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Incidence, Types, Geographical Distribution, And Risk Factors Of Congenital Anomalies In Al-Ramadi Maternity And Children's Teaching Hospital, Western Iraq, Zaid R. Al-Ani, Shaker A. Al-Haj, Muhammad M. Al-Ani, Khamees M. Al-Dulaimy, Ayad Kh. Al-Maraie, Belal Kh. Al-Ubaidi

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To study the incidence, types, geographical distribution, and risk factors of congenital anomalies (CAs) in a teaching hospital. METHODS: A total of 5864 neonates were examined for CAs between October 2010 and October 2011 in Al-Ramadi Maternity and Children9s Teaching Hospital, Al-Ramadi, Western Iraq. Data include: neonate9s name, gender, weight, and type of CAs, mother9s age, residence, education, parity, consanguinity, smoking, illness, drugs, and ultrasound (U/S) results, father9s age and smoking, and family recurrence of CAs. For every case, 2 controls were selected. Types and incidence of CAs was calculated. Odds ratio and confidence interval was utilized for risk …

The Potential Role Of Carbon Labeling In A Green Economy, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Mark A. Cohen

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Over the past several years, labeling schemes that focus on a wide range of environmental and social metrics have proliferated. Although little empirical evidence has been generated yet with respect to carbon footprint labels, much can be learned from our experience with similar product labels. We first review the theory and evidence on the role of product labeling in affecting consumer and firm behavior. Next, we consider the role of governments and nongovernmental organizations, concluding that international, multistakeholder organizations have a critical part to play in setting protocols and standards. We argue that it is important to consider the entire …

Salud Y Saludos: The E-News Of The College Of Health Sciences, College Of Health Sciences

College of Health Sciences

Monthly e-newsletter of the College of Health Sciences.

The Eastern Echo, September 1, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

Fortification Of Cheese With Vitamin D3 Using Dairy Protein Emulsions As Delivery Systems, M. Tippetts, Silvana Martini, C. Brothersen, D. J. Mcmahon

Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

Vitamin D is an essential vitamin that is synthesized when the body is exposed to sunlight or after the consumption of fortified foods and supplements. The purpose of this research was to increase the retention of vitamin D3 in Cheddar cheese by incorporating it as part of an oil-in-water emulsion using a milk protein emulsifier to obtain a fortification level of 280 IU/serving. Four oil-in-water vitamin D emulsions were made using sodium caseinate, calcium caseinate, nonfat dry milk (NDM), or whey protein. These emulsions were used to fortify milk, and the retention of vitamin D3 in cheese curd in a …

Developing An Online Certification Program For Nutrition Education Assistants, D. Christofferson, N. Christensen, Heidi Leblanc, M. Bunch

Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

Objective: To develop an online certification program for nutrition education paraprofessionals to increase knowledge and confidence and to overcome training barriers of programming time and travel expenses. Design: An online interactive certification course based on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education and Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program core competencies was delivered to employees of both programs. Traditional vs online training was compared. Course content validity was determined through expert review by registered dietitians. Parameters studied included increase of nutrition knowledge and teaching technique/ability, educator satisfaction, and programming costs related to training. Setting: Utah State University Extension. Participants: Twenty-two Supplemental Nutrition Assistance …

The Eastern Echo, September 1, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

The Eastern Echo, September 1, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

The Development And Testing Of The Continuity Assessment Record And Evaluation (Care) Item Set: Final Report On Care Item Set And Current Assessment Comparisons: Volume 3 Of 3, Barbara Gage, Ann Deutsch, Laura Smith, Carole Schwartz, Jessica Ross, Laurie Coots, Karen Reilly, Judith Hazard Abbate, Kate Shamsuddin, Benjamin Silver, Christopher Murtagh, Margaret Stineman, Trudy Mallinson

Clinical Research and Leadership Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Reducing The Risk Of Grass Tetany, Edward Barrow Rayburn, Darin Matlick

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

WVU-Extension fact sheet

The Local Food Movement: Definitions, Benefits, And Resources, Roslynn Brain

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

What does it mean to eat locally? Although perceptions of what makes up “local food” differ by region (due in large part to varying climates, soil types, and populations), most researchers accept that eating locally means minimizing the distance between production and consumption, especially in relation to the modern mainstream food system (Peters et al., 2008). According to the 2008 Farm Act, a product can be marketed as locally or regionally produced if its end-point purchase is within 400 miles from its origin, or within state boundaries (Martinez et al., 2010). Most retailers, however, consider local to be on a …

Mathematics Through The Eyes Of Faith (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Bradley, James, & Russell Howell. Mathematics through the Eyes of Faith. New York: HarperOne, 2011. viii + 280 pages. ISBN: 978-0-06-202447-3.

