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Teaching Casual Random Blood Glucose Screening To Second-Year Dental Students, Thomas W. Radmer, Moawi M. Kassab, Denis P. Lynch, Martin Walsh

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

In our project, archived casual random blood glucose levels of second-year dental students who were taught the mechanics of self-testing were retrieved. Material data were analyzed by calculating means, medians, standard deviations, and ranges for 161 dental students screened by this casual and random self-monitoring of blood glucose levels as described by the American Diabetes Association’s 2008 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes. Three types of data were assessed in this study. The first was the casual blood glucose levels of second-year dental students. The second was the data retrieved from student questionnaires regarding the value of teaching casual random …

What Should Michigan Be Doing To Promote Long-Run Economic Development?, Timothy J. Bartik

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This paper argues that Michigan can take cost-effective actions to significantly improve the primary state economic development goal: higher per capita income of Michigan's residents. Higher per capita income of Michigan's residents can be achieved through state policy actions that use cost-effective means to either lower the marginal costs of businesses that expand in the state, or boost the skills of state residents. In this paper, I offer eight ideas for how to lower marginal business costs and boost skills. Four of these ideas focus on lowering marginal business costs. Four other ideas focus on boosting skills. For each of …

Employment And Training Policy In The United States During The Economic Crisis, Christopher J. O'Leary, Randall W. Eberts

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This paper examines labor market conditions and public employment policies in the United States during what some are calling the Great Recession. We document the dramatic labor market changes that rapidly unfolded when the rate of gross domestic product growth turned negative, from the end of 2007 through early 2009. The paper reviews the resulting stress on labor market support programs and the broad federal response. That response came through modifications to existing programs and the introduction of new mechanisms to help Americans cope with job loss and protracted unemployment. The particular focus is on federally supported public programs for …

Rrh Library Newsletter, November 2009, Libraries At Rochester Regional Health

Rochester Regional Health authored publications and proceedings

Newsletter sections include: Hospital-Acquired Infections

Sacred Heart University Fact Sheet - Fall 2009, Office Of Institutional Research

News, Magazines and Reports

No abstract provided.

Barriers To Representation For Detained Immigrants Facing Deportation: Varick Street Detention Facility, A Case Study, Peter L. Markowitz

Articles

There is an evolving crisis in the immigration courts and federal courts of appeals caused by the lack of quality representation for immigrants facing deportation. The problem is particularly acute for immigrants who are detained during their removal proceedings. As part of the Study Group on Immigrant Representation (Katzmann study group), the Subcommittee on Enhancing Mechanisms for Service Delivery undertook a case study of the institutional and legal barriers to quality legal representation for immigrants held at the Varick Street Detention Facility in New York City. Through this lens we hope to offer some useful insights into the core factors …

The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement: High Standard Or Missed Opportunity?, Shuchao Henry Gao

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

When the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (P4 Agreement) was signed in 2005, it was hailed as a “high-standard” agreement that could serve as a model within the Asia-Pacific region and attract other countries in the region to join as members. This claim seems to have received support from recent events, such as the launch of the accession negotiation by the US and the expression of interests from Australia, Peru and Vietnam.

This article provides a critical analysis on whether the P4 Agreement is a “high-standard” agreement as its members have claimed. In the view of the author, the P4 …

Bile Acid Transport Correlative Protein Mrna Expression Profile In Human Placenta With Intrahepatic Cholestasis Of Pregnancy, Tao Cui, Yufang Liu, Xiaoliang Men, Zhou Xu, Lin Wu, Shuyun Liu, Aiyun Xing

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the expression of bile acid transport correlative proteins in the placenta of patients with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP). METHODS: This case-control study was performed in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China from March 2007 to October 2008. Real time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction was applied for the mRNA expression measurement of 8 bile acid transport correlative proteins, organic anion transporting polypeptide (OATP)1A2, OATP1B1, multidrug resistance protein (MRP)1, MRP2, anion exchanger (AE)2, bile salt export pump (BSEP), multidrug resistance 3, and familial intrahepatic cholestasis (FIC)1, in …

