Educational researchers often need to construct precise and reliable measurement scales of complex varied representations such as participants’ written work, videoed lesson segments policy documents. Developing using can be resource-intensive time-consuming, the outcomes are not always reliable. Here we present alternative methods based on comparative judgement (CJ) that have been growing in po...

In this study, we examined the relative contribution of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO), two major proinflammatory pathways up-regulated in liver disease, to the progression of hepatic inflammation and fibrosis. Separate administration of 4-[5-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-pyrazol-1-yl]benzenesulfonamide (SC-236), a selective COX-2 inhibitor, and CJ-13,610, a 5-LO i...

4. Fricton JR, Rindal DB, Rush WA, Flottemesch TJ, Durand EC, Thoele MJ, Huntley C, Godlevsky O, Enstad CJ, Rhodus, N (Abstract) Electronic Health Records to Improve Care of Patients with Medical Conditions. American Association of Dental Research Meeting, 2009. 5. Fricton JR, Rindal DB, Rush WA, Flottemesch TJ, Durand EC, Thoele MJ, Huntley C, Godlevsky O (Abstract). Electronic Health Records ...

The alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and H19 genes are transcribed at high levels in the mammalian fetal liver but are rapidly repressed postnatally. This repression in the liver is controlled, at least in part, by the Afr1 gene. Afr1 was defined >25 years ago when BALB/cJ mice were found to have 5- to 20-fold higher adult serum AFP levels compared with all other mouse strains; subsequent studies showed...

ors' preference for middle hierarchy labels supports theoretical work done in classification of other objects by Rosch and colleagues [19] who found that within taxonomies there is generally one level of abstraction at which most individuals tend to make category cuts. This is referred to as the basic level and it tends to occur in the categories at the middle of the hierarchy. 2.3 Automatic re...

Consider the following scenario: a group of agents is tasked with completing some projects; the agents divide into groups, and using the resources available to each group, agents generate profits, which must in turn be divided among group members. Cooperative game theory [Peleg and Sudhölter, 2007] studies such scenarios; formally, Given a set of agents N = {1, . . . , n}, the value of each sub...