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‘They are just women, what do they know?’: The lived experiences of African women doctoral students in the mathematics discipline in South African universities

Transformation in Higher Education, 2022
Background: The presence of African women in mathematics has been nearly invisible. The underrepresentation of African women in this field is a result of their historical socio-political marginalisation.
Zamambo Mkhize
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Women’s Employment During the Recovery [PDF]

, 2011
[Excerpt] In 2010, women represented 46.7 percent of the United States labor force, a slightly larger share than at the start of the recession in 2007. Overall 71.9 million women were employed or looking for work, representing 58.6 percent of all women ...
United States Department of Labor
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Bone mineral density and risk of heart failure in older adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study [PDF]

, 2017
Background Despite increasing evidence of a common link between bone and heart health, the relationship between bone mineral density ( BMD ) and heart failure ( HF
Bartz, Traci M, Brown, David L, Carbone, Laura D, Chaves, Paulo H.M., Civitelli, Roberto, Fohtung, Raymond B, Kestenbaum, Bryan R, Kizer, Jorge R, Koh, William J.H., Stein, Phyllis K   +9 more
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Engineered extracellular vesicles enriched with the miR‐214/199a cluster enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy in ovarian cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Loss of the miR‐214/199a cluster is associated with recurrence in ovarian cancer. Engineered small extracellular vesicles (m214‐sEVs) elevate miR‐214‐3p/miR‐199a‐5p in tumor cells, suppress β‐catenin, TLR4, and YKT6 signaling, reprogram tumor‐derived sEV cargo, reduce chemoresistance and migration, and enhance carboplatin efficacy and survival in ...
Weida Wang, Ayesha Alvero, Yi Qin, Mingjin Wang, Alexandra Fox, Yanfeng Li, Michael Millman, Amy Kemper, Gil Mor, Xian Shuang Liu, Michael Chopp, Zheng Gang Zhang, Yi Zhang   +12 more
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Economic, Cultural, Social Determinants of Black Women Obesity [PDF]

Business Ethics and Leadership
Obesity is a widespread problem in the United States, particularly affecting Black communities. It is a public health problem, a long-term, cumulative issue of economic and social justice and inequality for this demographic group.
Tiffiny Shockley, Darrell Norman Burrell
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[Review of] Dorothy Sterling. Black Foremothers: Three Lives [PDF]

, 1991
Black Foremothers is a much needed book written about the lives of three important black women: Ellen Craft, Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell. The author, Dorothy Sterling, is to be commended for her ability to piece together the lives of these women
Jones, Allene
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IMPDH inhibition enhances cytarabine efficacy in SAMHD1‐expressing leukaemia cells via guanine nucleotide depletion

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Cytarabine is a key therapy for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), but its efficacy is limited by the dNTPase SAMHD1, which hydrolyses its active metabolite. Screening nucleotide biosynthesis inhibitors revealed that IMPDH inhibitors selectively sensitise SAMHD1‐proficient AML cells to cytarabine.
Miriam Yagüe‐Capilla, Christopher Dirks, Caroline Eiden, Sonja K. Fesenmayer, Femke M. Hormann, Yolande Klootsema, Ingrid Lilienthal, Si Min Zhang, Nikolas Herold, Sean G. Rudd   +9 more
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The Meaning of Silence: The Silence of the Oppressed in Maya Angelou’s I Know 'Why the Caged Bird Sings' and Zora Neale Hurston’s 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' and 'Jonah’s Gourd Vine'

Linguaculture, 2013
The paper explores the meaning of silence in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jonah’s Gourd Vine.
Anca-Beatrice Matei
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Review of "The Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment" by Jillian Hernandez (Duke University Press)

Lateral, 2022
"The Aesthetics of Excess" by Jillian Hernandez is a dazzling and provocative book that deploys the aesthetic as a category to grasp with great care the lives and representations of Black and Latina women whose performance of gender exceeds the white ...
Iván Ramos
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[Review of] Margaret B. Wilkerson, ed. 9 Plays by Black Women [PDF]

, 1991
Black women writers, primarily novelists, have taken center stage for the last two decades, but black women playwrights have not been given similar coverage.
Adisa, Opal Palmer
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