323–337 www.elsevier.com/locate/smrv CLINICAL REVIEW Sleep loss‚ learning capacity and academic performance Giuseppe Curcioa‚Â Michele Ferraraa‚b‚ Luigi De Gennaroa a Department of Psychology‚ University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’‚ Rome‚ Italy Department of Internal Medicine and Public Health‚ University of L’Aquila‚ Rome‚ Italy b KEYWORDS Sleep deprivation; Learning; Memory; Academic performance; Neurocognitive functioning; Adolescents; Prefrontal cortex Summary At a time
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Academic Excellence Guarantees A Successful Life In this era of globalization‚ a good education is very important for each and everyone of us in order to have a better and successful life in the future. Students in school and college have always been reminded to strive for excellence in their academic so that they can graduate with flying colors and can easily get a better job compare to those who did not did well in their academic. In my opinion‚ academic excellence does guarantees a successful
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Lexie Marsh Mrs. Shea English 101 9/27/13 Causes and Solutions to Academic Cheating Academic cheating is defined as representing someone else’s work as one’s own. It can take many forms‚ including sharing another’s work or purchasing a paper or test questions in advance. Statistics show that cheating among high school students has risen dramatically in the past fifty years. Two major causes of cheating include temptation and opportunity. There are also many different solutions that teachers
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It’s all Dimmesdale’s fault In the novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ many of the characters are looked upon as sinners. Sinners are people who go against the bible‚ God’s word. In actuality every character is a sinner someway and somehow. After reading the book‚ there is one character that sticks out to be the biggest sinner of all. That is Dimmesdale. Although all characters are sinners‚ Dimmesdale committed the greater sin for impregnating Hester Pryne. Dimmesdale is the pope of the town. He gives sermons
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The Greatest Islamic Empire By S. Franklin Islamic History The three major empires in Islamic history were the Ottoman Empire‚ the Safavid Empire‚ and the Mughal Empire. The Mughals claimed legitimacy by their ancestor‚ Tamer-the-Lame. Mughals were fairly tolerant of non-Muslims‚ as the majority of the common people in their empire were Hindus. This empire occupied most of modern day India‚ Nepal‚ and Pakistan. The Safavids controlled most of modern day Afghanistan‚ Iran‚ Turkmenistan
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My greatest failure : A case study in leadership As there are many cultural differences in the world‚ working all together can sometime be problematic. Through a medical approach‚ we have discovered some symptoms that illustrate this fact in the case we are meant to study : The french workers were reluctant to work with a German manager : “The french were not particularly in favor of Bernard’s appointment (they would have preferred a french man)”
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Dominic Lowman 11/28/12 Engl 102 sec 018 Academic Argument High school students today are all excited about post-college life‚ which for most means going away to college to further their education. The question is‚ are they truly being provided the necessary tools needed to be successful at the college levels? Are teachers‚ counselors‚ parents and the government both state and federal doing enough to lead these young minds out into the world? We all know how expensive college is and that only a
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consider the philosophers who were part of this era to be the greatest of all time. The likes of Plato‚ Aristotle‚ Pythagoras‚ and many more helped develop hundreds of theories and ideas that changed the way we view our world and opened our eyes to new perspectives. Out of all these philosophers there is only who stands out from the rest. His name is Socrates. Socrates is not only the most important Greek philosopher‚ but arguably the greatest philosopher in history. Socrates’ significance to Philosophy
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Life’s Greatest Lesson "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." As Henry Adams stated‚ and is the summary of the impervious bond between the characters Mitch and Morrie‚ in Tuesdays with Morrie. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease is a form of motor neuron diseases. It is a rare disorder in which the nerves that control muscular activity degenerate within the brain and spinal cord. What results is weakness and wasting
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do not constitute plagiarism. (Dames‚ K‚ June 2007 p.24 (4). The word originated from the Latin word plagiarius that is an abductor and plagiare‚ which means to steal. The subject of Plagiarism is an ethical topic that has affected many areas of academic life. It can include limited borrowing without sufficient detail to the source. Plagiarism is breached when one uses another persons work and does not acknowledge that the work is not their own. Plagiarism is an extremely serious offence and is considered
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