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Dynamic Status Signal Reflects Outcome Of Social Interactions, But Not Energetic Stress, Keith A. Tarvin, L Jin Wong, David C. Lumpkin, Gabrielle M. Schroeder, Dominic D'Andrea, Sophie Meade, Pearl Rivers, Troy G. Murphy Jun 2016

Dynamic Status Signal Reflects Outcome Of Social Interactions, But Not Energetic Stress, Keith A. Tarvin, L Jin Wong, David C. Lumpkin, Gabrielle M. Schroeder, Dominic D'Andrea, Sophie Meade, Pearl Rivers, Troy G. Murphy

Biology Faculty Research

Social defeat induces stress-responses in a wide array of vertebrates and can generate winner-loser effects. Dynamic condition-dependent signaling systems that reflect preparation for subsequent agonistic interactions, and thereby mediate winner-loser effects, should be more sensitive to competitive history than to non-social sources of stress. Bill color of female American goldfinches (Spinus tristus) is a dynamic condition-dependent ornament that functions as a signal of competitive status and mediates intrasexual agonistic social interactions. We tested the “social experience signaling hypothesis” in female goldfinches by (1) manipulating a non-social energetic stressor by experimentally elevating flight costs via wing-clipping in free-ranging birds, …

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Anticancer Activities Of Resveratrol In Colorectal Cancer, Evelien Schaafsma, Tze-Chen Hsieh, Barbara B. Doonan, John T. Pinto, Joseph M. Wu Jun 2016

Anticancer Activities Of Resveratrol In Colorectal Cancer, Evelien Schaafsma, Tze-Chen Hsieh, Barbara B. Doonan, John T. Pinto, Joseph M. Wu

NYMC Faculty Publications

Resveratrol (3,5,4′-trihydroxy-trans-stilbene) is a dietary polyphenolic phytochemical that has demonstrated health benefits such as cardioprotection, the prevention of neurodegeneration and chemoprevention. Resveratrol has shown great potential in the prevention and treatment of carcinomas and clinical trials support resveratrol as anticancer compound in colorectal carcinoma. Colorectal cancer remains a major cause of cancer-related deaths for both men and women in industrialized countries. Because of this widespread prevalence, identifying major risk factors and initiating colorectal screening procedures provide the distinct advantage for recognizing early disease and addressing treatable forms of CRC. Epidemiological studies of fruit and vegetable consumption in relationship to developing …

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Rna-Seq Based Analysis Of Population Structure Within The Maize Inbred B73, Zhikai Liang, James C. Schnable Jun 2016

Rna-Seq Based Analysis Of Population Structure Within The Maize Inbred B73, Zhikai Liang, James C. Schnable

Center for Plant Science Innovation: Faculty Publications

Recent reports have shown than many identically named genetic lines used in research around the world actually contain large amounts of uncharacterized genetic variation as a result of cross contamination of stocks, unintentional crossing, residual heterozygosity within original stocks, or de novo mutation. 27 public, large scale, RNA-seq datasets from 20 independent research groups around the world were used to assess variation within the maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) inbred B73, a four decade old variety which served as the reference genotype for the original maize genome sequencing project and is widely used in genetic, genomic, and phenotypic research. Several …

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Unh Fairchild Dairy Receives 2015 Quality Milk Award, Lori Wright Jun 2016

Unh Fairchild Dairy Receives 2015 Quality Milk Award, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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Deep Skull From Niah Cave And The Pleistocene Peopling Of Southeast Asia., Darren Curnoe, Ipoi Datan, Paul S. C. Taçon Jun 2016

Deep Skull From Niah Cave And The Pleistocene Peopling Of Southeast Asia., Darren Curnoe, Ipoi Datan, Paul S. C. Taçon

KIP Articles

The Deep Skull from Niah Cave in Sarawak (Malaysia) is the oldest anatomically modern human recovered from island Southeast Asia. For more than 50 years its relevance to tracing the prehistory of the region has been controversial. The most widely held view, originating with Brothwell's 1960 description and analysis, is that the Niah individual is related to Indigenous Australians. Here we undertake a new assessment of the Deep Skull and consider its bearing on this question. In doing so, we provide a new and comprehensive description of the cranium including a reassessment of its ontogenetic age, sex, morphology, and affinities. …

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Bat–Man Disease Transmission: Zoonotic Pathogens From Wildlife Reservoirs To Human Populations, N. Allocati, A. G. Petrucci, P. Di Giovanni Jun 2016

Bat–Man Disease Transmission: Zoonotic Pathogens From Wildlife Reservoirs To Human Populations, N. Allocati, A. G. Petrucci, P. Di Giovanni

KIP Articles

Bats are natural reservoir hosts and sources of infection of several microorganisms, many of which cause severe human diseases. Because of contact between bats and other animals, including humans, the possibility exists for additional interspecies transmissions and resulting disease outbreaks. The purpose of this article is to supply an overview on the main pathogens isolated from bats that have the potential to cause disease in humans.

