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November 16, 2006, Council On Academic Affairs

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Volume 44, Number 26: November 16, 2006, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

The Comment, November 16, 2006, Bridgewater State College

The Comment

No abstract provided.

Illinois State University Report, November 16, 2006, Illinois State University

Illinois State University Report (1966-2012)

Illinois State University bi-weekly employee newsletter.

Daily Eastern News: November 16, 2006, Eastern Illinois University

November

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Wsu Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, November 16-17, 2006

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on November 16-17, 2006.

Don't Let Holiday Stress Turn You Into A Frenetic, Miserable Nutcase, Lori Wright

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Laboratory -Induced Aggression Among Participants With And Without A History Of Alcohol -Related Aggression, Matthew D. Bailly

Theses and Dissertations

The effects of alcohol-related and mixed alcohol and non-alcohol-related histories of aggression on aggressive responding in the laboratory were investigated using the Point Subtraction Aggression Paradigm (PSAP). Forty-five male college students were selected for participation in the present study using a questionnaire consisting of modified items from the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory (BDHI; Buss & Durkee, 1957) and Overt Aggression Scale (OAS; Yudofsky et al., 1986) that allowed for assignment to an alcohol-related, mixed, or no history of aggression control condition. Participants performed four 25-minute PSAP sessions in sequence during one laboratory visit. The short version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality …

Social Anxiety And The Recognition Of Auditory And Visual Emotional Cues, Ryan D. Hartmann

Theses and Dissertations

Cognitive theory attributes social anxiety to a host of perceptual biases that transform harmless interpersonal stimuli into threats. Socially anxious college students were expected to misinterpret visual and auditory cues of emotion in others more readily than their more confident counterparts. This group of socially anxious men and women were also expected to perceive negative emotion from visual and auditory cues that were determined to be neutral or positive through an external validation process. A total of 16 participants were assigned into each of the four cells of this 2 (gender) by 2 (Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale-Self Report median split) …

Expanding Roles: Paraeducators Providing Health Care To Students In Elementary Schools, Sharon Nelson

Theses and Dissertations

Approximately ten to thirty percent of school aged children have a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral or emotional condition that requires specialized health care and related services. Providing the needed health care is critical in maintaining students' participation and success in school. The enactment of PL 94-142, in 1975, mandated that public schools give children with disabilities the right to a "free and appropriate public education" in the least restrictive environment possible. School nurses are the logical choice to provide the necessary health care in schools. They have the knowledge, expertise, judgement and critical thinking skills inherent in nursing education and …

Beliefs And Values Of K–12 Teachers Underlying The Grading Process In North Dakota Small Rural Schools, Keith H. Gustafson

Theses and Dissertations

Research has shown that the grades teachers assign to students have been increasing in value, whereas the achievement measured by the grades has remained the same. There is great variability reported in the current literature concerning the grading practices of teachers. There is no consensus about what grades should mean, what reference base should be used for comparability, or the extent to which the grades assigned should correlate with the students' performances on national achievement tests. The purpose of the study was to gather information about general education teachers' beliefs and values regarding the criteria that should be used in …

2006.11.16 - Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Northeastern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees - 2006

Meeting materials for the NEIU Board of Trustees

Validation Of A Quantitative Measure To Assess Schema Content Associated With Social Anxiety, Jennifer R. Brendle

Theses and Dissertations

Many cognitive theories of anxiety suggest that anxious individuals are characterized by maladaptive schemata, such that they focus their attention on and make biased interpretations of perceived threat material (e.g., Beck & Emery, 1985, Bower, 1981). In addition, cognitive theories of social phobia, in particular, posit that socially anxious individuals demonstrate attentional and interpretation biases when confronted with signals of social danger or threat as a result of maladaptive schemata (e.g., Beck & Emery, 1985; Clark & Wells, 1995; Rapee & Heimberg, 1997). Although these models all propose that maladaptive schemata result in faulty information processing which leads to the …

The Bg News November 16, 2006, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 16, 2006. Volume 97-Issue 61.

The Cowl - V. 71 - N. 12 - Nov 16, 2006

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 71 - Number 12 - November 16, 2006. 28 pages.

