... both a1 and a3 subunits are essential for survival, and that the a1 and a3 isoforms have distinct roles in SK-N-AS cells and loss of one cannot be compensated by the other Based on these and previous ... to support this notion so far We investigated this question by using the human neuroblastoma cell line SK-N-AS These neuroblastoma cells, which co-express the a1 and a3 subunits, were shown to ... pump isoforms in signaling and survival L Karpova et al and appears to function as a molecular chaperone for correct folding of the a subunit and its transportation to the plasma membrane [15]...
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... COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO OBSESSIONS AND COMPULSIONS THEORY, ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT This Page Intentionally Left Blank COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO OBSESSIONS AND COMPULSIONS THEORY, ASSESSMENT, AND TREATMENT ... survival and ability to adapt to changing environmental demands requires that we willfully and consciously direct attention toward critical internal or external stimuli and accurately appraise and ... intrusive thoughts) appears to lead to attempts to suppress thoughts, and that both likelihood TAF and thought suppression contribute to obsessive compulsive symptoms Their findings suggest that...
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NEW APPROACHES TO CHARACTERIZATION AND RECOGNITION OF FACES pptx
... system and differentiates between semi-automatic and fully automatic face recognizer The goal of an automatic face detector is to search for human faces in a still image and, if found, to accurately ... rectangular window from left -to- right and top -to- bottom and the observation vectors are extracted Step then the sequence of observation vectors is introduced in each EHMM model and its corresponding ... order, from top to bottom, and this sequence is 10 New Approaches to Characterization and Recognition of Faces immutable, even if the face is moderately rotated The first attempts to use HMMs...
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PDE AND LEVEL SETS - Algorithmic Approaches to Static and Motion Imagery docx
... hearts and have shown lots of love and care for me Swamy Laxminarayan would like to express his loving acknowledgements to his wife xv xvi PDE and Level Sets Marijke and to his kids, Malini and ... asymptotic Properties and above indicate that the Laplace Transform converts differentiation and integration to algebraic operations Properties 1, 2, and are used to find Laplace Transforms and ... Kluwer Online at: and Kluwer's eBookstore at: http://kluweronline.com http://ebooks.kluweronline.com Jasjit Suri would like to dedicate this book to his parents and especially to his late mother...
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NEW APPROACHES TO CHARACTERIZATION AND RECOGNITION OF FACES by Peter M. Corcoran doc
... system and differentiates between semi-automatic and fully automatic face recognizer The goal of an automatic face detector is to search for human faces in a still image and, if found, to accurately ... rectangular window from left -to- right and top -to- bottom and the observation vectors are extracted Step then the sequence of observation vectors is introduced in each EHMM model and its corresponding ... order, from top to bottom, and this sequence is 10 New Approaches to Characterization and Recognition of Faces immutable, even if the face is moderately rotated The first attempts to use HMMs...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 35 doc
... social and economic determinants of, 218–223 Health care systems: myth and reality of effectiveness of preventive, 244; myth and reality of immigrants and, 243; myth and reality of older adults and, ... of intervention using, 14; levels and types of, 8–20; methodological challenges and approaches to, 12; policy and practice influence of, 309–312; qualitative and quantitative methods used in, ... Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice provides students in public health, urban planning, social work, and other professions with the critical knowledge and practical...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 1 doc
... URBAN HEALTH AND SOCIETY URBAN HEALTH AND SOCIETY Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice NICHOLAS FREUDENBERG SUSAN KLITZMAN SUSAN SAEGERT Editors Copyright © 2009 by ... Urban health and society: interdisciplinary approaches to research and practice/ Nicholas Freudenberg, Susan Klitzman, Susan Saegert, editors p ; cm Includes bibliographical references and index ... not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages Jossey-Bass books and products are available through most bookstores To contact Jossey-Bass directly call our Customer Care...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 2 pps
... interdisciplinary approaches to health research, our focus is more practical We want to help our colleagues and students to use these methods to improve their work and increase its relevance to improving ... were kind enough to read chapters and provide helpful suggestions to authors and editors These include Tom Angotti, Mimi Fahs, Sandro Galea, Mary Clare Lennon, Shirley Lindenbaum, and Amy Schulz ... us to compile this book At City University of New York, we have worked together to develop interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research, created new courses on interdisciplinary approaches...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 3 docx
... historical and environmental health approaches to the study of urban environmental hazards and Maantay and her colleagues, who in Chapter Five synthesize geographic and medical perspectives to ... geography, and other disciplines to the concepts of interdisciplinary approaches to urban health research and practice Our goals are to familiarize readers with the emerging concepts and principles ... reentry from jail, violence and crime, mothers’ and children’s mental health problems, and obesity and diabetes In each of these cases, our efforts to understand and reduce the health problems...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 4 doc
... includes all these players, but knowing who to invite to the table, when to make the invitation, what to serve to bring and keep guests at the table, and how to prevent food fights at the banquet are ... highlight is the value of interdisciplinary approaches to integrating and reconciling research and practice that aims to improve population health and that seeks to promote social justice Modern public ... understanding of its limitations, especially in regard to the particular problem under investigation No single researcher will be able to master all the disciplines and methods needed to understand...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 5 pdf
