Self-Management and Amygdala Triggers

Learn about amygdala triggers and how you can control them.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: LAPU

Introduction to Psychology

A comprehensive review of the behavior or humans as well as other animals will be provided through each chapter. Topics such as learning, memory, emotions, behavioral disorders, and personality will be explored. Section I: Introduction to Psychology Section II: The Science of Psychology Section III: Physiological Aspects of Psychology Section IV: States of Consciousness Section V: Sensation and Perception Section VI: Growth and Development Section VII: Learning Section VIII: Thinking and Intelligence Section IX: Memory Section X: Emotion and Motivation Section XI: Personality Section XII: Social Psychology Section XIII: Psychological Disorders Section XIV: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Arlene Lacombe, Kathryn Dumper, Marilyn Lovett, Marion Perlmutter, Michael Waller (Editor), Rose M. Spielman, William Jenkins

Human Relations in Organizations

Unit Objectives - Enhancing Your Communication Skills *Explain how communications skills impact overall emotional intelligence *Explain various communication styles and identify your own “preferred” style *Describe the significance of nonverbal communication when communicating with others Unit Objectives - Ethical Behavior in the Workplace *Define ethics and give examples of ethical decisions you make in your daily life *Explain the levels of ethics and how they relate to human relations *Describe the models that an individual can use for ethical decision making.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Unit of Study

Author: Linda Williamson

Introduction to Psychology

This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love. The great controversies: nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self and society. Students are exposed to the range of theoretical perspectives including biological, evolutionary, cognitive, and psychoanalytic. One of the best aspects of Psychology is that you are the subject matter. This makes it possible to do many demonstrations in lecture that allow you to experience the topic under study. Lectures work in tandem with the textbook. The course breaks into small recitations sections to allow discussion, oral presentations, and individual contact with instructors.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Wolfe, Jeremy

Developing Change Agents

Innovative Practices for Sustainability Leadership Short Description: Developing Change Agents examines the role of academia in creating the next generation of sustainability leaders. Delving into strategies to transform higher education, this volume empowers universities to develop change agents who can scale solutions to meet the wicked environmental, social, and political challenges of the present and future. Developing Change Agents advances a revolutionary perspective on the way academia functions from the administrative hierarchies to faculty, and the classroom and to deep engagement in the communities where the solutions must be co-created. This book works to find a transdisciplinary, effective method of tackling the world’s issues with reference to emotional intelligence, diversity, community, and reward structures and supports a tailored, reflexive approach based upon each university’s diverse and unique students, faculty, programs, and communities. From the ANGLES NETWORK: A Network for Graduate Leadership in Sustainability Word Count: 75528 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

Material Type: Textbook

Introduction to Psychology Course Content

Introductory psychology course developed through the Ohio Department of Higher Education OER Innovation Grant. The course is part of the Ohio Transfer Module and is also named OSS015. For more information about credit transfer between Ohio colleges and universities please visit: www.ohiohighered.org/transfer. Team Lead Vincent Granito Lorain County Community College Content Contributors Nicole Brandt Columbus State Community College Lynne Gabriel Lakeland Community College Jackie Sample Central Ohio Technical College Librarian Rachel Dilley Columbus State Community College Review Team Melissa Beers Ohio State University Brian Gerber Stark State College

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Brian Gerber, Jackie Samle, Lynne Gabriel, Melissa Beers, Nicole Brandt, Rachel Dilley, Vincent Granito

23 Things for Digital Knowledge

23 Things is a suite of 23 self-paced online modules that cover a range of topics from video editing to basic coding. Each module or 'thing' consists of information, interactive activities, and invitations to try out various open and free software applications and technologies. The modules have been created using H5P and can be downloaded individually as a single H5P file, modified and re-used under a CC-BY-SA licence - simply click on the 'reuse' link at the bottom of each module. The content was created by Curtin University students as part of a 'students as partners' project.

