A LOSS CAUSES A BREAKTHROUGH

Vodcast: A Breakthrough in Developing Incidental Vocabulary Learning

Incidental vocabulary learning is often seen as superior to direct instruction on many occasions. Meanwhile, upon the emergence of the World Wide Web, second language (SL) learners have been introduced to 'podcasts' (recorded audio and video online broadcasts) which could be authentic sources of vocabulary learning. The relatively recent phenomenon of video podcast (vodcast) might be considered...

Breakthrough to Nursing: a past Breakthrough chairperson looks back.

Unilateral Hearing Loss: Prevalence, Causes, Consequences and Available Remedies

Introduction: The prevalence of unilateral sensory neural hearing loss is 3 to 6 in every 1000 people and this prevalence will be about 3 to 5 percent by including conductive hearing loss. Studies have shown that people with unilateral hearing loss are having problems in speech and language development. Nowadays the available options for treatment and rehabilitation of people with unilateral he...

Causes of Biodiversity Loss: a Human Ecological Analysis

Important biological causes of the loss of biological diversity include the loss of habitats, the introduction of exotic species, over-harvesting of biodiversity resources, and homogenisation of species in agriculture. The common factor of all these elements is that they are human-driven. This paper analyzes the economic and social root causes behind biodiversity loss. The analysis is based on ...

Loss of connexin45 causes a cushion defect in early cardiogenesis.

At around embryonic day 9, the primitive heart of a mouse embryo undergoes spectacular alterations within 24 hours. We created mice harboring an nls-lacZ gene in place of connexin45, which encodes the only known gap junction protein in the primitive heart before embryonic day 9, using the Cre-loxP system. Connexin45-deficient mice died of heart failure at around embryonic day 10. They initiated...