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A decreased risk of meningioma in women smokers was only observed in American studies rather than studies conducted in other countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesChinese Neurosurgical Journal, 2021
Background Whether smoking is related to a decreased risk of meningioma in women is still controversial. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis examining the association between smoking and risk of meningiomas in women.
Ping Zhong, Yiting Lin, Ting Chen
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The Object of Study; or, Are We Being Transnational Yet?

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2010
<p>This article polemically engages with recent trends and particular interventions in American transnational studies. It argues that the transnationalization of American literary and cultural studies, a movement sponsored institutionally by the ...
Bryce Traister
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Making the Case for Middlebrow Culture

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2010
It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture—which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean—and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island activities ...
Belinda Edmondson
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From Radiation Effects to Consanguineous Marriages: American Geneticists and Colonial Science in the Atomic Age

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2022
In 1947, the US National Academy of Sciences established the Atomic Bomb Casualty Com­mission (ABCC) and sent American scientists to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to investigate the delayed effects of the atomic bombs among survivors.
Aiko Demirci
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Theorizing American Studies : German Interventions into an Ongoing Debate

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2006
Partly due to the transdisciplinary agenda of the field, the development of American Studies has been accompanied by intensive debates about methods and theories.
Sabine Sielke
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Quantification of race/ethnicity representation in Alzheimer’s disease neuroimaging research in the USA: a systematic review

open access: yesCommunications Medicine, 2023
Background Racial and ethnic minoritized groups are disproportionately at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), but are not sufficiently recruited in AD neuroimaging research in the United States.
Aaron C. Lim   +7 more
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Misrepresentation of the Other: A Postcolonial Study in Selected Arab and American Novels

open access: yesInternational Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2021
The paper sheds light on one of the important concepts in contemporary literature which tackles the representation of the Other in selected Arabic and American literary products. The representation of the other holds many misrepresentations and stereotypes, both varying and fixed; as such, the study of the literary representations of the other which ...
Ibraheem Ajeel Dakhil   +1 more
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Cholesterol Levels among Japanese Americans and Other Populations : Seattle Nikkei Health Study

open access: yesJournal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis, 1996
The purpose of this study was to compare average cholesterol levels between Seattle based Japanese Americans and three other populations: U.S. population, native Japanese population and native Japanese urban workers. A total of 1,466 Japanese Americans (724 men and 742 women) participated in cardiovascular disease screening in the Seattle area during ...
T, Namekata   +11 more
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Stephen M. Hart, The other scene: Psychoanalytic readings in modern Spanish and Latin-American literature. Society of Spanish and Spanish- American Studies, Boulder, CO, 1992; 122 pp.

open access: yesNueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 1995
Se reseñó el libro: The other scene: Psychoanalytic readings in modern Spanish and Latin-American literature.
Alejandro Estivill
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Genetic and other factors determining mannose-binding lectin levels in American Indians: the Strong Heart Study [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Medical Genetics, 2009
Abstract Background Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) forms an integral part of the innate immune system. Persistent, subclinical infections and chronic inflammatory states are hypothesized to contribute to the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. MBL gene (MBL2) variants with between 12 to 25% allele frequency in Caucasian and other populations, result in ...
Best, Lyle G   +10 more
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