Material Type: Full Course, Interactive

Author: Curtin University Library

101 for Educators: Media Literacy & Digital Citizenship Instructional Resources Greatest Hits

Includes two interactive slide decks that provide overviews of some of the most useful collections of instructional resources, one for grades K-5, the other for grades 6-12. There are many more resource collections out there: these are just the "greatest hits"! Also includes collections of questions that can be used to engage students in Media Literacy.

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Lesley James, Lesley James

Blackout poetry - digital literacy in creative ways

Digital literacy is more than finding articles or being able to use Powerpoint - it's a flexible engagement within the digital world. This workshop uses poetry as an engagement lens on mindsets, learning, creativity and literacies. Developed as part of CAUL's Digital Dexterity launch program in 2019, this blackout poetry resource provides you with workshop slides, workshop plan and an instructional handout. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Author: Kat Cain

Digital Skills GitBook

The Living Book of Digital Skills (You never knew you needed until now) is a living, open source online guide to 'modern not-quite-technical computer skills' for researchers and the broader academic community.

Material Type: Textbook

Game Design

An historical examination and analysis of the evolution and development of games and game mechanics. Topics include a large breadth of genres and types of games, including sports, game shows, games of chance, schoolyard games, board games, roleplaying games, and digital games. Students submit essays documenting research and analysis of a variety of traditional and eclectic games. Project teams required to design, develop, and thoroughly test their original games.

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Fernandez-Vara, Clara, Juul, Jesper, Rusch, Doris, Tan, Philip

Beginning Excel

This textbook was written for a community college introductory course in spreadsheets utilizing Microsoft Excel. While the figures shown utilize Excel 2016, the textbook was written to be applicable to other versions of Excel as well. The book introduces new users to the basics of spreadsheets and is appropriate for students in any major who have not used Excel before.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Barbara Lave, Diane Shingledecker, Julie Romey, Mary Schatz, Noreen Brown

Reading Scientific Research

Academic research articles have a structure and language that is different from our other reading materials such as textbooks. This lesson can help students new to academic research understand these differences and learn strategies for finding information in such articles.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Module

Authors: Alice Anderson, Ashley Stark, New Literacies Alliance, Prasanna Vaduvathiriyan, Rachel Vukas, Robyn Hartman

Library Research for Academic Writing

 This resource will provide college students with the skills necessary to find academic articles in support of a research writing assignment.This resource is written for a college level reader. The exercises are intended to be accomplished by using your college or university library website and the research resources on it.  While this resource can be accomplished independently, it has been written to serve as instruction within a research methods course and assumes that students have an actual research project to which they can apply these strategies.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Reading, Student Guide

Author: Steve Brantley

Artificial enzymes facilitate targeted cancer therapy

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview: "Despite their known benefits, chemotherapy and other cancer treatments can take a toll on patients. Side effects such as hair loss, nausea, immune system suppression, fatigue, cognitive impairment, and infertility are common. The reason is that many cancer-fighting treatments target cells that quickly reproduce, which is true of cancer cells but also of other, healthy cells in the body, including blood cells and those lining the gastrointestinal tract. Is it possible to target only cancerous tissues with therapeutic drugs so that healthy organs remain unaffected? Researchers at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research in Japan are engineering molecules to do just that. The team showed that artificially designed gold-based enzymes (or metalloenzymes) can be used to guide drug delivery through a technique called selective cell tagging therapy. These metalloenzymes are studded with sugar molecules that can bind to specific proteins called lectins displayed on the surface of cancer cells..." The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Reading

Key enzymes fuel growth and spread of breast cancer cells

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview: "Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death among women worldwide. One process that fuels the proliferation, survival, and migration of breast cancer cells is aerobic glycolysis. In normal cells, this conversion of glucose into lactate is normally reserved for low-oxygen conditions. Researchers have now identified a tumor-suppressing protein that helps regulate aerobic glycolysis in breast tumors. HRD1 is an enzyme known to suppress breast cancer proliferation and invasion. Experiments on human breast cancer cells clearly showed that upregulation of HRD1 decreased aerobic glycolysis. and subsequently inhibited breast cancer proliferation and invasion. This effect was found to be mediated by the enzyme PFKP. PFKP downregulation allowed HRD1 to inhibit the aerobic glycolysis and spread of breast cancer cells. These findings point to a new regulatory role for HRD1 and offer a possible target for future breast cancer therapies..." The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Reading

