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Infectivity Period Of Mice Inoculated With Human Adenoviruses, Rashmi Krishnapuram, Heather Kirk-Ballard, Aamri Zuberi, Nikhil V. Dhurandhar

Faculty Publications

Due to non-productive infections, mice are not a good model to study some human adenoviruses. However, mice provide an excellent model to study the metabolic effects of human adenovirus, Ad36. Research interest in Ad36 is increasing rapidly, and consequently an increase in the use of mice as a model is anticipated. However, little is known about the transmission potential of Ad36 from infected mice to other laboratory animals or personnel. While underestimating the infectivity could promote inadvertent spread of Ad36, overstating it could drain valuable laboratory resources and animals. Therefore, we determined the duration of infectivity in female C57BL/6J mice …

7- And 12-Month-Olds' Intermodal Recognition Of Affect: 7-Month-Olds Are "Smarter" Than 12-Month-Olds, Mark Oborn Whiteley

Theses and Dissertations

Research has shown that by 7-months of age infants demonstrate recognition of emotion by successfully matching faces and voices based on affect in an intermodal matching procedure. It is often assumed that once an ability is present the development of that ability has "ceased." Therefore, no research has examined if and how the ability to match faces and voices based on affect develops after the first 7-months. This study examined how the ability to match faces and voices based on affect changes from 7- to 12-months. Looking at infant's proportion of total looking time (PTLT) results showed that, consistent with …

Hepatitis B Vaccination Rate And Determining Factors Amongst Health Care Workers At Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Herman Ekea

Master of Medicine in Internal Medicine

Aim: To determine Hepatitis B vaccination rate and determining factors for health care workers (HCWs) at AKUHN. Design: Cross sectional analytical study Study subjects and setting: Aga Khan University Hospital-Nairobi, is a 254 bed tertiary hospital, with 815 HCWs with occupational risk of infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV). The hospital has a HCW vaccination policy and vaccine available to HCWs as part of medical scheme Methodology: Two hundred and sixty six (266) eligible HCWs of all cadres were stratified then randomly recruited after giving informed consent. A questionnaire was then administered to assess knowledge, attitude and practice towards HBV …

Prevalence Of Nasal Carriage Of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus In Healthcare Workers At Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Geoffrey A. Omuse

Master of Medicine in Clinical Pathology

Objective: To establish the prevalence of nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in healthcare workers (HCW) at Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi (AKUHN). Background: Healthcare workers are a major reservoir of MRSA and may play a role in the spread of nosocomial MRSA infections. MRSA can cause significant morbidity and mortality. There is both molecular and epidemiological evidence linking HCW to MRSA outbreaks. Method: A cross sectional study conducted between July and December 2010. Nasal swabs were taken from 246 randomly selected HCW from various departments.MRSA was identified using both phenotypic and genotypic methods. Antibiotic susceptibility testing of all …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

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Download Entire Pdf: The Medicine Forum, Vol 7, 2005

The Medicine Forum

Download the entire PDF of The Medicine Forum, Volume 7, 2005.

An 18-Year Old Man With Fever And Headache, Amy Baranoski, Md

The Medicine Forum

An 18-year-old man was transferred from an outside hospital for evaluation of recent headache, fevers, and laboratory abnormalities.

The patient had a past medical history significant for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and had presented to an outside hospital with complaints of fatigue, fever, and headache. He described the headache as frontal, severe, and stabbing in nature without associated neck stiffness, photophobia, or phonophobia. He also reported fevers to 105ºF. He was evaluated one day after the onset of symptoms at a local emergency room where a lumbar puncture was performed. By report of the patient and his mother, the …

Expanding The Model Of Apathy In Parkinson's Disease: Exploration Of Conceptual Domains And Identification Of Neuropsychological Correlates, Connie E. Myerson

Open Access Dissertations

Apathy is a debilitating non-motor symptom in Parkinson’s disease (PD) that is closely associated with cognitive dysfunction, depression, and caregiver burden. The proposed etiology and operational definition of apathy involves a tripartite model that includes cognitive, behavioral, and emotional manifestations. This theoretical model has not been statistically validated. We examined the tripartite structure of apathy in PD, and subsequent associations between apathy factors and demographic, disease, and neuropsychological measures. One hundred forty-one patients with idiopathic PD underwent neurological examination and comprehensive neuropsychological testing including the Apathy Evaluation Scale (AES). Statistical analyses included correlation, means comparison, item analysis, and confirmatory factor …

The Cord (June 29, 2011)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

We Are...Marshall, June 29, 2011, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.

