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Lack of Hydraulic Acclimation in Response to Multiple Droughts and Recovery

open access: yesPlant, Cell &Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human‐caused climate change is expected to bring more frequent and extended droughts with shorter wet periods of relief in between for many regions of the world. Critical knowledge gaps remain around the extent to which tree species can acclimate physiologically to repeated droughts.
Jaycie C. Fickle   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interview of the Xiong family, Hmong immigrants from Laos. Part 2

open access: yes, 2012
Gift of Martha Aladjem Bloomfield.Former soldier and Hmong immigrant Kao Xiong recounts his role in the Laotian Civil War and his subsequent escape to the to Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, where he spent five years.
Xiong, Kao   +2 more
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Anticipated Stigma and Burnout: The Impact of Concerns About Being Perceived as Racist Among Law Enforcement Officers

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The “racist cop” stereotype is one of the most prominent social representations of law enforcement in the United States. Drawing on theories of stereotype threat and stigma, this article suggests that this negative stereotype creates an identity threat that heightens anxiety and stress among law enforcement officers, increasing the risks of ...
Shahidul Hassan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Second-generation Hmong Americans’ self-confidence and self-perceived competency communicating in English in a variety of settings

open access: yes, 2023
After immigrating to the United States in the late 1970s, Hmong immigrants have integrated into American society by learning a second language, English. In recent years, many researchers have focused their studies on the declination of the Hmong language
Vang, Mary
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Common and civil law approaches to tort‐based corporate climate litigation: A comparative case law review

open access: yesReview of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract As corporate climate litigation intensifies globally, litigants consistently encounter the same procedural and substantive hurdles: duty of care, standing and causation. Success in navigating these hurdles has been sporadic, and most existing inquiry has sought to understand these trends according to geographical or case‐type lenses.
Calum MacLaren
wiley   +1 more source

Developing Culturally Sensitive Education an Hmong Americans with Diabetes

open access: yes, 2015
Despite advances in medical care for diabetes, a diabetes health disparity exists among ethnic minorities. Diabetes is a new concept for Hmong Americans.
Mitchell-Brown, Fay Marcia
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Bridging the Gap in Knowledge Deficit in Type-2 Diabetes among Hmong Americans

open access: yes, 2021
The Hmong from Laos are among the most recent groups to seek refuge in the United States, with Catawba County of North Carolina becoming home to the fourth-largest Hmong resettlement.
Vang, Khoua
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Women in space: A review of known physiological adaptations and health perspectives

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Exposure to the spaceflight environment causes adaptations in most human physiological systems, many of which are thought to affect women differently from men. Since only 11.5% of astronauts worldwide have been female, these issues are largely understudied.
Millie Hughes‐Fulford   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interview of Hmong immigrant Tong Vue on her life in Laos and fleeing the country as a refugee

open access: yes, 2012
Gift of Martha Aladjem Bloomfield.Hmong immigrant Tong Vue describes her life sustenance-farming in Laos, saying that her connection to homegrown food makes her Hmong. She recounts her escape into Thailand without identity papers and eventually coming to
Vue, Tong
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Coordinated regulation of PIEZO2 by alternative splicing, post‐translational modification, membrane trafficking and protein partners

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend Regulatory mechanisms such as alternative splicing, post‐translational modification, membrane trafficking, and protein interactions control channel gating, membrane abundance, and overall activity of PIEZO2. Proper regulation supports PIEZO2‐dependent proprioceptive, somatosensory, nociceptive, pruriceptive and interoceptive ...
Eunice I. Oribamise   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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