We analyse the effects of competition in education. We identify the benefits and drawbacks of forcing students to compete themselves during their learning process, and investigate a number of features a competitive learning activity should have in order to motivate students, and improve their academic performance. More specifically, by using a simple Web system, we conduct a competition underta...

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We conducted a study to identify circular RNAs associated with invasive non-functioning pituitary adenomas and chemoresistance, as well construct competitive endogenous RNA network. performed expression profiling of 10 specimens using sequencing identified 37 differentially expressed RNAs, which were validated real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction. also detected 26 microRNAs 388 mess...