219 research outputs found
A Pink Cadillac, An IQ of 63, And A Fourteen-Year-Old From South Carolina: Why I Can No Longer Support the Death Penalty
Lessons Learned from Students' Research Experiences
Teaching graduate students how to do research can be a challenge for many instructors because "research education" is not an established field of research like other areas of teaching such as mathematics education, nursing education, science education, and statistics education. There are no scholarly journals devoted solely to teaching research methods; these sources are instead scattered across disciplines and journals (e.g., Nurse Researcher, Volume 13, Number 2, 2005; Sociology, Volume 15, Issue 4, 1981; and Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, Volume 49, Issue 1, 2005). Furthermore, even though research methods courses are a staple in most graduate training programs, instructors were rarely taught how to teach research methods as part of their own graduate programs. Left to their own devices, instructors of research courses must rely on a network of peers, scattered research literature, and much trial-and-error as they develop and improve upon their own research methods courses
Biomarker responses to weaning stress in beef calves
The study objective was to investigate the physiological effects of weaning on beef calves and identify a
panel of blood-based welfare biomarkers. On the day (d) of weaning (d 0), 16 spring-born, singlesuckled,
beef bull calves that previously grazed with their dams at pasture, were assigned to one of two
treatments: (1) control (n = 8), calves were loose-housed with their dam, (2) weaned (n = 8), calves were
abruptly separated from their dam and loose-housed. Jugular blood was collected on d −4, 0, 1, 2, 3, 7,
and 14 relative to weaning (d 0) and assayed for inflammatory and steroid variables. Total leukocyte counts
were measured in whole blood. It is concluded that neutrophil number is a robust biomarker of stress
and that plasma CXCL8 is a sensitive indicator of stress in weaned and control calves. In future studies,
these two biomarkers should be central to the characterisation of stress responses
The Mid-Western Educational Research Association\u27s Annual Meeting, October 15–18, 2008
Annual Meeting Announcemen
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