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Virginia Commonwealth University Fall Commencement Program [2007], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Information Interface - Volume 35, Issue 1 - January/February 2007, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Information Interface (1976 - 2009)

News and information about Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library of interest to users.

Gateway Magazine, The Murray State News, January 1, 2007, The Murray State News

Murray State University Collection

No abstract provided.

Age-Related Dgc Structure And Function In The F344/N X Bn Rat Heart, Sunil K. Kakarla

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Recent data has suggested that disruption of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC) may be involved in mediating the progression of cardiac hypertrophy and failure. Here we examined the regulation of DGC proteins in the hearts of adult (6 months), aged (30 months), and very aged (36 months) F344/N X BN rats . Compared to adult animals, the content of α- and β-dystroglycan were 6.93 ± 5.16% and 58.36 ± 3.64% higher, respectively (P < 0.05) in very aged animals. Immunoblotting and immunhistochemical analysis suggested that aging appeared to diminish alpha-sarcoglycan, beta-sarcoglycan and delta-sarcoglycan content by 13.89 ± 3.1%,15.8 ± 2.8% and 18.63 ± 3.04%, respectively (P < 0.05). These alterations in the DGC occurred coincident with age- associated alterations in cytoplasmic anti-rat IgG immunoreactivity, TUNEL positive nuclei, alpha-fodrin cleavage, indices of caspase-3 activation and diminished AKT phosphoryation (Ser 308). Taken together, these data suggest that aging alters cardiac DGC structure and function.

Harding Magazine Winter 2007 (Vol. 15, No. 1), Harding University

Harding Magazines

Publication distributed to alumni and friends of the university.

Washington University Magazine, Winter 2007

Washington University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Support By Migrants To Their Elderly Parents In Rural Cambodia And Thailand: A Comparative Study, Zachary Zimmer, Kim Korinek, John Knodel, Napaporn Chayovan

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Internal migration in Southeast Asia raises questions about strains upon traditional systems of support for older adults. While remittances to parents’ households play a role in rural household economies, uncertainty remains regarding whether and under what circumstances children interact with their elderly parents. This paper focuses on the adult children of older persons living in rural Cambodia and Thailand and examines the determinants of personal visits, monetary remittances, and more general forms of household support. Analyses consider ways in which geographically distant children support parents, the extent to which characteristics of parents, children, and households enhance or detract from these …

Gendered Support Strategies Of The Elderly In The Gwembe Valley, Zambia, Lisa Cliggett

Anthropology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Protecting Rights Or Waiving Them? Why "Negotiated Risk" Should Be Removed From Assisted Living Law, Eric M. Carlson

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Measuring Service Effectiveness For Families, Monit Cheung, Needha Mcneil Boutte-Queen

Journal of Family Strengths

While most professionals do not dispute the fact that evaluation is necessary to determine whether agencies and practitioners are truly providing services that meet clients’ needs, information regarding consistent measures on service effectiveness in human service organizations is sparse. A national survey of 250 not-for-profit family service organizations in the United States (52.8% return rate) yielded results relevant to client identified needs and agency effectiveness measures in serving today’s families. On an open-ended survey item, 52.3% agencies indicated that poverty represented the most pressing problem among today’s families because other psychological needs also take priority. Over two thirds of these …

Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog, 2007 - 2009, Office Of The Registrar

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Attitudes And Expectations Of Technologies To Manage Wandering Behavior In Persons With Dementia, William D. Kearns, Deborah Rosenberg, Lisa West, Shawn Applegarth

Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling Faculty Publications

Purpose Wandering is aimless or repetitive locomotion that may expose persons with dementia to falls, injuries, elopement, and untimely death. Using data from focus groups, this study obtained opinions on the potential effectiveness of existing technologies for managing wandering in persons with dementia living in the community, and on the elements that such technologies should possess from the user’s perspective. Design & Methods Cross-disciplinary, consensus-based analysis was applied to data from 6 focus groups consisting of 7 elderly nursing home residents, 7 caregivers of persons with dementia, 9 home healthcare staff, 7 long term care staff, 7 medical surgical staff …

Accent On Learning, 2007-2008, University Of South Florida

USF Catalogs (Accent on Learning)

No abstract provided.

