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Nurse Practitioners In Burn Centers: An Exploration Of The Developing Role, Trisha Ann Myers

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore job satisfaction, barriers to practice, roles, and collaboration among nurse practitioners (NPs) choosing to practice in the environment of caring for burned patients. Exploration and identification of the role of NPs practicing among this unique population may benefit patients, and the burn community, when the expertise of the NP is added to a greater multi-disciplinary team. Two data collection instruments were utilized to measure the criterion variable job satisfaction: The Misener Nurse Practitioner Job Satisfaction Scale and a semi-structured telephone interview. Study participants consisted of 24 NPs employed in 16 burn centers …

Effects Of Resistance And Aerobic Exercise On Physical Self-Efficacy And Social Physique Anxiety In Female College Students, Michele Yeager Martin

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This study examines the effects of resistance and aerobic exercise on Social Physique Anxiety (SPA) and Physical Self-Efficacy (PSE) over a 3-week time period. Participants (n=44, mean age=21.11 yesrs) were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Aerobic, Resistance, Combination, or Control. Measures of SPA and PSE were taken as baseline and after the 3-week period. Two-way ANOVAs revealed a singificant difference in SPA, confidence, and ability over time across all groups.

Knowledge And Attitudes Of West Virginia Extension Agents And High School Agricultural Educators With Regard To Meat Goats And The Meat Goat Industry, Angela L. Kirk

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitudes on meat goats and the meat goat industry in West Virginia by West Virginia Extension agents and high school agricultural teachers. A descriptive research design was selected for the study. A mailed questionnaire was sent to 51 Extension agents and 88 agriculture teachers who were the accessible population. Of the 139 agriculture educators 99 responded to the survey, for a response rate of 71.2%. A majority (67.1%) of Extension agents and high school agricultural teachers have noticed an increase in the meat goat industry in their areas and …

Cooking For Kids!, Krystal Fullilove

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

My thesis, “Cooking for Kids!”, follows the current trends in exploring the problem of childhood obesity. The epidemic of childhood obesity has been steadily climbing for the past two decades. The number of obese children has reached its highest ever with over 9 million children and adolescents being classified as overweight or obese. The weight problem stems from decreased physical activity in children and eating foods that are not nutritious.

My personal answer to the obesity problem was to create a cookbook for children ages 8-13. I intended for parents to use the cookbook as a way to teach the …

The Food Fight Between The United States And Europe: Why Gmos Divide The West, Sarah A. Delude

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) have quickly become an abundant source of food, especially in the United States. But as GMOs have grown, Europeans have raised major concerns over health and environment issues posed by GMOs. In 1998 the European Union imposed a moratorium restricting the approval of any new GMOs in Europe. But the United States saw this as a block to free and fair trade and has taken a case up with the World Trade Organization to resolve the matter. The final decision is past due, but the EU has already lifted the moratorium. Instead, it has imposed rules …

Incarceration Of African-American Males: Impact On African-American Families, Terri Barnes

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Abstract not Included

Assessing Effectiveness Of Self-Regulation: A Case Study Of The Children's Advertising Review Unit, Ellen J. Fried

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Supreme Court Of Canada's Appraisal Of The 1980 Ban On Advertising To Children In Quebec: Implications For Misleading Advertising Elsewhere, Bill Jeffrey

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Sausage-Making, Pigs' Ears, And Congressional Expansions Of Federal Jurisdiction: Exxon Mobil V. Allapattah And Its Lessons For The Class Action Fairness Act, Adam N. Steinman

Faculty Scholarship

The year 2005 witnessed two watershed developments in federal jurisdiction: the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Allapattah Services, Inc. and the enactment of the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA). Allapattah and CAFA raise the same fundamental question: how should courts interpret a statute whose text would expand federal jurisdiction far beyond what Congress apparently intended? In Allapattah, the Court confronted this question in resolving an aspect of the supplemental jurisdiction statute that had deeply divided both the judiciary and academia. CAFA's expansion of federal jurisdiction over class actions will require courts to struggle with this question …

