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Nutrition, More Than Body Requirement: Risk, Marilyn Frenn

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

The Measurement Of Knowledge, Attitudes And Knowledge-Seeking Behaviours Of Women In Relation To The Menopause And Health Related Issues, Amanda Devine

Theses : Honours

Research suggests that women are not well informed about the health related issues which are associated with the menopause. The purpose of this study was to determine women's: current knowledge of the menopause and of the disease osteoporosis; attitudes to estrogen replacement therapy (ERT); frequency of menopausal symptoms; knowledge-seeking behaviours In relation to the menopause; and, open-ended responses to menopausal issues. This study surveyed 70 women who responded to an advertisement in Community Newspapers. Data were collected using a "Knowledge and attitudes to the menopause and health related issues" (KAMHRI) questionnaire. The KAMHRI questionnaire was developed by the researcher and …

Assessing Stress In Teachers: Depressive Symptoms Scales And Neutral Self-Reports Of The Work Environment, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

The focal interest of this chapter on teacher stress is methodologic. The chapter enumerates a number of defects in existing measures of job stress in teachers and, concomitantly, other helping professionals. Alternative ways of measuring stress in teachers are suggested and evaluated. The use of depressive symptom scales in concert with more 'objective' measures of the work environment is discussed. An application of the proposed alternative measurement strategy is described. The wider utility of the measurement strategy is briefly described.

Prevalence Of Iron Deficiency Anaemia In Children Of The Urban Slums Of Karachi, Ayesha Molla, Mohammad Khurshid, A. Majid Molla

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

A preliminary baseline survey was conducted to estimate the prevalence of anaemia in a group of 391 children aged 6-60 months, randomly selected from three urban slums of Karachi. Haemoglobin and the red cell indices including haematocrit, MCV, MCH, MCHC, ABC and red cell distribution width (RDW) were estimated for each of the selected children. Ferritin estimation was done on 354 (9 1%) children to assess the iron storage status. According to WHO criteria, the accepted cut-off point for anaemia screening in children is set at 11 gm/dl, 70 fI and 20 pg for haemoglobin, MCV and MCH respectively. Following …

What's Happening: December Holiday Issue, 1991, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Evidence For Proximal Control Of Ligand Specificity In Hemeproteins: Absorption And Raman Studies Of Cryogenically Trapped Photoproducts Of Ligand Bound Myoglobins, Mark R. Chance

Faculty Scholarship

The absorption and resonance Raman spectra of cryogenically trapped photoproducts of oxy and carboxy derivatives of myoglobin (Mb) are compared and analyzed in an attempt to understand the structural basis for ligand specificity in hemeproteins. Pulsed and cw excitations over a wide temperature range are used in order to differentiate between kinetic hole burning (KHB), optical pumping of structural relaxation, and spontaneous relaxation effects. Using these techniques, we are able to correlate changes in the absorption spectrum (band III at ≈ 760 nm) with low-frequency Raman bands. Based on these correlations we are able to determine which proximal heme pocket …

What's Happening: December 4, 1991, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Preliminary Epidemiological Interpretation Of The Intrinsic And Extrinsic Factors Contributing To The Coverage And Participation Rates Of The Vaccination Program In Arssi, Ethiopia, Muchie Kidanu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Many immunization programs in developing countries arr now undergoing a period of rapid utilization. Innovative strategies, such as immunization holidays, are being tried. Political commitment and enthusiasm are high. There is a strong desire by health professionals to protect the lives of many children from the untimely death and/or disability resulting from infectious diseases preventable by vaccination.

Evaluation of an immunization program can benefit other elements of the health system, particularly those that are not amenable to objective evaluation as immunization. In this case, immunization can serve as an indicator of the overall performance of the health system. The problems …

Time-Courses In The Retention Of Food Material In The Bivalves Potamocorbula Amurensis And Macoma Balthica: Significance To The Absorption Of Carbon And Chromium, Alan W. Decho, Samuel N. Luoma

Faculty Publications

Time courses for ingestion, retention and release via feces of microbial food was investigated using 2 bivalves with different feeding strategies, Potamocorbula amurensis, and Macoma balthica. The results showed 2 pathways for the uptake of food material in these clams. The first is represented by an initial label pulse in the feces. The second pathway operates over longer time periods. Inert ⁵¹Cr-labeled beads were used to determine time frames for these pathways. The first pathway, involving extracellular digestion and intestinal uptake, is relatively inefficient in the digestion of bacterial cells by P. amurensis but more efficient in …

What's Happening: November 20, 1991, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: November 6, 1991, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

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Report To Congress On The Indian Health Service With Regard To Health Status And Health Care Needs Of American Indians In California, University Of California, San Francisco, California., E. Valencia, R. Hough

Native Health Database Full Text

This study documented the health status and access to health care services of American Indians in California, especially those in tribes that are not federally recognized.