Mustang Daily, November 16, 2006

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

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

Vista: November 16, 2006, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

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The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

B C Towing Andlor, Workers Compensation Fiind, Petitioners V. Utah Labor Commission And/Or Kenneth R. Laier, Respondents : Brief Of Petitioner

Utah Appeals Court Briefs

PETITION FOR REVIEW OF AN ORDER OF THE UTAH LABOR COMMISSION

The Grizzly, November 16, 2006, Kerri Landis, Marlena M. Mcmahon-Purk, Dan Lamson, Krithika Krishnarao, Sarah Keck, Salia Zouande, Lane Taylor, Erin Padovani, Erin Andrew, Corinne Liccketto, Brandon Brown, Dan Sergeant, Gabe Herman, Alex Ernst, Matthew Pastor, Danielle Langdon

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Election Results Bring Significant Changes • Ursinus Maintains its Health • Peace Vigil on Campus • Lecture Examines the Ethical Treatment of Abandoned Embryos • SquadZilla Brings Hip-Hop to Life at Ursinus • Ursinus Campaign Surpasses Goal • HPV and Cervical Cancer: The Facts, Part II • Preview of the Upcoming UCDC Performance • The Labyrinth: Not Just David Bowie in Spandex • Review of "The Sisters Rosensweig" • Opinions: Nerf: Yardstick of the Pentagon; American Press Needs Revamping • Bears Down Dickinson in Battle of Top Teams in Centennial Conference • Bears Win Third Straight CC Championship!

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• A Holiday Feast
• News Briefs
• Campus News
• Classifieds
• Sports
• Hiatus

Many Are The Deceivers, Cassie Worley

Theses

This thesis examines the adaptations and disseminations of ancient and modern dominant Western Parables. It investigates both Biblical myths and fairy tales, as they are used as socializing tools, which set standards in Western culture, and prescribe conventions to our children. Within the thesis, themes from Little Red Riding Hood will be extrapolated, and compared to those found in Old Testament tales such as, The Expulsion from Eden, the Deluge, The Ten Plagues, and Exodus. Throughout the thesis, the history and function of the myth and fairy tale will be defined, and questions will be raised regarding the role of …

The Daily Egyptian, November 15, 2006, Daily Egyptian Staff

November 2006

No abstract provided.

Teilhard And The Future Of Humanity, Thierry Meynard, S.J.

Religion

Fifty years after his death, the thought of the French scientist and Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955) continues to inspire new ways of understanding humanity’s future. Trained as a paleontologist and philosopher, Teilhard was an innovative synthesizer of science and religion, developing an idea of evolution as an unfolding of material and mental worlds into an integrated, holistic universe at what he called the Omega Point. His books, such as the bestselling The Phenomenon of Man, have influenced generations of ecologists, environmentalists, planners, and others concerned with the fate of the earth.

This book brings together original essays …

The Impact Of High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol On Five-Year Mortality In Older Adults, Lisa Millman

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (ATP III) guidelines have defined a high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) of <50 mg/dL in women and <40 mg/dL in men as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Our research aim was to examine the relationship between untreated HDL-C levels below this recommended level on five year cardiovascular, stroke, and all-cause mortality in adults over 71 years of age. The Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) is a prospective cohort study of community dwelling adults over 65 years of age in East Boston, MA; Iowa and Washington Counties, IA; New Haven, CT; and Durham, NC. The National Institutes of Aging (NIA) started EPESE to study health, social, psychological, and economic aspects of older adults lives through extensive annual interviews. The EPESE dataset is further enriched by serum measures including low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), HDL-C, total cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, BUN and creatinine, which were obtained at the sixth annual follow-up interview. Our primary outcome was all-cause mortality with secondary mortality outcomes of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), coronary artery disease (CAD) not AMI, and congestive heart failure (CHF). The mean age of our cohort was 78.7 years with the majority being female (63.86%), white (88.15%), and married (52.80%). Just over half (52.07%) of our cohort met the criteria for low HDL-C as defined by ATP III. Chi square and Fisher exact test were used to compare demographics (age, gender, race, marital status, education), clinical variables (history of MI, cancer, diabetes, angina, smoking, alcohol use), and functional variables (activities of daily living, gross mobility, cognitive status) at baseline and five year follow-up. Cox proportional hazard models were created using a step-wise approach to assess the impact of low HDL-C on mortality. Low HDL-C was not significantly associated with crude all-cause (P= .413), AMI (P= .473), CHF (P= .259), and stroke (P= .345) mortality. HDL-C was significantly associated with unadjusted CAD (P= .033) mortality. However, after adjustment for demographics, clinical, and functional variables as well as the other blood values all outlined above, HDL-C was not associated with five year all-cause, AMI, CAD, CHF or stroke mortality with adjusted hazard ratios of (HR=1.03, 95% CI 0.90-1.18), (HR=1.09, 95% CI 0.70-1.71), (HR=1.33, 95% CI 0.91-1.92), (HR=1.07, 95% CI 0.63-1.81) and (HR=0.80, 95% CI 0.51-1.27) respectively. In older community dwelling adults enrolled in EPESE, low HDL-C levels as stratified by current recommended guidelines (<50 mg/dL in women and <40 mg/dL in men) were not associated with increased risk of five-year cardiovascular, stroke or all-cause mortality. HDL-C alone may have minimal effect on future longevity in older adults due to competing risk and co-morbid conditions. Further studies are required to determine whether the movement toward more aggressive lipid profile interventions specifically to raise HDL-C in older adults would prove beneficial in this growing segment of our population.

