22 research outputs found

    The state of the region\u27s children

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    Kimberly M. Andrews, Priya Nanjappa and Seth P.D. Riley, editors: Roads & ecological infrastructure. Concepts and applications for small animals

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    La direction nationale de la CGT présente, de 1948 à 1962, des particularités liées aux réalités aux exigences et aux contraintes d’une époque tumultueuse. Sa composition, ses évolutions, répondent pour partie à des réalités incontournables, et pour une autre part, à une démarche volontariste et raisonnée, dont les limites sont dictées par l’état de fait de la CGT, ne lui permettant pas toujours de présenter l’image qu’elle souhaiterait donner d’elle-même. La « politique des cadres » dont les..

    Book review: Popular culture as pedagogy: research in the field of adult education

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    Early Childhood STEM Education for Sustainable Development

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    Early childhood education is crucial for the development of young children’s understanding of the natural world. Children have a role in sustaining a viable environmental and social future. This research interrogated key ideas concerning STEM education for sustainable development, drawing on seminal research and a range of government policy documents to formulate a futures-oriented approach to supporting children to build understandings in early childhood sustainability. Through the use of ethnography, a research methodology that uses both participation and observation of research participants, it became apparent that young children’s play-based learning enabled agentic responses in aligning with early understanding of STEM and sustainability. Using accepted descriptors of international Sustainable Development Goals within an early childhood research study, the research highlights how the development of interactive, learner-centred STEM teaching not only enables investigative, action-adapted learning, but also fosters independent learners who are responsive to their natural environment. The implication of this research is that further development of children’s environmental agency is suggested by the authors. The introduction of a whole-of-kindergarten approach that focuses on the systemic development of quality STEM education is posited as an avenue for educators to build young children’s understandings of sustainable development

    The frequency of yeast [PSI+] prion formation is increased during chronological ageing

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    Ageing involves a time-dependent decline in a variety of intracellular mechanisms and is associated with cellular senescence. This can be exacerbated by prion diseases which can occur in a sporadic manner, predominantly during the later stages of life. Prions are infectious, self-templating proteins responsible for several neurodegenerative diseases in mammals and several prion-forming proteins have been found in yeast. We show here that the frequency of formation of the yeast [PSI+] prion, which is the altered form of the Sup35 translation termination factor, is increased during chronological ageing. This increase is exacerbated in an atg1 mutant suggesting that autophagy normally acts to suppress age-related prion formation. We further show that cells which have switched to [PSI+] have improved viability during chronological ageing which requires active autophagy. [PSI+] stains show increased autophagic flux which correlates with increased viability and decreased levels of cellular protein aggregation. Taken together, our data indicate that the frequency of [PSI+] prion formation increases during yeast chronological ageing, and switching to the [PSI+] form can exert beneficial effects via the promotion of autophagic flux

    Programs to raise tertiary education aspiration, 2011-2012 data

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    Data is a collation of local and global programs that address tertiary education attainment. It is in the form of a Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet and is purely text. <br /
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