The modulation of developmental biochemical pathways by mechanical cues is an emerging feature of animal development, but its evolutionary origins have not been explored. Here we show that a common mechanosensitive pathway involving β-catenin specifies early mesodermal identity at gastrulation in zebrafish and Drosophila. Mechanical strains developed by zebrafish epiboly and Drosophila mesoderm...

Carefully managing the presentation of self via technology is a core practice on all modern social media platforms. Recently, selfies have emerged as a new, pervasive genre of identity performance. In many ways unique, selfies bring us fullcircle to Goffman—blending the online and offline selves together. In this paper, we take an empirical, Goffman-inspired look at the phenomenon of selfies. W...

the present study is aimed at assessing the state of national identity among female students of ahwaz islamic azad university and explores the social factors affecting upon it. the statistical society consisted of 8532 students at the three levels of associate diploma undergraduate and master degrees. the research method in this study is a “survey” and collection of data has been carried out by...

Online communities depend upon the commitment and voluntary participation of their members. Community design—site navigation, community structure and features, and organizational policies—is critical in this regard. Community design affects how people can interact, the information they receive about one another and the community, and how they can participate in community activities. We argue th...

Aziza Ahmed (Northeastern University School of Law) “Human Rights, Epidemiology, and the Co-production of Identity/Risk Narratives in HIV Legal Advocacy” Identity has become the primary prism by which to understand and organize in response to the HIV epidemic. In this article I examine how identity is co-produced by HIV epidemiology and through international human rights activism. Beginning wit...

Bouts of vocalizations given by seven red deer stags were recorded over the rutting period, and homomorphic analysis and hidden Markov models (two techniques typically used for the automatic recognition of human speech utterances) were used to investigate whether the spectral envelope of the calls was individually distinctive. Bouts of common roars (the most common call type) were highly indivi...

BACKGROUND Despite the need to control outbreaks of (emerging) zoonotic diseases and the need for added value in comparative/translational medicine, jointly addressed in the One Health approach [One health Initiative (n.d.a). About the One Health Initiative. http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/about.php . Accessed 13 September 2016], collaboration between human and veterinary health care profess...

The concept of sustainability is encouraged to preserve natural resources, social values, cultural heritage, and economic capital, which already exist to make available them for the next generations. Moreover, to enhance the level of sustainability in communities, numerous scholars indicated both individual and community identities play a crucial role. Sustainability is attainable and successfu...

A group is de ned as one or more objects bearing a common abstract relation, common external access policies, common connectivity, and common internal policies. Groups are similar to objects, but lack a single locus of control. They otherwise share features analogous to object-based classes, identities, constraints, and implementations. Groups may be used to organize, analyze, and implement lar...

Introduction Unprofessionalism is a major reason for resident dismissal from training. Because of the high stakes involved, residents and educators alike would benefit from information predicting whether they might experience challenges related to this competency. Our objective was to correlate the outcome of professionalism-related remedial actions during residency with the predictor variable ...