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Parental Feeding Practices In Mexican American Families: Initial Test Of An Expanded Measure, Jeanne M. Tschann, Steven E. Gregorich, Carlos Penilla, Lauri A. Pasch, Cynthia L. De Groat, Elena Flores, Julianna Deardorff, Louise C. Greenspan, Nancy F. Butte

School of Education Faculty Research

Background: Although obesity rates are high among Latino children, relatively few studies of parental feeding practices have examined Latino families as a separate group. Culturally-based approaches to measurement development can begin to identify parental feeding practices in specific cultural groups. This study used qualitative and quantitative methods to develop and test the Parental Feeding Practices (PFP) Questionnaire for use with Mexican American parents. Items reflected both parent’s use of control over child eating and child-centered feeding practices.

Methods: In the qualitative phase of the research, 35 Latino parents participated in focus groups. Items for the PFP were developed from focus …

The Policy And Practice Of Public Primary Curriculum In India – A Study Of Textbooks In Public Primary Schools Of District Morigaon (Assam) And District Medak (Andhra Pradesh), H Kidwai, D Burnette, S Rao, S Nath, Monisha Bajaj, N Bajpai

School of Education Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

A Case Study On Application Of The Theory Of Planned Behaviour: Predicting Physical Activity Of Adolescents In Hong Kong, Wai Kuen, Vic Mok, Annie Y.K. Lee

Staff Publications

Objective: The aim of this case study was to predict the physical activity intention and behaviour of secondary school students in Hong Kong by applying the Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and past physical activity behaviour.

Methods: 486 students (250 male and 236 female), ranging in age from 11 to 18 years, were enrolled in this study. By means of self-administrated questionnaire, demographic data, past physical activity and variables of theory of planned behaviour, such as attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control were measured.

Results: About 75% of students did not meet the standard of the physical activity …

Interdisciplinary Professional Education: Training College Students For Collaborative Social Change, Monica Nandan, Manuel London

Faculty Articles

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a rationale for developing interprofessional competencies among graduates from professional and graduate programs, so that they are well prepared to participate in local, national and global social change strategies. Design/methodology/approach – After reviewing the literature on strategic social change initiatives the authors briefly describe two such initiatives: corporate social responsibility initiatives and social entrepreneurial ventures. After reviewing the interprofessional literature from various disciplines and professions, the authors categorized them into “competencies,” “rationale,” “conceptual framework,” “principles” and “challenges.” An examination of exemplar pedagogy from this body of literature suggests ways to …

Carroll County Annual Report Of The Commissioners, Treasurer And Other County Officers For The Year Ending December 31, 2012., Carroll County Representatives

Carroll County, NH Annual Reports

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

2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog, Sacred Heart University

Graduate & Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Wellness Made Simple - 2013, Nova Southeastern University

Wellness Made Simple

No abstract provided.

Health Evolution: (Quality=Learning) + (Ethics=Justice), Peter J. Hammer

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Ua45 2013-14 Four-Year Degree Paths, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

An addendum to the 2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog

The purpose of the Four-Year Degree Path is to assist undergraduate students in determining a timeline for completion of their undergraduate degree program. Each path displayed within this website provides students with the anticipated order in which a degree would typically be completed in a timely fashion at Western Kentucky University.

The Degree Paths show appropriate timing and spacing of general education, core course requirements, elective suggestions, prerequisites and displays how each of these requirements may be met during a four-year time frame.