Serum Protein And Prolactin As Diagnostic Markers, Rayah S. Baban

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the use of serum prolactin and total protein as a tumor marker in diagnosing uterine fibroid(s). METHODS: A case control study was carried out from March 2004 to October 2005 at Al-Kharch Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. Thirty-two patients with uterine fibroid(s) and 30 healthy normal women were involved in the study. Blood was collected from uterine fibroid patients before and after surgery. The serum total protein was measured by the Biuret method, and prolactin by the mini VIDAS ELFA technique (enzyme linked fluorescent assay). RESULTS: The serum of patients with uterine fibroids before surgery showed an elevated …

Effects Of Age And Gender On The Likelihood Of Hip Fracture In The Elderly Population In Shanghai, China, Yongqiang Hao, Guangliang Hao, Shijing Qiu, Bingshun Wang

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

The Effectiveness Of Nurse Led Teaching In Decreasing Complications During Femoral Artery Sheath Removal After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention In Ahvaz, Iran, Seyed M. Adel, Maria Alavi, Azadeh Kochak, Fatemeh Entezari, Mojgan Dai

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

A New Deal For End Users? Lessons From A French Innovation In The Regulation Of Interoperability, Jane Winn, Nicolas Jondet

William & Mary Law Review

In 2007, France created the Regulatory Authority for Technical Measures (lAutoritj de Rdgulation des Mesures Techniques or ARMT), an independent regulatory agency charged with promoting the interoperability of digital media distributed with embedded "technical protection measures" (TPM), also known as "digital rights management" technologies (DRM). ARMT was established in part to rectify what French lawmakers perceived as an imbalance in the rights of copyright owners and end users created when the European Copyright Directive (EUCD) was transposed into French law as the "Loi sur le Droit d'Auteur et les Droits Voisins dans la Socidte de l'Information" (DADVSI). ARMT is both …

The New Invention Creation Activity Boundary In Patent Law, Margo A. Bagley

William & Mary Law Review

This Essay identifies a new boundary in patent law-illegal or immoral invention creation activity-and explores the possible challenges and opportunities it may facilitate. The boundary currently is neither robust nor extensive, and whether and under what circumstances it should exist at all is open to debate.

Perceived Behavioral Alcohol Norms Predict Drinking For College Students While Studying Abroad, Eric R. Pedersen, Joseph W. Labrie, Justin F. Hummer

Heads Up!

Objective:

College students who study abroad may represent a subgroup at risk for increased drinking while living in foreign countries. The present study explores this idea as well as the extent to which students' pre-abroad perceptions of study-abroad student drinking are related to actual drinking while abroad.

Method:

Ninety-one students planning to study abroad completed an online survey of demographics, pre-abroad drinking behavior, perceptions of study-abroad student drinking behavior while abroad, and intentions to drink while abroad. Halfway into their study-abroad experience, participants completed a follow-up survey assessing drinking while abroad.

Results:

Pre-abroad intentions of drinking and pre-abroad perceptions of …

Administering Fair Use, Jason Mazzone

William & Mary Law Review

Fair use is not working. As written by Congress and applied by the courts, the fair use law fails to give individuals sufficiently clear guidance to determine in advance whether their uses of copyrighted works are fair and therefore noninfringing. When the law does not regulate adequately, markets can supply the rules. Thus, copyright owners and prospective users of copyrighted works can-and donegotiate over and enter into contracts specifying permissible uses. However, leaving fair use to the market is far from desirable. Fair use is not meant to be something that is sold and bought like other market goods. Fair …

Spillovers Theory And Its Conceptual Boundaries, Brett Frischmann

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Jumping The Pond: Transnational Law And The Future Of Chemical Regulation, Noah M. Sachs

Vanderbilt Law Review

Just as domestic pollution can cause transnational externalities, domestic environmental regulation can create transnational ripple effects in other jurisdictions. In this Article, I show how chemical regulation-long a weak link in the network of U.S. environmental laws-is about to be reshaped and reformed through the extraterritorial ripple effects of new European Union legislation. Contributing to both international law and environmental law scholarship, this Article shows how transnational information flows can be harnessed to end the longstanding drought of data on chemical toxicity in the United States.

