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The Effect of Migration on Cognitive Representations, Blood Pressure Level and Dietary Habits in African Immigrant Women.
(2012)
Migration has been associated with increased risk of hypertension through stressors associated with cultural change and health behavior. Like other immigrants, women arriving in the U.S. in good health have experienced ...
Linkages Between Extreme Precipitation, Water Quality, and Gastrointestinal Illness.
(2012)
Background: The frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme weather events are expected to increase based on current climate model projections. Such changes, particularly those associated with extreme precipitation, will ...
LINE-1 Retrotransposition in Human Genomic Variation.
(2012)
Long interspersed element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is a ubiquitous mobile element in mammalian genomes. There are ~500,000 copies of L1 throughout the human genome, comprising ~17% of our DNA. Interestingly, though the majority ...
A Micro-Analytical System for Complex Vapor Mixtures - Development and Application to Indoor Air Contaminants.
(2012)
This dissertation concerns the development of two fully integrated, automatically controlled, field-deployable Si-microfabricated gas chromatograph (µGC) prototypes, and their application to indoor-air monitoring of ...
Implementation and Optimization of an in vivo Photo-crosslinking Methodology to Define Direct Targets of Transcriptional Activators.
(2012)
Protein-protein interactions are primarily used to accomplish many biological processes. Understanding protein-protein interactions, particularly, the direct interacting proteins and mechanism for interaction, is instrumental ...
Cognitive Role of Medial PFC in Error Processing: Lessons Learned from Healthy Children and Pediatric OCD, Anxiety, and ASD.
(2012)
Although the tendency to err may be considered to be an unavoidable human quality, the ability to effectively acknowledge and to make up for previous mistakes during task execution varies from one person to the next. ...