Within Australian Society

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Stay‐at‐home‐dads are an emerging group in Australia, impacted by societal assumptions and expectations. However, there is a scarcity of research on the perspectives and experiences of fathers assuming stay‐at‐home dad roles within Australian society.
Elyse Manie, Patricia Taylor, Hayley McKenzie, Norma Barrett   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Academic Risk and Intellectual Adventure: Evidence from U.S. Honors Students at the University of Oxford [PDF]

, 2019
Many study abroad programs promise students self-knowledge through adventure. Those that involve intense study seem at first sight not to offer adventure nor to entail risky dislocation nor to offer new insights into self.
Baigent, Elizabeth
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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