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The Road to Crony Capitalism
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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 ... -
Disparities in functional disability among Arab Americans by nativity, immigrant arrival cohort, and country of birth
(SSM - Population Health, 2019-04-01)© 2018 The Authors This study contributes to a growing literature that documents the importance of arrival cohort and country of birth for differentiating the health of U.S. immigrants. We use nationally-representative data ... -
Hydropower revenues under the threat of climate change in Brazil
(Renewable Energy, 2019-04-01)© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This work analyzes the impacts of climate change in the revenues of hydropower plants. One important input for designing and evaluating investment opportunities in hydropower is the water inflows historical ... -
The Effects of Family Functioning on the Development of Posttraumatic Stress in Children and Their Parents Following Admission to the PICU.
(Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2019-04-01)Objectives: To report the rate of acute stress and posttraumatic stress among children and parents following PICU admission and the relation between family function and posttraumatic stress. Design: Prospective, longitudinal, ... -
Parental Preferences for Vesicoureteral Reflux Treatment: a Crowd-sourced, Best-worst Scaling Study.
(Urology, 2019-03-13)OBJECTIVE:To quantitatively evaluate parental preferences for the various treatments for vesicoureteral reflux using crowd-sourced best-worst scaling, a novel technique in urologic preference estimation. METHODS:Preference ... -
Clinical Features and Outcomes of Patients with Sarcoidosis-associated Pulmonary Hypertension.
(Scientific reports, 2019-03-11)The presence of pulmonary hypertension (PH) significantly worsens outcomes in patients with advanced sarcoidosis, but its optimal management is unknown. We aimed to characterize a large sarcoidosis-associated pulmonary ... -
Probing Computation in the Primate Visual System at Single-Cone Resolution.
(Annual review of neuroscience, 2019-03-11)Daylight vision begins when light activates cone photoreceptors in the retina, creating spatial patterns of neural activity. These cone signals are then combined and processed in downstream neural circuits, ultimately producing ... -
Genome-wide prediction of synthetic rescue mediators of resistance to targeted and immunotherapy.
(Molecular systems biology, 2019-03-11)Most patients with advanced cancer eventually acquire resistance to targeted therapies, spurring extensive efforts to identify molecular events mediating therapy resistance. Many of these events involve synthetic rescue ... -
Ghrelin Regulation of Glucose Metabolism.
(Journal of neuroendocrinology, 2019-03-08)Ghrelin and its receptor, the growth hormone secretagogue receptor 1a (GHSR1a), are implicated in the regulation of glucose metabolism through direct actions in the pancreatic islet as well as peripheral insulin-sensitive ... -
Experimental and pan-cancer genome analyses reveal widespread contribution of acrylamide exposure to carcinogenesis in humans.
(Genome research, 2019-03-07)Humans are frequently exposed to acrylamide, a probable human carcinogen found in commonplace sources such as most heated starchy foods or tobacco smoke. Prior evidence has shown that acrylamide causes cancer in rodents, ... -
Differential YAP expression in glioma cells induces cell competition and promotes tumorigenesis.
(Journal of cell science, 2019-03-04)Intratumor heterogeneity associates with cancer progression and may account for a substantial portion of therapeutic resistance. Although extensive studies have focused on the origin of the heterogeneity, biological interactions ... -
Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel, by Kifah Hanna
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Coupled ripple oscillations between the medial temporal lobe and neocortex retrieve human memory
(Science, 2019-03-01)<jats:p>Episodic memory retrieval relies on the recovery of neural representations of waking experience. This process is thought to involve a communication dynamic between the medial temporal lobe memory system and the neocortex. ... -
Caring and thriving: An international qualitative study of caregivers of orphaned and vulnerable children and strategies to sustain positive mental health
(Children and Youth Services Review, 2019-03-01)© 2018 Background: Child well-being is associated with caregiver mental health. Research has focused on the absence or presence of mental health problems, such as depression, in caregivers. However, positive mental health ... -
Physician Assistant Educator Competencies.
(The journal of physician assistant education : the official journal of the Physician Assistant Education Association, 2019-03)The rapid expansion of physician assistant (PA) programs over the past decade has led to a shortage of experienced PA faculty. This has prompted many faculty development initiatives to help provide the skills needed by new ... -
Forty years of fathoming life in hot springs on the ocean floor.
(Nature, 2019-03)© 2019, Nature. Ocean-floor hot springs teeming with animal life were reported 40 years ago. How has knowledge of life thriving in such extreme conditions grown since then, and what challenges remain for exploration and ... -
Introduction, Polygraph 27: Neoliberalism and Social Reproduction
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Pre-Pregnancy Weight and Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Executive Functioning Behaviors in Preschool Children.
(International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019-02-25)This study examines pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) in relation to early childhood Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms and related executive self-regulation behaviors. ... -
Emerging approaches and technologies in transplantation: the potential game changers.
(Cellular & molecular immunology, 2019-02-13)Newly emerging technologies are rapidly changing conventional approaches to organ transplantation. In the modern era, the key challenges to transplantation include (1) how to best individualize and possibly eliminate the ...
