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Pet Loss And The Elderly, Daphne D’Gama

School of Psychology and Social Science Presentations

Companion animals are known to provide numerous psychosocial benefits to their owners. It is due to these prominent and positive contributions that individuals develop a deep attachment with their pet. Consequently pet owners experience intense grief reactions following the death of a cherished pet. While numerous studies have focused on the experiences for children and young adults, the experience of pet loss for the elderly remains relatively unexplored. An in-depth qualitative research design guided by a phenomenological framework was used to explore the experiences surrounding pet loss for the elderly. Data was collected though one-on-one semi-structured interviews with thirteen participants …

Exploring The Intention Of The South West Of Western Australian Residents To Purchase Solar Panels Using The Theory Of Planned Behaviour Approach, Greg Murray

Theses : Honours

Global warming is a concern for many people around the world (Lorenzoni, Pidgeon, 2006; Searle & Gow, 2010). The negative effect of climate change is increasingly apparent (Belluscio, 2010; Dunlop, 2010; Hirabayashi, Kanae, Emori, Oki & Kimoto, 2008; Oelemans, 1994). In response to growing public concern, governments are implementing legislation and carbon initiatives to decrease the impact of climate change (Crane, 2010; D’Souza, 2005). Although these government actions are important to implement environmental preservation among industries, this study focuses on the intentions of purchasing behaviour of the individual homeowner of the South West region of Western Australia. More specifically, the …

African Refugee Mothers’ Experiences Of Their Children’S School Readiness, And The Role Of Supported Playgroup, Rebecca New

Theses : Honours

An emerging pressure for refugee parents in Australia relates to children’s ‘school readiness’. Existing research on mainstream, ethnic and migrant parents has highlighted that preparing children for school can be stressful; however, current literature has not considered this phenomenon for refugees in Australia. Social support is important for parents as they navigate school-related problems, and supported playgroups can potentially play an important role here for refugees. However, existing research has not yet examined the ways such programs can support these individuals in dealing with school readiness issues. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the experiences of African …

Aphasia Incidence And Intervention In The Acute Hospital Setting, Dominique Lidia Ferreira

Theses : Honours

Background: Current research highlights the significance of providing early and intensive aphasia therapy to maximise neural plasticity and enhance communication gains. Acute speech pathology service delivery in Australia does not consistently meet best practice standards recommended by the National Stroke Foundation. Aims: This study aimed to: i) investigate the incidence of post-stroke aphasia in the acute setting; ii) determine the referral rate to speech pathology for patients with aphasia; iii) investigate the amount of language therapy provided to people with aphasia and iv) explore the relative proportion of aphasia service delivery within the overall caseload management of speech pathologists. Method …

Cross-Talk Between Nfkb And The Pi3-Kinase/Akt Pathway Can Be Targeted In Primary Effusion Lymphoma (Pel) Cell Lines For Efficient Apoptosis, Azhar Hussain, Saeeda O. Ahmed, Maqbool Ahmed, Omar S. Khan, Sally Al Abdul Mohsen, Leonidas C. Platanias, Khawla S. Al-Kuraya, Shahab Uddin

Centre for Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research

Background: A number of constitutively activated signaling pathways play critical roles in the survival and growth of primary effusion lymphoma cells (PELs) including NFkB and PI3/AKT kinase cascades. NFkBis constitutively activated in a number of malignancies, including multiple myeloma, Burkitt’s lymphoma and diffuse large cell B-cell lymphoma. However, its role in primary effusion lymphoma has not been fully explored.
Methodology/Principal Findings: We used pharmacological inhibition and gene silencing to define the role of NFkB in growth and survival of PEL cells. Inhibition of NFkB activity by Bay11-7085 resulted in decreased expression of p65 in the nuclear compartment as detected by …

Bullying That Follows You Home And Further: What Can Be Done To Protect Children?, Donna S. Cross

ECU Research Week

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Summary Of Research In Speech Pathology, Deborah Hersh

ECU Research Week

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How Aboriginal Art Centres Can Change Communities, Trudi Cooper, Sue Bahn, Margaret Giles