Teaching And Christian Practices: Reshaping Faith And Learning (Book Review), Patricia C. Kornelis

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Smith, David. A., and James K. A. Smith, eds. Teaching and Christian Practices: Reshaping Faith and Learning. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011. 223 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8028-6685-1.

Global Health Governance: Analyzing China, India, And Japan As Global Health Aid Donors, Ann Florini, Karthik Nachiappan, Tikki Pang, Christine Pilcavage

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Development assistance is a significant mechanism by which major countries exercise influence in the global health arena. Of the major Asian powers, Japan has long provided significant funding, while China and India have primarily been recipients but are beginning to increase their funding roles. This article examines the amounts, channels, modes, disease allocations and the geographic focuses of their foreign health aid, and delineates the institutional structures that govern the formulation and implementation of foreign health aid policy in each of these countries, to explore what influence China, India, and Japan have and may develop in the global health arena. …

Tennessee Farm Bureau News - September 2012, Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

Tennessee Farm Bureau News

No abstract provided.

Chronically Inadequate Sleep Results In Abnormal Bone Formation And Abnormal Bone Marrow In Rats, Carol A. Everson, Anne E. Folley, Jeffrey M. Toth

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Insufficient sleep over long durations of the lifespan is believed to adversely affect proper development and healthful aging, although how this might become manifested is unknown. In the present study, rats were repeatedly sleep-restricted during 72 days to permit maladaptations to evolve, thereby permitting study. Densitometric and histomorphometric analyses were performed on harvested bone. In sleep-restricted rats, bone lined by osteoid was reduced 45-fold and osteoid thickness was decreased, compared with controls. This corresponded to a decrease in osteoblast number and activity. The percentage of bone lined by osteoclasts did not differ from that of controls. Plasma concentrations of an …

The Local Food Movement: Definitions, Benefits & Resources, Roslynn Brain

All Current Publications

No abstract provided.

Understanding Food Labels, Part Ii: The Ingredient Statement, Karin Allen

All Current Publications

But Ingredient Statements look like they’re written in a foreign language! Essentially, they are. It’s the language of food scientists, chemists, and processors, and even for these professionals it can be difficult to fully interpret.

Understanding Food Labels, Part Iii: Label Claims, Karin Allen

All Current Publications

Over the last couple of decades, more and more symbols, claims, and buzzwords began showing up on the front of food labels.

Optimizing Network Connectivity For Mobile Health Technologies In Sub-Saharan Africa, Mark J. Siedner, Alexander J. Lankowski, Derrick Musinga, Jonathan Jackson, Conrad Muzoora, Peter W. Hunt, Jeffrey N. Martin, David Bangsberg, Jessica E. Haberer

OHSU-PSU School of Public Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: Mobile health (mHealth) technologies hold incredible promise to improve healthcare delivery in resourcelimited settings. Network reliability across large catchment areas can be a major challenge. We performed an analysis of network failure frequency as part of a study of real-time adherence monitoring in rural Uganda. We hypothesized that the addition of short messaging service (SMS+GPRS) to the standard cellular network modality (GPRS) would reduce network disruptions and improve transmission of data.

Methods: Participants were enrolled in a study of real-time adherence monitoring in southwest Uganda. In June 2011, we began using Wisepill devices that transmit data each time the …

Competitive Abilities In Experimental Microcosms Are Accurately Predicted By A Demographic Index For R*, Ebony G. Murrell, Steven A. Juliano

Faculty Publications – Biological Sciences

Resource competition theory predicts that R*, the equilibrium resource amount yielding zero growth of a consumer population, should predict species' competitive abilities for that resource. This concept has been supported for unicellular organisms, but has not been well-tested for metazoans, probably due to the difficulty of raising experimental populations to equilibrium and measuring population growth rates for species with long or complex life cycles. We developed an index (R-index) of R* based on demography of one insect cohort, growing from egg to adult in a non-equilibrium setting, and tested whether R-index yielded accurate predictions of competitive abilities using mosquitoes as …

Use Of Quantitative Membrane Proteomics Identifies A Novel Role Of Mitochondria In Healing Injured Muscles., Nimisha Sharma, Sushma Medikayala, Sree Rayavarapu, Kristy J. Brown, Yetrib Hathout, Jyoti K. Jaiswal, Aurelia Defour

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

Skeletal muscles are proficient at healing from a variety of injuries. Healing occurs in two phases, early and late phase. Early phase involves healing the injured sarcolemma and restricting the spread of damage to the injured myofiber. Late phase of healing occurs a few days postinjury and involves interaction of injured myofibers with regenerative and inflammatory cells. Of the two phases, cellular and molecular processes involved in the early phase of healing are poorly understood. We have implemented an improved sarcolemmal proteomics approach together with in vivo labeling of proteins with modified amino acids in mice to study acute changes …

