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A late-surviving apatemyid (Mammalia: Apatotheria) from the latest Oligocene of Florida, USA
(2015-12-17)
A new species of Apatemyidae, Sinclairella simplicidens, is based on four isolated teeth that were screenwashed from fissure fillings at the late Oligocene Buda locality, Alachua County, Florida. Compared to its only ...
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, ...
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.
Broad-Band Activatable White-Opsin
(PLos One, 2015-09-11)
Currently, the use of optogenetic sensitization of retinal cells combined with activation/inhibition has the potential to be an alternative to retinal implants that would require electrodes inside every single neuron for ...
Positive Youth Development Interventions Impacting the Sexual Health of Young Minority Adolescents: A Systematic Review
(The Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015-03-30)
A systematic literature review was conducted to assess the utility of Positive Youth Development (PYD) concepts in promoting positive sexual health behaviors in young minority adolescents (n = 12 studies). Interventions ...
Mining document, concept, and term associations for effective biomedical retrieval - Introducing MeSH-enhanced retrieval models
(2015)
Manually assigned subject terms, such as Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in the health domain, describe the concepts or topics of a document. Existing information retrieval models do not take full advantage of such ...
An Illustrated Introduction to the Infosphere (preprint)
(2015-05)
This introduction to Luciano Floridi’s philosophy of information (PI) provides a short overview of Floridi’s work and its reception by the library and information studies (LIS) community, brief definitions of some important ...
Psychodynamic Treatment of Excessive Virtual Reality Environment Use
(Clinical Case Studies, 2015-04-05)
This clinical case study explores the psychodynamic treatment possibilities of excessive Internet virtual reality environment use. The client discussed resides in the virtual world Second Life and experiences her relationships ...
Inhibition of Pediatric Glioblastoma Tumor Growth by the Anti-Cancer Agent OKN-007 in Orthotopic Mouse Xenografts
(PLos One, 2015-08-06)
Pediatric glioblastomas (pGBM), although rare, are one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in children, with tumors essentially refractory to existing treatments. Here, we describe the use of conventional and ...