The Relationship between Native American Ancestry, Body Mass Index and Diabetes Risk among Mexican-Americans. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Higher body mass index (BMI) is a well-established risk factor for type 2 diabetes, and rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes are substantially higher among Mexican-Americans relative to non-Hispanic European Americans.
Hao Hu +4 more
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Native American Heritage Month 2007 [PDF]
, 2007 Lecture during Native American Heritage Month, November ...
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Hospital Readmission After Traumatic Brain Injury Hospitalization in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To examine the risk of hospital readmission after an index hospitalization for TBI in older adults. Methods Using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, we used propensity score matching of individuals with an index TBI‐related hospitalization to individuals with (1) non‐TBI hospitalizations (primary analysis)
Rachel Thomas +7 more
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Native American Tribes and dam removal: Restoring the Ottaway, Penobscot, and Elwha rivers
Water Alternatives, 2022 Since the early 1900s, more than 1700 dams have been removed from rivers in the United States. Native American Tribes have played a key role in many significant removals, bringing cultural, economic, and legal resources to bear on the process.
Coleen A. Fox +3 more
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Herbivore preference for native vs. exotic plants: generalist herbivores from multiple continents prefer exotic plants that are evolutionarily naïve. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Enemy release and biotic resistance are competing, but not mutually exclusive, hypotheses addressing the success or failure of non-native plants entering a new region. Enemy release predicts that exotic plants become invasive by escaping their co-adapted
Wendy E Morrison, Mark E Hay
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[Review of] Bruce E. Johansen, (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Native American Economic History [PDF]
, 2000 The Encyclopedia of Native American Economic History offers a unique perspective on economic development in North America, primarily because it constantly reminds the reader of the fundamental contradictions that this process has entailed.
Silverman, Robert Mark
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective In multiple sclerosis, the optimal time for deploying a therapeutic intervention is before the central nervous system is damaged; given the success of trials treating the earliest stage of MS, the radiologically isolated syndrome, developing primary prevention strategies is an important next challenge.
Amy W. Laitinen +7 more
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The Educational Experience of Young Men of Color: A Review of Research, Pathways and Progress [PDF]
, 2011 This report synthesizes the literature on high school, postsecondary pathways, and higher education for African American, Asian Amerian and Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American and Alaska Native males.
John Michael Lee, Jr., Tafaya Ransom
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Epilepsy‐Associated Variants of a Single SCN1A Codon Exhibit Divergent Functional Properties
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Pathogenic variants in SCN1A, which encodes the voltage‐gated sodium channel NaV1.1, are associated with multiple epilepsy syndromes exhibiting a range of clinical severity. SCN1A variants are reported in different syndromes, including Dravet syndrome, which is associated with loss‐of‐function, whereas neonatal/infantile‐onset ...
Lanie N. Liebovitz +3 more
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Morphological Complexity and Language Contact in Languages Indigenous to North America
Linguistic Discovery, 2015 An examination of morphological complexity in Native American ...
Marianne Mithun
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