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Undergraduate STEM achievement and retention: Cognitive, motivational, and institutional factors and solutions

Stem career programs

Cromley JG, Kaplan A, Perez T.
GSID: dwiEYsNA11AJ
JG Cromley, T Perez, A Kaplan - Policy Insights from the …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com

Student cognition and motivation, as well as institutional policies, determine student course grades and retention in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors. Regarding cognition, study skills relate to course grades, and grades relate to retention in STEM. Several...

How can a traditional Greek dances programme affect the motor proficiency of pre‐school children?

Pre-school

Venetsanou F, Kambas A.
GSID: qzDGCwnq5JwJ
F Venetsanou, A Kambas - Research in Dance Education, 2004 - Taylor & Francis

… The purpose of this article is to investigate the effect of an introductory traditional Greek dances programme on the motor proficiency development of pre‐school‐age children. The sample of this research consisted of 66 students (36 boys and 30...

The change in middle school students' achievement goals in mathematics over time

middle school

Kaplan A.
GSID: 764orw4dIFUJ
MJ Middleton, A Kaplan, C Midgley - Social Psychology of Education, 2004 - Springer

… achievement goals over time, we focus our work in middle school mathematics classes, in particular as students move from sixth to seventh grade within the middle school environment. …

How Instructors Can Enhance Biology Students' Motivation, Learning, and Grades through Brief Relevance Writing and Worked-Example Interventions

Stem education interventions

Kaplan A, Mara KR.
GSID: f6CP0aztpDgJ
KR Mara, A Kaplan, MJ Balsai… - … & Biology Education, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol

The high failure rate of students in “gateway” science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses has been a persistent problem for biology programs nationwide. Common wisdom contends that addressing this problem requires major curricular overhauls. While desirable, such large...

Deeper Insight into the Six-Step Domino Reaction of Aldehydes with Malononitrile and Evaluation of Antiviral and Antimalarial Activities of the Obtained Bicyclic Products.

ChemistryOpen

Bock CM, Parameshwarappa G, Bönisch S, Bauer W, Hutterer C, Leidenberger M, Friedrich O, Marschall M, Kappes B, Görling A, Tsogoeva SB.
PMID: 28638769
ChemistryOpen. 2017 Apr 26;6(3):364-374. doi: 10.1002/open.201700005. eCollection 2017 Jun.

The straightforward and efficient synthesis of complex aza- and carbobicyclic compounds, which are of importance for medicinal chemistry, is a challenge for modern chemical methodology. An unprecedented metal-free six-step domino reaction of aldehydes with malononitrile was presented in our...

H2A.Z controls the stability and mobility of nucleosomes to regulate expression of the LH genes.

Nature communications

Rudnizky S, Bavly A, Malik O, Pnueli L, Melamed P, Kaplan A.
PMID: 27653784
Nat Commun. 2016 Sep 22;7:12958. doi: 10.1038/ncomms12958.

The structure and dynamics of promoter chromatin have a profound effect on the expression levels of genes. Yet, the contribution of DNA sequence, histone post-translational modifications, histone variant usage and other factors in shaping the architecture of chromatin, and...

Structural Elucidation of a Small Molecule Inhibitor of Protein Disulfide Isomerase.

ACS medicinal chemistry letters

Kaplan A, Stockwell BR.
PMID: 26500720
ACS Med Chem Lett. 2015 Jul 29;6(9):966-971. doi: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5b00014. eCollection 2015 Sep 10.

Compound libraries provide a starting point for multiple biological investigations, but the structural integrity of compounds is rarely assessed experimentally until a late stage in the research process. Here, we describe the discovery of a neuroprotective small molecule that...

Uptake and efflux of inorganic carbon in Dunaliella salina.

Planta

Zenvirth D, Kaplan A.
PMID: 24302311
Planta. 1981 May;152(1):8-12. doi: 10.1007/BF00384977.

The apparent photosynthetic Km (CO2) of air-grown Dunaliella salina is 2 μM as measured both by the filtering centrifugation technique and by O2 electrode. These cells are capable of accumulating inorganic carbon (Cinorg) up to 20 times its concentration...

Electrical Energy Generation via Reversible Chemical Doping on Carbon Nanotube Fibers.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)

Liu AT, Kunai Y, Liu P, Kaplan A, Cottrill AL, Smith-Dell JS, Strano MS.
PMID: 27717011
Adv Mater. 2016 Nov;28(44):9752-9757. doi: 10.1002/adma.201602305. Epub 2016 Sep 22.

Chemically modified carbon nanotube fibers enable unique power sources driven entirely by a chemical potential gradient. Electrical current (11.9 μA mg

Optical characterization of directly deposited graphene on a dielectric substrate.

Optics express

Kaplas T, Karvonen L, Ahmadi S, Amirsolaimani B, Mehravar S, Peyghambarian N, Kieu K, Honkanen S, Lipsanen H, Svirko Y.
PMID: 26906863
Opt Express. 2016 Feb 08;24(3):2965-70. doi: 10.1364/OE.24.002965.

By using scanning multiphoton microscopy we compare the nonlinear optical properties of the directly deposited and transferred to the dielectric substrate graphene. The direct deposition of graphene on oxidized silicon wafer was done by utilizing sacrificial copper catalyst film....

Assessment of the Potential of CDK2 Inhibitor NU6140 to Influence the Expression of Pluripotency Markers NANOG, OCT4, and SOX2 in 2102Ep and H9 Cells.

International journal of cell biology

Kallas A, Pook M, Trei A, Maimets T.
PMID: 25477962
Int J Cell Biol. 2014;2014:280638. doi: 10.1155/2014/280638. Epub 2014 Nov 17.

As cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) regulate cell cycle progression and RNA transcription, CDKs are attractive targets for creating cancer cell treatments. In this study we investigated the effects of the small molecular agent NU6140 (inhibits CDK2 and cyclin A interaction)...

The science of emotion as a multidisciplinary research paradigm.

Behavioural processes

Kappas A.
PMID: 12426063
Behav Processes. 2002 Nov;60(2):85-98. doi: 10.1016/s0376-6357(02)00084-0.

I discuss the emergence of a science of emotion and argue that research in this domain requires an appreciation of the organization of emotional processes at different levels as postulated by social neuroscience. Emotions cannot be understood without relying...

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