WHAT IF BECOMING INFORMATION LITERATE WERE AN ADVENTURE?

What if becoming information literate were an adventure?

What if becoming information literate were an adventure? This question was posed in a keynote for the Creating Knowledge Conference 2021.It was answered in a thought piece by examining adventure-based ways to prepare students to be information literate adults through the principles and mechanisms that people find arousing and pleasurable and that a

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Factors influencing the determination of cell traction forces.

Methods summarized by the term Traction Force Microscopy are widely used to quantify cellular forces in mechanobiological studies.These methods are inverse, in the sense that forces must be determined such that they comply with a measured displacement field.This study investigates how several experimental and analytical factors, originating in the

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Folic acid restricts SARS-CoV-2 invasion by methylating ACE2

The current COVID-19 pandemic is motivating us to elucidate the molecular mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 invasion and find methods for decreasing its transmissibility.We found that SARS-CoV-2 could increase the protein level of ACE2 in mice.Folic acid and 5-10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) could promote the methylation of gymnastics wall dec

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A Historical Analysis of Public Communication of Science in the Public Science Magazines published during 1910-2010

Purpose: This study illuminates some lights on public communication dissemination of science magazines as a possible contributive factor to the structural changes in the public communication of Science in Iranian society.Methodology: A historical analysis of some documents representing the status of Science in Iran was conducted.It also conducted c

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