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Metropolitan College provides students with an affordable, flexible learning environment, supporting the academic needs of working adults looking to advance their careers or to open up new opportunities for enriching their lives. With over 800 courses to choose from in more than 30 areas of study, students can pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees, diploma and certificate programs, or simply take courses to advance their knowledge in an interest area including: actuarial science, applied social sciences, advertising, computer science, gastronomy, and liberal studies. Classes are offered at convenient locations in Boston, Tyngsboro, Brussels, at corporate and military locations, and more, as well as online. Most classes are scheduled in the evening to accommodate our students' busy life and work schedules and are taught by our full-time and part-time faculty or professionals who are experts in their fields.
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A critical bioenergetic switch is regulated by IGF2 during murine cartilage development
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-11-11)Long bone growth requires the precise control of chondrocyte maturation from proliferation to hypertrophy during endochondral ossification, but the bioenergetic program that ensures normal cartilage development is still ... -
Smartphone-based neuropsychological assessment in Parkinson's disease: feasibility, validity, and contextually driven variability in cognition
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022-04)OBJECTIVES: The prevalence of neurodegenerative disorders demands methods of accessible assessment that reliably captures cognition in daily life contexts. We investigated the feasibility of smartphone cognitive assessment ... -
Plagiarism abatement with assignment templates
(Springer, 2022-11-07)The ubiquity of plagiarism sites has made it imperative that faculty change assignments every time they teach a course. However, this can be very time consuming. We describe a way to make such changes that consumes a ... -
Neuromarketing’s socioeconomic status and racial discrimination and lack of transparency
(Research Publishing Academy, 2022-12-31)Neuromarketing, the scientific study of the nervous system applied to marketing, is evolving rapidly. Marketers recognize that brain and biometric studies lead to a deeper understanding of consumer preferences. This research ... -
Internationalization strategies of Lusophone-African SMEs: a case study analysis
(2022-11-06)This study investigates Lusophone Africa multi-national enterprises (MNEs) internationalization strategies from Angola and Mozambique, specifically their entry mode. Information was gathered through a survey of 29 MNE’s ... -
Neuromarketing and global branding reaction analysis based on real-time monitoring of multiple consumer's biosignals and emotions
(2022-11-11)Consumers' selections and decision-making processes are some of the most exciting and challenging topics in neuromarketing, sales, and branding. Multicultural influences and societal conditions are also crucial to consider ... -
Analysis of cryptocurrency dependencies
(2021-04-30)In a world where no country, market, or economy is an island, interconnectivity is becoming a fundamental feature of almost all social and economic systems. In the case of digital assets like cryptocurrencies, the impact ... -
Relationship between macroeconomic indicators and economic cycles in U.S.
(2020-05-21)We analyze monthly time series of 57 US macroeconomic indicators (18 leading, 30 coincidental, and 9 lagging) and 5 other trade/money indexes. Using novel methods, we confirm statistically significant co-movements among ... -
Mitigation of cascading failures in complex networks
(2020-09-30)Cascading failures in many systems such as infrastructures or financial networks can lead to catastrophic system collapse. We develop here an intuitive, powerful and simple-to-implement approach for mitigation of cascading ... -
Socio-economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
(2020-12-15)This paper proposes a dynamic cascade model to investigate the systemic risk posed by sector-level industries within the U.S. inter-industry network. We then use this model to study the effect of the disruptions presented ...