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Rebecca Brown

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Effect of obesity on survival in epithelial ovarian cancer

JC Pavelka, RS Brown, BY Karlan, I Cass… - Cancer, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND. Epidemiologic studies suggest that obese women are more likely to die of
ovarian cancer than those of ideal body weight, but it is not known whether increased …

[HTML][HTML] The alphavirus exit pathway: what we know and what we wish we knew

RS Brown, JJ Wan, M Kielian - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
Alphaviruses are enveloped positive sense RNA viruses and include serious human
pathogens, such as the encephalitic alphaviruses and Chikungunya virus. Alphaviruses are …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple capsid protein binding sites mediate selective packaging of the alphavirus genomic RNA

RS Brown, DG Anastasakis, M Hafner… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The alphavirus capsid protein (Cp) selectively packages genomic RNA (gRNA) into the viral
nucleocapsid to produce infectious virus. Using photoactivatable ribonucleoside …

Second symposium on the definition and management of anaphylaxis: summary report—Second National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease/Food Allergy and …

…, SA Bock, A Branum, SGA Brown… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2006 - Elsevier
There is no universal agreement on the definition of anaphylaxis or the criteria for diagnosis.
In July 2005, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and Food Allergy and …

Large contribution of biomass burning emissions to ozone throughout the global remote troposphere

…, J Peischl, JA Neuman, SS Brown… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Ozone is the third most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and
methane but has a larger uncertainty in its radiative forcing, in part because of uncertainty in …

Heterogeneous N2O5 Uptake During Winter: Aircraft Measurements During the 2015 WINTER Campaign and Critical Evaluation of Current Parameterizations

…, SR Hall, K Ullmann, SS Brown - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Nocturnal dinitrogen pentoxide (N 2 O 5 ) heterogeneous chemistry impacts regional air
quality and the distribution and lifetime of tropospheric oxidants. Formed from the oxidation of …

Global airborne sampling reveals a previously unobserved dimethyl sulfide oxidation mechanism in the marine atmosphere

…, TP Bui, WH Brune, SS Brown… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Dimethyl sulfide (DMS), emitted from the oceans, is the most abundant biological source of
sulfur to the marine atmosphere. Atmospheric DMS is oxidized to condensable products that …

Ozone chemistry in western US wildfire plumes

…, H Allen, PO Wennberg, I Bourgeois, SS Brown… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Wildfires are a substantial but poorly quantified source of tropospheric ozone (O 3 ). Here, to
investigate the highly variable O 3 chemistry in wildfire plumes, we exploit the in situ …

[HTML][HTML] On the sources and sinks of atmospheric VOCs: an integrated analysis of recent aircraft campaigns over North America

…, DR Blake, I Bourgeois, SS Brown… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
We apply a high-resolution chemical transport model (GEOS-Chem CTM) with updated
treatment of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and a comprehensive suite of airborne datasets …

Effects of minority status in the classroom on children's intergroup attitudes

CS Brown, RS Bigler - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2002 - Elsevier
… Similarly, a brown-haired child who boards a bus, and is the only brown-haired individual …
(even if the child’s hair color is never mentioned). In contrast, a brown-haired child who boards …