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Fiscal Year 2013 - 2014 Call For Proposals Guidelines: California State University Agricultural Research Institute (Ari) - Cal Poly Campus,, David Wehner, Mark D. Shelton, Sue Tonik Jun 2013

Fiscal Year 2013 - 2014 Call For Proposals Guidelines: California State University Agricultural Research Institute (Ari) - Cal Poly Campus,, David Wehner, Mark D. Shelton, Sue Tonik

California State University Agricultural Research Institute (ARI) - Cal Poly Campus

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Associated Students Annual Report 2012-2013, San Jose State University, Associated Students Jun 2013

Associated Students Annual Report 2012-2013, San Jose State University, Associated Students

Associated Students Annual Reports

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A National Examination Of Extension Professionals’ Use Of Evaluation: Does Intended Use Improve Effort?, Alexa J. Lamm, Glenn D. Israel Jun 2013

A National Examination Of Extension Professionals’ Use Of Evaluation: Does Intended Use Improve Effort?, Alexa J. Lamm, Glenn D. Israel

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

As state and federal budgets tighten, Extension must be accountable for the use of public funds if it wants to maintain current funding levels. While those working within Extension know the long-term successes of Extension programs, data detailing these are limited. High quality evaluations must be developed to collect the data needed to exhibit public value. One way to encourage the collection of rigorous data is through the use of evaluation. Evaluation use creates an environment that encourages organizational thinking that can result in accountability reports adequate for funding decisions. This study examined how Extension professionals’ engagement in evaluation is …

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2012-2013 Department Of Obstetrics And Gynecology Scholarly Activity Report, Quillen College Of Medicine, East Tennessee State University Jun 2013

2012-2013 Department Of Obstetrics And Gynecology Scholarly Activity Report, Quillen College Of Medicine, East Tennessee State University

Quillen College of Medicine Scholarly Activity Reports

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2012-2013 Department Of Biomedical Sciences Scholarly Activity Report, Quillen College Of Medicine, East Tennessee State University Jun 2013

2012-2013 Department Of Biomedical Sciences Scholarly Activity Report, Quillen College Of Medicine, East Tennessee State University

Quillen College of Medicine Scholarly Activity Reports

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Parental Learning And School Readiness In The Gearing Up For Kindergarten Program, Sean E. Brotherson, Sharon Query, Divya Saxena Jun 2013

Parental Learning And School Readiness In The Gearing Up For Kindergarten Program, Sean E. Brotherson, Sharon Query, Divya Saxena

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

Entering kindergarten is a key moment in a young child’s life, and parents are a child’s first teacher. What can guide parents as they assist children with school readiness? Gearing Up for Kindergarten is an intensive parent education and school readiness program designed to help parents and children prepare for school. Gearing Up for Kindergarten is a parent education program that combines early learning opportunities for pre-kindergarten children with parent education opportunities for adults. This study presents findings from evaluation efforts conducted with 59 Gearing Up for Kindergarten adult participants during the 2006-2007 school year. Participants in the program demonstrated …

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Ipads And Tablets: Today’S Extension Demonstration, Nancy Franz, Peggy Martin Jun 2013

Ipads And Tablets: Today’S Extension Demonstration, Nancy Franz, Peggy Martin

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach educators are using iPads to deepen and expand education by showing learners online resources on nutrition including signing up for blogs and visiting our Spend Smart Eat Smart website and Facebook page. A video describing the project is available at http://vimeo.com/64757580. Of the 281 learners who responded to a survey, 96% learned additional nutrition information outside of our classes from the Spend Smart Eat Smart Facebook page, blog, and website; 93% learned about nutrition practices; and 88% learned about food resource management practices. Educators are also using the video clips on our websites as …

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Finding First-Year Success In Extension: Navigating Stakeholder Needs And Institutional Expectations, Donald A. Llewellyn Jun 2013

Finding First-Year Success In Extension: Navigating Stakeholder Needs And Institutional Expectations, Donald A. Llewellyn

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

Functioning within a defined administrative framework and meeting the needs of the stakeholders are essential in an Extension appointment. The first day of employment starts the promotion and tenure clock. It is the responsibility of the new Extension professional to take immediate steps to move forward with development of programming and application of the skill set that they bring to the job. Finding success in the first year of an Extension appointment revolves around understanding the expectations of the institution and the needs of the stakeholders. Once the institutional expectations and programming needs are understood, formulating a strategy that includes …