Enzyme deficiency worsens fatty liver disease

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview: "SIRT3 is an enzyme vital to maintaining a balance between fat buildup and breakdown in the liver. Mice lacking the gene coding for SIRT3 show enhanced fatty liver disease when fed a high-fat diet, but it’s unknown how or whether SIRT3 can actively prevent fatty liver disease in such mice. A recent study examined the molecular effects of a standard diet and a high-fat diet in wild-type mice and in mice missing the gene coding for SIRT3. Feeding SIRT3-less mice a high-fat diet aggravated fatty liver disease and reduced the protective, fat-oxidizing effect of the molecule PPARα. Similarly, levels of LIPIN1, a protective protein that covers for the loss of SIRT3, were reduced when mice were fed a high-fat diet. In the absence of SIRT3, exposure to a fatty diet promoted the production of proteins that absorb fats through the regulatory molecule NRF2..." The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Reading

The enzyme TRIM3 facilitates estrogen signaling and modulates breast cancer progression

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview: "Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women worldwide. More than 70% of breast cancers are estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) positive, indicating that they might be treatable with endocrine therapy. However, half of patients with ERα-positive breast cancer develop endocrine resistance, a major roadblock to successful therapy. In a new study, researchers sought to learn more about ERα-positive breast cancer to support the development of better treatments. The enzyme TRIM3, a regulator of protein stability vs. breakdown, was upregulated in ERα-positive breast cancer tissues, and high TRIM3 expression was associated with poor survival in patients receiving endocrine therapy. In experiments on mice and cell lines, TRIM3 promoted ERα signaling and was required for cancer growth and migration. Specifically, the filamin/NHL domain of TRIM3 bound to the DNA-binding domain of ERα in the nucleus..." The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Reading

Switching off key enzyme could make cancer cells more visible to immune system

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview: "PD-L1 is a powerful cloaking protein for cancer cells. Abundant PD-L1 on their surface binds with the receptor PD-1 on immune cells. The PD-L1/PD-1 axis transfers inhibitory signaling to the immune system that the cancer cells pose no danger. How this cloaking process unfolds has remained unclear. Now, researchers report the prominence of the enzyme USP22. USP22 is overexpressed in malignant tumors of several types, including those of the lung. Initial experiments on human lung cancer cells showed that USP22 might regulate PD-L1. A closer look revealed that USP22 deubiquitinated and stabilized PD-L1. USP22 enlists the help another protein, CSN5, to stabilize PD-L1. By inhibiting USP22 genetically, researchers could suppress the formation of tumors. Targeting USP22 in the clinic could therefore be one way to decloak cancer cells and make them vulnerable to existing anti-cancer therapies..." The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Reading

Forest floor microbes produce tough biofilm breaker

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview: "Biofilms are the slimy cities some microbes form when they invade a surface. Conventional cleaning products are generally good at breaking up biofilms. But they tend to be harsh on the environment. And while natural products are a good alternative, it takes multiple enzymes to break up the strong polymers that make bacteria stick. But researchers are confident that a natural solution does exist. One team searched the forest floor in the Netherlands for microbes that might produce an all-in-one biofilm-busting enzyme. To coax those microbes out, they enriched forest litter with an especially tough biopolymer produced by forest bacteria: Acidobacteria. Microbes that could thrive in that environment likely produced enzymes strong enough to degrade the biopolymer blend. Analyses indicated the predominance of four bacterial phyla. More importantly, they revealed the main type of enzyme these bacteria secreted: glycoside hydrolases..." The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Reading