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Mortality salience, effort, and cardiovascular response to a bar-press challenge: Remarkably nuanced effects of a death prime on heart performance

Description: Article is a study that presented participants with a bar-pressing challenge relevant to their identity after having exposed them to a prime that made their mortality more or less salient. This study adds substantively to a new line of support for terror management theory and documents the predictive utility of a proposed blended analysis of associated effort processes.
Date: July 29, 2020
Creator: Reza, Ariel; Whitted, Melissa; Wright, Rex A. & Mlynski, Christopher
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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ARABIDOPSIS DEHISCENCE ZONE POLYGALACTURONASE 1 (ADPG1) releases latent defense signals in stems with reduced lignin content

Description: Article highlights the importance of pectin in cell wall integrity and the value of lignin modification as a tool to interrogate the informational content of plant cell walls.
Date: January 23, 2020
Creator: Gallego-Giraldo, Lina; Liu, Chang; Pose-Albacete, Sara; Pattathil, Sivakumar; Peralta, Angelo Gabriel; Young, Jenna et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Psychosocial Mechanism of Adolescents’ Depression: A Dose-Response Relation with Physical Activity

Description: The article highlights a study aimed (1) to examine the relations between different doses of physical activity (PA), light PA (LPA), moderate PA (MPA), and vigorous PA (VPA), academic self-efficacy, and depression among adolescents, and (2) to investigate the direct and indirect relations of various doses of PA to depression through academic self-efficacy among middle school adolescents. Findings of this study indicated that academic self-efficacy regulates adolescents’ depression. Tailoring di… more
Date: April 24, 2020
Creator: Xiang, Man; Gu, Xiangli; Zhang, Xiaoxia; Moss, Samantha; Huang, Chaoqun; Nelson, Larry Paul et al.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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