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Exploring Familial Themes In Malaysian Students’ Eating Behaviors, Car Mun Kok Jun 2013

Exploring Familial Themes In Malaysian Students’ Eating Behaviors, Car Mun Kok

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

Food-related attitudes and habits are integral to overall well-being, especially among international college students who often practice poor eating habits and experience high levels of stress from factors like school and sociocultural adjustment. Utilizing in-depth interviews, this study explored how family experiences impact food-related habits, attitudes, and beliefs of Malaysian college students in the U.S. Findings indicate that early experiences with family substantially impact current habits that persist even after coming to the U.S. and that dietary choices and habits are heavily embedded in cultural background and family history. Family influenced current habits through multiple means, including modeling, direct teaching, …

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Utilizing Technology To Encourage Healthy Lifestyles, Cynthia Shuster, Patricia Brinkman, Lisa Barlage, Michelle Treber, Dana Brown, Linnette Goard Jun 2013

Utilizing Technology To Encourage Healthy Lifestyles, Cynthia Shuster, Patricia Brinkman, Lisa Barlage, Michelle Treber, Dana Brown, Linnette Goard

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

In our fast paced world, using technology allows us to connect with people and assist them in developing healthier lifestyles within their time limits due to families, work, and other responsibilities. The goal of our project was the development of online, technology-based, nutrition, health, and fitness education challenges using social media as a means of helping consumers develop healthy lifestyle changes. Participants completed preassessments and postassessments to determine overall program impact and to self-report perceptions of knowledge gained and practice/behavior change. Results from the challenges indicated participants gained knowledge on nutrition, health and fitness topics while making strides towards lifestyle …

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Responses Of Chlorophyll A Content For Conchocelis Phase Of Alaskan Porphyra (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) Species To Environmental Factors, Rulong Lin, Michael Stekoll Jun 2013

Responses Of Chlorophyll A Content For Conchocelis Phase Of Alaskan Porphyra (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) Species To Environmental Factors, Rulong Lin, Michael Stekoll

Faculty, Staff, and Students

Investigations were performed on variations of photosynthetic pigment in conchocelis of Alaskan Porphyra species, P. abbottae (Pa), P. pseudolanceolata (Pe), P. pseudolinearis (Pi) and P. torta (Pt), in response to environmental variables. Conchocelis were cultured under varying conditions of irradiance (0, 10, 40 and 160 µmol photons m-2s-1), nutrient concentration (0, f/4, f/2 and f) for up to 60 days (with temperature 11°C and salinity 30ppt). Chlorophyll a (Chl a ) content was measured by spectrophotometry. Results indicated that Chl content varied with different culture conditions and species. Photosynthetic pigment was significantly affected by irradiance, nutrient concentration and culture duration, …

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Hypocrisy At The Lectern Do Our Personal Lifestyle Choices Reflect Our Spoken Commitment To Global Sustainabilty?, William L. Weis Jun 2013

Hypocrisy At The Lectern Do Our Personal Lifestyle Choices Reflect Our Spoken Commitment To Global Sustainabilty?, William L. Weis

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

Do our actions model a genuine commitment to global sustainability? Or do they belie that spoken commitment? These questions are addressed in this article, drawing on bodies of substantive research tying personal behavioral choices to global warming, fresh water scarcity, energy resource management, the absorptive capacity of the earth to sustain life, and a viable sharing of the earth’s resources to assure a basic level of social justice. A compelling case is made that our personal lifestyles are not incongruence with our avowed concerns for an environmentally sustainable earth and a just sharing of its bounties. The article treats environmental …

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The Wicked Problems Of Global Sustainability Need Wicked (Good) Leaders And Wicked (Good) Collaborative Solutions, Sandra Waddock Jun 2013

The Wicked Problems Of Global Sustainability Need Wicked (Good) Leaders And Wicked (Good) Collaborative Solutions, Sandra Waddock

