Publications by authors named "E B Makarova"

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  • Schools pass on societal values, with teachers playing a crucial role in shaping students' value-related educational goals (VrEGs).
  • This study compares VrEGs between primary school teachers in Switzerland and the UK and explores how these goals align with each country's dominant value orientations.
  • Findings reveal significant differences in the value priorities of teachers from both countries, indicating that teachers' VrEGs closely reflect their respective national value profiles.
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  • The study explored how the timing of starting an obesogenic diet (Cafeteria Diet) affects obesity traits in male and female mice, focusing on pre-puberty and post-puberty initiation.
  • Male mice that started the diet before puberty displayed better metabolic health with lower body weight and improved fat metabolism compared to those starting after puberty.
  • Conversely, female mice starting the diet before puberty showed poorer metabolic profiles, including higher triglycerides and lower insulin sensitivity, showcasing gender differences in diet impact on obesity development.
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Unlabelled: Values education within the school context is, among other elements, shaped by a value-related school climate as well as teachers' value-related educational goals. This longitudinal study investigated the interplay between these two elements over fifteen months, starting in March 2021, and including four points of measurement ( - ). The sample consisted of 118 primary school teachers (years 1 and 2) from primary schools in Switzerland.

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Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the performance of Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) with respect to standardized urology multiple-choice items in the United States.

Methods: In total, 700 multiple-choice urology board exam-style items were submitted to GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, and responses were recorded.

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Elevated leptin in pregnant mice improves metabolism in offspring fed high-calorie diet and its influence may be sex-specific. Molecular mechanisms mediating leptin programming action are unknown. We aimed to investigate programming actions of maternal leptin on the signaling function of the placenta and fetal liver and on adaptation to high-calorie diet in male and female offspring.

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