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Title
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Sleep attitudes as a predictor of sleep outcomes : a secondary data analysis
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Author
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Ruggiero, Aria, Peach, Hannah D., Zendels, Philip, 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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Objectives: Attitudes have been widely studied as predictors of a number of social and health behaviors. However, attitudes predicting sleep outcomes have only recently been examined, despite sleep being conceptualized as an important health behav...
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Sociomaterial texts, spaces and devices : Questioning ‘digital dualism’ in library and study practices
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Author
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Lanclos, Donna M., 1970-, Gourlay, Lesley, Oliver, Martin, 1973-
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Higher, Libraries
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Description
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Work on students' study practices posits the digital and material as separate domains, with the ‘digital’ assumed to be disembodied, decontextualised and free-floating, and spaces in the material campus positioned as prototypically ‘traditional’ a...
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Title
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Some like it hot : population-specific adaptations in venom production to abiotic stressors in a widely distributed cnidarian
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Author
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Reitzel, Adam M., Sachkova, Maria Y., Macrander, Jason, Surm, Joachim M., Aharoni, Reuven, Menard-Harvey, Shelcie S., Klock, Amy, Leach, Whitney, Moran, Yehu
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Subjects--Topical
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Predation (Biology), Venom
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Description
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Background In cnidarians, antagonistic interactions with predators and prey are mediated by their venom, whose synthesis may be metabolically expensive. The potentially high cost of venom production has been hypothesized to drive population-specif...
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Title
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South Asian dance intersections, vol. 1, no. 1
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Author
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Sethi, Arshiya, Sarkar, Kaustavi
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Arts, South Asian, Dance
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Description
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South Asian Dance Intersections is a progressive, scholarly, blind peer-reviewed, and digitally available open-access journal which seeks to publish a unique blend of original high-quality research in scholarly, choreographic, contemporary, commun...
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Title
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South Asian dance intersections, vol. 2, no. 1
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Author
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Sarkar, Kaustavi, Sethi, Arshiya
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Arts, South Asian, Dance
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Description
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South Asian Dance Intersections is a progressive, scholarly, blind peer-reviewed, and digitally available open-access journal which seeks to publish a unique blend of original high-quality research in scholarly, choreographic, contemporary, commun...
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Title
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Stylistics and syntax : exploitation of mixed systems in English
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Author
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Thiede, Ralf
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Pragmatics
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Description
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State curricula in English Language Arts are calling for grammar instruction to be folded into the teaching of writing, linguistic diversity / identity, and stylistic variation (as does the new North Carolina Course of Studies). Such a reorientati...
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Title
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Symbiotic life of echinoderm larvae
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Author
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Carrier, Tyler J., Reitzel, Adam M.
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Symbiosis, Life sciences, Marine biology
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Description
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Echinoderms larvae have served as a fundamental system for understanding development and life history evolution over much of the last century. In the last few decades, our understanding of echinoderm larvae has expanded to the microbiota that they...
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Title
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Testing the spread of status value theory
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Author
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Walker, Lisa Slattery, Webster, Murray, 1941-, Bianchi, Alison J.
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Equality
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Description
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How can a nominal descriptive term acquire status beliefs and definitions giving it connotations of differential social worth and competence? Cecilia L. Ridgeway and her associates have developed one theory explaining such effects. Recently Joseph...
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Title
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The American interest in Islamic schooling : a misplaced emphasis?
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Terrorism
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Description
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Since 2001, many American intellectuals and policymakers have blamed terrorism and conflict on Middle Eastern educational systems, which they claim do little but indoctrinate students with anti-American sentiment. Pressure has been put on many cou...
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Title
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The association of COPD exacerbations with new onset type 2 diabetes among Medicare patients
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Author
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Marino, Joseph S., Ruban, Cynthiya, Saunders, Bill, Blanchette, Christopher M.
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Subjects--Topical
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Lungs--Diseases, Obstructive, Non-insulin-dependent diabetes
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Description
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Objective: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is highly prevalent in the elderly population and typically reduces overall quality of life. Exacerbations of COPD are commonly treated with corticosteroids, a class of drug known to cause in...
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Title
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the sea urchin, Echinometra sp. EZ
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Author
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Ketchum, Remi, DeBiasse, Melissa B., Ryan, Joseph F., Burt, John A., Reitzel, Adam M.
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Subjects--Topical
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Mitochondrial DNA, Sea urchins
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Description
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The complete mitogenome of Echinometra sp. EZ has been described and fully annotated in this study. Phylogenetic analysis of cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) from six Echinometra species confirms that our sample is E. sp. EZ. The mitogenome is...
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Title
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The criminal cannibal : examining the similarities of cannibalistic offenders
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Author
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Carroll, Brittany, Coston, Charisse Tia Maria, 1958-
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Subjects--Topical
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Cannibalism, Violent crimes
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Description
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Cannibalism is sometimes practiced by particularly violent offenders. This article discusses this behavior as it presents across 26 individual offenders convicted of murder. The similarities examined among these offenders present uniting features ...
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Title
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The hexis of interpretation : Islam and the body in the Egyptian popular school
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Subjects--Topical
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Islam, Ritual, Education
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Description
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This article examines how travelers, colonial officials, and educators have treated prayer and other body rituals in Egyptian popular schools. Once the object of colonial critiques of indigenous pedagogy, body ritual has now become the focus of a ...
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Title
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The immunological capacity of thrombocytes
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Author
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Ferdous, Farzana, Scott, Thomas
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Immune response, Blood platelets
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Description
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Thrombocytes are numerous in the blood of aves (birds) and ichthyoids (fish). The origin of this cell type is a common hematopoietic stem cell giving rise to a cell that is active in blood coagulation, inflammatory functions, and the immune respon...
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Title
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The immunorecognition, subcellular compartmentalization, and physicochemical properties of nucleic acid nanoparticles can be controlled by composition modification
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Author
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Johnson, M. Brittany, Halman, Justin, Marriott, Ian, Afonin, Kirill A., Miller, Daniel K., Cooper, Joseph S., Khisamutdinov, Emil F.
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Subjects--Topical
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Immunology, Nucleic acids, Nanoparticles
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Description
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Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) have become powerful new platforms as therapeutic and diagnostic tools due to the innate biological ability of nucleic acids to identify target molecules or silence genes involved in disease pathways. However, th...