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Social Ecological Constraints To Park Use In Communities With Quality Access, J. Aaron Hipp, Ravikumar Chockalingam, Deepti Adlakha

Center for Social Development Research

Evidence correlates physical activity, psychological restoration, and social health to proximity to parks and sites of recreation. The purpose of this study was to identify perceived constraints to park use in low-income communities facing significant health disparities, with access to underutilized parks. We used a series of focus groups with families, teens, and older adults in neighborhoods with similar demographic distribution and access to parks over 125 acres in size. Constraints to park use varied across age groups as well as across social ecological levels, with perceived constraints to individuals, user groups, communities, and society. Policies and interventions aimed at …

Store-Operated Calcium Channels In The Function Of Intracardiac Neurons, Timetria Bonds

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Proper autonomic regulation of mammalian cardiac function is dependent upon very complex and precise communication among the intracardiac ganglia and individual neurons within the ganglia. An array of neuromodulators is found within the ganglia that direct neuronal activity by modulating the movement of calcium. The current study determines that opioidergic agonists, which have been found to contribute to severe cardiac disease states and intracellular calcium mobilization, are also responsible for changes in the function of the intracardiac neuron via their effects on store-operated calcium channels (SOCs).

Previous studies suggest that phosphorylation plays a role in SOC regulation. Using Fura-2 calcium …

Montana Kaimin, November 29, 2011, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Jabulani, Geneva Silvernail

ATS Chapel Services

No abstract provided.

Preaching That Pleases, Kandace Brooks

ATS Chapel Services

No abstract provided.

November 29, 2011, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

God's Living Word, Zaida Maldonado Perez

ATS Chapel Services

No abstract provided.

Agile Innovation Management, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The volume and velocity of innovations are on the increase resulting in increased pressures on every company for attaining, retaining and increasing its market leadership. Many companies need to retool their innovation management processes to address two agility related objectives in order to survive and grow in such a rapidly changing innovation environment. The first objective would be the ability to assemble an innovation team within the shortest possible time. This can only be satisfied by companies that are capable of forming innovation teams rather quickly. The related second objective would be to reduce the I2M (Idea to Market) cycle …

Studies On The Adherence Properties Of Plant Lectins And Bacterial Adhesins And Their Inhibition By Prebiotic Oligosaccharides And Bovine Colostrum Fractions, Maria X. Maldonado-Gomez

Department of Food Science and Technology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

To initiate colonization and infection, most microbial pathogens must first recognize and adhere to cells in the host tissues. Adherence inhibition, therefore, can be used as a strategy for preventing infectious disease. In this research, we developed a simplified model using plant lectins and HEp-2 tissue culture cells to simulate bacterial adhesins-receptors interactions. The effect of lectin ligands and two prebiotic carbohydrates, galactooligosaccharide (GOS) and polydextrose (PDX) was measured with this approach. Lectins that were able to bind to the target cells were inhibited in the presence of the cognate ligands and at least one of the prebiotic carbohydrates. The …

Faculty Members’ Perceptions Of Quality Assurance And Accreditation In Afghanistan, Sayed Ahmad Javid Mussawy, Gretchen B Rossman

Higher Learning Research Communications

Abstract This study investigated faculty members’ perceptions of quality assurance and accreditation (QAA) in Afghanistan. The study aimed to examine how familiar faculty members were with QAA policy, quality concepts, QAA processes, and whether QAA process has improved the status quo. Through a sequential exploratory mixed methods design, the investigators interviewed seven faculty members at four universities, and subsequently conducted a self-administered survey questionnaire at six universities (two public and four private). A response rate of 54 percent (N = 42) was obtained from the survey. The study findings suggest that faculty members had mixed impressions about QAA implementation. For …

2011-11-29 Intercollegiate Athletics Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Intercollegiate Athletics Committee

Faculty Senate Records

Intercollegiate Athletics Committee meeting minutes for November 29, 2011.

