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Flirting With Erotic Capital: Erotic Capital And Labor Market Earnings Among Women, Isabelle-Christine Beulaygue

Open Access Theses

Extant research indicates a wage premium for attractive individuals and a wage penalty for homelier individuals. In addition, further research has showed that being well-groomed and having a pleasant personality was associated with a wage premium and partially mediated the effects of beauty alone. The purpose of this thesis is to extend this line of research and to examine the impact of erotic capital on annual earnings among young women. Erotic capital is the combination of six personal and inter-personal assets: beauty, sexual attractiveness, social skills, social presentation, liveliness, and sexuality. I constructed an index of erotic capital, incorporating all …

Gsu View, 2012-06-25, Office Of Marketing And Communications

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

Drastic Education Reforms Would Devalue Mission And Learning Process, Aaron W. Hughey

Counseling & Student Affairs Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Synergistic Association Of Ptgs2 And Cyp2e1 Genetic Polymorphisms With Lung Cancer Risk In Northeastern Chinese, Shujie Guo, Xiaobo Li, Min Gao, Hong Kong, Yuqiong Li, Mingliang Gu, Xiaoqun Dong, Wenquan Niu

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

Background: Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of five extensively-studied polymorphisms in PTGS2 (rs689466, rs5275, rs20417) and CYP2E1 (rs2031920, rs6413432) genes with lung cancer risk in a large northeastern Chinese population.

Methodology/Principal Findings: This is a hospital-based case-control study involving 684 patients with lung cancer and 604 cancer-free controls. Genotyping was performed using the PCR-LDR method. Data were analyzed using Haplo.stats and MDR programs. There were significant differences between patients and controls in allele/genotype distributions of rs5275 (P = 0.002/0.003) and rs6413432 …

Chancellor Margaret Sullivan Announces Her Resignation, June 25, 2012, Tom Scherberger

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

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Impacts Of An Invasive Snail (Tarebia Granifera) On Nutrient Cycling In Tropical Streams: The Role Of Riparian Deforestation In Trinidad, West Indies, Jennifer M. Moslemi, Sunny B. Snider, Keeley Macneill, James F. Gilliam, Alexander S. Flecker

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Non-native species and habitat degradation are two major catalysts of environmental change and often occur simultaneously. In freshwater systems, degradation of adjacent terrestrial vegetation may facilitate introduced species by altering resource availability. Here we examine how the presence of intact riparian cover influences the impact of an invasive herbivorous snail, Tarebia granifera, on nitrogen (N) cycling in aquatic systems on the island of Trinidad. We quantified snail biomass, growth, and N excretion in locations where riparian vegetation was present or removed to determine how snail demographics and excretion were related to the condition of the riparian zone. In three …

Determinan Asupan Makanan Usia Lanjut, Yuli Amran, Riastuti Kusumawardani, Nita Supriyatiningsih

Kesmas

Berdasarkan data Kementerian Sosial, jumlah usia lanjut (usila) di Indonesia tahun 2004 tercatat 16.522.311 jiwa dan 3.092.910 jiwa atau sekitar 20% adalah usila terlantar. Nutrisi yang kurang pada usila berdampak pada kesehatan sehingga relatif mudah terjangkit penyakit infeksi dan gangguan zat gizi. Selain itu, asupan makanan berhubungan dengan depresi, jumlah gigi, gangguan gigi, penggunaan obat, penyakit, dukungan sosial seperti kunjungan keluarga atau orang terdekat, dan rasa makanan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengetahui berbagai faktor yang berhubungan dengan asupan makanan pada usila. Penelitian menggunakan desain studi cross sectional dilakukan terhadap 58 orang usila di Panti Sosial Tresna Werdha Budi Mulia 01 …

Email, Margaret Sullivan To Harborside Listserv, Resignation Announcement, June 25, 2012, Margaret Sullivan

Office of the Regional Chancellor

An email from Margaret Sullivan to University of South Florida St. Petersburg employees announcing her resignation.

