CANCER, EMOTIONAL WORDS & CONTEXTS, & THYROID RESEARCH

拟议的计划旨在激励少数族裔教职员工 从事生物医学研究，加强机构能力 为研究生和卫生专业的学习培养学生，提供 少数族裔学生获得生物医学研究的机会 经验，并使学生对攻读博士学位和研究感兴趣 在生物医学科学方面的职业。为此目的，分项目包括： 1)情感词汇和语境相似性的表征。这个 所有词汇和语境相似性的认知表征 情感对立的句法形式(名词、动词、形容词、副词) 并且使用较新的方法来评估相似性(同义)概念 数据收集的重要性。这些数据是对各种方法的有效性的检验 意义表征与习得的心理学理论 总体而言，尤其是情绪性。对数据进行新排序 词汇的语境可区分性和区间量表评分 还介绍了情感概念的关联性。 2)Graves病患者TAP基因的多态性。基本和 分子生物学的尖端分子遗传学技术将是 用于检测非裔美国人DNA水平上的遗传多态 无关的志愿者对照，Graves病患者和他们的 家庭成员。人类白细胞抗原与Graves病的关系已有报道 对于I类和II类抗原。这项研究将增加人才库 关于它是否是I类的知识，并定义 决定主要组织相容性复合体的区域 对格雷夫斯病的易感性。有新的等位基因有待检测。

The proposed program is designed to motivate minority faculty members to engage in biomedical research, strengthen the institution's capabilities to train students for graduate and health professional study, provide opportunities for minority students to gain biomedical research experience, and interest students in pursuing Ph.D. degrees and research careers in the biomedical sciences. To this end the subprojects are: 1) REPRESENTATIONS OF EMOTIONAL LEXICAL AND CONTEXTUAL SIMILARITIES. The cognitive representations of lexical and contextual similarities of all syntactic forms (noun, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) of emotional opposition and similarity (synonymous) concepts are assessed employing newer methods of data collection. The data serve a tests for the validity of various psychological theories of the representations and acquisitions of meaning in general, and of emotionality, in particular. New sorting data on contextual discriminability and interval scale ratings of lexical relatedness of emotional concepts are also introduced. 2) POLYMORPHISM OF TAP GENES IN GRAVES' DISEASE PATIENTS. Basic and sophisticated molecular genetic techniques of molecular biology will be used to detect genetic polymorphisms at the DNA level in African-American unrelated volunteer controls, and in Graves' Disease patients and their family members. HLA associations with Graves' disease have been reported for both Class I and Class II antigens. This study will add to the pool of knowledge on whether it is Class I and define the boundaries of the region within the major histocompatibility complex that determines susceptibility to Graves' Disease. There re new alleles to be detected.