Catalase Activity Mediates The Inhibitory Actions Of 24,25 Dihydroxyvitamin D3, Sven L. Peery

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The steroid hormone 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D₃ [1,25(OH)₂D₃] rapidly stimulates the uptake of phosphate in isolated chick intestinal cells, while the steroid 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D₃ [24,25(OH)₂D₃] inhibits the rapid stimulation by 1,25(OH)₂D₃. Earlier work in this laboratory has indicated that a cellular binding protein for the 24,25(OH)₂D₃ is the enzyme catalase. Since binding resulted in decreased catalase activity and increased H₂O₂ production, studies were undertaken to determine if pro-oxidant conditions mimicked the inhibitory actions of 24,25(OH)₂D₃, and anti-oxidant conditions …

Development Of Innovative, Quick-Cook Legume Products: An Investigation Of The Soaking, Cooking And Dehydration Characteristics Of Chickpeas (Cicer Arietinum L.) And Soybeans (Glycine Max L. Merr.), Aoife Gowen

Doctoral

The primary goal of this research was to create new alternatives to the legume products currently available to consumers, i.e. canned and dry beans. Chickpeas and soybeans are well established in the Irish consumer market and possess excellent nutritional quality, such as high protein, fibre and phytochemcial content, low cholesterol and low glycaemic index (G.I.), and therefore have potential for classification as functional foods. The first stage of the research culminated with the development of quick-cook chickpeas and soybeans that could be stored in the chill cabinet or freezer. Water intake and textural attributes during soaking were investigated. Using non-linear …

Resisting Deep Capture: The Commercial Speech Doctrine And Junk-Food Advertising To Children, David Yosifon

Faculty Publications

The present Article is more precisely dedicated to analyzing, from a critical realist perspective, the wisdom and constitutional viability of one possible policy response to the obesity crisis: a ban on junk-food advertising to children.

This Article seeks not only to show that an effective junk-food advertising ban could pass constitutional scrutiny, but also to demonstrate, through the rigor of a constitutional analysis, the wisdom of such an approach to this substantial social problem. Simultaneously, my purpose is to show, in the context of a difficult First Amendment question, that the critical realist approach to legal theory is capable of …

Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Carol C. Harter, Lori Bachand, Cate Weeks, Mamie Peers

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

Defining, Identifying, And Addressing Antisocial Behavior In Children Ages 4-7: The Perspectives Of Selected Elementary Principals In A Midwestern City School District, Audre Lynn Zaroban

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Children and youth are becoming involved in violent behavior at ever-younger ages. Early appearing behavior problems in a child’s school career are the single best predictor of delinquency in adolescence, gang membership, and adult incarceration. The purpose of this research was to identify successful interventions used by selected elementary principals which positively changed antisocial behavior in a kindergarten child. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with six elementary principals. The participants were chosen based on their district’s view of their success and were also chosen due to the low social economic status of the children in their building. Seven themes emerged from …

Introduction, Michele Simon

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Beyond Commercials: How Food Marketers Target Children, Susan Linn, Josh Golin

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Government Regulation Of Food Marketing To Children: The Federal Trade Commission And The Kid-Vid Controversy, Tracy Westen

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Can Food Companies Be Trusted To Self-Regulate - An Analysis Of Corporate Lobbying And Deception To Undermine Children's Health, Michele Simon

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Litigation As A Tool In Food Advertising: Consumer Protection Statutes, Joseph M. Price, Rachel F. Bond

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Litigation As A Tool In Food Advertising: A Consumer Advocacy Viewpoint, Stephen Gardner

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Restricting The Marketing Of Junk Food To Children By Product Placement And Character Selling, Angela J. Campbell

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Intraoperative Hypothermia, Carlee Leininger

Theses and Dissertations

Intraoperative hypothermia is a common complication affecting patients undergoing surgical procedures. Complications associated with intraoperative hypothermja include increased blood loss and transfusion requirements, wound infections, prolonged hospitalizations, and adverse cardiac outcomes. The purpose of this project was to perform a comprehensive review of the literature regarding intraoperative hypotherrrua . Further, the literature was reviewed to determine effective management strategies for prevention of intraoperati ve hypothermia .

