Background: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common hereditary neuromuscular disease. No curative treatment for DMD is known. Prednisone therapy is the first medical treatment that alters the course of DMD. Several studies about the doses and administrations of…

Austria has gone through two cycles of university reforms since the 1960s. The first aimed to open the universities to social and labour market demand and to make their structures more democratic and flexible. The second reform cycle dealt with…

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Competing claims about the level of ignorance, or knowledge, among the current Nexus generation are addressed. The core of the paper is a theoretical analysis of ignorance in the knowledge society. Specifically, the knowledge-ignorance paradox suggests that the intense specialization…

This paper explores the link between research collaboration and innovation among faculty, as indicated by a self-reported assessment of the contribution of a co-authored publication to knowledge. Findings challenge the assumption that collaborators are rarely involved in theory development and…

p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: ";Microsoft Sans Serif";,";sans-serif";; color: #003300;"Background: Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) has become a more common practice among type-2 diabetes patients, but there is limited information available regarding the patients’ practice and knowledge of SMBG./span/p p…

The prospect of tuition fee increases for public sector universities has attracted an enormous amount of attention in recent years as governments in all industrialized countries have responded to the converging pressures of increased demands for higher education and rising…

A educação precisa romper com o domínio ideológico secular da mera transmissão homogênea de conteúdos e esvaziamento teórico curricular pela criatividade inovadora nas variadas dimensões dos saberes. Promover a imprescindível interação das áreas do conhecimento na praticidade cidadã com a…