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Graduate HRD Programs in South Korea
(Advances in Developing Human Resources, 2015-02-26)
The Problem To address national issues associated with societal development, many countries are recognizing the need to educate individuals who will lead developmental initiatives. While many previous studies have been ...
Drought-induced changes in flow regimes lead to long-term losses in mussel provided ecosystem services
(2015-02-25)
Extreme hydro-meteorological events such as droughts are becoming more frequent, intense, and persistent. This is particularly true in the south central USA, where rapidly growing urban areas are running out of water and ...
High Affinity Antibodies against Influenza Characterize the Plasmablast Response in SLE Patients After Vaccination
(PLos One, 2015-05-07)
Breakdown of B cell tolerance is a cardinal feature of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Increased numbers of autoreactive mature naïve B cells have been described in SLE patients and autoantibodies have been shown to ...
The Book Everybody Read: Vernacular Translations of Sacrobosco’s Sphere in the Sixteenth Century
(Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2015-02-01)
This article presents four detailed case studies of sixteenth-century vernacular translations of Sacrobosco’s De sphaera. Previous scholarship has highlighted the important role of Sacrobosco’s Sphere in medieval and early ...
Employment Status and Intimate Partner Violence Among Mexican Women
(Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2015-04-01)
Exploring risk factors and profiles of intimate partner violence in other countries provides information about whether existing theories of this phenomenon hold consistent in different cultural settings. This study will ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Elimination of Chromosomal Island SpyCIM1 from Streptococcus pyogenes Strain SF370 Reverses the Mutator Phenotype and Alters Global Transcription
(PLos One, 2015-12-23)
Streptococcus pyogenes chromosomal island M1 (SpyCIM1) integrates by site-specific recombination into the 5’ end of DNA mismatch repair (MMR) gene mutL in strain SF370SmR, blocking transcription of it and the downstream ...
Ablation of Doublecortin-Like Kinase 1 in the Colonic Epithelium Exacerbates Dextran Sulfate Sodium-Induced Colitis
(PLos One, 2015-08-18)
Doublecortin-like kinase 1 (Dclk1), a microtubule-associated kinase, marks the fifth lineage of intestinal epithelial cells called tuft cells that function as tumor stem cells in Apc mutant models of colon cancer. In order ...