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The Effects Of Time Of Day On Resistance Exercise Workout Responses, Heather N. Husmer May 2013

The Effects Of Time Of Day On Resistance Exercise Workout Responses, Heather N. Husmer

Master's Theses

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Rates Of Obesity And Incidence Of Diabetes In Hispanics In The United States: An Examination Of The Epidemiological Paradox, Lucy Dean May 2013

Rates Of Obesity And Incidence Of Diabetes In Hispanics In The United States: An Examination Of The Epidemiological Paradox, Lucy Dean

Honors Theses

Using pooled data from the 2008-2011 National Health Interview Survey and employing multinomial and binomial logistic regression methods, this research examines disparities in rates of obesity and incidence of diabetes between individual Hispanic subgroups in comparison to non-Hispanic whites and blacks. Immigration status(including nativity, duration in the United States, and citizenship status) is hypothesized to play a central role in rates and obesity and incidence of diabetes. Unlike Cuban-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and other Hispanics were more likely to be overweight as well as obese when compared to non-Hispanic whites. Mexican-Americans had the only significance in prevalence of type 2 …

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Building A Community-Based Food System: Green Economic Development In Central Illinois, Tim Glaza May 2013

Building A Community-Based Food System: Green Economic Development In Central Illinois, Tim Glaza

Capstone Projects – Politics and Government

It has been a challenge for many community-based, small to medium scale, fruit and vegetable farmers to meet the high demand of locally sourced food. Community-based producers have been mostly using farm stands, farmers’ markets and community-supported agriculture (CSAs) to meet this demand. Although there has been tremendous growth in the number of farmers’ markets and CSA subscriptions, a gap remains for institutional buyers demanding community-based food. Regional food hubs may be the critical piece needed for filling this gap. The Edible Economy Project in partnership with Heartland Community College is working on a regional food hub network project in …

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Do User Fees Increase Tuberculosis Notifications?, Chioma Y. Chukwumah May 2013

Do User Fees Increase Tuberculosis Notifications?, Chioma Y. Chukwumah

Economics Honors Projects

Public health sectors around the world strive to provide accessible and affordable care. Tight government budgets and growing populations lead countries to consider adding or raising charges to health care consumers. These user fees may affect the quality, equity and revenue of health care. This paper investigates the impact of user fees on notifications of tuberculosis. In the panel data composed of 176 countries from 1960 to 2012, I find no evidence that suggests user fees increase tuberculosis. In contrast, I find strong and robust evidence suggesting user fees are associated with fewer new cases of tuberculosis.

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Method Of Inhibiting Ab-Type Bacterial Toxins And Treatment For Associated Diseases, Michael Taylor, Kenneth Teter May 2013

Method Of Inhibiting Ab-Type Bacterial Toxins And Treatment For Associated Diseases, Michael Taylor, Kenneth Teter

UCF Patents

Disclosed herein are compounds useful in inhibiting the action of AB-type bacterial toxins such as cholera, traveler's diarrhea, enterohemorrhagic diarrhea caused by E. coli O157:H7 and pertussis or whooping cough. Also included in the invention is the use of these compounds in treatment of diseases associated with those toxins.

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2013 May 7 - Medical Student Education Committee Minutes, Medical Student Education Committee, East Tennessee State University May 2013

2013 May 7 - Medical Student Education Committee Minutes, Medical Student Education Committee, East Tennessee State University

Medical Student Education Committee Minutes

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Lead Uptake In Diverse Plant Families: A Study Applying X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy, Gudrun L. Bovenkamp, Alexander Prange, Wolfgang Schumacher, Kyungmin Ham, Aaron P. Smith, Josef Hormes May 2013

Lead Uptake In Diverse Plant Families: A Study Applying X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy, Gudrun L. Bovenkamp, Alexander Prange, Wolfgang Schumacher, Kyungmin Ham, Aaron P. Smith, Josef Hormes

Faculty Publications

The chemical environment of lead in roots and leaves of plants from four different plant families and a lichen from a former lead mining site in the Eifel Mountains in Germany was determined by Pb L3-edge XANES measurements using solid reference compounds and also aqueous solutions of different ionic strength simulating the plant environment. Pb2+ ions in the plants were found to have two major coordinations, one with nine oxygen atoms in the first coordination shell similar to outer-sphere complexation and a second coordination with just three oxygen atoms similar to inner-sphere complexation. This can be interpreted assuming that lead …

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Physiological Consequences Of Compensatory Growth: A Look At Snake Species Exhibiting Differential Sexual Size Dimorphism, Kaitlyn Pettingill May 2013

Physiological Consequences Of Compensatory Growth: A Look At Snake Species Exhibiting Differential Sexual Size Dimorphism, Kaitlyn Pettingill

