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Pediatric Heart Diseases In Madina, Saudi Arabia. Current Status And Future Expectations, Abdulhameed A. Alnajjar, Mohamedmofeed F. Morsy, Ibrahim S. Almuzainy, Abdulmateen A. Sheikh

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate the magnitude of pediatric heart disease problem in Madina, current situation of heart service, obstacles and future expectations. METHODS: We conducted this cross sectional study in Madina Maternity and Children Hospital, Madina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from January 2007 to June 2008. The study was approved by the Ethical Committee. A computer based program was established to register the data of all children attended the pediatric cardiology unit. RESULTS: A total of 4348 children were seen in the study period; 2301 were follow up cases while 2047 were new cases. Of the new cases, 794 (38.8%) were …

Importance Of Ophthalmological Examination In Children With Congenital Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Raid M. Al-Ani, Thakir M. Mohsin, Zeina M. Hassan, Haqi I. Al-Dulaimy

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the importance of ophthalmological examination in children with congenital sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). METHODS: This study was conducted at the Ear, Nose, and Throat Department of Al-Ramadi Teaching Hospital in Al-Ramadi city, Iraq from 20 December 2007 to 30 October 2008. Fifty children with congenital SNHL were included in this prospective study. Ophthalmological examination was carried out for all patients. RESULTS: Out of 50 patients with SNHL, 16 (32%) had ocular abnormalities. Ocular abnormalities were more common in postlingual age group (81.3%) than other age groups, which is statistically significant (p=0.007). Myopia was the most common abnormality …

Attitudes, Knowledge, And Practices In Relation To Cervical Cancer And Its Screening Among Women In Saudi Arabia, Khalid H. Sait

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To assess the knowledge, attitude, and practices related to cervical cancer screening, and its underlying etiology and preventive measures among women living in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. METHODS: Six hundred self-administered questionnaires were distributed to randomly selected women from different groups in the general population of Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These questionnaires were sent out to school teachers, relative, friends, as well as, through direct interview of patients visiting the outpatient clinic while awaiting for their appointments at the King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital from January to March 2008. There were 500 respondents (83.3%). RESULTS: The knowledge of …

Repeat Pregnancies During Adolescence : Factors That Influence Teens' Decisions To Have More Than One Child, Kimberly J. Therrien

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This exploratory qualitative study was undertaken to try to learn and better understand why an adolescent would chose to have more than one child while still an adolescent herself. As the trends in current literature tend to focus on four primary areas of interest; I structured my questions in order to gain information in the same categories. Those categories include: 1) reasons adolescents become pregnant the first time including repeat pregnancies and contraceptive use, 2) intervention strategies and programs aimed to prevent repeat pregnancies, 3) the larger societal impact of adolescent pregnancy, and 4) adolescent brain development and decision making …

A Prospective Multicentric Observational Study To Evolve The Usefulness Of The Predefined Homoeopathic Medicines In The Management Of Acute Diarrheal Disease In Children, C Nayak, Vikram Singh, K Singh, Hari Singh, Anita Sharma, Praveen Oberai, Varanasi Roja, Debadatta Nayak, Maya Padmanabhan

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Background & objectives: Acute diarrheal disease is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. No data regarding the pediatric population suffering from acute diarrhea seeking homoeopathic treatment in India are available. Therefore, an observational study on acute diarrheal diseases in children was undertaken with 14 predefined trial homoeopathic medicines to arrive at a group of useful homeopathic medicines for the treatment of acute childhood diarrhea. Methods: A prospective, multi-centre observational study was conducted by Central Council for Research in Homeopathy at its various Institutes and Units throughout India during Oct. 2005- Sept. 2008. A total …

A Case Of Vitiligo Treated By Sulphur, D Jha, L Debata

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Vitiligo, as a cosmetic problem, is a source of great embarrassment to dark skinned people. An attempt was made by the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH) to ascertain the role of homoeopathic therapy and to identify homoeopathic medicines useful in the management of Vitiligo. Here is a case from the ongoing clinical research study on vitiligo at Regional Research Institute (Homoeopathy), Puri, treated by Sulphur. The case was followed up over a period of 2 years with marked improvement in white patches which is evident from the photographs.

Asthma And Social Anxiety In Adolescents, Jean Marie Bruzzese, Paige H. Fisher, Nadia Lemp, Carrie Masia

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Objective: To examine the relationship between self-reported social anxiety and asthma in a non-clinical sample of adolescents. Study design: High school students (n = 765) completed the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A), the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C), and questions on asthma diagnosis, asthma symptoms, and asthma-related limitations and medical care. Relationships were examined between social anxiety symptoms and asthma, including history of diagnosis, diagnosis plus current symptoms, and severity. Results: Compared with students without an asthma diagnosis and no symptoms, students with a diagnosis and current symptoms reported heightened social anxiety symptoms related to fear …

Mentor's Introduction [To Diong Trong Hue's Paper], Victoria De Francisco

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Duong Trong Hue from Dong Ha city, Vietnam, was selected as a Fulbright Scholar to complete an MA degree in Communication Studies at UNI. His research focus was the study of communication in organizations, and he specialized in the communication effectiveness of health-related Non-Governmental Organizations. “Using Communication Theories in Mine-Risk Education Campaigns: The Case of Vietnam” was written for a class during his first year of a two-year academic program. His final research paper required for the graduate degree includes a case study of the advocacy strategies used by an NGO based in Washington, D.C. Duong has had a longtime …

Jazz At Lincoln Center, Jonathan R. Wells

Arts Administration Master's Reports (1984-2016)

The following report documents the internship performed by Jonathan Wells with Jazz at Lincoln Center in spring 2009. Jazz at Lincoln Center is one of 12 resident organizations of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. in New York City. Jazz at Lincoln Center operates from its administrative offices at 33 West 60th Street, and its venues are housed in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle. During his internship, Mr. Wells worked within the Marketing and Creative Services Department under the direction of the Assistant Marketing Director. Among his various responsibilities, Mr. Wells primarily assisted the marketing team …

Sexual Risk Recognition Deficits: The Role Of Prior Victimization And Emotion Dysregulation, Kate L. Walsh

Department of Psychology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Recent theoretical writings suggest that the ineffective regulation of negative emotional states may reduce the ability of women to detect and respond effectively to situational and interpersonal factors that increase risk for sexual assault. However, little empirical research has explored this hypothesis. In the present study, it was hypothesized that prior sexual victimization and negative mood state would each independently predict poor risk recognition and less effective defensive actions in response to an analogue sexual assault vignette. Further, these variables were expected to interact to produce particularly impaired risk responses. Finally, that the in vivo emotion regulation strategy of suppression …

One Specialty’S Collaborative Approach To Competency-Based Curriculum Development, Diane Kittredge, Constance D. Baldwin, Miriam Bar-On, R. Franklin Trimm, Patricia S. Beach

University Faculty and Staff Publications

The authors describe a seven-step consensus development process used to create the two most recent editions of the Academic Pediatric Association’s (APA’s) educational guidelines for pediatric residency. The 1996 (printed) and 2004 (online) editions of the guidelines were designed as flexible tools to help residency programs meet changing accreditation requirements by providing lists of goals and objectives and objective-based evaluation tools. The guidelines were developed in seven steps: (1) centralized national leadership combined with coordinated, disseminated authorship, (2) clear definition of targeted users and repeated assessment of their needs, (3) incorporation of up-to-date information from the literature and national experts, …

Evaluation Of The Use Of An Interactive, Online Resource For Competency-Based Curriculum Development, Patricia S. Beach, Miriam Bar-On, Constance D. Baldwin, Diane Kittredge, R. Franklin Trimm, Rebecca Henry

University Faculty and Staff Publications

Purpose

To evaluate pediatric educators’ use of and satisfaction with the Academic Pediatric Association’s Educational Guidelines for Pediatric Residency.

Method

The authors used customized programming to document all registered users and downloaded files from the Guidelines Web site for a 30-month period after site completion. An online survey of volunteer users was conducted.

Results

Between July 2005 and December 2007, 1,747 individuals registered on the Web site, and 8,754 files were downloaded. Registrants who downloaded files (n = 1,239) represented 97% of the pediatric residency programs in 2008 that were approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. During …

Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation: Case Report, K. C. Wafula, S. Waa

Imaging & Diagnostic Radiology, East Africa

Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung is a rare lesion that typically manifests as severe progressive respiratory distress in the neonate secondary to expansion of the affected lung. We present a neonate in whom this condition was diagnosed and managed at the Aga Khan University Hospital. In presenting this patient, we hope to highlight the radiological aspects of this condition which, with prompt recognition and management and in the absence of pulmonary hypoplasia, foetal hydrops or other congenital anomalies, has a favourable prognosis.

2009 Grizzly Football Yearbook, University Of Montana--Missoula. Athletics Department

Grizzly Football Yearbook, 1939-2018

Annual yearbook of the University of Montana’s Athletics Department. This volume covers the period from fall 2009 through spring 2010.

