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Poverty And Health Outcomes Among Hispanics In Massachusetts, Christopher Christian

Gastón Institute Publications

The Hispanic population of Massachusetts is now close to becoming the largest ethnic minority group in the state. The 1990 statewide Census count found that the Hispanic population doubled in the past ten years and now comprises 4.8% of the total state population (287,349 residents) as compared to 2.5% in 1980.

Growth in the Hispanic population has not been coupled with advancements in health status. Hispanic residents are disproportionately affected by many adverse health outcomes, such as high infant mortality, a high incidence of substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, homicides, AIDS, and other chronic illnesses. This paper highlights some of …

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume Xli, Number 1, Fall 1991

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume XLI, Number 1, Fall 1991 Can Jefferson provide quality care and still contain costs? Page 2 A love for rural medicine, page 5 A nineties practice in the Susquehanna valley, page 8 The roundabout, page 11 Cardeza foundation celebrates 50 years of research closely linked to patient care, page 12 Acquiring our portraits of Franklin and Jefferson, page 14 On campus, page 19 Class notes, page 20

Nurses Alumni Association Bulletin, Fall 1991, Alice C. Boehret, Dorothy A. Cloud, Betty Piersol, Mabel C. Prevost, Margaret Summers, Frances B. Crossan, Adolph Walkling, June Dupnock, Nancy Powell, Doris E. Bowman, Dorothy Ranck Long, Lorraine Mccall, Esther Kahn, Ruth Thorp West, Patricia A. Dunn

Nursing Alumni Bulletins

Annual Meeting Calendar

Annual Luncheon - Meeting Notice

Meeting Notice Dates

Officers and Committee Chairmen

President's Message

Treasurer's Report

Proposed Budget- 1991

News About Our Graduates

History of the School of Nursing

The Future of Nursing

School Health - 20 Years Ago - Today

Happy Birthday

Resume of Minutes of Alumni Association Meetings

Alumni Office News

Committee Reports By-Laws

Bulletin

Nominating

Relief Fund

Satellite

Scholarship

Social

Finance

Nursing Education at Jefferson - "A Century of Excellence"

The Decade Fund

Fiftieth Anniversary

In Memoriam, Names of Deceased Graduates

Luncheon Photos

My Dear Son

Weather Lore

Class News

Scholarship Application

Non-Graduate Scholarship …

Information Interface - Volume 15, Issue 4 - October 1991, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Information Interface (1976 - 2009)

News and information about Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library of interest to users.

Maternal Linguistic Input To Toddlers With Slow Expressive Language Development, Rhea Paul, Terril J. Elwood

Communication Disorders Faculty Publications

Maternal speech styles to children between 20 and 34 months of age who were slow to acquire expressive language were compared to those of mothers with normally speaking toddlers. Aspects of the mothers' speech examined included use of various sentence types (declaratives, negative, questions, etc.); the mother's lexical contingency with regard to the child's utterance; mother's use of pragmatic functions such as requests, comments, and conversational devices; and the mother's use of topic management. Results revealed that mothers of toddlers with slow language development are different from mothers of normal speakers only in their frequency of use of lexical contingency …

1992 Beef Cattle Report, Darrell W. Nelson

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

Economic efficiency of beef production to weaning and to slaughter was estimated in three groups, different in milk available (low, medium, and high) to the calves but the same in growth potential. Efficiency was the ratio of income to expenses. Income was derived from cull cows and calves at weaning or carcasses of calves fed to slaughter. Feed and non-feed expenses for the cowherd and for calves to weaning or to slaughter were included. Efficiencies were estimated assuming observed reproductive rates and energy requirements for maintenance, as well as for equal reproductive rates and equal requirements for maintenance in the …

Disabled Does Not Mean "Not Able": A List Of Books On People Who Triumphed Over Their Illnesses And Disabilities, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

This annotated booklist offers guidance on locating biographical information about people who overcame, adapted to, or triumphed over illnesses and/or disabilities.

