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Integrating Chronic Illness Into One's Life: A Phenomenological Inquiry, Susan Rush Michael Dnsc, Ms, Rn

Dissertations

Chronic illness is currently the number one health problem facing the United States; however, little is known about the experience of making chronic illness a part of one's life, particularly from the perspective of the chronically ill person. If nurses are to assist people in living with chronic illness, then an understanding of this experience is essential. Therefore, the purpose of this phenomenological inquiry was to explore how chronically ill adults integrate chronic illness into their lives. Seventeen chronically ill adults were interviewed by the researcher, and asked to describe how they integrated chronic illness into their lives. Each interview …

Immunohistochemistry In Tumour Diagnosis--Who Actually Needs It?, S Pervez

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

No abstract provided.

The Environment: Alive, Whole, Interconnected And Interacting, Dorothy Kleffel Dnsc, Mph, Bsn, Rn

Dissertations

Nurses frequently care for individuals whose conditions are related to destructive environmental influences. Although the environment is a central construct in the nursing paradigm, its definition is client oriented, circumscribed, and does not adequately explain situations emanating from the larger physical, social, cultural, political, or economic spheres of the environment. This research described an expanded, ideal, environmental nursing domain derived from selected upstream scholars whose work has addressed broad environmental dimensions. Using the concept of future search, once this idealized environmental domain is envisioned, the nursing profession can begin to discover the knowledge base that is needed in order to …

Motivations For Initiation Of Early Prenatal Care For Women Of Poverty Level Residing In Mississippi, Bruce Giamalva

MSN Research Projects

This study was designed to determine what factors motivate women of poverty level residing in Mississippi to initiate early prenatal care.

The Incidence Of Elevated Blood Lead Levels In Children Ages 1 To 6 Years Who Receive Care In A Military Health Care Facility, Christina Montague

MSN Research Projects

The purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence of elevated lead levels in children ages 1 to 6 years who received health care in a military facility.

Factors Influencing The Attitudes Of Nurses Regarding Victims Of Spouse Abuse, Christina Montague

MSN Research Projects

The purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence of elevated lead levels in children ages 1 to 6 years who received health care in a military facility.

The Experience Of Caregiving And The Expressed Needs Of Children Of Elders, Mandi B. Lewis

MSN Research Projects

The purpose of this qualitative ethnography was to describe the experience of caregivers who resided with their elder dependent parents and to discover caregiver needs.

Determinants Of Early Subsequent Pregnancy Among Teenage Mothers, Susan Curl Brame

MSN Research Projects

The purpose of this study was to ascertain characteristics that influence the incidence of an early repeat teen pregnancy.

The Correlation Between Health Behaviors And Compliance With Hypertension Treatment Regimens In Middle-Aged Adults, Marilyn Williams

MSN Research Projects

The purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to determine the correlation between health behaviors and compliance with hypertension treatment regimens in middle-aged adults.

What's Happening: July 27, 1994, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Implementation Of A Prone Position Pressure Injury Prevention Bundle In The Picu, Lauren Hacker

Dissertations

Pronation is a low cost, high value intervention used in treating children and adults with Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Hospital-acquired pressure injury is the most common complication of pronation. While the presence of PI bundles and protocols have been shown to reduce incidence of PI in the prone position there is no standard bundle or protocol found in the literature, and no bundle or protocol specific to pediatric patients. The purpose of this quality improvement project is to create and implement a prone position pressure injury prevention bundle, called “Prone Pack”. This QI project setting was a 40 bed …

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 36 Number 3, Summer 1994, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

7 - JAMAICA: THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE Religious organizations work to relieve the misery in a nation that, for some, is a vacation wonderland. By Mitch Finley '73 Political and economic analysis by Dennis R. Gordon

12 - I'll SEE YOU IN ADR! More and more people with civil disputes are finding themselves in alternative dispute resolution. But is ADR always the consumer's best choice? By Julie Sly '82

20 - UP CLOSE: MARIO BELOTTI The SCU economics professor of 35 years has become internationally renowned through hard work and (he says) being in the right place at the …

Evaluation And Comparison Of Environmental Contaminants Present In Two Types Of Swine Rearing Facilities, Carolyn Crowe

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

It has been reported that pigs weaned and moved into an isolated nursery have greater growth rates measured on an average daily gain, and thymus gland weights than do their counterparts in a conventional nursery. In this study I explored the association of this biological difference with environmental contaminants. Levels of total and respirable dust and endotoxin, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, ammonia, and temperature and percent relative humidity were measured in two types of swine rearing facilities: isolated nursery and nursery within a conventional farm. We found isolated nurseries have significantly (p<0.05) less total and respirable dust and endotoxin and greater growth rates. With few exceptions, our measurements of levels of total and respirable dust and total endotoxin were within published ranges. Levels of respirable endotoxin were higher than published ranges.

