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Holden's Hold on the Censors
(Contexts, 2011-10-01)
J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye has been on bookshelves since the 1950s—and its presence there has been protested for almost as long. This review explores why that Holden Caulfield can still elicit such social ...
World-system position and democracy, 1972–2008
(International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2012-10-01)
Global levels of democracy are higher than ever before, and democratic principles are now institutionalized as a world cultural norm. Nevertheless, a number of countries continue to feature governing systems that restrict ...
Dietary Pectin Increases Intestinal Crypt Stem Cell Survival following Radiation Injury
(PLos One, 2015-08-13)
Gastrointestinal (GI) mucosal damage is a devastating adverse effect of radiation therapy. We have recently reported that expression of Dclk1, a Tuft cell and tumor stem cell (TSC) marker, 24h after high dose total-body ...
Genetic Evidence for an Indispensable Role of Somatic Embryogenesis Receptor Kinases in Brassinosteroid Signaling
(PLos Genetics, 2012-01-12)
Author Summary Brassinosteroids (BRs) are a group of plant hormones critical for plant growth and development. BRs are perceived by a cell-surface receptor complex including two distinctive receptor kinases, BRI1 ...
Expanding the Spectrum of Attitudes Toward the Death Penalty: How Nondichotomous Response Options Affect Our Understandings of Death Penalty Attitudes
(Criminal Justice Review, 2014-06-01)
Metapopulation Dynamics Enable Persistence of Influenza A, Including A/H5N1, in Poultry
(PLos One, 2013-12-02)
Highly pathogenic influenza A/H5N1 has persistently but sporadically caused human illness and death since 1997. Yet it is still unclear how this pathogen is able to persist globally. While wild birds seem to be a genetic ...
Resource planning for just-in-time make-to-order environments: a scalable methodology using tabu search
(2017-06)
This paper develops a two-phase tabu search-based methodology for detailed resource planning in make-to-order production systems with multiple resources, unique routings, and varying job due dates. In the first phase ...
Birds of Two Oceans? Trans-Andean and Divergent Migration of Black Skimmers (Rynchops niger cinerascens) from the Peruvian Amazon
(PLos One, 2016-01-13)
Seasonal flooding compels some birds that breed in aquatic habitats in Amazonia to undertake annual migrations, yet we know little about how the complex landscape of the Amazon region is used seasonally by these species. ...
Influence of User Comments on Perceptions of Media Bias and Third-Person Effect in Online News
(Electronic News, 2011-06-01)
J. Brian Houston, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Missouri.
Assessment of Elder Mistreatment in Two American Indian Samples: Psychometric Characteristics of the HS-EAST and the Native Elder Life–Financial Exploitation and –Neglect Measures
(Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2014-04-01)
Although elder mistreatment among ethnic minorities is increasingly gaining attention, our empirical knowledge of this phenomenon among American Indians remains quite limited, especially with respect to measurement. The ...