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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Persisters"”.
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Transient Metabolic Alterations Induced by Chemotherapeutics in Cancer Persisters
… of novel treatment strategies that target persisters and enhance cancer therapy. In our first project, we treated melanoma cells with various conventional chemotherapeutic agents and showed that melanoma persister cells are not necessarily preexisting dormant cells. In fact, our data …
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Two faces of urban high school students: Characteristics of dropouts and persisters
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A Study of the Relationship Between the Characteristics of Persisters Andnonpersisters in an Educational Opportunity Program
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Profiles of Persistence: A qualitative Study of undergraduate Women in Engineering
… women from rural geographical areas, and non-persisters were investigated. A developmental life-span and social learning perspective called for an examination of factors relevant to engineering major choice and persistence from early childhood to the present time, including family background …
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Attributes of Undergraduates Majoring in Scientific and Technological Disciplines: Perseverance and Commitments
… determine the characteristics that distinguished persisters from nonpersisters in the fields of science and technology; second, to determine the effects of sex, college choice, parental income, parental educational background, GPA, and academic and social integration factors on persistence; and …
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A Qualitative Study on African American and Caribbean Black Males' Experience in a College of Aeronautical Science
… as a major and piloting as a career. Eleven (11) persisters and 4 non-persisters participated in the study, which centered around a premier aeronautical university in the southeastern part of the United States. Questions guiding the study were: (1) What experiences have been influential in a small …
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Analysis of the D/I, T/P Interest Dimensions as Related to Persistence in a College Major
… and were college seniors 4 years later, (1097 persisters, 2515 non-persisters) were analyzed. Individual coordinate points on the WWM were calculated by converting interest scores, using the present ACT conversion formula, to locations on the grid formed by the Data/Ideas (D/I), People/Things …
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Academic Persistence and Attrition Among Freshman Traditional and Non-Traditional Students at a Public Midwestern Commuter University
… of the five scales did not differentiate between persisters and non-persisters; however, interaction effects were found between type of student and level of persistence on two of the five scales, and only one scale differentiated between persister/nonpersister students by …
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Use of the College Student Inventory to Predict At-Risk Student Success and Persistence at a Metropolitan University
… as factors classified 95% of all subjects as persisters. By the end of the 4th year, the factors were able to predict correct classification of both persisters and nonpersisters approximately 24% better than chance. This research provides support for Tinto's institutional departure model, …
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Dropout and Resilient Students: A Focus on a Chicago Urban High School
This study concerns interviews of high school persisters, transfer students, and dropouts. The intention of this research was to examine reasons why some students at a Chicago urban high school succumb to the negative influences of their environment and drop out or transfer while other students …
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Achievement Orientations and Sport Behavior of Males and Females
… task, social approval) could discriminate persisters in sport from dropouts. A secondary purpose was to determine if males and females defined achievement similarly. Specifically, achievement was defined in terms of the antecedents and consequents of success and failure in both general …
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Differential Expression Analysis of Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Genes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 under Different Environmental Conditions
… genetically acquired antibiotic resistance. Persisters are the subpopulation of a clonal bacterial population, which can survive environmental extremes and become invulnerable to stresses due to limited metabolic activities and physiological functions. Cognate toxin and antitoxin (TA) pairs, …
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Agency in the Midst of Illness Uncertainty: How Women and Families Live without a Diagnosis
… Uncertainty, women were Doubters, Resisters, Persisters, or Burnouts; all women experienced a paradigm shift regarding the Western health system as a result of their experiences. This research adds to the knowledge base on individuals who occupy spaces between the legitimized, diagnosable ill …
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Smart microscopy methods for quantitative microbiology
… scale revealed that under ampicillin treatment, persisters are predominantly slow-growing rather than dormant. We also find that a significant number of viable but non-culturable cells show signs of growth but are likely induced by antibiotics, while some cells which have VBNC like properties are …
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Grit, mindsets, and persistence of engineering students
… departers experience are not unique to them; persisters share the same kinds of problems. To better understand the experience of persisters, I explored the experiences of persisting engineering students who had previously failed a required technical course. I used phenomenography as the …
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Quinolone mechanism of action: sensitivity, mutagenesis and tolerance
… points to drug-tolerant cells, also called persisters, to be a major cause of treatment failure and chronic and recurring infections It is imperative that we develop insight and methods to prevent the spread of antimicrobial resistance and combat antimicrobial tolerance. One key effort is …
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Adult basic education student persistence: A case study approach in a Saskatchewan context
… et al.’s (2023) study included ABE student persisters from southwestern Saskatchewan and found three themes: external factors, educational experiences, and personal experiences. Holland (2003) determined that prior school experiences, achievement tests, career goals, and external support …
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Factors that enhance the ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to resist the action of antibiotics
… of the so called “persister” phenotype. These persisters are sub populations of cells that showed a reduction in bacterial cell size as evidenced from the flow cytometry output as well as being slow growing and resistant ii. extracellular polymeric fibrils were produced in the cells derived …
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An Examination of Dropout in the Online, Computer-conferenced Classroom
… on the institution's master list but who were persisters in other classes. Four of the six "dropout" students interviewed were taking two courses during the semester. During the interviews, the students said they found it difficult to balance the requirements of family, home, work and school …
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Chimera Ligand for Pili and Lectin A Protein Controls Antibiotic-Promoted Biofilm Formation, Swarming Motility, Tolerance and Persister Formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
… eliminate drug-tolerant bacteria and to reduce persisters, in combination with antibiotics was demonstrated. </p> <p>The binding property of chimera ligands was demonstrated by competitive fluorescence polarization assay (LecA) and by adding a functional group to a ligand that can covalently …
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