The Colby Echo (2009-09-01), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.

Climate Change Framing And Social Marketing: The Influences That Persuade, Edna Sussman

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Long Island City Power Outage Settlement: A Case Study In Alternative Dispute Resolution, Eleanor Stein

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Work-Related Respiratory Symptoms And Pulmonary Function Tests In Iranian Printers, Mohammad H. Boskabady, Majid K. Rezaiyan, Iman Navabi, Sara Shafiei, Shahideh Shafiei

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To assess lung function tests and self-reported frequency of work related respiratory and allergic symptoms among subjects working as printers. METHODS: This study was carried out from June to October 2007 in Mashhad city, Iran. The frequency of work-related respiratory and allergy symptoms was studied in a sample of 73 printers (group I), and 73 matched controls (group II) using a questionnaire in the past year. Pulmonary function tests (PFT) were also measured in group I and group II. RESULTS: A total of 30 (41%) subjects from group I reported work-related respiratory symptoms. Breathlessness (30%) and cough (27%) was …

Child Sexual Trauma And Traumagenic Dynamics: The Mediating Role Of Family Environment On Adulthood Functioning Among Hispanic And Caucasian Females, Jose Mauricio Ramirez

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Child Sexual Abuse has received great attention in the last three decades and a major societal issue today. Several studies have suggested that the prevalence of CSA in women is in the range of 6% to 62% depending on how the data was collected (e.g., interviews, surveys) and the nature of the population sampled (e.g., general population, clinical population). Because of CSA, victims are impacted by the experience and encounter a change in the way they perceive the world on both the way they act and react upon it. Some research on the characteristics of CSA and effects in adult …

Comparison Of Rationally-Derived And Empirically-Derived Methods For Predicting Failure In Residential Treatment, Jennifer Pester Grattan

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Patient-focused research methods have been used in adult mental health treatment to improve outcomes by tracking individual treatment response and comparing it with expected recovery patterns. One such approach has used rationally- and empirically-derived methods to analyze data from the OQ-45 and identify patients who are not responding as expected to treatment. Treatment is then adjusted, improving outcomes and lowering overall costs.

Similar but less extensive research has shown analogous methods can be used with children and adolescents. This would be particularly useful in residential treatment, which is an expensive and inadequately researched approach. This study used archival data gathered …

Computational Model Of Alendronate Effects On Canine Rib Remodeling And Microdamage, Emily Huang

Master's Theses

Bisphosphonates are a class of drugs used to prevent and treat bone diseases by inhibiting the resorption of bone by osteoclasts and suppressing bone remodeling. Osteoporosis is a bone disease that develops when bone resorption exceeds bone formation which results in an increase in bone porosity and fracture risk. The risk for fractures can be reduced by increasing bone mass. Alendronate is type of bisphosphonate that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat postmenopausal osteoporosis by suppressing basic multicellular unit (BMU) remodeling and increasing bone mass. The long term effects of bisphosphonates are still unclear due …

Development And Formative Implementation Of A Nutrition Assessment And Peer Education Program Based On Dietary Analysis At A California State University, Janay Jelso

Master's Theses

A healthy diet has been established as a key component contributing to an individual’s quality of life. Statistics show that the diet of Americans needs improvement (Guenther et al., 2007) indicating possible lack knowledge of what healthy eating behaviors are. There is an abundance of nutrition misinformation available to the consumer (American Dietetic Association, 2002a). Dietary interventions that provide credible education based on readiness to change behaviors and goal setting have been successful in increasing awareness of what healthy eating behaviors are and changing existing behaviors over time (Ammerman et al., 2002; Evans & Sawyer-Morse, 2002; Gambera et al., 1995; …

A Pdms Sample Pretreatment Device For The Optimization Of Electrokinetic Manipulations Of Blood Serum, Timothy J. Abram

Master's Theses

This project encompasses the design of a pretreatment protocol for blood serum and adaption of that protocol to a microfluidic environment in order to optimize key sample characteristics, namely pH, conductivity, and viscosity, to enable on-chip electrokinetic separations. The two major parts of this project include (1) designing a pretreatment protocol to optimize key parameters of the sample solution within a target range and (2) designing /fabricating a microchip that will effectively combine the sample solution with the appropriate buffers to replicate the same bench-scale protocol on the micro-scale.