The Degree Path is simply a guideline and might not …

Overweight, Obesity, And Neighborhood Characteristics Among Postpartum Latinas, Colleen Keller, Michael Todd, Barbara Ainsworth, Kathryn Records, Sonia Vega-Lopez, Paska Permana, Dean Coonrod, Allison Williams

Nursing Faculty Works

Background. Weight gain during the childbearing years and failure to lose pregnancy weight after birth contribute to the development of obesity in Latinas. Design and Methods. Madres para la Salud (Mothers for Health) is a 12-month prospective, randomized controlled trial exploring a social support intervention with moderate-intensity physical activity to effect changes in body fat, systemic and fat tissue inflammation, and depression symptoms in sedentary postpartum Latinas. This paper describes the initial body composition of the sample, social support, and neighborhood contextual correlations of overweight and obese Latina mothers within the first 6 months after birth. Results. The mean body …

Annual Report Of The Grafton County Commissioners Together With The Reports From The Conservation District, County Attorney, Human Resources, Nursing Home, Sheriff's Department, Treasurer And Auditors, Unh Cooperative Extension, Corrections, Drug Court, Human Services, Registry Of Deeds, Information Technology, Department Of Maintenance, For The Fiscal Year Covering July 1, 2012- June 30, 2013., Grafton County Representatives

Grafton County, NH Annual Reports

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

Measuring Poverty In Singapore: Frameworks For Consideration, John A. Donaldson, Jacqueline Loh, Sanushka Mudaliar, Mumtaz Md Kadir, Biqi Wu, Lam Keong Yeoh

Social Space

Singapore does not have an official poverty line. Should there be one? And what are the frameworks that have used or could be adopted for the measurement of poverty in this country? The Lien Centre for Social Innovation and SMU School of Social Sciences report on their investigation into the complex issue of domestic poverty.

Post 2015 -- What Comes After The Millennium Development Goals, Michael Switow

Social Space

In June 2013, a High Level Panel appointed by the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on UN member states to adopt a sustainable development agenda that will “Leave No One Behind.” Michael Switow shares civil society’s analysis of this report, taking a look at what it got right, what was wrong and where it missed out altogether.

Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Farmer Training In Ghanaian Cocoa Farming, Mike Norton

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

While billions of dollars flow into low-income countries each year to ease poverty, assessing their effectiveness beyond the life of a development program proves challengin. In 2009, the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) undertook the Cocoa Livelihoods Program (CLP) to strengthen cocoa-growing communities with training and credit programs. Using primary 2010-2011 production data collected in Ghana, this study estimates the net present value (NPV) change associated with CLP training over 50 years (two cocoa tree life cycles), assuming producers can utilize what they have learned well after the courses are completed. Applying regression analyses to determine the effect of CLP on …

A Frailty Approach For Survival Analysis With Error-Prone Covariate, Sehee Kim, Yi Li, Donna Spiegelman

The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

This paper discovers an inherent relationship between the survival model with covariate measurement error and the frailty model. The discovery motivates our using a frailty-based estimating equation to draw inference for the proportional hazards model with error-prone covariates. Our established framework accommodates general distributional structures for the error-prone covariates, not restricted to a linear additive measurement error model or Gaussian measurement error. When the conditional distribution of the frailty given the surrogate is unknown, it is estimated through a semiparametric copula function. The proposed copula-based approach enables us to fit flexible measurement error models without the curse of dimensionality as …

A Latent Variable Transformation Model Approach For Exploring Dysphagia, Anna Snavely, David P. Harrington, Yi Li

The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Morphology, Gas Exchange, And Chlorophyll Content Of Longleaf Pine Seedlings In Response To Rooting Volume, Copper Root Pruning, And Nitrogen Supply In A Container Nursery, R. Kasten Dumroese, Shi-Jean Susana Sung, Jeremiah R. Pinto, Amy Ross-Davis, D. Andrew Scott

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Few pine species develop a seedling grass stage; this growth phase, characterized by strong, carrot-like taproots and a stem-less nature, poses unique challenges during nursery production. Fertilization levels beyond optimum could result in excessive diameter growth that reduces seedling quality as measured by the root bound index (RBI). We grew longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), a grass stage species, in containers of four different volumes (60–336 ml) either coated with copper oxychloride or left untreated and fertilized at low, medium, or high levels of nitrogen (N). In general, N concentration of tissues rose as N rate increased, with larger …

