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... explores the emergence of collective mathematical thinking and the ways in which the mathematical discourse of some individuals changes as a result of the group experience Sfard, on the other hand, ... particles, and at other times may choose to investigate the geometry and periodic recurrence of waves and whirls The macro- and micro-level pictures obtained in these ways not resemble each other, and ... how the proposed conceptualization works, I revisit the episodes presented at the beginning of the paper, reformulate the longstanding questions in the new language, and re-address the old quandaries...

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... because the measurements are limited to the genes represented on the arrays However, arrays are being constructed that represent increasingly large numbers of genes, and the efficiency and relatively ... information on the aggressiveness of a particular cancer or how the cancer will respond to radiation therapy or chemotherapy reports Genomics and classification of lung cancer The discovery of ... for nearly all of the estimated 100 000–120 000 total human genes, and much of this information is currently in public-domain databases The sequencing of the whole genome and the prediction of...

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... mediators, or ion channels Another approach has been to compartmentalize the vasculature, and focus the investigations on the endothelium, smooth muscle cells, and the adventitia/extracellular ... showed that the endothelial cells of plexiform lesions express, intensely and uniformly, the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor KDR The analysis by Cool et al also showed that the cells ... vascular endothelial growth factor-2 inhibitor in chronically hypoxic rats lead, first, to endothelial cell death, then to obliteration of the vessel lumen by proliferating endothelial cells and, finally,...

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... variously described as the resources to which people have access through their social relationships, the mutual respect and trust among citizens or between citizens and the state, and the connections ... provides the most current frameworks, research, and approaches for understanding how unique features of the urban physical and social environments that shape the health of over half of the world’s ... the interrelationships among parts and their relationship to the whole Systems modeling is a methodological approach that involves the use of formal models or simulations to increase understanding...

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... Kimberly Libman, Desiree Fields Housing and Health: What’s the Connection? The Social Ecology of Foreclosure The Research and Its Context Focus Group Analysis and the Emergence of Health as an Issue ... citations and/ or sources for further information may have changed or disappeared between the time this was written and when it is read Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and ... author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically...

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... fields In Part One of the book (Chapters One and Two), we introduce the central themes of the book and highlight the connections between population health and social justice In Part Two (Chapters ... neighborhoods, child development and poverty, asthma and air pollution in New York City, the impact of social policy on the health of African Americans, and the health consequences of the recent housing foreclosure ... and students to use these methods to improve their work and increase its relevance to improving the health of urban populations We were fortunate to have the support of numerous individuals and...

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... with parents, and access to health care, as well as the living conditions inside the household, the building, the block, the neighborhood, and the policies of the city, state, and national government ... sets the stage for a variety of biological, cultural, political, and social encounters among and within the various subpopulations For example, understanding the health implications of the food ... is the totality of their environment and the services available to them that shape their living conditions Interdisciplinary research can begin to examine these intersections across levels and...

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... reformers and scientists, first in Europe then in the United States and elsewhere, joined forces to document the adverse impact of urban living conditions on the health of residents They then acted ... researchers, and health professionals in interdisciplinary perspectives and identified common themes that will emerge in the chapters that follow These themes include the importance of considering the ... Researchers debate whether it is better to introduce students to other disciplines and the value of IR before, during, or after they have mastered their own discipline.30, 31 In our view, the more important...

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... private haulers to dump in the Fresh Kills landfill, the last of the city’s landfills, the largest in the world, and an environmental hazard for the area in Staten Island where it is located In ... planners contributed to the predominant pattern of suburban sprawl and the consequent problems of air pollution and auto dependence, energy waste, and the disappearance of farmland at urban peripheries, ... another New York City neighborhood Some of the larger issues addressed through these particular studies include the limits of traditional risk assessment and the politics of mapping health and...

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... of the city’s leading experts on solid waste management and a central figure in the development and advancement of OWN’s plan and then the city’s SWMP Bautista got involved as an advocate for the ... (OWN) and the New York City government differ in how they viewed the problem of waste disposal in the city? How might these differences influence the questions researchers would ask? How are the ... research and practice? What are the limits of their role? How they contribute to an interdisciplinary perspective? What are the similarities and differences between the professions of public health and...

