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Applying Sustainable Land Use Development Studies To Sustainable Agriculture: Are The Conditions Ripe For A Successful Movement Toward Sustainable Agriculture?, Jullee Kim

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.

The New Woman's Home, Excerpt From Building Culture: Ernst May And The New Frankfurt Initiative, 1926-1931, Susan R. Henderson

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Chapter three of Building Culture, “The New Woman’s Home. Kitchens, Laundry, Furnishings,” discusses household culture and modernization. It begins with the Frankfurt Kitchen and its designer, Grete Lihotzky, and continues with a discussion of electricity and the architect Adolf Meyer, and its expansion with the example of the electric laundries in the Frankfurt settlements. The next segment is a discussion of new furniture design, small, inexpensive furniture that was an essential partner to contemporary small house design and was avidly researched in the Frankfurt offices. Designers here include Kramer, Cetto and Schuster.

Free Trade And Free Immigration: Why Domestic Competitive Injury Should Never Influence Government Policy, Richard A. Epstein

University of Chicago Law Review

No abstract provided.

Deference To Agency Statutory Interpretations First Advanced In Litigation? The "Chevron" Two-Step And The "Skidmore" Shuffle, Bradley George Hubbard

University of Chicago Law Review

No abstract provided.

Sweet Tooth Cookies, Amanda O'Connor

A with Honors Projects

No abstract provided.

Food Standards & Production Of Hospitality Restaurant Management, Mark Lavern Badeaux

A with Honors Projects

Paper discusses a variety of factors have been identified as contributing to a restaurant’s failure or success. Additional presentation evaluates the Restaurant Management program at Parkland College based on those factors.

Sdrc Update (Volume 5, Issue 1), Connie Jan Maraan

SDRC Publications

No abstract provided.

Food For Thought: The Effects Of Menu Descriptions And Plating Aesthetics On Consumer Ratings And Expectations, Nicole Noujaim

Theses & ETDs

Many factors affect consumer food preferences and ratings, including how the food item is described and presented pre-consumption. Previous research has also demonstrated that perceptions of liking are created before a food item is even tasted, and these expectations can change over the course of a meal. The current study examined how exposure to different menu descriptions (descriptive vs. plain) and different plating aesthetics (refined vs. crude) influenced consumer ratings and satisfaction. College students were given questionnaires to fill out after menu exposure, after plating exposure, and then post-consumption. Results confirmed previous findings in that the descriptive menu was better …

Diffsplice: The Genome-Wide Detection Of Differential Splicing Events With Rna-Seq, Yin Hu, Yan Huang, Ying Du, Christian F. Orellana, Darshan Singh, Amy R. Johnson, Anaïs Monroy, Pei-Fen Kuan, Scott M. Hammond, Liza M. Hammond, Scott H. Randell, Derek Y. Chiang, D. Neil Hayes, Corbin Jones, Yufeng Liu, Jan F. Prins, Jinze Liu

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The RNA transcriptome varies in response to cellular differentiation as well as environmental factors, and can be characterized by the diversity and abundance of transcript isoforms. Differential transcription analysis, the detection of differences between the transcriptomes of different cells, may improve understanding of cell differentiation and development and enable the identification of biomarkers that classify disease types. The availability of high-throughput short-read RNA sequencing technologies provides in-depth sampling of the transcriptome, making it possible to accurately detect the differences between transcriptomes. In this article, we present a new method for the detection and visualization of differential transcription. Our approach does …

Forage News [2013-01], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• Dr. Jimmy Henning to Open AFGC Conference
• Forages at KCA
• Heart of America Grazing Conference
• 2012 U.K. Forage Variety Results
• Missouri Farmers Fright Rise in Hay Thefts
• "Beef: The Real Health Food"
• More VALUE from Pastures in 2013
• Renovation: More Important in 2013
• Perennial Forages Benefit Soils, Other Crops, and Water Quality in Important Way
• JBS to Beef up Production from Grass-fed Brazil Herd

Getting To The Other Side: An Exploration Of The Head And Neck Cancer Treatment Experience, Heather M. Wallace

Theses and Dissertations--Gerontology

Diagnosis of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) presents a multifarious problem. Late stage diagnosis, uncertainty regarding appropriate clinical treatment, as well as the high potential for disfigurement and functional loss resulting in diminished quality of life, contributes to anxiety, stress, fear, and uncertainty throughout the cancer treatment experience. This qualitative study sought to explore the cancer treatment experience of adults with newly diagnosed HNSCC, including laryngeal, esophageal, and oral cancers. Study participants were recruited from the University of Kentucky Ear Nose and Throat Clinic in Lexington KY. Participants agreed to be interviewed after receipt of their cancer diagnosis …

