Obituary: Steve Watts (25 July 1947 - 21 March 2016) by Doug Meyer

“…I was eventually asked to teach two blowgun workshops at the Schiele Museum, so as a student I became the teacher.…”
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The relationship between the leader empowering behaviors and work engagement: the role of psychological empowerment as a mediating variable by Razieh Hashemi, Amir Sadeghi, Ghodratollah Roshanaei, Zahra Purfarzad

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Qualidade de vida pós-transplante hepático com enxerto de doador idoso by Maria José Nascimento Flor, José Huygens Parente Garcia, Maria Isis Freire de Aguiar, João Marcos de Meneses e Silva, Paulo César de Almeida, Francisca Diana da Silva Negreiros

“…Foram aplicados os testes t-Student e Mann-Whitney para comparação entre grupos. …”
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Association of remifentanil analgesia with postpartum depression and birth experience: an observational study by Fateme Shoureshi Jorbijarkali, Solmaz Ghanbari-Homaie, Mojgan Mirghafourvand, Mansour Rezaei, Jamileh Malakouti

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Efeito de uma intervenção remota de atividade física no risco cardiovascular e na aptidão física by Lincoln Fernando Akira Terashima, Ana Carolina Mendes de Lara Campos, Marcelo Alves de Souza, Renan Vegas Jacob, Tayna Paracatu, Teresa Bartholomeu, Bruno Temoteo Modesto, Cláudia Lúcia de Moraes Forjaz

“…No início e após 8 semanas, foram medidos marcadores de risco cardiovascular e de aptidão física, que foram comparados por testes t-student ou Wilcoxon, considerando-se p≤0,05. Comparando-se as avaliações pré e pós-intervenção, houve redução da circunferência da cintura (95,9±11,3 vs. 94,7±11,3 cm, p=0,013) e aumento da capacidade cardiorrespiratória (117±21 vs. 123±23 passos, p=0,019), da força dos membros superiores (23±6 vs. 25±6 repetições, p=0,003), da resistência abdominal (20±9 vs. 22±10 repetições, p=0,002) e da aptidão física geral (-0,04±3,55 vs. 1,30±4,10, p=0,000). …”
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Stepwise self-knowledge distillation for skin lesion image classification by Jian Zheng, Kewei Xie, Dingwen Zhang, Zhiming Lv, Xiangchun Yu

“…The results show SW-SKD can significantly enhance the student model’s performance in dermatological classification.…”
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The Association between Low-Carbohydrate Diet Score and Conventional Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Diseases in Iranian Adult Population: A Cross-Sectional Study by Zahra Makhtoomi, Sepideh Alijani, Zainab Shateri, Milad Rajabzadeh-dehkordi, Moein Askarpour, Abbas Rezaianzadeh, Masoumeh Ghoddusi Johari, Mehran Nouri, Shiva Faghih

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PENERAPAN MODEL SUPERVISI ARTISTIK UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KREATIVITAS DAN INOVASI PENGAJARAN SD NEGERI KECAMATAN TOHO, KABUPATEN MEMPAWAH by Emakulata Julian, Marinu Waruwu, Halida Halida, Eny Enawaty

“…The background of this research stems from the low level of teaching creativity observed in the region, which negatively affects student participation and motivation. Using a quasi-experimental design, this study involved 40 teachers divided into experimental and control groups. …”
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Successful Elimination of Gallbladder Ascariasis by Conservative Therapy, Followed by Cholecystectomy due to Developing Cholecystitis by Ahmad Alhamid, Ziad Aljarad, Ahmad Ghazal, Ahmad Mouakeh, Ahmad Sankari Tarabishi, Majed Joudeh, Mohammad Mohammad, Aos Alhamid, Jawhar Aljarad, Maen Mousa

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Numerical Investigation of Energy Dissipation in Baffled Piano Key Weirs by Ali Iranpour, Aslan Egdernezhad, Mohammad Heidarnejad

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Development of the rubric self-efficacy scale by Perihan Güneş, Özen Yıldırım, Miraç Yılmaz

“…Especially in educational environments, rubrics are measurement tools used in the assessment phase of student products usually based on higher-order thinking skills. …”
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Between school and family environment. Tasks of a school social worker in the contemporary educational system in Poland by Joanna Kluczyńska

“…In addition to educators and teachers, an important tasks are performed by the school pedagogue, providing broad support to the student and his parents experiencing difficult situations, which are reflected in the functioning of the student in the school environment. …”
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PROPOSED FANS' SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE A SPORTS CLUB RESULTS IN PERIODS OF LOW SPORT PERFORMANCE by SANDU VLAD ANTONIUS, PĂSĂRIN LEONARDO DANIEL, COSTIN DAN EUGEN, POPA MARIAN GABRIEL, DIACONESCU DRAGOȘ LAURENȚIU, DUMITRU ROXANA, POPESCU MARIUS CĂTĂLIN

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Infrastructure and inequality: An empirical evidence from Indonesia by Amien Makmuri

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The Role of Lactoferrin in Combating <i>Candida</i> spp. Infections Through Regulation of Oxidative Stress, Immune Response, and Nutritional Support in Women and Newborns by Anna Długosz, Joanna Wróblewska, Paweł Kołaczyk, Weronika Wróblewska

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Lung volume assessment for mean dark-field coefficient calculation using different determination methods by Florian T. Gassert, Jule Heuchert, Rafael Schick, Henriette Bast, Theresa Urban, Tina Dorosti, Gregor S. Zimmermann, Sebastian Ziegelmayer, Alexander W. Marka, Markus Graf, Marcus R. Makowski, Daniela Pfeiffer, Franz Pfeiffer

“…Results were compared using a Student t-test and Spearman ρ correlation statistics. …”
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Place Identity translating into Culture: the town of Rajapur in the cultural region of Konkan by Prachitee Naik, Vishakha Kawathekar

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A Systematic Review of Pretrained Models in Automated Essay Scoring by Ahmed M. Elmassry, Nazar Zaki, Negmeldin Alsheikh, Mohammed Mediani

“…Automated essay scoring (AES) uses artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to grade student essays and produce human-like scores. AES research has witnessed significant advancements over time by adopting diverse machine learning models. …”
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'So far so good': Academic migrants adjust to teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand's tertiary vocational sector by Maggie Masterson, Frances Edwards

“…This multiple case study focuses on Aotearoa New Zealand’s ITP (Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics) sector and explores how the experience of migration has impacted on four long-term academic staff with a range of industry, teaching and research experience.  Adapting to student-centred teaching and managing diverse student groups have presented some initial challenges for these migrant teaching staff, but their overall experience has been positive.  …”
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THE METHOD OF TRANSFORMATION IN DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS by Konul H. Mamedova

“…Harris who was the outstanding delegate of descriptive linguistics, later was used by his student N. Chomsky. By creating the transformation model of generative grammar N. …”
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