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Developing a pedagogy of risk in socio-scientific issues

science instruction

Kent P, Levinson R, Pratt D.
GSID: 3iFBB71wAAQJ
R Levinson, P Kent, D Pratt, R Kapadia… - Journal of Biological …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis

The aim of this research is to develop principles for a pedagogy of risk in socio-scientific issues. Risk is challenging to teach because of its contested conceptual basis incorporating …

Fieldwork in geography teaching: A critical review of the literature and approaches

discipline specific instruction (e.g., engineering curriculum, social science teachers, geology pedagogy)

Hunt CO, Kent M.
GSID: mfdN71u8W9EJ
M Kent, DD Gilbertson, CO Hunt - Journal of geography in higher …, 1997 - Taylor & Francis

Virtually all lecturers in geography recognise the importance of fieldwork as a vital mode of teaching in the subject. This paper draws on material produced as part of a HEFCE review of …

RNA-Seq Study of Microbially Induced Hemocyte Transcripts from Larval Heliothis virescens (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).

Insects

Shelby KS, Popham HJ.
PMID: 26466627
Insects. 2012 Aug 14;3(3):743-62. doi: 10.3390/insects3030743.

Larvae of the tobacco budworm are major polyphagous pests throughout the Americas. Development of effective microbial biopesticides for this and related noctuid pests has been stymied by the natural resistance mediated innate immune response. Hemocytes play an early and...

Experimental bit commitment based on quantum communication and special relativity.

Physical review letters

Lunghi T, Kaniewski J, Bussières F, Houlmann R, Tomamichel M, Kent A, Gisin N, Wehner S, Zbinden H.
PMID: 24237497
Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Nov 01;111(18):180504. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.180504. Epub 2013 Nov 01.

Bit commitment is a fundamental cryptographic primitive in which Bob wishes to commit a secret bit to Alice. Perfectly secure bit commitment between two mistrustful parties is impossible through asynchronous exchange of quantum information. Perfect security is however possible...

Prevalence of iodine deficiency among adult population residing in Rural Ballabgarh, district Faridabad, Haryana.

Indian journal of public health

Lohiya A, Yadav K, Kant S, Kumar R, Pandav CS.
PMID: 26584174
Indian J Public Health. 2015 Oct-Dec;59(4):314-7. doi: 10.4103/0019-557X.169668.

Community-based surveys are essential to monitor iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) program at both the state and national levels. There is paucity of information on population iodine nutrition status in Haryana state using standard methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted...

Enhanced recovery principles applied to revision hip and knee arthroplasty reduces length of stay and blood transfusion.

Journal of orthopaedics

Kent M, Calvert N, Blades K, Swann A, Yates P.
PMID: 28878516
J Orthop. 2017 Aug 12;14(4):555-560. doi: 10.1016/j.jor.2017.08.012. eCollection 2017 Dec.

INTRODUCTION: This is the first study reporting the application of Enhanced Recovery Principles (ERP) to revision arthroplasty.METHOD: Retrospective series of 132 revision hip and knee replacements treated with ERP.RESULTS: Infiltration was associated with reduced LOS in knees (6 vs...

Long-term clinical benefit and cost-effectiveness of an 8-week multimodal knee osteoarthritis management program incorporating intra-articular sodium hyaluronate (Hyalgan.

Journal of pain research

Miller LE, Sloniewsky MJ, Gibbons TE, Johnston JG, Vosler KD, Nasir S.
PMID: 28503072
J Pain Res. 2017 May 05;10:1045-1054. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S132497. eCollection 2017.

BACKGROUND: Given the poor long-term effectiveness of focused nonsurgical knee osteoarthritis (OA) treatments, alternative therapies are needed for patients who have unsuccessfully exhausted nonsurgical options.METHODS: A telephone interview was conducted in patients who participated in a single 8-week multimodal...

Germline whole exome sequencing and large-scale replication identifies .

Oncotarget

Dicks E, Song H, Ramus SJ, Oudenhove EV, Tyrer JP, Intermaggio MP, Kar S, Harrington P, Bowtell DD, Group AS, Cicek MS, Cunningham JM, Fridley BL, Alsop J, Jimenez-Linan M, Piskorz A, Goranova T, Kent E, Siddiqui N, Paul J, Crawford R, Poblete S, Lele S, Sucheston-Campbell L, Moysich KB, Sieh W, McGuire V, Lester J, Odunsi K, Whittemore AS, Bogdanova N, Dürst M, Hillemanns P, Karlan BY, Gentry-Maharaj A, Menon U, Tischkowitz M, Levine D, Brenton JD, Dörk T, Goode EL, Gayther SA, Pharoah DPP.
PMID: 28881617
Oncotarget. 2017 Mar 03;8(31):50930-50940. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.15871. eCollection 2017 Aug 01.

We analyzed whole exome sequencing data in germline DNA from 412 high grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) cases from The Cancer Genome Atlas Project and identified 5,517 genes harboring a predicted deleterious germline coding mutation in at least one...

A Simple and Inexpensive Stereotactic Guidance Frame for MRI-Guided Brain Biopsy in Canines.

Journal of medical engineering

Squires AD, Gao Y, Taylor SF, Kent M, Tse ZT.
PMID: 27006928
J Med Eng. 2014;2014:139535. doi: 10.1155/2014/139535. Epub 2014 May 18.

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guided stereotactic system was developed to provide veterinarians a method to accomplish minimally invasive stereotactic brain biopsies and procedures involving the cerebrum in canines. While MR-guided procedures are prevalent for humans, they are less...

Accuracy of Physical Self-Description Among Chronic Exercisers and Non-Exercisers.

Health psychology research

Berning JM, DeBeliso M, Sevene TG, Adams KJ, Salmon P, Stamford BA.
PMID: 26973947
Health Psychol Res. 2014 Oct 22;2(3):1746. doi: 10.4081/hpr.2014.1746. eCollection 2014 Nov 06.

This study addressed the role of chronic exercise to enhance physical self-description as measured by self-estimated percent body fat. Accuracy of physical self-description was determined in normal-weight, regularly exercising and non-exercising males with similar body mass index (BMI)'s and...

Hepatitis C and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Kidney Transplantation: The Mount Sinai Experience.

Clinical transplants

Nair V, Khaim R, El-Salem F, Kent R, Lerner S, Berger A, Miko L, Rollins B, Ebcioglu Z, Delaney V, Sehgal V, Menon M, Ames S, Benvenisty A, Wadhera V, Arvelakas A, Schiano T, Rana M, Huprikar S, Florman S, Shapiro R.
PMID: 28514569
Clin Transpl. 2015;31:69-78.

Mount Sinai Hospital in New York has a long history in the field of organ transplantation. The first kidney transplant at Mount Sinai was performed in 1967 by the late Dr. Lewis Burrows and the first laparoscopic donor nephrectomy...

In vivo imaging reveals rapid astrocyte depletion and axon damage in a model of neuromyelitis optica-related pathology.

Annals of neurology

Herwerth M, Kalluri SR, Srivastava R, Kleele T, Kenet S, Illes Z, Merkler D, Bennett JL, Misgeld T, Hemmer B.
PMID: 26946517
Ann Neurol. 2016 May;79(5):794-805. doi: 10.1002/ana.24630. Epub 2016 Apr 18.

OBJECTIVE: Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, which resembles multiple sclerosis (MS). NMO differs from MS, however, in the distribution and histology of neuroinflammatory lesions and shows a more aggressive clinical course. Moreover,...

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