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Intensity Of Grief And Belief In Personal Control, Diana M. Alferink

Theses

Much research has focused on stress and its consequences. Some studies have indicated personal control helps an individual handle stress better and remain healthier. Little research, however, has examined the role personal control plays in bereavement as a stressful life event. This correlational study examined the relationship between belief in personal control and grief intensity experienced from losing a loved one to death. Volunteer subjects primarily from Grief Support Groups completed the Belief in Personal Control Scale and the Texas Revised Grief Inventory Results demonstrated some instances when higher belief in personal control resulted in lower intensity of grief in …

Data Mining In Health-Care: Issues And A Research Agenda, Monica Adya

Management Faculty Research and Publications

While data mining has become a much-lauded tool in business and related fields, its role in the healthcare arena is still being explored. Currently, most applications of data mining in healthcare can be categorized into two areas: decision support for clinical practice, and policy planning/decision making. However, it is challenging to find empirical literature in this area since a substantial amount of existing work in data mining for health care is conceptual in nature. In this paper, we review the challenges that limit the progress made in this area and present considerations for the future of data mining in healthcare.

Proposed Portfolio 2000, Kristen Andrews, Drago Dzerve, Bradley Joseph, Jimmy Park, Travis Shelhorse, Joni Stetson

Crummer Truist Portfolios

No abstract provided.

A Novel Kunitz-Type Serine Protease Inhibitor From The Hookworm, Ancylostoma Ceylanicum, Aaron Michael Milstone

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

No abstract provided.

Antigenic Epitope Analysis Of The P101 Nucleocapsid Protein Of Human Herpes Virus 6 (Var.B), Katherine Anne Francis

Student Works (2000-2009)

Human herpes virus 6 (HHV6) is an ubiquitous, lymphoproliferative P-herpesvirus, which infects almost all individuals during infancy and persists lifelong. Two variants of HHV6 (A and B) have been described. The present study is on HHV6B, which causes exanthem subitum, also known as roseola infantum, a common febrile childhood illness. Two methods of detection for anti-HHV6B in body fluids were used, being indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) and peptidylated pin-ELISA. For IFA, the target cells were HHV68-infected human cord blood mononuclear cells (HCBMC). Ninety eight infant sera were tested by IFA and all were found to be IgG-HHV6 positive. Seventeen breast …

Along The Red Road: Tribally Controlled Colleges And Student Development, Ann Marie Machamer

Thesis, Dissertations, Student Creative Activity, and Scholarship

American Indian tnibally controlled colleges were created to provide higher education in a familiar cultural setting to a population that is severely underrepresented in American higher education. Since little is known regarding student development at tribal colleges, the purpose of this study was to assess retention, talent development, satisfaction, racial discrimination, and cultural knowledge/identity at tribal colleges using American Indians who attended non-Indian institutions as a comparison sample. In early 1999, survey data were collected from students who entered fourteen tribal colleges and two Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) colleges and from American Indian students who entered non-Indian. institutions in …

Political Economy Of Foreign Aid, Raymond F. Hopkins

Political Science Faculty Works

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Universal Newborn Screening For Developmental Risk, Grace Cox Ashton

Open Access Dissertations

This study examined the relationship between at-birth risk factors and three year child developmental outcome. The purpose of this study was to design a multifactor risk screening system to identify those children who are at risk for developmental delay and behavior problems in Rhode Island. The sample was drawn from three separate datasets: the Rhode Island Universal Newborn Screening (Level One) database (N=27,282), the Early Intervention (El) database (N=l ,793), and the Maternal Lifestyle Study Providence/Teen samples (N= 311). Study One investigated the predictive probability of Level One for EI eligibility by age three. Results showed that Level One has …

Frequency And Severity Of Fatigue In Multiple Sclerosis In An Outpatient Rehabilitation Clinic, Kathleen Schweitzer

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Zooarchaeology, Susan L. Scott

Faculty Publications

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Production And Characterization Of Monoclonal Anti-Ovalbumin Antibodies, Mehmet Zi̇ya Doymaz, Hakan Bulut, Aykut Özdarendeli̇, Yusuf Bolat

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

In this study, the results of anti- ovalbumin (OVA) monoclonal antibody production and characterization are reported. Splenocytes from OVA-hyperimmune Balb/C mouse were fused with F0 myeloma cells and resulting hybridoma cells were selected in hypoxanthine-aminopterine-thymidine containing medium. A total of 37 HAT resistant hybridomas were obtained. Upon testing the hybridoma supernatants in OVA and mouse immunoglobulin G specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, we observed that two of the hybridomas secreted OVA specific antibodies. The hybridomas produced IgG class antibodies. The hybridomas were grown and the supernatants from the cultures were also tested in a Western Blot assay. The results of ELISA …

The Public Health Improvement Process In Alaska: Toward A Model Public Health Law, Lawrence O. Gostin, James G. Hodge Jr.

