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Metabolic Profiles of Obesity in American Indians: The Strong Heart Family Study
(PLos One, 2016-07-19)
Obesity is a typical metabolic disorder resulting from the imbalance between energy intake and expenditure. American Indians suffer disproportionately high rates of obesity and diabetes. The goal of this study is to identify ...
Sequence Evolution and Expression of the Androgen Receptor and Other Pathway-Related Genes in a Unisexual Fish, the Amazon Molly, Poecilia formosa, and Its Bisexual Ancestors
(PLos One, 2016-06-01)
The all-female Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) originated from a single hybridization of two bisexual ancestors, Atlantic molly (Poecilia mexicana) and sailfin molly (Poecilia latipinna). As a gynogenetic species, the ...
Kin recognition in a clonal fish, Poecilia formosa
(2016-08-16)
Relatedness strongly influences social behaviors in a wide variety of species. For most species, the highest typical degree of relatedness is between full siblings with 50% shared genes. However, this is poorly understood ...
"Social Science and Civil Rights," Oxford Bibliographies
(2016-06-28)
Considered from within the prism of American history, the terms social science and civil rights, when combined, have a particular meaning bound up in the nation’s continuing struggle over whether to treat a certain native-born ...
Thermal History Effects on Moisture Absorption of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites
(2016)
Fiber-reinforced polymer composites may offer numerous attractive features such as low cost, high specific performance, and ease of production. However, there are concerns about the overall durability of these materials, ...
Supporting a Passion for New Ideas through Open APIs
(2016)
Despite the many technological advances that the information industry has witnessed over the past decades, barriers to the full use of information remain. Part of this problem is due to the volume of content and data that ...
sFlt Multivalent Conjugates Inhibit Angiogenesis and Improve Half-Life In Vivo
(PLos One, 2016-06-03)
Current anti-VEGF drugs for patients with diabetic retinopathy suffer from short residence time in the vitreous of the eye. In order to maintain biologically effective doses of drug for inhibiting retinal neovascularization, ...
Co-Regulations of Spartina alterniflora Invasion and Exogenous Nitrogen Loading on Soil N2O Efflux in Subtropical Mangrove Mesocosms
(PLos One, 2016-01-04)
Both plant invasion and nitrogen (N) enrichment should have significant impact on mangrove ecosystems in coastal regions around the world. However, how N2O efflux in mangrove wetlands responds to these environmental changes ...
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. ...
Experiences Moving from Residential Camps to Non-Residential Day Camps
(2016-06)
This paper describes a recent change in our engineering summer outreach program and how that change was enacted and perceived. Nonresidential summer camp programs are often scheduled to be delivered on successive days, ...