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The Right To Destroy Under Droit D’Auteur: A Theoretical Moral Right Or A Tool Of Art Speech?, Sofie G. Syed Jun 2016

The Right To Destroy Under Droit D’Auteur: A Theoretical Moral Right Or A Tool Of Art Speech?, Sofie G. Syed

Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property

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Editorial: Ethylene’S Role In Plant Mineral Nutrition, Francisco J. Romera, Aaron P. Smith, Rafael Pérez-Vicente Jun 2016

Editorial: Ethylene’S Role In Plant Mineral Nutrition, Francisco J. Romera, Aaron P. Smith, Rafael Pérez-Vicente

Faculty Publications

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Unh Fairchild Dairy Receives 2015 Quality Milk Award From Dairy One, Lori Tyler Gula Jun 2016

Unh Fairchild Dairy Receives 2015 Quality Milk Award From Dairy One, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Nectar Bats And Their Flowers Across Cloud Forests Of Ecuador And The Effect Of Artificial Nectar Feeders, Nora Rossana Maguina Conde Jun 2016

Nectar Bats And Their Flowers Across Cloud Forests Of Ecuador And The Effect Of Artificial Nectar Feeders, Nora Rossana Maguina Conde

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Plant-pollinator interactions are important because they determine the reproductive success of animal-pollinated plant species, and contribute to speciation in plants and to the maintenance of biodiversity in the ecosystems. Plants pollinated by bats possess unique characteristics to attract them in order to be successfully pollinated. Also, pollinator bats have evolved several adaptations to feed from nectar and pollen. It is important to register and study these interactions, but also to analyze which activities could threaten them, in order to conduct optimal management decisions for their conservation. Our study addressed two topics related to bat-plant interactions. The first chapter is about …

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Deep Skull From Niah Cave And The Pleistocene Peopling Of Southeast Asia, Darren Curnoe, Ipoi Datan, Paul S. C. Taçon Jun 2016

Deep Skull From Niah Cave And The Pleistocene Peopling Of Southeast Asia, Darren Curnoe, Ipoi Datan, Paul S. C. Taçon

KIP Articles

The Deep Skull from Niah Cave in Sarawak (Malaysia) is the oldest anatomically modern human recovered from island Southeast Asia. For more than 50 years its relevance to tracing the prehistory of the region has been controversial. The most widely held view, originating with Brothwell's 1960 description and analysis, is that the Niah individual is related to Indigenous Australians. Here we undertake a new assessment of the Deep Skull and consider its bearing on this question. In doing so, we provide a new and comprehensive description of the cranium including a reassessment of its ontogenetic age, sex, morphology, and affinities. …

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Ventriculomegaly In Aging, Injury And Disease, Rebecca Acabchuk Phd Jun 2016

Ventriculomegaly In Aging, Injury And Disease, Rebecca Acabchuk Phd

Doctoral Dissertations

The brain’s ventricular system provides essential functions to the central nervous system, which include nutrient and signal delivery, waste clearance, and homeostatic regulation of critical factors, and waste clearance. It is therefore surprising that most studies neglect to consider the ventricular system and its ependymal lining in the etiology of neurodegenerative disease. Here, we investigate changes that occur to the brain in aging, injury and disease from the perspective of the ventricular system, its ependymal lining and surrounding periventricular structures. Using a combination of post-mortem human tissue, neuro-imaging and mouse models, our studies highlight the importance of maintaining a healthy …

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Optical Closure In Marine Waters From In Situ Inherent Optical Property Measurements, Ina Lefering, Fethi Bengil, Charles Trees, Rüdiger Röttgers, David Bowers, Alex Nimmo-Smith, Jill Schwarz, David Mckee Jun 2016

Optical Closure In Marine Waters From In Situ Inherent Optical Property Measurements, Ina Lefering, Fethi Bengil, Charles Trees, Rüdiger Röttgers, David Bowers, Alex Nimmo-Smith, Jill Schwarz, David Mckee