Conducting Cross-Cultural Research In Teams And The Search For The “Culture-Proof” Variable, Patricia Draper

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Objective: Cross-cultural research must always deal with the problem that meaning systems and behaviors cannot be readily compared from one culture to the next because the sociocultural context can vary so widely.
Design: The organizers of Project AGE: Age, Generation, and Experience, a multicultural study of aging, recognized this problem and devised instruments for studying age that allowed for cultural variation as well as comparability at higher levels of abstraction. The principal investigators of Project AGE and the individual researchers made every effort to gain an emic understanding (understanding based on categories recognized by the local respondents) of people’s attitudes …

Focus Emu, October 30, 2007, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.

Focus Emu, September 4, 2007, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.

Focus Emu, April 3, 2007, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.

Eastern Michigan University Graduate Catalog 2007 - 2009, Office Of The Registrar

Graduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Office Of The Vice Provost For Research Annual Report - 2007, Office Of The Vice Provost For Research, East Tennessee State University

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Spring Commencement, April 29, 2007, Eastern Michigan University

Commencement Programs and Materials

No abstract provided.

Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, June 19, 2007, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

No abstract provided.

The Northern Iteration: Challenges, Successes And Opportunities Of Catholic Universities In Canada, Michael W. Higgins

Mission & Culture Publications

This paper is a redaction of four panel presentations provided at the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities' 2007 Annual Meeting held in Washington, D.C. The panelist-presenters were Dr. Gerald Killan, Ph.D., Principal, King's University College at The University of Western Ontario; Dr. Myroslaw Tataryn, Ph.D., President, St. Jerome's University; Dr. Terrence Downey, Ph.D., President, St. Mary's University College; and Dr. Michael.W. Higgins, Ph.D., President, St. Thomas University.

Post-secondary education in Canada is exclusively a provincial concern. As a consequence, and given Canada's diverse and complicated history, post-secondary Catholic education has taken a different direction from that of its immediate …

Uri Undergraduate And Graduate Course Catalog 2007-2008, University Of Rhode Island

URI Course Catalogs Archive

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island course catalog.

Collaboration Without End: The Case Of The Positive Aging Newsletter, M. M. Gergen, Kenneth J. Gergen

Psychology Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Clark University Academic Catalog [2006-2007], Clark University

Clark University Academic Catalogs

Annual academic catalog for the 2006-2007 academic year at Clark University.

Clark University academic catalogs contain academic announcements, course listings and descriptions, degrees and degree requirements, registers of instructor and administrator names, information on buildings and grounds, Clark history, and more. They have had various titles throughout the decades, but for consistency we collectively refer to them as academic catalogs across all titles.

Population Inference With Mortality And Attrition In Longitudinal Studies On Aging: A Two-Stage Multiple Imputation Method, Ofer Harel, Scott M. Hofer, Lesa Hoffman, Nancy L. Pedersen

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

First paragraph:

Although there are numerous challenges for the investigation of aging-related changes in older adults, statistical analysis with incomplete data and the conceptualization of population processes related to mortality is one of the most difficult. Selective attrition and mortality selection within longitudinal studies on aging are intrinsically related to many aging-related changes and must be carefully considered in the analysis and interpretation of results (e.g., Baltes, 1968; Hofer & Sliwinski, 2006; Schaie, Labouvie, & Barrett, 1973). A key distinction is made between attrition (i.e., selective dropout) and mortality selection (i.e., selective survival) in that attrition affects characteristics of the …

Collection Of Works By Faculty And Staff - 2007, University Of Texas At Brownsville

Digital Books

This annual publication provides a listing of books, journals, videocassettes, compact discs, and software produced by various faculty and staff of the former University of Texas at Brownsville.

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Prayer And Subjective Well-Being, Brandon L. Whittington

Masters Theses

The present study examined the relationship between types of prayer (adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication, reception, and obligation) and self-esteem, life satisfaction, and life meaning, while testing optimism, belief in prayer, and spiritual support as mediators. Linear regression analyses were conducted to examine relationships. Optimism was confirmed as a mediator between adoration and life satisfaction, thanksgiving and life satisfaction, and thanksgiving and self-esteem. Spiritual support was confirmed as a mediator between reception and life meaning. As hypothesized, optimism played a large role in predicting well-being, especially in adoration and thanksgiving, prayer focused on positive themes. Overall, prayer was shown to predict …

Texas Silver-Haired Legislature Training Manual, 2007, Texas Silver-Haired Legislature, Texas Silver Haired Legislature Foundation

Texas Silver-Haired Legislature

The training manual of the Texas Silver-Haired Legislature, 2007.

Catalog 2007-08, Dmacc

Catalogs

No abstract provided.