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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"ASK 1"”.
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The Lived Experience Of Rural CTE Teachers As Members Of The Secondary Education Teaching Corps
… corps. Guided by two research questions that ask (1) how rural CTE teachers describe their teacher professional identity and (2) how rural CTE teachers characterize the role of vocational training in secondary education, the study used transcendental phenomenology as a methodology to explicate …
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Why do medical students fail? a study of 1st year medical students and the educational context
… amongst those who fail. In this case study I ask: 1. Is there a connection between students’ ethnicity and performance in end of first year exams? 2. Is the experience of medical students at this medical school conducive to effective learning? 3. What, if anything, could be done to improve …
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Physiological costs of total cholesterol in European starlings across an urban to rural gradient
… species—across an urban and a rural site. We ask: (1) do urban starlings have elevated cholesterol, (2) does elevated cholesterol come at a physiological cost to birds, and (3) to what extent are parental and nestling cholesterol correlated? We found that starlings from urban habitats showed …
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Mobile Phones, Social Relations, and the Gatekeepers to Women's Empowerment in Maasai Households
… on women's empowerment and rural liveihoods, I ask: (1) how do women access and use phones?; and (2) how are women's phone uses embedded in existing social relations? This research relies on semi-structured interviews and household surveys conducted in the summer of 2018 to identify Maasai …
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On the market: Privatization and 'new' populations at a metropolitan school fair
… Sweden’s mature school choice policies, I ask (1) How are ethnically diverse students offered a sense of representation in Stockholm’s competitive high school market and (2) How do schools within Stockholm’s competitive school market craft their identity? Data collection consisted of …
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For My Oklahomies: Educators’ Perspectives on Policy, Public Discourse, and Professional Wellbeing
… thematic and critical policy analysis to ask: (1) How do these educators perceive and experience the influence of ultra-conservative policies and media narratives on their professional identity, relationships, and wellbeing? (2) What forms of agency, resistance, or accommodation emerge as …
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Shared landscapes : exploring the relationships between people and red kites in the UK
… As a result, my main research questions ask: 1) Is there a social shift occurring regarding people’s perceptions of red kites, and if so, what are the driving factors? and 2) How does an animal become a pest? As more people encounter wildlife, an increasing number of nonhuman animals are …
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INTRA-MITOCHONDRIAL INJURY DURING ISCHEMIA-REPERFUSION
… Oxidized Trx is inactive and unable to bind to ASK1 thereby activating ASK1 and causing cell death via p38/JNK pathways thereby contributing to the pathogenesis of myocardial ISC-REP injury. In this study we have shown that inhibition of ASK1 protects the heart during REP via the modulation of …
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Black-Affirming Curriculum: An Analysis of the Pedagogy, Sociocultural Perspectives, and Ways of Being in Out-of-School Programming
… (2022) Pro-Black Pedagogies scholarship, I ask: (1) In what ways does Black-affirming curriculum in these OST programs actively contribute to a historical, critical, and liberatory knowledge base of Black culture? (1a) What are examples of African tradition, history, language, and culture in …
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Signatures and forgeries: optimality in a coevolutionary arms race
… such as computer science and cryptography to ask (1) how could signature traits be optimised in principle; and (2) do we observe such optimality in nature? The aim of this thesis, alongside arguing for a broader definition of coevolution (Chapter 2), is to answer these two questions using a …
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Following the stone: Zimbabwean sculptors carving a place in 21st century art worlds
… Following the depreciation on the markets, I ask: (1) for what reasons do international art buyers now devalue Zimbabwean stone sculpture after having valorized it in the 1960s-80s? (2) How do Zimbabwean artists react to these vicissitudes of the international art markets? In the first half of …
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The scientific and sociocultural value of citizen science
… value in monitoring species population trends. I ask 1. Does systematic atlasing improve the temporal quality of atlas data for monitoring? and 2. Can these data detect trends in species populations and inform local response? Then, I explore values to nature expressed by atlasers and non-citizen …