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An At Mutational Bias In The Tiny Gc-Rich Endosymbiont Genome Of Hodgkinia, James T. Van Leuven, John Mccutcheon

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The fractional guanine + cytosine (GC) contents of sequenced bacterial genomes range from 13% to 75%. Despite several decades of research aimed at understanding this wide variation, the forces controlling GC content are not well understood. Recent work has suggested that a universal adenine + thymine (AT) mutational bias exists in all bacteria and that the elevated GC contents found in some bacterial genomes is due to genome-wide selection for increased GC content. These results are generally consistent with the low GC contents observed in most strict endosymbiotic bacterial genomes, where the loss of DNA repair mechanisms combined with the …

School Readiness For Young Migrant Children: The Challenge And The Outlook, Smita Mathur

Selected Works

There is evidence that children from families of migrant workers are among the most disadvantaged in term of early academic achievement. Yet there are insufficient resources allocated to research exploring the reasons that existing preschool programs are not effective in closing the gap between migrant children and other groups of children in the USA. There are some Head Start programs that migrant children have access to, but many of them offer simply care-giving functions and offer little opportunities for enrichment activities for children in preschool. This paper explores some of the barriers to engaging the preschool child effectively in educational …

Graduate Catalog, 2012-2013, Marshall University

Marshall University Catalogs 2010-2019

Marshall University Graduate Course Catalog for the 2012-2013 academic year.

Graduate Catalog, Fall 2010, Marshall University

Marshall University Catalogs 2010-2019

Marshall University Graduate Course Catalog for the Fall 2010 academic year.

Consumption Of High Ω-3 Fatty Acid Diet Suppressed Prostate Tumorigenesis In C3(1) Tag Mice, Juliana A. Akinsete, Gabriela Ion, Theodore R. Witte, W. Elaine Hardman

Biochemistry and Microbiology

Prostate cancer incidence and mortality are high in the Western world and high ω-6/ω-3 PUFA in the Western diet may be a contributing factor. We investigated whether changing from a diet that approximates ω-6 fat content of the Western diet to a high ω-3 fat diet at adulthood might reduce prostate cancer risk. Female SV 129 mice that had consumed a high ω-6 diet containing corn oil for 2 weeks were bred with homozygous C3(1)Tag transgenic male mice. All male offspring were weaned to the corn oil diet (CO) until postpuberty when half of the male offspring were transferred to …

Current Nursing Practice To Prevent Surgical Site Infections In Patients Who Have Had Abdominal Surgery, Dominique Norphleet

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

2012 News, College Of Education And Human Development

Family and Consumer Sciences News

• Dietetics Program Reaccredited
• Faculty Member Appointed to Certified Family Life Educator Advisory Board
• Faculty Member in Dietetics Published
• Family Studies Faculty Present at Symposium
• Graduate Student Ambassador Announced
• Interior Design Students Collaborate to Redesign Kanley Chapel
• Manley Conducting Research
• Frazier Receives Grant from the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
• FCS 5340 Consumer Behavior in the Fashion Environment
• Manley Awarded Grant
• Webber Article Published
• Zinser Visits Siberia
• National Council on Family Relations Chooses Book
• Colleagues International Working with the U.S. Department of State
• Commercial Interiors Design Challenge
• Dannison Completes Program Review
• Blaisure Co-Authors, Serving Military Families in the 21st …

Nordp News 2.2, National Organization Of Research Development Professionals, Jeffrey M. Anderson (Ed.)

Research Development Repository

This is an upload of a past issue of the NORDP News Newsletter. The table of contents includes:

• New ERA of Transatlantic Research Collaborations

• President’s Corner

• Stay out of the Hazards: What do NIH and Golf have in Common?

• Social Scientists and Research Development

• What to Say—and Not Say—to Program Officers

• Upcoming Research Development Conferences

• Research Development Jobs Sampler

Surgical Patients With Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: An Analysis Of Characteristics And Short-Term Outcomes Among 8256 Patients, Hadiza Shu'aib Kazaure

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Surgical Patients with Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Orders: An Analysis of Characteristics and Short-term Outcomes Among 8256 Patients

Hadiza S. Kazaure, Sanziana A. Roman, Julie Ann Sosa

Section of Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Objective: Using data obtained from more than 120 hospitals participating in the American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP, 2005-08), the characteristics and outcomes of patients who underwent surgery with a DNR order were examined.