ECU Research Week

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Defining Speech And Language Fluency Profiles Before And After The Onset Of Stuttering: Preliminary Findings, Charn Nang

ECU Research Week

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Conceptualising Rehabilitation Goals And Making Them Smarter, Deborah Hersh

ECU Research Week

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Social Influences On West Australian Adolescents’ Recreational Book Reading, Margaret Merga

Research Journeys in Education

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Identification Of The Biogenic Compounds Responsible For Size-Dependent Nanoparticle Growth, Paul M. Winkler, John Ortega, Thomas Karl, Luca Cappellin, Hans R. Friedli, Kelley Barsanti, Peter H. Mcmurry, James N. Smith

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The probability that freshly nucleated nanoparticles can survive to become cloud condensation nuclei is highly sensitive to particle growth rates. Much of the growth of newly formed ambient nanoparticles can be attributed to oxidized organic vapors originating from biogenic precursor gases. In this study we investigated the chemical composition of size-selected biogenic nanoparticles in the size range from 10 to 40 nm. Particles were formed in a flow tube reactor by ozonolysis ofα-pinene and analyzed with a Thermal Desorption Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer. While we found similar composition in 10 and 20 nm particles, the relative amounts of …

The Public Trust Doctrine And The Montana Constitution As Legal Bases For Climate Change Litigation In Montana, Gregory S. Munro

Montana Law Review

The Public Trust Doctrine and the Montana Constitution As Legal Bases for Climate Change Litigation in Montana

State V. Allen: The Connection Between The Right To Be Secure From Unreasonable Searches And Seizures And Montana's Individual Right Of Privacy, Stephanie Holstein

Montana Law Review

State v. Allen: The Connection Between the Right to Be Secure From Unreasonable Searches and Seizures and Montana's Individual Right of Privacy

Capture Nuances In The Contest For Financial Regulation, Lawrence G. Baxter

Faculty Scholarship

Applying capture analysis in the hotly contested arena of financial regulation is difficult. Numerous regulators with widely differing missions and widely diverse stakeholders are involved. Regulators operate under widely differing authorizing legislation. They even function at different levels of government. Agencies are often at odds with each other when it comes to determining optimal public policy. Unlike policy disputes in many other areas of regulation, which can be settled by reference to scientific data, public policy in financial regulation rests profoundly on essentially contested economic ideologies. This makes financial policy doubly difficult: one the one hand, it requires deep expertise—and …

Students Are The Major Source For Proliferation Of Corruption In Higher Education In Azerbaijan.1, Volodymyr V Gulyk

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The soviet era brought various diseases to fifteen different countries, but corruption is one of the most dangerous. The aim of the studies described here was to explore student’s opinion and their behavior as a main reason of proliferation of corruption. The author of the article conducted interviews and broadcasted the questionnaire among the students within different background. The results proved that there is significant amount of students, who regularly pay bribes, because they do not study well, or at all.

Bulletin 2012-2013, Seattle University School Of Law

Viewbooks

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Patient Racial Preferences And The Medical Culture Of Accommodation, Kimani Paul-Emile

Faculty Scholarship

One of medicine’s open secrets is that patients routinely refuse or demand medical treatment based on the assigned physician’s racial identity, and hospitals typically yield to patients’ racial preferences. This widely practiced, if rarely acknowledged, phenomenon — about which there is new empirical evidence — poses a fundamental dilemma for law, medicine, and ethics. It also raises difficult questions about how we should think about race, health, and individual autonomy in this context. Informed consent rules and common law battery dictate that a competent patient has an almost-unqualified right to refuse medical care, including treatment provided by an unwanted physician. …

Tempering The Over-Use And Abuse Of Common-Pool Resources, Marianna Khachaturyan, Gary D. Lynne

Cornhusker Economics

Elinor Ostrom, a professor at Indiana University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (first woman to ever receive it) in 2009, sharing it with Professor Oliver Williamson. The prize was awarded “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.” She “challenged the conventional wisdom by demonstrating how local property can be successfully managed by local commons without any regulation by central authorities or privatization”. Also, full privatization, i.e., assigning individual property rights rather than shared, common property rights, is also not essential. She summarizes her contribution in the finding “that humans have a more complex motivational structure …