... institutional borders and regulatory boundaries to solve broader problems and incorporate social justice as a fundamental principle For example, in arguing for innovative approaches to housing and health, ... Indicators of Cumulative Impact and Socioeconomic Vulnerability into Regulatory Decision-making.”34 In addition to peer validation and respect from state agencies looking for guidance and research ... separated land uses such as industry and housing to improve public health, it has come to be used as a mechanism for reinforcing social and racial separation.13 Built Environment, Urban Planning, and...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 6 pot
... garment industry in Oakland) as well as pragmatic tools (GIS mapping and how to research particular industries and corporations) According to Chang, “graduate, academic, and professional training ... practitioners and employers And government policy tends to focus on individual programs and agencies to solve specific issues and problems without necessarily looking at the whole picture Holistic approaches ... professional, and community arenas is a complicated process in which all teach and all learn from one another, as opposed to a top-down and hierarchial approach.39 ASIAN IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ORGANIZING...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 7 pps
... on facilitators and barriers to healthy eating and physical activity, observed: “You’ve got to go out into the suburbs now to get some decent food And therefore, it’s not available to us in this ... the time you get to that store and get some fresh fruits and vegetables, you’re going to pass about 30 fast food joints and about 100 liquor stores.”31 USING CBPR TO UNDERSTAND THE HEALTH IMPLICATIONS ... grocery chains took advantage of abundant and inexpensive land in the suburbs, which allowed them to build large store formats at a lower cost Scarcity of land to accommodate large store formats...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 8 pdf
... entering and leaving stores, deteriorated conditions inside and surrounding stores, and unfair treatment from store employees and owners Stress stemming from these conditions and experiences may ... M., and Johnston, L D Associations between access to food stores and adolescent body mass index American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 33 (2007): S301–7 18 Rose, D., and Richards, R Food store ... investigators who offered valuable disciplinary perspectives related to nutrition and who provided GIS skills have since left the area, which was due to the structure of academia (postdoctoral and...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 9 ppt
... preventable and/ or treatable diseases such as diarrheal dehydration, acute respiratory infection, measles, malaria, and HIV.1, In fact, three of the five most significant contributors to the global ... housing conditions and health, Saegert and Evans25 described the powerful influence of housing location and its determinants in shaping the multiple social and physical risks low-income and minority ... instead to consider some ways this literature could be understood, and future research could be conducted, within an ecological framework Thus, we have identified key factors of the physical and social...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 10 potx
... physical health and well-being They also studied children’s social knowledge and competence, emotional health and maturity, language and cognitive development, and communication skills and general ... diversity, and density) contribute to chaos Some urban characteristics that contribute to chaos are noise, traffic, high mobility, residential turnover, and the high rate of migration into cities, ... low-income and/ or minority households Mold, dampness, dust, and smoking are all significant and preventable—indoor asthma triggers Turning to crowding, residential density has been shown to predict...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 11 potx
... child and adolescent outcomes Psychological Bulletin, 126 (2000): 309–337 51 Wandersman, A., and Nation, M Urban neighborhoods and mental health: Psychological contributions to understanding toxicity, ... Kessen, series ed., and P H Mussen, vol ed., Handbook of Child Psychology: Vol History, Theory, and Methods, 4th ed., pp 357–414 New York: John Wiley, 1983 39 Bronfenbrenner, U., and Evans, G W Developmental ... T D., and Corapci, F Environmental chaos, development and parenting across cultures In C Raeff and J Benson, eds., Social and Cognitive Development in the Context of Individual, Social, and Cultural...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 12 pdf
... to Manhattan, Queens, and Long Island with a total enrollment of more than 800 medical and PhD students and a full-time and voluntary faculty of more than 3,000 physicians and researchers Montefiore ... agriculture, community and rooftop gardens, “green” buildings, solar energy, and an environmental youth corps FABB brings firsthand experience to the partnership with local traffic and air pollution ... including churches and tenant, neighborhood, health, and civil rights groups, joined together to stop the operation 100 Geographic Information Systems, Environmental Justice, and Health Disparities...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 13 ppsx
... production of toxic chemicals and, thus, are not required to report to the EPA) may contribute as much or more on a cumulative basis to the overall air emissions Unfortunately, it is difficult to obtain ... also emit contaminants to the air, but these emissions for the most part remain undocumented and, thus, are difficult to incorporate into the analysis Another major contributor to air pollution, especially ... for asthma, we decided to focus on major stationary point sources of air pollutants and the Toxic Release Inventories (TRIs) as well as mobile sources from major highways and truck routes as proxies...
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Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 14 potx
... challenges of, and lessons learned by, working in an intersectoral partnership (e.g., differing mandates, resources, and power) and the need for research findings and collaborative processes to be incorporated ... diseases and deaths associated with air pollution.73, 74 High asthma hospitalization rates reflect both minority and poverty status and high exposures to environmental pollution, and these factors ... sociodemographic factors, the findings of this research point to a health and environmental justice crisis LESSONS ON INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO URBAN HEALTH RESEARCH Benefits and Challenges of...
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