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Peer feedback and learning: a case study with 8th-grade Portuguese students
Asper, Gerson; Faria, Cláudia; Serra, Paula; Galvão, CecíliaThis research explores the contributions of peer feedback to student learning, in the context of peer assessment. The study involved a class of 20 Portuguese middle school pupils and used document analysis, interviews, and a questionnaire to collect data. Peer feedback was identified as the key factor driving improvements in pupil performance, due mainly to its key role in identifying improvement points, but al...
mRNA metabolism: nonsense-mediated mRNA decay as a tool for gene therapy and th...
Asper, GersonEukaryotic cells have developed elaborate mechanisms of mRNA quality control that secure gene expression fidelity through the detection and degradation of abnormal transcripts. NMD (nonsense-mediated mRNA decay), which detects and degrades transcripts containing premature translation termination codons (PTCs), and NSD (nonstop mRNA decay), that detects and degrades transcripts without in-frame stop codons, are ...