Acer negundo L.

https://thekeep.eiu.edu/herbarium_specimens_byname/21712/thumbnail.jp

Acer platanoides L.

https://thekeep.eiu.edu/herbarium_specimens_byname/21691/thumbnail.jp

Parthenocissus tricuspidata (Siebold & Zucc.) Planch.

https://thekeep.eiu.edu/herbarium_specimens_byname/19448/thumbnail.jp

Viola canadensis L.

https://thekeep.eiu.edu/herbarium_specimens_byname/20462/thumbnail.jp

Acer platanoides L.

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Learning Communities Promote Pedagogical Metacognition in Higher Education Faculty

Pedagogical metacognition, or the reflective and reflexive actions associated with teaching practice, strengthens the planning, monitoring, evaluation, and adjustment of teaching in higher education faculty. Learning communities are optimal environments to foster this active teaching reflection. This study incorporated pedagogical metacognition into a faculty learning community curriculum and explored its impacts on higher education instructors’ reflective and reflexive practices. Faculty participants completed monthly metacognitive reflections for one academic year, each corresponding to a research-based principle of learning. Qualitative analysis indicated that faculty learning community participants recognized their lack of pedagogical training, successfully reflected on their teaching strategies, identified areas for improvement, and set goals to incorporate research-based strategies into their instruction. To maximize student learning, pedagogical metacognition should be included in higher education professional development to encourage reflection on and action upon one’s teaching

Sex and genetic background influence intravenous oxycodone self-administration in the hybrid rat diversity panel

Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) is an ongoing worldwide public health concern. Genetic factors contribute to multiple OUD-related phenotypes, such as opioid-induced analgesia, initiation of opioid use, and opioid dependence. Here, we present findings from a behavioral phenotyping protocol using male and female rats from 15 genetically diverse inbred strains from the Hybrid Rat Diversity Panel (HRDP). We used a self-administration paradigm to measure the acquisition of oxycodone intake during ten 2-hour sessions and escalation of oxycodone use during ten 12-hour sessions. During both the acquisition and escalation phases of self-administration, we observed that genetic background and sex influence oxycodone intake. The heritability of oxycodone intake phenotypes ranged between 0.26 to 0.54, indicating that genetic background plays a major role in the variability of oxycodone consumption. Genetic background and sex also influenced additional phenotypes recorded during oxycodone self-administration including lever discrimination and timeout responding. The genetic contribution to these traits was slightly more moderate, with heritability estimates ranging between 0.25 to 0.42. Measures of oxycodone intake were highly positively correlated between acquisition and escalation phases. Interestingly, the efficacy of oxycodone analgesia was positively correlated with oxycodone intake during the escalation phase, indicating that the initial behavioral responses to oxycodone may predict self-administration phenotypes. Together, these data demonstrate that sex and genetic background are major contributors to oxycodone self-administration phenotypes

Staphylea trifolia L.

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