Part I of this Article critiques the U.S. chemical regulatory regime, arguing that a …

Behavior Problems In Toddlers With And Without Developmental Delays: Comparison Of Treatment Outcomes, Casey A. Holtz, Jennifer M. Carrasco, Ryan Mattek, Robert A. Fox

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of an in-home parent management program for toddlers with behavior problems and developmental delays by comparing outcomes for a group of toddlers with developmental delays (n = 27) and a group of toddlers without developmental delays (n = 27). The majority of children lived in single parent, low-income homes. Results suggest that the parent management program is equally effective for children with and without developmental delays. Parents from both groups reported clinically significant improvement in their children's behavior and parenting practices. Clinical implications regarding the importance of these …

Kid Smart, Inc., Lauren Anne Scarpello

Arts Administration Master's Reports (1984-2016)

This internship report contains an organizational analysis of KID smART, inc., a nonprofit arts education organization located in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, as well as a description of the author's duties as intern from August to November 2009. Included are organizational histories, management analyses, a description of the intern's duties as the Program Assistant, a SWOT analysis, best practices and recommendations for organization growth and improvement.

A Case Study In Security Sector Reform: Learning From Security Sector Reform/Building In Afghanistan (October 2002-September 2003), Jason C. Howk Captain

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

This paper provides a case study to help explain the SSR concepts that were recently formalized in U.S. Army Field Manual 3.07, "Stability Operations Doctrine." It provides insights into how the military interacts with host-nation governments, the United Nations, the State Department, and national embassies to solve today’s complex problems. The author’s experience revealed many pitfalls in security sector building and international team-building that we are trying to avoid today. The author points out the synergy that was lost because of a lack of coordination and understanding between government officials and nongovernmental organizations like aid groups, academia, and think tanks.

Talent: Implications For A U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy, Casey Wardynski Colonel, David S. Lyle Colonel, Michael J. Colarusso Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

In our proposed Army Officer Corps Strategy, we established the interdependency of accessing, developing, retaining and employing talented leaders. Before exploring each of those functions in greater detail, however, we must first define “talent.” In our view, talent is something possessed by everyone. In fact, each individual has a unique distribution of talent across three dimensions—skills, knowledge, and behaviors. Effective organizations understand this. They successfully access and retain a depth and breadth of talent that can be developed and employed against current and future requirements.

Coupled Collaborative In-Class Activities And Individual Follow-Up Homework Promote Interactive Engagement And Improve Student Learning Outcomes In A College-Level Environmental Geology Course, Leilani Arthurs, Alexis Templeton

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

Interactive engagement pedagogies that emerge from a constructivist model of teaching and learning are often a challenge to implement in larger classes for a number of reasons including the physical layout of the classroom (e.g. fixed chairs in an amphitheater-style room), the logistics of organizing a large number of students into small peer-learning groups, the ability of a single instructor to personally interact with each of many small groups, and the design of small group activities that are engaging and facilitate student learning. For a large introductory-level Environmental Geology college course, 5 coupled collaborative class-long in-class activities and individual follow-up …

Communicative Correlates Of Satisfaction, Family Identity, And Group Salience In Multiracial/Ethnic Families, Jordan Soliz, Allison R. Thorson, Christine E. Rittenour

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

Guided by the Common Ingroup Identity Model (S. L. Gaertner & J. F. Dovidio, 2000) and Communication Accommodation Theory (C. Shepard, H. Giles, & B. A. LePoire, 2001), we examined the role of identity accommodation, supportive communication, and self-disclosure in predicting relational satisfaction, shared family identity, and group salience in multiracial/ ethnic families. Additionally, we analyzed the association between group salience and relational outcomes as well as the moderating roles of multiracial/ethnic identity and marital status. Individuals who have parents from different racial/ethnic groups were invited to complete questionnaires on their family experiences. Participants (N = 139) answered questions about …

Thoughts Of Suicidality And Self-Harm In Middle Childhood: Relationship With Child Maltreatment And Maternal Substance Abuse And Depression, Tara K. Cossel, Natasha Elkovitch, David J. Hansen

Department of Psychology: Presentations

Child maltreatment victims are at increased risk for a multitude of symptoms, including: internalizing problems (e.g., depression, anxiety), behavior problems (e.g., aggression) and post-traumatic stress symptoms (Paolucci, Genuis, & Violato, 2001). Not all maltreated children present with the same outcomes, and research consistently demonstrates child abuse does not have an inevitable pattern or a unified presentation of symptoms. Some youth may be asymptomatic following abuse; others display a myriad of symptoms at varying levels of severity (Kendall-Tackett, Williams, & Finkelhor, 1993). A small percentage of this group becomes suicidal.

