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Letter To Cliff Cross, J.R. Black

J.R. Black Kankakee River Materials

A letter from J.R. Black, Chairman of the Kankakee River Basin Commission, to Cliff Cross regarding support for KRBC fot the city of Kankakee's application to the EPA for a Community-wide Brownfields Assessment Grant

Email To Debbie Bruce About Kinder Morgan Gas Line Installation Along Rt. 113, J.R. Black

J.R. Black Kankakee River Materials

J.R. Black emails Debbie Bruce on behalf of a concerned citizen regarding planned water withdrawal from the Kankakee River for the purpose of testing new gas line installations. Black believes there is no reason for concern. Bruce states she will follow-up regarding necessary permits.

A Review Of Health Literacy And Its Relationship To Nutrition Education, Heather Diane Gibbs, Karen Chapman-Novakofski

Faculty Scholarship – Family and Consumer Science

Health literacy has emerged as a focus of increasing research in the medical literature, yet it has received little attention in the nutrition literature. Because nutrition practice is an important sector of the health care environment and reduced health literacy confers known health consequences, dietitians should be equipped with an understanding of how health literacy extends to nutritional care. Identification instruments that are available fail to provide an understanding of nutrition literacy. Nutrition literacy may include knowledge of nutrition principles and nutrition skills. Additional research into the development of appropriate nutrition literacy tools and their application is needed.

Analyzing Big Cat Behaviors In An Artificial Environment, Krystal L. Ostrowski

Honors Program Projects

The purpose of this research is, to observe big cat behaviors at The Exotic Feline Rescue Center, and analyze these behaviors in comparison to known behaviors, to see the affects an artificial environment has on these cats. In this study the term artificial environment refers to anything outside of the natural habitat. The behaviors studied include: aggressive territory behaviors, feeding behaviors and communication behaviors. The behaviors were studied in Tigers, Lions, Cougars and Bobcats. These cats were studied during feeding, while on tours, and while doing normal walk-arounds.

The results of this study show cats in captivity do exhibit similar …

Possible Distorting Effects Of Gef26 In Drosophila Melanogaster, Kaylie C. Church

Honors Program Projects

Segregation distortion is a meiotic drive system that results in the favorable inheritance of the SD chromosome over the SD+counterpart. SD produces a malfunctioning form of RanGAP, instead of being able to move in and out of the nucleus this truncated anGAP is unable to be exported and therefore aggregates within the nucleus. This appears to affect RspS during the condensation phase of spermatogenesis, but the exact mechanism for this is unknown. In order to further understand the working components of this system, specific deletions within the second chromosome were studied. The study was conducted systematically by beginning with …

Scholar Week, Gregg A. Chenoweth

Scholar Week Archives (2011-2015)

ONU Scholar Week #2.

Niaa Newsletter, Niaa

J.R. Black Kankakee River Materials

Contains two articles:

• 2010 Kankakee River Basin Fisheries Report by Stephen Pescitelli and Robert Rung (Region II Fisheries)
• Update from Kankakee River Round Table (Environmental and Agriculture Committee)

Student Perception Of Relevance Of Biology Content To Everyday Life: A Study In Higher Education Biology Courses, Agnes Rose Himschoot

Faculty Scholarship – Biology

The purpose of this mixed method case study was to examine the effects of methods of instruction on students’ perception of relevance in higher education non-biology majors’ courses. Nearly ninety percent of all students in a liberal arts college are required to take a general biology course. It is proposed that for many of those students, this is the last science course they will take for life. General biology courses are suspected of discouraging student interest in biology with large enrollment, didactic instruction, covering a huge amount of content in one semester, and are charged with promoting student disengagement with …

How Much Sand And Sediment Is In The Kankakee River System?, Kankakee River Basin Commission

J.R. Black Kankakee River Materials

Perspectives: The Kankakee River Basin Commission Newsletter

Nutrition Literacy: Foundations And Development Of An Instrument For Assessment, Heather Diane Gibbs

Faculty Scholarship – Family and Consumer Science

Health literacy has emerged as an area of increasing research focus in the medical literature, yet it has received little attention in the nutrition literature. Registered dietitians (RDs) should be concerned about low health literacy considering its associations with decreased knowledge of disease and management, increased hospitalizations, decreased use of preventive care services, and increased cost of health care. Thus, this research attempts to apply the concept of health literacy into the context of nutrition.

Investigation into whether RDs screen for health literacy and/or adjust teaching methods for different level learners revealed that 79.2% (n=99) of RDs surveyed (n=125) did …