Presented December, 1974, at the ABCA National Convention, Houston, Texas
In: Journal of business communication: JBC, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 3-8
ISSN: 1552-4582
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In: Journal of business communication: JBC, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 3-8
ISSN: 1552-4582
In: Journal of business communication: JBC, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 3-6
ISSN: 1552-4582
In: Political studies, Band 16, S. 153-176
ISSN: 0032-3217
In: Social science journal: official journal of the Western Social Science Association, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 287-302
ISSN: 0362-3319
In: Urban affairs quarterly, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 369-376
This article suggests that resegregation is likely to be a common "second-generation" school desegregation problem. Once a desegregation plan is implemented, changes in housing patterns can bring about the need for adjustments in the pupil assignments plan in order to reduce emerging racial imbalance in schools. An investigation of Charlotte- Mecklenburg's past desegregation experience revealed a frequently reoccurring desegre gation-resegregation cycle. On three occasions since 1970 Charlotte school officials have made changes in the pupil-assignment plan in order to keep schools racially balanced. The resegregation of schools was due to intradistrict residential shifts and inmigration. The future desegregation status of school systems may hinge upon the position of the courts on the resegregation issue. It is clear that desegregation is a continuing process and not a one-time event.
In: Social science quarterly, Band 59, Heft 1, S. 51-59
ISSN: 0038-4941
The effect of neighborhood racial transition upon residential property values was analyzed. The sales price activity of a neighborhood which had undergone such a change was compared with similar data for a comparable neighborhood which had remained all white. The two neighborhoods selected were similar in age, size, type of dwelling units, & location. Sales data & housing characteristics for the 1,959 sales between the two neighborhoods represented all verified sales included in the city-country tax appraisal office records from 1969 through 1974. Consideration of the data in terms of a regression analysis, a comparison of prices per square foot, & a comparison of the ratio of sales price to appraised value, supported the conclusion that the entry of black residents into the test neighborhood adversely affected property values relative to those of the control neighborhood. Price trends in the racially changing area revealed a lower rate of property value appreciation than in the all-white area. This lower rate of appreciation appeared primarily the result of panic selling by the white residents. These differentials in the sales values were most apparent during the first & second years after entry & then appeared to level off & decline slightly in the following two years. 1 Table, 1 Figure. AA.
In: Social science quarterly, Band 57, S. 784-796
ISSN: 0038-4941
In: Social science quarterly, Band 57, Heft 4, S. 784-796
ISSN: 0038-4941
The pattern of residential movement by white households both before & after school desegregation in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC suggests a general suburbanization trend. Although this trend increased in strength after desegregation began, the temptation to view this as a cause & effect relationship should be tempered with caution because the stronger suburbanization trend may actually be indicative of a more active period of intra-Ur residential mobility during the early 1970s as well as of other factors not associated with school desegregation activity. Yet it would also be a mistake to completely deny the influence of desegregation. The attraction of several suburban schools to white households appeared to be influenced by the fact that as part of the desegregation program they were assigned both below average black student ratios & had no involvement in the cross-district busing of white students. In the absence of these conditions, it is highly unlikely that these attendance zones would have experienced such a large net migration gain. 2 Tables, 3 Figures. AA.
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 153-176
ISSN: 1467-9248
In: Political studies, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 153-176
ISSN: 0032-3217
While 1958 had an immediate effect on the communist vote in most of France, in the departement of Correze, the effect was muffled & delayed. Elsewhere the Communist Party lost that fraction of its vote which had been chiefly a protest against the sterile games of the bourgeois parliament, & which was now attracted by the effective style of the new regime brought in by General C. de Gaulle. In Correze, by contrast, partly as a result of the entrenchment of patterns of hostility induced by violent events at the Liberation, poi were still dominated by the same anti-communist local notables, carrying on in the traditional ways. Thus here the communist vote stayed fairly firm until the Gaullists launched their energetic campaign of Mar 1967. The election was important not only for the changes in party strengths it displayed, but also for the maneuverings within & between parties in order to protect their pol'al positions from the changes triggered off by this Gaullist push. IPSA.
