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N.Y. Internship Spurs Student's Passion For Service Career, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

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Perceived Dangerousness Of The Job And Well-Being Among Correctional Officers: The Role Of Perceived Stress And Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors (Fssb), David Duane Meier

Dissertations and Theses

Occupational stress has become a world-wide epidemic exacting severe tolls on both businesses and employees alike. Of all the workplace stressors, the perceived dangerousness of one's job is ever present within the occupation of corrections. The current study examined the mediating process of perceived stress on the relationship between perceived dangerousness of the job and the negative employee well-being outcomes of work-family conflict and symptoms of psychological distress, as well as the moderating effects of family supportive supervisor behaviors on this process. As part of a larger study, survey data were collected from 1,370 state correctional officers. It was hypothesized …

Pediatric Palliative Care For Youth With Hiv/Aids: Systematic Review Of The Literature, Megan L. Wilkins, Ronald H. Dallas, Kathleen E. Fanone, Maureen E. Lyon

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

Improvement in treatment has led to decreased death in youth with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in developed countries. Despite this, youth with HIV are still at risk for increased mortality and morbidity compared with their uninfected counterparts. In developing countries, high numbers of youth die from acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related illnesses due to lack of access to consistent antiretroviral treatment. As a result, pediatric palliative care is a relevant topic for those providing care to youth with HIV. A systematic review was conducted to gather information regarding the status of the literature related to pediatric palliative care and medical …

Healthcare Provider's Adherence To The Centers For Disease Control And Prevention's Guidelines Regarding The Human Papillomavirus Vaccine In Males, Thomas Fisher, Lori Barkley, Tawanda Johnson

MSN Research Projects

The purpose of this study is to identify how many patients in the primary care setting diagnosed with depression were appropriately screened for suicide and, if screened, were referred to another facility.

Suicide Screening In Primary Care With Patients Diagnosed With Depression, Thomas Fisher, Lori Barkley, Tawanda Johnson

MSN Research Projects

The purpose of this study is to identify how many patients in the primary care setting diagnosed with depression were appropriately screened for suicide and, if screened, were referred to another facility.

Epidemiological Study Of Measles In Al- Kadhimiyia Teaching Hospital, Lamia Abdul Karim, Ali Kadhim Al-Husainawi

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Measles is a highly communicable disease caused by the measles virus. The disease is marked by prodromal fever, conj unctivitis, coryza, cough, and the pathognomonic koplik spots followed by an erythematous maculopapular rash. Infection confers lifelong immunity. OBJECTIVE: Find out the frequency of measles in the hospital admitted cases in chi l dr en ≤ 12 year s accor di ng t o t he vaccination and nutritional status,The causes of non-vaccination and the vaccine efficiency in preventing measles.The incidence of measles in the exclusively breast fed infants.The presenting signs and symptoms, commonest complications, investigations and the outcome. …

The Effect Of Perioperative Use Of Prophylactic Antibiotics On Surgical Wound Infection, Ahmed Hamid Jasim, Nabeel Al-Dawoody, Tharwat I. Sulaiman

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

BSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Surgical site infection is one of the commonest complications after surgical operations and the use of antibiotics in preventing or reducing infection is associated with many problems. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the use of peri- operative prophylactic antibiotics in preventing or reducing surgical site infection in different types of operations PATIENTS AND METHODS: This prospective study was conducted on(560) patients from June 2002 to January 2007 in general surgical department in Baghdad teaching hospital. The patients were divided into( 3) groups according to the type of operation; clean operations which included 200 patients, clean-contaminated operations which included 160 patients …

A Case Study Of Pseudo-Neuropathic Pseudogout, Christina Cress Lindenmeyer, Md, Adam C. Sobel, Md, Levon N. Nazarian, Md, Steven Mandel, Md, Steven M. Raikin, Md, Homyar N. Karanjia, Dpm

The Medicine Forum

Background

This interesting case highlights the clinical progression of a rare disease process and the important role of a multi-disciplinary team in achieving a diagnosis and successful management plan.

