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Psychological And Cognitive Determinants Of Vision Function In Age-Related Macular Degeneration., Barry W. Rovner, Robin J Casten, Robert W Massof, Benjamin E Leiby, William S Tasman

Department of Neurology Faculty Papers

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of coping strategies, depression, physical health, and cognition on National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire scores obtained at baseline in a sample of older patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) enrolled in the Improving Function in AMD Trial, a randomized controlled clinical trial that compares the efficacy of problem-solving therapy with that of supportive therapy to improve vision function in patients with AMD.

METHODS: Baseline evaluation of 241 older outpatients with advanced AMD who were enrolled in a clinical trial testing the efficacy of a behavioral intervention to improve vision function. Vision function was characterized …

The Lines Are Starting To Blur, Tan K. B. Eugene

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Eugene Tan, Assistant Professor of Law at SMU, argues that the public service and civil society are beginning to collaborate more. This co-creation creates better quality solutions that benefit society as a whole.

The Effect Of Oral Administration Of Carum Carvi On Weight, Serum Glucose, And Lipid Profile In Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats., Fatemeh Haidari, Neda Seyed-Sadjadi, Mohammad Taha-Jalali, Majid Mohammed-Shahi

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effect of oral administration of caraway (Carum carvi) on the blood glucose level, lipid profile, and the weight of diabetic rats. METHODS: This investigation was carried out in Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran between April and June 2010. Twenty-four male Wistar rats weighing 200-250 g were randomly divided into 3 groups: normal, diabetic, and caraway treated diabetic groups and were studied for 3 weeks. Diabetes was induced by intraperitoneal injection of 60 mg/kg body weight streptozotocin. Caraway was given orally at a dose of 1g/kg body weight daily, and the body weight of animals …

The Effectiveness Of Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning To Reduce Alternate Conceptions In Secondary Chemistry, Michelle Jones Barthlow

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

A nonequivalent, control group, pretest-posttest design was used to investigate student achievement in secondary chemistry. This study investigated the effect of process oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) in high school chemistry to reduce alternate conceptions related to the particulate nature of matter versus traditional lecture pedagogy. Data were collected from chemistry students in four large high schools and analyzed using ANCOVA. The results show that POGIL pedagogy, as opposed to traditional lecture pedagogy, resulted in fewer alternate conceptions related to the particulate nature of matter. Male and female students in the POGIL group posted better posttest scores than their traditional …

The Communicator, July 2011, Terry Messmer

All Current Publications

Various buffer distances have been recommended to mitigate the potential effects of human-generated activities such as oil and gas development on sage-grouse (Centrocercus spp.). The sage-grouse management guideline published in 2000 recommended maintaining a 3 km (1.9 mi) buffer zone between the activity and seasonal sage-grouse habitat.

Watershed Detectives, Usu Extension

All Current Publications

A watershed is an area of land from which all the water drains to the same location, such as a stream, pond, lake, river, wetland or estuary. A watershed can be quite large, such as the Colorado River drainage basin, or very small, such as a small horse pasture that drains to a farm pond.

Important Components Of A Successful Pest Management Program, Diane G. Alston

All Current Publications

Before deciding to take any pest control action, be sure you have correctly identified the pest (insect, mite, disease, weed, vertebrate, etc.). Proper pest identification is essential for determining if control is necessary and for selection of the best suited control options.

Nmp4/Ciz Suppresses The Response Of Bone To Anabolic Parathyroid Hormone By Regulating Both Osteoblasts And Osteoclasts, Paul Childress, Binu K. Philip, Alexander G. Robling, Angela Bruzzaniti, Melissa A. Kacena, Nicoletta Bivi, Lilian I. Plotkin, Aaron Heller, Joseph P. Bidwell

