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Advancing research on racial-ethnic health disparities: Improving measurement equivalence in studies with diverse samples
(2014)
To conduct meaningful, epidemiologic research on racial-ethnic health disparities, racial-ethnic samples must be rendered equivalent on other social status and contextual variables via statistical controls of those extraneous ...
Applicability of Precision Medicine Approaches to Managing Hypertension in Rural Populations
(2018-04-30)
As part of the Heart Healthy Lenoir Project, we developed a practice level intervention to improve blood pressure control. The goal of this study was: (i) to determine if single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that associate ...
Unity in defence: honeybee workers exhibit conserved molecular responses to diverse pathogens
(2017-03-02)
Background: Organisms typically face infection by diverse pathogens, and hosts are thought to have developed specific responses to each type of pathogen they encounter. The advent of transcriptomics now makes it possible ...
Akhenaten’s Amarna in New Kingdom Egypt: Relations of Landscape and Ideology
(2016-08)
a few years after Pharaoh amenophis iV (ruled ca.1353– 1337 in the Eighteenth dynasty during new Kingdom Egypt) had assumed the highest office in Thebes, he decided to radically reorganize and redirect the Egyptian political ...
The effects of an afterschool STEM program on students’ motivation and engagement
(2017-06-12)
Background: One significant factor in facilitating students’ career intentions and persistence in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields is targeting their interests and motivation before eighth ...
The Comprehensive Post-Acute Stroke Services (COMPASS) study: design and methods for a cluster-randomized pragmatic trial
(2017-07-17)
Background: Patients discharged home after stroke face significant challenges managing residual neurological deficits, secondary prevention, and pre-existing chronic conditions. Post-discharge care is often fragmented ...
Actual neighborhood-level crime predicts body mass index z-score changes in a multi-racial/ethnic sample of children
(2018-09-24)
Longitudinal studies are warranted to clarify the influence crime has on health outcomes in children especially
children representing multiple racial/ethnic backgrounds. To address this need, the current study examined
whether ...
THE EFFECTS OF SILICA FERTILIZER AS AN ANTI-HERBIVORE DEFENSE IN CUCUMBER
(2017-06)
This study aims to improve our understanding of silicon’s role in deterring herbivores from Cucumis
sativa. We hypothesized that silicon’s role in plant defense is due to the presence of silica augmenting other physical ...
Advanced immunostaining approaches to study early male germ cell development
(2018-02-09)
Mammalian male germ cell development takes place in the testis under the influence of a variety of somatic cells and an incompletely defined paracrine and endocrine influences. Since it is not recapitulated well in vitro, ...
The effects of elevated temperature and dissolved ρ CO 2 on a marine foundation species
(2017-06)
Understanding how climate change and other environmental stressors will affect spe- cies is a fundamental concern of modern ecology. Indeed, numerous studies have documented how climate stressors affect species distributions ...