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Heat And Kidney Health: Exploring The Impact Of Rising Temperatures On Kidney Health And Vulnerable Populations, Hoimonty Mazumder Nov 2025

Heat And Kidney Health: Exploring The Impact Of Rising Temperatures On Kidney Health And Vulnerable Populations, Hoimonty Mazumder

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This dissertation examines how ambient temperature influences renal health across three complementary chapters by exploring: sex-stratified temperature-urine biomarkers relationships, a global comprehensive synthesis of evidence on renal colic, and mediation effect of BP in the biological pathway between ambient temperature and proteinuria. We used repeated measurements of urinary electrolytes, 24-h urine total protein (UTP), and volume as outcomes from a stepped-wedge RCT conducted in southwest coastal Bangladesh and collected daily ambient temperature data from Bangladesh Meteorological Board (BMD). We employed piece-wise linear mixed effect models using random intercepts to demonstrate ambient temperature and urine biomarker’s relationships. We summarized global evidence …


10-H2da Coating On Polyvinyl Chloride Catheter Biomaterials For Prevention Of Candida-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, Jermiah Tate Jul 2024

10-H2da Coating On Polyvinyl Chloride Catheter Biomaterials For Prevention Of Candida-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, Jermiah Tate

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Urinary catheters made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) are susceptible to microbial biofilm formation. 10-hydroxy-2-decenoic acid (10-H2DA) is a dispersal signaling molecule that inhibits biofilm and planktonic growth of microorganisms. This study hypothesized that coating PVC with 10-H2DA would inhibit planktonic and biofilm-associated Candida albicans. Interactions of the PVC and 10-H2DA molecules were analyzed using Video Contact Angle (VCA), Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR), and High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). Successful coating of PVC with 10-H2DA was demonstrated through a significantly lowered contact angle and FTIR peaks in regions indicative of the 10-H2DA on the surface of PVC. Elution data displays a burst …


Biom 3110: Medical Physiology (Syllabus), Bradford D. Pendley Jan 2024

Biom 3110: Medical Physiology (Syllabus), Bradford D. Pendley

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Course Description: Basic principles of human physiology and how these are applied in medicine and biomedical engineering problem and devices; physiological principles using appropriate mathematical and engineering models to construct an understanding of how the body works as an integrated system.


Ungrading Writing: Changes In Motivation, Volition, And Perceived Learning, Jennifer B. Wilson May 2023

Ungrading Writing: Changes In Motivation, Volition, And Perceived Learning, Jennifer B. Wilson

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Motivation and volition are critical precursors to learning, as students learn best when the course material is relevant and personally meaningful. The ARCS-V (i.e., attention, relevance, confidence, satisfaction, and volition) model addresses motivation from an instructional design perspective. Underlying the model is a learner-centered locus of control. Research suggests that grades can be a barrier to learning because they are teacher-centered, allowing instructors to control the reward and punishment cycle. When grades are given, earning high marks often replaces learning as the educational goal. In response to this concern, many undergraduate composition instructors have implemented ungrading, an assessment method in …


Does Vocalization Increase The Positive Valence Of Emotion?, Joshua Hyde May 2023

Does Vocalization Increase The Positive Valence Of Emotion?, Joshua Hyde

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This study aims to determine if the act of voicing can have an effect on mood in a within-participant reversal paradigm, where each participant served as their own control. Following a baseline condition, participants underwent three experimental conditions: breathing, articulating, and voicing. Following baseline and experimental conditions, participants underwent an emotion-induction paradigm by looking at pictures. They rated their current mood and arousal levels following each picture. Additionally, psychophysiological measures of facial electromyography, electrocardiography, and electrodermal responses were gathered throughout the experiment. Results were mixed, revealing that there was a mood change during aversive picture viewing toward positive moods in …


Biom 3110: Medical Physiology (Syllabus), Bradford D. Pendley Jan 2023

Biom 3110: Medical Physiology (Syllabus), Bradford D. Pendley

Biomedical Engineering Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Basic principles of human physiology and how these are applied in medicine and biomedical engineering problem and devices; physiological principles using appropriate mathematical and engineering models to construct an understanding of how the body works as an integrated system.


Biom 3110(Honors): Medical Physiology (Syllabus), Bradford D. Pendley Jan 2023

Biom 3110(Honors): Medical Physiology (Syllabus), Bradford D. Pendley

Biomedical Engineering Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Basic principles of human physiology and how these are applied in medicine and biomedical engineering problem and devices; physiological principles using appropriate mathematical and engineering models to construct an understanding of how the body works as an integrated system.


The Columns, 1983 Spring Jan 2022

The Columns, 1983 Spring

The Columns

Cover Story, "Something To Cheer About!"

The MSU Varsity Spirit Squad captured first place at the 1983 Collegiate Cheerleader National Championship competition held in Dallas in January by the National Cheerleader Association, thereby gaining the status of the No. 1 cheerleading squad in the country.

Also featured, "MSU First in Nation to offer Degree in Bio-Medical Illustration"

Memphis State, in cooperation with the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, now offers a bachelor of professional studies degree in biomedical illustration, enabling people to learn how to communicate and document the life sciences through art and photography. The new …


Biom 3110: Medical Physiology (Syllabus), Bradford D. Pendley Jan 2022

Biom 3110: Medical Physiology (Syllabus), Bradford D. Pendley

Biomedical Engineering Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Basic principles of human physiology and how these are applied in medicine and biomedical engineering problem and devices; physiological principles using appropriate mathematical and engineering models to construct an understanding of how the body works as an integrated system.


Biom 3110(Honors): Medical Physiology (Syllabus), Bradford D. Pendley Jan 2022

Biom 3110(Honors): Medical Physiology (Syllabus), Bradford D. Pendley

Biomedical Engineering Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Basic principles of human physiology and how these are applied in medicine and biomedical engineering problem and devices; physiological principles using appropriate mathematical and engineering models to construct an understanding of how the body works as an integrated system.


T Cell Changes Induced By Dietary/Weight Change, Aljowhara Aljeraiwi Jan 2022

T Cell Changes Induced By Dietary/Weight Change, Aljowhara Aljeraiwi

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Obesity is a condition that affects many people and is associated with numerous health issues and chronic diseases, including viral infections. For example, during the SARS-CoV2 epidemic, obesity emerged as a major risk for severe COVID 19. Obesity has been shown to increase T cell exhaustion resulting in loss of CD8+ T cell functions and reducing the immune system's capacity to fight infectious diseases. Exhausted T cells can be identified by the increased expression of the membrane protein Programmed Cell Death 1 (PD-1). While many studies demonstrate that a high-fat diet and an increase in weight can affect the immune …


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