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Is Anyone Regulating?: The Curious State Of Gmo Governance In The United States, Rebecca Bratspies

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Administrative Proxies For Judicial Review: Building Legitimacy From The Inside-Out, David L. Markell, Emily Hammond

Scholarly Publications

Judicial review is considered an indispensable legitimizer of the administrative state. Not only is it a hallmark feature of the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), but the various standards of review reinforce democratic norms, promote accountability, and act as a check against arbitrariness. Unreviewable agency actions, therefore, must find their legitimacy elsewhere. This article evaluates the promise of “inside-out” legitimacy as an alternative or complement to judicial review. We theorize, based on insights from the administrative law and procedural justice literatures, that administrative process design can do much to advance legitimacy without the need to rely on judicial review to check …

Reflections (2013 Issue), College Of Health Professions

College of Health Professions Newsletters & Magazines

Highlights from the year 2013 from the College of Health Professions at Sacred Heart University.

Rethinking The Connections Between Female Empowerment And Gender Bias In Child Births And Survival In Urban India, Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee

Economics Faculty Publications

Notwithstanding improvements in female work and educational achievements persistent and increasing female survival disadvantage is a feature of urban India’s demography. A temporal and cross sectional analysis of most recent available data from the Census of India while reaffirming the positive association between female work and the birth and survival of more female children, fails to reconfirm the oft emphasized positive connection between female education and increased survival of girl children. Relatively high levels of female education, by being indicative of household socioeconomic status may be associated with increased ability to discriminate especially in the presence of cultural biases resulting …

Does A Phyisician Advanced Directive Survey Predict Bedside Response In Simulated End Of Life Scenarios?, Christopher R. Carpenter, Timothy Cooney, Jason Wagner, Christopher Sampson, Nicholas Renz, Sean Stickles, Ferdinando Mirarchi

Conference Abstracts and Posters

No abstract provided.

Uplb Perspective, Vol. 39, Special Issue (Elections 2013), Uplb Perspective

UPLB Perspective

No abstract provided.

Cpaf Updates Vol. 14 Issue No. 1, Stella Concepcion R. Britanico, Cristeta A. Foronda, Aida O. Grande, Stoix Nebin S. Pascua, Flordeliza A. Sanchez, Francisca O. Tan

CPAf Updates

In this issue:

• CPAf celebrates 15th year with new Dean, 1
• BOR appoints new CPAf Dean, 2
• CPAf student enrollment, 3
• CPAf honors its graduates, 3
• Prof. Salvacion wins best technical paper award, 4
• CPAf professor win best paper award in Thailand, 4
• Dean Dizon attend forum on leadership excellence, 5
• CPAf research attends Mekong Environmental Symposium, 6
• CPAf, CFNR researcher present paper in EEPSEA Annual Conference in Penang, Malaysia, 7
• CPAf sponsors ADB seminar on microfinance, 7
• Dean Dizon delivers professorial chair lecture on community development paradigms, 8
• Prof. Bello delivers professional chair lecture on tenure systems in the …

Supplemental Schedules For The Year Ended June 30, 2012, Clemson University

Annual Comprehensive Financial Report

No abstract provided.

Hospital Value Based Purchasing And The Bundled Payment Initiative Under The Affordable Care Act: A Good Start, But Is It Good Enough?, Nita Garg

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Is Sugar The New Tobacco? How To Regulate Toxic Foods, Barbara L. Atwell

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Intervening At The Right Point In The Causal Pathways: Law, Policy, And The Devastating Impact Of Pain Across The Globe, Daniel S. Goldberg

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Local Governments And The Food System: Innovative Approaches To Public Health Law And Policy, Lanie Rutkow, Jennifer L. Pomeranz, Sarah O. Rodman

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Clarifying Liability For After-Hours Community Use Of School Recreational Facilities, John O. Spengler, Natasha Frost, Daniel P. Connaughton, J David Prince

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Seattle Pacific University Catalog 2013-2014, Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific Catalogs

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No. 20: The State Of Food Insecurity In Maputo, Mozambique, Ines Raimundo, Jonathan Crush, Wade Pendleton

African Food Security Urban Network

Food insecurity is a fact of life for the vast majority of households across Maputo’s poverty belt. The Maputo urban food security survey done by AFSUN as part of its baseline survey of 11 Southern African cities found that households exist in a constant state of food insecurity manifested in a lack of access to sufficient affordable food, poor dietary quality and undernutrition. Income is meagre and only those households with access to wage income have any chance of holding food insecurity at bay. With a vibrant informal food economy, Maputo’s poor are surrounded by fresh and processed food. Food …