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Optical closure using radiative transfer simulations can be used to determine the consistency of in situ measurements of inherent optical properties (IOPs) and radiometry. Three scattering corrections are applied to in situ absorption and attenuation profile data for a range of coastal and oceanic waters, but are found to have only very limited impact on subsequent closure attempts for these stations. Best-fit regressions on log-transformed measured and modelled downwards irradiance, Ed, and upwards radiance, Lu, profiles have median slopes between 0.92 – 1.24, revealing a tendency to underestimate Ed and Lu with depth. This is only partly explained by non-inclusion …

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Biophysical Characterization And Theoretical Analysis Of Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cell Interactions With Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide) Hydrogels, Michael C. Cross Jun 2016

Biophysical Characterization And Theoretical Analysis Of Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cell Interactions With Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide) Hydrogels, Michael C. Cross

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

So-called, “Dynamic biomaterials” comprised of stimuli-responsive hydrogels are useful in a wide variety of biomedical applications including tissue engineering, drug delivery, and biomedical implants. More than 150,000 peer-reviewed articles (as of 2016) have been published on these materials, and more specifically, over 100,000 of these are on the most widely studied, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide). This thermoresponsive polymer in a crosslinked hydrogel network undergoes a large volume phase transition (𝑉/𝑉0 ~ 10 − 100) within a small temperature range (𝑇 ~ 1 − 3𝐾) making it particularly useful for tissue engineering applications because of the ability to control the topographical configuration of …

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Intrinsic Disorder Where You Least Expect It: The Incidence And Functional Relevance Of Intrinsic Disorder In Enzymes And The Protein Data Bank, Shelly Deforte Jun 2016

Intrinsic Disorder Where You Least Expect It: The Incidence And Functional Relevance Of Intrinsic Disorder In Enzymes And The Protein Data Bank, Shelly Deforte

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDPRs) exist as interconverting conformational ensembles, without a single fixed three-dimensional structure in vivo. The focus in the literature up to this point has been primarily on IDPs that are mostly or entirely disordered. Therefore, we have an incomplete understanding of the incidence and functional relevance of IDPRs in proteins that have regions of both order and disorder. This work explores these populations, by examining IDPRs in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and in enzymes. By applying disorder prediction methods combined with an analysis of missing regions in crystal structure data, …

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Blind And Visually Impaired Users Adaptation To Web Environments: A Qualitative Study, Raneem Saqr Jun 2016

Blind And Visually Impaired Users Adaptation To Web Environments: A Qualitative Study, Raneem Saqr

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Although much research exists on human behavior in online environments, research on users with disabilities is still rare. To draw more attention to this population, this dissertation explored browsing patterns and adaptive behaviors of people with visual disability across different online environments common in daily activities: social network, e-commerce, online information, and search engines’ websites. The main objective of this study is to propose a conceptual framework of how blind and visually impaired users browse and adapt to different web environments. We achieve this objective using a qualitative approach through three studies. In the first study, the researchers collect data …

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Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol Protects Against Mpp+ Toxicity In Sh-Sy5y Cells By Restoring Proteins Involved In Mitochondrial Biogenesis, Marie Louise Zeissler, Jordan Eastwood, Kieran Mccorry, Oliver O. Hanemann, John P. Zajicek, Camille B. Carroll Jun 2016

Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol Protects Against Mpp+ Toxicity In Sh-Sy5y Cells By Restoring Proteins Involved In Mitochondrial Biogenesis, Marie Louise Zeissler, Jordan Eastwood, Kieran Mccorry, Oliver O. Hanemann, John P. Zajicek, Camille B. Carroll

Peninsula Medical School

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The Importance Of Music Festivals: An Unanticipated And Underappreciated Path To Identity Formation, Kimberly F. Rudolph Jun 2016

The Importance Of Music Festivals: An Unanticipated And Underappreciated Path To Identity Formation, Kimberly F. Rudolph

Honors College Theses

The purpose of this study is to understand and explain the growing popularity of music and art festivals around the world. Music festivals are events consisting of a variety of bands and musical artists performing shows, on numerous stages, over a period of days to a large audience in outside and inside venues. Through field research, participant-observation, personal interviews, and survey research at the 2015 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, this study suggests that they are much more than simple entertainment venues. Because humans desire to belong and music functions in the capacity as a global language, music festivals are …