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... of the ESVHWP encouraged efforts to document the demand for fresh fruits and vegetables in the community, increase the visibility and frequency of the fruit and vegetable minimarkets, expand the ... other areas of the city, and work with local store owners to increase the availability of healthy foods The Healthy Environments Partnership (HEP) expanded efforts to understand the role of the ... study the urban retail food environment Concern about the retail food environment emerged initially in the context of the ESVHWP Initiated in 1996, the goal of the ESVHWP was to identify and address,...

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... understanding the retail food environment and its implications for health Community members can inform the identification and investigation of these other pathways Third, understanding the role of the ... status, and physical health.49 Thus, research that examines health implications of these and other aspects of the retail food environment, above and beyond food outlet locations and the food ... Although the ESVHWP’s and HEP’s concentration on the retail food environment arose from community concerns, nutrition, and more specifically the retail food environment, was only one of the foci of these...

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... process, person, context, and time (PPCT; see Figure 4.1).40 The first of these, process, is at the core of the model, and it encompasses exchanges of energy between an organism and the environment that ... experienced by the child (e.g., the family, the peer group, the school, and the immediate neighborhood) The mesosystem consists of connections between these microsystems (e.g., the interaction between ... of their bioecological framework, Bronfenbrenner and colleagues have specifically identified some of the characteristics of the person and the environment that have an impact on development They...

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... levels Disentangling these effects, and thus understanding both the individual and cumulative effects of various aspects of the ecological context on urban children’s mental and physical health, ... when they were in Grades 1–4 and then again two years later, when they were in Grades 3–6 Thus, the impact of different stressors within various aspects of the microsystem (family, school, and ... parental worldviews in the form of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors influence both children’s health and well-being and children’s own beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors, which may themselves later...

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... status and health: The challenge of the gradient American Psychologist, 49 (1994): 15–24 127 Chen, E., Matthews, K A., and Boyce, T W Socioeconomic differences in children’s health: How and why these ... 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 ... challenges, and directions Annual Review of Public Health, 26 (2005): 341–365 50 Leventhal, T., and Brooks-Gunn, J The neighborhoods they live in: The effects of neighborhood residence on child and adolescent...

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... Scale and Context of the Project The geographic extent (scale) of this study is Bronx County The Bronx is the only borough of New York City located on the mainland, and therefore, it serves the ... accessibility and connectivity with the city’s four boroughs, the counties of Long Island, and the rest of the United States As a result, the Bronx has one of the highest volumes of vehicular traffic in the ... low-income areas and communities of color has rarely benefited and often harmed the communities involved Because these communities were not included in the development of the research question and design,...

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... of the five years, and then calculated based on the fiveyear average.67 In general, the smaller the unit of data aggregation, the greater the likelihood of homogeneity and the more reliable the ... half within the impact zone, the ratio would be 0.5 These ratios are then applied to the population variables to get a reasonable estimate of the population within the impact zones The set of ... on the map, but have been included in statistical calculations There were 8,188 hospital admissions in 1999: 5,876 of them from within the areas of the combined buffers and 2312 of them from the...

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... knowledge and experience as nonscientific and another as scientific and recognizes the political and social context For instance, the community partners suggested that we use GIS to examine not only the ... food justice, and endocrine disruptors, whereas the academic and clinical professionals have little knowledge and experience in these areas The community partners keep the academic and clinical ... contributions did each make to the research? What were some of the key challenges they faced, and how did the research team work to overcome them? What are the contributions and limitations of community-based...

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... some of the detrimental impact of racialized ideologies and policies and thereby help to promote the health of African Americans and reduce black/white inequalities in health ■ Discuss the role ... 1070–1074 65 Flowerdew, R., and Green, M Areal interpolation and types of data In S Fotheringham and P Rogerson, eds., Spatial Analysis and GIS, pp 121–145 Bristol, UK: Taylor and Francis, 1994 126 ... Plikaytis, B., Deaver, K., and Cetron, M Geocoding and linking data from population-based surveillance and the U.S Census to evaluate the impact of median household income on the epidemiology of invasive...

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... for the life course identifies the proper objects of attachment (first to parents and then to spouse and other peers) and identity development (always as an individual, first in the context of the ... family of origin and later in the context of peers), and it outlines the cadence of life-course demands along the axes of dependence and responsibility Dependents (youth and the elderly) are ... experiences from conception to their current age.80 The older they are, the more time they have had to experience negative health impact and the greater the opportunity for these experiences to express...

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