Transforming global health education during the COVID-19 era: perspectives from a transnational collective of global health students and recent graduates

Inspired by the 2021 BMJ Global Health Editorial by Atkins et al on global health (GH) teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of GH students and recent graduates from around the world convened to discuss our experiences in GH education Soup Spoons during multiple global crises.Through weekly meetings over the course of several months, we re

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Planting the Seed of Epistemic Curiosity: The Role of the Satisfaction of the Needs for Autonomy and Competence

We posit that curiosity, an epistemic emotion, is an integral part of entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial activities, and learning, which seek to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, a form of cognitive ability.The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the influence of autonomy and competence satisfaction on epistemic curiosity

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Target prediction of potential candidate miRNAs from Oryza sativa to silence the Pyricularia oryzae genome in rice blast

Abstract Rice (Oryza sativa) is a staple Soup Spoons food for billions of people across the globe, that feeds nearly three-quarters of the human population on Earth, particularly in Asian countries.Rice yield has been drastically reduced and severely affected by various biotic and abiotic stresses, especially pathogens.Controlling the attack of suc

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The Non-phosphorylating Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase GapN Is a Potential New Drug Target in Streptococcus pyogenes

The strict human pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes causes infections of varying severity, ranging from self-limiting suppurative infections to life-threatening diseases like necrotizing fasciitis or streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.Here, we show that the non-phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase GapN is an essential enzyme for S.

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