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Spartan Daily September 12, 2012, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 139, Issue 7

Usf St. Petersburg Ranked Among Top 30 Best Public Colleges In The South, September 12, 2012, Tom Scherberger

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

No abstract provided.

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2010s

No abstract provided.

In-Text And Out-Of-Text Engagement: Interactional Features In Students' Academic Writing And Academic Engagement, Florette Press

Theses and Dissertations

While student engagement theory recognizes writing as an engaging activity, there have been few studies that explore the levels of engagement within college students' academic writing. Analyses of in-text interactions between writers and their imagined reader(s) can uncover writers' attitudes about themselves as writers and as participants in the academic community. This study looked specifically at students' in-text interaction in the context of overall student engagement. Making a connection between interactional features in writing and overall student engagement provided a new perspective by which professors and administrators can evaluate students' academic integration. This study combined text analysis and interviews with …

Spectrum, Volume 29, Issue 24, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: September 11th Forever in our Hearts -- Community Connections Inspires Many -- The Development of Career Development -- New Changes Brought to Campus -- Teen Party Bus Turns Real Life Horror -- Editorials -- SHU Says ‘Hey’ to Labor Day

The Lumberjack, September 12, 2012, The Lumberjack Staff

2012

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University

September 12, 2012 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Banner News, Cainon Leeds, Taylor Baggett, Jonathan Rangel, Lori Harvey, Joshua Stevens

Banner News

No abstract provided.

The Spinnaker [Vol. 33 No. 99], University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community.

President's Convocation (2012 Program), Illinois Wesleyan University

President’s Convocation

No abstract provided.

Investigation Of The Role Of Tnf-A Converting Enzyme (Tace) In The Inhibition Of Cell Surface And Soluble Tnf-A Production By Acute Ethanol Exposure., Kristine Von Maltzan, Wei Tan, Stephen B. Pruett

CVM Publications

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play a fundamental role in the immune system by detecting pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) to sense host infection. Ethanol at doses relevant for humans inhibits the pathogen induced cytokine response mediated through TLRs. The current study was designed to investigate the mechanisms of this effect by determining whether ethanol inhibits TLR3 and TLR4 mediated TNF-? secretion through inhibition of transcription factor activation or post-transcriptional effects. In NF-?B reporter mice, activation of NF-?B in vivo by LPS was inhibited by ethanol (LPS alone yielded 170,000?35,300 arbitrary units of light emission; LPS plus ethanol yielded 56,120?16880, p = …

Community Impacts Of Prosopis Juliflora Invasion: Biogeographic And Congeneric Comparisons, Rajwant Kaur, Wilfredo L. Gonzáles, Luis Daniel Llambi, Pascual J. Soriano, Ragan M. Callaway, Marnie E. Rout, Timothy J. Gallaher, Inderjit

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

We coordinated biogeographical comparisons of the impacts of an exotic invasive tree in its native and non-native ranges with a congeneric comparison in the non-native range. Prosopis juliflora is taxonomically complicated and with P. pallida forms the P. juliflora complex. Thus we sampled P. juliflora in its native Venezuela, and also located two field sites in Peru, the native range of Prosopis pallida. Canopies of Prosopis juliflora, a native of the New World but an invader in many other regions, had facilitative effects on the diversity of other species in its native Venezuela, and P. pallida had both negative and …

Recent Honors College Grad Named Prestigious National Portz Scholar, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.

Global Health Nursing Research In Guangzhou, China, Lee-Ellen Kirkhorn, Anja F. Meerwald, Peiru Zhou

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: Approximately one fifth of the one billion overweight or obese people in the world are Chinese. China was once considered to have one of the leanest populations, but it is fast catching up with the West in terms of the prevalence of overweight and obesity; disturbingly, this transition has occurred in a remarkably short time.

Methods: Using a simple quasi-experimental design, more than 200 students from two economically and socially diverse middle schools in China were enrolled in a three week after school nutrition and exercise program that included structured information about balanced diet, eating healthy food, and engaging …

Volume Cxxx, Number 1, September 12, 2012, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Phylotranscriptomics To Bring The Understudied Into The Fold: Monophyletic Ostracoda, Fossil Placement, And Pancrustacean Phylogeny, Todd H. Oakley, Joanna M. Wolfe, Annie R. Lindgren, Alexander K. Zaharoff

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

An ambitious, yet fundamental goal for comparative biology is to understand the evolutionary relationships for all of life. However, many important taxonomic groups have remained recalcitrant to inclusion into broader scale studies. Here, we focus on collection of 9 new 454 transcriptome data sets from Ostracoda, an ancient and diverse group with a dense fossil record, which is often undersampled in broader studies. We combine the new transcriptomes with a new morphological matrix (including fossils) and existing expressed sequence tag, mitochondrial genome, nuclear genome, and ribosomal DNA data. Our analyses lead to new insights into ostracod and pancrustacean phylogeny. We …