The Buzz On Bees, Rebecca Ruiz

Lewis Honors College Capstone Collection

Apis mellifera, more commonly known as the honeybee, plays a pivotal role in the ecosystem and in the survival of the planet. Many do not understand, nor realize, that the honeybee offers a wide array of products and services besides sweet honey. Honeybees have become endangered at a time when their presence is vital and evidence indicates that they can be the means to a more sustainable future for our planet. Particularly focused on in this research are the ideas of honeybees’ essential presence in medical advances, their participation in global economics, and their involvement in the development of …

Schools In Society, Sherman Dorn

Educational and Psychological Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Complication Advice And Institutional Delivery In Asia, Victoria Costales

Public Health Theses

Strategies targeted at decreasing delays in care-seeking behavior and increasing use of skilled birth attendance and health care facility delivery help save maternal and neonatal lives. Counseling women on the danger signs of pregnancy during antenatal care (ANC) visits is one such strategy. This study aimed to examine the effect of pregnancy complication advice on the likelihood of institutional delivery as well as determine the factors that predict higher likelihood of advice receipt. Information from 74,863 mothers who received at least one ANC visit from the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys of 9 South and Southeast Asian countries were …

Health Survey Of Households Near Shale Gas Extraction Sites, Ilya B. Slizovskiy

Public Health Theses

Abstract-- The Marcellus formation supports an advanced rate of extraction of shale-based natural gas, particularly as a result of the rapid development of directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies. The confluence of these trends has spurred public concern about potential health impacts on residents that live in proximity to the putative environmental exposures related to the extraction activities, in largely rural communities of the Marcellus region.

A cross-sectional survey of 492 persons and 580 companion / backyard animals from 180 randomly selected households in an area of active unconventional natural gas drilling was conducted. Cluster analyses were performed to identify …

Doc 2013-01 Master Of Physician Assistant Practice (Mpap) Program, University Of Dayton. School Of Education And Allied Professions

Senate Documents

Constitution of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton, Academic Senate DOC 11-04

Effect Of Beef Heifer Development System On Adg, Reproduction, And Feed Efficiency During First Pregnancy, Adam F. Summers, T. L. Meyer, Stetson P. Weber Weber, Rick N. Funston

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

This study evaluated the effect of post-weaning development system on heifer ADG, reproductive performance, and subsequent feed efficiency as a pregnant heifer. Heifers were developed on dormant pasture and grazed corn residue or dormant pasture and placed in a drylot. The following winter, a subset of pregnant heifers were placed in a Calan Broadbent individual feeding system during late gestation. Drylot-developed heifers had greater BW from pre-breeding through pregnancy diagnosis and greater overall ADG during development. However, there was no difference in reproductive performance. Pre-calving BW, ADG, and G:F tended to be greater for drylot heifers. Heifers developed on corn …

Effects Of Corn Hybrid, Plant Density, And Harvest Time On Yield And Quality Of Corn Plants, Dirk B. Burken, Jana L. Harding, Adam L. Mcgee Gee, Thomas C. Hoegemeyer, Terry Klopfenstein, Galen E. Erickson

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

Corn plants were collected to determine the effects of hybrid and season length, plant density, and harvest timing on grain and whole corn plant DM yield and nutritive value. Although whole corn plant DM yield decreased with delayed harvest timing, whole corn plant TDN increased linearly due to increasinggrain concentration. Increasing plant density improved yields of grain and whole corn plant DM. This experiment suggests that hybrid and season length selection, planting density, and harvest timing affect whole corn plant DM yield and quality characteristics.

Statistics Used In The Nebraska Beef Report And Their Purpose

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

The purpose of beef cattle and beef product research at University of Nebraska–Lincoln is to provide reference information that represents the various populations (cows, calves, heifers, feeders, carcasses, retail products, etc.) of beef production. Obviously, the researcher cannot apply treatments to every member of a population; therefore, he/she must sample the population. The use of statistics allows the researcher and readers of the Nebraska Beef Report the opportunity to evaluate separation of random (chance) occurrences and real biological effects of a treatment. Following is a brief description of the majorstatistics used in the beef report. For a more detailed description …

Intimate Partner Violence And Mental Health Effects: A Population-Based Study Among Married Women In Karachi, Pakistan, Tazeen S. Ali, Ingrid Mogren, Gunilla Krantz

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is recognized all over the world for its association with mental health problems in women. In Pakistan, such violence occurs commonly, but detailed information on mental health effects is scarce. The purpose of this study is to focused on married couples in urban Karachi to investigate mental health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological violence perpetrated by husbands towards wives. Disclosure rates and health care-seeking behaviour were also investigated.
Method: This cross-sectional study involved 759 women between the ages of 25 and 60 years, selected using a multi-stage random sampling technique. The women …

Prevalence Of Perceived Heavy Postpartum Hemorrhage And Its Associated Factors Among Married Mothers In Squatter Settlements Of Karachi, Tazeen S. Ali, Fazal Ather

