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 Pressure In the movie The Dead Poet Society‚ Neil‚ the protagonist was getting academically pressured by his parents‚ his dad especially. He was told to get all A’s or he would be punished. He was threatened at the beginning to be forced to leave that field he wanted to study‚ but he did not listen to his dad. Academic pressure plays a big role in why some people have anxiety‚ or get really mad at themselves if they do something wrong or even get a bad grade. In my perspective I believe
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Academic Skills Week 2 Tasks Task 1 Example of a good introduction: Over the last five years‚ higher education lecturers have experienced a significant downturn in the quality of written work produced by students. For example‚ one of the important sections of any essay‚ the introduction‚ is often poorly written‚ providing nothing more than background information‚ or not included. McDonald has identified that: ‘Academic introductions are becoming a neglected part of an assignment by many students’
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1. The desire to spread Christianity and obtain money led to European exploration. The European countries believed that they had a duty to convert non Christians all over the world. Merchants and traders traveled overseas to get spices and luxury goods from Asia.The trading of spices and luxury goods was a profitable business in Europe. Spices such as nutmeg‚ cinnamon and pepper were introduced during the Crusades. After the Crusades‚ the demand for spices increased‚ but their wasn’t enough of a
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Listening Skills to Young Learners through “Listen and Do” Songs I f it’s true that listening skills are the most important outcomes of early language teaching (Demirel 2004)‚ that explains the constant demand for methods that successfully improve listening skills of learners. Songs can be one of the most enjoyable ways to practice and develop listening skills. Any syllabus designed for teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) to young learners (YLs) typically contains
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For this assignment I interviewed Alessandro‚ an Italian student in the Pre-Intermediate English class. Alessandro has been living in London for a few months now. He came to the UK to search for work as a result of the global economic recession. He would like to improve his spoken English skills to improve his job prospects as well as better integrate into British society. Alessandro has studied English from primary school level to High school level but highlighted that the quality of English learning
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1 Text 1-1 1.1 1.2 Academic Achievement This unit will help you: use your prior knowledge to help you understand what you are reading; practice reading for a specific purpose; make decisions about the relevance of a text in terms of reading purpose; read selectively in order to use appropriate information from the text. • • • • The topic of this unit concerns factors that may lead to improvement in academic performance among students. It is based on three major research projects carried
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I reviewed the Webinar titled “Gamification: is it Edu-tainment or a Genuine Opportunity to Engage Learners?” By Brian Knudson of Noggin labs. Gamification of Learning high lights – What The webinar started by a brilliant experiment with those who signed up for the webinar and shared the results of the game. The webinar covered two broad categories of gaming types: simulations and social games. In this paper I was drawn to the first category‚ simulations because of its broad existence and usability
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Space exploration is crucial to new discoveries in science‚ that will benefit society. Space exploration has changed the world around us by providing an inside look worlds around us‚ even in our own solar system. The ability to travel through space has given us a new perspective on our solar system‚ by being able to view how nature works outside of our own planet. Earth is a unique planet. So unique that our technology today has not discovered any other planets or satellites that could sustain human
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adversity if important protective factors are present in that person’s life. The Resiliency Theory is founded on the proposition that if members of one’s family‚ community and / or school care deeply about you‚ have high expectations and purposeful support for you‚ and value your participation you will maintain a faith in the future and can overcome almost any adversity. When a community works together to foster resiliency a large number of our youth can overcome great adversity and achieve bright
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