Secondary School Students’ Perceptions About Space Camp: Space Camp Turkey

Awareness About HIV/AIDS in the Senior Secondary School Students

School children of today are exposed to the risk of being victims of HIV/AIDS which was quite unknown to their predecessors a few decades ago. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS is now progressing at a rapid pace among young people. Studies have reported that young people form a significant segment of those attending sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinics and those infected by HIV. Programme manage...

Knowledge Community and Inquiry about Big Data among High School Students with Interactive Orchestrated Learning Space

In this study students engage in learning about Big Data in a Knowledge Community and Inquiry curriculum. Using a design based approach, a three week statistics unit was developed to allow students in a 12 grade mathematics course to explore advanced concepts in Big Data, using interdisciplinary themes. Learning trajectories were guided by an Interactive Orchestrated Learning Space (IOLS), insp...

Students’ Perceptions of Substance Abuse Among Secondary School Students in Malaysia

Substance abuse refers to an act of misuse or excessive use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs. There is no denying that substance abuse is on the increase at both the global and national level in Malaysia. Even though substance abuse is a strictly prohibited behaviour in all Malaysian schools, studies have indicated that this delinquent behaviour often stems from schools. Therefore the main...

Competitive cAMP antagonists for cAMP-receptor proteins.

The two exocyclic oxygen atoms at phosphorus of cAMP have been replaced by a sulfur atom or by a dimethylamino group. These substitutions introduce chirality at the phosphorus atom; therefore, two diastereoisomers are known for each derivative: (SP)-cAMPS, (RP)-cAMPS, (SP)-cAMPN(CH3)2, and RP-cAMPN(CH3)2. We have investigated the agonistic and antagonistic activities of these compounds in four ...

What Do Students Gain From a Week at Science Camp? Youth Perceptions and the Design of an Immersive Research-Oriented Astronomy Camp