Biology Theses

Although many life-history traits are inflexible, extrinsic factors are likely responsible for variation in attributes such as growth rates and ultimately adult body size. Nutritional stress during natal periods, in particular, has significant long-term consequences for adult characteristics. It is thought that poor natal nutrition leads to either the diversion of subsequent energy intake into compensatory growth or delayed maturation. Diversion of energy, to achieve compensation, however does not come without consequence; immune defense is a resource-demanding activity, which can trade- off with traits such as growth. Relatively little is known about the intra- or interspecific variation in immunological capabilities, …

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The Design And Validation Of A Computational Model Of The Human Wrist Joint, Afsarul Mir May 2013

The Design And Validation Of A Computational Model Of The Human Wrist Joint, Afsarul Mir

Theses and Dissertations

Advancements in computational capabilities have allowed researchers to turn towards modeling as an efficient tool to replicate and predict outcomes of complex systems. Computational models of the musculoskeletal system have gone through various iterations with early versions employing dramatic simplifications. In this work, a three-dimensional computational model of the wrist joint was developed. It accurately recreated the skeletal structures of the hand and wrist and represented the constraints imposed by soft tissue structures like ligaments, tendons, and other surrounding tissues. It was developed to function as a tool to investigate the biomechanical contributions of structures and the kinematic response of …

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Trends In Citations To Books On Epidemiological And Statistical Methods In The Biomedical Literature, Miquel Porta, Jan P. Vandenbroucke, John P. A. Ioannidis, Sergio Sanz, Esteve Fernandez, Raj Bhopal, Alfredo Morabia, Cesar Victora, Tomàs Lopez May 2013

Trends In Citations To Books On Epidemiological And Statistical Methods In The Biomedical Literature, Miquel Porta, Jan P. Vandenbroucke, John P. A. Ioannidis, Sergio Sanz, Esteve Fernandez, Raj Bhopal, Alfredo Morabia, Cesar Victora, Tomàs Lopez

Publications and Research

Background There are no analyses of citations to books on epidemiological and statistical methods in the biomedical literature. Such analyses may shed light on how concepts and methods changed while biomedical research evolved. Our aim was to analyze the number and time trends of citations received from biomedical articles by books on epidemiological and statistical methods, and related disciplines. Methods and Findings The data source was the Web of Science. The study books were published between 1957 and 2010. The first year of publication of the citing articles was 1945. We identified 125 books that received at least 25 citations. …

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Does Child Sponsorship Have A Positive Impact On The Quality Of Life And Social Behavior Of Sponsored Children? Evidence From Indonesia, Mario Carrillo May 2013

Does Child Sponsorship Have A Positive Impact On The Quality Of Life And Social Behavior Of Sponsored Children? Evidence From Indonesia, Mario Carrillo

Master's Theses

Relaxing an internal constraint of an individual at early stages of life is an approach that complements traditional policy interventions aimed to alleviate poverty. The Compassion International child sponsorship program focuses their work on the emotional, social, and spiritual development of sponsored children. This study investigates the impacts of child sponsorship on the quality of life and social behavior of sponsored children using age-eligibility as an instrument for sponsorship, a time preference experiment and a trust game. The study looks specifically at self-esteem, optimism, social trust, educational outcomes, patience and reciprocity of 286 sponsored children and 234 non-sponsored children between …

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The Daily Egyptian, May 06, 2013, Daily Egyptian Staff May 2013

The Daily Egyptian, May 06, 2013, Daily Egyptian Staff

May 2013

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Mechanobiology Of The Intervertebral Disc: Influences Of Static And Dynamic Compressions On Energy Metabolism, Chong Wang May 2013

Mechanobiology Of The Intervertebral Disc: Influences Of Static And Dynamic Compressions On Energy Metabolism, Chong Wang

Open Access Dissertations

Low back pain (LBP) is the leading reason for people to miss work and chief complaint of 5% people who visit doctors. Although it has a high impact in society, the causes of LBP cannot always be clarified. However, intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration has been reported to be a possible leading source for LBP. Since IVD is the biggest avascular tissue in human body, nutrition supply plays very important role for IVD degeneration. IVDs are under mechanical load all the time in vivo, it is also been revealed by in vitro studies that mechanical loadings can alter cellular activities including …

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Packaging Print Buyer Willingness To Trade Off Image Quality For Environmental Benefits, Rattana Mayteekriengkrai May 2013

Packaging Print Buyer Willingness To Trade Off Image Quality For Environmental Benefits, Rattana Mayteekriengkrai

