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- 1From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 12, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe depletion and drying of river water across India is a growing problem in the contemporary period. The ecologists have raised a huge concern regarding the depletion of river water in India. The drying, depletion, and...
- 2From:The Southern Review (Vol. 53, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMY FATHER WAS DYING three states east. So everything I owned ("All Your unworldly possessions," as DP kept putting it) was crammed into the back of the U-Haul, in a loose, hasty,...
- 3From:Mennonite Quarterly Review (Vol. 72, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedExhibition: The Heritage Center Museum of Lancaster, Pennsylvania is sponsoring an exhibition titled "Amish Arts of Lancaster," which opened April 24, 1998, and will continue through January 2, 1999. The exhibition...
- 4From:Education (Vol. 117, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedArticles have been published on Lutheran, Catholic, and Jewish education as to their unique qualities. Old Order Amish schools have their very own characteristics, philosophies, and values systems. A study of cultures in...
- 5From:Mennonite Quarterly Review (Vol. 72, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This essay examines the publishing controversy that enveloped Amish Soldier, a historical novel by Mennonite author, Kenneth Reed. Reed believed his story to be an honest and potentially helpful examination of...
- 6From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 82, Issue 2)Love snuggles us, and then Tagore warns: go on your knees, the All-Destroying has come--and will hang around a while, then mosey on. A girl's sob and a cup of cream. A cup of cream and a gun. Things seem peachy keen,...
- 7From:Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine (Vol. 2, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Nemaline myopathy (NM) is genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by early onset muscular weakness and sarcoplasmatic or intranuclear inclusions of rod‐shaped Z‐disk material in muscle fibers. Thus...
- 8From:Human Genetics (Vol. 138, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedAge-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness in the world. While dozens of independent genomic variants are associated with AMD, about one-third of AMD heritability is still unexplained. To...
- 9From:Mennonite Quarterly Review (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedStudying Mennonite folk and material culture, as well as Mennonite culture in general, is problematic on several levels within both Mennonite academia and the academy at large. Mennonite scholars have traditionally...
- 10From:Alternatives Journal (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCHICAGO A study performed by the University of Chicago and published in the New England Journal of Medicine in August has discovered significantly lower rates of asthma in Amish children (5%) compared to the national...
- 11From:Paediatrics & Child Health (Vol. 25, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedCASE DESCRIPTION A 5-month-old term male presented with a 4-month history of failure to thrive, diarrhea, and dehydration. He was passing 10 watery, nonbloody stools per day. He was born to consanguineous parents of...
- 12From:Mennonite Quarterly Review (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAlthough the first study of North American Mennonite folk culture appeared in 1939, the disciplined analysis of Mennonite folklore and folklife has lagged behind historical and sociological studies. The Mennonite...
- 13From:Diabetes (Vol. 56, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedRho guanine nucleotide exchange factor 11 (ARHGEF11), located on chromosome 1q21, is involved in G protein signaling and is a pathway known to play a role in both insulin secretion and action. We genotyped 52 single...
- 14From:Mennonite Quarterly Review (Vol. 77, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Riddle of Amish Culture (rev. ed.). By Donald B. Kraybill. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. Pp. 397. $55. $15.95 pb. The last decade of the twentieth century in America marked an era of profound...
- 15From:Pediatrics (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To identify reservoirs of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) pharyngeal carriage and assess barriers to vaccination among 2 Amish communities in Pennsylvania. Methods. We investigated recent cases,...
- 16From:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Vol. 17, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedExposure to artificial bright light in the late evening and early night, common in modern society, triggers phase delay of circadian rhythms, contributing to delayed sleep phase syndrome and seasonal affective disorder....
- 17From:Mennonite Quarterly Review (Vol. 88, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the mid-1920s, C. B. Smith, chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Cooperative Extension Work, described the ideal American farm family as one that closely followed the contours of the urban...
- 18From:The Hastings Center Report (Vol. 29, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBaby Aaron was brought to the children's hospital emergency department at three months of age. His parents, members of the Amish community, told the ER doctor that the baby seemed to be having trouble breathing and was...
- 19From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week2021 JAN 30 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Investigators discuss new findings in Health and Medicine - Genomic and Precision Medicine. According to news reporting...
- 20From:The Ohio Journal of Science (Vol. 103, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed9:30 Using a United States Dept of Agriculture (USDA) grant, three Amish communities in North Central Ohio participated in a soil test program to improve nutrient management, in a three-year period (1998-2000), 871...