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Proteomics Coupled with Metabolite and Cell Wall Profiling Reveal Metabolic Processes of a Developing Rice Stem Internode
(2017-07-13)
Internodes of grass stems function in mechanical support, transport, and, in some species, are a major sink organ for carbon in the form of cell wall polymers. This study reports cell wall composition, proteomic, and ...
Curcumin Prevents Palmitoylation of Integrin β4 in Breast Cancer Cells
(PLos One, 2015-05-04)
Curcumin has been shown to mitigate cancer phenotypes such as invasive migration, proliferation, and survival by disrupting numerous signaling pathways. Our previous studies showed that curcumin inhibits integrin β4 (ITG ...
Central or Peripheral: Reconsidering the Place of African Americans within the American Intellectual Establishment
(2015-12)
Do we think of Frederick Douglass as a founding father of the modern social democratic tradition in the United States? Or is he taken as proof in our textbooks that a slave could indeed become a “great American”—proof that, ...
Psyche in New York: The Devil Wears Prada Updates the Myth
(2012)
The Psyche myth tells the story of a goddess guiding a younger woman’s path to maturity, blocking her way by imposing impossible tasks that teach her about being an adult. The movie The Devil Wears Prada retells the myth ...
Checked Your Bias Lately? Reasons and Strategies for Rural Teachers to Self-Assess for Grading Bias
(2014)
Multiple factors influence teachers' grading and scoring of students' class work, homework, projects and tests. Put simply, bias in grading is giving different grades on student work of essentially equal quality, based on ...
Diversity Issues: Exploring “Critical” Through Multiple Lenses
(Advances in Developing Human Resources, 2014-11-01)
The Problem Social identity diversity is a concept that links an individual to the social world and to other contexts where interactions occur. However, issues that emerge from social identity diversity may not necessarily ...
World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 11 Foodborne Parasitic Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis
(PLOS Medicine, 2015-12-03)
In this data synthesis, Paul Robert Torgerson and colleagues estimate the global and regional disease burden of 11 foodborne parasitic diseases.
Perceptions of Trained Leaders on Improving the Public Health Impact of Three Arthritis Foundation Programs
(Health Promotion Practice, 2010-07-01)
The Arthritis Foundation (AF) offers effective community-based programs to help manage arthritis, including aquatic, exercise, and self-help programs. Trained leaders can facilitate the adoption, maintenance, and reach of ...
Start with What You Have: A Leader’s Path to Innovation
(2018-10)
On his thirty-first day as the new CEO of Central Florida’s largest food bank, Dave Krepcho faced unprecedented challenges as a wave of devastating hurricanes pummeled the state. Floridians in 2004 were hit by Hurricanes ...
Precipitation and carbon-water coupling jointly control the interannual variability of global land gross primary production
(2016-12-23)
Carbon uptake by terrestrial ecosystems is increasing along with the rising of atmospheric CO2 concentration. Embedded in this trend, recent studies suggested that the interannual variability (IAV) of global carbon fluxes ...