A5071166177- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Digestive system and related health
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Gut microbiota and health
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- MicroRNA in disease regulation
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
- Engineering Education and Curriculum Development
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Technology and Human Factors in Education and Health
University of Southern California
2022-2025
Southern California University for Professional Studies
2024
University of Denver
2019-2024
United States Military Academy
2024
University of Pennsylvania
2008-2021
Howard University
2017-2021
Charles Sturt University
2021
Wayne Memorial Health System
2019
Community Health Center
2019
Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University
2018
African genomics and skin color Skin varies among human populations is thought to be under selection, with light maximizing vitamin D production at higher latitudes dark providing UV protection in equatorial zones. To identify the genes that give rise palette of tones, Crawford et al. applied genome-wide analyses across diverse (see Perspective by Tang Barsh). Genetic variants were identified likely function phenotypes. Comparison model organisms verified a conserved MFSD12 pigmentation. A...
In humans, the ability to digest lactose, sugar in milk, declines after weaning because of decreasing levels enzyme lactase-phlorizin hydrolase, encoded by LCT. However, some individuals maintain high amounts and are able lactose into adulthood (i.e., they have lactase-persistence [LP] trait). It is thought that selection has played a major role maintaining this genetically determined phenotypic trait different human populations practice pastoralism. To identify variants associated with LP...
Comparative historical methods are used to explain the transformation of U.S. penal order in second half 20th century. The analysis multiple state-level case studies and national-level narratives suggests that this has three distinct, but interconnected, periods reveals complex interaction between national politics policy helps growth imprisonment 1970 2001. Specifically, over time, political competition, federal crime control policy, court decisions helped create new innovation special...
MiRNA expression profiling is being actively investigated as a clinical biomarker and diagnostic tool to detect multiple cancer types stages well other complex diseases. Initial investigations, however, have not comprehensively taken into account genetic variability affecting miRNA and/or function in populations of different ethnic backgrounds. Therefore, more complete surveys are needed assess global patterns variation within between diverse human their effect on clinically relevant genes....
This article combines insights from historical research and quantitative analyses that have attempted to explain changes in incarceration rates the United States. We use state‐level decennial data 1970 2010 ( N = 250) test whether recent theoretical models derived emphasize importance of specific periods shaping relative certain social political factors imprisonment. Also drawing on work, we examine how these key determinants differed Sunbelt states, is, states stretching across nation's...
Gut microbiota from individuals in rural, non-industrialized societies differ those industrialized societies. Here, we use 16S rRNA sequencing to survey the gut bacteria of seven populations Tanzania and Botswana. These include practicing traditional hunter-gatherer, pastoralist, agropastoralist subsistence lifestyles a comparative urban cohort greater Philadelphia region.We find that bacterial diversity per individual within-population phylogenetic dissimilarity differs between Botswanan...
This article examines the rise of “law and order” politics in Texas, providing an in-depth archival case study changes prison policy a Southern state during pivotal period when many U.S. states turned to mass incarceration. It brings attention important role insurgent Republican governor law enforcement officials played shaping crime policy. Law enforcement's is considered within broader examination political strategy intense socioeconomic volatility. The findings suggest that particular...
This article examines legal and political developments in California the 1970s early 1980s that led to extreme changes state's use of imprisonment. It uses historical research methods illustrate how institutional processes interacted dynamic ways continuously unsettled reshaped crime policy field. before after passage determinate sentencing law highlight law's long-term implications it benefited interest groups pushing for harsher punishment. emphasizes role executives played shaping these...
Obesity is emerging as a global health problem, with more than one-third of the world's adult population being overweight or obese. In this study, we investigated worldwide differentiation in allele frequencies obesity-associated SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms).We collected total 225 from public database. Their population-level were derived based on genotype data 1000 Genomes Project (phase 3). We used hypergeometric model to assess whether effect at given SNP significantly enriched...
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Bitter taste perception influences human nutrition and health, the genetic variation underlying this trait may play a role in disease susceptibility. To better understand architecture patterns of phenotypic variability bitter perception, we sequenced 996 bp region, encompassing coding exon TAS2R16, receptor gene, 595 individuals from 74 African populations 94 non-Africans 11 populations. We also performed genotype–phenotype association analyses threshold levels sensitivity to salicin,...
Statistical methods that measure the extent of haplotype homozygosity on chromosomes have been highly informative for identifying episodes recent selection. For example, integrated score (iHS) and extended (EHH) statistics detect long-range structure around derived ancestral alleles indicative classic soft selective sweeps, respectively. However, to our knowledge, there are currently no publicly available classify in genomic datasets purpose quantifying homozygosity. Here, we introduce...
This article presents historical data on changes in punishment policy Texas, examining how Texas’s prosecutors played an important role shaping law and policy. helps parcel out the relative influence of various factors driving more punitive policies by unsettled period legal change when some state leaders were pushing back against growing tide prison expansion. Ultimately this resulted a new penal code that retained most harshest punishments for offenders, created additional layer facilities...
After years of tough-on-crime politics and increasingly punitive sentencing in the United States, economic, political, social shifts 21st century have created new opportunities for opponents penal status quo. By 2013, a majority states had enacted some type reform aimed at reducing prison populations. An emerging body punishment society scholarship seeks to understand possibilities characteristics efforts by examining state legislation. In this article, we use unique data set all proposed...
Thirty-nine years ago, scrub typhus (ST), a disease, was not among the China's notifiable diseases. However, ST has reemerged to become growing public health issue in southwest part of China. The major factors contributing an increased incidence and prevalence this disease include rapid globalization, urbanization, expansion humans into previously uninhabited areas, climate change. clinical manifestation also consists high fever, headache, weakness, myalgia, rash, eschar. In severe cases,...
This manuscript provides an overview of state-level research on penal change in the United States latter half twentieth century. It outlines how focused developments states unique insights into forces that helped drive mass incarceration and has generated rich historical accounts emerged within specific contexts. charts some new theorizing from state case studies, including those emphasizing is characterized by conflict others conceptualize as they interact with federal processes. These are...
Among patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), several studies have suggested that deregulated microRNA (miRNA) expression may be associated a more aggressive phenotype. Although tumor molecular signatures race- and/or ethnicity-specific, there is limited information on the profiles in women TNBC of Hispanic and Latin American ancestry. We simultaneously profiled biopsies for genome-wide copy number miRNA global from 28 Latina identified panel miRNAs alterations (CNAs). Four...
Classroom inclusion serves as the most discussed service delivery model in debate over appropriate way to provide education for students with disabilities. Integrating disabilities nondisabled peers may increase attitudes of acceptance, but literature also indicates that placement alone does not yield an interaction between these two groups (Brinker & Thorpe, 1986 Brinker, R. P. and M. E. 1986. Features integrated educational ecologies predict social behavior among severely mentally retarded...
Redondoviridae is a newly established family of circular Rep-encoding single-stranded (CRESS) DNA viruses found in the human ororespiratory tract. Redondoviruses were previously ∼15% respiratory specimens from U.S. urban subjects; levels elevated individuals with periodontitis or critical illness. Here, we report higher redondovirus prevalence saliva samples: four rural African populations showed 61 to 82% prevalence, and an population 32% prevalence. Longitudinal, limiting-dilution...