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Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2015 Background: Glucose uptake by muscles and fat cells is carried out by the GLUT4 system. Isoforms of the SNAP23, syntaxin-4 and VAMP-2 play an important role in regulating GLUT-4 trafficking and fusion in adipocytes.
Azam Rezaei Farimani +6 more
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Caring for the institution: An ethnography of quality assurance policy in U.S. rural primary care
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Based on mixed‐methods, ethnographic research in a geographically isolated rural medical center in the upper midwestern United States, this paper explores the social implications of healthcare quality assurance policies highly reliant on managerial logics, including measurement and monitoring programs.
Chloe L. Warpinski
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Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
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EMPIRE:a highly parallel semiempirical molecular orbital program. 1 : self-consistent field calculations [PDF]
, 2014 Clark, Timothy, Hennemann, Matthias
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Navigating Digital Transformation? The Guiding Role and Socialization Processes of Change Agents
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates the role of internal change agents in advancing digital transformation within public sector organizations. In response to the complexities of digitalization, these change agents guide their peers in adopting technology and bridging the gap between strategy and implementation. We draw on an 18‐month diary study (N = 68,
Caroline Fischer, Jessica Breaugh
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Vertebrate Anatomy, Morphology, PalaeontologyMembers of Alestidae, a family of characiforms found in sub–Saharan Africa, have a wide range of adult body sizes. Because of this range of adult size, phylogenetic characters for the group may be difficult to distinguish from ontogenetic features ...
Meghan Dueck, Alison Murray
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Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The plant endomembrane system and vesicle trafficking are central to plant immunity, mediating the targeted delivery and recycling of defence molecules during pathogen attack. Here, we investigated the functional role of soybean Vacuole Membrane Protein 1 (GmVMP1) in mediating resistance against soybean cyst nematode (SCN, Heterodera glycines).
Tracy E. Hawk +15 more
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Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
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Hollow institutions: Merleau‐Ponty and the possibility of coordinated action
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article addresses the phenomenon of political powerlessness, understood—following Hannah Arendt—as the separation of “words and deeds,” a condition in which words become “empty” and actions lose their overall intelligibility, increasingly relying on coercion. I take up Merleau‐Ponty's phenomenology of institution to explore this condition.
Daniil Koloskov
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