The common commercial use of phthalate esters has resulted in significant human exposure to these bioactive compounds. The facts that phthalate ester metabolites, like endogenous PGs, are peroxisome proliferator-activated...
Environmentally relevant toxic exposures often consist of simultaneous exposure to multiple agents. Methods to predict the expected outcome of such combinations are critical both to risk assessment and to an accurate judgment...
Background: Predicting the expected outcome of a combination exposure is critical to risk assessment. The toxic equivalency factor (TEF) approach used for analyzing joint effects of dioxinlike chemicals is a special case of...
Background: Location is often an important component of exposure assessment, and positional errors in geocoding may result in exposure misclassification. In rural areas, successful geocoding to a street address is limited...
Background: Epidemiologists and toxicologists face similar problems when assessing interactions between exposures, yet they approach the question very differently. The epidemiologic definition of “interaction” leads to the...
Decisions on chemical substitution are made rapidly and by many stakeholders; these decisions may have a direct impact on consumer exposures, and, when a hazard exists, to consumer risks. Flame retardants (FRs) represent...
Farmers, regulators, and researchers rely on pesticide use data to assess the effects of pesticides on crop yield, farm economics, off-target organisms, and human health. The publicly available pesticide use data in the United...
Lakes and reservoirs are recognized as important sentinels of climate change, integrating catchment and atmospheric climate change drivers. Climate change conceptual models generally consider lakes and reservoirs together...
Extraction of unconventional oil and gas using high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF)—“fracking”—is a “wicked” problem: Science and policymaking are complex and opaque; problems are unstructured, cross areas of policy...
Atmospheric deposition is a primary source of reactive nitrogen (Nr) to undisturbed watersheds of the Great Lakes region of the U.S., raising concerns over whether enhanced delivery over recent decades has affected lake...
In March of 2022, the Supreme Court addressed the “state secrets privilege,” which the government has repeatedly invoked in the post-9/11 era. This privilege is analogous to the common law attorney/client privilege, but courts...
Resilience resources refer to factors that protect against the physical and mental health effects of stress exposure. This study used a cross-sectional design to test whether three individual-level resilience resources—mastery,...
The discovery of a relatively large and complete ptilodictyid bryozoan colony enabled morphometric analysis of astogenetic change from the colony base to the periphery. This enabled us to test the hypothesis that the relative...
Few studies have addressed how Spanish nationals who are racialized as Black challenge essentialist and ethnic notions of Spanish identity and create spaces of enunciation from which to tell their stories as minorities in a...
In the early 2010s, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment pursued a streaming strategy built on the assumption that the name Warner Bros. had little brand recognition among contemporary consumers. We're not like Disney, one...
The demography of a painted turtle Chrysemys picta picta X C. p. marginata population from a eutrophic habitat was examined at a wetland site in south-central Pennsylvania (USA) during 2011–2019. Males reached sexual maturity...
In this paper, we characterize and classify the orbits of the fixed-point group on the unipotent elements of the generalized symmetric spaces for inner involutions of SL3(k) and SL4(k) where k is a finite field of odd...
In Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism, Tullio Pagano examines Italian emigration to Argentina and the Rio de la Plata region through the writings of Italian economists, poets, anthropologists, and...
Background:
Stress before conception and during pregnancy is associated with less favorable maternal and child health. Alterations in prenatal cortisol levels may serve as a central biological pathway linking stress to...
Introduction: Indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin, in Peru and elsewhere, suffered disproportionately from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In part, this was due to an initial lack of support by the Ministry of...
EL escritor y artista indígena Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala empleó diversos modelos literarios y científicos europeos para componer su obra Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno (1615). Las 398 ilustraciones que el autor insertó...
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Presentar y analizar la respuesta que el sistema de salud peruano viene dando a las necesidades en salud sexual y reproductiva de las mujeres venezolanas que radican en la ciudad de Lima, Perú e identificar...
We discuss connectivity properties of Julia sets of the parameterized Dixon elliptic functions. Our main result is that the connectivity locus of the parameterized Dixon sine function is the exterior of the open unit disc, and...
We study the dynamics of a family of polynomial functions and the relationship to the dynamics of a related entire transcendental family of functions. As the degree of the polynomial approaches infinity, the polynomial...