Calling For Justice In The Goldfields Of Tanzania, Madoshi H. Makene, Jody Emel, James T. Murphy

Geography

Tanzania is the third largest gold exporter in Africa, thanks in part to the liberalization of the mining sector which started in the early 1990s. Neoliberal mining reforms promised a win-win situation in which government, investors and local host communities would benefit through export earnings, profits, local employment, andcorporate social responsibility initiatives (e.g., the building of schools and clinics). While the rising price of gold and foreign investments in mining activities have delivered on some of these promises, many residents in mining regions have not benefited socioeconomically. Worse still, their communities have unjustly borne the brunt of the environmental, social, …

Effects Of International Remittances On The Philippine Economy: A Cointegration Analysis, Moises Neil V. Seriño

DLSU Business & Economics Review

This paper examines the effect of international remittances on the Philippine economy, both in the short run and in the long run, using a standard cointegration method. Results of the analysis show that remittances have a positive significant effect on the Philippine economy in the long run. This translates to a 0.018% increase in the economy’s gross domestic product when the remittances sent by overseas workers to the Philippines increases by 1%. However in the short run, remittances negatively affect the economy’s output, which implies that an increase in remittances sent to the country is associated with a decline in …

Caregiver-Child Mental Health Associations In Peshawar, Pakistan And Kabul, Afghanistan, Christina Jane Mergenthaler

Public Health Theses

Objective: To assess the impact of caregiver mental health on child mental health in two samples of Afghan families living in Peshawar, Pakistan and Kabul, Afghanistan.

Methods: Using stratified random-sampling in five schools throughout seven refugee camps located in Peshawar, Pakistan, mental health and life events of 319 11-to 16-year old students (n=161 boys, 158 girls) and their caregivers (n=319) were evaluated in 2005 cross-sectional study. Self- and caregiver- rated child mental health (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire), depressive (Depression Self-Rating Scale), and posttraumatic stress (Child Revised Impact of Events Scale) symptoms and caregiver mental health (Self-Report Questionnaire) were assessed. Past-year …

The Effects Of Host Nutritional Status And Dietary Factors On The Treatment Efficacy Of Albendazole In School-Age Children Infected With Hookworm In The Kintampo North District Of Ghana, Sara Ann Nguyen

Public Health Theses

Background: In endemic settings unable to support economic growth, inexpensive anthelminthics, such as albendazole, are the cornerstone for hookworm infection treatment and control. However, the overall efficacy of albendazole against hookworm may be reduced after periodic chemotherapy. (Hotez et al., 2004) In addition, there are few studies exploring the role of nutritional status as a potential host factor influencing drug response and the constituents of diet has often been overlooked when determining anthelminthic efficacy, despite previous accounts of nutrient content of a meal or consumed food item affecting drug metabolism. Evaluating nutritional status as a potential host factor may partly …

Intimate Partner Violence And Breastfeeding Outcomes: An Examination Of The 2007 Zambia Demographic And Health Survey, Eunie Park

Public Health Theses

Objective: To assess associations of experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) and breastfeeding behaviors among a large, population-based sample of Zambian women using the 2007 Zambian Demographic and Health Survey (2007 ZDHS).

Methods: All women with a last-born infant aged under 2 years in Zambia who participated in the 2007 ZDHS Domestic Violence Module were included in the analysis. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to assess the associations of experiences of lifetime IPV, type of IPV, current IPV, and IPV during any pregnancy to the following breastfeeding outcomes: early breastfeeding initiation, use of prelacteal feeds, any breastfeeding (N=1892), and exclusive …

Stress And The Diabetes Mind: Job Loss Predicts Cognitive Function In The Health And Retirement Study, Hutson Dempsey Olsen

Public Health Theses

Introduction

Diabetes is a proposed cause of dementia and age-related cognitive decline. While the effects of hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, and hyperinsulinemia are well-known, scholarship tends to neglect distinct but related pathologies, such as chronic stress. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether a common proxy- mid-life involuntary job loss- is associated with reduced cognitive function among a cohort of diabetics. A second objective was to determine if age of diabetes onset moderates this relationship.