Case Presentation

A 76-year-old male with a history of coronary artery disease, hypertension and hyperlipidemia presented as an outpatient with left foot pain and swelling. He had spent a week bicycling in Colorado one month prior to presentation. The pain was initially localized to the plantar surface of his foot and progressed to involve the lateral and dorsal aspects of the foot, as well as his great toe. The pain was …

Palpable Purpura In A Vietnamese Teenage Girl, Akram Mustafa, Md, Edward K. Len, Md, Alan Chiu, Msiii

The Medicine Forum

A 19-year-old Vietnamese female with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) with fevers, sore throat, generalized myalgias, arthralgias, and a worsening lower extremity rash for the past two weeks. Approximately one week after the onset of constitutional symptoms, the patient noticed a rash developing on the anterior surface of her legs. Three days prior to hospitalization, her primary care physician prescribed cephalexin for her, but she didn’t recall what it was for. When her symptoms continued to worsen the next few days, she presented to the ED. In the ED, she also complained of abdominal …

Newly Diagnosed Aids With Multiple Opportunistic Infections Despite A Recent Negative Rapid Hiv Test, Soham Vakil, Md, Rene Daniel, Md, Phd, William Short, Md, Mph

The Medicine Forum

Background

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a fairly prevalent disease in the United States, with an estimated 1 million persons infected with HIV-1.1 Despite a decrease in Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the prevalence of HIV is increasing, which has led to recent changes in HIV testing guidelines.2 Newly diagnosed patients should ideally be linked to care and receive intervention and antiretroviral therapy (ART) allowing them to maintain a near normal life expectancy.

Case Presentation

The patient is a 23-year-old African American male with no significant past medical history. He presented to the emergency department (ED) with fevers, weakness, worsening right-sided …

Correlates Of Hiv Acquisition In A Cohort Of Black Men Who Have Sex With Men In The United States: Hiv Prevention Trials Network (Hptn) 061, Beryl A. Koblin, Kenneth H. Mayer, Susan H. Eshleman, Lei Wang, Sharon B. Mannheimer, Carlos Del Rio, Steve Shoptaw, Manya Magnus, Susan Buchbinder, Leo Wilton, Ting-Yuan Liu, Vanessa Cummings, Estelle Piwowar-Manning, Sheldon D. Fields, Sam Griffith, Vanessa Elharrar, Darrell Wheeler

Epidemiology Faculty Publications

Background

Black men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States (US) are affected by HIV at disproportionate rates compared to MSM of other race/ethnicities. Current HIV incidence estimates in this group are needed to appropriately target prevention efforts.

Methods

From July 2009 to October 2010, Black MSM reporting unprotected anal intercourse with a man in the past six months were enrolled and followed for one year in six US cities for a feasibility study of a multi-component intervention to reduce HIV infection. HIV incidence based on HIV seroconversion was calculated as number of events/100 person-years. Multivariate proportional …

Graduate Programs Commencement, 14th Class (2013), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Commencements

Philadelphia Campus Graduate Programs Commencement program, 14th Class. Degrees include Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology Doctor of Psychology in School Psychology Educational Specialist in School Psychology Master of Science in School Psychology Master of Science in Counseling and Clinical Health Psychology Master of Science in Organizational Development and Leadership Master of Science in Forensic Medicine Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences Master of Science in Health Sciences - Physician Assistant Studies.

A Joint Matrix Completion And Filtering Model For Influenza Serological Data Integration., Xiao-Tong Yuan, Tong Zhang, Xiu-Feng Wan

CVM Publications

Antigenic characterization based on serological data, such as Hemagglutination Inhibition (HI) assay, is one of the routine procedures for influenza vaccine strain selection. In many cases, it would be impossible to measure all pairwise antigenic correlations between testing antigens and reference antisera in each individual experiment. Thus, we have to combine and integrate the HI tables from a number of individual experiments. Measurements from different experiments may be inconsistent due to different experimental conditions. Consequently we will observe a matrix with missing data and possibly inconsistent measurements. In this paper, we develop a new mathematical model, which we refer to …

Following In North Carolina's Footsteps: California's Challenge In Compensating Its Victims Of Compulsory Sterilization, Katherine A. West

