Childhood trauma leads to an increase in dropout rates, arrests
Every day, children across the nation experience traumatic events.
Social Sciences
Aug 18, 2021
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University of Alabama at Birmingham
A new theoretical model of tacit knowledge transfer
In today's fast-paced industries, withholding valuable information or knowledge at the wrong time can lead to corporate disaster. For this reason, it is imperative for sales and marketing professionals to take advantage of ...
Economics & Business
Jul 19, 2021
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Product proliferation may not work for certain products
Companies that manufacture or sell products are often constrained by the amount of resources they can dedicate to one product. Many companies enact a strategy known as product proliferation, where one product is given many ...
Economics & Business
Apr 20, 2021
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The tuberculosis pathogen releases its toxin by a novel protein transport system
Six years ago, Michael Niederweis, Ph.D., described the first toxin ever found for the deadly pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This toxin, tuberculosis necrotizing toxin, or TNT, became the founding member of a novel ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 8, 2021
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Earth's position and orbit spurred ancient marine life extinction
Ancient rocks from Tennessee revealed the Earth's rotation and orbit around the sun controlled the timing of oceanic dead zones in a mass extinction of marine life about 370 million years ago.
Earth Sciences
Mar 5, 2021
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New research examines effects of firm-, industry- and country-level innovation on firm performance
A recent study published in Marketing Letters by University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business Assistant Professor Yufei Zhang, Ph.D., examines how outside innovations can enhance firm performance.
Economics & Business
Feb 11, 2021
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Drug-delivery microcapsules tagged with zirconium-89 can be tracked by PET imaging
University of Alabama at Birmingham polymer and radionuclide chemists report what they say "may represent a major step forward in microcapsule drug delivery systems."
Bio & Medicine
Jan 21, 2021
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Reductive stress in neuroblastoma cells aggregates protein and impairs neurogenesis
Cells require a balance among oxidation-reduction reactions, or redox homeostasis. Loss of that balance to create oxidative stress is often associated with neurodegeneration. Less is known about how loss of that balance at ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 9, 2020
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New activity found for CHD7, a protein factor vital in embryonic development
Research by Kai Jiao, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and in Germany has yielded fundamental insights into the causes of severe birth defects known as CHARGE syndrome cases. These congenital ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 3, 2020
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Likely molecular mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis are revealed by network biology
Viral and bacterial pathogens wield pathogenic or virulent proteins that interact with high-value targets inside human cells, attacking what is known as the host interactome. The host interactome is the network map of all ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 23, 2020
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