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 535
BACKGROUND: Circulating cell‐free DNA (cfDNA) is not found in healthy subjects, but is readily detected after thermal injury and may contribute to the risk of multiple organ failure. The hypothesis was that a postburn reduction in DNase protein/enzyme activity could contribute to the increase in cfDNA following thermal injury. METHODS: Patients with severe burns covering at least 15 per cent of total body surface area were recruited to a prospective cohort study within 24 h of injury. Blood samples were collected from the day of injury for 12 months. RESULTS: Analysis of blood samples from 64 patients revealed a significant reduction in DNase activity on days 1–28 after injury, compared with healthy controls. DNase protein levels were not affected, suggesting the presence of an enzyme inhibitor. Further analysis revealed that actin (an inhibitor of DNase) was present in serum samples from patients but not those from controls, and concentrations of the actin scavenging proteins gelsolin and vitamin D‐binding protein were significantly reduced after burn injury. In a pilot study of ten military patients with polytrauma, administration of blood products resulted in an increase in DNase activity and gelsolin levels. CONCLUSION: The results of this study suggest a novel biological mechanism for the accumulation of cfDNA following thermal injury by which high levels of actin released by damaged tissue cause a reduction in DNase activity. Restoration of the actin scavenging system could therefore restore DNase activity, and reduce the risk of cfDNA‐induced host tissue damage and thrombosis.
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This is the final version. Available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record. ; Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have been effective approaches to dissect common genetic variability underlying complex diseases in a systematic and unbiased way. Recently, GWASs have led to the discovery of over 20 susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Despite the evidence showing the contribution of these loci to AD pathogenesis, their genetic architecture has not been extensively investigated, leaving the possibility that low frequency and rare coding variants may also occur and contribute to the risk of disease. We have used exome and genome sequencing data to analyze the single independent and joint effect of rare and low-frequency protein coding variants in 9 AD GWAS loci with the strongest effect sizes after APOE (BIN1, CLU, CR1, PICALM, MS4A6A, ABCA7, EPHA1, CD33, and CD2AP) in a cohort of 332 sporadic AD cases and 676 elderly controls of British and North-American ancestry. We identified coding variability in ABCA7 as contributing to AD risk. This locus harbors a low-frequency coding variant (p.G215S, rs72973581, minor allele frequency = 4.3%) conferring a modest but statistically significant protection against AD (p-value = 0.024, odds ratio = 0.57, 95% confidence interval = 0.41-0.80). Notably, our results are not driven by an enrichment of loss of function variants in ABCA7, recently reported as main pathogenic factor underlying AD risk at this locus. In summary, our study confirms the role of ABCA7 in AD and provides new insights that should address functional studies. ; This study was supported by the Alzheimer's Research UK, the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Wellcome Trust/MRC Joint Call in Neurodegeneration award (WT089698) to the UK Parkinson's Disease Consortium (whose members are from the University College London Institute of Neurology, the University of Sheffield, and the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee), grants (P50 AG016574, U01 AG006786, and R01 AG18023), the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Unit in Dementia at University College London Hospitals, University College London; an anonymous donor, the Big Lottery (to Dr. Morgan); a fellowship from Alzheimer's Research UK (to Dr. Guerreiro); and the Intramural Research Programs of the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke, National Institutes of Health (Department of Health and Human Services Project number, ZO1 AG000950-10). The MRC London Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Bank and the Manchester Brain Bank from Brains for Dementia Research are jointly funded from ARUK and AS. This work was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, project number ZO1 AG000950-10. Samples from the National Cell Repository for Alzheimer's Disease (NCRAD), which receives government support under a cooperative agreement grant (U24 AG21886) awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), were used in this study. NIH grant R01 AG042611 to Kauwe J.
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