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Sliding Doors: Frame Uptake and Rejection by Learners in a Museum‐Based Climate Learning Experience

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Science education efforts that support public understanding of modern climate change are critically needed. However, implementing climate‐related learning experiences can be challenging, as public audiences tend to experience a wide range of understandings of and emotions around the issue. In light of these challenges, many scholars have posed
Lynne Zummo, Benjamin Janney, Kaitlyn Kinshella, Jordan Giron, Marc Whiting, Ajla Auker, Hailey Sherman, Monika Lohani   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

EFFECT OF CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGES ON PEINATAL OUTCOME

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2020
Objective: To identify the characteristics of women in consanguineous marriage and their effects on reproductive behavior, adverse pregnancy and fetal outcomes. Study Design: Cross-sectional comparative study.
Abeera Choudry, Maria Habib, Zainab Shamem, Syeda Zubda Batool, Shafia Barkat, Mishal Naseem, Salma Nisar   +6 more
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UNERTAN SYNDROME: A CASE SERIES DEMONSTRATING HUMAN DEVOLUTION [PDF]

, 2007
A large family with six individuals exhibiting the Unertan syndrome (UTS)was identified residing in southern Turkey. All of the individuals had mental impairments and walked on all four extremities.
Karaca, Dr. Sibel, Tan, Dr. Meliha, Tan, Prof. Dr. Uner   +2 more
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Estimation of the frequency of the recessive gene of acatalasemia in Japan [PDF]

, 1971
The frequency of recessive gene, heterozygotes and homozygotes in Japanese acatalasemia were estimated as 0.0038, 7.5 X 10-3 and 3.0 X 10-5 by DAHLBERG'S formula, and estimated as 0.00087, 1.73 xl 0-3 and 4.23 X 10-6 by KIMURA'S formula. The frequency of
Hayashi, Sumiko, Ogata, Masana, Takahara, Shigeo   +2 more
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Co‐Design to Capacity: An Instructional Design Approach for Indigenous Women Empowerment and Sustainable Technology Adoption

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The adoption of rural livelihood technologies is often hindered by a gap between participatory design and user capacity. This study addresses this challenge with a co‐designed lemongrass distillation system in rural India that remained unused due to a lack of community capacity, despite a successful design process.
Aroun Clément Baudouin‐van Os, Raji Pushpalatha, Sruthy Sheela, Renjith Mohan, Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh   +4 more
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Homozygosity and risk of childhood death due to invasive bacterial disease. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: Genetic heterozygosity is increasingly being shown to be a key predictor of fitness in natural populations, both through inbreeding depression, inbred individuals having low heterozygosity, and also through chance linkage between a marker and

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Determining the genome-wide kinship coefficient seems unhelpful in distinguishing consanguineous couples with a high versus low risk for adverse reproductive outcome [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Offspring of consanguineous couples are at increased risk of congenital disorders. The risk increases as parents are more closely related. Individuals that have the same degree of relatedness according to their pedigree, show variable genomic
Alkuraya, F, Bochdanovits, Z, Bouhamed-Chaabouni, H, Cobben, JM, Cornel, MC, Dommering, CJ, Hashem, M, Henneman, L, Heutink, P, Jonker, MA, Kayserili, H, Kelmemi, W, Kostense, PJ, Masri, A, Ouburg, S, Rizzu, P, Sheridan, E, Teeuw, ME, ten Kate, LP, van Haeringen, A   +19 more
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Families in venture capital

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This exploratory paper introduces a new type of family business by studying the investment strategies of family‐managed venture capital funds (“Family VCs”) across a multi‐country setting. It shows that Family VCs are more likely to invest in (syndicate with) geographically proximate startups (investors), indicating a ...
Valerio Pelucco
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of decisional conflict levels regarding prenatal screening tests among pregnant women who had consanguineous and non-consanguineous marriages: a cross-sectional study

Middle East Fertility Society Journal
Objective Consanguineous marriages increase the incidence of rare genetic diseases within society. During pregnancy, screening and diagnostic tests are performed for certain diseases.
Dilan Mercen, Ilknur Yesilcinar
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Consanguineous marriage and childhood health [PDF]

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2003
As previously described, the subject of consanguineous marriage became a source of major scientific and public interest in the UK and the USA from the mid-19th century onwards. Much of this interest centred on the claimed deleterious outcomes of consanguinity, although there were also scientists and clinicians who denied any adverse effects and instead
openaire   +2 more sources