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Jennifer L. Black

University of British Columbia
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Neighborhoods and obesity

JL Black, J Macinko - Nutrition reviews, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… Individuals living in neighborhoods where greater than 25% of the population is black have
… racial isolation is detrimental for obesity prevalence among black residents, but not whites. …

Airway smooth muscle dynamics: a common pathway of airway obstruction in asthma

SS An, TR Bai, JHT Bates, JL Black… - European …, 2007 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Excessive airway obstruction is the cause of symptoms and abnormal lung function in asthma.
As airway smooth muscle (ASM) is the effecter controlling airway calibre, it is suspected …

Precision livestock farming: an international review of scientific and commercial aspects

TM Banhazi, H Lehr, JL Black, H Crabtree… - … of Agricultural and …, 2012 - abepublishing.org
Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) is potentially one of the most powerful developments
amongst a number of interesting new and upcoming technologies that have the potential to …

Airway smooth muscle cell proliferation is increased in asthma

…, QI Ge, G King, JK Burgess, JL Black - American journal of …, 2001 - atsjournals.org
Increased airway smooth muscle (ASM) within the bronchial wall of asthmatic patients has
been well documented and is likely to be the result of increased muscle proliferation. We have …

Lactation in the sow during heat stress

JL Black, BP Mullan, ML Lorschy, LR Giles - Livestock production science, 1993 - Elsevier
Ambient temperatures above the evaporative critical temperature (ECT) of lactating sows
lead to a reduction in food intake, milk yield, reproductive performance and growth rate of …

Spectral diffusion, phonon echoes, and saturation recovery in glasses at low temperatures

JL Black, BI Halperin - Physical Review B, 1977 - APS
Many features of glasses below 1 K are explicable in terms of localized tunneling levels, for
which a spin-1 2 analogy exists. Here we show that spectral diffusion, resulting from …

Scattering of surface waves by rectangular obstacles in waters of finite depth

CC Mei, JL Black - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1969 - cambridge.org
The scattering of infinitesimal surface waves normally incident on a rectangular obstacle in
a channel of finite depth is considered. A variational formulation is used as the basis of …

Factors affecting diet selection by sheep. 2. Height and density of pasture

JL Black, PA Kenney - Australian journal of agricultural research, 1984 - CSIRO Publishing
Boards of artificial pasture were prepared by threading the top two leaves of tillers from either
ryegrass or kikuyu grass, in their vegetative stage of growth, through 5-mm-diameter holes …

Preemptive genotyping for personalized medicine: design of the right drug, right dose, right time—using genomic data to individualize treatment protocol

…, JL Black, LM Baudhuin, EW Klee, JL Ross… - Mayo Clinic …, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective To report the design and implementation of the Right Drug, Right Dose, Right
Time—Using Genomic Data to Individualize Treatment protocol that was developed to test the …

The CXCL10/CXCR3 axis mediates human lung mast cell migration to asthmatic airway smooth muscle

CE Brightling, AJ Ammit, D Kaur, JL Black… - American journal of …, 2005 - atsjournals.org
Mast cell microlocalization within the airway smooth muscle bundle is an important determinant
of the asthmatic phenotype. We hypothesized that mast cells migrate toward airway …