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Evaluating Air Pollutant Exposure and the Impacts of Indoor Air Filtration Using Low-Cost Monitors
(2020)In highly polluted cities, many residents seek to reduce their personal exposure to air pollutants. However, over the course of a day, people spend time in a variety of micro-environments (e.g., different rooms in their ... -
The Road to Crony Capitalism
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The Influence of Amusement and Love on Consumers’ Choice between National Brands and Private Labels
(2019-11-26)Love and amusement are positive emotions that are commonly used in marketing. Although a plethora of research has shown that emotions have influence on consumer choice, few prior studies have examined the influence of discrete ... -
Genetic Mutations and Ubiquitination in Melanoma Growth and Metastasis
(2019-11-08)Upon neoplastic transformation, melanoma is intrinsically prone to metastasis, which marks the most dangerous aspect of the disease and dubs it one of the most challenging cancers to treat. BRAF/MEK oncokinase inhibitors ... -
The psychological reality of practical representation
(Philosophical Psychology, 2019-07-04) -
The Fixer Visa Lottery Chronicles
(2019-06-14)Charles Piot follows a visa broker -- known as a "fixer" -- in the West African nation of Togo as he helps his clients apply for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery program. -
Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico
(The Latin Americanist, 2019-06-14) -
Confession, Sexuality, and Desire in the Decameron
(2019-06-12)This essay discusses how in Boccaccio’s Decameron, the stories of I.1, III.3, VI.7, and VII.5 subvert the fundamentally religious and juridical activity – confession – to serve a wholly different and erotically-charged function. ... -
Expanding the Concept of Diagnostic Reference Levels to Noise and Dose Reference Levels in CT.
(AJR. American journal of roentgenology, 2019-06-10)OBJECTIVE. Diagnostic reference levels were developed as guidance for radiation dose in medical imaging and, by inference, diagnostic quality. The objective of this work was to expand the concept of diagnostic reference ... -
The Relationship Between Education and Politics in North Carolina: A Historical Perspective
(2019-06-08)My motivation for writing this paper is based on a twenty-five-year observation of the decline of North Carolina’s public school system. I witnessed an aggressive and reactionary North Carolina state legislature reducing ... -
Egg Consumption and Risk of Total and Cause-Specific Mortality: An Individual-Based Cohort Study and Pooling Prospective Studies on Behalf of the Lipid and Blood Pressure Meta-analysis Collaboration (LBPMC) Group.
(Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2019-06-07)The associations of egg consumption with total, coronary heart disease (CHD), and stroke mortality are poorly understood. We prospectively evaluated the link between total, CHD, and stroke mortality with egg consumption ... -
Robinson Crusoe as Promotion Literature: the Reality of English Settlement in the Chesapeake, 1624-1680
(2019-06-06)In the seventeenth century a minimum of one hundred thousand English indentured servants emigrated to the Chesapeake Bay of North America. Virginia and Maryland plantations used indentured servitude in the production of ... -
Object of Inquiry: Psychology’s Other (Non-replication) Problem
(Academic Questions, 2019-06) -
Key lessons learned from the INDIGO global network on mental health related stigma and discrimination.
(World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 2019-06) -
THEATRE OF HEALTH: An Ethnographic Exploration of Female Physician Well-being and Applied Theatre in Accra, Ghana
(2019-05-30)This thesis brings together ethnographic research and theatre techniques to understand and confront the challenges - from gender barriers to professional burnout – faced by female physicians in Accra, Ghana. For three months, ... -
“Lifelong Learning to Beat AD”: Educational Attainment and Alzheimer’s Disease
(2019-05-23)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects people around the world, and there is no cure. Not only is AD a significant contributor to health care costs, it also has a deep emotional impact on society. There is a seemingly universal ... -
Regulation of cell polarity by the cell cycle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
(2019-05-22)Cell polarity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is essential for bud formation, which is regulated by the cell cycle. How this regulation occurs is poorly understood. The master regulator of polarity is a Rho-GTPase called Cdc42, ... -
St.Wilfrid's Church: Fragments of the Soul of an Urban Church
(2019-05-22)This is a personal chronicle about a small stone church in Camden, New Jersey. St. Wilfrid’s Episcopal Church has survived de-industrialization, corruption, racist policies, and apathy over its one hundred-thirty-three years. ... -
Gender and Child Behavior Problems in Rural Nepal: Differential Expectations and Responses.
(Scientific reports, 2019-05-21)Whereas epidemiologic studies consistently identify different rates and types of problematic behavior in boys and girls, there has been little research examining the ecocultural context in which these gender differences ... -
A comparative analysis of egg provisioning using mass spectrometry during rapid life history evolution in sea urchins.
(Evolution & development, 2019-05-17)A dramatic life history switch that has evolved numerous times in marine invertebrates is the transition from planktotrophic (feeding) to lecithotrophic (nonfeeding) larval development-an evolutionary tradeoff with many ...
