AN ACTION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP IN AN URBAN TEXAS COUNTY TO EXPLORE BARRIERS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENTS

An action research partnership in an urban Texas county to explore barriers and opportunities for collaborative community health needs assessments

BackgroundThe Affordable Care Act mandated triennial community health needs assessments (CHNAs) for greater nonprofit hospital accountability in responding to community health needs.Over 10 years later, hospital spending on community benefits remains largely unchanged.While greater collaboration in CHNA implementation can increase hospital investme

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Rapid experimental evolution of pesticide resistance in C. elegans entails no costs and affects the mating system.

Pesticide resistance is a major concern in natural populations and a model trait to study adaptation.Despite the importance of this trait, the dynamics of its evolution and of its ecological consequences remain largely unstudied.To fill this gap, we performed experimental evolution with replicated populations of Caenorhabditis elegans exposed to Bu

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From Human Past to Human Future

This paper begins with a refutation of the orthodox model of final Pleistocene human evolution, presenting an alternative, better supported account of this crucial phase.According to this version, the transition from robust to gracile humans during that period is attributable to selective breeding rather than natural selection, rendered possible by

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Development of a Non-Meat-Based, Mass Producible and Effective Bait for Oral Vaccination of Dogs against Rabies in Goa State, India

Introduction: To achieve the global goal of canine-mediated human rabies elimination by 2030 there is an urgent need to scale-up mass dog vaccination activities in regions with large dog populations that are difficult to access; a common situation in much of India.Oral rabies vaccination may enable the vaccination of free-roaming dogs that are inac

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