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In this Article, we present the findings of our study on the improvement of public health law in Alaska. We examine and analyze the public health laws supporting the state's public health system. The fact that Alaska has attained statehood comparatively recently, and has a governing structure involving state, municipal, rural, and tribal entities presents unique opportunities for the State to improve its public health system and its supporting legal infrastructure

Uri Undergraduate And Graduate Course Catalog 2000-2001, University Of Rhode Island

URI Course Catalogs Archive

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island Course Catalog.

Neurobrucellosis, Biniganavale N. Gokul, Alfred Paul, Iftikhar Hussein

Neurosciences

Brucellosis, which is endemic in Saudi Arabia, can present as a disease with multisystem involvement. Occasionally the organisms invade the central nervous system producing varied neurological manifestations. Often the clinical diagnosis of neurobrucellosis is not straight forward and is obscure. Certain criteria have to be fulfilled for the definitive diagnosis of neurobrucellosis. We report 2 cases of neurobrucellosis which were encountered for the first time during the past 10 years at this hospital.

Is Hiv Disability Under The Americans With Disabilities Act: Unanswered Questions After Bragdon V. Abbott, Connie Mayer

Journal of Law and Health

Prior to the passage of the ADA in 1990, the term "individual with a handicap" had been clearly established under federal disability laws to include all people with HIV. Every reported decision under the Rehabilitation Act and the Fair Housing Amendment Act had determined that asymptomatic HIV was protected as a per se disability. Prior to 1997, only a few Courts had faced the issue of whether a plaintiff with asymptomatic HIV was disabled under the ADA. In 1997, the Fourth and First Circuit Courts of Appeal decided cases in direct conflict with one another, opening the door for the …

More Hippocrates, Less Hypocrisy: Early Offers As A Means Of Implementing The Institute Of Medicine's Recommendations On Malpractice Law, Jeffrey O'Connell, Patrick B. Bryan

Journal of Law and Health

To remove the fear of personal liability from individual health care workers and eliminate the incentive to hide errors rather than report them, the IOM acknowledges that tort reform of some sort is also needed. Since the IOM calls for shifting attention away from the faults of individual care providers to the defects of the system itself, the current tort system's "blame culture" is itself blamed by the IOM for providing an impediment to improving the safety of patients by deterring physicians from reporting their own errors in the first place. However, the IOM's To Err is Human does not …

Legal Rites: Abjection And The Criminal Regulation Of Consensual Sex, Kate Sutherland

Articles & Book Chapters

The application of criminal law to consensual sex is an arena of conflict and contest between conservative and liberal forces in the United States, with occasional feminist interventions. The same arguments tend to recur on each side of the debate. Conservatives assert the appropriateness and necessity of enforcing a particular Judeo-Christian sexual morality through law. Liberals argue for tolerance of private consensual sexual conduct. When the debate shifts from the private to the public arena, conservatives may argue privacy principles, asserting the right of bystanders to be let alone, whereas liberals may shift to freedom of expression arguments. In this …

A Decision Technology System To Advance The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Breast Cancer, Guisseppi A. Forgionne, Aryya Gangopadhyay, Monica Adya

Management Faculty Research and Publications

Geographical variations in cancer rates have been observed for decades. Described spatial patterns and trends have provided clues for generating hypotheses about the etiology of cancer. For breast cancer, investigators have demonstrated that some variation can be explained by differences in the population distribution of known breast cancer risk factors such as menstrual and reproductive variables (Laden, Spiegelman, and Neas, 1997; Robbins, Bescianini, and Kelsey, 1997; Sturgeon, Schairer, and Gail, 1995). However, regional patterns also may reflect the effects of Workshop on Hormones, Hormone Metabolism, Environment, and Breast Cancer (1995): (a) environmental hazards (such as air and water pollution), (b) …

Absence Of Insect Juvenile Hormones In The American Dog Tick, Dermacentor Veriabilis (Say) (Acari: Ixodidae), And In Ornithodoros Parkeri Cooley (Acari: Argasidae), P. A. Neese, Daniel E. Sonenshine, V. L. Kallapur, C. S. Apperson, R. M. Roe

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Synganglia, salivary gland, midgut, ovary, fat body and muscle alone and in combination from the ixodid tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Say), or the argasid tick, Ornithodoros parkeri Cooley, were incubated in vitro in separate experiments with _L-[methyl-³H]methionine and farnesoic acid or with [1-¹⁴C]acetate. Life stages examined in D. variabilis were 3 and 72 h old (after ecdysis) unfed nymphs, partially fed nymphs (18 and 72 h after attachment to the host), fully engorged nymphs (2 d after detachment from host), 3 and 72 h old (after eclosion) unfed females, partially fed unmated females (12–168 …

