EXPERIENCES OF ABILITY GROUPING (A CASE STUDY AT ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT UIN ANTASARI) by Nani Hizriani, Saadillah Saadillah, Puji Sri Rahayu

“… Ability grouping is a common educational practice which is intended to improve education quality by grouping students together according to their achievements.  This research focuses on the attitude and believes of the students and lecturers of English Education Department toward grouping ability in term of confidence, achievement, expectation, competition, cooperation and respect. …”
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LIPOPOLISACÁRIDOS DE E. coli AUMENTAN LA EXPRESIÓN MOLECULAR DE PßD-2 EN YEYUNO DE LECHONES POSDESTETE by J. Ciro, A. López, J. Parra

“…El estudio se realizó con 32 cerdos destetados a los 21 días de edad, los cuales fueron alimentados durante 10 días con una dieta basal que tuvo como componentes leche y algunos de sus derivados, y que además cumplía con todos los mínimos nutricionales. Los cerdos fueron sacrificados escalonadamente los días 1, 5, 7 y 10 posdestete y se les extrajo completamente el yeyuno. …”
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Exploring institutional governance dynamics in China’s transnational higher education (TNHE): a study of Sino-foreign joint institutes by Huili Si, Stephen Rayner

“…China’s Deanship and Joint Committee operations in Sino-foreign joint institutes, while continuing to integrate top-down decision-making, are incorporating transnational actors as the joint partners in governance and leadership, most notably in financial and structural governance. …”
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Ultrafast dynamic contrast-enhanced breast MRI with quantitative perfusion parameters in differentiating breast cancer: a study focusing on triple-negative and HER2 positive breast... by Guo Haodong, Zhu Jianguo, Dmytro Pylypenko, Dou Weiqiang, Su Sheng, Xu Jie, Li Haige

“…The AUC of the models was compared using DeLong’s test as per the ROC analysis.ResultsWe analyzed a total of 96 female patients, revealing significant differences in the semi-quantitative parameters such as TTP, MAX Conc, AUC, and MAX Slope among different groups. …”
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Disease resistance traits of IPB-D2 chickens: Characterization of IgY concentrations, Newcastle disease antibody titers, and leukocyte profiles by Dwi Lestari, Sri Murtini, Niken Ulupi, Asep Gunawan, Isyana Khaerunnisa, Anneke Anggraeni, Cece Sumantri

“…Materials and Methods: A total of 100 IPB-D2 chickens were studied. Blood samples from 21-week-old chickens were collected for analysis of IgY concentrations using indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, ND antibody titers using the hemagglutination inhibition test, and leukocyte profiling using the Giemsa staining method. …”
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Challenges and Opportunities of Clinical Data Warehousing by Niklas GIESA, Anne Rike FLINT, Sedir MOHAMMED, Louis AGHA-MIR-SALIM, Sebastian Daniel BOIE, Fabian PRASSER, Felix BALZER

“…Enhanced tooling and data modeling were oftentimes hindered by bad data quality and organizational burdens. …”
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Contemporary decongestant practices of Canadian otolaryngologists for endoscopic sinus surgery by Jonathan W. Reid, Brian W. Rotenberg, Leigh J Sowerby

“…Twenty-six (27%) of respondents use some form of cocaine solution for topical decongestion in ESS. Over a total of over 1500 combined practice-years, eight respondents (8%) personally experienced an adverse event that could be attributed to cocaine, including two mortalities. …”
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Vocational Bias: A Potential Pitfall in the Use of Key Informant Interviews in Pediatric Community Needs Assessments by Kimberly Northrip, Candice Chen, Jennifer Marsh

“…As part of the interview, informants were asked to list the top three problems facing children in their community. …”
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Phonocardiography based pulse wave velocity system for non-occlusive assessment of arterial stiffness by T. Corina Margain, Emily Powell, Alexandra Clark, Adam Bush

“…Results demonstrated strong correlations between our PCG-based PWV measures (PWVcarotid−femoral: 8.42 ± 3.99 m/s vs. PWVcarotid−toe: 10.62 ± 3.86 m/s) with age as a significant predictor (PWVcarotid−femoral: r2 = 0.45; PWVcarotid−toe: r2 = 0.28, p < 0.05). …”
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Ciudad y ficción audiovisual: enfoques para un análisis geográfico by Carlos Manuel, Agustín Gámir Orueta, Víctor Aertsen

