2000 - 2005 Faculty Publications
2005
The use of acid phosphatase test papers for DNA profiling.
Author(s):
A Reshef, M Barash, N Gallili, A Michael, P Brauner
The acid phosphatase (AP) test is a routine assay used to screen casework items for the possible presence of semen. This colour test is carried out on filter paper which is retained after testing. Two-year-old AP test papers were found to contain sufficient DNA for short tandem repeat (STR) profiling. Prior to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification, the DNA was preferentially separated into sperm depleted and sperm enriched cell fractions. The implication of these findings for past and present cases is discussed.
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Science & Justice : Journal of the Forensic Science Society, 01 Apr 2005, 45(2):97-102
https://doi.org/10.1016/s1355-0306(05)71635-x
Do Girls Change More Than Boys? Gender Differences and Similarities in the Impact of New Relationships on Identities and Behaviors
Author(s):
James Daniel Lee, Ph.D.
Prompted by research suggesting females’ self-concepts are more interpersonally rooted than males’, I compare girls’ identity changes in reaction to relationships in new social contexts with boys’, testing whether identity change processes are the same for each sex. I use survey responses from 320 summer program students about five activity areas: (1) science & technology; (2) computers; (3) athletics & recreation; (4) beliefs & interests; and (5) arts & literature. While girls become more attached to and involved with others, their identity processes are equivalent to those of boys. Girls change more, but their change is rooted in greater sociability, not higher reactivity to new relationships. Findings vary by relationship and activity types, indicating sex differences may reflect gender role expectations.
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October 20th, 2005 | Self and Identity. 4: 131-47
The Effects of Participation in a Cultural Awareness Program on Jail Inmates
Author(s):
Yoko Baba, Ph.D. and Chris Hebert, Ph.D.
Cultural awareness/diversity training has been main-streamed into the educational curriculum and corporate training seminars. This paper is a description of a cultural awareness/diversity program administered as part of a post-release program in Santa Clara County (California). Participants were given pre- and post-program participation questionnaires designed to measure English proficiency, their awareness and pride in their own cultural traditions, cultural perceptions, and tolerance towards other cultural traditions. Participation in the program did not have statistically significant effects on cultural pride and tolerance of other cultures. The effects of the program on cultural perceptions were significant, but the direction of changes was the opposite of the authors’ expectations. That is, participants exhibited heightened awareness of inter-racial/ethnic differences. Implications were discussed.
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September 19th, 2005 | Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work (2005) 30 (3): 91-113
Domestic Violence and Maternal and Child Health
Author(s):
Stephen J. Morewitz
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH is one of the first books to evaluate the impact of intimate partner abuse on maternal and child health. New abuse patterns against pregnant women and their unborn babies and children are described based on quantitative and qualitative findings from the Stalking and Violence Project (SVP), case studies from a clinical psychologist's private practice, and a review of the literature. (See Appendix A Research Methods and Appendix B-Study Results, Tables 1-9). Intimate partner abuse is prevalent and can endanger the lives of pregnant women, their fetuses and their children. The long-term societal impacts of violence are significant for the cycle of violence can be transmitted one from generation to the next. Despite the re search studies that have been conducted in this area, little is known about the risk factors for partner abuse and the impact of that abuse on maternal child health and adult health. More research needs to be done about how nurses, physicians, social workers, and therapists can better diagnose and treat partner violence during and after preg nancy. Effective interventions by the police, courts, and legislators also need further investigation. One of the central assumptions in this book is that partner abuse is a patterned set of behaviors developed by the batterer to ex ert power over women in intimate and non-intimate relationships.
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Morewitz, Stephen J. (2004). Domestic Violence and Maternal and Child Health. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. ISBN 978-0306485015
2003
Stalking and Violence: New Patterns of Trauma and Obsession
Author(s):
Stephen J. Morewitz
Stalking and Violence: New Patterns of Obsession and Trauma provides new perspectives on the prevalence, causes, and effects of stalking in intimate and non-intimate relations. Drawing on the results of a large random survey of restraining orders, this book found that stalking is highly prevalent in a variety of relationships and is a pattern of behaviors that is routinely regulated by the demographic and social characteristics of the victims and offenders. This book demonstrates that it is possible to develop reliable stalker profiles to help better detect and respond to the threat of stalking. These findings differ from previous studies that considered stalking limited to severely disturbed persons. Covering a wide range of topics from offender profiling, the dangers of stalking, cyberstalking, traumatic health effects, and the responses of the police and courts to stalking, this book will be relevant to a wide range of professionals and students in the fields of mental health, criminal justice, law, social work, medicine, nursing, public health, security/safety, and internet technology.
