Elaboration analysis of the relationship between delivery model and educational attainment

As the programme to renew secondary school buildings gathers pace, questions are being asked if the investment is producing results in improved educational attainment. This research sought to verify finding from earlier research that educational attainment improved faster in PFI rebuilt schools compared to conventionally- procured rebuilt schools. Quantitative analysis, incorporating the latest data, was performed and the finding was confirmed, though statistical significance was not universally established due to large variance within the dataset and small sample size. The finding was deemed note-worthy still because the sample included all the rebuilt schools with complete longitudinal data. Further quantitative analysis was performed to elaborate on this finding. Unauthorised absence was used as a proxy to students' motivation. Analysis results provided some, evidence of statistical significance for the hypothesis that PFI rebuilt schools improve students' motivation more than conventionally-procured rebuilt schools. In addition, a significant correlation was found to exist between improved students' motivation and improved educational attainment. Therefore, students' motivation elaborated the original finding thus: PFI rebuilt schools improved students' motivation more which showed up in faster improvement in educational attainment. As an extension to the elaboration analysis, a conceptual framework was developed to build a comprehensive understanding of the mechanism through which the original relationship works. Path analysis, together with its path diagram and associated structural equations, was proposed. This paved the way to an in-depth quantitative analysis to unpick the complex nature of the relationship between procurement choice and educational attainment in the next stage of research

Spunti di riflessione della psicologia ambientale. Insights on environmental psychology

Comparison between differentially expressed genes in inoculated Forrest genotype with F. oxysporum FO36 and FO40 isolates at 72 and 96 hpi. (DOCX 23 kb

Additional file 10: Figure S1. of Transcriptome profiling of soybean (Glycine max) roots challenged with pathogenic and non-pathogenic isolates of Fusarium oxysporum

Comparison of RNA-Seq and real-time RT-PCR analysis of selected soybean genes in response to inoculation with F. oxysporum. Expression profiles of (A) carbohydrate kinase (Glyma.12G051800), (B) cell-wall invertase (Glyma.15G024600), (C) bidirectional sugar transporter sweet10-like (Glyma.04G198400), (D) chalcone isomerase (Glyma.20G241700), (E) chitinase (Glyma.01G160100), (F) glutathione s-transferase (Glyma.08G174900), (G) laccase-7-like (Glyma.U027300), (H) myb transcription factor myb84 (Glyma.08G042100), (I) pathogenesis-related protein class 10 (Glyma.15G145600), (J) sucrose synthase (Glyma.19G212800), (K) endoglucanase (Glyma.05G236400), (L) trans-cinnamate 4-monooxygenase (Glyma.20G114200), (M) proline-rich protein (Glyma.15G199700), (N) bidirectional sugar transporter sweet3-like (Glyma.04G238100), (O) 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate oxidase 1 (Glyma.05G222400), (P) seed linoleate 9 s-lipoxygenase (Glyma.08G189600), (Q) peroxidase (Glyma.09G023000), (R) sulphate transporter (Glyma.15G052000). Dotted lines and histograms represent values expressed as fold change of transcript levels in the inoculated FO36 and FO40 F. oxysporum samples with respect to the transcript levels in control samples at 72 and 96 hpi assessed by RNA-Seq and real-time RT-PCR analysis, respectively. The asterisk (*) means that the FC revealed by RNA-Seq method for that gene is included among HDEGs. (PPTX 149 kb

Additional file 8: Table S8. of Transcriptome profiling of soybean (Glycine max) roots challenged with pathogenic and non-pathogenic isolates of Fusarium oxysporum

A summary of selected soybean FO-responsive genes. Genes that were identified as enriched in a GO category or MapMan bin are marked with a + or Ψ symbol, respectively. (DOCX 88 kb

Additional file 4: Table S3. of Transcriptional analysis of phloem-associated cells of potato

Differentially expressed genes between petiole and stem phloem-associated cells. (XLSX 192 kb

Additional file 6: Table S5. of Transcriptional analysis of phloem-associated cells of potato

Expression level of RNA-binding proteins. (XLSX 78 kb

Additional file 15: Figure S4. of Transcriptional analysis of phloem-associated cells of potato

Top twenty over-represented GO terms for biological processes in differentially expressed photoperiod genes. (PPTX 69 kb

Additional file 7: Table S6. of Transcriptional analysis of phloem-associated cells of potato

RNA profiles of select RNA-binding proteins. (XLSX 106 kb

Additional file 16: Figure S5. of Transcriptional analysis of phloem-associated cells of potato

Distribution of RNA-binding protein motifs in potato transcriptome. (PPTX 105 kb

Additional file 14: Figure S3. of Transcriptional analysis of phloem-associated cells of potato

Top twenty over-represented GO terms for molecular functions in differentially expressed photoperiod genes. (PPTX 67 kb