Publications by authors named "A V Abrams"

Water justice-equitable, reliable access to clean, sufficient water, and the knowledge and mechanisms related to its management-is a key global social justice and environmental issue. Cape Town, South Africa, is an important context to explore water justice due to its 2018 water crisis. Water scarcity intersects with other issues, including health disparities, food insecurity, and gender inequity, in turn requiring citizen engagement in water-related issues and knowledge sharing to produce sustainable, contextually relevant solutions.

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  • The study investigates how social determinants of health (SDOH) impact pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis (POMS), particularly in terms of adverse SDOH frequency and their effects on treatment and outcomes.
  • Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of data from the United States Network of Pediatric MS Centers, focusing on various demographic and clinical outcomes related to SDOH hardships.
  • Findings indicated that 66% of participants faced social hardships, which influenced factors such as age at symptom onset, steroid treatment likelihood, study attrition risk, and overall health scores.
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Pasture tracks are a modern equine housing trend often implemented as a weight control strategy due to the belief that they promote movement, though this is not proven experimentally. To test movement of horses housed in pasture tracks as compared to conventional pasture housing, two experiments were performed using a track (0.2ha, 3.

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Chromosomal replication is a ubiquitous and essential cellular process. In bacteria, the master replication initiator DnaA plays a key role in promoting an open complex at the origin (oriC) and recruiting helicase in a tightly regulated process. The C-terminal domain IV specifically recognises consensus sequences of double-stranded DNA in oriC, termed DnaA-boxes, thereby facilitating the initial engagement of DnaA to oriC.

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