Gourmet Food Trucks: An Ethnographic Examination Of Orlando's Food Truck Scene, Zachary Hawk

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Gourmet food trucks have emerged as increasingly popular dining alternatives for consumers in today’s urban landscape. Existing literature, as well as my own ethnographic research within Orlando, Florida’s mobile food vending scene, reveals that food truck owner/operators utilize various strategies to establish a viable niche for themselves in this diversified and burgeoning market. Among other things, these strategies include online social networking, creating and maintaining a recognizable brand identity, collaborating with local retailers and bar owners, and incorporating organic and locally produced ingredients in their dishes whenever possible. As in other parts of the country, there appears to be a …

Interaction Of Natural Dietary And Herbal Anionic Compounds And Flavonoids With Human Organic Anion Transporters 1 (Slc22a6), 3 (Slc22a8), And 4 (Slc22a11), Li Wang, Douglas H. Sweet

Pharmaceutics Publications

Active components of complementary/alternative medicines and natural supplements are often anionic compounds and flavonoids. As such, organic anion transporters (OATs) may play a key role in their pharmacokinetic and pharmacological profiles, and represent sites for adverse drug-drug interactions. Therefore, we assessed the inhibitory effects of nine natural products, including flavonoids (catechin and epicatechin), chlorogenic acids (1,3- and 1,5-dicaffeoylquinic acid), phenolic acids (ginkgolic acids (13 : 0), (15 : 1), and (17 : 1)), and the organic acids ursolic acid and 18β-glycyrrhetinic acid, on the transport activity of the human OATs, hOAT1 (SLC22A6), hOAT3 (SLC22A8), and hOAT4 (SLC22A11). Four compounds, 1,3- …

Analysis Of Stakeholder Expectations Of Effective Indiana High Schools, Doug Miller

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The primary purpose of this study was to analyze expectations and perceptions from various groups concerning qualities of effective high schools. This study examined commonalities among groups of people in terms of their relationship to high schools. Stakeholders from Indiana surveyed during this study included: high school parents, high school educators, and state-level lawmakers, both senators and representatives. A total of 329 respondents participated in the study. After an extensive literature review of high school outcomes, characteristics, and purposes, I developed the Quality School Survey to collect the needed data. The instrument gathered data by asking respondents to indicate the …

Examination Of Quality Indicators In Public And Private Pre-Kindergarten Classrooms In Indiana, Rhonda M. Peterson

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the current state of pre-kindergarten classrooms in the state of Indiana through the perspectives of public and private pre-kindergarten program directors. Survey results revealed a high concentration of female pre-kindergarten directors within the state of Indiana. Although directors rated their teaching staffs with a high level of earlyEducation background, they themselves felt less confident about their backgrounds in this field. Descriptive data also revealed that private student-teacher ratios are smaller, their instructional days are longer, their programs have been established for longer periods of time, and their directors have had longer tenures …

Ovarian Cycle Activity Varies With Respect To Age And Social Status In Free-Ranging Elephants In Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa, Elizabeth Freeman, Jordana Meyer, Sarah Putman, Bruce A. Schulte, Janine Brown

Biology Faculty Publications

Free-ranging African elephants live in a fission–fusion society, at the centre of which is the matriarch. Matriarchs are generally older females that guide their families to resources and co-ordinate group defense. While much is known about elephant society, knowledge is generally lacking about how age affects the physiology of wild elephants. Investigation of the ovarian activity of free-ranging elephants could provide insight into the reproductive ageing process, with implications for population management. Faecal samples were collected from 46 individuals ranging in age from 14 to 60 years for a 2-year period, and progestagen metabolite analyses were used to examine relationships …

Unity, New Hampshire Annual Report Year Ending December 31, 2012., Unity Town Representatives

Unity, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

What's Not To Love About "Amour"?, E Michael Brady Phd

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Caloric Restriction And Ampk Activation On Hepatic Nuclear Receptor, Biotransformation Enzyme, And Transporter Expression In Lean And Obese Mice, Supriya R. Kulkarni, Jialin Xu, Ajay C. Donepudi, Wei Wei, Angela L. Slitt

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

Purpose: Fatty liver alters liver transporter expression. Caloric restriction (CR), the recommended therapy to reverse fatty liver, increases Sirtuin1 deacetylase activity in liver. This study evaluated whether CR and CR mimetics reversed obesity-induced transporter expression in liver and hepatocytes.

