Protocol for generating splice isoform-specific mouse mutants using CRISPR-Cas9 and a minigene splicing reporter by Yudong Teng, Kelsey Arbogast, Harald Junge, Zhe Chen

“…We describe steps for designing guide RNA to direct Cas9 endonuclease to consensus splice sites, producing transgenic mice through pronuclear injection, and screening for desired mutations in cultured mammalian cells using a minigene splicing reporter. …”
Get full text

Lessons from a Decade in West Hill: Community Perspective from the Refugee Welcome Center by Tim Doherty, Matthew Klane

“…Faculty from the fields of social work, political science, nutrition, business, education, public health, and more have seen the RWC as a valuable site for student learning and cultural exchange. After highlighting the experiences of specific faculty, students, and refugee neighbors, Doherty and the RWC staff conclude by emphasizing both the inherent value and challenges of this collaborative, interdisciplinary, community-focused, academic work.…”
Get full text

Poder civil y derechos naturales de los indios americanos según Fray Alonso de la Veracruz by Manuel Méndez Alonzo

“…Se analiza la postura del fraile frente a la diversidad cultural y la guerra contra los indios.…”
Get full text

Fighting against depopulation in inland Spain. Alternatives from Art, Design and Architecture by José-Luis Baró Zarzo, Javier Poyatos Sebastián, Nydia Martínez Martínez

“…Many attempts, albeit half-hearted, have been made to reverse or at least put a stop to this territorial imbalance through economic policies such as support of agricultural activities, funding of entrepreneurship, and restoration of cultural heritage for the promotion of rural tourism. …”
Get full text

A War at the End of Empire: The Militarization of America and Matt Gallagher’s Empire City by Ari Räisänen

“…Literature written by veterans of the War on Terror provides a unique—and often overlooked—instrument for the mapping and navigation of this cultural terrain enveloped by “forever war.” I use Matt Gallagher’s novel Empire City (2020) as a case study to explore how contemporary veteran literature interrogates the relationship between state violence at home and abroad. …”
Get full text

Use of participatory forum theatre to explore HIV/AIDS issues in the workplace by Emma Durden, Dominique Nduhura

“…Both UNAIDS and UNESCO recommend the use of such cultural strategies for HIV/AIDS awareness. A brief survey of current evaluations in this field reveals such projects in Kenya, Angola, Mozambique, the Netherlands and Honduras, amongst other countries. …”
Get full text

Slavoj Žižek, "Tras la estela de los ataques de París, la izquierda debe abrazar sus radicales raíces occidentales" by Jorge Fernández Gonzalo

“…La lucha de clases fue literalmente reprimida y sustituida por el tema liberal-cultural de la tolerancia y la solidaridad. Con los asesinatos terroristas de París el viernes 13 de noviembre, incluso este tema (que todavía se refiere a las grandes cuestiones socioeconómicas) ahora está eclipsado por la simple oposición de todas las fuerzas democráticas atrapadas en una guerra sin cuartel con las fuerzas del terror. …”
Get full text

Nikolai Notovich is an Enthusiast of Russian Railways Concessions in Persia by Zaven A. Arabadzhyan

“…Instead, he advised to focus on developing the railway network in the northern regions of the country, which would contribute to the growth of economic, political and cultural influence of Russia.…”
Get full text

Techniques for Melon Grafting by Wenjing Guan, Xin Zhao

“… Grafting as a cultural practice for controlling soilborne diseases and improving abiotic stress tolerance has been widely used in vegetable production in many areas of Asia and Europe. …”
Get full text

„Momenty wychowawcze” w projektowaniu procesu kształcenia kulturowej kompetencji dzieci by Monika Wiśniewska-Kin

“…The aim of the study was to diagnose Janusz Korczak’s “educational moments” in designing the process of developing cultural competence. The investigator appeared in the role participant as an observer (the researcher came from the examined environment and had the opportunity to “blend into” the events). …”
Get full text

The Growth of Christianity in China May Have Come to an End by Conrad Hackett, Yunping Tong

“…Christianity in China grew rapidly in the decades following the end of the Cultural Revolution. Some scholars and journalists claim that Christianity in China is still expanding in the twenty-first century. …”
Get full text

Une esthétique postmoderne : l’esprit kitsch dans The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014) by Pierre Beylot

“…This article recalls some of the works to which the notion of kitsch gave rise in the fields of art history and cultural industries; it then addresses the questions raised by kitsch in cinema through the example of The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014). …”
Get full text

Le vocabulaire des directions cardinales dans les dialectes du continuum cri-innu-naskapi-atikamekw by Vincent Collette

“…The data from the Eastern dialects of the Cree-Innu-Naskapi-Atikamekw continuum indicate that in traditional societies the referent which serves as the source of lexicalization for cardinal directions (that is, river flow and sun cycle) is more salient than the direction itself and that some economic, social, cultural and religious changes, provoked by the presence of persons and institutions belonging to the dominant society may accelerate lexical overlaps and replacement in the lexical domain of cardinal directions.…”
Get full text

Ethnographie des pratiques légales autour de la revendication des droits fonciers chez les groupes pastoraux de l’État de Khartoum by Barbara Casciarri

“…Their conceptualization of the ‘urf is also examined in order to seize both the embeddedness of the juridical space into a wider socio-cultural domain and the “weakness” of the Islamic reference within the context of a country in which Islamization is a longstanding process and sharīʿa the main law regime since 1989.…”
Get full text

Post-Crisis Anglo-Saxon Capitalism by Christopher J. Nock, Catherine Coron

“…It includes linguistic and cultural ties that distinguish a broad-based Anglo-Saxon socio-economic and political model from the French and other models. …”
Get full text

Natural products for managing landscape and garden pests in Florida by Matthew A. Borden, Eileen A. Buss, Sydney G. Park Brown, Adam G. Dale

“…These products are most effective when used in an integrated pest management (IPM) program along with sanitation, proper cultural or maintenance practices, mechanical control tactics, use of resistant plant varieties, and biological control, when possible. …”
Get full text

Reflexes of Organizational Values on the Reward System in a Family Business by Dalci Almeida, Ilse Beuren, Januario Monteiro

“…Partial mediation of informal controls in this relationship was confirmed, which indicates that organizational values affect the rewards system through cultural and personal controls. The study contributes to the literature by revealing that organizational values aligned with informal controls are reflected in the reward system of family businesses, which implies directing managers' greater attention to these variables in organizational practice.…”
Get full text

Representación fílmica del universo posmoderno, un caso ilustrativo: Nueve Reinas by Cristina Gómez Moragas

“…La conjetura a definir es la especificidad de esta relación y cómo, mediante recursos narrativos del cine clásico y de la alegoría, el filme organiza una forma peculiar de resistencia cultural.…”
Get full text

Why Breast Cancer Patients Seek Traditional Healers by Mazanah Muhamad, Sharan Merriam, Norhasmilia Suhami

“…These factors work together and are strongly influenced by the Malaysian cultural context. The issue with the Western health system is common in a developing country with limited health facilities.…”
Get full text

Investigating the Effect of Intercultural Communication Apprehension on Intercultural Willingness to Communicate with Structural Equation Modeling by Ömer Faruk Koçak

“…Intercultural communication anxiety is expressed as fear or anxiety associated with communicative actions established or planned to be established with groups of different cultures and ethnicities. This anxiety, which can manifest itself in the education processes of international students, who are important actors of intercultural communication, can negatively affect the willingness of students to communicate with other ethnic groups. …”
Get full text