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University of Houston
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About: University of Houston is a education organization based out in Houston, Texas, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 23074 authors who have published 53903 publications receiving 1641968 citations.
Topics: Population, Poison control, Anxiety, Finite element method, Catalysis
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TL;DR: The 4th revolution after speech, writing and print, is skywriting (email, hypermail, web-based archiving).
Abstract: The 4th revolution after speech, writing and print, is skywriting (email, hypermail, web-based archiving).
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TL;DR: It is concluded that gut dysbiosis can directly affect systolic blood pressure and Manipulation of the gut microbiota may represent an innovative treatment for hypertension.
Abstract: Gut dysbiosis has been linked to cardiovascular diseases including hypertension. We tested the hypothesis that hypertension could be induced in a normotensive strain of rats or attenuated in a hype...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the use of block-building interventions to develop spatial-reasoning skills in kindergartners and found that storytelling provides an effective context for teaching spatial content, teaching block building develops wider spatial skills, and 3-dimensional mental rotation tasks show a male advantage.
Abstract: This study investigated the use of block-building interventions to develop spatial-reasoning skills in kindergartners. Two intervention conditions and a control condition were included to determine, first, whether the block building activities themselves benefited children's spatial skills, and secondly, whether a story context further improved learning. Spatial measures included: spatial visualization, mental rotation, and block building. Results showed: for block building, interventions within a story context improved performance compared to the other two conditions. For spatial visualization, both types of block-building interventions improved performance compared to the control condition. Findings suggest: (1) storytelling provides an effective context for teaching spatial content, (2) teaching block building develops wider spatial skills, and (3) 3-dimensional mental rotation tasks show a male advantage in kindergartners.
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Earlham College1, San Francisco State University2, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign3, Arizona State University4, University of Maryland, College Park5, University of Utah6, McGill University7, University of Lausanne8, University of Wisconsin-Madison9, Johns Hopkins University10, University of Houston11, University of Arizona12, Georgetown University13, University of California, Berkeley14, University of Nebraska–Lincoln15, Leibniz Association16, Cornell University17, Norwegian University of Life Sciences18
TL;DR: Gene networks involved in generating key differences between the queen and worker castes show signatures of increased methylation and suggest that ants and bees may have independently co-opted the same gene regulatory mechanisms for reproductive division of labor.
Abstract: We report the draft genome sequence of the red harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus. The genome was sequenced using 454 pyrosequencing, and the current assembly and annotation were completed in less than 1 y. Analyses of conserved gene groups (more than 1,200 manually annotated genes to date) suggest a high-quality assembly and annotation comparable to recently sequenced insect genomes using Sanger sequencing. The red harvester ant is a model for studying reproductive division of labor, phenotypic plasticity, and sociogenomics. Although the genome of P. barbatus is similar to other sequenced hymenopterans (Apis mellifera and Nasonia vitripennis) in GC content and compositional organization, and possesses a complete CpG methylation toolkit, its predicted genomic CpG content differs markedly from the other hymenopterans. Gene networks involved in generating key differences between the queen and worker castes (e.g., wings and ovaries) show signatures of increased methylation and suggest that ants and bees may have independently co-opted the same gene regulatory mechanisms for reproductive division of labor. Gene family expansions (e.g., 344 functional odorant receptors) and pseudogene accumulation in chemoreception and P450 genes compared with A. mellifera and N. vitripennis are consistent with major life-history changes during the adaptive radiation of Pogonomyrmex spp., perhaps in parallel with the development of the North American deserts.
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TL;DR: The authors provide practical advice for applied economists regarding robust specification and interpretation of linear regression models with interaction terms, and replicate a number of prominently published results using interaction effects and examine if they are robust to reasonable specification permutations.
Abstract: We provide practical advice for applied economists regarding robust specification and interpretation of linear regression models with interaction terms. We replicate a number of prominently published results using interaction effects and examine if they are robust to reasonable specification permutations.
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Matthew Meyerson | 194 | 553 | 243726 |
Gad Getz | 189 | 520 | 247560 |
Eric Boerwinkle | 183 | 1321 | 170971 |
Pulickel M. Ajayan | 176 | 1223 | 136241 |
Zhenan Bao | 169 | 865 | 106571 |
Marc Weber | 167 | 2716 | 153502 |
Steven N. Blair | 165 | 879 | 132929 |
Martin Karplus | 163 | 831 | 138492 |
Dongyuan Zhao | 160 | 872 | 106451 |
Xiang Zhang | 154 | 1733 | 117576 |
Jan-Åke Gustafsson | 147 | 1058 | 98804 |
James M. Tour | 143 | 859 | 91364 |
Guanrong Chen | 141 | 1652 | 92218 |
Naomi J. Halas | 140 | 435 | 82040 |
Antonios G. Mikos | 138 | 694 | 70204 |