Sensory And Chemical Interactions Of Food Pairings (Basmati Rice, Bacon And Extra Virgin Olive Oil) With Banana, Mark Traynor, Roisin Burke, Maurice O'Sullivan, John Hannon, Catherine Barry-Ryan

Articles

The aim of this study aimed to investigate food pairings as an important sensory phenomenon in order to determine how different components in the selected food pairings affect and interact with other components. Three novel food pairings (banana and bacon, banana and olive oil, and banana and rice) were selected. A conjoint approach utilising qualitative (organic volatile analysis and descriptive sensory analysis) and quantitative (comparable semi quantitative organic volatile analysis and affective sensory tests) methods of analysis n an attempt to elucidate the success or failure of selected food pairings. Free choice profiling (descriptive sensory analysis) data was analysed using …

Cultivate Summer 2013, Utah State University

Cultivate Magazine

No abstract provided.

Interrelationships Between Diglyphus Isaea, Phaedrotoma Scabriventris And Endophytic Fungi In The Control Of Liriomyza Leafminers, Komivi Senyo Akutse

All PhD Dissertations

Horticulture is a major foreign exchange earner in Kenya and provides employment to approximately 75% of the population. However, the growth of the horticultural industry is constrained by pests such as the leafminer flies, Liriomyza sativae, L. trifolii and L. huidobrensis (Diptera: Agromyzidae). These pests do not only cause damage to crops, but are also tagged as quarantine pests, resulting in export rejections, loss of export markets and consequently loss of revenue to smallholders. The management of leafminers worldwide has commonly relied on the use of chemical insecticides, but due to associated negative effects thereof, biological control using parasitoids and …

The State Of Food Insecurity In Maputo, Mozambique, Inês Raimundo, Jonathan Crush, Wade Pendleton

Hungry Cities Partnership

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 …

Nutrition Care Manual, Carolyn Schubert, Amanda Hedrick

Libraries

Developed by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Nutrition Care Manual serves as an evidence-based, point-of-care tool for students, educators, and professionals. The content covers the most common nutrition issues, professional background information, treatment plans, and patient education information. However, the user interface is confusing with few paths for logical search or navigation and lacks many of the common features users expect from most electronic resources, such as permalinks or mobile viewing. While the content and flexibility meet a previously unfulfilled need in allied health resources, the interface problems hinder maximum utilization of the content quickly.

Cognitive And Non-Cognitive Predictors Of The Quality Of Life Of The Elderly In Selected Provinces In The Philippines, Daisy R. Palompon, Marylou B. Ong

CNU Journal of Higher Education

This study determined the cognitive (educational attainment and cognitive ability) and non-cognitive (marital status, basic activities of daily living, instrumental ADL, social support and spirituality) factors that predict the quality of life of older adults admitted into elderly institutions and community-dwelling elderly. Utilizing a correlational design, the study involved 263 elderly participants ( 100 institutionalized and 163 community-dwelling) in the Visayas and Mindanao regions. Using regression analysis, marital status, instrumental ADL and social support were considered significant predictors of QoL among the institutionalized elderly. On the other hand, marital status, educational attainment, basic ADL, instrumental ADL and social support significantly …

Biosynthesis Of Vitamins And Cofactors In Bacterium-Harbouring Trypanosomatids Depends On The Symbiotic Association As Revealed By Genomic Analyses, Cecilia C. Klein, Joao M. P. Alves, Myrna G. Serrano, Gregory A. Buck, Ana T. R. Vasconcelos, Marie-France Sagot, Marta M. G. Teixeira, Emey P. Camargo, Maria C. M. Motta

Study of Biological Complexity Publications

Some non-pathogenic trypanosomatids maintain a mutualistic relationship with a betaproteobacterium of the Alcaligenaceae family. Intensive nutritional exchanges have been reported between the two partners, indicating that these protozoa are excellent biological models to study metabolic co-evolution. We previously sequenced and herein investigate the entire genomes of five trypanosomatids which harbor a symbiotic bacterium (SHTs for Symbiont-Haboring Trypanosomatids) and the respective bacteria (TPEs for Trypanosomatid Proteobacterial Endosymbiont), as well as two trypanosomatids without symbionts (RTs for Regular Trypanosomatids), for the presence of genes of the classical pathways for vitamin biosynthesis. Our data show that genes …

Mississippi State University - Student Enrollment Profile - Fall 2013, Mississippi State University Office Of Institutional Research And Effectiveness

Enrollment Profiles

No abstract provided.

