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Sterling Sawaya

PhD graduate from the Univeristy of Otago
Verified email at student.otago.ac.nz
Cited by 653

High protein vs high carbohydrate hypoenergetic diet for the treatment of obese hyperinsulinemic subjects

…, S Sawaya, N Torbay, Z Habbal, S Azar… - International journal of …, 1999 - nature.com
OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that hyperinsulinemic obese subjects would respond
differently to changes in the composition of hypoenergetic diets. DESIGN: A 4-week …

The genetics of adaptive shape shift in stickleback: pleiotropy and effect size

AYK Albert, S Sawaya, TH Vines, AK Knecht… - …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… Because sexual dimorphism accounted for a large proportion of the variation in the F 2 s
we controlled for the effects of sex by using IDH as a cofactor in MQM. MQM mapping is a …

[HTML][HTML] Microsatellite tandem repeats are abundant in human promoters and are associated with regulatory elements

S Sawaya, A Bagshaw, E Buschiazzo, P Kumar… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
… These sequences are found at a high density at the start of human genes, in the gene’s
promoter. Increasing empirical evidence suggests that length variation in these tandem repeats …

Downregulation of connexin40 and increased prevalence of atrial arrhythmias in transgenic mice with cardiac-restricted overexpression of tumor necrosis factor

SE Sawaya, YS Rajawat, TG Rami… - American Journal …, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
Atrial arrhythmias, primarily atrial fibrillation, have been independently associated with
structural remodeling and with inflammation. We hypothesized that sustained inflammatory …

Synchromodal classes: Designing for shared learning experiences between face-to-face and online students

J Bell, S Sawaya, W Cain - International Journal of Designs for …, 2014 - learntechlib.org
… Sandra Sawaya is a doctoral student in the EPET program at Michigan State University and
a … For that course we used a relatively simple approach based on the instructor’s desire to …

Ge/Ag(111) semiconductor-on-metal growth: Formation of an surface alloy

H Oughaddou, S Sawaya, J Goniakowski, B Aufray… - Physical Review B, 2000 - APS
We study a semiconductor on a close-packed surface of a metal for a system that tends to
phase separation. At room temperature, deposition of 1/3 monolayer of Ge on Ag (111) …

Promoter microsatellites as modulators of human gene expression

SM Sawaya, AT Bagshaw, E Buschiazzo… - … , Neural Diversity and …, 2012 - Springer
Microsatellites in and around genes have been shown to modulate levels of gene expression
in multiple organisms, ranging from bacteria to humans. Here we will discuss promoter …

Carbon nanotube oscillators toward zeptogram detection

M Nishio, S Sawaya, S Akita, Y Nakayama - Applied Physics Letters, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate an application of a nanotube cantilever for zeptogram-level mass detection.
This letter presents a quantitative method to measure the oscillation amplitude of a …

[HTML][HTML] Dietary management of type 2 diabetes in the MENA region: a review of the evidence

N Hwalla, Z Jaafar, S Sawaya - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
… The Mediterranean diet’s protective health effects have been consistently highlighted in
T2DM as well as many other conditions [15,16,17]. In obese individuals, the Mediterranean diet …

Distributed TPACK: going beyond knowledge in the head

N Di Blas, P Paolini, S Sawaya… - Society for Information …, 2014 - learntechlib.org
… Distributed cognition challenges the idea that cognition is centralized within an individual’s
head. When performing a certain task, an individual is part of a performance system …