“Ain’t the American Dream Grand”: Satirical Play in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V by John Wills

“…Presented by Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser as “the endpoint of the American dream,” Grand Theft Auto V provides a crime-laden journey through a simulated Southern California landscape (“San Andreas”). The game is awash with social and political commentary. …”
Get full text

Ferrarese Chronicles in the Modern Era by Diane Yvonne Francis Ghirardo

Get full text

Mexican Fruit Fly, Anastrepha ludens (Loew) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, John B. Heppner, Gary J. Steck, Thomas R. Fasulo, James L. Nation

“…It is a frequent invader in southern California and Arizona. Mexican fruit fly represents a particular threat to Florida because of its special affinity for grapefruit, of which Florida is one of the world's leading producers. …”
Get full text

Mexican Fruit Fly, Anastrepha ludens (Loew) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr., John B. Heppner, Gary L. Steck, Thomas R. Fasulo, James L. Nation

“…It is a frequent invader in southern California and Arizona. Mexican fruit fly represents a particular threat to Florida because of its special affinity for grapefruit, of which Florida is one of the world's leading producers. …”
Get full text

Hypertension and Dementia in the Elderly: The Leisure World Cohort Study by Annlia Paganini-Hill

Get full text

Classification of Alzheimer's disease using unsupervised diffusion component analysis by Dominique Duncan, Thomas Strohmer

Get full text

Meanings of health and healthcare in a U.S. border region: a culture-centered approach to health disparities by Rebecca de Souza, Isabel Villegas-Glang, Brianna Pham

“…This study uses the culture-centered approach (CCA) to illuminate health experiences, meanings, and negotiations of 15 individuals residing in a border region of southern California. Through a qualitative semi-structured interview process, the study identified four main themes: the impact of structural deprivation and stress on health, barriers to U.S. healthcare and transborder negotiations, confronting English hegemony in healthcare interactions, and turning to traditional medicine when biomedicine is unavailable. …”
Get full text

Global Patterns of Prostate Cancer Incidence, Aggressiveness, and Mortality in Men of African Descent by Timothy R. Rebbeck, Susan S. Devesa, Bao-Li Chang, Clareann H. Bunker, Iona Cheng, Kathleen Cooney, Rosalind Eeles, Pedro Fernandez, Veda N. Giri, Serigne M. Gueye, Christopher A. Haiman, Brian E. Henderson, Chris F. Heyns, Jennifer J. Hu, Sue Ann Ingles, William Isaacs, Mohamed Jalloh, Esther M. John, Adam S. Kibel, LaCreis R. Kidd, Penelope Layne, Robin J. Leach, Christine Neslund-Dudas, Michael N. Okobia, Elaine A. Ostrander, Jong Y. Park, Alan L. Patrick, Catherine M. Phelan, Camille Ragin, Robin A. Roberts, Benjamin A. Rybicki, Janet L. Stanford, Sara Strom, Ian M. Thompson, John Witte, Jianfeng Xu, Edward Yeboah, Ann W. Hsing, Charnita M. Zeigler-Johnson

Get full text

Spectacular Bodies: Los Angeles Beach Cultures and the Making of the “California Look” (1900s-1960s) by Elsa Devienne

“…Unlike in Europe and the East Coast, where hygienist justifications for seaside recreation endured, from the early twentieth century onwards Southern California beachgoers set medical concerns aside and focused on having fun, and shaping and parading their bodies. …”
Get full text

Native Subterranean Termites: Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar), Reticulitermes virginicus (Banks), Reticulitermes hageni Banks (Insecta: Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) by Nan-Yao Su, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Brian Cabrera

“…Its counterpart, the western subterranean termite, R. hesperus Banks, is found along the entire Pacific Coast ranging from southern California to British Columbia. Reticulitermes tibialis occurs in the inter-mountain region of the West. …”
Get full text

tRNA modifications: greasing the wheels of translation and beyond by Minjie Zhang, Zhipeng Lu

Get full text

Role of the Striatum and the Cerebellum in Motor Skill Acquisition by Markus M. Schugens, Caterina Breitenstein, Hermann Ackermann, Irene Daum

Get full text

Vestibular schwannoma: evolution of diagnosis and treatment by Sina Radparvar

Get full text

An Improved ARIMA-Based Traffic Anomaly Detection Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks by Qin Yu, Lyu Jibin, Lirui Jiang

Get full text

An Evaluation of an Integrated On-Chip/Off-Chip Network for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing by Andrew G. Schmidt, William V. Kritikos, Shanyuan Gao, Ron Sass

Get full text

Lock-Out Valve to Decrease Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections by Amir Shbeeb, Jennifer L. Young, Scott A. Hart, Juliet C. Hart, Joel Gelman

Get full text

Mexican Fruit Fly, Anastrepha ludens (Loew) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr., John B. Heppner, Gary L. Steck, Thomas R. Fasulo, James L. Nation

“…It is a frequent invader in southern California and Arizona. Mexican fruit fly represents a particular threat to Florida because of its special affinity for grapefruit, of which Florida is one of the world's leading producers. …”
Get full text

Comprehensive analysis of H3K27me3 LOCKs under different DNA methylation contexts reveal epigenetic redistribution in tumorigenesis by Yuan Liang, Mengni Liu, Bingyuan Liu, Benjamin Ziman, Guanjie Peng, Qiong Mao, Xingzhe Wang, Lizhen Jiang, De-Chen Lin, Yueyuan Zheng

Get full text

Responsible research in health disparities using the Adolescent Brain Cognitive DevelopmentSM (ABCD) study by MR Gonzalez, C Cardenas-Iniguez, DE Linares, S Wonnum, K Bagot, EJ White, A Cuan, S DiMatteo, YD Akiel, P Lindsley, JC Harris, E Perez-Amparan, TD Powell, Comité Organizador Latino de City Heights (COLCH), G Dowling, D Alkire, WK Thompson, TM Murray

Get full text

Effective Density-Based Clustering Algorithms for Incomplete Data by Zhonghao Xue, Hongzhi Wang

Get full text