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The effects of replicative senescence and telomerase on contraction and motility of fibroblasts.
(2009)
Fibroblasts are important in wound healing as they can create tension, migrate into a wound, and differentiate into myofibroblasts that produce a contractile force to close the wound. Replicative senescence, or the limit ...
Claiming knowledge : challenges of gender and class in the composition classroom.
(2008)
Since English composition classes are rich in reading, language, dialogue, and writing, they offer the perfect venue in which to provide women and members of disadvantaged classes the opportunity to have their voices acknowledged.
Characteristic preferences in mate selection among college students : a comparison study spanning the late twentieth century into the early twenty-first century.
(2008)
This study was designed to explore the preferred characteristics of mate selection. Additionally, this study sought to determine preferences by sex, age, and over time. As a matter of geographical convenience and also in ...
A study of movement in sitting-volleyball.
(2008)
Focused on movement in the game of sitting-volleyball [also known as wheelchair volleyball] with the US Paralympic Team. The purpose of the study was to assess the effectiveness of lateral, forward, and posterior hand ...
Vigorous Cold War handshakes : reviewing Nixon's 1972 China trip.
(2007)
The purpose of this study is to reexamine former United States (U.S.) President Richard Milhous Nixon's historic trip to the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.). Although his administration is most often remembered for its ...
The investigation of voluntarily childless married couples and marital satisfaction
(2008)
This exploratory study was designed to investigate the impact on marital satisfaction as a result of being voluntarily childless. An open-ended questionnaire was the instrument used in this cross sectional, convenience ...
Psychologist-historians: historying women and benevolent sexism
(2008)
Analysis of the cultural influences on psychologist-historian authors regarding general trends of benevolent and hostile sexism through the lens of women's perceived place in society at the time of a text's publication. ...
Are reproductive life history traits of Australian three-lined skinks fixed or phenotypically plastic?
(2009)
Reptile viviparity is strongly associated with cool climates in interspecific comparisons, but intraspecific comparisons provide an even stronger opportunity to identify causal pathways and distinguish facultative (plastic) ...
The prayer closet warriors.
(2007)
Seventh grader Maddie enters her hall closet to pray and finds herself standing in a field in heaven. There she discovers that she can save her school from the Anti-Nagah, the light eater. To do so Maddie must pass three ...