Rita Tristani V. Estelle Richman

2011 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Prospectus, June 29, 2011, Kelley Heaney, Briana Stodden, Josh Grube, Chuck Shepherd, Alisha Kirkley, Sean Hermann, Morgan Bernier, Markus Rodgers

Prospectus 2011

PROGRESS BEING MADE FOR MASTER PLAN, New Courses, Programs to be Offered, Substance Abuse Recovery May Begin on Campus, How to Take Amazing Pictures of Fireworks, Whole Health Lecture Series: Alternative Health Care for Pets, Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird, Extreme Drinking Means Extreme Danger, War Has Been Waged on College Fraternities, Kindle vs. Books: The Dead Trees Society, The Risks Exist: What You Need to Know Before Getting Tattoos and Piercings, Pursuing Scholarships is Worth the College Savings, A Prospectus News Guide to Road Trips, The Road to Success: How to Find the Right College, A Community College …

Teaching Sustainability Analysis In Electronics Lecture Courses, David Braun

Electrical Engineering

Based on positive prior experiences teaching sustainability analysis in electronics laboratory courses, this work explores techniques for teaching sustainability analysis in lecture courses. As difficult as it may seem to incorporate sustainability into integrated circuit courses or other engineering courses, it may prove as easy as asking students to consider how the coursework relates to sustainability issues.

The need to educate students “to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability” has gained sufficient value to deserve its own ABET Program Outcome, …

The Reality Of Neandertal Symbolic Behavior At The Grotte Du Renne, Arcy-Sur-Cure, France, François Caron, Francesco D'Errico, Pierre Del Moral

KIP Articles

The question of whether symbolically mediated behavior is exclusive to modern humans or shared with anatomically archaic populations such as the Neandertals is hotly debated. At the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France, the Châtelperronian levels contain Neandertal remains and large numbers of personal ornaments, decorated bone tools and colorants, but it has been suggested that this association reflects intrusion of the symbolic artifacts from the overlying Protoaurignacian and/or of the Neandertal remains from the underlying Mousterian. We tested these hypotheses against the horizontal and vertical distributions of the various categories of diagnostic finds and statistically assessed the probability that the …

The Alestle - Vol. 63 No. 36 - 06/29/2011, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 63 No. 36

"Movie To Movement: Creating Social Change With The Documentary Film 'Food Stamped'", Shira Potash

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

There is substantial evidence linking obesity to lower incomes. Governmental food and farm policy directly affects the affordability, availability, and accessibility of healthy food in low-income areas. Policy also impacts the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) and nutrition education for SNAP recipients. Documentary film is a powerful medium that can be used for social change. This paper explores the ways in which documentary film can be used to decrease health disparities and improve public health. Specifically it provides the scientific evidence and theoretical framework for the creation of the documentary film, Food Stamped. Similar to other popular documentary films such …

Mechanical Intervention For Maintenance Of Cartilage And Bone, Hui B. Sun, Luis Cardoso, Hiroki Yokota

Publications and Research

Mechanical loading provides indispensible stimuli for growth and development of the articular cartilage and bone. Interestingly, depending on loading conditions loads applied to the joint can be beneficial as well as harmful to skeletal maintenance and remodeling. Moderate loads to the synovial joint, for instance, suppress the expression levels of matrix metallproteinases (MMPs), while loads above a threshold tend to increase their destructive activities. This report focuses on two recently developed loading modalities from animal studies, joint motion and joint loading. Their unique characteristics and potential usages for maintenance of the articular cartilage and stimulation of bone remodeling are reviewed. …

Controlled Cortical Impact Traumatic Brain Injury In 3xtg-Ad Mice Causes Acute Intra-Axonal Amyloid-Β Accumulation And Independently Accelerates The Development Of Tau Abnormalities, Hien T. Tran, Frank M. Laferla, David M. Holtzman, David L. Brody

Open Access Publications

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized pathologically by progressive neuronal loss, extracellular plaques containing the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides, and neurofibrillary tangles composed of hyperphosphorylated tau proteins. Aβ is thought to act upstream of tau, affecting its phosphorylation and therefore aggregation state. One of the major risk factors for AD is traumatic brain injury (TBI). Acute intra-axonal Aβ and diffuse extracellular plaques occur in ∼30% of human subjects after severe TBI. Intra-axonal accumulations of tau but not tangle-like pathologies have also been found in these patients. Whether and how these acute accumulations contribute to subsequent AD development is not …

Impact Of The Three Gorges Dam, Ian Reynolds

JCCC Honors Journal

The Three Gorges Dam was built to provide hydroelectric power, flood control, and greater navigation access to the Yangtze River in central China. It is the largest hydroelectric dam in the world and as such is responsible for bringing both unprecedented benefits and risks to the people of the Yangtze River Valley and all of China. In some cases the dam has been the cause of great devastation including the destruction of both the environment and rich cultural heritage of the Yangtze River valley, but it has also spurred a greater concern for the protection and conservation of both the …

A Discussion Of Ethical Issues In The Case Of Baby Fae, Sean Moore

JCCC Honors Journal

Medical professionals are presented with numerous ethical questions that need answering on an almost daily basis. In this paper, the story of Baby Fae is used as a vehicle to discuss ethical issues. This case highlights the core ethical question regarding the taking of an innocent animal’s life to attempt to save the life of an innocent human. It has been more than twenty-six years since Baby Fae lived and died with a baboon heart keeping her blood flowing and her body alive. Presented in this paper are the facts, simply stated, regarding an historical event that had a profound …

