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Qualitative study of knowledge, perception, behavior and barriers associated with cardiovascular disease risk among overweight and obese Hispanic taxi drivers of South Bronx, NYC

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Taxi drivers are prone to developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors by adopting poor health behaviors due to their work environment. The population of Hispanic taxi drivers in inner city South Bronx, NYC, have not been studied.
Balavenkatesh Kanna, Aijan Ukudeyeva, Mohammad Faiz, Euripides Roques, Tina Washington, Leandro Ramirez, Masood A. Shariff, Maria Espejo   +7 more
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Thematic Analysis of the ‘Games' Students Play in Asynchronous Learning Environments

Online Learning, 2014
The dynamics of the student-student relationship within the asynchronous online classroom, as evidenced by conversations in an online discussion board, is one of a balancing act and are potentially more complex than those occurring in real-time.
Thalia MacMillan, Michele Forte, Cynthia Grant   +2 more
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Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire [PDF]

, 2001
Readership: All those interested in Roman history (also at the local level in communities in the Roman Empire), the history of ancient Greek and Roman religions, the representation of power of Roman emperors, and the connections between centre and ...

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cMOOCs and Global Learning: An Authentic Alternative

Online Learning, 2013
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) continue to attract press coverage as they change almost daily in their format, number of registrations and potential for credentialing. An enticing aspect of the MOOC is its global reach.
Carol Yeager, Betty Hurley-Dasgupta, Catherine A. Bliss   +2 more
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Investigating Factors that Predict Japanese Science Teachers’ Job Satisfaction: Evidence from TIMSS 2019

Science Education International
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 data revealed that Grade 8 science teachers in several Asian countries (Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, and South Korea) reported lower job satisfaction levels than the ...
Michelle Eades-Baird, Inova Qiao
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Structures of the human mitochondrial ribosome bound to EF-G1 reveal distinct features of mitochondrial translation elongation

Nature Communications, 2020
Translation within mitochondria is carried out by specialized mitoribosomes and translational factors. Here the authors describe cryo-EM structures of the human mitochondrial translation elongation factor G1 in complex with human mitoribosomes, revealing
Ravi Kiran Koripella, Manjuli R. Sharma, Kalpana Bhargava, Partha P. Datta, Prem S. Kaushal, Pooja Keshavan, Linda L. Spremulli, Nilesh K. Banavali, Rajendra K. Agrawal   +8 more
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Skeletal muscle triad junction ultrastructure by Focused-Ion-Beam milling of muscle and Cryo-Electron Tomography

European Journal of Translational Myology, 2015
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) has emerged as perhaps the only practical technique for revealing nanometer-level three-dimensional structural details of subcellular macromolecular complexes in their native context, inside the cell.
Terence Wagenknecht, Chyongere Hsieh, Michael Marko   +2 more
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Meeting Josh Groban (Again): Fan/Celebrity Contact as Ordinary Behavior [PDF]

IASPM Journal, 2016
In a participant-observer ethnographic study, the researcher offers evidence from 10 years of observation of the Josh Groban fandom as an example of fans becoming friendly acquaintances of celebrities.
Gayle Stever
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The impact of justice on the Roman Empire [PDF]

, 2019
The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire discusses ways in which notions, practice and the ideology of justice impacted on the Roman Empire through three main themes: the emperor and justice, justice in a dispersed empire and differentiation of justice.
Hekster, O.J., Verboven, Koenraad, Verboven, K., Hekster, Olivier   +3 more
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Empire and Catastrophe [PDF]

, 2020
"Empire and Catastrophe examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization in Algeria, Morocco, and France, and explores the ways in which environmental catastrophes both shaped and were shaped by struggles over the ...
Segalla, Spencer
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