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Skeletal Muscle Microbiopsies in Children and Adults-Tolerability, Sample Yield, and Analyzability. [PDF]

Muscle Nerve
ABSTRACT Introduction/Aims Traditional methods of sampling skeletal muscle tissue are invasive. This study aimed to evaluate a sub‐millimeter core‐biopsy (microbiopsy) as a potentially more tolerable method, with further regard to tissue yield and analyzability of RNA expression.
Högelin ER, Edman S, Jannig PR, Löfgren A, Thulin K, Michno P, Norrbom J, Alkner BA, von Walden F, Fornander L.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Best practices in doctoral retention: Mentoring

Higher Learning Research Communications, 2014
The aim of this critical literature review is to outline best practices in doctoral retention and the successful approach of one university to improve graduation success by providing effective mentorship for faculty and students alike.
Judie L. Brill, Karen K. Balcanoff, Denise Land, Maurice Gogarty, Freda Turner   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Share your voice: Online community building during reaffirmation of accreditation

Higher Learning Research Communications, 2013
Generic University recently underwent a successful reaffirmation of accreditation process with The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
Brenda Kruse, Kimberlee Bethany Bonura, Suzanne G. James, Shelley Potler   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Educational attainment: Success to the successful

Higher Learning Research Communications, 2013
Systems archetypes are patterns of structure found in systems that are helpful in understanding some of the dynamics within them. The intent of this study was to examine educational attainment data using the success-to-the-successful archetype as a model
Peter John Anthony, David Gould, Gina Smith   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unifying Scaling Relations and Multiple Reaction Mechanisms for Screening Transition Metal‐Doped Co3O4 for Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Doped Co3O4 climbs a mechanistic volcano: transition‐metal substitution reshapes the OER activity landscape, while multiple competing reaction mechanisms govern the volcano trends across different dopants. ABSTRACT Accelerating the discovery of oxygen‐evolution reaction (OER) catalysts requires high‐throughput screening strategies combining descriptor ...
Kapil Dhaka, Hatem M. A. Amin, Davide Beschi, Dana Schellenburg, Benjamin Mockenhaupt, Stephan Barcikowski, Stephan Schulz, Kai S. Exner   +7 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Cultural Distance, Acculturative Stress, Functional Social Support, and Psychological Adaptation of International Students

Higher Learning Research Communications, 2019
This study examined how cultural distance, acculturative stress, and social support interacted to influence emotional responses among international students studying in the northern part of Cyprus. Acculturation models and the stress-buffering hypothesis
Ariel Ladum, Gary Burkholder
doaj   +1 more source

The utopian challenge to global capitalism by Walter van den Broeck in Terug naar Walden

Literator, 2012
The socialist sympathies that inform the writing of Flemish author Walter van den Broeck align him with a well-established tradition of socially engaged writing in Flanders.
Andries Visagie
doaj   +1 more source

Motivation and career-development training programs: Use of regulatory focus to determine program effectiveness

Higher Learning Research Communications, 2015
The purpose of this study was to focus on the relationship between career-development training programs and the motivation of employees. The study used a qualitative method and a phenomenological design using semistructured interviews conducted with a ...
Peter John Anthony, Jeffrey Weide
doaj   +1 more source

Facilitating inquiry-based science learning online in a virtual university

Higher Learning Research Communications, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the authors’ interaction-engagement approach in facilitating online courses, which focused on a guided inquiry approach to build understanding of core science concepts using hands-on experimental science ...
Rosalind Kam, Bernard Hoop
doaj   +1 more source

HIV-positive parents, HIV-positive children, and HIV-negative children’s perspectives on disclosure of a parent’s and child’s illness in Kenya [PDF]

PeerJ, 2014
HIV disclosure from parent to child is complex and challenging to HIV-positive parents and healthcare professionals. The purpose of the study was to understand the lived experiences of HIV-positive parents and their children during the disclosure process
Grace Gachanja, Gary J. Burkholder, Aimee Ferraro   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources