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Thunder On Water, Anthony Andre' Larry Ii
Thunder On Water, Anthony Andre' Larry Ii
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This collection of fifteen interconnected short stories illustrates the hidden life of women and men who live or have lived in Grenada, Mississippi. The collection focuses on invidual journeys that swell throughout the entire Southern town. Both saintly and profane, Thunder on Water is inspired by works from James Joyce, Flannery O’Connor, Toni Morrison, and many more.
How To Avoid Becoming The Accomplice To Your Own Murderers: Reading James Baldwin As A Critical Pedagogue, Breana Shrease Miller
How To Avoid Becoming The Accomplice To Your Own Murderers: Reading James Baldwin As A Critical Pedagogue, Breana Shrease Miller
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James Baldwin is a well-known author and activist in American literature. He had long been a champion of civil rights, using his platform to speak about the iniquities and issues affecting black people in America. Though his work is read often in literary circles, his writing could serve to supplement the field of critical pedagogy with Rhetoric and Composition. Paulo Freire, the conceiver of critical pedagogy through his foundational text Pedagogy of the Oppressed, identified the pitfalls of educational systems that see teachers as knowledge-givers and students as knowledge receptacles based on his experiences teaching illiterate adults in Brazil under …
Slandering Women: Literary And Ecclesiastical Misogyny In High To Late Medieval France, Kevin Johannes Mccoy
Slandering Women: Literary And Ecclesiastical Misogyny In High To Late Medieval France, Kevin Johannes Mccoy
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This work examines literary and ecclesiastical misogyny in high to late medieval France. It explores how two popular French genres, pastourelle and fabliaux, reinforced negative female stereotypes and perpetuated misogyny by slandering women. In order to contextualize the misogyny in those terms, this thesis also conducts an examination of contemporary ecclesiastical literature and thought as well as a few popular, secular works. The approach first analyzed in-depth the pastourelle and fabliaux and connected those works to contemporary society in its treatment of women. Next, it analyzed ecclesiastical misogyny in both the literature and society and compared those forms of misogyny …
Mechanical And Tribological Investigation Of Thin Film Coatings Onto Flexible Polymeric Substrate, Andrea Coelho Vincent
Mechanical And Tribological Investigation Of Thin Film Coatings Onto Flexible Polymeric Substrate, Andrea Coelho Vincent
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Elastomers of the polydimethylsiloxane family are paramount to science and engineering due to their useful properties. Much work has gone into characterizing these polymers to optimize their performance. However, at this time there is little published literature dedicated to understanding and controlling its frictional behavior.In this study, Sylgard was characterized as a function of crosslinker ratio and curing temperature, then coated with Silastic using two different techniques resulting in a bilayer. The bilayer was characterized both in bulk and surface properties, and those results compared between techniques and uncoated Sylgard.It was demonstrated that spin coating can produce a well-bonded topcoat …
Exploring Cyber Security Issues And Solutions For Various Components Of Dc Microgrid System, Sultana Razia Akhter
Exploring Cyber Security Issues And Solutions For Various Components Of Dc Microgrid System, Sultana Razia Akhter
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Nowadays, considering the growing demand for the DC loads and simplified interface with renewable power generation sources, DC microgrids could be cost effective solution for the power supply in small scale area. the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system maintain the bidirectional power communication through the internet connectivity with the microgrid. However, this intelligent and interactive feature may pose a cyber-security threat to the power grid. this work aims to exploring cyber-security issues and their solutions for the DC microgrid system. To mitigate the adverse effects of various cyber-attacks such as the False Data Injection (FDI) attack, Distributed Denial …
Nanocapsules On A Lipid Membrane, Zain-Al-Abidin Shahid Kinnare
Nanocapsules On A Lipid Membrane, Zain-Al-Abidin Shahid Kinnare
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Nanoparticle technology is gaining traction in many different industries, particularly in imaging and the medical industries, and thus it becomes increasing important to understand how particles will affect the body. This is why we want to look at the way nanoparticles interact with lipid membranes, since lipids play vital roles in biological processes such as stabilizing the distal airways in our lungs in low volume situations. Knowing how nanoparticles will interact with these lipids can give us insights into the potentials cytotoxicity of the particles, and how other agents, such as viruses act near/on a lipid membrane. In thisthesis, we …
Investigation Of The Viability Of Thermographic Phosphor As A Sensing Mechanism For Structural Damage In Aerogel And Pdms, Katherine Elizabeth Mitchell
Investigation Of The Viability Of Thermographic Phosphor As A Sensing Mechanism For Structural Damage In Aerogel And Pdms, Katherine Elizabeth Mitchell
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Detecting structural damage in a material before complete failure has been a challenge with respect to material access, sensing mechanism resolution, and environmental setting, among other factors. In this work, the feasibility of using thermographic phosphors as a non-contact, instantaneous, and customizable sensing mechanism for detection of structural damage was investigated. The two materials were (1) Sylgard 184 elastomer and (2) silica aerogels. Both materials were impregnated with thermographic phosphors using different methods and tested over a wide range of temperatures. The degree of fracture in either material was gradually increased to represent a complete material failure scenario and a …
Apartheid And The One-State Framework: Comparative Study Of Israel And South Africa, Dania Ali Helou
Apartheid And The One-State Framework: Comparative Study Of Israel And South Africa, Dania Ali Helou
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The concept of colonialism is increasingly prevalent in evaluating the structural and institutional problems of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Colonialism is utilized as an explanatory and critical framework to understanding and challenging the ideological, ethnic/racial, and political foundations of both the Zionist and Palestinian movements. The research poses as a qualitative case study to assess the legal and ideological foundations of apartheid in South Africa and Israel towards their native populations despite varying strategies in establishing exclusive settler-colonial states. This thesis characterizes apartheid as the modern legal manifestation of colonialism and explores the constraints of the internationally supported two-state solution.
Lg Q Of Northern, Eastern And Southeastern Alaska And Crustal Q Variations, Eric Jambo
Lg Q Of Northern, Eastern And Southeastern Alaska And Crustal Q Variations, Eric Jambo
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The increase of statewide station coverage of Alaska since 2014 due to the presence of the EarthScope USArray (TA) stations provides an unprecedented opportunity to investigate crustal attenuation in Alaska using Lg-waves. This study determines Lg-wave attenuation and its spatial variations in Alaska using 187 local and regional crustal earthquakes that occurred between June 2014 and April 2018 in Alaska withML> 4.0. An inversion is performed over ten distinct passbands 1.0 Hz, 1.3 Hz, 2.0 Hz, 3.0 Hz, 4.0 Hz, 6.0 Hz, 8.0 Hz, 10.0 Hz, 13.0 Hz, and 16.0 Hz for all waveforms with a signal-to-noise ratio greater than …
Optimization Of Bacterial Expression And Purification Of Nipsnap1 Protein, Jay Michael Yarbro
Optimization Of Bacterial Expression And Purification Of Nipsnap1 Protein, Jay Michael Yarbro
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Nipsnap1 (4-nitrophenylphosphatase domain and non-neuronal SNAP25-like homolog 1) is a novel mitochondrial protein shown to interact with the intracellular domain of amyloid precursor protein (APP), one of the key biomarkers implicated in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology. A formerly developed expression strategy for Nipsnap1 based on the pET-28a expression system showed direct binding of purified recombinant Nipsnap1 to NAD+ and NADP+. This was further confirmed using Circular Dichroism (CD) spectroscopy, indicating that NAD+ binding produces a structural change in Nipsnap1.To address the low yield of Nipsnap1 protein in the former expression system, several approaches and conditions were evaluated in this study. …
Diego Rivera For A "Greater America": The United States Murals, Fascha Denray Decrescenzo
Diego Rivera For A "Greater America": The United States Murals, Fascha Denray Decrescenzo
