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Forecasting age-related changes in breast cancer mortality among white and black US women: A functional approach [PDF]

open access: yes
The disparity in breast cancer mortality rates among white and black US women is widening with higher mortality rates among black women. We apply functional time series models on age-specific breast cancer mortality rates for each group of women, and ...
Bircan Erbas   +2 more
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The Hair Dilemma: Conform to Mainstream Expectations or Emphasize Racial Identity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Throughout American history, skin color, eye color, and hair texture have had the power to shape the quality of Black people\u27s lives, and that trend continues today for Black women in the ...
Dumas, Tracy L.   +1 more
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Engaging and strengthening youth through international community‐based research: Implementation and evaluation of an International Youth Advisory Board

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Youth advisory boards are ubiquitous in community‐based research, yet there is limited description of their development or direct benefits to participants within international research contexts. This convergent mixed‐method study describes and evaluates the design and implementation of a bilingual International Youth Advisory Board (IYAB) of ...
Shelley L. Craig   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The “Audacity” of Visibility: Preta-Rara’s Feminist Praxis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this article, I examine the formidable array of artistic production and advocacy work by Preta-Rara, a feminist rapper from São Paulo, Brazil, especially her use of social media and her music, in which she mobilizes feminist discourses to challenge ...
Perrine, Alida Louisa
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Compound Heterozygous Variants in ZSWIM7 Gene Linked to Infertility and Its Role in Gonadal Development

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to elucidate the role of the ZSWIM7 gene in the etiology of infertility, focusing on its potential association with premature ovarian insufficiency and azoospermia. We investigated an 18‐year‐old female patient who presented with primary amenorrhea, hypoplasia of the uterus and ovaries, Tanner stage II breast and pubic hair ...
Denise M. Christofolini   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

APONTAMENTOS SOBRE AS REPRESENTAÇÕES DAS MULHERES NEGRAS: luta e resistência

open access: yesRevista de Políticas Públicas, 2018
The present article is the result of a dissertation research carried out between 2015 and 2016 during the Master's course in Public Policies of the Federal University of Maranhão.
Grace Kelly Silva Sobral Souza
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Beauty is Pain: Black Women’s Identity and Their Struggle with Embracing Their Natural Hair [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the United States Black hair is viewed negatively because of its difference. Black females often deal with societal pressures to alter their kinky, curly hair from its natural state.
Bencosme, Yamilex
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Maternal Sirolimus Treatment Reverses Cardiac Rhabdomyoma‐Induced Hydrops Fetalis in a Twin Gestation With Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cardiac rhabdomyomas are often the presenting sign of tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Prior reports have shown that maternal sirolimus treatment can reduce rhabdomyomas. We used maternal sirolimus to reverse hydrops fetalis due to a massive cardiac rhabdomyoma in a twin gestation.
David M. Ritter   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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