Where the two shall meet: Exploring the relationship between teacher professional culture and student learning culture

JM Weiner, MC Higgins - Journal of Educational Change, 2017 - Springer
This study focuses on the understudied connection between teachers' and students'
perceptions of school culture. Utilizing a longitudinal sample of approximately 130,000 …

A unified multi-level model approach to assessing patient responsiveness including; return to normal, minimally important differences and minimal clinically important …

A Sayers, V Wylde, E Lenguerrand… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective This article reviews and compares four commonly used approaches to assess
patient responsiveness with a treatment or therapy (return to normal (RTN), minimal …

Messenger RNA and MicroRNA transcriptomic signatures of cardiometabolic risk factors

DD McManus, J Rong, T Huan, S Lacey, K Tanriverdi… - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Background Cardiometabolic (CM) risk factors are heritable and cluster in individuals. We
hypothesized that CM risk factors are associated with multiple shared and unique mRNA …

Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonists are superior to subcapsular orchiectomy in lowering testosterone levels of men with prostate cancer: results from a …

PB Østergren, C Kistorp, M Fode, J Henderson… - The Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose Recent evidence suggests that reaching the lowest achievable levels of
testosterone with androgen deprivation therapy delays disease progression and increases …

Roles of human epididymis protein 4, carbohydrate antigen 125, inhibin B and anti-Müllerian hormone in the differential diagnosis and follow-up of ovarian granulosa …

UM Haltia, M Hallamaa, J Tapper, J Hynninen… - Gynecologic …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective Evaluation of circulating tumor markers in ovarian cancer is crucial for optimal
patient care. The goal of this study was to verify the most accurate circulating tumor markers …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling floor effects in standardized vocabulary test scores in a sample of low SES Hispanic preschool children under the multilevel structural equation …

L Zhu, J Gonzalez - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Researchers and practitioners often use standardized vocabulary tests such as the Peabody
Picture Vocabulary Test-4 (PPVT-4; Dunn and Dunn, 2007) and its companion, the …

English expressive vocabulary growth and its unique role in predicting English word reading: A longitudinal study involving Hong Kong Chinese ESL children

Y Liu, SS Yeung, D Lin, RKS Wong - Contemporary Educational …, 2017 - Elsevier
This longitudinal study examined the developmental trajectory of English expressive
vocabulary and its relationship to English word reading in a sample of 141 Hong Kong …

Natural interpretations in Tobit regression models using marginal estimation methods

W Wang, ME Griswold - Statistical methods in medical …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The Tobit model, also known as a censored regression model to account for left-and/or right-
censoring in the dependent variable, has been used in many areas of applications …

The effect of an antenatal lifestyle intervention in overweight and obese women on circulating cardiometabolic and inflammatory biomarkers: secondary analyses from …

LJ Moran, LM Fraser, T Sundernathan, AR Deussen… - BMC medicine, 2017 - Springer
Background Maternal overweight and obesity during pregnancy is associated with insulin
resistance, hyperglycaemia, hyperlipidaemia and a low-grade state of chronic inflammation …

Factors associated with nicotine dependence during methadone maintenance treatment: findings from a multisite survey in Vietnam

HP Do, LH Nguyen, NPT Nguyen, C Ngo… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Smoking is associated with adverse health outcomes among drug users,
including those in treatment. To date, however, there has been little evidence about smoking …