Impairment Of The Cellular Immune Response In Acute Murine Toxoplasmosis: Regulation Of Interleukin 2 Production And Macrophage-Mediated Inhibitory Effects., Sakhina Haque, Imtiaz Khan, Azizul Haque, Lloyd Kasper

Dartmouth Scholarship

Depression of the cellular immune response to Toxoplasma gondii has been reported in both mice and humans. The present study was undertaken to determine the kinetics and mechanism of the observed downregulation of interleukin 2 (IL-2) production during experimental murine toxoplasmosis. For these investigations, the cell-mediated immune response to the wild type (PTg) was compared with that to the less-virulent mutant parasite (PTgB), which is deficient in the major surface antigen, p30 (SAG-1). Spleen cells from infected A/J mice failed to proliferate in response to Toxoplasma antigens during the first week of infection. Both PTg- and PTgB-infected A/J mice exhibited …

High Rates Of Frameshift Mutations Within Homo-Oligomeric Runs During A Single Cycle Of Retroviral Replication, Dawn P. Wooley, H. M. Temin

Neuroscience, Cell Biology & Physiology Faculty Publications

Homo-oligomeric runs were inserted into a spleen necrosis virus-based retrovirus vector to determine the nature and rate of mutations within runs of 10 to 12 identical nucleotides during a single replication cycle. Clones of helper cells containing integrated copies of retroviral vectors were used to produce virus for infection of target (nonhelper) cells. Proviral sequences from target cell clones were compared with proviral sequences from helper cell clones to study mutations that occurred during a single cycle of replication. In addition to the internal region spanning the homo-oligomeric inserts, a naturally occurring run of 10 T's in the long terminal …

Determination Of Pancreatic And Salivary Amylase By Enzyme Immunoassay And Their Prevalence In Hyperamylasemic Patients, Sabdra Borgens Ward

Theses and Dissertations in Biomedical Sciences

Currently, amylase determinations are nonspecific for the organ source and are based entirely on the enzymatic properties of amylase to produce a measurable product or byproduct. The determination of pancreatic amylase is important in the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis. Most commercially available tests for amylase employ the measurement of the change in NADH absorbance at 280 nm or of the p-nitrophenol released from a maltotetrose substrate. These are nonspecific measurements of pancreatic amylase and often necessitate other tests to be run such as a serum lipase.

The two predominant isoenzymes of amylase are pancreatic (p-amylase) and salivary (s-amylase); the most …

Aging And Exercise: A Health Perspective, Joanna L. Bokovoy, Steven N. Blair

Faculty Publications

Habitual exercise provides protection against fatal coronary heart disease, extends longevity, and enhances quality of life. National surveys show less physical activity in older men and women compared with middle-aged and younger persons; older women are particularly sedentary. Although there are still few longitudinal studies on exercise and physical activity in older individuals, the data support a positive relationship between physical activity and health function in older individuals. The data further show that with regular physical activity, health and fitness are maintained or even increased over time in older individuals. Studies on physical activity requirements for beneficial health effects in …

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume Xliii, Number 4, Summer 1994

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume XLIII, Number 4, Summer 1994

The social transformation of practice, page 8

How medicine is taught differently now, page 8

The only constant is change, page 8

Medicine is being challenged and physicians must respond, page 8

Vascular Ectasias of the colon, page 9

Jefferson and AIDS care in Uganda, page 10

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy at Pennsylvania hospital, page 10

Nintendo comes to medicine: 3-D MRI of congenital heart disease, page 11

Imaging of psychiatric conditions, page 12

Effects of space flight on human physiology: A Jefferson Study, page 12

Aesthetic considerations after trauma, page 13 …

The Apolipoprotein Ε4 Allele In Parkinson's Disease With And Without Dementia, K. Marder, Gladys E. Maestre, L. Cote, H. Mejia, B. Alfaro, A. Halim, M. Tang, B. Tycko, R. Mayeux

School of Medicine Publications

The ϵ4 isoform of apolipoprotein E (Apo-E) may confer genetic susceptibility for familial and sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD). Because dementia in AD and Parkinson's disease (PD) share many biologic and clinical features, we determined the Apo-E genotypes for 79 patients with PD, 22 of whom were demented, and for 44 age-matched healthy elderly controls from the same community. We hypothesized that if the dementia was similar to AD, there would be a higher allele frequency of apolipoprotein ϵ4 (Apoϵ4) in demented PD patients compared with nondemented PD patients and controls. The ϵ4 allele frequency for PD without dementia was 0.132, …