Santa Clara Law Review

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Association Study Of Common Genetic Variants And Hiv- 1 Acquisition In 6,300 Infected Cases And 7,200 Controls, Paul J. Mclaren, Cedric Coulonges, Stephan Ripke, Leonard H. Van Den Berg, Susan Buchbinder, Mary Carrington, Andrea Cossarizza, Judith Dalmau, Steven G. Deeks, Olivier Delaneau, Andrea De Luca, James J. Goedert, David W. Haas, Joshua T. Herbeck, Sekar Kathiresan, Gregory D. Kirk, Olivier Lambotte, Ma Luo, Simon Mallal, Danielle Van Manen, Javier Martinez-Picado, Florencia Pereyra, Francis A. Plummer, Guido Poli, Ying Qi, Pierre Rucart, Manj S. Sandhu, Patrick R. Shea, Hanneke Schuitemaker, Ioannis Theodorou, Fredrik Vannberg, Jan Veldink, Bruce D. Walker, Amy C. Weintrob, Cheryl Winkler, Steven M. Wolinsky, Amalio Telenti, David B. Goldstein, Paul I. W. De Bakker, Jean-Francois Zagury, Jacques Fellay

Biology Faculty Articles

Multiple genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been performed in HIV-1 infected individuals, identifying common genetic influences on viral control and disease course. Similarly, common genetic correlates of acquisition of HIV-1 after exposure have been interrogated using GWAS, although in generally small samples. Under the auspices of the International Collaboration for the Genomics of HIV, we have combined the genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data collected by 25 cohorts, studies, or institutions on HIV-1 infected individuals and compared them to carefully matched population-level data sets (a list of all collaborators appears in Note S1 in Text S1). After imputation using the …

P2x4 Assembles With P2x7 And Pannexin-1 In Gingival Epithelial Cells And Modulates Reactive Oxygen Species Production And Inflammasome Activation, Shu-Chen Hung, Chul Hee Choi, Najwane Said-Sadier, Larry Johnson, Kalina Rosenova Atanasova, Hanen Sellami, Özlem Yilmaz, David M. Ojcius

All Dugoni School of Dentistry Faculty Articles

We have previously reported that Porphyromonas gingivalis infection of gingival epithelial cells (GEC) requires an exogenous danger signal such as ATP to activate an inflammasome and caspase-1, thereby inducing secretion of interleukin (IL)-1β. Stimulation with extracellular ATP also stimulates production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in GEC. However, the mechanism by which ROS is generated in response to ATP, and the role that different purinergic receptors may play in inflammasome activation, is still unclear. In this study, we revealed that the purinergic receptor P2X₄ is assembled with the receptor P2X₇ and its associated pore, pannexin-1. ATP induces ROS …

Faktor Risiko Malnutrisi Pada Balita, Titik Kuntari, Nur Aisyah Jamil, Opi Kurniati

Kesmas

Gizi buruk yang merupakan masalah penting di semua negara-negara miskin dan berkembang bertanggung jawab terhadap 60 persen kematian balita. Prevalensi balita gizi buruk di Indonesia tergolong tinggi, pada 2005, berbagai propinsi di Indonesia melaporkan 76.178 balita mengalami gizi buruk. Kasihan adalah salah satu kecamatan di kabupaten Bantul berbatasan dengan Kotamadya Yogyakarta yang menghadapi permasalahan gizi buruk. Tujuan penelitian adalah mengetahui angka kejadian dan faktor risiko gizi buruk di Kecamatan Kasihan, Kabupaten Bantul. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain studi kasus kontrol meliputi kelompok kasus 54 balita malnutrisi dan kelompok kontrol 54 balita gizi baik. Status gizi ditentukan berdasarkan Z score berat badan …

The Murray Ledger And Times, July 24, 2013, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Goepfert To Chair National Study Section, Reporter Staff

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Whitley Serving On Nih Committee, Reporter Staff

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An Integrated Clinico-Metabolomic Model Improves Prediction Of Death In Sepsis., Raymond J. Langley, Ephraim L. Tsalik, Jennifer C. Van Velkinburgh, Seth W. Glickman, Brandon J. Rice, Chunping Wang, Bo Chen, Lawrence Carin, Arturo Suarez, Robert P. Mohney, Debra H. Freeman, Mu Wang, Jinsam You, Jacob Wulff, J Will Thompson, M Arthur Moseley, Stephanie Reisinger, Brian T. Edmonds, Brian Grinnell, David R. Nelson, Darrell L. Dinwiddie, Neil A. Miller, Carol J. Saunders, Sarah Soden, Angela J. Rogers, Lee Gazourian, Laura E. Fredenburgh, Anthony F. Massaro, Rebecca M. Baron, Augustine M K Choi, G Ralph Corey, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Charles B. Cairns, Ronny M. Otero, Vance G. Fowler, Emanuel P. Rivers, Christopher W. Woods, Stephen F. Kingsmore

