Teaching thinking skills.
A course was developed to teach cognitive skills that apply to learning and intellectual performance independently of subject matter, stressing observation and classification, r...
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Reduced Vitamin D in Acute Stroke
Background and Purpose— Stroke leads to a reduction in bone mineral density, altered calcium homeostasis, and an increase in hip fractures. Vitamin D deficiency is well document...
Characterization of the integrin alpha v beta 6 as a fibronectin-binding protein.
Integrins are a complex family of divalent cation-dependent cell adhesion receptors composed of one alpha and one beta subunit noncovalently bound to one another. A subset of in...
The relationship of worker productivity to cognitive dissonance about wage inequities.
2 hypotheses derived from dissonance theory were tested: (a) when a person is paid by the hour his productivity will be greater when he perceives his pay as inequitably large th...
Friendsickness in the Transition to College: Precollege Predictors and College Adjustment Correlates
In this study friendsickness (preoccupation with and concern for the loss of or change in precollege friendships) is seen as a significant source of distress for college student...
Chronic respiratory symptoms in children and adults living along streets with high traffic density.
OBJECTIVES: To investigate if the population living along streets with high traffic density has a higher prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms. METHODS: A sample of 673 adu...
Thermal physics of the lead chalcogenides PbS, PbSe, and PbTe from first principles
The lead chalcogenides represent an important family of functional materials,\nin particular due to the benchmark high-temperature thermoelectric performance\nof PbTe. A number ...