Methods: Patients with a DNR order were matched by age and procedure, to those without a DNR order. The main outcomes of interest …

Unmasking Children's Agency, David F. Lancy

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

The goal of this paper is to identify (unmask) and critique the movement to promote children’s agency as a cornerstone of research, care, education and intervention with children. The article makes a case that this movement is harmful to a scientific approach to the study of childhood, distorts or ignores key understandings of the evolution of childhood and culture. The article demonstrates that the agency movement is ethnocentric, classist and hegemonic representing the dominance of contemporary bourgeoisie child-rearing. It imposes a single, privileged ethnotheory of childhood upon the diverse societies of the world with alternative ethnotheories and practices. Lastly, the …

Contributions Of Cultural Services To The Ecosystem Services Agenda, T. C. Daniel, A. Muhar, A. Arnberger, O. Aznar, J. W. Boyd, K. M.A. Chan, R. Costanza, T. Elmqvist, Courtney G. Flint, P. H. Gobster, A. Gret-Regamey, R. Lave, S. Muhar, M. Penker, R. G. Ribe, T. Schauppenlehner, T. Sikor, I. Soloviy, M. Spierenburg, K. Taczanowska, J. Tam, A. Von Der Dunk

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Cultural ecosystem services (ES) are consistently recognized but not yet adequately defined or integrated within the ES framework. A substantial body of models, methods, and data relevant to cultural services has been developed within the social and behavioral sciences before and outside of the ES approach. A selective review of work in landscape aesthetics, cultural heritage, outdoor recreation, and spiritual significance demonstrates opportunities for operationally defining cultural services in terms of socioecological models, consistent with the larger set of ES. Such models explicitly link ecological structures and functions with cultural values and benefits, facilitating communication between scientists and stakeholders and …

Demography, Vital Rates, Habitat-Use, And Seasonal Movements Of Greater Sage-Grouse In The Ruby Pipeline Huc 8 Watershed: Phase 1, A. Cook, B. Wing, T. Black, Terry A. Messmer

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Seattle Pacific University Catalog 2012-2013, Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Short-Term Carbon Partitioning Fertilizer Responses Vary Among Two Full-Sib Loblolly Pine Clones, Jeremy P. Stovall, John R. Seiler, Thomas R. Fox

Faculty Publications

We investigated the effects of fertilizer application on the partitioning of gross primary productivity (GPP) between contrasting full-sib clones of Pinus taeda (L.). Our objective was to determine if fertilizer growth responses resulted from similar short-term changes to partitioning. A modeling approach incorporating respiratory carbon (C) fluxes, soil CO2 efflux (FS), and biomass was applied to a factorial design with two clones, fertilizer and control treatments, and four sequential monthly harvests of seedlings planted in a greenhouse. Partitioning was integrated over 121 days to above, belowground, and total net primary production (ANPP + BNPP = NPP), total belowground C flux …

Use Of Parenteral Fish Oil To Reverse Cholestasis Induced By Parenteral Nutrition In Infants With Intestinal Failure: Single-Centre Case Series, Denise Reniers, Irina Rajakumar, Suzanne Ratko, Paul Atkison

Paediatrics Publications

No abstract provided.

Apyn/ Chemchemi Probiotic Yoghurt Malnourished Children’S Feeding Programme (Aged 0-5) Report, African Probiotic Yoghurt Network (Apyn)

Business and Social Enterprise

Research evidence and current health reports clearly demonstrate that the prevalence of child malnutrition remains high in Tanzania, especially within the under 5 age group. In Tanzania, over half of all child deaths are attributable to malnutrition. According to data from the Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS) 2004/05, about 40% of children under five years of age are stunted, i.e., they are short for their age, which is an indicator of chronic undernutrition. About 3% are wasted, i.e., they have low weight-for-height, which is an indicator of acute undernutrition (National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) [Tanzania] & ORC Macro, 2005). …

Bmp Signaling Induces Visceral Endoderm Differentiation Of Xen Cells And Parietal Endoderm, Agnieszka Paca, Cheryle A. Séguin, Melanie Clements, Michael Ryczko, Janet Rossant, Tristan A. Rodriguez, Tilo Kunath

Paediatrics Publications

The extraembryonic endoderm of mammals is essential for nutritive support of the fetus and patterning of the early embryo. Visceral and parietal endoderm are major subtypes of this lineage with the former exhibiting most, if not all, of the embryonic patterning properties. Extraembryonic endoderm (XEN) cell lines derived from the primitive endoderm of mouse blastocysts represent a cell culture model of this lineage, but are biased towards parietal endoderm in culture and in chimeras. In an effort to promote XEN cells to adopt visceral endoderm character we have mimicked different aspects of the in vivo environment. We found that BMP …

Healthy Lifestyle Programs For Physical Activity And Nutrition, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Promoting Fit Bodies, Healthy Eating And Physical Activity Among Indigenous Australian Men: A Study Protocol, Lina A. Ricciardelli, David Mellor, Marita P. Mccabe, Alexander J. Mussap, David J. Hallford, Matthew Tyler