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Sepsis is a common cause of death, but outcomes in individual patients are difficult to predict. Elucidating the molecular processes that differ between sepsis patients who survive and those who die may permit more appropriate treatments to be deployed. We examined the clinical features and the plasma metabolome and proteome of patients with and without community-acquired sepsis, upon their arrival at hospital emergency departments and 24 hours later. The metabolomes and proteomes of patients at hospital admittance who would ultimately die differed markedly from those of patients who would survive. The different profiles of proteins and metabolites clustered into the …

Characterization Of Cyclic Di-Gmp Binding By The Sole Borrelia Burgdorferi And Borrelia Hermsii Pilz Domain-Containing Proteins, Katherine Louise Mallory

Theses and Dissertations

Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia hermsii cause Lyme disease and relapsing fever, respectively. These spirochetes are maintained in an enzootic cycle, involving tick vectors and mammalian hosts. Differential gene expression is central in their survival in various environmental conditions. C-di-GMP has been demonstrated to be important in bacterial adaptation. Borrelia deletion mutant phenotypes have shown that c-di-GMP regulates motility, infectivity, and enzootic cycle progression. As the only known receptors encoded by Borrelia, PlzA and PlzC characterization is necessary in delineating c-di-GMP roles within the cell. In this study, biochemical, biophysical, and FRET methods demonstrated that these proteins exhibit a structural rearrangement …

Uab School Of Dentistry Operates Only Retirement Community Dental Clinic In State, Jim Bakken

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Is A Common Food Fungus Worsening The Aids Epidemic?, Jim Bakken

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Is A Common Food Fungus Worsening The Aids Epidemic?, Reporter Staff

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Elk (Cervus Elaphus) Seasonal Habitat Selection In A Heterogeneous Forest Structure, Jesse N. Popp, David N.C. Mcgeachy, Josef Hamr

Aspen Bibliography

Seasonal habitat selection by the reintroduced Burwash elk population, approximately 30 km south of Sudbury, Ontario, has been analysed in order to assist in the development of future management. Twenty-five adult females were radio-collared and tracked 1–3 times a week for 3 years. The most prominent patterns included selection of intolerant hardwood forests (trembling aspen, white birch, and balsam poplar) during all seasons, while Great Lakes-St. Lawrence pines (white and red pine dominated stands) were used less than expected based on availability for all seasons. The selection patterns are likely associated with seasonal climatic conditions and forage preferences. Because the …

Reviving Bay Life, Jill Rodrigues

Featured News Story

With support via the R.I. Science and Technology Advisory Council, MNS faculty members partner on projects to improve state's marine ecosystem.

Identification And Characterization Of Ethanol Responsive Genes In Acute Ethanol Behaviors In Caenorhabditis Elegans, Joseph Alaimo

Theses and Dissertations

Alcohol abuse and dependence are complex disorders that are influenced by many genetic and environmental factors. Acute behavioral responses to ethanol have predictive value for determining an individual’s long-term susceptibility to alcohol abuse and dependence. These behavioral responses are strongly influenced by genetics. Here, we have explored the role of genetic influences on acute behavioral responses to ethanol using the nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans. First, we explored the role of ethanol metabolism in acute behavior responses to ethanol. Natural variation in human ethanol metabolism machinery is one of the most reported and reproducible associations found to alter drinking behavior. Ethanol …

A Spatial Analysis Of West Nile Virus In Texas, 2012, Allison G. Bradshaw

Master's Theses

The outbreak of West Nile Virus (WNV) in 2012 included over 1,880 reported cases in the state of Texas, and was a dramatic increase from the disease prevalence of previous years. Based on the framework of human ecology triangle, this investigation sought to test the validity of previously identified factors of West Nile Virus to this year’s outbreak and investigate the broad range of incidence rates across zip codes in Texas. A selection of demographic, environmental, and weather-related risk factors was included in the analysis in order to examine areas of high and low incidence across a varied landscape.

A …

Relationships Among Hiv Infection, Metabolic Risk Factors, And Left Ventricular Structure And Function, William Todd Cade, Edgar Turner Overton, Kristin Mondy, Lisa De Las Fuentes, Victor G. Davila-Roman, Alan D. Waggoner, Dominic N. Reeds, Sherry Lassa-Claxton, Melissa J. Krauss, Linda R. Peterson, Keven E. Yarasheski

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.