Kappa Opioid Regulation Of Reward Seeking During Acute And Protracted Withdrawal From Ethanol, Sorscha Jarman

McNair Scholars Journal

No abstract provided.

Independent Living Oldest-Old And Their Primary Health Provider: A Mixed Method Examination Of The Influence Of Patient Personality Characteristics, Lee Stadtlander, Martha Giles, Amy Sickel, Emma Brooks, Cherri L. Brown, Melissa Cormell, Lara Ewing, Delores Hart, Dawn Koons, Christie Olson, Pamela Parker, Veronica Semenova, Shawna Stoneking

Walden Faculty and Staff Publications

This convergent mixed methods study examined 35 healthy, independent living individuals' (over 85 years) perceptions of their relationship with their primary health provider (PHP) and health practices. The relationship between PHP relationship perceptions and locus of control (LOC), resilience, and self-efficacy was explored through surveys and interviews. The majority indicated they visited their PHP just for preventative care; the number of PHP visits per year was significantly lower than reported for individuals over 85 by the CDC, possible reasons for this finding are provided. A positive relationship between LOC, resiliency, and self-efficacy for the oldest-old was found. Few participants indicated …

The United States Department Of Agriculture Policies To Improve School Food Quality While Protecting The Environment, Shahla Wunderlich, Yeon Bai, S. Chung

Department of Nutrition and Food Studies Scholarship and Creative Works

In the United States, the Farm Bill is the primary agriculture and food policy legislation and its administration is under the preview of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA has established policies and programs aimed at providing school children with better food and at the same time, supporting local farmers. The Farm to School Program connects schools and local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school and supporting local and regional farmers. It is believed that local and regional farmers are deeply committed to social and environmental concerns. The Farm to School Program is …

Elicitation Of Anti-Mosquito Immune Responses In Balb/C Mice Immunized With Plasmids Containing Anopheles Gambiae Mucin 1 (Agmuc1), Gm-Csf And Il-12 Genes, Wilfred Emonyi Injera

All PhD Dissertations

Various strategies that block malaria transmission from an infected human host to a female Anopheline mosquito that involve killing of the blood fed mosquito have been studied as a potential strategy to control malaria. These include the immunization of animal hosts with either whole homogenized blood fed mosquito midguts or their extracts. In 1939, William Trager first demonstrated anti-vector immunity by immunizing guinea pigs and rabbits with extracts of the tick Dermacentor variabilis. This immunological targeting of tick midgut antigens led to the commercial development of a vaccine against Boophilus microplus ticks licenced in 1985.This study investigated the mosquitocidal effects …

Social Aggregation In Pea Aphids: Experiment And Random Walk Modeling, Christa Nilsen, John Paige, Olivia Warner, Benjamin Mayhew, Ryan Sutley, Matthew Lam '15, Andrew J. Bernoff, Chad M. Topaz

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

From bird flocks to fish schools and ungulate herds to insect swarms, social biological aggregations are found across the natural world. An ongoing challenge in the mathematical modeling of aggregations is to strengthen the connection between models and biological data by quantifying the rules that individuals follow. We model aggregation of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum. Specifically, we conduct experiments to track the motion of aphids walking in a featureless circular arena in order to deduce individual-level rules. We observe that each aphid transitions stochastically between a moving and a stationary state. Moving aphids follow a correlated random walk. …