Abstract Academics worry grade inflation lowers standards; whereas, employers are concerned grades may not distinguish students’ abilities. These concerns dismissed if higher reflect improved academic achievement and inflation. Potential is examined using data from 17,696 classes between 1985 2019 in the College of Agriculture Life Sciences at Texas A&M University. Evidence systemic increas...

Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is used in patients with respiratory failure, sleep apnoea, and dyspnoea related to pulmonary oedema. NIV is provided through a facial mask. Many complications of NIV facial masks have been reported, including the breakdown of facial skin. We report a case of an elderly male admitted with multiple co-morbidities. The facial mask was applied continuously for NIV, w...

Two males presented to our urology department with complaints of bleeding and malodor from buried phallus within a suprapubic fat pad. Although both men had neonatal circumcisions, advanced penile carcinoma was found in both men. Formal penectomies showed high grade, poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma invading the corporal bodies and urethra. Buried penis represents a difficulty in e...

We exploit Italian law DPR 81/2009, which determines class composition, as an instrument to identify the causal effect of grouping students of different grades into a single class (multigrading) on children cognitive achievement. This article focuses on 7-yearold students—those at the beginning of their formal education. Results suggest that attendance in multigrade classes versus single-grade ...

P atients with high-grade gliomas almost invariably develop disease progression despite recent advances in anticancer therapy. Increasingly, the value of formal palliative care consultation and management has been recognized in both cancer and noncancer medicine. However, there is a paucity of data to definitively guide the provision of palliative care for neuro-oncology patients. This paper ai...

The present study examined the long-term effects of a computer intervention for the development of phonological awareness in Dutch kindergartners. Native Dutch and immigrant children worked with the software 15 min/week during one school year. Following a pretest – interim test – post-test – retention test design, the effects on rhyming, phonemic segmentation, auditory blending, and grapheme kn...

The Test of Mathematical Abilities, Third Edition (TOMA-3; Brown, Cronin, & Bryant, 2012) is an easily administered, norm-referenced, assessment tool used to identify, describe, and quantify mathematical deficits in school age children. The TOMA-3 can be administered either individually or in a group, taking approximately 90 minutes to complete. The test provides raw scores, age/grade equivalen...

The paper contains progress reports supported by data about two short activities aimed at introducing physics themes in primary school. first is a formal storytelling intervention named “Mommy Comet” carried out first- and fifth-grade classes concerning motion the absence of forces Solar System broad context. second an informal work with third-, fourth- fifth-degree students to investigate what...