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The Effect of Scoring Rubrics Use on Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulation
This meta-analysis explores the effect of using scoring rubrics on self-efficacy and self-regulation in K-16 formal learning settings and its potential moderators. From the literature, we identified 14 relevan...
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Open AccessThe relationship between mathematics self-efficacy and mathematics achievement: multilevel analysis with NAEP 2019
This empirical study aims to investigate the association between mathematics self-efficacy and mathematics achievement gaps among students in Grades 4, 8, and 12, utilizing data from the 2019 National Assessme...
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A meta-analysis addressing the relationship between self-regulated learning strategies and academic performance in online higher education
Research on academic performance in online education proliferated in the last decade; however, our current understanding of the relationship between self-regulated learning and academic performance in online l...
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Development of a critical appraisal tool for assessing the reporting quality of qualitative studies: a worked example
Conducting a critical appraisal is considered as one of the essential steps in any type of qualitative synthesis. While various appraisal tools are available in the literature, the reliability and validity of ...
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Open AccessA role for neutrophils in early enthesitis in spondyloarthritis
Neutrophils are present in the early phases of spondyloarthritis-related uveitis, skin and intestinal disease, but their role in enthesitis, a cardinal musculoskeletal lesion in spondyloarthritis, remains unkn...
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Relations Between Students’ Mathematics Anxiety and Motivation to Learn Mathematics: a Meta-Analysis
The current meta-analysis examined the association between K-12 students’ motivation to learn mathematics and mathematics anxiety, and explored the effects of potential moderating factors, including different ...
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Differentiation as measured by the Classroom Practices Survey: a validity study updating the original instrument
The Classroom Practices Survey assesses educators’ use of differentiated instruction with students achieving at average and high levels. The purposes of this study were to investigate if the Classroom Practice...
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Effects of kallidinogenase in patients undergoing vitrectomy for diabetic macular edema
To evaluate the effectiveness of the combination of vitrectomy with kallidinogenase for diabetic macular edema (DME).
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General Need for Autonomy and Subjective Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis of Studies in the US and East Asia
Self-determination theory proposes that human beings have universal basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, which when satisfied lead to well-being. The current meta-analysis synth...
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Open AccessChanges in choroidal thickness in patients with diabetic retinopathy
To investigate the changes in choroidal thickness (ChT) following panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) for diabetic retinopathy (DR) and compare ChT in relation to DR severity.
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Open AccessIL-17A deficiency promotes periosteal bone formation in a model of inflammatory arthritis
Interleukin-17A (IL-17A) plays a pathogenic role in several rheumatic diseases including spondyloarthritis and, paradoxically, has been described to both promote and protect from bone formation. We therefore e...
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Understanding student achievement in mathematics and science: The case of Trinidad and Tobago
This study aims to disentangle the complex relationships among student attributes, school context, and student performance in mathematics and science in Trinidad and Tobago, using the PISA 2009 data. Our findi...
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Effects of Small-Group Learning on Transfer: a Meta-Analysis
This study investigated the potential benefit of small-group learning on transfer performance using the method of meta-analysis. Results showed positive support for the hypothesis that small-group learning can...
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A Meta-Analysis on Gender Differences in Mental Rotation Ability Measured by the Purdue Spatial Visualization Tests: Visualization of Rotations (PSVT:R)
This meta-analysis was conducted to estimate the magnitude of gender difference in three-dimensional (3-D) mental rotation ability and to investigate how factors related to test administration conditions play ...
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Antigenic and genetic analysis of H3N8 influenza viruses isolated from horses in Japan and Mongolia, and imported from Canada and Belgium during 2007-2010
A/equine/Kanazawa/1/2007 (H3N8), A/equine/Hokkaido/I828/2008 (H3N8) and A/equine/Mongolia/1/2008 (H3N8) were isolated from infected horses. A/equine/Yokohama/aq19/2009 (H3N8) and A/equine/Yokohama/aq13/2010 (H...
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Co-administration of irinotecan decreases the plasma concentration of an active metabolite of amrubicin, amrubicinol in rats
This study examined the pharmacokinetics of irinotecan (CPT-11), active metabolite 7-ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin (SN-38), SN-38 glucuronide (SN-38G) amrubicin (AMR), and active metabolite amrubicinol (AMR-OH)...
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Analysis of sources of oxolinic acid-resistant field strains of Burkholderia glumae based on rep-PCR analysis and nucleotide sequences of gyrB and rpoD
Repetitive sequence-based polymerase chain reaction (rep-PCR) analysis using BOX and ERIC as primers showed a highly divergent phylogeny among field strains of Burkholderia glumae. To elucidate the sources of oxo...
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New method to detect oxolinic acid-resistant Burkholderia glumae infesting rice seeds using a mismatch amplification mutation assay polymerase chain reaction
Bacterial seedling rot and grain rot of rice caused by Burkholderia glumae are seed-borne diseases, traditionally controlled with oxolinic acid (OA). Ser83Arg and Ser83Ile substitutions in GyrA protein are common...
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The prepattern transcription factor Irx2, a target of the FGF8/MAP kinase cascade, is involved in cerebellum formation
The cerebellum develops from the rhombic lip of the rostral hindbrain and is organized by fibroblast growth factor 8 (FGF8) expressed by the isthmus. Here we report characterization of Irx2, a member of the Iroqu...
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Development of Increased Oxolinic Acid-resistance in Burkholderia glumae
Genomic DNA, partially digested with Sau3AI, of Burkholderia glumae Pg-13, resistant to oxolinic acid (OA), was ligated into pUC118, and Escherichia coli DH5α resistant to 2.5 μg/ml OA was transformed with the pl...