“…Un último apartado se centra en el turismo cinematográfico (screen tourism) y la ciudad como evidencia de las implicaciones que genera la cultura audiovisual. …”
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Designing Constrained Trajectory Based on Maximizing Energy Reduction in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks by Jia Xu, Chuan Ping Wang, Hua Dai, Da Qiang Zhang, Jing Jie Yu

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Persistent functional and taxonomic groups dominate an 8,000-year sedimentary sequence from Lake Cadagno, Switzerland by Paula Rodriguez, Jasmine S. Berg, Longhui Deng, Longhui Deng, Hendrik Vogel, Michal Okoniewski, Mark A. Lever, Mark A. Lever, Cara Magnabosco

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An Unusual Pediatric Case of Allen Key Penetrating Trauma in Maxillofacial Region by Feride Fatma Görgülü, Orhan Görgülü, Ayşe Selcan Koç, Fatma Yasemin Öksüzler

“…We present a pediatric girl case of penetrating FB injury inserted into the maxillary sinus towards nasopharynx in a suddenly braking car.…”
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La forja ética del ser humano en el pensamiento de Nietzsche, ocaso del lenguaje conceptual by Alba Elizabeth Huitrón-Villegas

“…La crítica nietzscheana a la filosofía tradicional está centrada en hacer una reflexión en torno a la exagerada autoridad que, desde la filosofía clásica, se le había dado al lenguaje conceptual y a las pretensiones de verdad como fundamento del conocimiento, así como de toda consideración moral. …”
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Londra’daki Göçmen Çocuklara Ekosistem Penceresinden Bakmak by Zehra Nur Keskin, Fatmanur Alsancak

“…İngiltere’deki çokkültürlü ortamda gettolaşmış ve Türkiyeliler açısından politize olmuş bir ulusaşırı mekân olarak Londra’da çocukların sosyal uyum sorunları incelenmiş, mevcut durum ekosistem kuramının mezo (aile, küçük grup ve topluluklar) ve makro (Türkiyeli göçmen çocukların çocuk politikasındaki yeri) boyutları üzerinden analiz edilmiştir. …”
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Species distribution modelling using MaxEnt: overview and prospects by Yuliia Novoseltseva

“…It is precisely this feature of MaxEnt that makes it an indispensable tool for biodiversity research based on historical data. …”
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Design and Fabrication of Orthokeratology Lens with Multi-Linear and Spherical Aberration Corrected for Myopia Control by Zhengwang Li, Ruijin Hong, Dawei Zhang

“…The fitting of the lens was assessed through the utilization of both Slit-lamp microscopy (MediWorks, Shanghai, China) and Corneal topographer (Medmont E300, Melbourne, VIC, Australia)…”
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Enzymatic synthesis of reactive RNA probes containing squaramate-linked cytidine or adenosine for bioconjugations and cross-linking with lysine-containing peptides and proteins by Ivana Ivancová, Tania Sánchez Quirante, Marek Ondruš, Radek Pohl, Marta Vlková, Eva Žilecká, Evžen Bouřa, Michal Hocek

“…Abstract Protein-RNA interactions play important biological roles and hence reactive RNA probes for cross-linking with proteins are important tools in their identification and study. To this end, we designed and synthesized 5′-O-triphosphates bearing a reactive squaramate group attached to position 5 of cytidine or position 7 of 7-deazaadenosine and used them as substrates for polymerase synthesis of modified RNA. …”
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Urological, vascular, and infectious implications of kidney transplant: a single-center experience by Juan G. Prada, Sofía Manjarrés-Sierra, Isabella Lince-Rivera, Carolina Martínez-Pinedo, Carolina Martínez-Pinedo, Germán Patiño, Hugo E. López

“…Records of all patients who underwent kidney transplant from 2007 to 2017 were reviewed and data of demographic and surgical variables as well as information of vascular, urological, and infectious complications during the 1st post-operative month were registered and analyzed. Results: A total of 243 patients that required kidney transplant were assessed. …”
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«Ley y no limosna» by Marcela Vignoli

“… Dentro del amplio espectro de tópicos que contempló la cuestión social en la Argentina, a principios de principios del siglo xx emergió con fuerza una inquietud por la situación de las mujeres trabajadoras, poniendo en el centro de las preocupaciones la protección a la maternidad (real o potencial) a fin de evitar uno de los problemas más graves de esa sociedad de fin de siglo: la mortalidad infantil. …”
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