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This thesis focuses on several works of art created by Diego Rivera for United States patrons in the early twentieth century. Although these U.S. art patrons and Rivera supported the idea of hemispheric unity, the artist’s viewpoint did not always concur with that of the state-side capitalists. Rivera wished to use Pan-American iconography to idealize the indigenous cultures of Latin America, specifically Mexico. The United States capitalists wanted to use art patronage of Latin American artists to instigate a new brand of imperialism – American Imperialism. Nevertheless, through his murals and other projects, Rivera challenged the ideological foundations of the …
Systemic Oxytocin Administration Alters Mesolimbic Dopamine Relase, Mary Kathlyn Estes
Systemic Oxytocin Administration Alters Mesolimbic Dopamine Relase, Mary Kathlyn Estes
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Growing research indicates oxytocin may be involved in relieving anxiety and attenuating the rewarding effects of psychostimulants. The present study investigated the effects of subchronic oxytocin treatments on mesolimbic dopamine transmission in areas associated with anxiety (amygdala) and addiction (nucleus accumbens, NAc). Using in vivo fixed potential amperometry, stimulation-evoked dopamine release was recorded either in the amygdala or NAc in oxytocin pretreated mice. During dopamine recordings, mice received a drug challenge of either oxytocin, the dopamine reuptake blocker nomifensine (psychostimulant), or saline. In the amygdala, dopamine release was decreased following the oxytocin challenge but only in oxytocin pretreated mice. In …
Degraded Visual Environment Tracker, Mohammed Eid Abu Hussein
Degraded Visual Environment Tracker, Mohammed Eid Abu Hussein
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Compressive Sensing (CS) has proven its ability to reduce the number of measurements required to reproduce images with similar quality to those reconstructed by observing the Shannon-Nyquest sampling criteria. By exploiting spatial redundancies, it was shown that CS can be used to denoise and enhance image quality. In this thesis we propose a method that incorporates an efficient use of CS to locate a specific object in zero-visibility environments. This method was developed after multiple implementations of dictionary learning, reconstruction, detection, and tracking algorithms in order to identify the shortcomings of existing techniques and enhance our results. We show that …
Comparing And Contrasting Clustering Analysis Methods: K-Means And Vector In Partition, Lauren Sobral
Comparing And Contrasting Clustering Analysis Methods: K-Means And Vector In Partition, Lauren Sobral
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This paper delves into the similarities and differences between two methods of exploratory cluster analysis, K-means and Vector in Partition. Known as the traditional clustering approach, K-means does have some limitations when dealing with clustering complex datasets, specifically datasets with variables of multidimensional vectors. This is the gap the Vector in Partition (VIP) algorithm aims to fill. As a novel approach for clustering multidimensional datasets of both continuous and categorical data, the VIP algorithm has preliminary results that support its ability to correctly cluster simulated datasets of the genetic factors, gene expression, DNA methylation, and single nucleotide polymorphisms. After explaining …
Evaluating Modern Recharge To The Memphis Aquifer At The Lichterman Well Field, Memphis, Tennessee, Michael Ryan Smith
Evaluating Modern Recharge To The Memphis Aquifer At The Lichterman Well Field, Memphis, Tennessee, Michael Ryan Smith
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The Lichterman well field is a municipal water plant in Shelby County, Tenneessee, vulnerable to vertical seepage of modern groundwater (<60 yrs) into the underlying semiconfined Memphis aquifer. In order to identify probable pathways and sources of modern water, 11 production wells and 1 shallow monitoring well sampled for major solute chemistry,3H,3He, SF6and noble gases. Hydrostratigraphic cross sections reveal potential pathways of modern water leakage to the Memphis aquifer adjacent to the well field. Geochemical inverse modeling estimates up to 14% modern water from sampled production wells. Lumped parameter modeling best fit a piston flow model for regional recharge and dispersion model for local recharge through suspected hydrologic windows estimating fractions of modern water from 14 to 29.5%. Unconfined conditions in the Memphis aquifer and limited saturation of the overlying shallow aquifer may limit vertical leakage of modern water into the Memphis aquifer.
