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A Comparative Analysis of the Chloroplast Genomes of Four Polygonum Medicinal Plants

Shuai Guo, Shuai Guo, Xuejiao Liao, Xuejiao Liao et al. • Frontiers in Genetics (2022)

Polygonum is a generalized genus of the Polygonaceae family that includes various herbaceous plants. In order to provide aid in understanding the evolutionary and phylogenetic relationship in Polygonum at the chloroplast (cp) genome-scale l...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.764534

Causal relationship between genetic-predicted uric acid and cervical cancer risk: evidence for nutritional intervention on cervical cancer prevention

Chunge Cao, Dajun Cai, Hao Liu, Xia Zhang et al. • Frontiers in Nutrition (2024)

IntroductionThe relationship between serum uric acid (SUA) and cervical cancer is inconclusive. This study aims to investigate the causal relationship between SUA levels and cervical cancer incidence, and to evaluate the potential role of n...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1464046

Effectiveness of Ultrasound Imaging in Assessing the Palpation Skills of Rotating Physicians

Peizhen Huang, Bin Zheng, Shan Liu, Lin Xu et al. • Frontiers in Genetics (2022)

As an important means of physical examination, palpation is usually limited to the physical examination before surgery and used as an auxiliary method for disease diagnosis in the field of surgery. In practice, palpation is also used in eve...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.894716

Genomic evolution and stability of the mcr-1-harboring IncI2 plasmid in the presence and absence of colistin

Cong Shen, Meina Wu, Minxuan Su, Hao Wu et al. • BMC Genomics (2025)

Abstract Background The emergence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance, primarily driven by the mcr-1 gene, represents a major global health threat. IncI2 plasmids, one of the leading carriers of mcr-1, have been frequently recovered fro...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12864-025-12325-y

Families, kinship and genetics

Martin Richards • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1996)

I am the family face; Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion. Thomas Hardy , 1840–1928: Heredity. Introduction Genetics concerns families and kinship. ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511570049.014

The Genetics of Schizophrenia

Patrick F. Sullivan • PLoS Medicine (2005)

Research into the etiology of schizophrenia, particularly the possible genetic basis, has never been as interesting and as provocative as in the past three years. Sullivan looks critically at the key research....

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020212 PMC: 1181880

Conservation Genetics

C. Anna Toline, John C. Avise, J. L. Hamrick • Ecology (1997)

Contributors. Prologue. 1. Introduction: The Scope of Conservation Genetics Part I: Case Histories with a Focus on Particular Taxonomic Groups. 2. Population Structure, Molecular Systematics and Forensic Identification of Whales and Dolphin...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[1288:cg]2.0.co;2

Genetics and Reductionism

Sahotra Sarkar • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1998)

With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something 'genetic'? This is t...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139173216

Long-term farmland abandonments remarkably increased the phytolith carbon sequestration in soil

Linjiao Wang, Xiang Gao, Maoyin Sheng • Carbon Balance and Management (2025)

Abstract Background Phytolith-occluded organic carbon (PhytOC) is an important mechanism of long-term stable carbon sinks in terrestrial ecosystems. Farmland abandonment is a widespread land use change in the process of urbanization and ind...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13021-025-00312-5

Hobbes and Kant: Materialism and Rhetoric

Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel • Problemos (2024)

This article examines the subtle nuances of Hobbes’s and Kant’s perspectives on rhetoric and materialism, contextualising them within the broader framework of political philosophy. Despite both philosophers being critics of rhetoric, their ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15388/Problemos.2024.106.4

Anthropology Art and Aesthetics

(1992)

Abstract This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time. In recent years a number of new galleries of non-Western art have been opened, many exhibitions ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198277330.001.0001

Anthropological Theory

David Kaplan • Routledge eBooks (2017)

Anthropological theory has been much discussed in recent years, yet the crucial questions still remain--how can it be defined, how is it developed, how is it to be applied, and how can one confirm it? The editors of Anthropological Theory a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315082271

Anthropology and Voice

Amanda J. Weidman • Annual Review of Anthropology (2014)

Voice is both a set of sonic, material, and literary practices shaped by culturally and historically specific moments and a category invoked in discourse about personal agency, communication and representation, and political power. This rev...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030050

An Anthropology of Knowledge

Fredrik Barth • Current Anthropology (2002)

Whereas previous Sidney Mintz lectures have celebrated Mintzs work on inequality, racism, and ethnicity, I have chosen to speak to the broadest scope of his research and teaching in anthropology. A comparative perspective on human knowledge...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/324131

Design and Anthropology

Keith M. Murphy • Annual Review of Anthropology (2016)

In this review, I examine the recent turn to design in anthropology in three different configurations: anthropology of design, anthropology for design, and design for anthropology. Although these three configurations represent different cut...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-100224

The Anthropology of Landscape

(1995)

Abstract Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into “view”, and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural an...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198278801.001.0001

Rethinking Anthropology

Edmundo R. Leach • Routledge eBooks (2021)

The essential core of social anthropology is fieldwork–the understanding of the way of life of a single particular people. This fieldwork is an extremely personal traumatic kind of experience and the personal involvement of the anthropologi...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136460-1

Anthropological Linguistics

• Culture and language use (2024)

This collection presents new research on key topics in anthropological linguistics, with a focus on African languages. While Africanist linguists have long been concerned with sociocultural aspects of language structure and use, no comprehe...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/clu.23