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Now showing items 1-20 of 1996

A Jewish Asylum in Greco-Roman Egypt

Rigsby, Kent J.
Feeding patterns in mantled howling monkeys

Glander, KE (Garland Press, )
Human Migration and Resource use in Sulawesi Fishing Communities

Kramer, Randall; Simanjuntak, S.

The relationship between human population changes and the use of coastal resources in several communities in North Sulawesi, Indonesia is examined using a combination of demographic and econometric analysis. The study area ...
Religions, African, in the Americas

Matory, JL (Simon and Schuster, 2013-05-09)
Curation and preservation of complex data: North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project

Morris, S; Tuttle, J

The North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project (NCGDAP) is a three-year joint effort of the North Carolina State University Libraries and the North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis focused on ...
How do older people describe others with cognitive impairment? A multiethnic study in the United States.

Wu, Bei (Cambridge University Press, 2013-04)

We studied how older people describe others with cognitive impairment. Forty-two focus groups represented African Americans, American Indians, Chinese Americans, Latinos, Vietnamese Americans, and Whites other than Latinos ...
Data set for "Quantitative segmentation of fluorescence microscopy images of heterogeneous tissue: Application to the detection of residual disease in tumor margins"

Mueller, J; Harmany, Z; Mito, J; Kennedy, S; Kim, Y; Dodd, L; Geradts, J; Kirsch, D; Willett, R; Brown, JQ; Ramanujam, N (2013-03-12)

This is data that is published in the article "Quantitative segmentation of fluorescence microscopy images of heterogeneous tissue: Application to the detection of residual disease in tumor margins".
Data set for "Quantitative segmentation of fluorescence microscopy images of heterogeneous tissue: Application to the detection of residual disease in tumor margins"

Mueller, J; Harmany, Z; Mito, J; Kennedy, S; Kim, Y; Dodd, L; Geradts, J; Kirsch, D; Willett, R; Brown, JQ; Ramanujam, N (2013-03-12)

This is data that is published in the article "Quantitative segmentation of fluorescence microscopy images of heterogeneous tissue: Application to the detection of residual disease in tumor margins".
Moral masochism: On the Connection Between Guilt and Self-Punishment

Ariely, Dan (American Psychological Association, 2013-02)

Do people sometimes seek to atone for their transgressions by harming themselves physically? The current results suggest that they do. People who wrote about a past guilt-inducing event inflicted more intense electric ...
Collective Action and Individual Choice

Anomaly, Jonny (British Medical Journal, 2013)

Governments across the globe have squandered treasure and imprisoned millions of their own citizens by criminalising the use and sale of recreational drugs. But use of these drugs has remained relatively constant, ...
Prevalence and predictors of giving birth in health facilities in Bugesera District, Rwanda

Ostermann, Jan; Thielman, Nathan Maclyn (BioMed Central, 2012-12)

Background The proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel is one of two indicators used to measure progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5, which aims for a 75% reduction in global maternal mortality ...
Phylodynamic Inference and Model Assessment with Approximate Bayesian Computation: Influenza as a Case Study

Ratmann, Dr Oliver; Koelle, Dr Katia (Public Library of Science, 2012-12)

A key priority in infectious disease research is to understand the ecological and evolutionary drivers of viral diseases from data on disease incidence as well as viral genetic and antigenic variation. We propose using a ...
The Life of Leaders: An Intensive Health Program for Clergy

Cutts, Teresa F.; Gunderson, Gary R.; Proeschold-Bell, Rae Jean; Swift, Robin (Springer US, 2012-12)

Clergy suffer from chronic disease rates that are higher than those of non-clergy. Health interventions for clergy are needed, and some exist, although none to date have been described in the literature. Life of Leaders ...
Blood Lead Levels Among Pregnant Women: Historical Versus Contemporaneous Exposures

Miranda, Marie Lynn; Edwards, Sharon; Swamy, Geeta Krishna; Paul, Christopher; Neelon, Brian Hugh (2012-11-01)

Blood lead among pregnant women, even at modest levels, may impair offspring cognitive development. We examine whether blood lead levels (BLLs) result from current versus historic exposures, among a cohort of pregnant ...
Clinical Trials: Rethinking How We Ensure Quality

Landray, Martin J; Grandinetti, Cheryl; Kramer, Judith Mae; Morrison, Briggs W; Ball, Leslie (Sage Publications, 2012-11)

Concern is widespread that clinical trials are becoming increasingly costly and burdensome to conduct. The challenge is to find efficient and practical means of ensuring that trials provide conclusive answers while ...
Chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit divergent spatial memory development.

Rosati, AG; Hare, B (2012-11)

Spatial cognition and memory are critical cognitive skills underlying foraging behaviors for all primates. While the emergence of these skills has been the focus of much research on human children, little is known about ...
Children’s Rights in Modern Islamic and International Law: Changes in Muslim Moral Imaginaries

Moosa, Ebrahim (Cambridge University Press, 2012-10)

This essay explores the overlaps and discontinuities in Islamic law and international conventions on the rights of the child. It also explores perspectives in contemporary Muslim moral imaginaries centered on the child.
Post 9/11: America Agonizes over Islam

Moosa, Ebrahim E.I. (Cambridge University Press, 2012-10)

Overview of developments affecting Muslim community in America after 9/11 attacks.
Translating Neuroethics: Reflections from Muslim Ethics

Moosa, Ebrahim E.I. (Springer, 2012-09-29)

Muslim ethics is cautiously engaging developments in neuroscience. In their encounters with developments in neuroscience such as brain death and functional magnetic resonance imaging procedures, Muslim ethicists might ...
Getting Your Research Out There: Open Access & More

Setton, Lori A. (Springer, 2012-09-09)

This editorial was written by the Publications Board of the Biomedical Engineering Society to remind authors of the many ways they can get their articles into the public domain.