Cerebral Microcirculatory Effects Of Maturation, Scott R. Elliott

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The present studies demonstrate that in the second (2B) and fourth (4B) branches of newborn and adult sheep middle cerebral arteries, 5-HT2 serotonergic receptors mediate contractile responses to serotonin and that alpha-1 adrenergic receptors mediate contractile responses to norepinephrine. In addition, tissue sensitivity to 5-HT and NE decreases significantly with maturation, but does not vary with branch order. These age-related changes were associated with a decrease in affinity and maximum response in 2B and 4B segments of 5-HT and NE contracted arteries, respectively. Norepinephrine and 5-HT occupancy at the pD₂ rose significantly in 2B segments, but did not change …

Lunar Lunacy: The Effect Of The Moon On Moods And Behavior, Lisa Compton

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

Reporting Risk: The Case Of Silicone Breast Implants, Dorothy Nelkin

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Professor Nelkin finds journalists to be, if reluctantly, subject to influence and describes their uneasy relationship with scientists in filling a difficult role.

Dentalgram - Vol. 08, No. 06, Loma Linda University School Of Dentistry

Dentalgram

In this issue:

• Graduation
• Student awards
• Retreat sign-up
• Graduation pictures
• Hygiene scholarships
• Student research
• Faculty doings
• Professor emeritus
• Dean honored
• In memoriam
• In appreciation
• "The Race"

Comparative Toxicities Of Aminonitriles, Timothy Lester Lacy

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This study examined the comparative toxicities and metabolism of four selected aminonitriles namely aminoacetonitrile, $\beta$-aminopropionitrile, $N,N\sp\prime$-dimethylaminopropionitrile, and $\beta ,\beta\sp\prime$-iminodipropionitrile. Various experiments in this study include time course of the metabolism of these nitriles to cyanide, thiocyanate, and cyanoacetic acid. All of the nitriles studied were metabolized to cyanide and thiocyanate and the levels of these metabolites remained at a significantly high level even 5 days after dosing. Except aminoacetonitrile all the nitriles were metabolized to cyanoacetic acid. Experiments on the role of vehicles on the toxicity and metabolism of nitriles showed that all of the vehicles studied significantly affected nitrile …

Nsu Master's Program In Speech-Language Pathology Catalog 1994–1995 (Includes Application And Admission Forms), Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

The Cost Of Arm Autotomy In The Starfish Stichaster-Striatus, John M. Lawrence, A. Larrain

Integrative Biology Faculty and Staff Publications

Arm autotomy in asteroids, as tail autotomy in vertebrates, typically occurs when the animal is attacked and appears to facilitate escape. One assumes autotomy has a cost, but it rarely has been demonstrated in the field in vertebrates and never demonstrated in asteroids. The concentration of lipid was 40 % less and the amount of kilojoules 85 % less in the pyloric caeca of the asteroid Stichaster striatus Muller & Troschel (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) with autotomized arms than in those of individuals with intact arms collected in the field. as the pyloric caeca are used as nutrient reserves, individuals with autotomized …

Update - June 1994, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Can America Afford the Booming Elderly Population?
-- The Booming Elderly Population: The Economic Crunch and Generational Equity
-- Our Burgeoning Elderly Population: Rationing Scarce Resources
-- Medicine and the Aging America: Nurturing and Caring for Older Adults
-- Meet Our AM Students
-- Park Ridge Center Conference: November 3 & 4
-- The New Relatedness for Man and Woman in Christ: A Mirror of the Divine

Nsu Master's Programs In Speech-Language Pathology Catalog 1994–1995 (Includes Application And Admission Forms), Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

Commencement Program 1994, Loma Linda University

Commencement Programs

CONTENTS

2 | 1994 Events of Commencement

3 | Academic Procession

4 | The Speakers

7 | The Honorees

14 | The Zapara Award

Order of Programs

• School of Medicine, 16
• School of Dentistry, 22
• Graduate School, 29
• School of Nursing, 37
• School of Public Health
• School of Allied Health Professions, 48

Immunohistochemical Estrogen Receptor Determination In Human Breast Carcinoma: Correlation With Histologic Differentiation And Age Of The Patients, Shahid Pervez, S. Shaikh, F. Aijaz, S. A. Aziz, M. Naqvi, Sheema H. Hasan

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

An immunohistochemical assay for the measurement of estrogen receptor (ER) has been evaluated on 290 consecutive human breast biopsy and mastectomy specimens in the year 1992 at The Aga Khan University Hospital laboratories. Immunohistochemical localization of estrogen receptor on frozen/paraffin section was scored in a semi-quantitative fashion incorporating both the intensity and the distribution of specific staining. Histologic grading of the tumour was performed according to Bloom’s method. In this study, 21% of the tumours were estrogen receptor negative, 15% were weak positive, 25% intermediate positive and 39% strong positive. Fifty percent of the well differentiated tumours showed strong ER …