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Dietary Energy Density And Successful Weight Loss Maintenance, Hollie A. Raynor, Emily L. Walleghen, Jessica L. Bachman, Shannon M. Looney, Suzanne Phelan, Rena R. Wing

Kinesiology and Public Health

Research shows a positive relationship between dietary energy density (ED) and body mass index (BMI), but dietary ED of weight loss maintainers is unknown. This preliminary investigation was a secondary data analysis that compared self-reported dietary ED and food group servings consumed in overweight adults (OW: BMI=27–45 kg/m2), normal weight adults (NW: BMI=19–24.9 kg/m2), and weight loss maintainers (WLM: current BMI=19–24.9 kg/m2 [lost≥10% of maximum body weight and maintained loss for ≥5 years]) participating in 2 studies, with data collected from July 2006 to March 2007. Three 24-h phone dietary recalls from 287 participants (OW=97, NW=85, WLM=105) assessed self-reported dietary …

Practitioner Advice And Gestational Weight Gain, Suzanne Phelan, Maureen G. Phipps, Barbara Abrams, Francine Darroch, Andrew Schaffner, Rena R. Wing

Kinesiology and Public Health

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate receipt of gestational weight gain advice in prenatal care and ideal and expected gestational weight gain outcomes for normal weight and overweight/obese women.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of normal weight (n=203) and overweight/obese (n=198) women in early (<16 >weeks) pregnancy.

Results: Less than half of participants (41.7%) reported receiving weight gain advice from a practitioner. In multivariate models, pregravid weight status was not significantly related to receiving advice. However, women with lower income (odds ratio [OR] 0.31, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.13-0.77, p=0.01), younger …

University News

Cal Poly Magazine

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Investigation Of Factors Affecting The Accumulation Of Vinyl Chloride In Polyvinyl Chloride Piping Used In Drinking Water Distribution Systems, Ryan Walter, Po-Hsun Lin, Marc Edwards, Ruth E. Richardson

Physics

Plastic piping made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and chlorinated PVC (CPVC), is being increasingly used for drinking water distribution lines. Given the formulation of the material from vinyl chloride (VC), there has been concern that the VC (a confirmed human carcinogen) can leach from the plastic piping into drinking water. PVC/CPVC pipe reactors in the laboratory and tap samples collected from consumers homes (n = 15) revealed vinyl chloride accumulation in the tens of ng/L range after a few days and hundreds of ng/L after two years. While these levels did not exceed the EPA’s maximum contaminant level (MCL) …

Characterization Of Amino Acid Residues Integral To Neuronal Binding Of Amyloid Beta Protein In Alzheimer’S Disease, Nicole C. Olson

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Purpose:  Alzheimer’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disease resulting from over-production and neuronal accumulation of amyloid-beta proteins (Aβ40/Aβ42). The glycine residue at position 33 and histidine residues at positions 13 and 14 are involved with binding and internalization of these proteins, actions potentially inhibited by substituting or sterically hindering these residues with an antibody specific to positions 2-11 (IgG-4.1). Rat pheochromocytoma (PC12) cells differentiated with nerve growth factor were used as a neuronal model to determine whether substitution and/or antibody block amyloid-beta’s neuronal interactions.

Methods:  PC12 cells were incubated with fluorescein-labeled-amyloid-beta-40 (F-Aβ40) or substituted F-Aβ40 derivatives (F-Aβ40-H13,14G, F-Aβ40-H13,14G;G33A), with or without …

The Forum, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Cal Poly History Department

The Forum: Journal of History

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March 30, 2011 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

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Mustang Daily, March 30, 2011

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Assessment Of State Composting Regulations In The United States, Nazli Yesiller, Samuel A. Vigil, James L. Hanson

Civil and Environmental Engineering

This investigation was conducted to identify the current "status of state composting regulations in the U.S. using an extensive survey administered to regulators from all 50 states. Questions were included regarding: background information on composting: status of regulations: regulatory details including feedstock specific provisions and regulatory framework with respect to MSW regulations: details regarding type, properties, and amount of materials handled by composting activities; outgoing materials and storage of materials; type of composting facilities: initial development of the regulations; level of rigor of regulations: enforcement and reporting requirements; efficiency and level of satisfaction with regulations: permitting fees; and modifications to …

March 23, 2011 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

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Green Building Policy And School Performance, S. Kelting, M. Montoya

Construction Management

The movement to construct high performance “green” buildings has had unprecedented market growth and continues to become a mainstream practice for constructing schools in the United States. This paper will consider how the results of government requirements for higher performance school buildings may affect the health and performance of students. The research focuses on educational leaders’ perceptions of how they would prioritize green building strategies based on recent governmental policy that requires building green schools. There is clear and compelling evidence that schools currently built to specific green standards of indoor environmental quality, specifically lighting, result in healthier and more …

Contractualism And The Moral Status Of Animals, Jennifer Swanson

Between the Species

While contractualism seems to solve some of the more pressing concerns of other moral theories, it does not conclusively address the moral status of non-human animals. Peter Carruthers claims that contractualism excludes animals from having full moral status. I argue that Carruthers’ arguments are fatally flawed due to his reliance on contradictory claims, unlikely assumptions, and flagrant violations of the contractualist method. However, Carruthers also claims that we can treat animals wrongly and that it deserves moral criticism. This claim is based in indirect moral significance. However, this position makes it impossible for Carruthers to avoid endorsing two extremely counter-intuitive …

Announcements

Ethics and Animals

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Organizations

Ethics and Animals

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Replies

Ethics and Animals

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Book Review Of The Philosophy Of Vegetarianism, Robert W. Loftin

Ethics and Animals

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Book Review Of Judaism And Vegetarianism, Marc Alan Gruber

Ethics and Animals

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Three Wrong Leads In A Search For An Environmental Ethic: Tom Regan On Animal Rights, Inherent Values, And "Deep Ecology", Ernest Partridge

Ethics and Animals

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Organizations

Ethics and Animals

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Predation, Steve F. Sapontzis

Ethics and Animals

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An Ecological Argument For Vegetarianism, Peter S. Wenz

Ethics and Animals

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Two Conceptions Of An Environmental Ethic And Their Implications, Evelyn B. Pluhar

Ethics and Animals

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Announcements

Ethics and Animals

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Reply, Philip Kapleau

Ethics and Animals

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Is There A Place For Animals In The Moral Consideration Of Nature?, Eric Katz

Ethics and Animals

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Organizations

Ethics and Animals

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Interests And Animals, Needs And Language, S. F. Sapontzis

Ethics and Animals

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Periodicals

Ethics and Animals

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Organizations

Ethics and Animals

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Book Review Of Animal Rights And Human Morality, Dale Jamieson

Ethics and Animals

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