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Determinants of international students' academic performance: A comparison between Chinese and other international students
With the increasing number of international students travelling to well-developed countries for higher education, there has been a growing interest in exploring the factors that influence their academic performance during their overseas studies. This study aims to give an insight into international students' learning experience by investigating the differences between Chinese and non-Chinese cultural groups and leads to the identification of the key predictors of their academic achievement via multiple regression analysis. The results suggest that the perceived importance of learning success to family, English writing ability, and social communication with their compatriots are significant predictors for all international students. As the predominant group, Chinese students display some distinctive characteristics. A less active learning strategy is observed among Chinese students relative to others, but no evidence has found that this negatively affects their academic achievement. © 2010 Nuffic
Correspondence with J.B. Rhine (Duke University, North Carolina)
August 1934 - March 1962. 11 letters and notes
Molecular analysis of the rstR and orfU genes of the CTX prophages integrated in the small chromosomes of environmental Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strains genes of the CTX prophages integrated in the small chromosomes of environmental Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strains
The
ctxAB
genes encoding cholera toxin, reside in the
genome of a filamentous bacteriophage CTX φ .The
presence of CTX prophage in non-epidemic environmental
Vibrio cholerae strains is rare. The CTX prophage,
the lysogenic form of CTX φ in V. cholerae , is
comprised of the ‘RS2’ and the ‘Core’. Analysis of the
rstR gene present in the RS2 region of the CTX prophage
revealed the presence of new alleles of the prophages
in four environmental non-O1, non-O139 strains
VCE22 (O36), VCE228 (O27), VCE232 (O4) and VCE233
(O27), and the CTX prophages are located in the small
chromosomes. Phylogenetic analysis based on the
nucleotide sequences of the rstR and orfU (present in
the core) genes of these prophages placed them in a
single unique cluster, which is distally located compared
with that of epidemic V. cholerae O1 strains.
Further analysis indicated that the genome of the
prophage present in the strain VCE22 is devoid of the
ctxAB genes, called pre-CTX prophage and the strain
also possess the toxin-coregulated pilus protein
coding gene tcpA of classical type, another important
pathogenicity determining locus of the epidemic
V. cholerae strains. Comparative analysis of the
nucleotide sequences of the rstR and orfU genes indicated
that the pre-CTX prophage of VCE22 might b