What's Happening: October 9, 1991, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

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 …

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 …

Vital Signs, October 1991, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

A nine page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes a variety of feature articles, alumni profiles, class notes, and more.

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.

Food Handling Practices Among Independent-Living Elderly, Judith Dianne Mcdonough

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Food has long been recognized as a vehicle of disease transmission; there are more reported illness associated with the consumption of food than all other environmental factors combined. The handling and storage of food are potentially dangerous and demanding chores for those who may have the sensory losses associated with advancing age, fragile health, and limited resources.

Group-administered questionnaires on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of food handling were given to 276 seniors, aged 55 to 90, from ten mobile home parks randomly selected from San Bernardino and Riverside counties. As an indicator of possible foodborne illness, the questionnaire asked …

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 …

What's Happening: September 25, 1991, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

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What's Happening: September 11, 1991, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

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Back Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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. …

What's Happening: August 28, 1991, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Coping Styles Of Nurse Practitioners And The Effectiveness Of These Styles In Managing Stress, Carol J. Kolarik Smith

MSN Research Projects

The purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to identify the coping styles used by nurse practitioners and determine the effectiveness of these styles in managing stress. The Roy Adaptation Model for Nursing was the theoretical framework used for this study. The research question which guided the data collection was what are the coping styles of nurse practitioners and how effective are these styles in managing the stress relative to functioning in the expanded role of nurse practitioner? The sample of convenience consisted of 72 nurse practitioners from Mississippi (30) and Tennessee (42) who completed and returned the survey questionnaire. …

The Effect Of Ethanol On Bone Histomorphology, Rebecca L. Rodocker

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The effect of ethanol on bone histomorphology was studied using an isocaloric liquid pair feeding system to administer equal amounts of essential vitamins and nutrients to control and ethanol animals.

A bone remodeling sequence was induced in the lower right mandible by removal of the upper right molars. The bone remodeling unit, consisting mainly of the osteoclast and osteoblast, could then be studied microscopically to note any changes brought about by the administration of ethanol.

Although the method of ethanol administration was successful, the induction of unintended bone remodeling via the removal of a solid diet made analysis of the …

The Level Of Self-Confidence Related To Knowledge And Skills Of Nurse Clinicians Practicing In The Expanded Role, Myra E. Fitts

MSN Research Projects

The level of self-confidence attained in a particular role affects the ability to perform in that role. Self- confidence is not innate but is developed through the interactions and experiences one has. The purpose of this study was to identify the level of self-confidence related to knowledge and skills of nurse clinicians practicing in the expanded role. Benner’s (1984) framework. From Novice to Expert, provided the direction and structure for this descriptive study. Three hundred thirty- three nurse clinicians licensed to practice primarily in four southeastern states participated in this study. Data were collected using the Thibodeau/Hawkins Self-Assessment Scale and …

3-Hydroxy-N-Methylpyrrolidone And Use As Transdermal Enhancer, George A. Digenis, Walter J. Doll, Amale Hawi

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Patents

The novel compound, 3-hydroxy-N-methylpyrrolidone, is effective as a transdermal enhancer for the absorption of drugs through the skin of humans and animals. The 3-hydroxy-N-methylpyrrolidone is prepared from delta-butyrolactone which is converted to methyl 2,4-dibromobutyrate, this intermediate is reacted with methylamine to form N-methyl-2,4-dibromobutyramide, this intermediate is converted to 3-bromo-N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone by ring closure, and the 3-bromo-N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone is reacted with an alkaline earth metal carbonate or alkaline metal carbonate to form 3-hydroxy-N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone.

Cancer In Louisiana: 1991, Volume 7, Louisiana Tumor Registry, Vivien W. Chen, Elizabeth Fontham, Frank D. Groves, Jean Fike Craig, Pelayo Correa

Policy & Position Papers

Mission To collect and report complete, high-quality, and timely population-based cancer data in Louisiana to support cancer research, control, and prevention. Vision To reduce suffering and death from cancer using information collected by the Louisiana Tumor Registry. History Cancer registration in Louisiana began in 1947 at the Charity Hospital Tumor Registry in New Orleans. In 1974, as part of its Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program, the National Cancer Institute provided funds for a population-based cancer incidence and survival registry covering Jefferson, Orleans, and St. Bernard parishes. Five years later, the Louisiana Tumor Registry (LTR) was transferred to the …

Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Summer 1991), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Summer 1991 issue of the Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following articles:

• President's Perspective
• Two Highest Ranking Medical Officers Receive Honorary Degrees - Brig. Gen. Ronald R. Blanck & Rear Admiral Hugh P. Scott
• Second Career Dos are among PCOM's Outstanding Graduates
• Bright Future on the Horizon as Master Facility Plan Begins
• Tackling Tough Issues
• Osteopathic Medicine + Research = Challenging Career Path
• On Campus
• New Appointments
• Just Published
• Class Acts
• In Memoriam
• Coming Events