Synthesis of the evidence in the literature review provided the basis for education of intraoperative nursing staff on the implications and importance of risks related to intraoperative hypothermia in surgical patients. Providing a staff …

The Female Athlete Triad: Prevention And Awareness, Kara Falk

Theses and Dissertations

The participation of female athletes in sports has grown tremendously in the past two decades. Female athletes are performing at increasingly higher levels and becoming more competitive in sports at younger ages. This has lead to the growing problem of the Female Athlete Triad: disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis. The purpose of this project is to promote awareness and prevention of the Female Athlete Triad

The goal of this project is to build awareness and address the prevalence, consequences, risk factors, prevention, and signs and symptoms of the Female Athlete Triad through the construction and distribution of an educational brochure …

The Effects Of Pre-Natal Exposure To Arsenic On Gene Expression In Fetal Rat Brain, Darryl L. Kelly

Theses (Pre-2016)

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of arsenic exposure during gestation on the expression of specific marker genes associated with cell proliferation and oxidative stress. Arsenic is a naturally occurring substance that can be found in soil and / water. Drinking water is the primary source of arsenic exposure, via underground wells or rainwater. A potential source of arsenic in our environment is a byproduct of copper smelting arsenic occurs naturally in copper ores. Both the experimental as well as epidemiological evidence suggests that arsenic exposure is a risk factor for various human diseases including cancer. …

Silicon Uptake In Hydroponically Grown Wheat, Ibukun Aladejana

Theses (Pre-2016)

Microbial contamination of hydroponics systems continues to be a major concern in life support experimental trials. Research shows that when silicon is readily available to monocotyledonous plants, it plays a large role in their growth, mineral nutrition, mechanical strength and resistance to fungal disease. Also, omission of silicon from solution cultures may lead to distorted results in experiments on inorganic plant nutrition, growth, development and responses to environmental stress. Silicon has been shown to accumulate in tissues of various dicotyledonous plants, for example, cucumber and in monocotyledonous plants for example rice and wheat. However, it remains unclear whether or not …

Down Regulation Of Dna Repair Genes Coupled With Oxidative Stress Exposed To Modelled Microgravity, Gulbanu Hashim

Theses (Pre-2016)

Research has shown that microgravity induces oxidative stress. In this study, we examined the testis from 6-8 weeks old BALB mice exposed to the ground hind-limb unloading model for 7 days. This model has been shown to simulate a microgravity environment. Total RNA was isolated from the testes of both treatment and control groups and Quantitative Real-Time PCR was performed to analyze the expression of genes controlling DNA excision repair pathways. Manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) gene was examined to detect oxidative stress; and the PCNA (Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen) gene expression was analyzed to detect repair synthesis as well as …

Secondary N-Nitrosocarbamate Anions: Structure And Alkylation Reactions. A Dft Study, Vladimir Benin

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The current article reports theoretical studies (DFT: B3LYP/6-31+G(d)) on the structure and alkylation reactions of the anions of some secondary N-nitrosocarbamates, a class of ambident nucleophiles whose chemistry has been little explored. Several anions (1–4), with an increasing size of the carbamate alkyl (aryl) group were investigated, in an attempt to establish the influence of the size of that group on the thermal stability and regioselectivity of alkylation of the title anions. The conclusion is that thermal stability and the mode of reaction are affected significantly only in the presence of very large and branched carbamate groups. The thermal …

Green Marketing: The Urgent Need For Federal Regulation, Lauren C. Avallone

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Direct Marketing Of Table Grapes In Southern Illinois: Consumer Purchase And Consumption Habits, Attitudes, And Impressions Of Locally Grown Table Grapes, Sean Lynch

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

European Union Food Law Update, Nicole Coutrelis

Journal of Food Law & Policy

Update on new developments in European food law.