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Environmental Sciences
Haruko Murakami Wainwright, Brian A. Powell, Megan Elisabeth Hoover, Ali Ayoub, Milos Atz, Craig Benson, R. A. Borrelli, Denia Djokic, Carol Ann Eddy-Dilek, Dinara Ermakova, Robert Hayes, Kathryn Higley, Steven Krahn, Leonel Lagos, Sheldon Landsberger, Christina Leggett, Monica Regalbuto, William Roy, Lindsay Shuller-Nickles, Rodney C. Ewing
Summary: A workshop was held at MIT to develop a blueprint for educating future engineers and scientists about nuclear waste management. The workshop identified key needs for teaching students with diverse backgrounds and attracting young people to this field.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY
(2023)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Daniel R. Lewin, Emilia M. Kondili, Ian T. Cameron, Gregoire Leonard, Seyed Soheil Mansouri, Fernando G. Martins, Luis Ricardez-Sandoval, Hirokazu Sugiyama, Edwin Zondervan
Summary: This paper investigates the current and future trends in teaching PSE topics and addresses what should be taught and how. Surveys were conducted on existing courses and PSE stakeholders to determine their opinions on the taught content and the match between graduates' skills and expectations. Gaps and prospects have been identified, leading to suggestions for the future. The paper also explores the best methods for teaching PSE content given available teaching technologies and time constraints.
COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(2023)
Editorial Material
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Siddharth Pahwa, Elizabeth H. Stephens, Richard C. Daly, Arman Arghami, Joseph A. Dearani
Summary: Preoperative transthoracic echocardiography is essential for determining the type and severity of valve disease, while transesophageal echocardiography is selectively used when surgery is uncertain. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography is routinely used to aid in reducing valve regurgitation under anesthesia.
ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY
(2021)
Editorial Material
Physics, Applied
Vandana Singh
Summary: Confronted with the reality that her students would be greatly affected by the climate crisis, theoretical physicist Vandana Singh aimed to incorporate climate education into her classroom. She advocates for a comprehensive approach that combines science, transdisciplinarity, justice, and action.
NATURE REVIEWS PHYSICS
(2023)
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Education & Educational Research
Dewi Puspitasari, Handoyo Puji Widodo, Lulut Widyaningrum, Alhasan Allamnakhrah, Reni Puspitasari Dwi Lestariyana
Summary: The study found that helping others, being friendly and polite, and tolerance were the most prominent moral values depicted in Indonesian primary school language textbooks, reflecting a strong sociocultural foundation in Indonesian culture.
STUDIES IN EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION
(2021)
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Psychology, Experimental
Lily Chernyak-Hai, Shai Davidai
Summary: Beliefs that success is a zero-sum game negatively impact people's willingness to provide help that promotes autonomy for others. This reluctance to offer autonomy-oriented help is mediated by concerns about losing status to the recipient. However, the belief that success can only be achieved at others' expense does not affect individuals' willingness to provide dependency-oriented help.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
(2022)
Review
Cell Biology
Aleksi M. Huuha, Cecilie S. Norevik, Jose Bianco N. Moreira, Asgeir Kobro-Flatmoen, Nathan Scrimgeour, Miia Kivipelto, Henriette Van Praag, Maryam Ziaei, Sigrid Botne Sando, Ulrik Wisloff, Atefe R. Tari
Summary: Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia with no cure currently available. Physical inactivity contributes to a significant portion of AD cases worldwide, but exercise has shown beneficial effects on brain plasticity and cognitive functions, as well as improvements in AD pathology in animal studies. The mechanisms behind these effects are mainly associated with exercise performance and cardiorespiratory fitness, as well as exercise-induced molecules of peripheral origin. Since exercise affects the whole body, there is unlikely to be a single therapeutic target that can mimic all the benefits of exercise, but systemic strategies may convey broad therapeutic effects in AD patients.
AGEING RESEARCH REVIEWS
(2022)
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Biology
Matthias Wolf
Summary: The biospecies concept only helps recognize species but not explain them, leaving the question of whether a species is real or conceptual unanswered. Teaching should focus on guiding students to think about the nature of species, rather than memorizing definitions.
Review
Cell Biology
Marta Dziedzicka-Wasylewska, Joanna Solich, Agata Korlatowicz, Agata Faron-Gorecka
Summary: Long-lasting biological and psychological stress factors are commonly accepted as the main cause of depressive disorders. The most frequently used animal models only capture a portion of the molecular features associated with complex human disorders. Studies of stress resilience mechanisms bring us closer to understanding the process of adapting to aversive stimuli.
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Education, Scientific Disciplines
Tamara Berghout
Summary: This study found that nurse educators are not adequately prepared to teach interprofessional collaboration, with most lacking formal faculty development in the area and having limited understanding of interprofessional collaborative practice. Their lack of awareness of available resources to help incorporate interprofessional collaboration into their curriculum highlights the need for further faculty development in this area if nursing educators are to effectively teach these concepts to students.