Lesula: A New Species Of Cercopithecus Monkey Endemic To The Democratic Republic Of Congo And Implications For Conservation Of Congo’S Central Basin, John A. Hart, Kate M. Detwiler, Christopher C. Gilbert, Andrew S. Burrell, James L. Fuller, Maurice Emetshu, Terese B. Hart, Ashley Vosper, Eric J. Sargis, Anthony J. Tosi

Publications and Research

In June 2007, a previously undescribed monkey known locally as “lesula” was found in the forests of the middle Lomami Basin in central Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). We describe this new species as Cercopithecus lomamiensis sp. nov., and provide data on its distribution, morphology, genetics, ecology and behavior. C. lomamiensis is restricted to the lowland rain forests of central DRC between the middle Lomami and the upper Tshuapa Rivers. Morphological and molecular data confirm that C. lomamiensis is distinct from its nearest congener, C. hamlyni, from which it is separated geographically by both the Congo (Lualaba) and the Lomami …

Impact And Admissions, Tomalee Doan, Chantal Levesque-Bristol

IMPACT Presentations

Presentation given to Purdue Admissions Department, West Lafayette, IN. Provides overview of Instruction Matters Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT). Describes benefits, faculty involvement and research in progress. Introduces faculty cohorts and presents already known effects on student learning.

Restricted Access Media And Methods For Making Restricted Access Media, David S. Hage, Chunling Wa, Abby Jackson, Hai Xuan

David Hage Publications

The present invention is directed to restricted access media (RAM), methods for preparing restricted access media, and kits for preparing restricted access media that contain protected ligand binding agents or protected enzymes. Certain RAM provided contain a plurality of protected regions of the Support that contain ligand binding agents that are protected by blocking agents. Certain RAM provided contain a plurality of protected regions of the support that contain unbound ligand binding agents or enzymes that are retained in the protected regions by a capping agent. Methods of making the RAM of the invention and associated kits are also provided.

Perceived Stress And Coping Strategies Of Hong Kong Pre-Registration Nursing Degree Students During Their Clinical Placement, Vico C. L. Chiang, Hiu-Wai Chan, Yu-Ching Siu, Yee-Ha Tam, Ka-Po Chow, Hoi-Yee Wong, Ka-Kei Chu, Ka-Yan Yeung, Chui-Ling Lau, Ka-Man Leung, Fong-Ting Siu

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: Appropriate levels of stress can be a motivator for learning. A few studies in Hong Kong and Taiwan demonstrated that various levels of stress were experienced by pre-registration nursing students during their clinical placements. There is a paucity of studies that compare the stress levels of junior and senior nursing students and the existing studies conducted in the Asian context carry a high risk of recall bias. The purpose of this study is to survey and compare two samples of under-graduate students during the periods of their clinical placements for their levels of stress, symptoms and coping strategies. Better …

Evidence-Based Clinical Practice On The Interventions For Oral Mucositis For Patients With Cancer Receiving Treatment, Wang Yan

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Objectives: This article is to develop a practical guideline on the interventions from prevention, treatment to nursing for the oral mucositis induced by anti-cancer treatment.

Methods: Using keywords "mucositis, cancer", search in the databases including National guideline clearinghouse, Cochrane library, Joanna Briggs institute, Registered nurses' association of Ontario, and Chinese Bio-medical literature database, etc. Only the clinical guideline, systematically review and best practice are included.

Results: Mainly, one clinical practice guideline, five systematic reviews, and one best practice are found.

Conclusion: 1 It is a systematic and continuous process to intervene with the oral mucositis induced by anti-cancer treatment. 2 …

Effects Of Hazardous Work Conditions On Burnout Among Nurses Of A General Hospital In Macau, Sydney X. Hu, Jui-Kuo Hsiao, Grace K. I. Lok, Andrew Luk

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: Meta analysis showed that burnout is affected by workplace risks and hazards across industries. The purpose of the study is to use Structural Equation Modeling to test the effects of workplace hazards on burnout of nurses in a general hospital in Macau. The findings provide practical and research implications for better management of work conditions and burnout among nurses.

Methods: A questionnaire survey of all nurses was conducted in a major general hospital in Macau. Workplace hazards were assessed using a set of self developed questions and burnout was assessed using the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Exploratory factor analyses were …

"Whatever It Takes:" A Photovoice Exploration Of Isolated Allogenic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Patients, Caroline E. Brown, Kathryn R. Siebert, Ellen R. Carr

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: Protective isolation is a common practice among hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) patients. Psychological intolerance of protective isolation was identified as a problem leading to discontinuation of isolation in between 2-42% of patients in a recent systematic review. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore isolated HCST patients' perceptions of isolation and elicit suggestions for interventions to mediate the experience of isolation.

