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3 Kinds of Nouns: Counting is Not Always the Issue
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5 math skills your child needs to get ready for kindergarten
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A Healthy Slice
(Originally published by: Urbanite Magazine, 2009-11-01) -
Abnormal cholecystokinin mRNA levels in entorhinal cortex of schizophrenics
(Elsevier, 1998-01-05)Limbic cortical regions, including anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), prefrontal cortex (PFC) and entorhinal cortex (ERC), have been implicated in the neuropathology of schizophrenia. Glutamate projection neurons connect ... -
Academic Socialization in the Homes of Black and Latino Preschool Children: Research Findings and Future Directions
(Springer International Publishing, 2018)This chapter provides an overview of what is known about how Black and Latino families prepare their young children for school and what remains to be understood. It provides a synthesis of research presented in this volume, ... -
Active Solidarity: Intersectional Solidarity in Action
(Oxford University Press, 2019-10-19)While solidarity lies at the heart of collective action, it is not easily achieved. Social movements are characterized not only by difference within activist ranks but also by power asymmetries that reflect broader domination ... -
Addressing empathy in intercultural virtual exchange: a preliminary framework
(Research-Publishing.net, 2020)Empathy is widely perceived and understood as an unquestioned component of Intercultural Competence (IC). The authors see the ability to empathise with others and to see their point of view as an important condition for ... -
Adjective Clauses: Do They Define or Tell Us More Information?
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Adverb Clauses: Don’t Use Future Tense
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Again, District Salvadorans Face an Impossible Choice
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Aging in Place Changing Socio-ecology and the Power of Kinship on Smith Island, Maryland
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019)This article examines how the people known as Smith Islanders interact with their environment over the life-course. The purpose of the study is to contribute to a better understanding of aging in a small, rural, coastal ... -
Agricultural Landscape Composition Linked with Acoustic Measures of Avian Diversity
(MDPI, 2020-05-10)Measuring, monitoring, and managing biodiversity across agricultural regions depends on methods that can combine high-resolution mapping of landscape patterns with local biodiversity observations. This study explores the ... -
Alcohol and Erectile Response: The Effects of High Dosage in the Context of Demands to Maximize Sexual Arousal
(American Psychological Association, 2011-08-31)Although drinking is often associated with men's sexual activity, basic questions about alcohol's effects on men's sexual arousal remain unanswered. Inconsistencies in findings from studies examining subjective and ... -
Algorithmic Pollution: Artists Working with Dataveillance and Societies of Control
(Media-N: The Journal of the New Media Causus, 2017)In 2013, interactive artist and Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica winner, David Rokeby, coined the phrase Algorithmic Pollution to describe a phenomena where data collection alters human public behavior. The purpose of this ... -
An alternative view of ecological community thresholds and appropriate analyses for their detection: comment
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American Constitutional Faith and the Politics of Hermeneutics
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-07-16)As more debates in American politics become constitutional questions, effective citizens must engage in constitutional interpretation. While most Americans venerate the Constitution as a part of a national, civil religion, ... -
AMPA receptor binding in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics and controls
(Elsevier, 2001-04-02) -
Amphetamine-induced c-fos mRNA expression is altered in rats with neonatal ventral hippocampal damage
(National Institute of Health, 1996-08)To further characterize the mechanisms underlying enhanced dopamine-related behaviors expressed during adulthood in rats with neonatal excitotoxic ventral hippocampal (VH) damage, we studied the expression of c-fos mRNA ... -
Analysis of environmental migrants and their mental health in strengthening health systems
(F1000 Research, 2020-11-24)Background: It is predicted that by 2050 more than 250 million people will have to relocate as a result of climate-related change to their home environment. The existential threat posed by anthropogenic phenomena such as ... -
Annual variation in long-distance dispersal driven by breeding and non-breeding season climatic conditions in a migratory bird
(Nordic Society Oikos, 2014-11-25)Long‐distance dispersal is a fundamental process in ecology and evolution but the factors that influence these movements remain poorly understood in most species. We used stable hydrogen isotopes to quantify the rate and ...