Methods: mRNA and protein expression was determined in adult lean (lean) and leptin-deficient obese (OB) mice fed ad libitum or placed on 40% (kCal) reduced diet. Hepatocytes were isolated from lean and OB mice, treated with AMP Kinase activators, and gene expression was determined.

Results: CR decreased Oatp1a1, Oatp1b2, and Abcb11 mRNA expression in lean, but not OB mice. CR increased …

Keap1 Knockdown Increases Markers Of Metabolic Syndrome After Long-Term High Fat Diet Feeding, Vijay R. More, Jialin Xu, Prajakta C. Shimpi, Clyde Belgrave, James P. Luyendyk, Masayuki Yamamoto, Angela L. Slitt

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

The nuclear factor E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2)–Kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1 (Keap1) pathway upregulates antioxidant and biotransformation enzyme expression to counter cellular oxidative stress. The contributions of Nrf2 to other cellular functions, such as lipid homeostasis, are emerging. This study was conducted to determine how enhanced Nrf2 activity influences the progression of metabolic syndrome with long-term high-fat diet (HFD) feeding. C57BL/6 and Keap1-knockdown (Keap1-KD) mice, which exhibit enhanced Nrf2 activity, were fed a HFD for 24 weeks. Keap1-KD mice had higher body weight and white adipose tissue mass compared to C57BL/6 mice on HFD, along with increased inflammation and lipogenic gene …

Pregnancy Represses Induction Of Efflux Transporters In Livers Of Type I Diabetic Mice, Lauren M. Aleksunes, Jialin Xu, Eugenia Lin, Xia Wen, Michael J. Goedken, Angela L. Slitt

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

Purpose: To determine whether down-regulation of transcription factor signaling during pregnancy disrupts the induction of efflux transporters in type I diabetic mice.

Methods: Type I diabetes was induced in female C57BL/6 mice with multiple low dose intraperitoneal injections of streptozotocin (STZ) at least 2 weeks prior to mating with normoglycemic male mice. On gestation day 14, livers were collected from vehicle- and STZ-treated non-pregnant and pregnant mice for quantification of efflux transporter and transcription factor signaling.

Results: STZ treatment up-regulated expression of Mrp1-5, Mdr1, Abcg5, Abcg8, Bcrp, and Bsep mRNA and/or protein in the livers of non-pregnant mice. Interestingly, little …

Effect Of Exercise Dosages On Adiposity Indices In Overweight Girls, Stephanie Kellam, Norma Olvera, Patrick Leung, Jian Liu, Dennis Smith

Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering Faculty Research

Objective. The primary purpose of this study was to determine the impact of two exercise dosages on reducing adiposity in minority girls. Materials and methods. Sixty-two overweight Hispanic and African-American girls participated in one of two intense summer interventions in Houston, TX: Intervention A (exposure to about 40 hours physical activities) or Intervention B (exposure to 60 hours of physical activities). Adiposity indices (percent body fat, waist circumference, body mass index) were taken pre- and post-intervention.

Results.

Intervention B had a significantly greater decrease in adiposity indicators (p= 0.006) when compared to Intervention A. Waist circumference displayed the most significant …

2013 - Etsu Fact Book, Institutional Research, East Tennessee State University

ETSU Fact Books

No abstract provided.

Rights And Roles: Alaska Natives And Ocean And Coastal Subsistence Resources, Jordan Diamond, Greta Swanson, Kathryn Mengerink

Florida A & M University Law Review

This article explores the strengths and weaknesses of the two pillars of the framework for managing marine subsistence resources in Alaska: the pillar that protects Alaska Native rights to marine subsistence resources, and the pillar that protects the resources themselves. It focuses on how well the pillars support subsistence practices and Alaska Native leadership in the management framework. Part I summarizes the management challenge posed by the effects rapid climate change is causing in the Arctic, including impacts to the marine subsistence resources upon which Alaska Natives depend. Part II explores the laws and doctrines related to Alaska Native subsistence …

Unicef 2012 Annual Report, Unicef

Global CWD Repository

2012 was a year of recognizing results for children. As the Millennium Development Goals deadline approaches, we have cause to celebrate declining poverty rates, the near eradication of polio, increased immunizations, more girls attending school, improved access to clean water and nutrition, and more children surviving and thriving beyond their fifth birthdays than ever before.

But results are no excuse for rest. Too many children continue to struggle, clinging to the lowest rungs of the development ladder: a boy missing out on a vaccination because he lives in a remote, hard-to-reach community; a girl denied her rightful place in the …

Ua61/1 Health & Human Services Nursing & Allied Health, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications by and about the School of Nursing.