Abstract Students' ability to retrieve acquired knowledge long-term is critical for every discipline, especially Immunology. The research on learning shows undergraduate students use ineffective strategies, misjudging passive vs active ways of learning. Moreover, first generation graduates may be at a disadvantage as they have less opportunity learn from family member experience. Sixty percent ...

In this issue, Charles et al. (1) showed in vivo that cytokines secreted by tumors, such as interleukin-6, down-regulate the transcription of cytochrome P450 CYP3A4 in liver and consequently the metabolism of CYP3A4 substrates. Reduced metabolism of chemotherapeutic agents could be responsible for side effects observed for these agents. The investigators postulate that treatment of the inflamma...

From the Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Penn State Children’s Hospital, Hershey, PA (M.G.); the Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (S.L.); the Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL (E.Z.); and the Department of Pedi...

GPUs are becoming an attractive computing platform not only for traditional graphics computation but also for general-purpose computation because of the computational power, programmability and comparatively low cost of modern GPUs. This has lead to a variety of complex GPGPU applications with significant performance improvements. The LU decomposition represents a fundamental step in many compu...

From teaching in labs to training for assembly, a key role that robots are expected to play is to instruct their users in completing physical tasks. While task instruction requires a wide range of capabilities, such as effective use of verbal and nonverbal language, a fundamental requirement for an instructional robot is to provide its students with task instructions in a way that maximizes the...