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Caffeine and ethanol in nectar interact with flower color impacting bumblebee behavior

Caffeine and ethanol are naturally occurring compounds in floral nectar. We examined how these compounds influenced pollinator behaviors including floral preference, floral constancy, and social behavior using...

Patricia Jones, Anurag A. Agrawal in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2022)

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A mixed-methods approach to understanding perceptions of hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma among ethnically diverse Black communities in South Florida

Hepatitis B (HBV), the leading cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), disproportionately affects minorities. Compared to other races, Blacks more often present with advanced HCC and have decreased survival. ...

Patricia Jones, Joselin Soler, Natasha Schaefer Solle… in Cancer Causes & Control (2020)

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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Firesetting: An Exploratory Review

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) are caused by prenatal alcohol exposure and characterized by lifelong cognitive, social, and adaptive deficits. This disorder can result in impaired executive functionin...

Jerrod Brown, Anthony P. Wartnik… in Ethical and Legal Perspectives in Fetal Al… (2018)

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The Urban Wage Premium in Africa

This chapter examines the size and sources of the urban wage premium in three African countries—Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda—using panel data on workers for the period 2009–2013. We ask three basic questions....

Patricia Jones, Olivia D’Aoust, Louise Bernard in Wage Inequality in Africa (2017)

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Foreign Direct Investment and Racial Wage Inequality: Evidence from South Africa

This chapter addresses two questions related to the post-apartheid surge of multinational activity in South Africa. Was the influx of foreign investment associated with a widening or reducing of the wage gap b...

Shirley Johnson-Lans, Patricia Jones in Wage Inequality in Africa (2017)

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Young People Living with HIV

Amy Elkavich, Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Rise Goldstein… in Positive Prevention (2005)

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Computational organizational network modeling: Strategies and an example

This paper articulates the logic of computational organizational modeling as a strategy for theory construction and testing in the field of organizational communication networks. The paper introduces, Blanche, an...

Andrew Hyatt, Noshir Contractor… in Computational & Mathematical Organization … (1996)

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Rings with a certain condition on subsemigroups

Patricia Jones in Semigroup Forum (1993)

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Policy and Praxis: Local Government, a Case for Treatment?

Women’s committees in the face of so much to put right, in the face of Councils ... beset by inertia ... are going to need their best instincts to survive (Cunningham, 1986)

Patricia Jones in Women and Work (1988)

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Two Alpha Chains and Three Beta Chains of Human Ia Antigens

Human Ia antigens, structural and serologic analogues of murine Ia antigens, are composed of two polypeptide chains, α (34,000 MW) and β (28,000 MW). Like their murine counterparts, these polymorphic chains tr...

Olivera J. Finn, Ellen Sung, Patricia Jones, Ronald Levy in Ir Genes (1983)

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Quasi ring-semigroups

Patricia Jones, Steve Ligh in Semigroup Forum (1979)