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History Abroad: How Do Denmark and the U.S. Measure Up? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
By viewing bias itself as a product of history, educators and scholars can understand it better in their own times. By studying the historical path of the United States and Denmark, scholars can see that the nature of history can have subtle but ...
Gentilucci, Louis T.
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Pathogenic Germline PALB2 and RAD50 Variants in Patients With Relapsed Ewing Sarcoma

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Approximately 10% of patients with Ewing sarcoma (EwS) have pathogenic germline variants. Here, we report two cases: first, a novel germline pathogenic variant in partner and localizer of BRCA2 (PALB2) in a patient with a late EwS relapse. Its impact on homologous recombination is demonstrated, and breast cancer risk is discussed.
Molly Mack   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seeking a Second Opinion: Robert McNamara’s Distrust of the U.S. Intelligence Community During Operation Rolling Thunder

open access: yesFederal History, 2016
Thomas A. Reinstein reexamines how military intelligence was evaluated and employed during the Vietnam War, especially by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
Thomas A. Reinstein
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Book Review: Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Zimring, C.arl A. (2016). Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States. New York, New York: NYU Press.
McClanahan, William W
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Public Management of Big Data: Historical Lessons from the 1940s

open access: yesFederal History, 2015
This article examines the use of Census Bureau data in 1942 to remove Japanese Americans to internment camps for the duration of World War II. Census data constituted the largest collection of data on Americans at that time.
Margo Anderson
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Let’s end taxonomic blank slates with molecular morphology

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Many known evolutionary lineages have yet to be described formally due to a lack of traditional morphological characters. This is true for genetically distinctive groups within the amoeboid Placozoa animals, the protists in ponds, and the bacteria that ...
Michael Tessler   +8 more
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The Time Is Now: Why the United States Should Adopt the British Model of Sports Betting Legislation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Gambling has been the subject of controversy since its inception. While some claim that it is a “gentleman’s game” and a means of social entertainment, others argue that it is a sinful endeavor that enables corruption, scandal, and addiction.
Schreiber, Zach
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Developmental Disorders in Children Recently Diagnosed With Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neurocognitive deficits in adult survivors of childhood cancer are well established, but less is known about developmental disorders (DD) arising shortly after cancer diagnosis. Using 2016–2019 linked Ohio cancer registry and Medicaid data, we compared DD among 324 children with cancer and 606,913 cancer‐free controls.
Jamie Shoag   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The National Nanotechnology Initiative Approach to Environment, Health, and Safety: A Model for Future Science Investments

open access: yesFederal History, 2016
This article discusses the very recent story about the new science of nanotechnology and the careful and clear-headed efforts to regulate it. Nanotechnology offers great promise in numerous applications, including national security, but can also raise ...
Brandi L. Schottel, Barbara Karn
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A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2010
The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history.
Greg Robinson
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