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Nutritional Management Post-Ai To Enhance Pregnancy Outcomes, S. L. Lake, R. Arias, P. Gunn, G. A. Bridges

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Effective replacement heifer development is a critical segment of the integrated management program in an efficient beef cow production system. The most critical factor determining the success of any heifer development program is nutrition. Most efforts are concentrated in providing the right amount and quality of feed to achieve gains from 1.5 to 2.0 lb/day, so heifers can reach 65% of their mature BW by the day of breeding. Approximately 80% of the U.S. cow-herds are spring calving, which means that producers utilizing estrous synchronization and AI are keeping their heifers in a feedlot environment until heifers are inseminated. Immediately …

To The Root Of The Curl: A Signature Of A Recent Selective Sweep Identifies A Mutation That Defines The Cornish Rex Cat Breed, Barbara Gandolfi, Hasan Alhaddad, Verena K. Affolter, Jeffrey Brockman, Jens Haggstrom, Shannon E. K. Joslin, Amanda L. Koehne, James C. Mullikin, Catherine A. Outerbridge, Wesley C. Warren, Leslie A. Lyons

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Development And Characterization Of A Chemically Defined Food For Drosophila, Wen-Chih Lee, Craig A. Micchelli

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Simultaneous Amplicon Sequencing To Explore Co- Occurrence Patterns Of Bacterial, Archaeal And Eukaryotic Microorganisms In Rumen Microbial Communities, Sandra Kittelmann, Henning Seedorf, William A. Walters, Jose C. Clemente, Rob Knight, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Peter H. Janssen

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Development And Validation Of The Digestive Function Assessment Instrument For Traditional Korean Medicine: Sasang Digestive Function Inventory, Misuk Lee, Na Young Bae, Minwoo Hwang, Han Chae

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Active Living Collaboratives In The United States: Understanding Characteristics, Activities, And Achievement Of Environmental And Policy Change, Jill S. Litt, Hannah L. Reed, Rachel G. Tabak, Susan G. Zieff, Amy A. Eyler, Rodney Lyn, Karin Valentine Goins, Jeanine Gustat, Nancy O'Hara Tompkins

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Cross-Country Review Of Public Primary Education In Rural Brazil, China, Indonesia, And Mexico: Suggestions For Policy And Practice Reforms In India, H Shin, R Iyengar, Monisha Bajaj

School of Education Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Introduction To Risk Management: Understanding Agricultural Risks, Production, Marketing, Financial, Legal, Human, Laurence Crane, Gene Gantz, Steve Isaacs, Doug Jose, Rod Sharp

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

This handbook is designed to improve the risk management skills of American farmers and ranchers. There is a broad array of established risk management tools ready to be used and new tools are always being developed. By learning about and using these tools, crop and livestock producers can build the confidence needed to deal with risk and exciting opportunities of the future.

Contents

Overview of risk management planning

Steps in risk management planning

Manging production risk

Managing marketing risk

Managing financial risk

Managaing legal rtisk

Managing human risk

Late Gestation Supplementation Of Beef Cows Differing In Body Condition Score: Effects On Cow And Calf Performance, D. W. Bohnert, L. A. Stalker, R. R. Mills, A. Nyman, S. J. Falck, R. F. Cooke

West Central Research and Extension Center, North Platte

A 2-yr study utilizing 120 mature, crossbred (Angus × Herford) cows/year, evaluated the influence of cow BCS and dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) supplementation during late gestation on cow performance and productivity of subsequent offspring. Treatments were arranged as a 2 × 2 factorial in a randomized complete block design with 2 BCS and with or without DDGS supplementation. Cows were nutritionally managed to enter the last trimester of gestation with a BCS of approximately 4 (LBCS) or 6 (HBCS) and were thereafter managed in a single herd (initial BCS were 4.4 and 5.7 for LBCS and HBCS treatments, …

Proso Millet (Panicum Miliaceum L.) Fermentation For Fuel Ethanol Production, Devin J. Rose, Dipak Santra

Panhandle Research and Extension Center

The objective of this research was to determine the conversion efficiency of proso millet to ethanol compared to corn in a bench-scale dry-grind procedure. Seven proso millet cultivars and six advanced breeding lines containing waxy starch were fermented with Saccharomyces cerevisiae and ethanol production was compared with normal corn and “highly fermentable” corn. The highly fermentable corn exhibited the highest fermentation efficiency (97.0 ± 1.4%). Among proso millet lines, those with the highest fermentation efficiencies were: Huntsman (85.9 ± 0.6%), 172-2-9 (90.8 ± 0.2%), 172-2-13 (85.1 ± 2.5%), and 182-4-24 (84.7 ± 2.1). Waxy proso millet lines resulted in higher …

