MODELING SOCIAL TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS OF UNHEALTHY BEHAVIORS FOR EVALUATING PREVENTION AND TREATMENT INTERVENTIONS ON CHILDHOOD OBESITY.

Modeling social transmission dynamics of unhealthy behaviors for evaluating prevention and treatment interventions on childhood obesity.

Research evidence indicates that obesity has spread through social networks, but lever points for interventions based on overlapping networks are not well studied.The objective of our research was to construct and parameterize a system dynamics model of the social transmission of behaviors through adult and youth influence in order to explore hypot

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Anterograde Axonal Transport in Neuronal Homeostasis and Disease

Neurons are highly polarized cells with an elongated axon that extends far away from the cell body.To maintain their homeostasis, neurons rely extensively on axonal transport of membranous organelles and other molecular complexes.Axonal transport allows for spatio-temporal activation and modulation of numerous molecular cascades, thus playing a cen

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Early life starvation has stronger intra-generational than transgenerational effects on key life-history traits and consumption measures in a sawfly.

Resource availability during development shapes not only adult phenotype but also the phenotype of subsequent offspring.When resources are absent and periods of starvation occur in early life, such developmental stress often influences key life-history traits in a way that benefits individuals and their offspring when facing further bouts of starva

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