Ua61/1 Wku Nursing Class 1991, Wku Nursing

WKU Archives Records

Members of the 1991 nursing class: Jill Abell, Lynette Adams, Rebecca Adams, Laura Barton, Linda Belcher, Geraldine Blain, Melissa Blain, Amber Blazer, Terry Bryant, LaNita Cooksey, Debra Daniel, Melonie Dennison, Judy Draper, Donna Embry, Sandra Evans, Elizabeth Harris, Joyce Harrison, Conchetta Hensley, Rhonda Herron, Stephanie Humphreys, Susan Koster, Donna Lydian, Lisa Lyons, Sandy Lyons, Kimberly Martin, John McCoy, Marcia McEwen, Gina Medley, Bonnie Mikel, Sandra Morgan, Julia Murphy, Melissa Penn, Bonnie Ralston, Dinah Simon, Anthony Sorrell, Linda Stewart, Krissie Thomas, Julie Thompson, Katrina Wadsworth, Diana Warren, Michelle Welsh, Pamela Wilder and Jennifer Young.

The Evaluation Of The School-Based Flouride Mouthrinse Program In A Fluoridated Community, Motoki Nakanaga

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a school-based fluoride mouthrinse program in a fluoridated community. Such an evaluation is important because the effect of such programs may decrease over time due to the widespread use of fluoride.

Two elementary schools were chosen. One had a fluoride mouthrinse program: the other did not. The subjects were children in grades one and six. Their caries experience was examined using dft. dfs. DFT, and DFS scores.

There were no statistically significant differences between the two schools. The program had no significant effect in the community studied.

The Feminine Mystique In Dental Education: A Feminist's Challenge, David A. Nash

Oral Health Science Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Congenital Pyloric Atresia And Epidermolysis Bullosa, Zafar Nazir, Zeba Batool Attar, Farhat Moazam

Section of Paediatric Surgery

Congenital pyloric atresia with epidermolysis bul­losa is recognized as a rare but distinct entity which is uniformly fatal^1,2. Until 1990 only 20 cases have been reported in the English literature^3,4. We present an additional case managed at the Aga Khan University Hospital to demonstrate the difficulties encountered in the management of such infants.

Lac+ Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Robert C. Dickson, Kotikanyadanam K. Sreekrishna

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Faculty Patents

The invention relates to novel, transformed strains of Lac⁺ Saccharomyces cerevisiae, capable of utilizing lactose as a sole carbon source, produced by inserting into the Saccharomyces cerevisiae a plasmid containing a lactose permease and a beta-galactosidase gene derived from Kluyveromyces lactis yeast.

Translocation Of The Glucose Transporter Glut4 In Cardiac Myocytes Of The Rat., Jan W. Slot, Hans J. Geuze, Sander Gigengack, David E. James, Gustav E. Lienhard

Dartmouth Scholarship

The insulin-regulated glucose transporter GLUT4 was immunolocalized in rat cardiac muscle under conditions of basal and stimulated glucose uptake, achieved by fasting and a combined exercise/insulin stimulus, respectively. In basal myocytes there was very little (less than 1%) GLUT4 in the different domains of the plasma membrane (sarcolemma, intercalated disk, and transverse tubular system). GLUT4 was localized in small tubulo-vesicular elements that occur predominantly near the sarcolemma and the transverse tubular system and in the trans-Golgi region. Upon stimulation approximately 42% of GLUT4 was found in the plasma membrane. Each domain of the plasma membrane contributed equally to this effect. …

Sertoli Cell Only Syndrome (Secos): Lessons From Case Studies, Jamsheer J Talati, Hizbullah Sheikh

Section of Urology

Between June 85 and December 87, 69 testicular biopsies were submitted for histopathological examination during investigation of infertility; ten (14%) patients had a Sertoli cell only syndrome. The history, clinical features, and hormonal profiles were analyzed in an attempt to categorize these patients on aetiological basis. Two followed treatment of malignancy--one by radiation for testicular cancer and one by cyclophosphamide for a lymphoma. One had unilateral cryptorchidism. Mumps was etiological factor in one patient. FSH levels determined in 6 patients were elevated in all suggesting a possible dependence of (sick) Sertoli cells on spermatogenic cells for production of inhibin. Alternative …