Pinto Beans (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) As A Functional Food: Implications On Human Health, Cristiane R. S. Câmara, Carlos A. Urrea, Vicki Schlegel

Panhandle Research and Extension Center

Most foods are considered functional in terms of providing nutrients and energy to sustain daily life, but dietary systems that are capable of preventing or remediating a stressed or diseased state are classified as functional foods. Dry beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) contain high levels of chemically diverse components (phenols, resistance starch, vitamins, fructooligosaccharides) that have shown to protect against such conditions as oxidative stress, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and many types of cancer, thereby positioning this legume as an excellent functional food. Moreover, the United States has a rich dry bean history and is currently a top producer …

Anthropology, 2013-2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2013-2014 for the Bachelor's of Arts in Anthropology.

Effects Of Heat Stress On Oocyte Quality And Embryo Viability In Swine, Andrew Miller

Open Access Theses

Heat stress during oocyte maturation causes well-defined changes in the oocyte cytoplasm that leads to reduced developmental potential. Previous work has been done that supports this hypothesis, but the underlying reasons are still not fully understood. Our objective is to determine these underlying mechanisms that contribute to this reduction in overall development potential of the oocytes and the embryos. Oocytes underwent in vitro maturation (IVM) for 40-44 hours in one of two environments: 39°C (control), or 41°C (heat stress). The oocytes underwent multiple experiments: stage of meiosis after maturation, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) size, total amount of Ca2+ stored in the …

Chlorine Dioxide Gas Treatment Of Cantaloupe And Residue Analysis, Simran Kaur

Open Access Theses

Chlorine dioxide is a selective oxidant and powerful antimicrobial agent. Previous work has shown that treatment of cantaloupe with chlorine dioxide gas at 5 mg/L for 10 minutes results in a 4.6 and 4.3 log reduction of E. coli O157:H7 and L. monocytogenes respectively. A significant reduction (p

Current analytical methods for chlorine dioxide and chloroxyanions are only applicable to aqueous samples. Some of these methods have been used to determine surface residues in treated products by analyzing rinse-water. In order to quantify residues in the tissues of a more complex food matrix, while reducing interference from natural organic matter, …

Correlates Of Past Year Dental Health Visits Among Black Men: From The Black Men's Health Study Of Indiana, Shauna Spring Stapleton

Open Access Theses

Objective: This study aimed to examine correlates of past year dental health visits among Black Men of Indiana.

Methods: A 2011 health needs assessment was taken from a convenience sample of 1,444 Black men from 12 Indiana counties. Participants represented a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds. Utilizing logistic regression analysis, compensating for clustering by county, predisposing and enabling factors were explored to determine their correlation to dental health visits within the previous year. Predisposing factors included age, sex, marital status, educational level, and employment status. Enabling factors included household income level, health insurance, place of sick care, smoking status, self-rated …

Impact Of High Calcium Intake From Calcium Carbonate Or Dairy On Cardiovascular Function, Coronary Artery Calcification And Coronary Artery Disease Burden In Ossabaw Miniature Swine, Alyssa K. Phillips

Open Access Theses

Recent secondary analyses have associated supplemental calcium use with increased risk for myocardial infarction and cardiovascular-related death in healthy, older adults. Subsequent concern over the safety of calcium supplements has spurred a calcium controversy, because calcium is a shortfall essential nutrient that is critical for bone health and a mainstay of osteoporosis prevention and treatment. The proposed mechanism by which calcium intake may detriment cardiovascular health is through the acceleration of coronary artery calcification (CAC), a clinical indicator of coronary artery disease (CAD) that has been associated with mortality risk. However, causal evidence to support this hypothesis is lacking. Determining …

Hare And Tortoise: How Do Price Change Patterns Affect Propensity To Book, Zhuoyang Li

Open Access Theses

With an increasing using of online booking, hotel room rate changing information becomes nearly transparent to consumers. And this trend encourages deal-seeking consumer behaviors, which are based on price change information. So hotels can influence consumers' propensity to book through managing price changes. The present study aims at examining consumers' propensity to book in a more realistic context by introducing two conditions: different price changing patterns and interaction between price-moving trends and price patterns. It is important for hotel managers to understand the impact of different price change trends and patterns because price changes can directly affect consumer perception and …