Unfreedom In Paradise: Examining Race, Citizenship, And Anti-Haitianism In The Dominican Republic, Kristen C. Holmes

Open Access Theses

In the Dominican Republic, the memory of the Haitian conquest and annexation of the nation from 1822 until independence on February 27, 1844, along with the solidification of the anti-Haitian nationalist rhetoric of the 1920s and 30s, have fueled deep-seated animosity toward Haitians. Many Dominicans continue to hold strong anti-Haitian attitudes, and negative views of blackness pervade much of Dominican popular discourse, as well as ideas of beauty and social propriety. Lamentably, these negative attitudes toward Haitianness, which has become synonymous with blackness and vice versa, have spread far beyond informal conversations in private households, permeating the political realm as …

John Blank V. Pennsylvania Spca

2011 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Devices And Methods For Electro-Physical Transport Of Dna Across Cell Membranes, Quentin Theodore Aten

Theses and Dissertations

A novel method for charged macromolecule delivery, called nanoinjection, has been developed at Brigham Young University. Nanoinjection combines micro-fabrication technology, mechanism design, and nano-scale electrical phenomenon to transport exogenous DNA across cell membranes on a nano-featured lance. DNA is electrically accumulated on the lance, precision movements of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) physically insert the lance into cell, and DNA is electrically released from the lance into the cell. Penetration into the cell is achieved through a two-phase, self-reconfiguring metamorphic mechanism. The surface-micromachined, metamorphic nanoinjector mechanism elevates the lance above the fabrication substrate, then translates in-plane at a constant height as the …

Public Hearing Transcripts - Western - Kakamega - Rtjrc28.06 (Sheywe Conference Hall) (Women's Hearing), Truth, Justice, And Reconciliation Commission

I. Core TJRC Related Documents

No abstract provided.

Public Hearing Transcripts - Western - Kakamega - Rtjrc28.06 (Kakamega County Municipal Hall), Truth, Justice, And Reconciliation Commission

I. Core TJRC Related Documents

No abstract provided.

Differential Glial Cell Responses In The Dentate Gyrus In Young Adult And Aged Brains Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Christoher Shin

Theses and Dissertations

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects 3 out of every 1000 Americans each year, and is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality after trauma, accounting for as many as 56,000 deaths per year (Dutton and McCunn, 2003). The Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention found that TBI most commonly occurs in adolescents and young adults aged from 15 to 24 years and in the elderly (75 years and older). Following injury, the secondary injury begins almost immediately after the primary injury and is the result of a number of cascades where once activated, exacerbate the already altered homeostasis of …

Minutes Of 06/28/2011 Hsc Board Of Directors Mtg, Patrice Martin

HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)

No abstract provided.

Levels Of Magnesium, Zinc, Calcium And Copper In Serum Of Patients With Fibromyalgia Syndrome, Abdulnasser M. Al-Gebori, Tarik M, Ali Rajab, Mohammad H. Al-Osami, Kisma M. Turki

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic musculoskeletal syndrome; almost invariably, symptoms persist at 5- and 10-year follow-ups. Several studies reported the importance of trace elements on the immune system. It plays an important role in physiological processes that are crucial for normal functioning of the immune system. Fibromyalgia could be the result of an over-active immune system, the immune system works to protect the body by attacking bacteria, viruses, and other foreign cells. When over-active, the immune system can cause severe inflammation and pain. OBJECTIVE: The main objective of this study is the association between the levels of …

Changes In Personality And Mood Profile Of Women With Toxoplasmosis, Mohamed A. Hassan, Nibras S. Abdul Aziz, Jawad K. Al-Diwan, Eman Al-Kaseer, Mushtaq T. Hashism

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Acquired T. gondii infection of immunocompetent patients may cause central nervous system manifestations (Gullain-Bare syndrome or brain abscess) and may be associated with psychiatric manifestation. Iraq is highly endemic with T. gondii, however, publications on psychiatric manifestation of T. gondii infection are scarce. OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate psychiatric manjfestations in women with Toxoplasmosis. METHODS: A total of 68 toxoplasma positive pregnant women and 68 toxoplasma negative pregnant women were included in this study. It was conducted for the period of 5th Aug. 2008 to 28th Feb. 2009. ELISA was used to diagnose T. gondii. Questionnaire was used to diagnose …

(Re)Placing Nation: Postcolonial Women's Contestations Of Spatial Discourse, Michelle N. Ramlagan

Open Access Dissertations

“(Re)Placing Nations: Postcolonial Women’s Contestations of Spatial Discourses” reads the proliferation of literary representations of landscapes in recent work by Jamaica Kincaid, Shani Mootoo, Edwidge Danticat, Yvonne Vera, Monica Arac de Nyeko and Toni Morrison as a trope for rethinking the nation as a space with physical boundaries. In this project I make the distinction between space as an ideological construct and place as a physical entity. Both place and space are connected to ideologies yet have specific implications for constructions of gender and sexuality. My project considers the dual yet dialectically related processes of creating physical space and identity …