Actinobacillus Pleuropneumoniae-Induced Thymic Lesions In Mice And Pigs, D.L. Stine, M.J. Huether, Rodney A. Moxley, Subramaniam Srikumaran

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

Actinobacillus pkuropneumoniae produces several hemolysins/cytotoxins that may be important in the pathogenesis of acute lesions. Little is known, however, about the role of these virulence factors in chronic disease or the carrier state. We investigated the effects of live bacterial infection and transthoracic injection of a sterile culture supernatant on primary lymphoid organs and lymphocyte populations. Transthoracic inoculation of mice or intranasal inoculation of pigs with virulent A. pleuropneumoniae serotypes 1 and 7 induced thymic cortical lymphoid necrosis. These lesions were reproduced in mice by transthoracic injection of a concentrated sterile culture supernatant. The cytotoxic effect of this culture supernatant …

Chronic Dermal Ulcer Healing Enhanced With Monophasic Pulsed Electrical Stimulation, Jeffery A. Feedar, Luther C. Kloth, Gary D. Gentzkow

Physical Therapy Faculty Research and Publications

The purposes of this randomized, double-blind, multicenter study were to compare healing of chronic dermal ulcers treated with pulsed electrical stimulation with healing of similar wounds treated with sham electrical stimulation and to evaluate patient tolerance to the therapeutic protocol. Forty-seven patients, aged 29 to 91 years, with 50 stage II, III, and IV ulcers were randomly assigned to either a treatment group (n=26) or a control (sham treatment) group (n=24). Treated wounds received 30 minutes of pulsed cathodal electrical stimulation twice daily at a pulse frequency of 128 pulses per second (pps) and a peak amplitude of 29.2 mA …

Improved Healing Of Pressure Ulcers Using Dermapulse, A New Electrical Stimulation Device, Gary D. Gentzkow, Sheldon V. Pollack, Luther C. Kloth, Harrison A. Stubbs

Physical Therapy Faculty Research and Publications

A double-blind, clinical study of pulsed electrical stimulation using the Dermapulse® device was carried out on 40 pressure ulcers, randomized to receive either active (stim) or sham treatment.

Electrodes were placed over saline-moistened gauze on the ulcers. An electrical current of 35mA was delivered to the wound tissues at a frequency of 128 pulses per second. Polarity was negative until the wound debrided, then alternated from .positive to negative every three days. Ulcers were treated for 30 minutes twice daily for four weeks, after which sham patients could cross over to active treatment, and stim patients could continue active treatment. …

Collagenous Colitis, Z Abbas, S Abid, S Hamid, W Jafri, H Khan

Section of Gastroenterology

No abstract provided.

Arkansas Cooperative Beef Bull Performance Test 1991, M. W. Eaton, A. E. Brown Jr., J. A. Hornsby, R. W. Parham, J. D. Shockey, W. C. Loe

Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Series

Performance testing of beef bulls was initiated to improve productivity of Arkansas beef cattle through breeding. This cooperative testing program provides cattlemen with reliable information for identifying animals with superior breeding value for the traits of production measured in the test. By using the information as a basis for herd sire selection, a breeder can greatly increase the chances of obtaining a bull that will sire rapid-gaining, more efficient, highquality calves. Such calves can increase profits for both the breeder and the feeder. This testing program provides information that is useful to financial institutes in arranging their lending programs and …

Recent Concepts In Clinical Psychiatry: Drug Treatment In Schizophrenia, Shahin H. Hussain

Department of Psychiatry

No abstract provided.