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Objectives; To estimate the prevalence of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) and identify its associated factors among the married women of 15-49 years, residingin the Karachi, Pakistan. Methodology: This cross-sectional survey was carried out in five squatter settlements of Karachi during 2000-2001. Information was collected regarding age, gravida, education, antenatal, natal and postnatal care, with perceived puerperal morbidities from 525 mothers, who were in their 42nd to 56th post delivery day. Univariate and multivariate analyses were computed using multiple logistic regression method. Results: The estimated prevalence for perceived PPH was 7.24%. Three hundred and ninety six (75.4 %) women received ante-natal …

Medication Cost And Utilization In Hospice Care: An Analysis Of 2007 Claims Data, Rachi Parekh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Objectives:

1. Describe patient-related and hospice-related characteristics such as gender, average length of hospice stay, primary diagnoses, average daily census, number of admissions per year, net operating revenues, inpatient unit (IPU) operating costs, and medication expenditures of hospices in Ohio and compare it with NHPCO data.

2. Identify and analyze therapeutic drug classes and medications with the most frequent utilization rates and largest percentage of expenditures in hospice care.

Method:

Hospice Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM) employ pharmacists to provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care services for patients under hospice care and one component of pharmacist provided services include comprehensive medication review. To …

Interactions 2013, Thomas J. Long School Of Pharmacy And Health Sciences

Interactions

In each issue of Interactions, the School’s annual magazine you will find stories about students, faculty and alumni from each of our disciplines. Learn about the ways our students, faculty and alumni are impacting their communities through health care outreach. Read about their research and how they are contributing to advances in patient care. Meet our Alumni of the Year and get to know our faculty.

Examining A Ripple Effect: Do Spouses’ Behavior Changes Predict Each Other’S Weight Loss?, Anna E. Schierberl Scherr, Kimberly Mcclure Brenchley, Amy A. Gorin

Psychology Faculty/Staff Publications

Background. Including spouses in obesity treatment has been found to promote weight loss. We assessed whether spouses’ diet and activity changes impacted each other’s weight loss when both members attended an active weight loss program (TOGETHER) or only the primary participant attended treatment (ALONE).

Methods. Heterosexual couples () enrolled in an 18-month randomized controlled weight loss trial were weighed and completed measures of dietary intake and physical activity at baseline and 6 months. We conducted dyadic data analyses using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model.

Results. Participants’ weight loss was not predicted by their partners’ behavior changes. However, partners’ weight loss was …

Anxiety In Disabling Osteoarthritis: Implications For Research And Practice, Ray Marks

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Use Of Patch Selection Models As A Decision Support Tool To Evaluate Mitigation Strategies Of Human–Wildlife Conflict, Sharon Baruch-Mordo, Colleen T. Webb, Stewart W. Breck, Kenneth R. Wilson

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Human-dominated landscapes offer spatially concentrated and reliable food resources that attract wildlife and lead to human–wildlife conflicts. Conflict management is often directed at humans (e.g., education) to reduce attractants, or foraging benefits to wildlife, or at wildlife (e.g., hazing) to increase foraging costs; but strategies can be expensive and ineffective. Because a key driver of conflict is the pursuit of food by wildlife, we used patch selection models, a dynamic, state-dependent modeling approach based on foraging theory, to assess how benefit reduction and cost increase resulting from conflict mitigation affect wildlife foraging decisions. We applied the patch selection models to …

The Effect Of Maternal Beliefs And Behavior On The Body Weight Status Of Preschool-Aged Children, Nicole Lynn Boucher

Wayne State University Dissertations

Early onset pediatric obesity has become a major health concern in the United States. Pediatric obesity can lead to childhood hypertension, type II diabetes, and orthopedic problems. Currently, in the United States one in seven low-income preschools are overweight or obese. One of the key contributing factors to early onset childhood obesity is how children are socialized to the eating and mealtime environment. Maternal feeding styles play an integral role in how children are socialized to the eating and mealtime environment.

The purpose of the this study was to determine the extent to which maternal beliefs and behavior regarding the …

Uab Magazine - Spring/Summer 2013, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

UAB Magazine

No abstract provided.

Courts Of Appeal And Colonialism In The British Caribbean: A Case For The Caribbean Court Of Justice, Ezekiel Rediker

Michigan Journal of International Law

In recent years, a public debate on law and the colonial legacy has engaged people of all walks of life in the English Speaking Caribbean (ESC), from judges and politicians to young people in the streets. Throughout the ESC, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC)—based in London and composed of British jurists—has been the highest court of appeal since the colonial era. In the past decade, however, Caribbean governments have sought greater control over their legal systems. In 2005, they created the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to supplant the British Privy Council as the Supreme Court for …

Ada News Convention Daily - 2013 Day 3, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

The ADA News Daily (also called the ADA News Convention Daily) is a special edition of the ADA News published each day during American Dental Association Annual Sessions.