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The Development And Initial Validation Of A Multidimensional Scale Of Fairness, Johnathan Harrington Duff Jun 2016

The Development And Initial Validation Of A Multidimensional Scale Of Fairness, Johnathan Harrington Duff

Open Access Dissertations

Investigations in a variety of disciplines have identified associations between fair treatment and human health and well-being. However, the lack of a valid and practical instrument for assessing individual experiences of fair treatment has limited researchers’ ability to study this construct. The purpose of this study was to develop and establish the preliminary validity of a scale measuring personal experiences of fairness across various ecological levels. The two phases of this study were scale development and scale validation. Scale development included the generation of items, item revision, and analysis of content validity. A review of existing literature and qualitative data …

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Muscle Activation Differs Between Three Different Knee Joint-Angle Positions During A Maximal Isometric Back Squat Exercise, Paulo Henrique Marchetti, Josinaldo Jarbas Da Silva, Brad J. Schoenfeld, Priscyla Silva Monteiro Nardi, Silvio Luis Pecoraro, Julia Maria D'Andrea Greve, Erin Hartigan Jun 2016

Muscle Activation Differs Between Three Different Knee Joint-Angle Positions During A Maximal Isometric Back Squat Exercise, Paulo Henrique Marchetti, Josinaldo Jarbas Da Silva, Brad J. Schoenfeld, Priscyla Silva Monteiro Nardi, Silvio Luis Pecoraro, Julia Maria D'Andrea Greve, Erin Hartigan

Publications and Research

The purpose of this study was to compare muscle activation of the lower limb muscles when performing a maximal isometric back squat exercise over three different positions. Fifteen young, healthy, resistance-trained men performed an isometric back squat at three knee joint angles (20∘, 90∘, and 140∘) in a randomized, counterbalanced fashion. Surface electromyography was used to measure muscle activation of the vastus lateralis (VL), vastus medialis (VM), rectus femoris (RF), biceps femoris (BF), semitendinosus (ST), and gluteusmaximus (GM). In general,muscle activity was the highest at 90∘ for the three quadricepsmuscles, yet differences in muscle activation between knee angles were muscle …

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Dynamics Of Resprouting And Forest Regeneration Following Anthropogenic Land Use In The Central Amazon Basin, Scott Lawrence Kosiba Jun 2016

Dynamics Of Resprouting And Forest Regeneration Following Anthropogenic Land Use In The Central Amazon Basin, Scott Lawrence Kosiba

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Tree mortality is increasing with the effects of climate change and drought across the Amazon Basin while intense fires are becoming more prevalent. Tropical moist forest trees generally lack adaptations that protect against mortality during an intense fire, so anthropogenic burning typically kills high percentages of trees. Following disturbances where prescribed burning is used to limit woody encroachment and to fertilize the soil, abandoned land in central Amazonia becomes dominated by the pioneer tree genus, Vismia. Although the mechanisms by which Vismia comes to dominate previously-burned areas are not known, previous studies on anthropogenic land use and forest succession …

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Longitudinal Success Of Calculus I Reform, Doug Bullock, Kathrine E. Johnson, Janet Callahan Jun 2016

Longitudinal Success Of Calculus I Reform, Doug Bullock, Kathrine E. Johnson, Janet Callahan

Mathematics Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper describes the second year of an ongoing project to transform calculus instruction at Boise State University. Over the past several years, Calculus I has undergone a complete overhaul that has involved a movement from a collection of independent, uncoordinated, personalized, lecture-based sections, into a single coherent multi-section course with an activelearning pedagogical approach. The overhaul also significantly impacted the course content and learning objectives. The project is now in its fifth semester and has reached a steady state where the reformed practices are normative within the subset of instructors who might be called upon to teach Calculus I. …

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Bacteriological Study For Some Aerobic Bacteria Contaminated The Post–Operative Wounds, Shaimaa M.S. Zain Ulabdeen Jun 2016

Bacteriological Study For Some Aerobic Bacteria Contaminated The Post–Operative Wounds, Shaimaa M.S. Zain Ulabdeen

Muthanna Medical Journal

This study include isolation and diagnoses of some aerobic bacteria contaminated the post–operative wounds from infected wounds,100 samples were collected from surgery units of teaching hospital, and Al-Samawah general hospital during September 2014 to February 2015, then the samples cultured on various media (Blood agar, MacConkey agar,chrom agar). Our results showed that from 100 samples included, 73(73%) had growth and 27(27%) had no growth. Further, the present data reported that S. aureusas the commonest isolate at percentage (23.2%),followed by Staphylococcus epidermidis (20.6%), Escherichia coli (12.3%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus mirabil, Klebsiellapneumoniae (8.2%), Enterococcus faecalis (6.8%),Citrobactersp (2.7%) and Klebsiella oxytoca, Serratiamarcescens, Acinetobactersp …

