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Estimating The Potential Returns To Research And Development From Sorghum Value Added Products In El Salvador And Nicaragua, Jaeljattin R. Jaen Celada

INTSORMIL Scientific Publications

Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is a drought tolerant crop able to adapt to hot and dry weather. It has excellent chemical and physical properties, which make it a grain of good quality for processing different types of products. This research is an impact assessment study that estimated the potential impacts of new uses of sorghum by using an equilibrium displacement model. The data used was drawn from interviews developed in July 2011.Using total quantity production, prices, prices elasticities and cost shares 8 potential market scenarios were simulated. Results between countries were similar. Thus, the analysis was applied for both countries. …

Everglades Ecology Restoration Inspiring Science Education, Angelique Giraud

Theses & ETDs

The incorporation of environmental issues into classroom science education improves salience for students. Understanding scienceraises the quality of life for individual citizens and strengthens the U.S. as a whole (Augustine 2010). The sustainability of the earth is threatened by current habits and requires positive change through innovation and a common conscience. The concern for Everglades� ecology highlights this. A case study presented important scientific concepts through a focus on the Everglades to high school students in Sarasota. Data analyzed from student�s scores on a pre- and post-quiz were significant. This indicated that the methods used and discussed were successful and …

Candy Land, Brittney Champagne

Theses & ETDs

Sweetness functions as a symbolic prop for human desire. My artwork questions the cost of this desire, troubling what can and should be consumed, while negotiating the environmental and social histories of human desire for sugar. This project generates a subjective history for the strange, perhaps unnatural, commodities that people desire, through which I aim to plant them more firmly into the natural world from which they have been separated by so much plastic, foil, and ornament.

Homegrown Harvest A Beginner's Guide To Small-Scale Edible Gardening, Mallika Nair

Theses & ETDs

Small-scale edible gardening is a multifaceted solution to many of the environmental, dietary, social and economic issues of our time. This guide provides information on small scale organic growing methods with the intention of helping new gardeners grow food at home or in a community plot. I used information from new and classic gardening books, websites, magazines, blogs, and scientific articles. I drew from my experience gardening as well as from conversations with other gardeners. This guide consists of ideas, Do-It-Yourself (DIY) instructions, and reviews of products for gardening in small spaces such as balconies, terraces and windows. Methods for …

Just Keeping Swimming A Review Of The Biological And Social Components Of Teleost Fish Shoaling, Stuart Strock

Theses & ETDs

Shoaling is a very common behavior among fish species; approximately 50% of all fish species engage in schooling behavior at one or more stages of their life. Extensive research has investigated the nature of this behavior over the past century, but the past 40 years have offered considerable progress in the understanding the evolutionary, sensory and social components of shoaling behavior. This comprehensive review encompasses a wide spectrum of schooling research from the last half century to the present. It begins with an analysis of the evolutionary selection pressures acting for or against the continued expression of shoaling behavior in …

Inflamation And Depression, Elena Jeliazkova

Theses & ETDs

Over a century ago, Professor Julius Wagner von Jauregg received the Nobel Prize for his work on the immunological implications of psychiatry. In the past twenty years, Psychoneuroimmunology has produced novel research on the immunological implications of psychiatric disorders, such as depression. Established by the American Psychiatric Association, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, defines the depression as a depressed mood and loss of interest, insomnia or hypersomnia, fatigue, inability to concentrate, suicidality, psychomotor retardation and weight change. While no clear etiological explanation has been discovered, the pathophysiology of depression involves neurotransmitter imbalance. This review investigates the bidirectional …

Feeding Behavior Of Wild Vervet Monkeys In Loskop Dam Nature Preserve, Katherine Dean

Theses & ETDs

Studying the feeding behavior of nonhuman primates in the wild leads to a greater understanding of their behavioral ecology and has important implications for conservation. In this thesis, I documented the feeding behavior of three groups of wild vervet monkeys in Loskop Dam Nature Reserve, Mmpumalanga, South Africa from October 2009 to January 2010. I compared the diet of 51 individuals to their age, sex, rank, and endoparasitic richness. I found no significant correlations between diet and age, sex, and rank. There were significant positive correlations between feeding and endoparasites, suggesting that specific plant species are vehicles for parasites. I …

Handling Sushi People And Places Of A Transnational Cuisine, Mark Wilco

Theses & ETDs

Sushi presents an interesting dilemma when studying issues of global exchange and transmission. While sushi is historically Japanese, its spread from Japan to America pre-World War II with the wave of immigration began a rapid change in the cuisine that allowed it to adapt to American tastes and sensibilities. Years later, sushi has made the return trip home, bringing with it new insights and flavor combinations. As a single commodity formed from a multitude of separate products such as rice, fish and seaweed, the labor that goes into its production is often overlooked. The fishermen, farmers, salesmen, distributers and chefs …

