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Examining the social and emotional consequences of the inequity of access to gifted programs : a study using PRISMA methods
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Author
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Eident, Canaan, Matthews, Michael S., 1968-, Gilson, Cindy M., Byker, Erik Jon
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Gifted children--Education, Educational equalization
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Description
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The purpose of this study was to examine the social and emotional consequences of the inequity of access to gifted programs in the United States’ school system. To complete this study, we used a modified version of the Preferred Reporting Items fo...
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Excess of genomic defects in a woolly mammoth on Wrangel Island
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Author
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Rogers, Rebekah L., Slatkin, Montgomery
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomes, Woolly mammoth
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Description
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Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) populated Siberia, Beringia, and North America during the Pleistocene and early Holocene. Recent breakthroughs in ancient DNA sequencing have allowed for complete genome sequencing for two specimens of wooll...
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FLAVi : an enhanced annotator for viral genomes of Flaviviridae
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Author
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Machado, Denis Jacob, Schneider, Adriano, Guirales, Sayal, Janies, Daniel
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Subjects--Topical
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Viruses, Phylogeny
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Description
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Responding to the ongoing and severe public health threat of viruses of the family Flaviviridae, including dengue, hepatitis C, West Nile, yellow fever, and Zika, demands a greater understanding of how these viruses emerge and spread. Updated phyl...
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Field-observed cracking of paired lightweight and normalweight concrete bridge decks
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Author
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Cavalline, Tara L., Calamusa, Jeremy T., Kitts, Amy M., Tempest, Brett Q.
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Subjects--Topical
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Lightweight concrete, Bridges--Design and construction, Concrete--Cracking
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Description
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Research has suggested that conventional lightweight concrete can offer durability advantages due to reduced cracking tendency. Although a number of publications exist providing the results of laboratory-based studies on the durability performance...
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Forest loss is significantly higher near clustered small dams than single large dams per megawatt of hydroelectricity installed in the Brazilian Amazon
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Author
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Chen, Gang, Nickerson, Samuel, Fearnside, Philip M., Allan, Craig J., Hu, Tongxi, Carvalho, Luis, Zhao, Kaiguang
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Subjects--Topical
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Forests and forestry, Deforestation, Hydroelectric power plants, Dams, Remote sensing
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Description
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Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon is a prevalent form of development, but dams have widespread and long-term environmental impacts that include deforestation in the areas surrounding the dams. Small hydropower plants (SHPs) are often perceived as...
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Functionally-interdependent shape-switching nanoparticles with controllable properties
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Author
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Halman, Justin, Khisamutdinov, Emil F., Afonin, Kirill A., Satterwhite, Emily, Roark, Brandon, Chandler, Morgan, Ivanina, Anna, Viard, Mathias, Bindewald, Eckart, Kasprzak, Wojciech K., Panigaj, Martin, Bui, My N., Lu, Jacob S., Miller, Johann, Shapiro, Bruce A., Dobrovolskaia, Marina A.
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Subjects--Topical
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Nucleic acids, Nanotechnology
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Description
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We introduce a new concept that utilizes cognate nucleic acid nanoparticles which are fully complementary and functionally-interdependent to each other. In the described approach, the physical interaction between sets of designed nanoparticles ini...
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Fundamental evolution of all Orthocoronavirinae including three deadly lineages descendent from Chiroptera-hosted coronaviruses : SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2
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Author
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Machado, Denis Jacob, Scott, Rachel, Guirales, Sayal, Janies, Daniel
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Subjects--Topical
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Coronaviruses, SARS (Disease), MERS (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)
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Description
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The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) emerged in humans in 2002. Despite reports showing Chiroptera as the original animal reservoir of SARS-CoV, many argue that Carnivora-hosted viruses are the most likely origin. The emerg...
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Fundamentals of genomic epidemiology, lessons learned from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and new directions
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Author
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Machado, Denis Jacob, White, Richard Allen, III, Kofsky, Janice, Janies, Daniel
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Subjects--Topical
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COVID-19 (Disease), Epidemiology
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Description
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was one of the significant causes of death worldwide in 2020. The disease is caused by severe acute coronavirus syndrome (SARS) coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), an RNA virus of the subfamily Orthocoronav...