Theses

Consumers are increasingly concerned about environmental friendliness, in addition to product quality. However, widely used technologies are not yet capable of producing packaging that combines the highest level of image quality with the highest level of environmental friendliness. As a result, print buyers are forced to trade-off image quality for increased environmental friendliness. The amount of image quality that a print buyer is willing to trade-off for a given improvement in environmental friendliness is unknown. This is a problem for printers and print suppliers who are attempting to develop products without access to this potentially critical empirical design information. This …

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Ada News - 05/06/2013, American Dental Association, Publishing Division May 2013

Ada News - 05/06/2013, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

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The Statesman, V. 56, I. 28, Stony Brook University May 2013

The Statesman, V. 56, I. 28, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 56, i. 28

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Gc Minutes 2013-05-06, Northern Illinois University May 2013

Gc Minutes 2013-05-06, Northern Illinois University

Graduate Council Archives

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Differences In Body Dissatisfaction In Male Collegiate Athletes, Sabrina L. Pavao May 2013

Differences In Body Dissatisfaction In Male Collegiate Athletes, Sabrina L. Pavao

Honors Program Theses and Projects

While research has examined the relationship between society’s ideal male body and body dissatisfaction in the general male population, less is known regarding the relationship between male body image ideals and body dissatisfaction in male athletes. However, research has suggested that male athletes are at greater risk for body dissatisfaction because they are exposed to two ideal bodies: that of society and their sport. The purpose of this study was to examine differences in body dissatisfaction for collegiate male athletes participating in various sports and to determine whether society’s or the sport’s ideal body has a greater influence on male …

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Two Uab Students Receive 2013 Goldwater Honors, Uab Heersink School Of Medicine News May 2013

Two Uab Students Receive 2013 Goldwater Honors, Uab Heersink School Of Medicine News

Browse All News

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Challenges Of Smoking Cessation Research In Mongolia, Carol M. Rowley May 2013

Challenges Of Smoking Cessation Research In Mongolia, Carol M. Rowley

Nursing Theses and Dissertations

The deleterious impact of tobacco use on health has been well-known for years. Nevertheless, cigarette smoking is a behavior which generally is not easily abandoned due to its addictive propensities. Thus, it is important for nurses to be competent in the delivery of evidence-based smoking cessation interventions which can help their clients achieve tobacco-free status. This need is particularly urgent in nations with high smoking prevalence rates, including many developing nations. The purpose of this study was two-fold. First, an investigation was undertaken to determine the smoking habits and influences among Eastern European nations, the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia. …

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Breastfeeding Influencing Factors In Thai Adolescent Mothers, Supannee Kanhadilok May 2013

Breastfeeding Influencing Factors In Thai Adolescent Mothers, Supannee Kanhadilok

Theses and Dissertations

Background: Breastfeeding is well established as the optimal method for ensuring healthy infant nutrition. However, many adolescents remain unaware of the role of breastfeeding. Adolescent mothers continue to have the lowest rate of breastfeeding in many countries including Thailand, with only 17% of Thai adolescent mothers continuing to breastfed at 6 months postpartum. Objective: Examine factors influencing breastfeeding behaviors in adolescent mothers, particularly those in Thailand. Methods: This dissertation project involved two research studies focusing on breastfeeding influencing factors in adolescent mothers. The first study was an integrative review of 22 articles published in 2000-2012. The findings revealed that personal …

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Sociodemographic Risk Factors Of Glycemic Control For Youth With T1d: Cross-Sectional And Longitudinal Patterns Of Hba1c, Priscilla Powell May 2013

Sociodemographic Risk Factors Of Glycemic Control For Youth With T1d: Cross-Sectional And Longitudinal Patterns Of Hba1c, Priscilla Powell

Theses and Dissertations

Individual growth curve (IGC) modeling evaluated longitudinal trajectories of glycemic control and diabetes care of youth with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) over three years. IGC modeling allowed comparison of confounded sociodemographic predictors of disease outcomes that included ethnicity, SES, parent marital status, family structure, as well as disease duration, to determine the relative impact of these factors in the evolution of HbA1c and diabetes care throughout adolescence. At baseline, participants recruited from two pediatric endocrinology clinics included 198 youth, ages 9-15 (M age = 12.65, 77% Caucasian, 74% lived with married biological parents, M SES = 45.70) with average HbA1c …

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Bjc Today May 2013

Bjc Today

BJC Today

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Underlying Conditions, Mariam Eqbal May 2013

Underlying Conditions, Mariam Eqbal

Theses and Dissertations

The following is a collection of lines, curves, and dots on a plane, representing words fashioned to communicate my ideas about relationships between the thing and the nothing. This thesis is like a map, a contour drawing, an assortment of lines, speaking my thoughts about things in relation to space and time. As something moving, developing into another thing, as a thing sentient, I am viewing, performing, and processing incremental acts. I am looking at water and I can see my reflection break into a thousand pieces. It is like watching time.