Madre An Ethnographic Study Of Feminism, Social Change And Women's Human Rights, Erica Lindegren

Theses & ETDs

This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of how the staff members of one New York City-based nongovernmental organization, MADRE Inc., effect transnational social change. MADRE is a self-proclaimed women�s human rights organization that works with grassroots women�s organizations worldwide to provide �rights, resources, and results.� Using anthropological and feminist theoretical frameworks, I draw from interviews with staff members, observations from my internship experience, and research from MADRE and its partner organizations to analyze how MADRE serves as a conduit for social transformation through two partners in Sudan and Colombia. I examine how feminist goals have informed women's human rights, and …

Teaching To Cultivate Gardening Education Programs In Public Elementary Schools, Andrew Noune

Theses & ETDs

In an attempt to explore ways that the educational system can encourage an understanding of food production systems and their effect on the environment and human health, I explore the components of edible school gardening programs. Eight public elementary school programs in a county in southwest Florida were studied by interviewing the facilitating teachers and observing in-class activities. Components related to horticultural procedures, academic connections, and students' home life were identified and analyzed. The findings of this research suggest that in-ground school gardens are likely to contain more horticultural components and academic connections than earth box or hydroponic gardens. Therefore, …

Wild Cats In Captivity On Improving Captive Enviroment With Regard To Biology And Behavoir, Leandra Irene Lyniuk

Theses & ETDs

Leopards (Panthera pardus) and lions (Panthera leo) are the wild feline species examined in this thesis and case study. They are considered charismatic megafauna and popular in captivity while some subspecies are critically endangered in the wild. A literature review revealed that these species may be more complex behaviourally than previously thought. The conclusion was made that optimal captive habitats need to cater to each species unique behavioural and biological needs in order for these species to thrive in captivity. Captive habitat is the last environment in which they are supported. A case study conducted at the Jacksonville Zoo and …

Bais In The Courtroom The Effects Of Attorney Attractiveness And Gender On Juror Decisions, Keytin Palmer

Theses & ETDs

An experiment was conducted to investigate how attorney physical attractiveness and gender can bias juror decisions in an automobile accident trial. Participants (15 male, 45 female) were presented with a picture of an unattractive or attractive male or female attorney before reading a trial summary and a transcript of the attorney�s closing statement. Participants then rated the attorney�s persuasiveness, credibility, likability, trustworthiness, and knowledgeability; reported how guilty they deemed the defendant; and suggested an amount of money to be awarded to the plaintiff for damages if a jury found in his favor. Results showed that female attorneys were rated as …

Wsaz Index Cards - Year (1982) [Film], Wsaz Television Station

0138: WSAZ-TV (Television station), Huntington, West Virginia Collection, 1953-2003

The collection consists of several large groups of materials. These four primary groups make up the bulk of the collection. The first consists of over 1,600 film reels spanning 160 cubic ft. through the years 1952-1983. The second group is made up of over 2000 U-Matic / Betacam tapes spanning 300 cubic ft. through the years 1978-2011. The third is around 86 large archival boxes of news scripts spanning 87 cubic ft. through the full coverage of years 1952-2011. The last group being the index card filing system of over 96,000 cards spanning 23.225 cubic ft and only covering the …

Co-Creating Collaborative Health Care In A Federally Qualified Health Center: Exploring Clients' Experiences Of Behavioral Health Services, Ginny-Lea Tonore

Marriage and Family Therapy - Dissertations

Research indicates that living in poverty exacerbates the risk for poor mental health, yet low-income people are less likely to seek mental health treatment than are people in higher income brackets. The research literature reports that this reluctance to seek behavioral health care is often due to a variety of barriers, such as stigma, costs, victimization, discrimination, and labeling. Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are collaborative healthcare clinics that are uniquely positioned to eliminate many recognized barriers to care that hinder access to mental health services for some vulnerable and underserved populations. Most of the collaborative health care literature is …

Scwds Briefs: Volume 26, Number 4 (January 2011), Gary L. Doster , Editor, Scwds Briefs, Michael J. Yabsley

Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications

Birds Falling From the Sky

CWD in Two New States

Update on Bat Fungus

World Equestrian Games

Cooperating to Regulate Live Animal Imports

Deer Parapoxvirus Infects Hunters

Woodchuck Victim of Raccoon Roundworm

Change in AFWA Health Committee Leadership

Advisory Committee on Animal Health

Safe Handling Of Raw Meats, Agnes Kilonzo-Nthenge, Sandria Godwin, Deborah Long

Extension Publications

No abstract provided.

