Browsing by Subject "united-states"
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Favorable Climate Change Response Explains Non-Native Species' Success in Thoreau's Woods
(2010)Invasive species have tremendous detrimental ecological and economic impacts. Climate change may exacerbate species invasions across communities if non-native species are better able to respond to climate changes than native ... -
Global Trends in Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever
(2010)Typhoid and paratyphoid fever continue to be important causes of illness and death, particularly among children and adolescents in south-central and Southeast Asia, where enteric fever is associated with poor sanitation ... -
How Do Gasoline Prices Affect Fleet Fuel Economy?
(2009)Exploiting a rich dataset of passenger vehicle registrations in 20 US MSAs from 1997 to 2005, we examine the effects of gasoline prices on the automotive fleet's composition. We find that high gasoline prices affect fleet ... -
Lessons Learned from the Anaerobe Survey: Historical Perspective and Review of the Most Recent Data (2005-2007)
(2010)Background. The rationale and lessons learned through the evolution of the National Survey for the Susceptibility of Bacteroides fragilis Group from its initiation in 1981 through 2007 are reviewed here. The survey was conceived ... -
Limited educational attainment and radiographic and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional analysis using data from the Johnston County (North Carolina) Osteoarthritis Project
(2010)Introduction: Applying a cross-sectional analysis to a sample of 2,627 African-American and Caucasian adults aged >= 45 years from the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project, we studied the association between educational ... -
Regulation of male germ cell cycle arrest and differentiation by DND1 is modulated by genetic background
(2011)Human germ cell tumors show a strong sensitivity to genetic background similar to Dnd1(Ter/Ter) mutant mice, where testicular teratomas arise only on the 129/SvJ genetic background. The introduction of the Bax mutation onto ... -
Role of oxidative stress on diesel-enhanced influenza infection in mice
(2010)Numerous studies have shown that air pollutants, including diesel exhaust (DE), reduce host defenses, resulting in decreased resistance to respiratory infections. This study sought to determine if DE exposure could affect ...