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Elemental Concentrations In The Seed Of Mutants And Natural Variants Of Arabidopsis Thaliana Grown Under Varying Soil Conditions, Stephen C. Mcdowell, Garo Akmakjian, Chris Sladek, David Mendoza-Cozatl, Joe B. Morrissey, Nick Saini, Ron Mittler, Ivan Baxter, David E. Salt, John M. Ward, Julian I. Schroeder, Mary Lou Guerinot, Jeffrey F. Harper May 2013

Elemental Concentrations In The Seed Of Mutants And Natural Variants Of Arabidopsis Thaliana Grown Under Varying Soil Conditions, Stephen C. Mcdowell, Garo Akmakjian, Chris Sladek, David Mendoza-Cozatl, Joe B. Morrissey, Nick Saini, Ron Mittler, Ivan Baxter, David E. Salt, John M. Ward, Julian I. Schroeder, Mary Lou Guerinot, Jeffrey F. Harper

Dartmouth Scholarship

The concentrations of mineral nutrients in seeds are critical to both the life cycle of plants as well as human nutrition. These concentrations are strongly influenced by soil conditions, as shown here by quantifying the concentration of 14 elements in seeds from Arabidopsis thaliana plants grown under four different soil conditions: standard, or modified with NaCl, heavy metals, or alkali. Each of the modified soils resulted in a unique change to the seed ionome (the mineral nutrient content of the seeds). To help identify the genetic networks regulating the seed ionome, changes in elemental concentrations were evaluated using mutants corresponding …

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Narrowing The Gap Between Imaginary And Real Artifacts: A Process For Making And Filming Diegetic Prototypes, Al Hussein Wanas May 2013

Narrowing The Gap Between Imaginary And Real Artifacts: A Process For Making And Filming Diegetic Prototypes, Al Hussein Wanas

Theses and Dissertations

Critical Design uses designed artifacts as a critique of consumer culture. However, the complex nature of these artifacts prompted designers to focus on the artifact and present it in an informative, but relatively isolated fashion.The theoretical framework for this thesis is drawn from a similar, yet more recent, design criterion called Design Fiction. The artifacts of Design Fiction are called Diegetic Prototypes: fictional prototypes that function in the social sphere of a film’s structure. This research develops a method for analyzing and creating artifacts, in reference to psychoanalysis theories on the human psyche and perception of objects. It then explores …

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Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Graduate, May 4, 2013, University Of South Florida May 2013

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Graduate, May 4, 2013, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

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Paleo Diet Vs. Modified Paleo Diet: A Randomized Control Trial Of Health Quality And Benefit, Charlotte Martin May 2013

Paleo Diet Vs. Modified Paleo Diet: A Randomized Control Trial Of Health Quality And Benefit, Charlotte Martin

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

Consuming a diet similar to our hunter-gatherer ancestors has been shown to confer numerous health benefits. Our purpose was to compare metabolic, physiological, and psychological improvements of participants consuming a full-scale Paleolithic-type diet (PD) or a modified Paleolithic-type diet (MPD). Twenty participants (WT 74.9+3.3kg; BMI 26+1kg/m2) aged 43+3 yrs were enrolled in a two-group, clinical 5-week dietary intervention study comparing a PD to a MPD. All participants were instructed to maintain current activity levels and turn in weekly diet compliance records. Both groups were instructed to consume only items that are included in a traditional Paleolithic-type diet (i.e. lean meats, …

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Hand Hygiene: Behavior Changes In College Students, Claire Evelyn Ballweg May 2013

Hand Hygiene: Behavior Changes In College Students, Claire Evelyn Ballweg

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

No abstract provided.

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The Ergogenic Effects Of Glucose And Fructose Coingestion During Prolonged Cycling, Daniel A. Baur May 2013

The Ergogenic Effects Of Glucose And Fructose Coingestion During Prolonged Cycling, Daniel A. Baur

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of glucose and fructose coingestion on cycling time trial performance and physiological responses to exercise. Eight trained male cyclists (age: 25 ± 6.2 yrs, height: 180.2 ± 4.3 cm, weight: 76.9 ± 9.2 kg, and VO2max: 61.9 ± 6.2 mL∙kg-1∙min-1) completed the study. Subjects ingested either an artificially-sweetened placebo (PL), a moderate-glucose beverage (MG: 1.0 g•min-1), a high-glucose beverage (HG: 1.5 g•min-1), or a glucose and fructose beverage (GF: 1.5 g•min-1; 2:1 ratio) during ~3 hrs of exercise; consisting of 2 hours of constant load cycling (55% Wmax, 195 ± …

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