Student Publications

How parathyroid hormone (PTH) increases bone mass is unclear, but understanding this phenomenon is significant to the improvement of osteoporosis therapy. Nmp4/CIZ is a nucleocytoplasmic shuttling transcriptional repressor that suppresses PTH-induced osteoblast gene expression and hormone-stimulated gains in murine femoral trabecular bone. To further characterize Nmp4/CIZ suppression of hormone-mediated bone growth, we treated 10-week-old Nmp4-knockout (KO) and wild-type (WT) mice with intermittent human PTH(1-34) at 30 μg/kg daily or vehicle, 7 days/week, for 2, 3, or 7 weeks. Null mice treated with hormone (7 weeks) gained more vertebral and tibial cancellous bone than WT animals, paralleling the exaggerated response in …

Synchronizing Cattle Using Progesterone Infused Vaginal Inserts, Kerry A. Rood, Kevin Heaton, Rusty Stott

All Current Publications

This publication provides tips for cattle producers for synchronizing cattle using progesterone infused vaginal inserts.

Tips For Synchronizing Cattle Using Progesterone Infused Vaginal Inserts, Kerry A. Rood, Rusty Stott, Kevin Heaton

All Current Publications

This publication provides tips for cattle producers for synchronizing cattle using progesterone infused vaginal inserts.

4-H Try Lotions & Potions Curriculum, An Entrepreneurial Project, Donna Carter, Teresa Hunsaker

All Current Publications

This manual includes recipes, instructions, and explanations for making your own spa products as part of the TRY program.

July 1, 2011, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Synthesis Of A Folate Receptor Mass Spectrometry Probe, Audrea Rhymes

All Capstone Projects

Drug delivery is one of the most important concepts for cancer patients because it is oftentimes very difficult or nearly impossible to exclusively target cancerous cells. In this study, the aim was to target receptors on cancerous cells, specifically the Folate Receptor (FR). This specific receptor was targeted because it has been proven to enhance intracellular delivery being that folic acid is an integral species in normal cell function and also that cancerous cells tend to exhibit an abnormally high concentration of Folic Acid on cell surfaces.

The application of dyes is a very common practice used to link folic …

Superman's Ancestors - Beowulf, Odysseus And Roy Hobbs: Application And Analysis Of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth Theory, Michael Kealy

All Student Theses and Dissertations

Heroes have been with us since the beginning of time with some becoming more well known than others. Each and every culture seems to have their own type of hero that embodies their ideals, values and beliefs. It is this truth that Joseph Campbell, author of the 1949 book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, uses as a foundation to discuss his take on why heroes have had and will always have a place within the human fabric regardless of geographical location, religious affiliation or cultural idiosyncrasies. This thesis will apply Campbell’s monomyth theory to literary classics such as …

Don't Shoot The Messenger, Wayon C. Collins

All Student Theses and Dissertations

My hope is to inform people through my art, thus creating a spark that might motivate people to bring about a change in how corporations do business. My art touches mainly on the issues of corporations polluting the environment, massive layoffs, breaking up unions, controlling the media output and sometimes creating situations that harm people, with no accountability.

Hydraulic And Geospatial Analyses Of Stream Engineering And Habitat Restoration Near Los Lunas, Nm, Stephen Kissock

Civil Engineering ETDs

Stream restoration is a complex process encompassing multiple disciplines and organizations to achieve specific, immediate and long-term goals. Analyses of many completed projects are limited to narrow objectives that commonly exclude the same broad scopes envisioned during the planning process. This thesis studies one completed habitat restoration project in terms of its engineering and biological sustainability using geospatial analysis procedures not widely applied to these goals. These procedures include adjustment of a digital terrain model for hydraulic accuracy, the use of the digital terrain model and aerial imagery for the digitization of features used in hydraulic modeling, and the geospatial …

Obama's Presidential (Mixed) Race: Framing And Ideological Analysis Of Blogs And News, Iliana Rucker

Communication ETDs

The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States brought a heightened awareness to the role of race and produced speculation about the idealized notion of the achievement of a post-racial United States. This dissertation examined mediated conversations on mixed race identity in response to some of the significant events in the Obama campaign and the first months of the Obama presidency. Specifically, this study examined the ways that newspapers and blogs construct discourses about race, mixed race, and racism. Further, I explored the biological, legal, and social implications as they relate to current constructions of mixed race …

Forms And Fragments: Enactment Of Cultural Identification In An Online Community Of Chinese Living Overseas, Haibin Dong

