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Assessment of the Toxicologic Interaction of Diphenhydramine and Diazinon in the Invertebrate Daphnia magna
(2012-05-07)
This paper will investigate a toxicologically relevant mixture interaction between the antihistamine diphenhydramine and the OP diazinon in a cladoceran model, D. magna. OPs function by irreversibly inhibiting AChE, the ...
Biochemical Studies of Cathepsin B and Cruzain Inhibitors Sharing a Thiosemicarbazone Moiety
(2012-05-03)
Over-expression of cysteine proteases has been implicated in a number of diseases, making them attractive targets for drug design. The cysteine protease, cathepsin B has been implicated in the degradation of the extracellular ...
Analysis and Interpretation of Neolithic Near Eastern Mortuary Rituals from a Community-Based Perspective
(2012-04-26)
Early farming communities located in the ancient Near Eastparticipated in unique mortuary practices throughout the Neolithic period (9300-4700 B.C.). These practices include a “skull cult,” which involved preserving and ...
A Theoretical First Response Model Proposal with a Historic Look at Baylor EMS and a Literary Review of First Response Programs
(2012-05-07)
Time can be of the utmost importance when a medical emergency occurs. First response programs are designed to have highly trained first responders arriving before an ambulance to the scene of the emergency within a matter ...
A Study of Hunger, BMI, and the Occurrence of Infectious Disease in Rural Western Kenya
(2012-05-01)
The purpose of this study was to determine the state of food insecurity in a poverty-stricken community in western Kenya using a hunger scale questionnaire (HSQ) to investigate the three-fold relationship between food ...
Codifying the Cosmos: Cosmography and Orthodoxy in Twelfth-Century Europe
(2012-05-01)
The twelfth century marked a period of simultaneous political expansion and theological consolidation in Europe. While secular lords, ecclesiastical prelates, and religious abbots sought to extend their spheres of influence, ...
“Unusual Forces”: A Conceptual Model of the Realm between Naturalistic and Supernatural Healing
(2012-04-29)
In contemporary research on spiritual healing, the traditional way to view healing is as occurring either because of naturalistic means (i.e., explainable by the popular scientific method and by reference to existing ...
'Innocent Victims' or 'Criminal Aliens?': A Critique of Trafficking Discourse and Policy in the United States
(2012-04-29)
Human trafficking is a global phenomenon with important implications for conceptualizations of citizenship, gender and sovereignty. The approaches by the US government and many academic studies of trafficking are based ...
You Should Have Expected Us - An Explanation of Anonymous
(2012-05-07)
Anonymous is a decentralized activist collective that has evolved using the technology of the information age. This paper traces its origins as a way of contextualizing and better understanding its actions. The groups ...
Music and the Mind: How the Brain is Affected by Music
(2012-05-03)
Music is often thought of as a nonverbal language, capable of communicating emotional messages. Areas of the brain have been identified that, when damaged, affect only musical skills. At the same time, while the initial ...