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Immunodominance of Antigenic Site B over Site A of Hemagglutinin of Recent H3N2 Influenza Viruses
(PLos One, 2012-07-25)
H3N2 influenza viruses have now circulated in the human population for 43 years since the pandemic of 1968, accumulating sequence changes in the hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) that are believed to be predominantly ...
How Advanced Building Systems Can Offset Water Infrastructure Needs
(2015-07)
Water infrastructure requirements will be reaching crisis proportions in the coming years. Increasing urban populations, drought conditions due to climate change, and increasing EPA rule limits for drinking water contaminants ...
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 ...
How Competitive Is “Competitive” Procurement in the Social Services?
(The American Review of Public Administration, 2014-02-27)
The scholarship on contracting generally argues that markets for social services are weak and lacking in competition. Using data gathered from Florida’s largest social service agency, the Department of Children and Families, ...
The Effect of Student-Directed Transition Planning With a Computer-Based Reading Support Program on the Self-Determination of Students With Disabilities
(The Journal of Special Education, 2011-08-01)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of student-directed transition planning instruction (Whose Future Is It Anyway? curriculum) with a computer-based reading support program (Rocket Reader) on the ...
The social construction of violence among Northern Plains tribal members with antisocial personality disorder and alcohol use disorder
(Transcultural Psychiatry, 2014-02-01)
Whereas recent reports from national studies have presented extremely high rates for many personality disorders in American Indian communities, persistent concerns about the meaning of these symptoms have left many troubled ...
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 ...
Structure and Dynamics of Amyloid-β Segmental Polymorphisms
(PLos One, 2012-07-24)
It is believed that amyloid-beta (Aβ) aggregates play a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. Aβ molecules form β-sheet structures with multiple interaction sites. This polymorphism gives rise to differences in ...
Activation of ERK and NF-κB during HARE-Mediated Heparin Uptake Require Only One of the Four Endocytic Motifs
(PLos One, 2016-04-21)
Fifteen different ligands, including heparin (Hep), are cleared from lymph and blood by the Hyaluronan (HA) Receptor for Endocytosis (HARE; derived from Stabilin-2 by proteolysis), which contains four endocytic motifs ...
Evaluating Eyewitness Identification Procedures Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis
(Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2014-02-01)
Eyewitness identification is a pivotal issue in applied research because, in practice, a correct identification can help to remove a dangerous criminal from society, but a false identification can lead to the erroneous ...