Methods: Participants were recruited from isolated patients on the inpatient Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) unit after at least one week of isolation. In-depth interview was the primary research method used; in addition photo voice was …

Social Network Analysis As A Method For Nursing Research, Anne L. Ersig, Anthony Paik, Lioness Ayres

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: Nursing research often relies on data obtained from individuals in an effort to understand human experiences of health and illness. These individual experiences do not occur in isolation; instead, they take place within larger contexts, such as families, social groups, and schools or communities. These organizations function as complex adaptive systems (CAS), which resist reduction into simple cause-and-effect relationships. Investigating such systems, including collection of data from multiple individuals, requires flexible and adaptable research methods. Social network analysis (SNA) facilitates data collection from multiple individuals in the same context (e.g., a family, an organization), examination of interactions among individuals, …

Gone In 0.6 Seconds: The Encoding Of Motor Memories Depends On Recent Sensorimotor States., Ian S. Howard, James N. Ingram, David W. Franklin, Daniel M. Wolpert

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Real-world tasks often require movements that depend on a previous action or on changes in the state of the world. Here we investigate whether motor memories encode the current action in a manner that depends on previous sensorimotor states. Human subjects performed trials in which they made movements in a randomly selected clockwise or counterclockwise velocity-dependent curl force field. Movements during this adaptation phase were preceded by a contextual phase that determined which of the two fields would be experienced on any given trial. As expected from previous research, when static visual cues were presented in the contextual phase, strong …

Integrating Nursing And Bioengineering Expertise In Research: Use Of Optical Imaging To Uncover Neural Correlates Of Adult Risk Decisions, Mary A. Cazzell, Hanli Liu, Lin Li, Sonal Patel

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: Across the lifespan, the degree of prefrontal cortex (PFC) maturity or decline influences executive cognitive functions. Adults are expected to demonstrate mature decision-making skills, impulse control, and delay of gratification. Purposes are: (1) find prefrontal correlates of wins and losses during voluntary and involuntary risk decisions in a baseline population of adults, presumed to have PFC maturity; (2) identify gender differences in neural correlates of wins versus losses; and (3) demonstrate feasibility of optical imaging in risk decision research.

Methods: In this correlational blocked design, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used to examine oxygenated hemoglobin (HbO) changes in the …

Surprise Findings From Tower Of Hanoi Research On Executive Cognitive Function In Older Adults: Assess, Intervene, Or Both?, Whitney G. Mildren, Mary A. Cazzell, James Daniel Holland

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: The purpose was to determine feasibility, reliability, and item difficulty of the 22-task Tower of Hanoi (TOH), an executive cognitive function (ECF) puzzle game, in adults > 65 years. Neuroimaging research has documented prefrontal cortex (PFC) changes in aging: deficits in abstract thinking, problem solving, and loss of inhibitory control over irrelevant information. The 22-task TOH, a 4-disk transfer game across 3 vertical pegs, has never been administered to or scored on older adults nor has TOH psychometrics been established in this population.

Methods: In this quantitative descriptive design, a convenience sample of 50 cognitively-intact independent-living older adults (> 65 …

Complementary And Alternative Medicine Use And Quality Of Life In Chinese Women With Breast Cancer: A Taiwanese Survey, Fang-Ying (Sylvia) Chu

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: The purposes of this study were (1) to determine the prevalence and modalities of CAM use by Taiwanese women with breast cancer; (2) to measure the level of satisfactions and perceived benefits of CAM use; (3) to measure the level of quality of life (QOL). Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted at an outpatient oncology clinic attached in a teaching hospital of Taiwan. A total of 196 women participated in this study. Approximately, 74% of the women reported that they had used some form of CAM since being diagnosed with cancer. Results: The most common type of CAM …

Dialogues Between Physical And Digital Modelling Methods On Architectural Design, Aa Veliz Reyes, T Kocaturk, B Medjdoub, R Balbo

School of Art, Design and Architecture

As the current digitally-mediated architectural practice evolves, architectural models, regardless of their expressiveness or type, are a way to craft the interaction between the designer and the designed object. Models become artefacts that engage on a continuous interaction with the designer via different media, interpretation and knowledge retrieval schemes, organizational fl ows and tools. These interactions have recently been facilitated by the use of physical and digital production and analysis methods. In this report, we introduce a novel understanding of the relationships between physical and digital modelling techniques. We propose an updated framework that allocates these relationships into four categories: …