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How Jeffries Wyman put Florida and Shell Mounds on the Map
(2015-05-27)
The state of Florida is an intermittent flashpoint of shell mound research. This process was initiated in the 19th century by Jeffries Wyman, whose 1875 publication Fresh-Water Shell Mounds of the St. John’s River, Florida ...
Emergence of Leadership within a Homogeneous Group
(PLos One, 2015-07-30)
Large scale coordination without dominant, consistent leadership is frequent in nature. How individuals emerge from within the group as leaders, however transitory this position may be, has become an increasingly common ...
Claiming Space: An Autoethnographic Study of Indigenous Graduate Students Engaged in Language Reclamation
(2015)
This article explores the critical role of an emerging generation of Indigenous scholars and activists in ensuring the continuity of their endangered heritage languages. Using collaborative autoethnography as a research ...
FXN Promoter Silencing in the Humanized Mouse Model of Friedreich Ataxia
(PLos One, 2015-09-22)
Background Friedreich ataxia is caused by an expanded GAA triplet-repeat sequence in intron 1 of the FXN gene that results in epigenetic silencing of the FXN promoter. This silencing mechanism is seen in patient-derived ...
A Pectate Lyase-Coding Gene Abundantly Expressed during Early Stages of Infection Is Required for Full Virulence in Alternaria brassicicola
(PLos One, 2015-05-21)
Alternaria brassicicola causes black spot disease of Brassica species. The functional importance of pectin digestion enzymes and unidentified phytotoxins in fungal pathogenesis has been suspected but not verified in A. ...
Volunteering Movement in Russia: Regional Presence and Future Perspectives
(University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2015)
This study provides an overview of the volunteering movement in Russia. Particularly, authors concentrate their discussion around major particularities of the volunteer development in Russia: the regional volunteerism, ...
An Introduction to the General Monotone Model with Application to Two Problematic Data Sets
(Sociological Methodology, 2015-01-21)
We argue that the mismatch between data and analytical methods, along with common practices for dealing with “messy” data, can lead to inaccurate conclusions. Specifically, using previously published data on racial bias ...
Insect-Inspired Navigation Algorithm for an Aerial Agent Using Satellite Imagery
(2015-04-15)
Humans have long marveled at the ability of animals to navigate swiftly, accurately, and across long distances. Many mechanisms have been proposed for how animals acquire, store, and retrace learned routes, yet many of ...
Genotypic and Phenotypic Characterization of P23H Line 1 Rat Model
(PLos One, 2015-05-26)
Rod-cone dystrophy, also known as retinitis pigmentosa (RP), is the most common inherited degenerative photoreceptor disease, for which no therapy is currently available. The P23H rat is one of the most commonly used ...