Defining Diagnosis: A Reflexive Account Of A Chronic Dis-Ease Process, Brandi Michelle Barnes
Defining Diagnosis: A Reflexive Account Of A Chronic Dis-Ease Process, Brandi Michelle Barnes
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This is an autoethnographic account of the experience of living with chronic illness and a liminal status. This reflexive study is divided into three parts: 1) Lupus, the defining diagnosis, 2) Dis-ease, identity and reevaluation 3) Dis-identification, chronic dis-ease, and liminality. Throughout, music lyrics and my own poetry are used to represent my fluctuating identity. Systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) is a rare yet complex disease. The etiology is constantly questioned by doctors and not readily seen; it is both contested and invisible. Patients with this illness are highly stigmatized, and their psychological welfare can become neglected in a biomedical system …
Parallel Adaptive Collapsed Gibbs Sampling, Craig Nathan Kelly
Parallel Adaptive Collapsed Gibbs Sampling, Craig Nathan Kelly
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Rao-Blackwellisation is a technique that provably improves the performance of Gibbs sampling by summing-out variables from the PGM. However, collapsing variables is computationally expensive, since it changes the PGM structure introducing factors whose size is dependent upon the Markov blanket of the variable. Therefore, collapsing out several variables jointly is typically intractable in arbitrary PGM structures. This thesis proposes an adaptive approach for Rao-Blackwellisation, where additional parallel Markov chains are defined over different collapsed PGM structures. The collapsed variables are chosen based on their convergence diagnostics. Adding chains requires re-burn-in the chain, thus wasting samples. To address this, new chains …
Effect Of Nutrition Education On Dietary Behaviors In Elementary School-Aged Children, Danny Alan Hirst
Effect Of Nutrition Education On Dietary Behaviors In Elementary School-Aged Children, Danny Alan Hirst
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In this study, the effect of a multicomponent nutrition education program on dietary behaviors in elementary school-aged children was analyzed. Components involved were cooking, gardening, and general nutrition. Research questions were: 'Does nutrition education over a one-week program increase consumption of fruits and vegetables?', and 'Does nutrition education over a one-week program increase acceptance of novel foods?'. The hypothesis was: nutrition education administered in a one-week program will increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables, as well as increase willingness to try new foods. Data collection used repeated measures of two surveys: the Fruit-Vegetable-Fiber Screener and Food Neophobia Scale. Ten …
Development And Impact Of A Stem Educational Outreach Program For K-12 Students, Holland Maye Aguayo
Development And Impact Of A Stem Educational Outreach Program For K-12 Students, Holland Maye Aguayo
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Studies show that K-12 students struggle more with math and science courses than other topics, which can deter K-12 students from pursuing opportunities in these fields. This leads to a shortage of STEM workers while job opportunities in STEM continue to grow at a faster pace than others. The STEM Ambassador program is designed to increase K-12 students’ interest in and preparation for STEM opportunities through employing undergraduate students as mentors, STEM activity leaders and tutors in K-12 schools. Impact of the program was assessed by analysis of K-12 student test score data and survey data from K-12 students, K-12 …
Methods For Finding Zeros Of The Kummer Function, Paul Koziel
Methods For Finding Zeros Of The Kummer Function, Paul Koziel
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Algorithms for determining the real eigenvalues of the confluent hypergeometric function known as the Kummer function are presented. There is a need for a large number of eigenvalues in order to describe thermally developing flow in the classic Graetz problem. Numerical approaches using the power series definition for the real portion of the Kummer function M(a; b; z) are implenented through user-friendly MATLAB functions to compute 150 eigenvalues for ducts of circular, triangular, and square cross-section. Methods of iterative rot calculation using bisection, secant method, Newton's method, and Brent's method are considered. Comparison with Graetz problem eigenvalues published in the …
Street Art And Museums: Their Similarities Applied, Samira Rahbe
Street Art And Museums: Their Similarities Applied, Samira Rahbe