Sorenson's Ranch School And Shaun Sorenson V. Reta D. Oram, Director, State Of Utah, Department Of Human Services, Office Of Licensing : Reply Brief, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

APPEAL FROM AN ORDER DENYING SUMMARY JUDGMENT ENTERED IN THE SIXTH DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR SEVIER COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH, THE HONORABLE DAVID L. MOWER PRESIDING

Limited Effectiveness Of Home Drinking Water Purification Efforts In Karachi, Pakistan, S P. Luby, A H. Syed, N Atiullah, M K. Faizan, S Fisher-Hoch

Community Health Sciences

Objective: In many developing-country urban areas, municipally supplied water is not microbiologically safe. This study evaluated drinking water quality and effect of home water purification efforts in Karachi, Pakistan.Methods: Members of 300 households, including 100 households who used the Aga Khan University Hospital Laboratory and 200 of their neighbors were interviewed. In 293 consenting households, structured observations were performed and drinking water was analyzed for the presence of coliforms, using the multiple tube fermentation technique.Results: Although 193 of the 293 households (66%) reported using some method to purify their drinking water, including 169 (58%) who boiled their water, only 48 …

Adjudicating Disappearance Cases In Turkey: An Argument For Adopting The Inter-American Court Of Human Rights' Approach, Irum Taqi

Fordham International Law Journal

This Note examines the different approaches of the European and Inter-American Courts in assessing state liability for a violation of the right to life in disappearance cases. Part I discusses the phenomenon of disappearances. It also provides background on the European and Inter-American systems of human rights as well as on the concept of the right to life in the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("European Convention") and in the American Conventions on Human Rights ("American Convention"). Finally, Part I examines the Inter-American Court's approach to assessing state responsibility for disappearances in the Velasquez Rodriguez …

Knowledge And Perception Of North Dakota Registered Nurses Concerning Hepatitis C, Margaret A. Gebhardt

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Seeking Sovereignty: The Akaka Bill And The Case For The Inclusion Of Hawaiians In Federal Native American Policy, Annmarie M. Liermann

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Intensity Of Grief And Belief In Personal Control, Diana M. Alferink

Theses

Much research has focused on stress and its consequences. Some studies have indicated personal control helps an individual handle stress better and remain healthier. Little research, however, has examined the role personal control plays in bereavement as a stressful life event This correlational study examined the relationship between belief in personal control and grief intensity experienced from losing a loved one to death. Volunteer subjects primarily from Grief Support Groups completed the Belief in Personal Control Scale and the Texas Revised Grief Inventory Results demonstrated some instances when higher belief in personal control resulted in lower intensity of grief in …

Reflections On Nursing Leadership [Complete Issue :Second Quarter 2000, Vol. 26, 2], Sigma Theta Tau International, Judy Sadler, Sharon M. Kirkpatrick, Margaret H. Kearney, Lillian H. Mood, Bev O'Connell, Brenda L. Lyon, Susan D. Moch, Joan M. Riley, Sara T. Fry, Renel Davis

Sigma Past Publishing - Reflections Magazine

Publishing History: Print issues of Reflections magazine were published from 1975 to 1999 and its successor, Reflections on Nursing Leadership (RNL) began publication in 2000. RNL migrated to an online format, http://www.reflectionsonnursingleadership.org, in 2006 and continues today.

RNL is a member benefit of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). The historical print issues have been made openly available.

Publishing Frequency: Quarterly until its transition to online. It’s now updated virtually every day.

Format: Print, 1975 - 2005; Online, 2006 - present

Feature Articles in this Issue:

The Congo Children's Weeping Sores

Women Don't Get Heart …

Observing Gender In The Material Cultures Of Six Northwestern Plains Societies: An Ethnographic/Ethnohistoric Comparison, Kathy La Plante

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Characterization Of A Cleavage-Defective Hiv-1 Envelope Protein, Kimberly D. Meade-White

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Free Scholarly Electronic Journals: What Access Do College And University Libraries Provide?, Michael Fosmire, Elizabeth Young

Libraries Research Publications

: Results of a survey of the level of access provided to selected free scholarly electronic journals by academic libraries is reported. A list of scholarly journals that are available electronically without any access limitations was compiled, and for each title the number of holding institutions on OCLC and its coverage by major abstracting and indexing services was determined. The twenty-five most popular titles, determined by number of holding institutions on OCLC, were searched on a random sample of library websites and catalogs to provide a separate gauge for access levels provided by institutions. Despite approximately half the titles being …

Bioterrorism: Perfectly Legal, Heather A. Dagen

Catholic University Law Review

No abstract provided.