The childhood family environment can influence long-term well-being in part by modifying how individuals’ respond to and cope with stress across the life span. Theoretical models propose that childhood stress will either...
In June 2018, while participating in the Caribbean Studies Association conference in Havana, Cuba, as a scholar of Caribbean literature, I had the opportunity to attend an unforgettable panel in Kreyòl (Haitian Creole) and...
We analyze the existence and types of unbounded Fatou components for elliptic functions and other meromorphic functions with doubly periodic Julia sets. We show that apart from Herman rings and Siegel disks, all types of...
Wild and managed pollinators are essential to food production and the function of natural ecosystems; however, their populations are threatened by multiple stressors including pesticide use. Because pollinator species can...
Glaciovolcanic landforms provide global-scale records of paleoenvironmental conditions and yield insights into subglacial eruption processes. Models for the formation of glaciovolcanic ridges, or tindars, are relatively simple,...
This review examines cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying social influence on autobiographical memory. We aim for this review to serve as a bridge between researchers who focus on veridicality (e.g., eyewitness memory)...
Engaging students in free and open source (FOSS) projects can provide significant curricular benefits but is known to be challenging for both students and faculty. This paper reports on our efforts to mitigate these challenges...
ACM/IEEE curriculum guidelines for computer science, such as CS2013 or the forthcoming CS2023, provide well-researched and detailed guidance about the content and skills that make up an undergraduate computer science (CS)...
Home blood pressure management, including self-monitoring and medication self-titration, is an efficient and cost-effective tool. Although its use is increasing globally, little is known about the feasibility of such...
An important variable in measuring potential access is the competitive nature of the service being provided. Health services such as physician visits or hospital beds are often viewed as rival goods where one’s consumption of a...
This book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles,...
Black youth and rural adolescents are two groups who experience asthma disparities. Racism and discrimination in health care likely lead to group-based (systems-level) medical mistrust for some adolescents. Group-based medical...
This study uses isotope and microbotanical data from the analysis of teeth and dental calculus to investigate camelid diet and foddering practices at Quilcapampa (AD 835–900). By providing taxonomically specific evidence of...
Recent years have witnessed an increase in human life expectancy fueled by significant improvements in infrastructure, healthcare, and economies across the globe. Longer life spans have altered the world demographics resulting...
Lake Powell is a large water storage reservoir in the arid southwestern United States. Here, we present a 58-yr limnology dataset that captures water quality parameters from reservoir filling to present day (temperature,...
We use a two-sector dynamic deterministic general equilibrium model that specifically accounts for trends among time-series variables to estimate the size of the shadow economy for the 50 U.S. states from 1999 to 2019,...
This chapter discusses the emotional dynamics of migration in two main areas: migration experience and politics of migration. The first section considers migration experiences at the individual, family and community levels. ...
What does it mean to be the Socrates of Soviet philosophy, as Georgian-born philosopher Merab Mamardashvili has been called? More broadly, what does it mean to be a Socrates in Russia at all? Mamardashvili was known primarily...
DeBlasio, Alyssa, and Victoria Juharyan. Introduction: Socrates in Russia. In Socrates in Russia, edited by Alyssa DeBlasio and Victoria Juharyan, 1-16. Leiden: Brill, 2022., For more information on the published version,...
This volume explores the influence of the Socratic legacy in the Russian, East European, and Soviet contexts. For writers, philosophers, and artists, Socrates has served as a potent symbol—of the human capacity for...
Japanese fiction studied in American classrooms is more likely to emphasize Japan's suffering under the atomic bomb than to grapple with that nation's war crimes. Students should be informed of the horrific human costs of...
This volume is devoted to teaching works of Japanese fiction---novels, short stories, and manga (graphic novels and comics)---produced following the end of Japan's war with China, America, and their allies in 1945. The title is...
As Japan moved from the devastation of 1945 to the economic security that survived even the boom and bust of the 1980s and 1990s, its literature came to embrace new subjects and styles and to reflect on the nation’s changing...
Veniaminof Volcano on the Alaska Peninsula of southwest Alaska is one of a small group of ice-clad volcanoes globally that erupts lava flows in the presence of glacier ice. Here, we describe the nature of lava-ice-snow...