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

Background: Overall the physical health of Indigenous men is among the worst in Australia. Research has indicated that modifiable lifestyle factors, such as poor nutrition and physical inactivity, appear to contribute strongly to these poor health conditions. To effectively develop and implement strategies to improve the health of Australia’s Indigenous peoples, a greater understanding is needed of how Indigenous men perceive health, and how they view and care for their bodies. Further, a more systematic understanding of how sociocultural factors affect their health attitudes and behaviours is needed. This article presents the study protocol of a community- based investigation into …

Physical Activity And Screen Time Behaviour In Metropolitan, Regional And Rural Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study Of Australians Aged 9–16 Years, James Dollman, Carol Maher, Tim S. Olds, Kate Ridley

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

Objectives: While there is consistent evidence that rural adults in Australia are less active than their urban counterparts, studies relating geographical remoteness to activity patterns in Australian adolescents have yielded inconsistent results. The aim of this study was to describe objectively and subjectively measured patterns of physical activity and sedentary behaviours across remoteness categories in a representative sample of 9–16 year old Australians. Design: Cross-sectional observational study. Methods: 2071 Australian adolescents provided self-report use of time data on four days and wore a pedometer for at least 6 days within the 2007 Australian National Children’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey. …

Leisure Notes, Summer-Fall 2012, State University Of New York College At Cortland

Recreation, Parks, & Leisure

SUNY Cortland Department of Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Studies Alumni Newsletter.

Scholarworks Statistics - January 2012, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of January 2012, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 20,211 full-text downloads and 19,703 page views.

Reforming The Equal Access To Justice Act, Lowell E. Baier

Journal of Legislation

No abstract provided.

Pcr Detection Of Malaria Parasites In Desiccated Anopheles Mosquitoes Is Uninhibited By Storage Time And Temperature, Mark A. Rider, Brian D. Byrd, Joseph Keating, Dawn M. Wesson, Kevin A. Caillouet

Biostatistics Publications

Background

Reliable methods to preserve mosquito vectors for malaria studies are necessary for detectingPlasmodium parasites. In field settings, however, maintaining a cold chain of storage from the time of collection until laboratory processing, or accessing other reliable means of sample preservation is often logistically impractical or cost prohibitive. As the Plasmodium infection rate of Anophelesmosquitoes is a central component of the entomological inoculation rate and other indicators of transmission intensity, storage conditions that affect pathogen detection may bias malaria surveillance indicators. This study investigated the effect of storage time and temperature on the ability to detect Plasmodium parasites …

A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Of The Metabolic Syndrome In Adolescents: An Examination Of Sex And Racial/Ethnic Differences, Matthew J. Gurka, Christa L. Ice, Shumei S. Sun, Mark D. Deboer

Biostatistics Publications

Objective The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of clinical indices that signals increased risk for cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes. The diagnosis of MetS is typically based on cut-off points for various components, e.g. waist circumference and blood pressure. Because current MetS criteria result in racial/ethnic discrepancies, our goal was to use confirmatory factor analysis to delineate differential contributions to MetS by sub-group.

Research Design and Methods Using 1999–2010 data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), we performed a confirmatory factor analysis of a single MetS factor that allowed differential loadings across sex and race/ethnicity, …

Concentrated Flow Paths In Riparian Buffer Zones Of Southern Illinois, R. C. Pankau, J. E. Schoonover, K. W. J. Williard, P. J. Edwards

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Riparian buffers in agricultural landscapes should be designed to trap pollutants in overland flow by slowing, filtering, and infiltrating surface runoff entering the buffer via sheet flow. However, observational evidence suggests that concentrated flow is prevalent from agricultural fields. Over time sediment can accumulate in riparian buffers forming berms that restrict sheet flow; these berms ultimately back up surface runoff, resulting in an eventual breakthrough that concentrates overland flow. This study examines the occurrence of concentrated flow paths (CFPs) in riparian buffers at both the field and watershed scale. At the field scale, intensive topographic surveys were conducted at ten …

Clinical Preventive Services In Guatemala: A Cross-Sectional Survey Of Internal Medicine Physicians, Juan E. Corral, Lauren D. Arnold, Erwin E. Argueta, Akshay Ganju, Joaquin Barnoya

Cancer Prevention Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Effectiveness Of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception, Brooke Winner, Jeffrey F. Peipert, Quihong Zhao, Christina Buckel, Tessa Madden, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Gina M. Secura

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

The Business Case For A Diabetes Self-Management Intervention In A Community General Hospital, Ashley Micklethwaite, Carol A. Brownson, Mary L. O'Toole, Kerry E. Kilpatrick

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Academic Catalog 2012-2013, Calvin University

University Academic Catalogs

No abstract provided.