‘Bald and unconvincing narrative’*— Defending the house of cards     

Carolyn Hicks 《Journal of Research in Reading》1987,10(2):165-168

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Increased plasma vaspin concentration in patients with sepsis: an exploratory examination     

Michael C. Motal  Daniel A. Klaus  Diana Lebherz-Eichinger  Bianca Tudor  Thomas Hamp  Marion Wiegele  Rudolf Seemann  Claus G. Krenn  Georg A. Roth 《Biochemia medica : ?asopis Hrvatskoga dru?tva medicinskih biokemi?ara / HDMB》2015,25(1):90-96

Introduction

Vaspin (visceral adipose tissue-derived serpin) was first described as an insulin-sensitizing adipose tissue hormone. Recently its anti-inflammatory function has been demonstrated. Since no appropriate data is available yet, we sought to investigate the plasma concentrations of vaspin in sepsis.

Materials and methods

57 patients in intensive care, fulfilling the ACCP/SCCM criteria for sepsis, were prospectively included in our exploratory study. The control group consisted of 48 critically ill patients, receiving intensive care after trauma or major surgery. Patients were matched by age, sex, weight and existence of diabetes before statistical analysis. Blood samples were collected on the day of diagnosis. Vaspin plasma concentrations were measured using a commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

Results

Vaspin concentrations were significantly higher in septic patients compared to the control group (0.3 (0.1-0.4) ng/mL vs. 0.1 (0.0-0.3) ng/mL, respectively; P < 0.001). Vaspin concentration showed weak positive correlation with concentration of C-reactive protein (CRP) (r = 0.31, P = 0.002) as well as with SAPS II (r = 0.34, P = 0.002) and maximum of SOFA (r = 0.39, P < 0.001) scoring systems, as tested for the overall study population.

Conclusion

In the sepsis group, vaspin plasma concentration was about three-fold as high as in the median surgical control group. We demonstrated a weak positive correlation between vaspin and CRP concentration, as well as with two scoring systems commonly used in intensive care settings. Although there seems to be some connection between vaspin and inflammation, its role in human sepsis needs to be evaluated further.Key words: adipocytokine, inflammation, vaspin, CRP, intensive care  相似文献   

Wake up Information Literacy Instruction: Ideas for Student Engagement     

Lisa Campbell  Diana Matthews  Nance Lempinen-Leedy 《图书馆管理杂志》2015,55(7):577-586

In this article, three librarians from Santa Fe College, the community college winner of the 2015 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award, share their successful work in information literacy instruction. While the ACRL award is given for overall achievement, this article focuses upon their creative and varied approaches to instruction, incorporating a wide blend of strategies to reach students across the college. Beginning with targeted approaches to virtual instruction, including broad use of the flipped classroom model, and building in active learning techniques, the librarians at Santa Fe College have built an instruction program that could serve as a model to community college libraries across the country.  相似文献   

Social Story™ interventions for decreasing challenging behaviours: a single-case meta-analysis 1995–2012     

Ryan J. McGill  Diana Baker  R.T. Busse 《Educational Psychology in Practice》2015,31(1):21-42

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Assessing the Worth of the College Degree on Self-perceived Police Performance     

Diana L. Bruns  Jeff W. Bruns 《Journal of Criminal Justice Education》2015,26(2):121-146

Many formal policies have suggested that officers need a college degree; however, policies forced little change in practices of American police organizations. Six hundred-fifty patrol officers employed in 12 medium-sized police departments in three Midwestern states were surveyed as to their current educational attainment and job performance. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between educational level and police performance.  相似文献   

Caregiver speech predicts the emergence of children's emotion vocabulary     

Mira L. Nencheva  Diana I. Tamir  Casey Lew-Williams 《Child development》2023,94(3):585-602

Learning about emotions is an important part of children's social and communicative development. How does children's emotion-related vocabulary emerge over development? How may emotion-related information in caregiver input support learning of emotion labels and other emotion-related words? This investigation examined language production and input among English-speaking toddlers (16–30 months) using two datasets: Wordbank (N = 5520; 36% female, 38% male, and 26% unknown gender; 1% Asian, 4% Black, 2% Hispanic, 40% White, 2% others, and 50% unknown ethnicity; collected in North America; dates of data collection unknown) and Child Language Data Exchange System (N = 587; 46% female, 44% male, 9% unknown gender, all unknown ethnicity; collected in North America and the UK; data collection dates, were available between 1962 and 2009). First, we show that toddlers develop the vocabulary to express increasingly wide ranges of emotional information during the first 2 years of life. Computational measures of word valence showed that emotion labels are embedded in a rich network of words with related valence. Second, we show that caregivers leverage these semantic connections in ways that may scaffold children's learning of emotion and mental state labels. This research suggests that young children use the dynamics of language input to construct emotion word meanings, and provides new techniques for defining the quality of infant-directed speech.  相似文献   

Anything for Billy: A Fiction Stranger than Truth     

Diana Hester Cox 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》1991,14(2):75-82

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Women in interdisciplinary science: Exploring preferences and consequences     

Diana Rhoten  Stephanie Pfirman 《Research Policy》2007,36(1):56-75

For at least a decade, U.S. funding agencies and university campuses have promoted the expansion of interdisciplinary research. At the same time, federal and local programs have sought to increase the participation of women and minorities in science, mathematics, and engineering. Research has focused on each of these trends independently, but very few studies have considered their interaction by asking how intellectual preferences for and professional consequences of interdisciplinary science might be influenced by gender, race, and/or ethnicity. Focused specifically on gender, this paper considers the expectation that women will be more drawn to interdisciplinary research, and explores the learning styles, work preferences, and career behaviors that might anticipate and/or explicate gender differences in interdisciplinary science. Principal mechanisms by which researchers engage in interdisciplinarity - cross-fertilization, team-collaboration, field-creation, and problem-orientation - are tested for evidence of gendering using preliminary empirical data from three studies. The results of this exploratory analysis offer clues about possible tendencies and raise questions about the potential costs and benefits for those who adopt them.  相似文献   

Erratum to “Youth self-report of physical and sexual abuse: A latent class analysis” [Child Abuse & Neglect 34 (2010) 146-154]     

Kate B. NoonerAlan J. Litrownik  Richard ThompsonBenyamin Margolis  Diana J. EnglishElizabeth D. Knight  Mark D. EversonScott Roesch 《Child abuse & neglect》2011,35(2):155

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Creating a knowledge-based economy in the United Arab Emirates: realising the unfulfilled potential of women in the science,technology and engineering fields   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

Noor Ghazal Aswad  Georgeta Vidican  Diana Samulewicz 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2011,36(6):559-570

As the United Arab Emirates (UAE) moves towards a knowledge-based economy, maximising the participation of the national workforce, especially women, in the transformation process is crucial. Using survey methods and semi-structured interviews, this paper examines the factors that influence women's decisions regarding their degree programme and their attitudes towards science, technology and engineering (STE). The findings point to the importance of adapting mainstream policies to the local context and the need to better understand the effect of culture and society on the individual and the economy. There is a need to increase interest in STE by raising awareness of what the fields entail, potential careers and their suitability with existing cultural beliefs. Also suggested is the need to overcome negative stereotypes of engineering, implement initiatives for further family involvement at the higher education level, as well as the need to ensure a greater availability of STE university programmes across the UAE.  相似文献