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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"enriched environment"”.
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Pretend Play at Home: Creating An Educationally Enriched Environment for Emergent Literacy Among Preschool-Aged Children
… skills while exposing the child to an arts enriched home environment need ideas and tools developed with supportive research to strengthen and focus their efforts. These tools will greatly expand parental resources by offering several principles as a guide for adapting existing classroom …
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Neuroprotective effects of the dual glycogen synthase kinase-3b and phosphodiesterase 7 inhibitor VP3.15 and of an enriched environment in germinal matrix-intraventricular hemorrhage
… effects in PT, comparable to those observed in enriched environments (EE) in animal models. Therefore, we also studied the effects of long-term exposure to a complex EE in a murine model of GM-IVH, and we also analyzed clinically relevant biomarkers of GM-IVH in patients following an …
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Observations of Emergent Literary Behaviors in a Literacy-Enriched Play Environment: Does Teacher Guidance Make a Difference?
… behaviors between a teacher guided literacy-enriched play environment and a literacy-enriched play environment without teacher guidance. This study occurred over a five week period. During the first week, base-line data were collected using qualitative naturalistic observations where literacy …
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A neurophysiological and proteomic study of cognitive enhancing strategies
… slices are investigated. The effect of an enriched environment, which causes an improvement in cognitive function, on the expression level of proteins in the hippocampus is also investigated. The development of a new muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) agonist that is selective for …
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Generality of learning differences in mice genetically selected for differences in brain weight
… medium, and low brain weight were raised in an enriched environment and tested on open field, active avoidance, water maze, operant discrimination, and passive avoidance tasks. Mice from one foundation stock yielded mice with high and low brain weight. The control groups for this selection were …
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A COMPARISON OF 2D IMAGE ANALYSIS AND DESIGN-BASED STEREOLOGY FOR EVALUATING MORPHOLOGICAL AND ANATOMICAL CHANGES IN THE DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM OF THE RODENT MIDBRAIN
… alcohol preferring (AP) rat model, and the enriched environment (EE) rat model. 2D analyses and design-based stereology were used to quantify neuronal number, neuronal volume and regional volume. Student's t-test (two-tailed) was used to compare quantitative data. Results. 2D analyses …
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Atomic short-range order determination in gold-25 atomic percent iron and nickel-12.5 atomic percent silicon: A synchrotron x-ray diffuse scattering study
… aging for an increasing volume fraction of an Fe-enriched and an Fe-depleted environment. The Fe-enriched environment displayed a slight preference for Fe segregation to the $\{$110$\}$ and $\{$100$\}$ fcc matrix planes. A major portion of the Fe-depleted environment was found to contain elements …
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Effects of physical exercise and exercise-induced adult hippocampal neurogenesis on conditioned place preference for cocaine in mice
… the neurogenic and pro-cognitive effects of an enriched environment in male C57BL/6J mice. The main finding was that an enriched environment devoid of running wheels did not significantly up-regulate hippocampal neurogenesis or improve behavioral performance on a spatial learning task, although …
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Strategic customer relationship marketing and re-intermediation models in the insurance industry
… the industry has changed the UK car insurance environment substantially in terms of the above core aspects. The research explores the following questions. How do the insights map to the particular business contexts of the case company and its drive for sustained growth and profitability? How …
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Building communities for design education : using telecommunication technology for remote collaborative learning
The design studio, as both a learning environment and a social place, is one of the major components of architectural education. Traditionally, the studio has been considered a place for individual design work and one-on-one mentoring between an instructor and a student. With the integration of new …
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Transcriptomics of environmental enrichment and cocaine reveals roles for retinoic acid signaling and ΔFosB in addiction
Environmental enrichment produces protective addiction and depression phenotypes as a non-drug, non-genetic, and non-surgical manipulation in animals. Rats reared in the enriched condition self-administer less cocaine and display antidepressant-like behavior. To understand the molecular mechanisms …
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Effects of environmental complexity on neurogenesis in the hippocampal dentate gyrus
… with neurogenesis, the complexity of the environment appears to play a particularly striking role. Adult mice reared in an enriched environment produce more neurons and exhibit better performance in hippocampus-specific learning tasks. While the effects of complex environments on …
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Effects of Immersion and Presence on Learning Outcomes in Immersive Educational Virtual Environments for Computer Science Education
… visualizations that can be provided in virtual environments. This thesis explores the effects of the key characteristics of virtual environments, immersion and presence, on learning outcomes in Educational Virtual Environments for learning Computer Science. Immersion is a quantifiable …
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Investigation of a communication enhanced environment model after stroke: A mixed methods before-and-after pilot study
… and quality of life. It is recognised that the environment can influence neural remapping during early stroke recovery. However, patients with aphasia (PWA) following stroke have been observed to spend less than 30% of their day communicating and 44% of their day alone during their first weeks …
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Happy Chickens: Novel Physiological and Behavioral Measures of Cumulative Experience in Broilers and Laying Hens
Conventional housing environments for broiler chickens and commercial laying hens are often barren, high-density environments with an emphasis on production efficiency. These housing conditions limit birds' ability to display species-specific behaviors, can negatively impact health, and may …