de la Cita, Lara Llandres, Mercedes Buscalioni, Ángela D.
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Geoheritage
Cuenca, a small city with a rich historical and palaeontological heritage, is the ideal location to explore how the scientific knowledge of its inhabitants has changed over the years. In 2010 and 2019, two surveys were conducted on the streets of Cuenca to characterise their scientific profiles and how they perceive heritage outreach initiatives in...
Gewin, Virginia
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Nature
Loredana Bessone instructs astronauts on living in space, walking on the Moon’s surface and choosing rock samples for analysis.
Padma, T. V.
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Nature
Since lockdowns closed classrooms and labs, scientists have devised online activities to inspire the next generation of researchers.
Bryan, Gemma Kelly, Paula Chesters, Heather Franklin, Jayne Griffiths, Helen Langton, Loveday Langton, Luke Wakefield, Claire E. Gibson, Faith
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Systematic Reviews
BackgroundCancer diagnosis in childhood or adolescence impacts significantly on school attendance, experience and educational outcomes. While there is longstanding recognition in clinical practice that these effects span the whole illness trajectory and continue beyond treatment completion, further clarity is required on the specific barriers and f...
Garcia-Ortega, Beatriz Galan-Cubillo, Javier
This paper examines the perceptions of a group of students of a Postgraduate Master’s Degree in Cosmetics Industry at the Universitat de València, delivered with a blended learning modality, in relation to their experience in face-to-face learning and differentiating between those with or without a previous background in a remote online learning en...
Feinkohl, Insa Kozma, Petra Borchers, Friedrich van Montfort, Simone J. T. Kruppa, Jochen Winterer, Georg Spies, Claudia Pischon, Tobias
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BMC Geriatrics
BackgroundStudies suggest that a higher education and occupation are each associated with a higher late-life cognitive ability, but their inter-relationships in their association with cognitive ability and the contribution of peak IQ in young adulthood (‘pre-morbid IQ’) often remain unclear.MethodsCross-sectional analysis of 623 participants aged ≥...
Hiller, David
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Nature
David Hiller finds that the joy of exploring maths and science with kids rivals his best days in the lab.
Jafari, Alireza Alami, Ali Charoghchian, Elham Delshad Noghabi, Ali Nejatian, Mahbobeh
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BMC Women's Health
BackgroundThis study aimed to determine the impact of effective communication skills training intervention on the marital burnout among married women referring to health centers.MethodsIn this quasi-experimental study, 94 participants were selected from a descriptive study from among 936 married women referring to health centers who had a high rate...
Yeung, Euson Carlin, Leslie Sandassie, Samantha Jaglal, Susan
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Innovation and Education
There is a growing need to address today’s “wicked problems” seen in issues such as social justice, global climate crisis and endemic health concerns. Wicked problems are those for which there is no single, clear or optimal solution and thus are amenable to transdisciplinary solutions. Working in a transdisciplinary paradigm is thus seen as an incr...
Nakanishi, Ryota Fukunaga, Yosuke Mukai, Toshiki Nagasaki, Toshiya Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Akiyoshi, Takashi Konishi, Tsuyoshi Nagayama, Satoshi Ueno, Masashi
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Surgical endoscopy
Acquiring appropriate laparoscopic technique is necessary to safely perform laparoscopic surgery. The Endoscopic Surgical Skill Qualification System of the Japanese Society of Endoscopic Surgery, which was established to improve the quality of laparoscopic surgery in Japan, provides training to become an expert laparoscopic surgeon. In this study, ...