NURSE EDUCATION TODAY
(2021)
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Education & Educational Research
Mikk Granstrom, Eve Kikas, Eve Eisenschmidt
Summary: The aim of this study was to explore teachers' teaching of learning strategies and examine the relationship between classroom observations and teachers' knowledge of learning strategies. A Learning Strategy Teaching Observation Instrument (LSTOI) was developed and 45 video-based classroom observations were conducted. The findings showed that teachers had strong knowledge of learning strategies but did not directly teach them in the classroom. The analysis of two teachers who provided direct strategy instruction revealed that they emphasized the short-term benefits of strategies, such as improved test performance, rather than focusing on the long-term impact and independent application of strategies.
FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION
(2023)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Katerina Jancarikova, Antonin Jancarik
Summary: This review study critically examines photosynthesis education, identifying teaching methods and misconceptions as main issues. Photosynthesis education is crucial for developing students' scientific literacy and serves as a model for how teachers can educate students on difficult and complex issues. Misconceptions adopted in childhood often persist into adulthood (including teachers).
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Lucja Zielinska-Tomczak, Piotr Przymuszala, Szymon Tomczak, Izabela Krzysko-Pieczka, Ryszard Marciniak, Magdalena Cerbin-Koczorowska
Summary: This study analyzed the Instagram profiles of ten dieticians providing nutritional education for their followers, using the Kirkpatrick Model and New World Kirkpatrick Model. The findings showed that the nutritional education provided through social media was effective in meeting followers' satisfaction, commitment, and content relevance, with the NWKM additions being more applicable to Levels 1 and 2.
Editorial Material
Biology
Frans B. M. de Waal
Summary: Comparative behavioural economics examines decision-making regarding goods and services in humans and other species, assuming shared evolutionary backgrounds of cognition and emotions. This article introduces the field by reviewing early studies and concepts, providing insight into economic behaviors across different species.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Review
Plant Sciences
Ayan Sadhukhan, Shiva Sai Prasad, Jayeeta Mitra, Nadeem Siddiqui, Lingaraj Sahoo, Yuriko Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Koyama
Summary: Plants can develop short-term and transgenerational memory of drought stress through epigenetic regulation, enabling them to better respond to subsequent droughts. This memory includes changes in stomatal opening, levels of osmoprotectants and ABA, and photosynthesis. Short-term drought memory is regulated by ABA and other phytohormone signaling and methylated histones are deposited at drought-tolerance genes. Progenies of drought-exposed plants inherit specific methylation patterns that help them adapt to drought.
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Neurosciences
Ka Hung Lee, Paul J. Mathews, Alexander M. B. Reeves, Katrina Y. Choe, Shekib A. Jami, Raul E. Serrano, Thomas S. Otis
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sean Ekins, Natalie Diaz, Julia Chung, Paul Mathews, Aaron McMurtray
PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH
(2017)
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Neurosciences
Katrina Y. Choe, Carlos F. Sanchez, Neil G. Harris, Thomas S. Otis, Paul J. Mathews
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Neurosciences
Luisa L. Scott, Paul J. Mathews, Nace L. Golding
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2010)
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Neurosciences
Paul J. Mathews, Ka Hung Lee, Zechun Peng, Carolyn R. Houser, Thomas S. Otis
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2012)
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Neurosciences
Paul J. Mathews, Pablo E. Jercog, John Rinzel, Luisa L. Scott, Nace L. Golding
NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
(2010)
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Biology
Harvey Perez, May F. Abdallah, Jose Chavira, Angelina S. Norris, Martin T. Egeland, Karen L. Vo, Callan L. Buechsenschuetz, Valentina Sanghez, Jeannie L. Kim, Molly Pind, Kotoka Nakamura, Geoffrey G. Hicks, Richard A. Gatti, Joaquin Madrenas, Michelina Iacovino, Peter J. McKinnon, Paul J. Mathews
Summary: By introducing null mutations in both the Atm and Aptx genes in mice, researchers have created a novel mouse model that exhibits progressively severe ataxic phenotype and cerebellar molecular layer atrophy. The perturbations significantly alter the biophysical properties of cerebellar Purkinje neurons and their neural activity, correlating with cerebellar atrophy and ataxia over the animal's first year of life. Additionally, the double mutant mice also show a predisposition to cancer and immune abnormalities, resembling symptoms of A-T.
Editorial Material
Neurosciences
Paul James Mathews, Anne-Lise Paradis, Marija Cvetanovic, Erik Sean Carlson, Krystal Lynn Parker
FRONTIERS IN SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
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Immunology
Sean Ekins, Paul Mathews, Erin K. Saito, Natalie Diaz, David Naylor, Julia Chung, Aaron M. McMurtray
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Neurosciences
LL Scott, PJ Mathews, NL Golding
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2005)