Aggression And The Failure Of Friendship To Buffer Against Loneliness, Rachel N. Tillery

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Do children’s attributions of their friends’ aggressive behaviors matter? In short, yes, children’s attributions of their mutual friends’ aggressive behaviors do matter in terms of children’s reports of loneliness. The goal of the present research was to examine how children’s perceptions of their mutual friends’ aggressive behaviors related to loneliness after controlling for peer group factors (i.e. peer liking, peer popularity, number of mutual friends, and the child’s own level of aggression) known to contribute to loneliness. Self-report measures of loneliness, friendship nominations, and classroom nominations for liking, popularity, and aggression were collected from 185 third through sixth grade children. …

Preliminary Evaluation Of Efficiency Of Hov Lane Operation On I-40 Eastbound Memphis, Tennessee, Rohitraj Patrudu Makena

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This research is a preliminary ealuation of the effectiveness of the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane along I-40 eastbound Memphis, TN. This HOVlane is operated from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. during weekdays. Data for the analysis was collected over a two month period in June and July 2011 using standard techniques as well as low cost smart phone apps and consumer grade GPS navigation products. The data collected included hourly volume data, average vehicle occupancy, violation rates, travel times and carbon emissions estimates. The analysis consisted of three methods of measuring effectiveness: increasing person throughput, providing travel time benefits …

Egfr Regulation Of Epidermal Barrier Function, Nhu Quynh T. Tran

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Keratinocyte terminal differentiation is the process that ultimately forms the epidermal barrier that is essential for mammals to survive in the ex utero environment. This process is tightly controlled by the expression of many well-characterized genes. Although a few of these genes are known to be regulated by the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), an important regulator of multiple epidermal functions, neither the genome-wide scale of EGFR-mediated regulation nor the mechanisms by which EGFR signaling controls keratinocyte differentiation are well understood. Using microarray analysis we identified 2,676 genes that are regulated by EGF, a ligand of the EGFR. We further …

Computing Network Of Diseases And Pharmacological Entities Through The Integration Of Distributed Literature Mining And Ontology Mapping, Fazle Elahi Faisal

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The proliferation of "-omics" (such as, Genomics, Proteomics) and "-ology" (such as, System Biology, Cell Biology, Pharmacology) have spawned new frontiers of research in drug discovery and personalized medicine. A vast amount (21 million) of published research results are archived in the PubMed and are continually growing in size. To improve the accessibility and utility of such a large number of literatures, it is critical to develop a suit of semantic sensitive technology that is capable of discovering knowledge and can also infer possible new relationships based on statistical co-occurrences of meaningful terms or concepts. In this context, this thesis …

Knowing Michelle, Emily A. Thrash

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In the main storyline of Knowing Michelle. David Shuster is forced to face the fact that his mother, Michelle Riley Shuster, is a serial killer currently on death row in Florida. The secondary tale, contained in the fictional 'book within a book,' Blood & Copper, is that of a historical figure and countess Erzsebet Bathory, who killed over six hundred woman in the late sixteenth century. Michelle admired and imitate Bathory, and asked her son to read the historical nocel as part of a last request before she is executed. Two women, Ramona and Karen, both help and hinder David …

Design Of A Metatarsophalangeal Joint Implant Wear Tester, Kelly Wilton Schlachter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of the present study was to design a wear tester for implants of the first metatarsophalangeal joint (FMTPJ), otherwise known as the first joint of the big toe. Many different designs of this type of implant from many different manufacturers are currently in clinical use, but there is no information in the open literature as to how these implants are tested for in vivo durability. There are several case studies, however, in which premature implant fractures were reported. It is possible that the incidence of such fractures might have been lower if standardized wear testing of FMTPJ implants …

A Dynamic Approach To Pose Invariant Face Identification Using Cellular Simultaneous Recurrent Networks, Teddy Salan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Face recognition is a widely covered and desirable research field that produced multiple techniques and different approaches. Most of them have severe limitations with pose variations or face rotation. The immediate goal of this thesis is to deal with pose variations by implementing a face recognition system using a Cellular Simultaneous Recurrent Network (CSRN). The CSRN is a novel bio-inspired recurrent neural network that mimics reinforcement learning in the brain. The recognition task is defined as an identification problem on image sequences. The goal is to correctly match a set of unknown pose distorted probe face sequences with a set …

Design And Evaluation Of A Novel Composite Chitosan-Poly(Lactide-Co-Glycolide) Microsphere Based System For Bone Tissue Engineering Applications, Marvin Magan Mecwan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Nearly 60% to 67% of all injuries that occur annually within the US are due to musculoskeletal injuries, with over a million people requiring implants and bone grafting materials to reconstruct bone defects. Our lab has previously developed composite chitosan/nano-hydroxyapatite microsphere based bone grafts that had good compressive strengths, supported bone cell growth and mineralization in vitro, demonstrated biocompatibility and osteoconductivity in a rat calvarial defect model, and when loaded with rhBMP-2 was osteoinductive in a rat muscle pouch model. However, degradation of these scaffolds was very slow which may have limited the amount of new bone formed in vivo. …