Biomarker detection in complex samples such as blood necessitates appropriate sample …

Assessment Of Electrospinning As An In-House Fabrication Technique For Blood Vessel Mimic Cellular Scaffolding, Colby M. James

Master's Theses

Intravascular devices, such as stents, must be rigorously tested before they can be approved by the FDA. This includes bench top in vitro testing to determine biocompatibility, and animal model testing to ensure safety and efficacy. As an intermediate step, a blood vessel mimic (BVM) testing method has been developed that mimics the three dimensional structure of blood vessels using a perfusion bioreactor system, human derived endothelial cells, and a biocompatible polymer scaffold used to support growth of the blood vessel cells. The focus of this thesis was to find an in-house fabrication method capable of making cellular scaffolding for …

Variability Within Irrigated Fields, Charles M. Burt, Byron Clark

BioResource and Agricultural Engineering

In agricultural production and research, it is common to represent fields as uniform areas. For example, fertilizers, soil amendments, and other inputs have traditionally been applied uniformly (or as uniformly as possible) based on estimated needs for the field as a whole (or as an “average”).

Of course, it is also recognized that fields are not truly uniform with respect to soil characteristics, uniformity of applied water, pest pressures, fertility needs, crop growth and yield, and other characteristics. With the emergence and refinement of variable rate application technology, many growers now attempt to maximize returns by “prescribing” variable amounts of …

Classic Virilizing Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Presenting Late: Case Series From Pakistan, Aysha Habib Khan, Muniba Aban, Rameez-Ul-Hassan, Naeem-Ul-Haq, Jamal Raza, Abdul Jabbar, Tariq Moatter

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Deficiency of 21 hydroxylase enzyme deficiency (21OH) activity accounts for 90% cases of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). This results in deficient cortisol, increased ACTH, adrenal hyperplasia and increased adrenal androgen secretion. There is marked virilization in genetic females which is the hallmark of this disorder. Genetic heterogeneity in 21 OHD is well recognized, and both severe and mild forms occur. We present three cases of adult females with the disease from a larger study to establish genotype, phenotype correlation of Pakistani patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) and to highlight issues such as diagnostic delay, inappropriate gender assignment at birth, …

Thefts In Hospitals And The Factors Affecting Thema Case Study In The Department Of Health Baghdad - Rusafa, Saad Ali Al-Anzi, Dashwar Jalal Al-Atrushi

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Employee Stealing or internal theft is considered from the passive practices that can’t be denied or be hidden, In spite of the hospital privacy as a serving organization that works 24\7 and deleing with human lives, they weren’t infallible from that kind of practice. To prevent or reduce this practice, it was important to search for the organizational and behavioral factors influencing internal thefts. The study problem briefly is to reach the most organizational and behavioral factors influencing internal theft, in governmental hospitals in Baghdad Rusafa Health district, this was done by analyzing (20) administrative cases of thefts occurred in …

Organizational Justice From Employees’ Perceptions: An Empirical Study, Nadhum Jawad Al-Zeidi, Taif Nouri Abdul Hamid

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

This research aims to determine the impact of variations in employees' perceptions of organizational justice within the organizations under study. Perception was adopted as the explanatory variable, while organizational justice—represented by its three dimensions (distributive justice, procedural justice, and interactional justice)—served as the response variable. To achieve the research objectives, the Baghdad Health Directorate/Al-Karkh was selected as the study population. A questionnaire was designed using a five-point Likert scale, and the data were analyzed using appropriate statistical methods.

Evaluating The Quality Of Educational Services According To The Modified Servqual Model Study Of A Sample Of Students Of The Faculty Of Management And Economics / University Of Baghdad, Sabah M. Al-Najjar

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The research aims to apply a modified SERVQUAL model to evaluate the quality of the educational services via conducting exploratory research for students from the College of Administration and Economics- Department of Business Administration- Evening studies at the University of Baghdad. Questionnaire of two parts was distributed to a sample of (72) students out of (720) students of the 2nd.,3rd. and 4th. year in the beginning of the second semester of the year 2008-2009 to measure the expectations and perceptions to the quality of the educational services. Five major dimensions were analyzed to see the gaps for (22) variables. The …

Impact Of Budget On The Basis Of Activities In The Implementation Of Competitive Strategies: Applied Study In The General Company For Electrical Industries - Tammuz Laboratory, Jalilah Idan Hulayhi, Muaab Dalil Alqasuws

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The Contemporary Business Environment is Surrounded by many quick and continues variable and changes which has an effect on the economic units. These variables and changes like the high competition which need many tools to help them to continue and achieve The critical success. So to achieve this they have many competitive strategies like cost leadership strategy, differentiation strategy and focus strategy. Budget is regarded one of main tools to execute objectives polices and programs of the economic units, beside show how the economic units had execute the available economic resources. Activity based on budgeting is regarded one of the …