Quality Of Life In Macular Degeneration Between Photodynamic Therapy And Pegaptanib Treatment Groups, Sara Nayeem

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

The purpose of this study was to examine quality of life (QOL) in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), particularly across photodynamic therapy (PDT) and pegaptanib sodium injection treatment groups. Patients with AMD were either mailed or were administered in person a modified version of the Visual Function Questionnaire (VFQ-25). Subgroup analysis of the VFQ-25 was performed per NEI prescribed algorithms and additional analyses regarding questions on treatment side effects were also performed. A two-tailed student t-test and mean were calculated for each treatment group and correlations between visual acuity and subgroup outcomes were calculated. Correlations between the subgroup and treatment-related subgroup …

The Physiological Effects Of Hockey Protective Equipment On High Intensity Intermittent Exercise, Benjamin Noonan

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Ice hockey is a contact sport played in a cold environment which leads to assumptions that players are not exposed to a thermal challenge. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that the wearing of hockey protective equipment during an exercise protocol designed to simulate a hockey game would induce a thermal challenge and lead to decrements in performance. In order to test this hypothesis and qualify the physiological responses, subjects performed a standardized protocol performed on a stationary cycle ergometer in an environmental chamber set at typical (12ºC) ice hockey ambient conditions. The simulation was performed …

Effect Of Soy Isoflavone Protein And Soy Lecithin On Endothelial Function In Healthy Postmenopausal Women, Mary Pearson

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of soy isoflavone protein concentrate and soy lecithin on endothelial function measured as flow mediated dilation (FMD) of the brachial artery in healthy postmenopausal women. In this randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled crossover trial, twenty-five subjects (mean age 61 years; BMI 25.46 kg/m2) were recruited from the general population of southwestern Connecticut. Subjects underwent endothelial function testing using high frequency ultrasound at baseline and following 4 weeks of each randomly assigned treatment with intervening 4-week washout periods. Treatment assignment included: soy isoflavone protein (SP, 25gm/day) or soy lecithin (SL, 20gm/day) alone …

Social Influences On Academic Motivation In Early Elementary School Students, Jenli Waters

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

The goal of this research is to identify correlations between academic intrinsic motivation and exposures to academic activities within the home acknowledged by young children (5 to 8 years old). This study hopes to clarify relationship between academic intrinsic motivation and exposure to positive role modeling of academic activities in young children. Much of the data was collected by interview-style surveys conducted with a sample of 18 boys and girls of ages between 5 and 8 years. The Child-Reported Home Reading and Math Exposure Questionnaire (HEQ) was developed by the author for this study to assess the extent to which …

The Effects Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder On Pregnancy Outcomes, Shari Rogal

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), diagnosed prospectively during pregnancy, on the occurrence of low birthweight (<2500 grams) and preterm delivery (<37 weeks gestational age). A cohort of 1362 women was recruited from prenatal care visits and screened for depression, panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and substance use. Current episodes of PTSD were assessed using the MINI International Neuropsychiatric Interview. Pregnancy outcomes were abstracted from hospital records after delivery, and the data were analyzed using logistic regression. Two hundred sixty two women (33%) were lost to follow-up due to unavailable medical records, leaving 1100 women in the final analyses. Among these 1100 women, 31 (3%) were found to have PTSD during pregnancy. Substance use in pregnancy, panic disorder, major and minor depressive disorders, and prior preterm delivery were significantly associated with PTSD in the sample, while age, language spoken, and race were not. Low birthweight (LBW) was present in 6.5% of sampled women and was not significantly associated with a diagnosis of PTSD in pregnancy when adjusting for potential confounders. However, LBW was significantly associated with minor depressive disorder OR= 1.82 (CI=1.01, 3.29). Preterm delivery occurred in 7.0% of those without and 16.1% of those with PTSD (p=0.055). Because prior preterm delivery data were not available for 33% of women with PTSD, this variable was included only in secondary analyses. However, the association between PTSD and preterm delivery depended on this variable, with OR= 2.82 (0.95, 8.38) before controlling for prior preterm delivery and OR=3.35 (1.04, 10.85) after controlling for prior preterm delivery. These data suggest that a possible association of PTSD and preterm delivery was limited by the low rates of PTSD in this cohort and the inability to control for all confounders. Taken together, these findings provide limited support for the hypothesized association between PTSD and preterm delivery and no support for an association of PTSD with LBW.