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James J. Collins

Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Publications -  700
Citations -  105255

James J. Collins is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Synthetic biology & Population. The author has an hindex of 151, co-authored 669 publications receiving 89476 citations. Previous affiliations of James J. Collins include Baylor College of Medicine & University at Albany, SUNY.

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Longitudinal and Cross-sectional Analyses of Lung Function in Toluene Diisocyanate Production Workers

TL;DR: Investigating lung function among toluene diisocyanate production workers found little evidence of an adverse effect of TDI exposure on longitudinal spirometry in these workers, and the association between TDI Exposure and the increasing prevalence of a restrictive pattern needs further exploration.
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Literacy as social reproduction and social transformation: The challenge of diasporic communities in the contemporary period

TL;DR: The authors reviewed literature on social reproduction in education, discusses the decline of the paradigm, and argues for its continuing relevance, and examines reproductive and transformative aspects of cross-linguistic literacy practices involving young people from three diasporic communities in the United States, presenting multi-leveled analyses that investigate what is reproduced or transformed by situated literacy practices and how institution-level processes shape such practices.
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The culture wars and shifts in linguistic capital: For combining political economy and cultural analysis

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of regular and remedial writing programs at an urban university is presented, where commonalities in the programs, exploring the role of gender in program history, the pedagogical problem of difference, and program-wide tendencies towards centralization and fragmentation.
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Spontaneous keloid formation in patients with Bethlem myopathy

TL;DR: Two patients with clinically typical Bethlem myopathy developed seemingly spontaneous keloids on their shoulder region and did not recall any significant trauma to the skin of this region.
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The healthy worker effect in US chemical industry workers

TL;DR: The low SMRs observed in this study are likely due to differential smoking between the cohort and the background population, and future considerations to control for the HWE should take this into account.