Recent studies have presented accumulating evidence that suicidality and self-harm warrant …

Personality And Psychosocial Factors Of College Drinking Amount And Frequency, Lindsay A. Vuchetich, Tara K. Cossel, Laura C. Herschl, Dennis E. Mcchargue Ph.D.

Department of Psychology: Presentations

Despite laws in every State that make it illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to purchase or possess alcohol, young people report that alcohol is easy to obtain and that many high school and college students drink with one goal – to get drunk. Binge drinking is defined as consuming six or more drinks in a row for boys and four or more in a row for girls. In this exploratory research, several articles were gathered in order to integrate previous findings in the current study. One factor that was looked at in the current study was if …

Bone Mass Measurement Using Quantitative Ultrasound In Healthy Saudi Women. A Cross-Sectional Screening, Ibrahim M. Al-Habdan, Mir Sadat-Ali, Fahd A. Al-Muhanna, Abdulmohsen H. Al-Elq, Abdul-Aziz A. Al-Mulhim

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To study the prevalence of osteopenia and osteoporosis in healthy Saudi women, a community-based screening was carried out. METHODS: Three thousand and two hundred sixty-nine women in the young women in peak bone mass (PBM) age group and 3131 in the postmenopausal age (PMA) group were screened using Achilles Insight (GE, USA). Subjects included in the study were healthy and residents of eastern province. The screening was conducted between January 2006 and December 2007. The study took place in King Fahd University Hospital, Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. RESULTS: In the PBM age group, 2090 (63.9%) were normal, 791 …

Coping With Visceral Leishmaniasis In Turkey, H±Seyin Cakan, Mehmet Y. Iscan, Vecdet Oz, Mustafa Aslan, Tuncay M. Karayel, Ismail Cakir, Huseyin B. Uner

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Complementary And Alternative Therapies In Western Saudi Arabia, Mahmood D. Al-Mendalawi, Mohammed M. Jan

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Hand Sepsis In Patients With Diabetes Mellitus, Mohamed E. Ahmed, Shadad M. Mahmoud, Seifeldin I. Mahadi, Abubakr H. Widatalla, Mohamed A. Shawir, Mohamed E. Ahmed

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To report on the clinical presentation and possible risk factors leading to hand sepsis, amputation, management, and outcome in diabetic patients presenting to a multidisciplinary diabetic center in Khartoum, Sudan. METHODS: This is a retrospective descriptive study of all diabetic patients presenting with hand sepsis between September 2002 and March 2008 to Jabir Abueliz Diabetic Centre (JADC) in Khartoum, Sudan. RESULTS: A hundred and nineteen diabetic patients with hand sepsis were managed in JADC. The causative agent was unknown in 48.7%, and due to trauma in 42.9%. The most common presentation was cellulitis in 36.1% of patients and deep …

The Clinicopathologic Patterns Of Prostatic Diseases And Prostate Cancer In Saudi Patients, Hisham A. Mosli, Taha A. Abdel-Meguid, Jaudah A. Al-Maghrabi, Wisam K. Kamal, Hisham A. Saadah, Hasan M. Farsi

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the clinicopathologic patterns of prostatic diseases in Saudi patients, with special emphasis on prostate cancer (PCa). METHODS: The records of patients who underwent histopathological examinations of their prostatic specimens in King Abdulaziz University Medical City and King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, between June 2003 and June 2008 were reviewed retrospectively. The age, indications for biopsy, histological diagnosis, and Gleason grading of cancer patients, were studied. RESULTS: The study included 330 patients aged 37-100 years (median=68). Specimens included 233 transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsies, 85 transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), 8 simple prostatectomies, 3 …