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To See the World in a Grain of Sand
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Racial Stratification, Immigration, and Health Inequality: A Life Course-Intersectional Approach
While health inequalities related to race/ethnicity, nativity, and age are well documented, it remains unclear how these axes of stratification combine to shape health trajectories, especially in middle and late life. This ... -
Analysis of in vitro chemoresponse assays in endometrioid endometrial adenocarcinoma: an observational ancillary analysis.
(Gynecologic oncology research and practice, 2016-01)Chemotherapy plays a role in the treatment of endometrioid endometrial cancer (EEC); however, tumor grade may affect response. Our objective was to evaluate associations between tumor grade and in vitro chemoresponse.We ... -
Sensorimotor learning during a marksmanship task in immersive virtual reality
(Frontiers in Psychology, 2018-02-06)Sensorimotor learning refers to improvements that occur through practice in the performance of sensory-guided motor behaviors. Leveraging novel technical capabilities of an immersive virtual environment, we probed the ... -
Being a Generalist and Donor Advocate: Seeing Both Sides of Transplantation
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A neural network-based method for spectral distortion correction in photon counting x-ray CT.
(Physics in medicine and biology, 2016-08)Spectral CT using a photon counting x-ray detector (PCXD) shows great potential for measuring material composition based on energy dependent x-ray attenuation. Spectral CT is especially suited for imaging with K-edge ... -
Writing about past failures attenuates cortisol responses and sustained attention deficits following psychosocial stress
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Chagas Disease Screening in Maternal Donors of Publicly Banked Umbilical Cord Blood, United States.
(Emerging infectious diseases, 2016-08)To assess patterns of Chagas disease, we reviewed results of screening umbilical cord blood from a US public cord blood bank during 2007-2014. Nineteen maternal donors tested positive for Trypanosoma cruzi parasites (0.04%). ... -
Comparison of patient flow and provider efficiency of two delivery strategies for HPV-based cervical cancer screening in Western Kenya: a time and motion study.
(Global health action, 2018-01)Improving patient flow and reducing over-crowding can improve quality, promptness of care, and patient satisfaction. Given low utilization of preventive care in low-resource countries, improved patient flows are especially ... -
Xenon and sevoflurane provide analgesia during labor and fetal brain protection in a perinatal rat model of hypoxia-ischemia.
(PloS one, 2012-01)It is not possible to identify all pregnancies at risk of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). Many women use some form of analgesia during childbirth and some anesthetic agents have been shown to be neuroprotective ... -
Dimensions of deprivation and threat, psychopathology, and potential mediators: A multi-year longitudinal analysis.
(Journal of abnormal psychology, 2018-02)Prior research demonstrates a link between exposure to childhood adversity and psychopathology later in development. However, work on mechanisms linking adversity to psychopathology fails to account for specificity in these ... -
A cross-sectional examination of response inhibition and working memory on the Stroop task
(Cognitive Development, 2018-07-01)© 2018 Elsevier Inc. The authors examined the association between working memory and response inhibition on the Stroop task using a cross-sectional, international sample of 5099 individuals (49.3% male) ages 10–30 (M = ... -
LOCAL APPLICATION OF D-LACTIC ACID DIMER IS SELECTIVELY CYTOTOXIC WHEN APPLIED TO CANCER CELLS
(2018-03-29)The experimental data supports the cytotoxic mechanism of D-lactic acid dimer via the Warburg effect. -
Regulation and Economic Globalization: Prospects and Limits of Private Governance
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The offshore services value chain: upgrading trajectories in developing countries
(International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, 2011)This article analyses the offshore services industry using the global value chain approach. This industry has grown at a rapid pace over the last decade, driven principally by the search of businesses to reduce costs by ... -
Upgrading and restructuring in the global apparel value chain: why China and Asia are outperforming Mexico and Central America
(International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, 2011)This article uses the global value chain approach to analyse the upgrading trajectories of leading apparel exporters adapting to the end of textile and apparel quotas and the economic recession. These events have been ... -
Globalization, Recession and the Internationalization of Industrial Districts: Experiences from the Italian Gold Jewellery Industry
(European Planning Studies, 2014-01-01)Globalization and the recent recession crisis are significantly challenging Italian industrial districts (IDs), leading to deep transformations in their internationalization, innovation and organization strategies. With ... -
Risks and Opportunities of Participation in Global Value Chains
(Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2015-09-30)Risk is inherent to the pursuit of opportunity. This paper surveys the recent literature and looks at the risks and opportunities firms and their workers face in the global value chains. First, it examines the risk-sharing ... -
Six-minute walk distance after coronary artery bypass grafting compared with medical therapy in ischaemic cardiomyopathy.
(Open heart, 2018-01)In patients with ischaemic left ventricular dysfunction, coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) may decrease mortality, but it is not known whether CABG improves functional capacity.To determine whether CABG compared with ... -
Sex Difference in Patients With Ischemic Heart Failure Undergoing Surgical Revascularization: Results From the STICH Trial (Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure).
(Circulation, 2018-02)Female sex is conventionally considered a risk factor for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and has been included as a poor prognostic factor in multiple cardiac operative risk evaluation scores. We aimed to investigate ...