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Street art and museums are posited as antithetical to one another. The former is essentially vandalism-as-art while the latter is the gatekeeper of culture. Although street art actively contests authority through its illegal existence in public, that does not prevent it from exisiting inside museums. This literal incorporation is explored briefly by way of the exhibition Banksy versus the Bristol Museum (2009), but it is not the primary concern of this thesis. Instead, the focus is how street art and museums operate from a similar goal of social justice apparent through their efforts to engage communities, increase accessibility, and nourish …
Your Journalism Is Transparent, But Is It Complete? Examining Objectivity's Successors, Alvie Proctor Hackle
Your Journalism Is Transparent, But Is It Complete? Examining Objectivity's Successors, Alvie Proctor Hackle
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Critics have assailed objectivity as a guiding principle of journalists for more than half a century, dismissing its practices as defensive routines or strategic rituals. This study compares transparency, often touted as a new ethical framework for news media, and substantial completeness, a truth-telling strategy that has received less attention, to gauge whether substantial completeness could more adequately replace objectivity as journalism's core principle. A survey emailed to journalists nationwide drew 70 responses and confirmed the hypothesis that a majority of American newspaper and newspaper website journalists view substantial completeness as an ethical obligation when it is described as a …
The Role Of Epistemic Beliefs About Authority And Source Presence On Multiple Text Comprehension, Erica Kessler
The Role Of Epistemic Beliefs About Authority And Source Presence On Multiple Text Comprehension, Erica Kessler
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The current research examined the role of epistemic beliefs about authority as well as source presence influence multiple text comprehension. Our sample was insensitive to our manipulation of source information availability (no source information, source information, embedded source information), however, several interesting relationships between the individual differences and measures of multiple text comprehension were observed. Prior knowledge was positively related to accurate essay information as well as source mentions in essays and rank-order justifications. In addition, justification by authority beliefs emerged as a positive predictor of source mentions in essays. Misconceptions about vaccines emerged a negative predictor of inclusion of …
Effects Of Storm Type On The Variability Of Rainfall Sampling Adjustment Factors, Patricio Ignacio Munoz Proboste
Effects Of Storm Type On The Variability Of Rainfall Sampling Adjustment Factors, Patricio Ignacio Munoz Proboste
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Even though rainfall is a continuous process, we are only able to measure it over discrete aggregation periods. This temporal discretization introduces negative biases when extracting rainfall maxima for short durations, similar to the instrument’s resolution. Empirically-derived correction factors known as Hershfield or rainfall sampling adjustment factors (SAF) have been widely used to correct this bias. Nevertheless, there are conflicting definitions for SAFs in the literature, and no one has looked in detail at how they vary spatially, between seasons, and as function of storm type. Concurrent, 34-yr long rainfall records from 52 weather stations distributed throughout Switzerland were used …
The Adoption Of Connected Autonomous Vehicles And Other Innovations By Freight Transportation Organizations, Jesse Simpson
The Adoption Of Connected Autonomous Vehicles And Other Innovations By Freight Transportation Organizations, Jesse Simpson
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This thesis presents a disaggregate market penetration model for freight transportation organizations adopting connected autonomous vehicle (CAV) technology and other transportation innovations. Innovation adoption research has largely ignored organizational adoption, and little work has been done to understand or predict the adoption of innovations by freight organizations. Therefore, numerous innovation adoption theoretical and methodological approaches are examined to determine which strategies are most appropriate for freight organizational adoption, with connected autonomous vehicles as a case study. A cellular automata model is generated using the theory of the diffusion of innovations and the principles of the Bass model. The model allows …
The Voice And The Self: Does Interoceptive Awareness Predict Voice Congruence?, Karen Marie Crow
The Voice And The Self: Does Interoceptive Awareness Predict Voice Congruence?, Karen Marie Crow