Expression Of A Human Cartilage Procollagen Gene (Col2a1) In Mouse 3t3 Cells., Leena Ala-Kokko, James Hyland, Carol Smith, Kari I. Kivirikko, Sergio A. Jimenez, Darwin J. Prockop

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

Expression in a recombinant system has been difficult to obtain for any of the major fibrillar collagens that require processing by eight or more post-translational enzymes. Here, two DNA constructs were designed so that the promoter region of the gene for the pro-alpha 1(I) chain of human type I procollagen drove expression of the human type II procollagen gene in mouse NIH 3T3 cells, a culture line that normally synthesizes type I procollagen but not any cartilage-specific protein such as type II procollagen. Both constructs were expressed as both mRNA and protein. In clones expressing the construct at high levels, …

Interaction Of Hypothalamic GabaA And Excitatory Amino Acid Receptors Controlling Heart Rate In Rats, Robert P. Soltis, Joseph A. Dimicco

Scholarship and Professional Work – COPHS

We have previously shown that microinjection of drugs that impair gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated synaptic inhibition into the dorsomedial hypothalamus (DMH) of rats generates cardiovascular and behavioral changes that mimic the response to stress. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of excitatory amino acid (EAA) receptors in the DMH in generating the cardiovascular changes caused by withdrawal of local GABAergic inhibition in urethan-anesthetized rats. Local treatment of the DMH with the nonselective EAA antagonist kynurenic acid blocked or reversed the increases in heart rate and blood pressure caused by microinjection of the GABAA antagonists bicuculline methiodide (BMI) …

Communication And Socialization Skills At Ages 2 And 3 In "Late-Talking" Young Children, Rhea Paul, Shawn S. Looney, Pamela S. Dahm

Communication Disorders Faculty Publications

Twenty-one apparently normal children between 18 and 34 months of age with slow expressive language acquisition were compared to a group of normally speaking children matched for age, SES, and sex ratio, on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (Sparrow, Balla, & Cicchetti, 1984). The late talkers (LTs) scored significantly lower not only in expressive communication, but also in receptive communication and socialization. A follow-up study of the same subjects, seen at age 3, showed nearly half the 3-year-olds with a history of LT remained delayed in expressive communication and socialization, while one third remained behind in receptive language. The data …

Profiles Of Toddlers With Slow Expressive Language Development, Rhea Paul

Communication Disorders Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

[Review Of] Male Sexual Health, Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Hepatic Dysfunction In Falciparum Malaria, J Khan, J Akhter, H Sheikh, W Jafri

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

No abstract provided.

Current Concepts In The Diagnosis And Management Of Childhood Asthma, Z A. Bhutta

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

No abstract provided.

Phenylbutyl Nitrone Compositions And Methods For Prevention Of Gastric Ulceration, Robert A. Floyd, John M. Carney

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Patents

Compositions containing PBN, or active derivatives thereof, in a suitable pharmaceutical carrier for administration to a patient, are disclosed for treating or preventing gastric ulceration caused by ingestion of non-steroidal anti-inflammatories. Based on animal studies, the dosage is in the range of 3 to 300 mg/kg and is administered prior to, simultaneously, or shortly after ingestion of the NSAID compound(s). In the preferred embodiment, the range is between 10 and 30 mg/kg, depending on the dosage unit required to protect the mucosa. The preferred method of administration is orally, alone or in combination with the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory. It is believed …

Attitudinal Predictors In A Negligence Case, Therese Ann Astolfo

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study addresses the use of attitude and personality variables as predictors of compensation and award in a personal injury suit. Safety seeking behavior and attitudes toward tort reform are introduced as case-specific factors that may predict this verdict decision. Two hundred registered voters were surveyed on scales measuring attitudes toward safety, tort reform, and psychiatrists. Subjects also indicated their demographic characteristics and the degree of compensation and amount of award they would render the plaintiff in a civil suit. Results indicated attitudinal variables were more predictive of compensation and award than were demographic variables. The implications of these findings …

The Effect Of Nutrition Education On The Nutrition Knowledge Of College Athletes, Maria Guadalupe Bermudez

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The relationship between nutrition and athletic performance has become a topic of increasing interest in college athletics. This study assessed the effect of nutrition education on the nutrition knowledge and dietary adequacy of female and male college athletes through a pre-test/post-test, control group design. Six weekly lessons were offered to the experimental groups. For female athletes, a two sample t-test indicated significant differences on gain scores for the experimental group (p