Engaging With First Responders To Prevent Falls In Older Adults, Ted Peterson, Ruth Ramsey, Monica Fernandez, Anita Hin, Chelsea Prado, Patricia Reyes

Collected Faculty Scholarship

In order to further explore the circumstances of falls in the City of Novato’s older adults age 60 and over Novato Fire Protection District (NFPD) partnered with Dominican University Occupational Therapy Department to conduct a study with the support of County of Marin Mental Health Services Act funds. The following were the goals of this study:

1. Identify fall risk factors in community-dwelling older adults.
2. Understand the experiences of older adults who have fallen.
3. Determine whether there is a relationship between falls and depression in older adults.
4. Examine first responder experiences with fall-related calls in older adults.
5. Identify approaches to prevent …

Proline Mechanisms Of Stress Survival, Xinwen Liang, Lu Zhang, Sathish Kumar Natarajan, Donald F. Becker

Department of Biochemistry: Faculty Publications

Significance: The imino acid proline is utilized by different organisms to offset cellular imbalances caused by environmental stress. The wide use in nature of proline as a stress adaptor molecule indicates that proline has a fundamental biological role in stress response. Understanding the mechanisms by which proline enhances abiotic/biotic stress response will facilitate agricultural crop research and improve human health. Recent Advances: It is now recognized that proline metabolism propels cellular signaling processes that promote cellular apoptosis or survival. Studies have shown that proline metabolism influences signaling pathways by increasing reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation in the mitochondria …

No-Pharmacological Intervention: Pomegranate Juice For The Management Of Hypertension And The Improvement Of Cardiovascular Health, Konstantinos Tzimalos, Michael N. Doumas, Vasilios Athyros

Medicine Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Highlights From The Functional Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Associated With Human Muscle Size And Strength Or Famuss Study, Linda S. Pescatello, Joseph M. Devaney, Monica J. Hubal, Paul D. Thompson, Eric P. Hoffman

Genomics and Precision Medicine Faculty Publications

The purpose of the Functional Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Associated with Human Muscle Size and Strength study or FAMuSS was to identify genetic factors that dictated the response of health-related fitness phenotypes to resistance exercise training (RT). The phenotypes examined were baseline muscle strength and muscle, fat, and bone volume and their response to RT. FAMuSS participants were 1300 young (24 years), healthy men (42%) and women (58%) that were primarily of European-American descent. They were genotyped for ~500 polymorphisms and completed the Paffenbarger Physical Activity Questionnaire to assess energy expenditure and time spent in light, moderate, and vigorous intensity habitual …

Children With Special Health Care Need’S Association Of Passive Tobacco Smoke Exposure And Dental Caries: 2007 National Survey Of Children’S Health, R Constance Wiener

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine a relationship between passive tobacco smoke exposure (secondhand and third hand tobacco smoke exposure) and dental caries in Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) ages 0-17 years.

Method: This study used data from the 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health involving 17,901 CSHCN. Telephone survey data were used to determine recent caries experience and passive tobacco smoke exposure (secondhand and third hand tobacco smoke exposure). Recent caries was defined as a positive response to if CSHCN had “decayed teeth or cavities within the past 6 months.” Passive smoke was defined …

Obesity And Preference-Weighted Quality Of Life Of Ethnically Diverse Middle School Children: The Healthy Study, Roberto P. Trevino, Trang H. Pham, Sharon Edelstein

GW Biostatistics Center

No abstract provided.

Himmelfarb Library Annual Report 2013, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Annual Report

No abstract provided.

Department Of Education: Fy 2013 Annual Report, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Department of Education

No abstract provided.

Snake Oil Salesman Or Purveyors Of Knowledge: Off-Label Promotions And The Commercial Speech Doctrine, Constance E. Bagley, Joshua Mitts, Richard J. Tinsley

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Urinformed Fall 2013, Urinformed

URInformed: The URI Employees' Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Annual Report Honors Program And Visiting Scholars Committee 2012-2013, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

No abstract provided.

Refreshing Information Literacy: Learning From Recent British Information Literacy Models, Justine Martin

Library Services Publications

Models play an important role in helping practitioners implement and promote information literacy. Over time models can lose relevance with the advances in technology, society, and learning theory. Practitioners and scholars often call for adaptations or transformations of these frameworks to articulate the learning needs in information literacy development. This study analyzes four recently published models from the United Kingdom. The initial findings were presented in a report for an ACRL taskforce reviewing the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. This article presents complementary, yet distinct findings from the same dataset that focus on reoccurring themes for information literacy …