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Morewitz, Stephen J. (2003). Stalking and Violence. New Patterns of Obsession and Trauma. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. ISBN 978-0-306-47365-4
Global under Construction: Governmentality, Law, and Identity
Author(s):
Richard Warren Perry, Ph.D. and Bill Maurer, Ph.D. editors
Considers descriptions of humankind’s future, and the discourses of globalization that frame them, from perspectives in anthropology, geography, law, sociology, and cultural studies. The essays explore the forms, practices, and effects of governmentality integral to global modernity’s architecture.
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October 21st, 2003 | Globalization Under Construction: Governmentality, Law, and Identity. University of Minnesota Press.
Spousal Abuse: Vietnamese Children's Reports of Parental Violence
Author(s):
Yoko Baba, Ph.D. and Susan B. Murray, Ph.D.
This exploratory study used mailed questionnaires completed by 131 Vietnamese students to examine domestic violence patterns in parents’ marital relationships. Research objectives included: (1) gaining an understanding of spousal abuse among Vietnamese couples; and (2) assessing which variables (demographic characteristics, decision-making power, and cultural adaptation, beliefs in traditional gender roles, and conflicts in the family) are correlated with spousal abuse. Findings suggest that although both parents used reasoning, mental abuse and physical abuse in their marital relationships, Vietnamese fathers were more likely to be physically abusive than mothers. Additional variables associated with family conflicts are also examined. Research implications and suggestions for further research are discussed.
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July 21st, 2003 | Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 2003, 30 (3): 97-122.
2002
Cloning and characterization of a human novel gene C9orf19 encoding a conserved putative protein with an SCP-like extracellular protein domain
Author(s):
Iris Eisenberg, Mark Barash, Tamar Kahan, Stella Mitrani-Rosenbaum
A novel human transcript, C9orf19, mapped to the genomic region involved in hereditary inclusion body myopathy (IBM2) at chromosome 9p12–p13, has been cloned and characterized. A single cDNA clone consisting of the full-length 1.9 kb transcript has been isolated from a human placenta cDNA library and further analyzed. Genomic characterization of the C9orf19 gene identified five exons extending over 27.2 kb of genomic DNA, located 12 kb centromeric to the tumor suppressor RECK gene. C9orf19 mRNA is expressed in a wide range of adult tissues as a single transcript, most abundantly in lung and peripheral blood leukocytes. The predicted protein contains the SCP-like extracellular protein signature classified to IPR001283, a family of evolutionary related proteins with extracellular domains, which includes the human glioma pathogenesis-related protein (GliPR), the human testis specific glycoprotein (TPX-1), and several other extracellular proteins from rodents (SCP), insects venom allergens (Ag5, Ag3), plants pathogenesis proteins (PR-1) and yeast hypothetical proteins. Homology searches with the deduced 154 amino acid protein sequence of C9orf19 revealed highly similar proteins in mouse, drosophila, nematode and yeast. Mutation analysis of C9orf19 in IBM2 patients excluded it as the disease causing gene and revealed four single nucleotide polymorphisms within and in the vicinity of the gene, which will certainly be useful tools to study its potential role in several human diseases mapped to chromosome 9p12–p13. Parallel to this study, the gene termed GNE, approximately 50 kb centromeric to C9orf19, was shown to be the disease causing gene in IBM2.
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Iris Eisenberg, Mark Barash, Tamar Kahan, Stella Mitrani-Rosenbaum, Cloning and characterization of a human novel gene C9orf19 encoding a conserved putative protein with an SCP-like extracellular protein domain, Gene, Volume 293, Issues 1–2, 2002, Pages 141-148, ISSN 0378-1119, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-1119(02)00703-5.
Protecting one's self from a stigmatized disease… once one has it
Author(s):
James Daniel Lee, Ph.D. and Elizabeth A. Craft
Stigmatized persons and secret deviants typically try to avoid negative consequences of labeling by keeping quiet and restricting interactions to those who accept their situation. Research on stigmas using an identity theory approach is advanced, which claims that persons are motivated by the need to preserve relationships and to self-verify. Analyses of interviews with 20 respondents (9 men and 11 women, aged 21-38 yrs) from a genital herpes self-help group reveal that their negative, emotional reactions are rooted in social disapproval and, like other stigmatized persons, they use secrecy, withdrawal, and preventive telling as strategies to manage their stigma. It was found that these strategies are motivated by identity processes but that they are often insufficient to meet respondents’ needs. Consistent with the identity perspective, respondents take the somewhat ironic step of revealing their stigma in attempts to protect predisease relationships and self-concepts. Finally, genital herpes threatens self-concepts and relationships to the extent that it, definitionally, widely implicates identities or implicates more prominent identities. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
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April 10th, 2002 | Deviant Behavior, Vol 23(3), Mar-Apr 2002, 267-299
For Their Own Good: Benevolent Rhetoric and Exclusionary Language in Public Officials' Discourse on Immigrant-Related Issues
Author(s):
Sang Kil, Ph.D. with Cecilia Menjívar, Ph.D.
