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Sex differences in ability tilt in the right tail of cognitive abilities: A 35-year examination

STEM and underrepresentation

Hodges J, Makel MC, Wai J.
GSID: wPVSUNdZHzwJ
J Wai, J Hodges, MC Makel - Intelligence, 2018 - Elsevier

… between early scores in ability tilt and subsequent pursuits suggest that in addition to ability level, ability tilt should be considered when investigating female STEM underrepresentation. …

Investigating applied baccalaureate degree pathways in technician education

NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics AND Program Evaluation

Makela JP, Ruud CM.
GSID: NWvPIyC8TU8J
JP Makela, CM Ruud, S Bennett… - Urbana-Champaign, IL …, 2012 - occrl.illinois.edu

The Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is currently engaged in a four-year study of applied baccalaureate (AB) degree pathways in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and technician...

What one hundred years of research says about the effects of ability grouping and acceleration on K–12 students' academic achievement: Findings of two second …

k-12

Steenbergen-Hu S, Makel MC.
GSID: GByO_FgNyE8J
S Steenbergen-Hu, MC Makel… - Review of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com

Two second-order meta-analyses synthesized approximately 100 years of research on the effects of ability grouping and acceleration on K–12 students’ academic achievement. Outcomes of 13 ability grouping meta-analyses showed that students benefited from within-class …

Sex differences in the right tail of cognitive abilities: A 30 year examination

STEM and underrepresentation

Makel MC, Putallaz M, Wai J.
GSID: ycsER79bx4IJ
J Wai, M Cacchio, M Putallaz, MC Makel - Intelligence, 2010 - Elsevier

… We inform the debate on the underrepresentation of women in STEM by examining the male–female ratio in the right tails of mathematical reasoning, science reasoning, verbal …

Phosphoinositide 3-kinase-related overgrowth: cellular phenotype and future therapeutic options.

Lancet (London, England)

Parker VE, Knox RG, Zhang Q, Wakelam MJ, Semple RK.
PMID: 26312899
Lancet. 2015 Feb 26;385:S77. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60392-0.

BACKGROUND: Somatic activating mutations in PIK3CA, which encodes the p110α catalytic subunit of phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K) are frequently found in cancers and have been identified in a spectrum of mosaic overgrowth disorders ranging from isolated digit enlargement to more extensive...

Apolipoprotein E and colon cancer. Expression in normal and malignant human intestine and effect on cultured human colonic adenocarcinoma cells.

European journal of internal medicine

Niemi M, Hakkinen T, Karttunen TJ, Eskelinen S, Kervinen K, Savolainen MJ, Lehtola J, Makela J, Yla-Herttuala S, Kesaniemi YA.
PMID: 11836081
Eur J Intern Med. 2002 Feb;13(1):37-43. doi: 10.1016/s0953-6205(01)00191-1.

Background: Apolipoprotein E (apo E) is a key regulatory protein in lipoprotein metabolism and it is also a potent inhibitor of cell proliferation. Although genetic alterations of apo E affect enterohepatic cholesterol transport and, presumably, the risk of colon...

Humidity-dependent wetting properties of high hysteresis surfaces.

Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids

Mackel MJ, Sanchez S, Kornfield JA.
PMID: 17190476
Langmuir. 2007 Jan 02;23(1):3-7. doi: 10.1021/la0617762.

The advancing contact angle (thetaadv) of water on thin films ( approximately 1 microm) of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) with fluoroalkyl endgroups (6 kg/mol PEG with 10-carbon fluoroalkyl, denoted 6KC10) changes strongly with relative humidity (RH). Films of 6KC10 on...

Determination of the axial-vector weak coupling constant with ultracold neutrons.

Physical review letters

Liu J, Mendenhall MP, Holley AT, Back HO, Bowles TJ, Broussard LJ, Carr R, Clayton S, Currie S, Filippone BW, García A, Geltenbort P, Hickerson KP, Hoagland J, Hogan GE, Hona B, Ito TM, Liu CY, Makela M, Mammei RR, Martin JW, Melconian D, Morris CL, Pattie RW, Pérez Galván A, Pitt ML, Plaster B, Ramsey JC, Rios R, Russell R, Saunders A, Seestrom SJ, Sondheim WE, Tatar E, Vogelaar RB, VornDick B, Wrede C, Yan H, Young AR.
PMID: 21231098
Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Oct 29;105(18):181803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.181803. Epub 2010 Oct 29.

A precise measurement of the neutron decay β asymmetry A₀ has been carried out using polarized ultracold neutrons from the pulsed spallation ultracold neutron source at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. Combining data obtained in 2008 and 2009,...

Pediatricians' self-reported role in treating children and adolescents with major depressive disorder: a national random survey.

The primary care companion for CNS disorders

Pfalzgraf AR, Scott V, Makela EH, Hartsock SL, Kavookjian J, Miller LA.
PMID: 23251859
Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2012;14(4). doi: 10.4088/PCC.11m01332. Epub 2012 Jul 26.

OBJECTIVE: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a serious US public health problem for children and adolescents. This study explored pediatricians' self-reported role in treating children and adolescents with DSM-IV-TR MDD after the 2004 US Food and Drug Administration black-box...

Phospholipase D.

Seminars in cell & developmental biology

Hodgkin MN, Martin A, Saqib K, Wakelam MJ.
PMID: 10024494
Semin Cell Dev Biol. 1997 Jun;8(3):305-310. doi: 10.1006/scdb.1997.0152.

Phospholipase D catalyses the hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine to generate phosphatidate. The regulation of PLD activity is complex involving a number of small GTP binding proteins, but in particular Arf and Rho, phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate and protein kinase C. The cDNA...

Lung Abscess: An Early Complication of Lung Transplantation in a Patient with Cystic Fibrosis.

International journal of organ transplantation medicine

Markelić I, Jakopović M, Klepetko W, Džubur F, Hećimović A, Makek MJ, Samaržija M, Dugac AV.
PMID: 29321838
Int J Organ Transplant Med. 2017;8(4):213-216. Epub 2017 Nov 01.

A 22-year-old woman with cystic fibrosis (CF) developed lung abscess, as a rare complication caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR)

Correction: Deliberate reasoning is not affected by language.

PloS one

Mækelæ MJ, Pfuhl G.
PMID: 30835776
PLoS One. 2019 Mar 05;14(3):e0213609. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213609. eCollection 2019.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211428.].

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