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Genetic and other factors determining mannose-binding lectin levels in American Indians: the Strong Heart Study [PDF]
BMC 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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American studies and the new historicism
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1997 This essay argues that one major reason American studies has proved resistant to the New Historicism is that its model of pouvoir-savoir, derived from Foucault, works more readily for cultures dominated by centralized power (e.g., Greenblatt's studies of
Chocano Díaz, María Gema
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Breaking Away from Progressive History: The Past and Politics in American Studies
European Journal of American Studies, 2014 This article suggests that, contrary to a widely shared view among American scholars, a progressive view of history is neither essential nor helpful to historical research in American studies—or in any other academic field.
Ari Helo
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Design and validation of a questionnaire to measure research skills: experience with engineering students [PDF]
, 2016 Universities in Latin American countries are undergoing major changes in its institutional and academic settings. One strategy for continuous improvement of teaching and learning process is the incorporation of methods and teaching aids seeking to ...
Cobos Alvarado, Fabián +2 more
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“Jus’ hol’ yuh breath an’ kick”: Queer Self-Made Womanhood in Nicole Dennis-Benn’s “Swimmer” [PDF]
IntersectionsThis article performs a close reading of the essay “Swimmer,” written by the Jamaican American novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn and published in the anthology The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers Reflect on America (2019).
Teresa Pereira
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The moral muteness of managers: an Anglo-American phenomenon? German and British managers and their moral reasoning about environmental sustainability in business [PDF]
, 2014 Several studies in the Anglo-American context have indicated that managers present themselves as morally neutral employees who act only in the best interest of the company by employing objective skills.
Bryman A +21 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen +23 more
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Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2011 Eclipsed by other islands incorporated into the United States after the Spanish-American War of 1898, Guam has nevertheless played a crucial role in the development of the American Pacific as a strategic military site.
Paul Lai
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Whose Streets?: A film of screening & conversation with director Damon Davis [PDF]
, 2017 Join us, and other departments and initiatives across Boston University, for a screening of the film Whose Streets? followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Damon Davis, Phillipe Copeland – School of Social Work, Ashley Farmer – History and African ...
Boston University Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground
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Propagators, Running Coupling and Condensates in Lattice QCD [PDF]
, 2006 We present a review of our numerical studies of the running coupling constant, gluon and ghost propagators, ghost-gluon vertex and ghost condensate for the case of pure SU(2) lattice gauge theory in the minimal Landau gauge.
Cucchieri, Attilio, Mendes, Tereza
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