Vaklavas Receives Young Investigator Award, Staff

Browse All News

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Effects Of Prescribed Fire On Ozark Ant Ecology, Robin Michelle Verble

Theses and Dissertations

Fires are among the most conspicuous disturbances affecting leaf litter communities, and are sources of both direct and indirect insect mortality. Fires historically occurred on the Ozark landscape at high frequencies, and modern forest managers utilize prescribed fire to restore and maintain those ecosystems. I examined fire effects at multiple scales, ranging from post-fire patterns in leaf litter arthropod community structure to responses of individual organisms to heat stress. This dissertation summarizes the history of fire occurrences in Ozark forests of Arkansas. It then unifies the results of four observational and experimental studies designed to assess how Ozark forest ant …

Statistical Mechanics Of The Community Detection Problem: Theory And Application, Dandan Hu

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

We study phase transitions in spin glass type systems and in related computational problems. In the current work, we focus on the "community detection" problem when cast in terms of a general Potts spin glass type problem. We report on phase transitions between solvable and unsolvable regimes. Solvable region may further split into easy and hard phases. Spin glass type phase transitions appear at both low and high temperatures. Low temperature transitions correspond to an order by disorder type effect wherein fluctuations render the system ordered or solvable. Separate transitions appear at higher temperatures into a disordered: or an unsolvable) …

Status Gizi Ibu Dan Persepsi Ketidakcukupan Air Susu Ibu, Sandra Fikawati, Ahmad Syafiq

Kesmas

Menyusui eksklusif kurang dari 6 bulan berkontribusi terhadap 1,4 juta kematian bayi dan 10% angka kesakitan balita. Persepsi Ketidakcukupan Air Susu Ibu (PKA) yang memengaruhi kepercayaan diri untuk menyusui menjadi salah satu penyebab utama kegagalan pemberian air susu ibu (ASI) eksklusif di dunia. Salah satu faktor penyebab PKA adalah ketidakmampuan ibu hamil untuk mencapai kenaikan berat badan (BB) yang direkomendasikan sehingga ibu berisiko melahirkan bayi berat lahir rendah (BBLR) dan memiliki cadangan lemak rendah untuk memproduksi ASI. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara status gizi ibu dan PKA. Penelitian ini merupakan kajian terhadap 3 studi yang menganalisis di Kabupaten …

Konsumsi Jamu Ibu Hamil Sebagai Faktor Risiko Asfiksiabayi Baru Lahir, Dewi Purnamawati, Iwan Ariawan

Kesmas

Jamu merupakan obat tradisional yang dibuat dengan cara mengolah bahan alamiah yang mempunyai khasiat obat dengan beberapa bahan campuran. Efektivitas dan efek samping pengobatan tradisional sebagai upaya pelayanan kesehatan masih perlu dibuktikan, khususnya jika digunakan oleh ibu yang sedang hamil. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh konsumsi jamu pada ibu hamil terhadap kejadian asfiksia pada bayi baru lahir di Bekasi tahun 2008. Desain penelitian adalah kasus kontrol dengan metode kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan hubungan yang signifikan antara konsumsi jamu terhadap kejadian asfiksia pada bayi baru lahir (nilai p = 0,005; odds ratio (OR) = 7,1; 95% CI = …

Deconstructing Children's Expectations For Psychotherapy: Understanding How Parents Prepare Their Children For Mental Health Treatment, Heather Nix

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Little research has investigated the effects of stigma on child psychotherapy. Because parents are a primary factor in determining whether children receive psychotherapy and how therapy progresses, understanding how parental perceptions of psychopathology and psychotherapy are associated with children’s mental health treatment seems to be an important step in investigating how stigma impacts child psychotherapy. Researchers have not closely examined, however, how parents might influence children’s experiences of psychotherapy. To address this topic, the current study examined how parents’ views of psychotherapy were related to how they prepared their children for psychotherapy and how this preparation was related to children’s …

