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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?
<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
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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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
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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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
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
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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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]
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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