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

Making a difference in the pursuit of a more sustainable world increasingly requires the ability to contend successfully with the wicked problem that is sustainability, and this shift needs to happen at the societal as well as the organizational level. Dealing successfully with issues of sustainability means creating greater system resilience and using resources more wisely, which means working successfully across boundaries, be they sector, organizational, policy, or functional ones. Wicked problems are poorly formulated, confusing, and have many different constituents or stakeholders with conflicting values. This article argues that developing wicked (good) leadership that is collaboratively oriented and wicked …

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Brazil’S Bolsa Familia And The Philippines’ “4ps” Cct Programs: Considering South–South Cooperation For Social Protection, Mark Stevenson Curry, Airah Tauli Cadiogan, RogéRio Gimenes Giugliano Jun 2013

Brazil’S Bolsa Familia And The Philippines’ “4ps” Cct Programs: Considering South–South Cooperation For Social Protection, Mark Stevenson Curry, Airah Tauli Cadiogan, RogéRio Gimenes Giugliano

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs were developed in the mid to late 1990s in Mexico and Brazil in response to the economic upheavals that affected the poor and vulnerable in Latin America following the imposition of structural adjustment policies. These social protection programs provide immediate cash disbursements under beneficiary compliance with health and education requirements, particularly for children and mothers. Since then, CCT programs have been implemented throughout Latin America and are rapidly being introduced in Africa and Asia, including the Philippines. Since the mid 2000s, the World Bank and other international financial institutions have been significantly involved in the …

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The Murray Ledger And Times, June 29, 2013, The Murray Ledger And Times Jun 2013

The Murray Ledger And Times, June 29, 2013, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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The Murray Ledger And Times, June 28, 2013, The Murray Ledger And Times Jun 2013

The Murray Ledger And Times, June 28, 2013, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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The Relevance Of Social Contexts And Social Action In Reducing Substance Use And Victimization Among Women Participating In An Hiv Prevention Intervention In Cape Town, South Africa, Elizabeth Reed, Andrea N. Emanuel, Bronwyn Myers, Kim Johnson, Wendee M. Wechsberg Jun 2013

The Relevance Of Social Contexts And Social Action In Reducing Substance Use And Victimization Among Women Participating In An Hiv Prevention Intervention In Cape Town, South Africa, Elizabeth Reed, Andrea N. Emanuel, Bronwyn Myers, Kim Johnson, Wendee M. Wechsberg

Prevention and Community Health Faculty Publications

Objectives: To examine qualitatively how women's social context and community mobilization (eg, mobilizing women to take social action and engaging their community in social change) influence substance use abstinence and victimization among women participating in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) intervention in Cape Town, South Africa.
Methods: Thirty women who had participated in a randomized controlled trial of a group-delivered intervention to address substance use, gender-based violence, and associated risk for HIV (The Women's Health CoOp) were selected to participate in semi-structured interviews about their perceived impact of the intervention on their substance use and exposure to victimization. The Women's …

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Quality Of Lunch On Cognitive Performance, Corbin Miller, Dr. Joseph Price Jun 2013

Quality Of Lunch On Cognitive Performance, Corbin Miller, Dr. Joseph Price

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The purpose of my project is to discover whether or not there is a link between the nutritional quality of food served for elementary school lunch and test scores. Our hypothesis is that eating a more healthy meal prior to taking a test will improve cognitive performance. The two sources of data that are required for this project to succeed are the school lunch menu data and the corresponding test scores. I have already retrieved the school lunch menu data from Westridge and Rock Canyon elementary schools in the Provo School District. We are currently waiting on permission to access …

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Working With Cancer: Health Disparities Among Working Cancer Survivors, Tainya C. Clarke Jun 2013

Working With Cancer: Health Disparities Among Working Cancer Survivors, Tainya C. Clarke

Open Access Dissertations

Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality in the United States, affecting more than 13 million individuals it has impacted the lives of a significant proportion of the population. With improvements in detection and treatment there have been more early diagnoses and improved prognosis for many survivors. These positive changes have led to an increase in the number of survivors that continue to work through diagnosis and treatment and or return to work. There are an estimated 7.5 million working survivors in the US, though their proportions vary by occupational sectors. With occupational differences in workplace accommodations and perceived …

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Vol.40 N.49 June 27th 2013, Brown Publishing Company Jun 2013

Vol.40 N.49 June 27th 2013, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

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Weight Loss Doesn't Reduce Heart, Stroke Woes In Overweight Type 2 Diabetics, Staff Jun 2013