Energy-Efficient Real-Time Data Compression In Wireless Sensor Networks, Tommy Szalapski, Sanjay Madria

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Wireless sensor networks possess significant limitations in storage, bandwidth, and power. Additionally, real-time sensor networks cannot tolerate high latency. While some good compression algorithms exist specific to sensor networks, in this paper we present an energy-efficient method with high compression ratio that reduces latency, storage and bandwidth usage further in comparison with some other recently proposed algorithms. Our Huffman style compression scheme exploits temporal locality and delta compression to provide better bandwidth utilization in the network, thus reducing latency for real time applications. Our performance evaluations show comparable compression ratios and energy savings with a significant decrease in latency compared …

A Multi-Tiered Architecture For Content Retrieval In Mobile Peer-To-Peer Networks, Neelanjana Dutta, Raghavendra Kotikalapudi, Abhinav Saxena, Sriram Chellappan

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this paper, we address content retrieval in Mobile Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networks. We design a multi-tiered architecture for content retrieval, where at Tier 1, we design a protocol for content similarity governed by a parametera that trades accuracy with search overhead. at Tier 2, we introduce a novel concept called Chained Bloom Filters and design a protocol where popular search items are linked with popular content at each node in an efficient manner for subsequent retrieval. Extensive analysis and numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques. © 2011 IEEE.

2011-11-29 Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Executive Council Meeting Minutes for November 29, 2011.

2011-11-29 Intercollegiate Athletics Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Intercollegiate Athletics Committee Meeting Minutes for November 29, 2011.

Differential Combination Of Cytokine And Interferon- Gamma +874 T/A Polymorphisms Determines Disease Severity In Pulmonary Tuberculosis., Ambreen Ansari, Zahra Hasan, Ghaffar Dawood, Rabia Hussain

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Background:Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects nearly 1/3 of the world population and this reservoir forms the largest pool from which new cases arise. Among the cytokines, IFN-gamma is a key determinant in protection against tuberculosis. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in IFN-gamma gene (+874 T/A) which determine TT high ((hi)), AA low ((lo)) and TA intermediate ((int)) responder phenotypes have shown variable associations with tuberculosis disease outcome in different ethnic populations. The objective of the current study was to analyze IFN-gamma gene combinations with other IFN-gamma regulating cytokine genes (IL-10, TNF -alpha, IL-6) to see the effect of gene- combinations on disease …

Review: The Batterer As Parent: Addressing The Impact Of Domestic Violence On Family Dynamics, Angelo P. Giardino

Journal of Family Strengths

A Review of The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics, 2nd Edition, by Lundy Bancroft, Jay G. Silverman, and D. Ritchie.

Review: Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events And Transitions, John Bickel

Journal of Family Strengths

A review of Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions-4th edition by Sharon J. Price, Christine A. Price and Patrick C. McKenry.

Commentary On "Child Welfare Waivers: The Stakes For Families", Stephanie Smith

Journal of Family Strengths

The purpose of this piece is to provide commentary of an article, Child Welfare Waivers: The Stakes for Your State, that discusses the recent reauthorization of the Title IV-E Child Welfare Waivers. The article provides an overview of funds available to the states for child welfare programs and their intended purpose and restrictions placed on use. As structured, the present system rewards states monetarily for maintaining foster care. Research from waiver programs shows promising results for improved outcomes at the same or lower financial cost by utilizing safe, proven alternatives to the current foster care system. Waiver funds also protect …

Commentary On "Partnering With Parents: Promising Approaches To Improve Reunification Outcomes For Children In Foster Care", Jacquelyn Mccroskey

Journal of Family Strengths

In “Partnering with Parents: Promising Approaches to Improve Reunification Outcomes for Children in Foster Care,” authors J. D. Berrick, Edward Cohen and Elizabeth Anthony describe promising outcomes from a quasi-experimental study of reunification outcomes associated with the Parent Partner program in one western county

Commentary On "Practitioners’ Views Of Family Strengths: A Delphi Study", John Ronnau

Journal of Family Strengths

Commentary on "Practitioners’ Views of Family Strengths: A Delphi Study"

Commentary On "A Needs Assessment Examining Low-Income Fathers’ Barriers To Participation In Parenting Programs", Jean Ann Summers

Journal of Family Strengths

The article provides insight on issues serving as barriers to low-income fathers' involvement with their children and with parenting programs.