A Philosophical Framework For Conditional Cash Transfers, Jaron Abelsohn

CMC Senior Theses

Despite some recent economic progress, there is still widespread poverty and severe inequality in developing countries. According to the World Bank there are over 925 million hungry or undernourished people worldwide. More than 80 percent of people in the world live in countries whose income inequality is rising. Over 2.1 billion people globally live on less than two dollars a day, with over 880 million people facing absolute poverty and living on less than one dollar a day. Three out of four people living on less than $1 a day live in rural areas. These impacts have been magnified by …

What's Happening: January, 2011, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Animal-Assisted Therapy On Behavior And Reading In The Classroom, Ashley Elizabeth Booten

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Research has shown that the presence of a therapy dog in the classroom should elicit a calming effect, reduce stress, and promote positive interactions among peers and adults. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect a therapy dog has on behavior and reading in the classroom. Specifically, the study will be comparing behavior gradesand reading scores for two groups of students: one that received Animal Assisted Therapy and one that did not receive Animal Assisted Therapy. Data were collected from two fifth-grade classrooms. There were 17 fifth-grade students in the experimental groupand 15 in the control group. …

Vascular Countercurrent Network For 3d Triple-Layered Skin Structure With Radiation Heating, Xiaoqi Zeng

Doctoral Dissertations

Heat transfer in living tissue has become more and more attention for researchers, because high thermal radiation produced by intense fire, such as wild fires, chemical fires, accidents, warfare, terrorism, etc, is often encountered in human's daily life. Living tissue is a heterogeneous organ consisting of cellular tissue and blood vessels, and heat transfer in cellular tissue and blood vessel is quite different, because the blood vessels provide channels for fast heat transfer. The metabolic heat generation, heat conduction and blood perfusion in soft tissue, convection and perfusion of the arterial-venous blood through the capillary, and interaction with the environment …

Effects Of Nitrogen Deposition And Empirical Nitrogen Critical Loads For Ecoregions Of The United States, Linda H. Pardo, Mike E. Fenn, Christine L. Goodale, Linda. H. Geiser, Charles T. Driscoll, Edith B. Allen, Jill S. Baron, Roland Bobbink, Williams D. Bowman, Christopher M. Clark, Bridget Emmett, Frank S. Gilliam, Tara L. Greaver, Sharon J. Hall, Erik A. Lilleskov, Lingli Liu, Jason A. Lynch, Knute J. Nadelhoffer, Steven S. Perakis, Molly J. Robin-Abbott, John L. Stoddard, Kathleen C. Weathers, Robin L. Dennis

Civil and Environmental Engineering - All Scholarship

Human activity in the last century has led to a significant increase in nitrogen (N) emissions and atmospheric deposition. This N deposition has reached a level that has caused or is likely to cause alterations to the structure and function of many ecosystems across the United States. One approach for quantifying the deposition of pollution that would be harmful to ecosystems is the determination of critical loads. A critical load is defined as the input of a pollutant below which no detrimental ecological effects occur over the long-term according to present knowledge.

The objectives of this project were to synthesize …

Harding Magazine Winter 2011 (Vol. 19, No. 1), Harding University

Harding Magazines

Publication distributed to alumni and friends of the university.

Experiences With Childcare Choices Reported By Mothers In Single- And Multiple-Income Households, Lois M. Truman

Child and Family Studies - Dissertations

This exploratory study examined mothers' experiences and satisfaction with childcare selection. The self-selected group of mothers from 30 different childcare settings in three Midwestern states participated in the study. Similarities and differences with mothers' experiences when selecting childcare were analyzed by three household status groups: 110 (Group One) employed mothers married to or partnered with another employed adult in the household, 61 (Group Two) employed mothers living with no other adults in single-income households, and 26 (Group Three) employed mothers living in single-income households with one or more unemployed adults. A majority of mothers in each household group reported using …

Action Anthropology And Pedagogy: University-Community Collaborations In Setting Policy, Lutchmie Narine, Sandra D. Lane, Robert A. Rubinstein, Inga Back, Caitlin Cornell, Alexander Hodgens, Monique Brantley, Rachel Kramas, Kathleen Keough, Brandon O'Connor, William Suk, Eric Morrissette, Mary Benson

Public Health, Food Studies, and Nutrition

This article describes a student-led, community-participatory project focused on reducing the burden of childhood lead poisoning in rental housing. A multidisciplinary group of students and faculty worked with community members. We compiled the social, public health, economic, and policy information on the human and fiscal costs of childhood lead poisoning. This analysis was done for community advocates to use to persuade policymakers to enact a local law strengthening the prevention of childhood lead poisoning in rental property. In conducting this work, the students gained experience in qualitative research methods, quantitative data analysis, the health consequences of lead exposure, health policy, …

"It's The Resources": Work, Governance, And The Institutionalization Of An Emergency Food Network, Stephanie Crist

Sociology - Dissertations

Thousands of loosely connected organizations such as food pantries and soup kitchens constitute the emergency food network. Organizations in this network provide a critical source of food to millions of households each year. This dissertation examines how organizations in one city-level emergency food network acquire, manage, and use resources. It pays particular attention to the relationships that develop between organizations and funding sources.