Weight Loss Doesn't Reduce Heart, Stroke Woes In Overweight Type 2 Diabetics, Staff

Browse All News

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Daily Eastern News: June 27, 2013, Eastern Illinois University Jun 2013

Daily Eastern News: June 27, 2013, Eastern Illinois University

June

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The Weekly Challenger, June 27, 2013, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Jun 2013

The Weekly Challenger, June 27, 2013, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The June 27, 2013, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

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Metabolic Syndrome And Depression: A Systematic Review Of The Association, Michael S. Robinson Jun 2013

Metabolic Syndrome And Depression: A Systematic Review Of The Association, Michael S. Robinson

Student Works

Purpose: To explore whether there is an association between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and depression, the nature of the relationship, and implications for practicing health care professionals. Data Sources: Peer reviewed articles obtained through electronic database search in: CINAHL, The Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, and PsychINFO between the years of 2006 and 2013. Results: MetS and depression have a bidirectional association; MetS leads to depression and vice-versa. More severe depression has a stronger association with MetS. Increased waist circumference (AKA: abdominal obesity, body mass index [BMI]), elevated triglycerides, and low HDL cholesterol are the MetS components most commonly/strongly associated depression. Though not …

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Does It Have To Taste Bad To Be Good? Leveraging Pleasure To Enhance Learning, Karen H. Dougherty M.D. Jun 2013

Does It Have To Taste Bad To Be Good? Leveraging Pleasure To Enhance Learning, Karen H. Dougherty M.D.

Kentucky Journal of Higher Education Policy and Practice

Emerging information from the field of neuroscience has illuminated the workings of the brain’s pleasure circuit as a powerful motivator of human behavior. While much of the research has been driven by an effort to uncover the roots of addiction, an understanding of the aspects of pleasure can be applied to the design of teaching strategies to engage college students and improve their retention and persistence.

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Towards A Structured Approach To Reading Historic Cookbooks, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire Jun 2013

Towards A Structured Approach To Reading Historic Cookbooks, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Articles

This article discusses the methodology Barbara Ketchum Wheaton uses in her Reading historic Cookbook Seminars in Harvard and elsewhere and discusses from a participants perspective the strenghts of using this methodology to unlock hidden secrets of historic cookbooks.

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The Daily Egyptian, June 26, 2013, Daily Egyptian Staff Jun 2013

The Daily Egyptian, June 26, 2013, Daily Egyptian Staff

June 2013

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Variables To Predict Risk Of Hospital Readmission, Julie I. Carroll Jun 2013

Variables To Predict Risk Of Hospital Readmission, Julie I. Carroll

Muskie School Capstones and Dissertations

As the healthcare industry transitions toward accountable care and payment reform, creative approaches to healthcare is imperative. Poorly coordinated care and shorter hospital stays have resulted in higher rates of readmissions. This has large implications for hospitals and health systems.

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Predicting Social-Emotional And Cognitive Development At 24 Months: The Impact Of Postnatal Maternal Anxiety And Depressive Symptoms, And Mother-Child Relationship, Stephanie F. Donahue Jun 2013

Predicting Social-Emotional And Cognitive Development At 24 Months: The Impact Of Postnatal Maternal Anxiety And Depressive Symptoms, And Mother-Child Relationship, Stephanie F. Donahue

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Early childhood is a particularly sensitive time for development, and experiences during this time of life have a lasting impact on later development (Shonkoff & Phillips, 2000). As part of these early experiences, mother-child relationships often become important influences on young children’s social-emotional and cognitive development (e.g., Laible & Thompson, 2007; Osofsky & Liebernman, 2011). Similarly, mothers’ mental health can impact their relationships with their children (e.g., Nicol-Harber, Harvey, & Stein, 2007; Stein et al., 2008) and their children’s development (e.g., Grace, Evindar, & Stewart, 2003; Skylerman et al., 2007). The purpose of this study was to explore the influences …

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Weight Loss Does Not Reduce Heart, Stroke Woes In Overweight Type 2 Diabetics, Jim Bakken Jun 2013

Weight Loss Does Not Reduce Heart, Stroke Woes In Overweight Type 2 Diabetics, Jim Bakken

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