Response Surface Methodology Guided Release Of Two Acetate Volatiles From An Oil-In-Water Emulsion, Mark Traynor, Roisin Burke, N. Brunton, Catherine Barry-Ryan

Articles

Optimization of the volatile release of two commonly used flavor compounds (isoamyl acetate and furfuryl acetate) from a food emulsion model system was evaluated using response surface methodology (RSM). Twenty-seven random order settings were established using a central composite face-centered (CCF) experimental design. The main and combined effects of four independent variables—concentration of isoamyl acetate (50–90 ppm), furfuryl acetate (20–30 ppm), salt (NaCl; 0.1–2%), and pH (5–7)—on the responses were examined. The main objective of the present study was to determine the optimal concentration level of the four variables leading to optimal release of the volatile compounds. Quantitative measurements were …

Today - August 31, 2012, Loma Linda University

TODAY

Inside this issue:

-- School of Dentistry opens Hugh Love Center for Research & Education in Technology
-- CMS team positive after visiting various Loma Linda health care entities
-- Advanced imaging and microscopy core facility celebrates first anniversary
-- SPH professor speaks on chronic diseases at Pan American Forum
-- Dentistry professor wins first place in poster competition at NIH event
-- Third-year pharmacy student attends seminar at University of Utah
-- American Board of Operative Dentistry elects dentistry professor as president
-- School of Dentistry alumnus volunteers among the Maasai
-- Gateway program introduces teens to health careers …

News Of The Department Of Animal Science, Department Of Animal Science

Animal Science Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Measuring Infertility In Populations: Constructing A Standard Definition For Use With Demographic And Reproductive Health Surveys, Maya N. Mascarenhas, Hoiwan Cheung, Colin D. Mathers, Gretchen A. Stevens

Dartmouth Scholarship

Background: Infertility is a significant disability, yet there are no reliable estimates of its global prevalence. Studies on infertility prevalence define the condition inconsistently, rendering the comparison of studies or quantitative summaries of the literature difficult. This study analyzed key components of infertility to develop a definition that can be consistently applied to globally available household survey data.

Methods: We proposed a standard definition of infertility and used it to generate prevalence estimates using 53 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). The analysis was restricted to the subset of DHS that contained detailed fertility information collected through the reproductive health calendar. …

August 31, 2012, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Food Stamps Grow Urban Gardens, Daniel Bowman Simon

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Plants and seeds can be purchased with SNAP (formerly Food Stamps, renamed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP in 2008,) but most current SNAP participants are unaware. Nearly four decades ago, in 1973, Alabama Senator James Allen championed an amendment to allow the purchase of food-producing plants and seeds with Food Stamps. The Senate passed the amendment after less than ten minutes of floor debate. However, in the ensuing decades, there has not been a focused national effort to make SNAP participants raise awareness of this choice that is available to SNAP participants, nor to connect SNAP participants to resources …

Comparative Transcriptome Analysis Of Two Olive Cultivars In Response To Nacl-Stress, Christos Bazakos, Maria E. Manioudaki, Ioannis Therios, Demetrios Voyiatzis, Dimitris Kafetzopoulos, Tala Awada, Panagiotis Kalaitzis

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Background: Olive (Olea europaea L.) cultivation is rapidly expanding and low quality saline water is often used for irrigation. The molecular basis of salt tolerance in olive, though, has not yet been investigated at a system level. In this study a comparative transcriptomics approach was used as a tool to unravel gene regulatory networks underlying salinity response in olive trees by simulating as much as possible olive growing conditions in the field. Specifically, we investigated the genotype-dependent differences in the transcriptome response of two olive cultivars, a salt-tolerant and a salt-sensitive one.

Methodology/Principal Findings: A 135-day long …

Exosome-Mediated Shuttling Of Microrna-29 Regulates Hiv Tat And Morphine-Mediated Neuronal Dysfunction., Guoku Hu, H Yao, A D. Chaudhuri, Sowmya V. Yelamanchili, H Wen, P D. Cheney, Howard S. Fox, Shilpa J. Buch

Journal Articles: Pharmacology & Experimental Neuroscience

Neuronal damage is a hallmark feature of HIV-associated neurological disorders (HANDs). Opiate drug abuse accelerates the incidence and progression of HAND; however, the mechanisms underlying the potentiation of neuropathogenesis by these drugs remain elusive. Opiates such as morphine have been shown to enhance HIV transactivation protein Tat-mediated toxicity in both human neurons and neuroblastoma cells. In the present study, we demonstrate reduced expression of the tropic factor platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-B with a concomitant increase in miR-29b in the basal ganglia region of the brains of morphine-dependent simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-infected macaques compared with the SIV-infected controls. In vitro relevance …