Communication ETDs

This research is an interpretive study of the dynamics of cultural identification as enacted by Chinese individuals living overseas who participate in a virtual online community known as Wenxuecity.com. The study draws on intercultural communication theories of identity proposed by Carbaugh, Collier, and Hecht, as well as on my own integrative framework for the analysis of cultural identity, to explore the self-other interaction in identity enactment, the multidimensionality of identity, and the centrality of communication in processes of identification. Through the application of a qualitative analysis of online discourse, I found three primary forms of cultural identification-- perceptual, strategic, and …

Nopalitos Mean Something: Communicating Identity In Mother-Daughter Relationships Through Food And Recipe, Darla Antoine

Communication ETDs

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze a memoir/cookbook to highlight the unique role of food and recipes in relationships among women—specifically within mother-daughter relationships. The text highlights how food and recipes can become emotionally entwined in our life stories and in our relationships. Using cluster analysis, the analytical research of this thesis creates conversations about food and recipes as communicative vessels of intimacy and legacy among women and their daughters. Finally, this thesis demonstrates new ways food and recipes may help women navigate their own identities within both the psychoanalytical stages of the Oedipal complex and the psychological …

Scientists Become Real People To Students, Al Enlow

First Opinions, Second Reactions

No abstract provided.

Second Reaction: Combining Efferent Reading And Aesthetics To Enhance Student Appreciation, Ann Koci

First Opinions, Second Reactions

No abstract provided.

Words From The Author, Kauline Davis, Sandy Amass

First Opinions, Second Reactions

No abstract provided.

Literary Science: Books That Inspire Youthful Creativity And Curiosity, Janet Alsup

First Opinions, Second Reactions

No abstract provided.

Faculty Publications & Presentations, 2010-2011, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Annual Report, 2010-2011, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Office Of The Vice Provost For Research And Economic Development

Research and Innovation Annual Report

No abstract provided.

Department Of Radiology-Annual Executive Summary Report-July 1, 2010 To June 30, 2011, Vijay M. Rao, Md

Department of Radiology Administrative Documents and Reports

90 page Department of Radiology Annual Executive Summary Report, July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Tables of Contents:

Department of Radiology

Chairman, Vice Chairmen 1

Divisions and Directors 1

Committees and Chairmen 1

Radiology Department Faculty Rank 2

Faculty with Secondary Appointments 3

Clinical Divisions 4

Radiology Residents and Fellows 5

Department Organizational Chart 6

Department Administration Chart 7

State of the Department 8

Appendix I: Publications Journal Articles 22

Books and Book Chapters 30

Abstracts 33

Appendix II: Formal Scientific Presentations 44

Appendix III: Honors, Editorial Activities, Service to Regional …

Daily Eastern News: June 30, 2011, Eastern Illinois University

June

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, June 30, 2011, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The June 30, 2011, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Southern Nevada Agency Partnership Cultural Site Stewardship Program – Program Expansion And Steward Retention: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending June 30, 2011, Margaret N. Rees

Cultural Site Stewardship Program

• One cultural site steward class was held this quarter adding 17 volunteers.
• Team focus is upon plan to transition project to state stewardship program

The Impact Of A Multimodal Approach To Pre-Emptive Analgesia On Postoperative Pain And Analgesic Requirements For Patients Undergoing Orthopaedic Lower Limb Surgery At The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi: A Single Blind Randomised Controlled Trial, John M. Bugo

Master of Medicine in Anaesthesiology

Study Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the postoperative morphine-sparing and pain reducing effects of a preemptive, multimodal, perioperative analgesic regimen incorporating the use of preincisional intrathecal blockade plus parenteral anti-inflammatory agents, in patients undergoing lower limb orthopaedic surgery. Study design: Prospective Single blinded Randomized Controlled Trial. Study setting: The Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. Methods: 44 ASA physical status 1 and 2 patients undergoing lower limb orthopaedic surgery were randomly allocated into two groups of 22 patients each. Patients in the Intervention group were given a preincisional subarachnoid injection of 15mg hyperbaric Bupivacaine and 25mcg Fentanyl, …