Tissue and cell type highly specific Cre drivers are very rare due to the fact that most genes or promoters used to direct Cre expressions are generally expressed in more than one tissues and/or in multiple cell types. We developed a split-intein based split-Cre system for highly efficient Cre-reconstitution through protein splicing. This split-intein-split-Cre system can be used to intersect t...

BACKGROUND Community-based health programs (CBHPs) with participatory approaches has been recognized as an important tool in health promotion. The goal of this study was to understand the nature of participation practice in CBHP and to use the data to advocate for more participation-friendly policies in the community, academy and funding organizations. METHODS In this qualitative study, 13 CB...

This study seeks to understand, in the context of intersectional theory, the roles of family members in nursing home care. The unique social locus at which each person sits is the result of the intersection of gender, status, ethnicity and class; it is situational, shifting with the context of every encounter. A content analysis of 15 qualitative interviews with relatives of nursing home reside...

In February 2010, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored a national Clinical and Translational Science Awards forum titled "Promoting Efficient and Effective Collaborations among Academia, Government and Industry." This forum brought together a broad set of stakeholders who were charged with developing a path for promoting such partnerships. Here, we describe key issues discusse...

Abstract “Misogynoir” is a term that refers to the anti-Black forms of misogyny Black women experience. To explore how current automated hate speech detection approaches perform in detecting this type hate, we evaluated performance two state-of-the-art tools, HateSonar and Google’s Perspective API, on balanced dataset 300 tweets, half which are examples misogynoir supporting an imbalanced 3138 ...

The role of identity-based stereotypes about perpetrators in domestic violence cases has not received much attention in legal scholarship, which has instead focused on the identities of victims. However, stereotypes governing who is a recognizable victim (e.g., that victims are white, middleclass, passive, and dependent women in heterosexual relationships) cannot by themselves explain why nonco...

Around the world there are many examples of how universities and industry work together to create new knowledge and new economic value. Motivating creative, smart people to work together can be one of the hardest aspects of such endeavours, especially where various arrangements and agreements need to take the commercial interests of industry into account as well as the highly aspirational inter...

Practitioner’s Digest aims to bring practitioners into contact with research that might be of interest. Drawing on a team of correspondents, the column will highlight industry-relevant research results from software-engineering conferences. This information will appear in two formats. First, the column will provide short, oneto two-paragraph, synopses of papers presented at recent conferences. ...