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This dataset contains demographic information of 355 respondents and a validated 32-items Stages of Concerns Questionnaire (SoCQ). The SoCQ questionnaire was developed based on the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) which measures seven stages of concerns as the variables. They are unconcerned, informational, personal, management, consequence, collaboration and refocusing. The data was firstly tested with normality, followed by validity checking using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). It is useful for policy makers and stakeholders to have a thorough understanding about teachers’ concerns on the use of the e-learning platform and thus, design suitable interventions to smoothen the adoption process of using the technology. This set of data could be used in a multi-racial developing country for more complex analyses. © 2020 The Author(s).Gas chromatography-electron impact-mass spectrometry (GC/EI/MS) global profiling of the endo-metabolome of wild and genetically engineered yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) strains was performed. The strains were treated or not with sub-lethal doses of the fungicide flusilazole, in order to mine the involvement of the ABC transporter YCF1, which is located in the yeast vacuole membrane, in its resistance to fungicides. Raw GC/EI/MS total ion chromatograms (*.cdf format) of the yeast endo-metabolome were recoded, which are included in this article. Since yeast is a model organism, the dataset could serve as a reference for yeast metabolomics studies related to the investigation of the effects of bioactive ingredients on its metabolism. The dataset support the research article “Karamanou D. and Aliferis K.A, 2019. The yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) YCF1 vacuole transporter evidence on its implication into the yeast resistance to flusilazole as revealed by GC/EI/MS metabolomics. Pest. Biochem. selleck Physiol. doi https//doi.org/10.1016/j.pestbp.2019.09.013″. 10.1016/j.pestbp.2019.09.013. © 2020 The Authors.The current dataset incorporates multimodal brain imaging and creativity test data from a sample of 66 healthy young adults, all of whom were healthy right-handed English speakers, aged 22 to 35, with normal or corrected-to-normal hearing and vision. The participants completed measures of divergent thinking (Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults; ATTA), everyday creativity (Creative Behaviour Inventory; CBI), and creative achievement (Creative Achievement Questionnaire; CAQ), consistent with the known multidimensional nature of creativity. They also completed high-resolution anatomical scans (T1-weighted and T2-weighted), diffusion tensor imaging scans, and resting state fMRI scans. The data were originally used in the article Neuroimaging predictors of creativity in healthy adults by Sunavsky and Poppenk [1] to test a set of confirmatory predictions regarding the volumetric, structural connectivity, and functional connectivity correlates of creativity. The data are uniquely high-dimensional in measuring both multiple dimensions of creativity as well as multimodal brain data, and may be valuable to researchers for testing models of individual differences in creativity, or who are seeking to integrate multiple datasets for large-scale, multi-site analysis of creativity. © 2020 The Author.Introduction Hepatocytes, which account for the majority of liver tissue, are derived from the endoderm and become hepatocytes via differentiation of hepatic progenitor cells. Induced hepatocyte-like (iHep) cells and artificial liver tissues are expected to become useful, efficient therapies for severe and refractory liver diseases and to contribute to drug discovery research. The establishment of iHep cell lines are needed to carry out liver transplants and assess liver toxicity in the rising number of dogs affected by liver disease. Recently, direct conversion of non-hepatocyte cells into iHep cells was achieved by transfecting mouse adult fibroblasts with the Forkhead box protein A1 (Foxa1) and hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 homeobox alpha (Hnf4α) genes. Here, we applied this conversion process for the differentiation of canine bone marrow stem cells (cBMSCs) into hepatocyte-like cells. Methods Bone marrow specimens were collected from four healthy Beagle dogs and used to culture cBMSCs in Dulbecco’s Modified hosting by Elsevier B.V.Background Constructive feedback from faculty to trainees is essential to promoting trainees’ learning yet is rarely provided. Resident physicians want more feedback than they receive but it is unclear whether faculty know this. We explored faculty and resident impressions of constructive feedback and the barriers to giving more. We hypothesized that residents want more constructive feedback; however, faculty believe that residents do not want constructive feedback and would retaliate against faculty who give it. Methods Between January and March 2019, we performed a cross-sectional survey study of anesthesiology residents and teaching faculty at two large academic centers. All residents and faculty were eligible to participate. The survey assessed satisfaction with written and in-person feedback and predicted responses to specific examples, in addition to perceived barriers. Results The survey was distributed to 156 residents and 260 faculty across the two institutions 116 residents (74% response rate) and 127 faculty (49% response rate) responded. Eighty-eight percent of residents would want to receive feedback similar to the examples, whereas only 60% of faculty responded that they thought residents would want feedback. Ninety-eight percent of residents said they would not retaliate. Barriers to providing feedback included time constraints, insufficient confidence/training, fear of retaliation, and feelings of futility. Conclusions Residents were significantly more likely to want to receive constructive feedback than the faculty members had predicted. Further, residents are unlikely to retaliate against faculty who provide feedback. Addressing barriers may help increase the amount of constructive feedback that faculty provide and resident satisfaction with feedback received. © 2019 Society for Education in Anesthesia.