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Adaptive comparative judgement: Adapting adaptive assessment to assess the quality of students’ work

open access: yes, 2012
It is increasingly acknowledged that adaptive assessment has a significant role to play in enhancing the assessment of and for learning. Computer adaptive testing (CAT) is a familiar method of delivering adaptive assessment, but it comes with a number of
Pollitt, Alastair, Wingfield, Matt
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Prospects and Challenges of Medicinal Plants Conservation and\ud Traditional Medicine in Tanzania [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
A qualitative study was carried to assess prospects and challenges of medicinal plants conservation and\ud traditional medicine in Tanzania. The study shows that TRM and medicinal have great prospects in healthcare\ud delivery worldwide.
Kayombo, Edmund J   +2 more
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Applications and challenges of traditional Chinese medicine in gastrointestinal disease treatment: A review

open access: yesJournal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences
Gastrointestinal (GI) diseases are common multifactorial disorders involving chronic inflammation, epithelial barrier disruption, immune dysregulation, gut microbiota imbalance, and abnormalities in motility and gut–brain interactions.
Aijing Li   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Proteasomal degradation of intracellularly expressed Amblyomin‐X limits suicide gene therapy potential in melanoma cells

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study explores the feasibility of expressing the antitumoral protein Amblyomin‐X through a suicide gene therapy approach and investigates its intracellular fate after gene delivery. Although the gene is efficiently expressed, melanoma cells rapidly degrade the Amblyomin‐X protein via proteasome activity.
Victor Dal Posolo Cinel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and Assessment for Hybrid Courses: Insights and Overviews

open access: yes, 2015
Technology is influencing education, providing new delivery and assessment models. A combination between online and traditional course, the hybrid (blended) course, may present a solution with many benefits as it provides a gradual transition towards ...
Hamza-Lup, Felix G., White, Stephen
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Anti-inflammatory lindenane-type sesquiterpenoid homo-/heterodimers from Chloranthus holostegius: Isolation, structural elucidation, and regulation of NF-κB/JAK pathways

open access: yesIndustrial Crops and Products
Chloranthus holostegius, a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Chloranthaceae, is predominantly distributed in southern China and exhibits significant value in both horticultural and medicinal applications. In this study, nine previously undescribed
Zhao-Chun Zhan   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rapid screening of staphylokinase protein variants using an unpurified cell‐free expression system

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
An unpurified cell‐free protein synthesis (CFPS) platform enables rapid functional screening of staphylokinase variants. Direct plasminogen‐activation assays performed in microplate format provide real‐time activity readouts, allowing rapid identification and ranking of variants with improved or reduced fibrinolytic activity without protein ...
Maria Tomková   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing the environmental crisis in Ghana: The role of African traditional religion and culture—A case study of Berekum traditional area [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This thesis examines the connection between traditional religio-cultural beliefs and practices and environmental problems in Ghana using Berekum Traditional Society as a case study.
Awuah-Nyamekye, Samuel
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Widespread increase of functional connectivity in Parkinson’s disease with tremor: A resting-state fMRI study

open access: yesFrontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2015
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a clinically heterogeneous disease in the symptomatology dominated by tremor, akinesia or rigidity. Focusing on PD patients with tremor, this study investigated their discoordination patterns of spontaneous brain activity by ...
Delong eZhang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The skills required for transition to university and study in biological sciences: A student perspective

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Bioscience students were asked for their opinions on the value and teaching of skills. 204 responded that teamwork, time management and study skills are necessary to reach University, that scientific writing, research, laboratory and presentation skills are taught effectively during their studies, while other skills are gained inherently through study ...
Janella Borrell, Susan Crennell
wiley   +1 more source

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