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The balance model for teaching linear equations: a systematic literature review
Abstract This paper reports a systematic literature review of the balance model, an often-used aid to teach linear equations. The purpose of the review was to report why such a... -
Effects of cyanobacterial toxins on the human gastrointestinal tract and the ...
Abstract Background Cyanobacterial blooms occur with increasing frequency in freshwater ecosystems, posing a hazard to human and environmental health. Exposure of human to... -
Role and expression of <i>cry1</i> in the adductor muscle of the oyster <i>Cr...
Cryptochromes are flavin- and pterin-containing photoreceptors of the cryptochrome/photolyase family. They play critical roles in organisms, among are which light-dependent and... -
Neonatal respiratory outcomes in pregnancy induced hypertension: introducing ...
Objective: To evaluate short-term respiratory outcomes, mortality and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in preterm infants born to mothers with and without pregnancy induced... -
The effects of dislocations on crystallographic twins and domain wall motion ...
Abstract Pure magnetite experiences a first-order phase transition (the Verwey transition) near 120â 125Â K wherein the mineralâ s symmetry changes from cubic to monoclinic.... -
Attitudes of consumers and live-poultry workers to central slaughtering in co...
Abstract Background Guangdong Province in the Pearl River Delta of Southeast China is among the areas in the country with the highest rates of avian flu cases. In order to... -
The influences of group dialog on individual student understanding of science...
Abstract Background Cooperative and inquiry-based pedagogies provide a context for classroom discourse in which students develop joint understanding of subject matter knowledge.... -
Saturated absorption competition microscopy
Owing to the advantage of being non-invasive in observing living samples, far-field optical microscopy is widely used in the life sciences, but the existence of the diffraction... -
An estimate of the water budget for the endangered night parrot of Australia ...
Abstract Background Endangered species management must now incorporate the potential effects of climate change, but this is often in the context of limited data. The endangered... -
Developmental and morphological studies in Japanese medaka with ultra-high re...
We propose ultra-high resolution optical coherence tomography to study the morphological development of internal organs in medaka fish in the post-embryonic stages at micrometer... -
Modes of Shallow Photonic Crystal Waveguides: Semi-Analytic Treatment
We investigate the formation of photonic crystal waveguide (PCW) modes within the framework of perturbation theory. We derive a differential equation governing the envelope of... -
Enucleation Refusal for Retinoblastoma: A Global Study
Background: Enucleation (eye removal) is often the only curative treatment for the childhood eye cancer retinoblastoma, yet parental refusal of enucleation commonly contributes... -
Associations of childhood, maternal and household dietary patterns with child...
Abstract Background Identifying dietary patterns that consider the overall eating habits, rather than focusing on individual foods or simple counts of consumed foods, better... -
Fat mass and fat distribution are associated with low back pain intensity and...
Abstract Background Determining the association between body composition and low back pain (LBP) will improve our understanding of the mechanisms by which obesity affects LBP,... -
Low levels of pyruvate induced by a positive feedback loop protects cholangio...
Abstract Background Cancer cells avidly consume glucose and convert it to lactate, resulting in a low pyruvate level. This phenomenon is known as the Warburg effect, and is... -
On-demand virtual optical network access using 100 Gb/s Ethernet
Our Terabit LAN initiatives attempt to enhance the scalability and utilization of lambda resources. This paper describes bandwidth-on-demand virtualized 100GE access to WDM... -
Circular RNA circ-ITCH inhibits bladder cancer progression by sponging miR-17...
Abstract Background Circ-ITCH is a circRNA generated from several exons of itchy E3 ubiquitin protein ligase (ITCH) and tumor suppressor served as a sponge for certain miRNAs... -
Sparse generalized linear model with L 0 approximation f...
Abstract Background Feature selection and prediction are the most important tasks for big data mining. The common strategies for feature selection in big data mining are L 1,... -
Planning a sports training program using Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization...
Abstract Objective An effective training plan is an important factor in sports training to enhance athletic performance. A poorly considered training plan may result in injury... -
Demand-Side Energy Management under Time-Varying Prices
Under time-varying electricity prices, an end-user may be stimulated to delay exible demands that can be shifted over time. In this paper, we study the problem where each...
