EXAMINING THE INFLUENCE OF ADVERSITY, FAMILY CONTEXTS, AND A FAMILY-BASED INTERVENTION ON PARENT AND CHILD TELOMERE LENGTH

Examining the influence of adversity, family contexts, and a family-based intervention on parent and child telomere length

Background: Exposure to adversity, trauma, and negative family environments can prematurely shorten telomeres, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes.Conversely, some evidence indicates that positive environments and psychosocial interventions can buffer the shortening of telomere length (TL).However, most work has examined individual aspec

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RapidPlan knowledge based planning: iterative learning process and model ability to steer planning strategies

Abstract Purpose To determine if the performance of a knowledge based RapidPlan (RP) planning model could be improved with an iterative learning process, i.e.if plans generated by an RP model could be used as new input to re-train the model and achieve better performance.Methods Clinical VMAT plans from 83 patients presenting with head and neck can

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The Berlin Mission Society and German linguistic roots of volkekunde: The background, training and Hamburg writings of Werner Eiselen, 1899-1924

This article presents a case for the centrality of race and racism in the training and early ethnographic Books writings of Werner Eiselen (1899-1977).Together with further discussion in two other articles, it demonstrates that Eiselen was not the consolidator of the British functionalist anthropological tradition in South Africa nor a strong affil

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