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GSI treatment preserves protein synthesis in C2C12 myotubes
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Author
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Arthur, Susan, Huot, Joshua, Marino, Joseph S., Thompson, Brian, McMullen, Charlotte
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Subjects--Topical
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Muscle proteins, Cells
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Description
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It has been demonstrated that inhibiting Notch signaling through γ-secretase inhibitor (GSI) treatment increases myogenesis, AKT/mTOR signaling, and muscle protein synthesis (MPS) in C2C12 myotubes. The purpose of this study was to determine if GS...
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Gender differences affecting the relationship between sleep attitudes, sleep behaviors and sleep outcomes
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Author
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Zendels, Philip, Ruggiero, Aria, Gaultney, Jane F.
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Subjects--Topical
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Sleep, Health attitudes
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Description
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Research has found that discrepancies exist in many health-related behaviors, leading to discrepancies in health outcomes, between men and women. Among these, women tend to have more positive attitudes towards sleep and better sleep hygiene practi...
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Genetic architecture of early vigor traits in wild soybean
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Author
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Song, Bao-Hua, Kofsky, Janice, Zhang, Hengyou
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Subjects--Topical
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Genetics, Genomics, Soybean
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Description
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A worldwide food shortage has been projected as a result of the current increase in global population and climate change. In order to provide sufficient food to feed more people, we must develop crops that can produce higher yields. Plant early vi...
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Genome-scale cluster analysis of replicated microarrays using shrinkage correlation coefficient
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Author
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Loraine, Ann, Yao, Jianchao, Chang, Chunqi, Roux, Stanley J.
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Date Created
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2008
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Bioinformatics
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Description
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Background: Currently, clustering with some form of correlation coefficient as the gene similarity metric has become a popular method for profiling genomic data. The Pearson correlation coefficient and the standard deviation (SD)-weighted correlat...
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Genomic alterations and abnormal expression of APE2 in multiple cancers
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Author
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Yan, Shan, Jensen, Katherine A., Shi, Xinghua
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Subjects--Topical
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Cancer--Genetic aspects, DNA repair
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Description
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Although APE2 plays essential roles in base excision repair and ATR-Chk1 DNA damage response (DDR) pathways, it remains unknown how the APE2 gene is altered in the human genome and whether APE2 is differentially expressed in cancer patients. Here,...
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High fat rodent models of type 2 diabetes : from rodent to human
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Author
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Stott Bond, Nicole L., Marino, Joseph S.
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Subjects--Topical
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Non-insulin-dependent diabetes, Metabolism
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Description
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Poor dietary habits contribute to increased incidences of obesity and related co-morbidities, such as type 2 diabetes (T2D). The biological, genetic, and pathological implications of T2D, are commonly investigated using animal models induced by a ...
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Impact of electrical topology, capacity factor and line length on economic performance of offshore wind investments
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Author
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Cali, Umit, Kucuksari, Sadik, Erdogan, Nuh
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Subjects--Topical
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Offshore wind power plants, Electric network topology, Wind power--Economic aspects
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Description
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In this study, an economic performance assessment of offshore wind investments is investigated through electrical topology, capacity factor and line length. First, annual energy yield production and electrical system losses for AC and DC offshore ...
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In vivo architecture of the telomerase RNA catalytic core in Trypanosoma brucei
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Author
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Chakrabarti, Kausik, Dey, Abishek, Klotz, Kaitlin, Davis, Justin, Monroy-Eklund, Anais, Saha, Arpita, Li, Bibo, Laederach, Alain
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Subjects--Topical
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RNA, Nucleoproteins
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Description
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Telomerase is a unique ribonucleoprotein (RNP) reverse transcriptase that utilizes its cognate RNA molecule as a template for telomere DNA repeat synthesis. Telomerase contains the reverse transcriptase protein, TERT and the template RNA, TR, as i...
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Inflammation–nature’s way to efficiently respond to all types of challenges : implications for understanding and managing "the epidemic" of chronic diseases
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Author
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Bennett, Jeanette M., Reeves, Glenn, Billman, George E., Sturmberg, Joachim P.
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Subjects--Topical
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Stress (Psychology)--Health aspects, Clinical medicine, Inflammation, Psychoneuroimmunology, Chronic diseases, Complex adaptive systems
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Description
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Siloed or singular system approach to disease management is common practice, developing out of traditional medical school education. Textbooks of medicine describe a huge number of discrete diseases, usually in a systematic fashion following headi...