Methods

This cross-sectional study gathered diabetes data from the 2003 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) Mail Survey on Diabetes, while measures of cognitive function …

Sex Trafficking In Kolkata, India: Employment Histories And Perceptions Of Risk, Madison Leigh Rose

Public Health Theses

Abstract

Sex trafficking is a significant public health and human rights concern in India. This paper aims to (1) replicate questions about predisposing factors and trafficking mechanisms previously asked of women and girls released from trafficking to a sample of women actively involved in commercial sex work; and (2) go beyond existing research by determining first-hand information on pre-trafficking employment histories and subjective perceptions of trafficking and health risks.

Interviews with 57 trafficked female sex workers in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. Most women were born in India. Bangladesh and Nepal were also reported nations-of-origin. Illiteracy was prevalent in the sample (67.9%, …

Hpv Type Distribution In New Haven County, Ct Among Women With Cin2+ Diagnoses From 2008-2010, Chelsea Anne Russ

Public Health Theses

Background

The human papillomavirus is a necessary cause of cervical cancer leading to >12,000 cervical cancer diagnoses and >4,000 deaths in the United States in 2007. In 2006, the first HPV vaccine was approved by the US FDA, which prevents the acquisition of high-risk types of HPV (16/18) that cause 70% cervical cancer cases in the US and 50% of precancerous lesions. Our objectives were to examine HPV type distribution among women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2/3 (CIN2+) by area-based measures of race, ethnicity, and poverty and individual level characteristics.

Methods

In 2008, the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) …

Influence Of Quercetin-Rich Food Intake On Microrna Expression In Lung Cancer Tissues, Stephanie Shao

Public Health Theses

Background: Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide and has the highest cancer-related mortality rate. Epidemiologic studies, including the Environment and Genetics in Lung Cancer Etiology (EAGLE) study, have reported that frequent consumption of quercetin-rich foods is inversely associated with lung cancer incidence. Although experimental studies suggest that quercetin intake might modulate microRNA (miR) expression, this mechanism has not been fully examined. We investigated this hypothesis in lung carcinogenesis using EAGLE lung cancer tissues.

Methods: miR expression data were measured by a custom-made array in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue samples from 264 lung cancer cases (144 adenocarcinomas and …

Acculturation And Cardiovascular Markers And Outcomes: A Systematic Review, Dorothy Sheu

Public Health Theses

Acculturation may help illuminate the context of atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease (CHD), and stroke. This systematic review sought to examine the associations between acculturation and atherosclerosis, CHD, and stroke. A search of ten databases in addition to reference lists led to relevant articles. This research limited to quantitative studies conducted among Asian adults in North America, and further selected for those that included measurements of atherosclerosis, CHD, or stroke, to comprise this review. This review included articles of all languages, years published, and publication types. Twenty-nine articles were found that both fit the aforementioned criteria and measured acculturation. Among these …

Characterization Of Bis-(3', 5')-Cyclic Dimeric Adenosine Monophosphate As A Mucosal Adjuvant And Its Relevance In A Model Of Hookworm Pathogenesis, Shawn Terryah

Public Health Theses

Most pathogens invade their human host or establish infection at mucosal surfaces. In contrast to parenteral vaccines, mucosal immunization has the potential to induce a robust immune response at mucosal surfaces capable of blocking the entry and establishment of many pathogens. Despite these advantages, very few mucosal vaccines are licensed for human use, largely because antigens administered by the mucosal route are either poorly or non-immunogenic. A strategy to overcome this problem is co-administering vaccine antigens with a mucosal adjuvant. Recently, bis-(3',5')-cyclic dimeric adenosine monophosphate (c-di-AMP) was identified as a potential mucosal adjuvant. To evaluate c-di-AMP as a mucosal adjuvant …