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Health as Submission and Social Responsibilities: Embodied Experiences of Javanese Women With Type II Diabetes
(Qualitative Health Research, 2015-03-25)
By examining women’s experiences with type II diabetes, we explore how illness can provide resources to construct meanings of everyday life in Javanese culture. We conducted in-depth interviews with 30 female participants ...
A Genome-Wide Survey of Imprinted Genes in Rice Seeds Reveals Imprinting Primarily Occurs in the Endosperm
(PLos Genetics, 2011-06-23)
Author Summary The expression of maternal or paternal alleles in either a preferentially or exclusively uniparental manner, termed imprinting, is prevalent in the transient endosperm of seeds in the model plant ...
Organization of Parent Knowledge: Compartmentalization and Integration in Adult Child-Parent Relationships
(Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2010-09-01)
Previous research has demonstrated an association between structure of beliefs about romantic partners and feelings for that partner. Here, the structure of college students’ beliefs about their parents was linked to ...
Improving Risk Models for Avian Influenza: The Role of Intensive Poultry Farming and Flooded Land during the 2004 Thailand Epidemic
(PLos One, 2012-11-19)
Since 1996 when Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza type H5N1 first emerged in southern China, numerous studies sought risk factors and produced risk maps based on environmental and anthropogenic predictors. However little ...
Persistent and delayed effects of toxic cyanobacteria exposure on life history traits of a common zooplankter
(2015-12-15)
Anthropogenic eutrophication has resulted in shifts in phytoplankton community composition worldwide which represent dramatic changes in resource quality and availability for grazers such as rotifers. For these grazers, ...
Student Engagement and Leadership of the Transition Planning Process
(Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2013-05-01)
The Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Career Development and Transition (DCDT) has been a longstanding leader and advocate in the field of secondary education for students with disabilities. This paper traces ...
Transcriptional Regulator PerA Influences Biofilm-Associated, Platelet Binding, and Metabolic Gene Expression in Enterococcus faecalis
(PLos One, 2012-04-04)
Enterococcus faecalis is an opportunistic pathogen and a leading cause of nosocomial infections, traits facilitated by the ability to quickly acquire and transfer virulence determinants. A 150 kb pathogenicity island (PAI) ...
Adaptations in antagonist co-activation: Role in the repeated-bout effect
(2017-12-07)
Eccentric exercise results in an adaptation which attenuates muscle damage from subsequent exercise—termed the “repeated-bout effect (RBE).” Purpose: Study examined antagonist co-activation and motor-unit recruitment ...
Allelopathic Potential of Invasive Plantago virginica on Four Lawn Species
(PLos One, 2015-04-27)
Plantago virginica L. has invaded many lawn ecosystems in the Eastern part of China. The invasion has incurred an economic cost to remove them. In order to prevent the invasion, it is critical to understand the invasive ...
The electoral effects of the descriptive representation of ethnic minority groups in Australia and the UK
(Party Politics, 2014-10-30)
In this article we assess the electoral effects of the nomination of ethnic minority candidates. We argue that descriptive representation is an important factor in how parties in SMD systems establish their coalitions over ...