Correction to: Oncogene (2003) 22, 2054–2064. doi: 10.1038/sj.onc.1206262 Since the publication of the above manuscript, the authors have identified an error in the sequence of the p65 siRNA ...oligonucleotide as listed in the study. The error is on page 2062, under Materials and methods, SiRNAi transfection and RNA preparation.
Brada-Williams explores ways of using Mine Okubo's Citizen 13660 in a variety of classrooms with a focus on the freshman composition and upper division ethnic studies or literature course classrooms. ...The students were able to produce interesting analyses by applying traditional skills and categories of enquiry into written text such as tone or ethos.
Border Crossings Angela Noelle Williams
Beyond the Borders,
11/2015
Book Chapter
The 1990 U.S. census revealed Filipino Americans to be the second largest Asian ethnic population in the United States. Filipinos are currently the largest Asian Pacific ethnic group in California ...(Nakanishi 1996). The 2000 census is expected to show that the Filipino population in America has outgrown the Chinese American population, a community with a much larger country of origin, to become the largest ethnic Asian population in the United States. The first Chinese and Filipino immigrants seem to have arrived at approximately the same time in the seventeenth century, aboard Manila galleons plying the trade between the Spanish colonies
ARROGANT (ARRay OrGANizing Tool) is a software tool developed to facilitate the identification, annotation and comparison of large collections of genes or clones. The objective is to enable users to ...compile gene/clone collections from different databases, allowing them to design experiments and analyze the collections as well as associated experimental data efficiently. ARROGANT can relate different sequence identifiers to their common reference sequence using the UniGene database, allowing for the comparison of data from two different microarray experiments. ARROGANT has been successfully used to analyze microarray expression data for colon cancer, to compile genes potentially related to cardiac diseases for subsequent resequencing (to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs), to design a new comprehensive human cDNA microarray for cancer, to combine and compare expression data generated by different microarrays and to provide annotation for genes on custom and Affymetrix chips. Availability: ARROGANT is freely available for use on the web at http://lethargy.swmed.edu/ Contact: harold.garner@utsouthwestern.edu * To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Williams examines Maxine Hong Kingston's use of parody in her novel "Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book" in confronting the conflicting desires of individuality and community. Parody is not only a tool ...in dismantling foundationalist notions of identity and community but also a model for building an inclusive community made up of individual identities.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 1996.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 182-228). Also available online through Digital Dissertations.
This thesis argues that a chief concern of small, “independent” family farmers is their growing inability to offer their children—primarily their sons—the capital and land to also become farmers. ...While much media coverage and social science research on industrialization in U.S. agriculture has focused on the economic impacts for farmers themselves, farmers interviewed for this research instead identified the conflict between their desire to practice generational succession and their compromised financial position as a key source of emotional strain. Ethnographic data is used to explore the importance of generational succession and intergenerational wealth transfers in Midwestern American farming communities, to demonstrate why such transfers are increasingly difficult for contemporary farmers, and to illustrate how farmers use humor and joking to diffuse the stress caused by the failure of generational succession.
Background
Asthma is one of the most common chronic childhood illnesses in the UK. South Asian children are more likely to suffer from their asthma and be admitted to hospital. While this inequality ...needs to be addressed, standard behaviour-change interventions are known to be less successful in minority ethnic groups. Evidence suggests a need to enhance services provided to ethnic minority communities by developing culturally sensitive tailored interventions.
Objectives
The Management and Interventions for Asthma (MIA) project aimed to test an iterative multiphase participatory approach to intervention development underpinned by the socioecological model of health, producing an intervention-planning framework and enhancing an evidence-based understanding of asthma management in South Asian and White British children.
Design
Interviews and focus groups facilitated by community facilitators (CFs) were used to explore knowledge and perceptions of asthma among South Asian communities, children, families and healthcare professionals (HCPs). A smaller comparison group of White British families was recruited to identify aspects of asthma management that could be addressed either by generic interventions or by a tailored approach. Collaborative workshops were held to develop an intervention planning framework and to prioritise an aspect of asthma management that would be used as an exemplar for the development of the tailored, multifaceted asthma intervention programme.
Setting
The community study was based in a largely urban environment in Leicester, UK.
Participants
Participants were recruited directly from the South Asian (Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi) and White British communities, and through the NHS. Children were aged between 4 and 12 years, with a range of asthma severity.
Intervention development
The study had four phases. Phase 1 consisted of an evidence review of barriers and facilitators to asthma management in South Asian children. Phase 2 explored lay understandings of childhood asthma and its management among South Asian community members (
n
= 63). Phase 3 explored perceptions and experiences of asthma management among South Asian (
n
= 82) and White British families (
n
= 31) and HCP perspectives (
n
= 37). Using a modified intervention mapping approach incorporating psychological theory, phase 4 developed an intervention planning framework addressing the whole asthma pathway leading to the development of an exemplar multifaceted, integrated intervention programme called ‘ACT Awareness, Context (cultural and organisational) and Training on Asthma’.
Results
Data on the social patterning of perceptions of asthma and a lack of alignment between the organisation of health services, and the priorities and competencies of British South Asian communities and families were produced. Eleven key problem areas along the asthma pathway were identified. A four-arm multifaceted tailored programme, ‘ACT on Asthma’, was developed, focusing on the theme ‘getting a diagnosis’. This theme was chosen following prioritisation by families during the collaborative workshops, demonstrating the participatory, iterative, phased approach used for the intervention design.
Conclusions
The MIA study demonstrated barriers to optimal asthma management in children at the family, provider and healthcare system levels and across the whole asthma pathway. Interventions need to address each of these levels to be effective. Minority ethnic communities can be successfully engaged in collaborative intervention development with a community-focused and culturally sensitive methodology.
Future work
Further research is required to (1) assess the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed ‘ACT on Asthma’ programme, (2) develop methods to increase active participation of children in research and service development, (3) develop and test strategies to enhance public understanding of asthma in South Asian communities and (4) identify effective means of engaging the wider family in optimising asthma management.
Funding
The National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research programme.
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