Genome Plasticity And Systems Evolution In Streptomyces, Zhan Zhou, Jianying Gu, Yong-Quan Li, Yufeng Wang

Publications and Research

Background Streptomycetes are filamentous soil-dwelling bacteria. They are best known as the producers of a great variety of natural products such as antibiotics, antifungals, antiparasitics, and anticancer agents and the decomposers of organic substances for carbon recycling. They are also model organisms for the studies of gene regulatory networks, morphological differentiation, and stress response. The availability of sets of genomes from closely related Streptomyces strains makes it possible to assess the mechanisms underlying genome plasticity and systems adaptation. Results We present the results of a comprehensive analysis of the genomes of five Streptomyces species with distinct phenotypes. These streptomycetes have …

Superhydrophobic Nanostructured Coating For Anti-Icing Applications, Khedir R. Khedir

Theses and Dissertations

In this work, anti-icing superhydrophobic (SHP) tungsten nanorod (WNR) surfaces were fabricated. The fabrication of WNR surfaces as rough surfaces was carried out using the Glancing Angle Deposition (GLAD) technique. Using the magnetron- sputtering deposition method, the deposition Ar pressure, Ar flow rate, and substrate tilting angle were varied to fabricate WNRs with different surface morphologies and porosities. The surface energy of the WNR films was lowered by coating them with a nano-layer (10-15nm) of Teflon AF2400 using an effusion cell. Static contact angle (SCA) measurements of the sessile water droplet gently dispensed on surfaces were used to characterize the …

A Systems Engineering Approach To The Design And Integration Of Microstrip Antennas With Wearable Wireless Devices, Daniel Gilbert Rucker

Theses and Dissertations

Modern wireless systems for implantable and wearable Body Area Network (BAN) applications have reached an advanced stage of design and development not possible in previous generations. Systems engineering techniques allow for modern wireless devices to be developed in a top-down approach to meet the necessary design requirements while utilizing modular architectures. A modular systems architecture is developed to form a platform for BAN systems design. The BAN systems architecture defines the requirements, physical architecture, and operational architecture. The antenna component of the system is researched in detail and prototypes are developed to meet the requirements of implantable and wearable BAN …

Habit, Education, And The Democratic Way Of Life: The Vital Role Of Habit In John Dewey's Philosophy Of Education, Brent Lamons

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Some have claimed that John Dewey was one of few thinkers that developed an

educational theory that is comparable to Plato.1 Dewey did something that William James

and Charles Sanders Peirce did not do; he applied Pragmatism and the Pragmatic method

to the study of education. The main tasks of this dissertation are as follows: (1) Argues

that habit is the most important and unifying element in John Dewey's philosophy of

education, (2) Critically investigates habit's fundamental role in his democratic project of

reconstructing culture toward establishing and sustaining the democratic way of life. In

addition to the latter points, …

Dream-Work In Psychotherapy: Jungian, Post-Jungian, Existential-Phenomenological, And Cognitive-Experiential Approaches, William Caperton

Graduate Journal of Counseling Psychology

This literature review examines the theoretical underpinnings and clinical approaches of Jungian, Post-Jungian, Existential-Phenomenological, and Cognitive-Experiential models of working with dreams therapeutically. A review of applicable empirical studies is included, examining utility and effectiveness of dream-work across a variety of domains. Suggestions for the training of therapists in working with dreams are made. Results indicate that working with dreams therapeutically can have a variety of beneficial outcomes.

Performance Assessment Of Irrigation System Using Indicators For Decision Making / Rizal Syahyadi, Rizal Syahyadi

Student Works (2010-2019)

Food security is a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. However a billion people globally do not have adequate food to meet their basic nutritional needs and the world faces a potentially even greater crisis as the global population is expected to grow from about 6.9 billion (in 2010) to more than 9 billion by the mid-century. Agriculture remains the largest employment sector in most developing countries and international agriculture agreements …

Food Deserts And Their Association With Obesity And Diabetes In Ohio, Alexis Holmes, Detra Thompson

Master of Public Health Program Student Publications

Objective- The purpose of this study was to explore the association of food access, and availability, on prevalence of diabetes and obesity in Ohio census tracts designated as food deserts.

