BLENDING ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS AND SYNCHRONOUS LEARNING

Blending Online Asynchronous and Synchronous Learning

In this article I will share a qualitative self-study about a 15-week blended 100% online graduate level course facilitated through synchronous meetings on Blackboard Collaborate Bag and asynchronous discussions on Blackboard.I taught the course at the University of Tennessee (UT) during the spring 2012 semester and the course topic was online lear

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Arthropathy and proteinuria: nail-patella syndrome revisited

[english] Nail-patella syndrome (NPS) is a pleiotropic autosomal-dominant disorder due to mutations in the gene LMX1B.It has traditionally been characterized by a tetrad of dermatologic and musculoskeletal abnormalities.However, one of the most serious manifestations of NPS is kidney disease, which may be present in up to 40% of affected individual

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The Fungal Defensin Family Enlarged

Fungi are an emerging source of peptide Mask antibiotics.With the availability of a large number of model fungal genome sequences, we can expect that more and more fungal defensin-like peptides (fDLPs) will be discovered by sequence similarity search.Here, we report a total of 69 new fDLPs encoded by 63 genes, in which a group of fDLPs derived from

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