Utilizing institutional ethnography, this dissertation explicates the ways that everyday food provision in food pantries and soup kitchens is connected to a broader picture of changing modes of governance in the public and nonprofit sectors. The data …

Malaria Distribution, Prevalence, Drug Resistance And Control In Indonesia, Iqbal R.F. Elyazar, Simon I. Hay, J. Kevin Baird

United States Public Health Resources

Approximately 230 million people live in Indonesia. The country is also home to over 20 anopheline vectors of malaria which transmit all four of the species of Plasmodium that routinely infect humans. A complex mosaic of risk of infection across this 5000-km-long archipelago of thousands of islands and distinctive habitats seriously challenges efforts to control malaria. Social, economic and political dimensions contribute to these complexities. This chapter examines malaria and its control in Indonesia, from the earliest efforts by malariologists of the colonial Netherlands East Indies, through the Global Malaria Eradication Campaign of the 1950s, the tumult following the coup …

Birth Outcomes Of Intended Pregnancies Among Women Who Used Assisted Reproductive Technology, Ovulation Stimulation, Or No Treatment, Denise V. D’Angelo, Nedra Whitehead, Kristen Helms, Wanda Barfield, Indu B. Ahluwalia

United States Public Health Resources

Objective: To study birth outcomes among live born infants conceived by women who used infertility treatment.

Design: Population-based surveillance of women who recently delivered a live infant.

Setting: The birth outcomes among infants whose mothers used assisted reproductive technology (ART) or ovulation stimulation medications alone were compared with the outcomes of infants conceived without treatment.

Patient(s): Stratified random sample of women who were attempting conception and gave birth to a live infant in six US states (n = 16,748).

Intervention(s): Assisted reproductive technology and ovulation stimulation.

Main Outcome Measure(s): Adjusted odds ratios for perinatal outcomes.

Result(s): The prevalence of infertility …

Changes In Consumption Of Omega-3 And Omega-6 Fatty Acids In The United States During The 20th Century, Tanya L. Blasbalg, Joseph R. Hibbeln, Christopher E. Ramsden, Sharon F. Majchrzak, Robert R. Rawlings

United States Public Health Resources

Background: The consumption of omega-3 (n–3) and omega-6 (n–6) essential fatty acids in Western diets is thought to have changed markedly during the 20th century.

Objective: We sought to quantify changes in the apparent consumption of essential fatty acids in the United States from 1909 to 1999.

Design:We calculated the estimated per capita consumption of food commodities and availability of essential fatty acids from 373 food commodities by using economic disappearance data for each year from 1909 to 1999. Nutrient compositions for 1909 were modeled by using current foods (1909-C) and foods produced by traditional early 20th century practices (1909-T). …

Prevalence And Predictors Of Food Insecurity In Migrant Farmworkers In Georgia, Brittany G. Hill, Ashley G. Moloney, Terry Mize, Tom Himelick, Jodie L. Guest

United States Public Health Resources

We examined the prevalence of food insecurity in migrant farmworkers in Georgia.Of these workers 62.83% did not have enough food, and non–H-2A workers had an adjusted risk of food insecurity almost 3 times higher than did H-2A workers. Lack of access to cooking facilities, transportation problems, and having children were additional risk factors. Migrant farmworkers are at extreme risk for food insecurity, although being an H-2A guestworker was protective within this population. Policy interventions are needed to protect these vulnerable farmworkers.

Nih And Usda Funding Of Dietary Supplement Research, 1999–2007, Karen S. Regan, Edwina A. Wambogo, Carol J. Haggans

United States Public Health Resources

Over one-half of U.S. adults use dietary supplements, so federally supported research into the safety and effectiveness of these compounds is important for the health of many Americans. Data collected in the Computer Access to Research on Dietary Supplements database, which compiles federally sponsored dietary supplement-related research, are useful to scientists in determining the type of dietary supplement research that federal agencies are currently funding and where research gaps exist. This article describes the dietary supplement-related research funded by the NIH and the USDA. Between fiscal years 1999 and 2007, the number of research projects and funding for dietary supplement …