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Voices are idiosyncratic manifestations of individuals and contribute to unique self-representation. Interocpetion is the body's ability to perceive its internal physiological state(s). An individual's interoceptive abilities correlate with emotional and perceptual experience, which poses inplications for cognition, self-perception, and personality. Given the links between the voice and the sense-of-self, populations experiencing voice impairment may experience an altered sense of self. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which interoceptive awareness predicts voice congruence in individiuals with normal, healthy voices. Fifty individuals underwent an interoceptive awareness task and were split into two groups, high and low interoceptive …
The Social Side Of "Borderline:" Edgework In The Narrative Accounts Of Self-Injurers, Victoria Lynn Gaines
The Social Side Of "Borderline:" Edgework In The Narrative Accounts Of Self-Injurers, Victoria Lynn Gaines
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Eleven in-depth life history interviews with respondents who identified as former self-injurers and a thematic analysis of the existing qualitative literature on self-injury constitute the data for this research. Self-injury, a growing public health concern, has typically been framed by researchers as an individual level, psychological, phenomenon with largely negative connotations. Edgework, a theoretical orientation which has been used to explain voluntary risk-taking such as skydiving and mountain climbing, has been applied to the activity of self-injury. The interviews and qualitative research on self-injury were coded for the presence of edgework as a vocabulary of motive. Framed as edgework, this …
Optimization Of An Advanced Aerogel Packaging Solution For Cold-Chain Biological Materials Handling, Aaron Michael Cook
Optimization Of An Advanced Aerogel Packaging Solution For Cold-Chain Biological Materials Handling, Aaron Michael Cook
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The thermal performance of typical insulating materials is a limiting factor in the cost effectiveness of transporting temperature sensitive, biological materials, also known as cold chain bio-logistics. Biologicals that need to be maintained at near freezing or cryogenic temperatures rely on active refrigeration systems or passive solutions, such as dewars, gel packs, dry ice, urethane foam and/or extruded polystyrene. To ensure the packages arrive at its destination and at the desired temperature, costly overnight or expedited shipping is required. Hence, an aerogel based packaging solution is proposed as a possible solution for maintaining an acceptable internal temperature range with the …
Peek-A-Boo, Where Are You? The Sexual Conflict Underlying Behavioural Compensation In A Songbird With Biparental Care, Jonathan Bradford Jenkins
Peek-A-Boo, Where Are You? The Sexual Conflict Underlying Behavioural Compensation In A Songbird With Biparental Care, Jonathan Bradford Jenkins
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In any family, conflict between care-givers arises over how much to invest in their shared genetic kin. We examined this conflict in a wild population of house wrens (Troglodytes aedon), recording parental behaviour twice for each nest monitoring shifts with nestling age, assessing female response to male behaviour and nestling begging. Early in nestling development, maternal provisioning was responsive to male provisioning but not nestling begging. Later in development, females increased the frequency of provisioning and inspecting her surroundings with both the reduction of male provisioning and increases in begging; resulting in less time brooding which delayed fledging age. While …
Nutrition Counseling For Transgender Individuals On Hormone Replacement Therapy, Sara Elizabeth Zellers
Nutrition Counseling For Transgender Individuals On Hormone Replacement Therapy, Sara Elizabeth Zellers
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Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs) need to understand the unique needs of the transgender population and be prepared to participate in multi-disciplinary groups to help those transitioning maintain health and well-being. Currently, no studies examine a nutritional intervention specifically with this population. The purpose of this survey was to determine if RDNs are consulted for nutritional counseling either before or during hormone replacement therapy. An anonymous, online survey invitation letter was distributed to the transgender community. It was also posted to a support group on Facebook. Participants had to be over 18 years old, live in the United States, self-identify as …