Menjívar and Kil use media analysis to explore the subtle exclusionary language in U.S. public officials’ discourse on immigrant-related issues. Their case studies, primarily of Latino immigrants, demonstrate how “liberal,” benevolent rhetoric can disguise exclusionary practices toward immigrants and criminalize their behaviors without proposing viable alternatives to improve the conditions being condemned. Benevolent rhetoric based on law and order often serves to substantiate the opponents of immigration, who use more restrictionist language.
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February 10th, 2002 | Social Justice Vol. 29, Nos. 1-2 (2002): 160-176
2001
Vietnamese Gangs, Cliques, and Delinquents
Author(s):
Yoko Baba, Ph.D.
A study of data from a juvenile detention center attempted to: (1) classify Vietnamese delinquent youths according to status groups; (2) examine the characteristics (i.e., culture conflicts, bonds to parents and schools, and offenses) of each status group; and (3) investigate the differences in characteristics of delinquents and gang members. Gang members had more involvement in substance use and committed more status, nonviolent, and violent offenses than delinquents. However, there were no differences in the culture conflict and social control variables between gang members and delinquents. The study suggests that almost all immigrant youths, whether first or second generation, experience hardships and obstacles and some cannot overcome these hurdles throughout their youth. In the case of immigrant families, parents as well as children require much support and assistance, especially in language, employment, housing, and legal services. Schools cannot always expect Vietnamese parents to understand the American educational system and should work with parents to help young people cope with painful experiences. The study suggests the need for better measurements to assess culture conflicts and bonds to parents and schools.
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February 21st, 2001 | The Journal of Gang Research, 2001, 8: 1-20
The UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine kinase gene is mutated in recessive hereditary inclusion body myopathy
Author(s):
Iris Eisenberg, Nili Avidan, Tamara Potikha, Hagit Hochner, Miriam Chen, Tsviya Olender, Mark Barash, Moshe Shemesh, Menachem Sadeh, Gil Grabov-Nardini, Inna Shmilevich, Adam Friedmann, George Karpati, Walter G Bradley, Lisa Baumbach, Doron Lancet, Edna Ben Asher, Jacques S Beckmann, Zohar Argov, Stella Mitrani-Rosenbaum
Hereditary inclusion body myopathy (HIBM; OMIM 600737) is a unique group of neuromuscular disorders characterized by adult onset, slowly progressive distal and proximal weakness and a typical muscle pathology including rimmed vacuoles and filamentous inclusions1. The autosomal recessive form described in Jews of Persian descent2 is the HIBM prototype. This myopathy affects mainly leg muscles, but with an unusual distribution that spares the quadriceps3. This particular pattern of weakness distribution, termed quadriceps-sparing myopathy (QSM), was later found in Jews originating from other Middle Eastern countries as well as in non-Jews4. We previously localized the gene causing HIBM in Middle Eastern Jews on chromosome 9p12–13 (ref. 5) within a genomic interval of about 700 kb (ref. 6). Haplotype analysis around the HIBM gene region of 104 affected people from 47 Middle Eastern families indicates one unique ancestral founder chromosome in this community. By contrast, single non-Jewish families from India, Georgia (USA) and the Bahamas, with QSM and linkage to the same 9p12–13 region, show three distinct haplotypes. After excluding other potential candidate genes, we eventually identified mutations in the UDP-N-acetylglucosamine-2-epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine kinase (GNE) gene in the HIBM families: all patients from Middle Eastern descent shared a single homozygous missense mutation, whereas distinct compound heterozygotes were identified in affected individuals of families of other ethnic origins. Our findings indicate that GNE is the gene responsible for recessive HIBM.
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Eisenberg, I., Avidan, N., Potikha, T. et al. The UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine kinase gene is mutated in recessive hereditary inclusion body myopathy. Nat Genet 29, 83–87 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng718
Homo sapiens C9orf19 mRNA, complete cds
Author(s):
Mitrani-Rosenbaum S. Eisenberg I., Barash M.
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2000
On City-Spaces and Arts of Government: A Symposium, in Polar: Political and Legal
Author(s):
Richard Perry, ed
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May 10th, 2000 | Anthropology Review, 2000, Vol. 23, No. 1: 65-137
