scholarly journals Inequality: an underacknowledged source of mental illness and distress

2010 ◽  
Vol 197 (6) ◽  
pp. 426-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate E. Pickett ◽  
Richard G. Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Drug Misuse ◽  
Status Differentiation ◽  
The Impact

SummaryGreater income inequality is associated with higher prevalence of mental illness and drug misuse in rich societies. There are threefold differences in the proportion of the population suffering from mental illness between more and less equal countries. This relationship is most likely mediated by the impact of inequality on the quality of social relationships and the scale of status differentiation in different societies.

scholarly journals A Correlation Between Differentiation Phenotypes of Infused T Cells and Anti-Cancer Immunotherapy

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Ren ◽  
Kunkun Cao ◽  
Mingjun Wang
Keyword(s):  
T Cells ◽  
T Cell ◽  
Antitumor Immunity ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
T Cell Therapy ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
Anti Cancer ◽  
Status Differentiation ◽  
Differentiation Status

T-cell therapy, usually with ex-vivo expansion, is very promising to treat cancer. Differentiation status of infused T cells is a crucial parameter for their persistence and antitumor immunity. Key phenotypic molecules are effective and efficient to analyze differentiation status. Differentiation status is crucial for T cell exhaustion, in-vivo lifespan, antitumor immunity, and even antitumor pharmacological interventions. Strategies including cytokines, Akt, Wnt and Notch signaling, epigenetics, and metabolites have been developed to produce less differentiated T cells. Clinical trials have shown better clinical outcomes from infusion of T cells with less differentiated phenotypes. CD27+, CCR7+ and CD62L+ have been the most clinically relevant phenotypic molecules, while Tscm and Tcm the most clinically relevant subtypes. Currently, CD27+, CD62L+ and CCR7+ are recommended in the differentiation phenotype to evaluate strategies of enhancing stemness. Future studies may discover highly clinically relevant differentiation phenotypes for specific T-cell production methods or specific subtypes of cancer patients, with the advantages of precision medicine.

Mississippian Period Status Differentiation through Textile Analysis: A Caddoan Example

1993 ◽  
Vol 58 (01) ◽  
pp. 125-145
Author(s):  
Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Contingency Tables ◽  
Mississippian Period ◽  
Status Differentiation ◽  
Textile Analysis ◽  
Status Differences ◽  
Ordinal Index ◽  
Color Patterning

Specific attributes were recorded for 119 textiles recovered from burial contexts from Craig Mound at the Spiro site and eight southern Ozark bluff shelters. Textile attributes that varied according to status designations of the burial contexts were identified using the following three avenues of investigation. The textiles were rated using an ordinal index of production complexity, and more complex textiles were found to be associated with burial contexts of presumed higher status. Use of a series of contingency tables identified edge finishes, color, patterning, design motif, fiber, and scale as attributes that are individually associated with status differences. When selected attributes were considered together using a classification and pattern-recognition program, color description, scale, fiber, and number of yarn components were identified as the best predictors of status association.

scholarly journals Counterfeit Commerce: Relations of Production, Distribution and Exchange

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Rojek
Keyword(s):  
Structural Feature ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Black Market ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Status Differentiation ◽  
The Law ◽  
Counterfeit Products

Study of the consumption of counterfeit products casts consumers as reflexive agents who knowingly break the law (through the consumption of illegal commodities). Because this analysis is pitched at the level of meaning rather than structural constraints, it produces a misleading view of reflexive counterfeit consumption as being motivated by resistance or the wish to escape from normative coercion. This article contrasts this with approaches that prefigure meaning in explaining counterfeit commerce by treating the trade as an unavoidable structural feature of capitalism. That is, the structural logic of capital accumulation inevitably creates a black market of counterfeit commerce. It is a parasitic form of illegal consumerism which mirrors conventional capitalist organization, reproducing familiar dynamics of status differentiation.

Contexts of Cultural Change in Insular California

1997 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne E. Arnold ◽  
Roger H. Colten ◽  
Scott Pletka
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
American Antiquity ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Differentiation ◽  
Animal Resources ◽  
Climatic Disturbances

Archaeological and ethnohistorical researchers in California are reaping the rewards from a wealth of new information about precontact and early historical cultural diversity, technologies, and marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Our recent investigations into the later prehistory of the island groups of southern California have centered on processes of sociopolitical evolution, including the emergence of status differentiation, evidence for intensification of craft production, and associated changes in human uses of animal resources as societies became more complex. We have linked some specific changes in diet, labor organization, and exchange to documented climatic disturbances, suggesting that opportunities created by such disruptions may have accounted in part for the timing of changes, but were not their cause in any mechanistic or simplistic sense. A recent American Antiquity report overlooks the primary results of this research and isolates the environmental data from a broad multidimensional model of cultural change in coastal California. We provide an update on the status of Channel Islands archaeology and identify the fundamental problems with approaches that extract and decontextualize environmental processes from cultural processes by assessing limited faunal data sets.

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF CREATION OF MISCANTHUS SINENSIS AND MISCANTHUS SACCHARIFLORUS TETRAPLOID LINES

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (no 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maliarenko O.A. ◽  
Maliarenko O.A. ◽  
Maliarenko O.A. ◽  
Maliarenko O.A. ◽  
Maliarenko O.A. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Software ◽  
Pollen Grains ◽  
Exposure Period ◽  
Miscanthus Sinensis ◽  
Miscanthus Sacchariflorus ◽  
Status Differentiation ◽  
Breeding Schemes ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Tetraploid Level ◽  
Genome Ploidy

The work aimed at creating tetraploid lines of Miscanthus sinensis and Miscanthus sacchariflorus species. To achieve this goal, we used methods of microclonal propagation, fluorescence cytophotometry, and genomic status differentiation using computer software of AP ‘Partec’ (Germany). It was found that the percentage of cultivated shoots of Miscanthus sacchariflorus for an exposure period of 1 day was 18.86 ± 5.37%. To compare, it was51.78 ± 6.51% in Miscanthus sinensis. The best indicators of tetraploid induction in Miscanthus sinensis were observed for the exposure to colchicine for 2 days with polyploidization efficiency of 31.25% and 21.42%, and in Miscanthus sacchariflorusf or 2 hours and 6 hours with rates of 35.0% and 27.3%, respectively. To stabilize the tetraploid level of genome ploidy, we used Murashige and Skoog liquid media (1962) supplemented with 0.005% colchicine and an exposure period of myxoploids for 6 hours. The flowering of new tetraploid clones in the conditions of Ukraine was observed on the second year of vegetation in late September and the beginning of October with the formation of fertile pollen grains. However, development of a microgametophyte depends on temperature conditions, both for Miscanthus sinensis (4x) and Miscanthus sacchariflorus (4x). Breeding schemes for the formation of anisoploid populations have also been developed: M sinensis (4x) x M sinensis (2x); M. sa?chariflorus (4x) x M sinensis (2x); M sinensis (4x) x M. sachariflorus (2x)

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