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Should The State Aid Private Schools?, Robert F. Drinan, S.J. Jun 2016

Should The State Aid Private Schools?, Robert F. Drinan, S.J.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

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Church And State; Natural Law; Jurisprudence; St. Thomas More; Bishop John J. Wright; Civil Rights; Mental Disease; Abortion Legislation; Sterilization Laws Jun 2016

Church And State; Natural Law; Jurisprudence; St. Thomas More; Bishop John J. Wright; Civil Rights; Mental Disease; Abortion Legislation; Sterilization Laws

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

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The Reptiles Of Paraguay: Literature, Distribution, And An Annotated Taxonomic Checklist, Pier Cacciali, Norman J. Scott, Aida Luz Aquino Ortíz, Lee A. Fitzgerald, Paul Smith Jun 2016

The Reptiles Of Paraguay: Literature, Distribution, And An Annotated Taxonomic Checklist, Pier Cacciali, Norman J. Scott, Aida Luz Aquino Ortíz, Lee A. Fitzgerald, Paul Smith

Special Publications

Our goal is to provide a current list of reptile species of Paraguay, with maps of their known occurrences. Surprisingly little research has been conducted on the reptile fauna of Paraguay. In contrast, Brazil and Argentina have a long history of herpetological investigation, each country having produced hundreds of publications on reptiles and amphibians in the last century. Paraguay, lying between the two countries, has been the focus of only a handful of investigators, mostly foreign, and there have been few publications on the herpetofauna. This checklist of reptiles in Paraguay will enhance understanding of biogeographic linkages between reptile faunas …

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Discovering Potential Protein, Carbohydrate, And Lipid Based Food Ingredients In A Co-Culture Of Microalgae, Chelsea Tyus Jun 2016

Discovering Potential Protein, Carbohydrate, And Lipid Based Food Ingredients In A Co-Culture Of Microalgae, Chelsea Tyus

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Louisiana Native Co-Culture of Microalgae (Chlorella Vulgaris L. and Cyanobacteria Leptolyngbya sp.) (CCA) was studied. CCA is a viable coculture for further investigation as a food component. This research characterized the proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids present in CCA. Algae cultivation parameters were controlled and analyzed. Treatment (Trt) 1 was CCA grown in cultures exposed to average scalar irradiance (ASI) of 1041 ± 269.18 μmol m-2 s-1 PAR and trt 2 was CCA grown in cultures exposed to ASI of 430 ± 96.03 μmol m-2 s-1 PAR. The trt (irradiance exposure) had the desired response on CCA species ratio Trt …

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A New Materialist Approach To Visual Rhetoric In Photoshopbattles, Jonathan Paul Ray Jun 2016

A New Materialist Approach To Visual Rhetoric In Photoshopbattles, Jonathan Paul Ray

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this project is to examine the visual rhetoric of one online community. Drawing heavily from the work of Laurie Gries (2015), I track the evolution of an image as it circulates through a forum of photo manipulators in the group “PhotoShopBattles.” While Gries’ work traced the evolution of the iconic Obama Hope poster and its iterations in various media, this project restricts its observations to the images posted to one webpage, focusing on one evolutionary chain. By narrowing the focus to one internet forum page that evolved over the course of one week, we can observe linear …

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Teaching Science Teachers In An Online Context With A Constructivist Approach, Frederick W. Freking, Jenny D. Ingber Jun 2016

Teaching Science Teachers In An Online Context With A Constructivist Approach, Frederick W. Freking, Jenny D. Ingber

Occasional Paper Series

The authors discuss the development of an online STEM-based teacher education program, providing a template for the inclusion of constructivist practices, such as course activities and student teaching.

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Fostering Student Engagement: Creating A Culture Of Learning Online, Robin G. Isserles Jun 2016

Fostering Student Engagement: Creating A Culture Of Learning Online, Robin G. Isserles

Occasional Paper Series

The author addresses the ways in which distance learning offers possibilities for mitigating inequitable access to higher education — supporting community college students’ ability to take ownership of their learning, and encouraging them to think critically about what they are learning.

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