Methods- County and census tract-level data were combined from the USDA Food Environment Atlas and USDA Food Desert Locator respectively. Statistical analysis was conducted using IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Non-normally distributed variables were assessed using the Mann-Whitney nonparametric U-test and Spearman’s correlation coefficient. Significance was considered at the p

Results- The mean rate of obesity and diabetes in Ohio in food deserts are 29.5% and 10.7%, when …

Community Development Challegnes In Rural Guatemala, Maryam Jamali

Capstone Collection

In Guatemala women and youth often do not enjoy the same privileges that men do making it harder for them to be involved in the social sphere and in control of decision-making in their lives. Gender based inequality, certain cultural norms, and general structural weakness and impunity are factors that important to analyze and take in consideration in regards to the challenges that women face in Guatemalan society. This paper aims to analyze the question of community development challenges in rural Guatemala. Specifically, focus will be placed on the major obstacles that affect women and youth in community development, presenting …

Water Bathing Alters Threat Perception In Starlings, Bo Brilot, M Bateson

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

The majority of bird taxa perform water bathing, but little is known about the adaptive value of this behaviour. If bathing is important for feather maintenance then birds that have not bathed should have poorer feather condition, compromised escape ability and therefore increased responsiveness to cues of predation. We conducted two experiments examining the behaviour of captive starlings responding to conspecific alarm calls. Birds that had no access to bathing water showed a decreased willingness to feed and increased their vigilance behaviour following an alarm call. We argue that birds denied access to bathing water interpreted an ambiguous cue of …

The Convergence Of Science And Culture: Developing A Framework For Diabetes Education In Tribal Communities, Michelle Chino Dr, Carolee Dodge Francis, Lemyra Debruyn, Lynn Short, Dawn Satterfield

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice

In an unprecedented effort to address the epidemic of diabetes in tribal communities, the Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools project brought together a group of individuals from eight tribal colleges and three federal agencies to develop a diabetes prevention curriculum for American Indian and Alaska Native school children. The curriculum incorporates Western and Native science with culturally responsive teaching techniques. Both the project and its evaluation process have reached beyond conventional bounds to acknowledge fundamental issues of tribal culture, history and health and the integration of science, culture, and community. This article will discuss the challenges and rewards of the …

Assessing Behavioral Health Risks, Health Conditions, And Preventive Health Practices Among American Indians/Alaska Natives In Nevada, Gwen Hosey, Shirley A. Llorens-Chen, Fares Qeadan, Daryl Crawford, Charlton Wilson, Wei Yang

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice

The 2004 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey was administered to American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) adults in Nevada to determine whether health disparities exist between AI/ANs and the state’s general population. Results showed AI/ANs were 1.5 times more likely to smoke cigarettes, 3.5 times more likely to be exposed to secondhand smoke, 3.2 times more likely to lack leisure-time physical activity, 9.7 times more likely to report fair/poor health status, and 7.7 times more likely to have a disability. In addition, AI/ANs were more likely to have current asthma (OR=5.0) and diabetes (OR=1.8). AI/AN women were 4.8 times as …

The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy, William Strauss, Neil Howe, James Riley Estep

Leaven

No abstract provided.

The Christian Educator's Handbook, Kenneth O. Gangel, James C. Wilhoit, Charles Gresham

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Vital Adult Learning: Choices To Fit Your Church, R. Wade Paschal, Frank H. Floyd Jr.

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Singles At The Crossroads, Albert Hsu, Ruth Picker

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Weaving The New Creation, James Fowler, James Oliver

Leaven

No abstract provided.