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Nutrition, Appetite And Weight Loss In Elders Living In Long-Term Care Facilities, Karene Marie Goodman

Dissertations

Abstract Elders living in long-term care facilities often experience weight loss. Weight loss in elders has been shown to increase their risk of death. Existing research has identified numerous factors associated with appetite and weight loss in elders. Dementia, depression, acute and chronic illness, and medications have all been identified as potential causes of decreased appetite and weight loss in elders. Only a few nutritional and appetite assessment tools exist, and these tools are not widely used in long-term care facilities. The purpose of this descriptive study was to validate the Simplified Nutritional Appetite Questionnaire (SNAQ), an appetite assessment tool …

Optimization Of Acid Production In Food Waste Via Anaerobic Respiration, Charles Daniels, Raymond Red Corn, Abigail S. Engelberth Phd.

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, one third of all food produced in world is wasted; 1.63 * 10⁹ metric tons of nutrition is lost to transportation, contamination, or neglect every year (FAO 2013). This wasted food, however, could be repurposed as a substrate for microbial conversion into useful chemicals. This research is aimed at finding the optimal conditions for bacterial colonies to generate volatile fatty acids (VFAs): resources that are used as solvents, medicines, and chemical intermediates usually generated from petroleum based resources (Drumright et al., 2000) (Roscher 2000) (Kolt et al., 2007). …

Evaluating Contaminants Of Emerging Concern In Commercial Biosolid-Based Fertilizers, John Hemmerling, Michael L. Mashtare, Linda S. Lee

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

The production and popularity of commercially available biosolid-based fertilizers are increasing because of their economic, environmental, and plant nutrition benefits, particularly in urban and suburban areas. Because biosolid-based fertilizers are derived from waste water treatment plant residuals, we hypothesized that there is the potential for micropollutants to persist in these products. Their presence would be of particular concern due to their potential impact on human and ecological health and risk of bioaccumulation. This study involves quantifying contaminants of emerging concern in three biosolid-based fertilizers, and 2 non-biosolid-based fertilizers, a composted animal manure and an organic compost. Our extraction method employed …

Pengaruh Naungan Net Dan Interval Panen Terhadap Pertumbuhan Tanaman, Hasil, Dan Kualitas Hasil Buncis Cv. Kenya Di Jatinangor, Saphira Dechairani, Tino Mutiarawati Onggo, Wawan Sutari

Jurnal Kultivasi

Di daerah tropis seperti di Indonesia, intensitas cahaya dan temperatur udara yang tinggi menjadi masalah dalam penanaman buncis hasil introduksi dari daerah subtropis, umumnya tanaman buncis yang dimanfaatkan polong mudanya ditanam di dataran tinggi. Masalah dalam penanaman buncis dataran tinggi di dataran medium yang memiliki temperatur udara lebih tinggi dapat diatasi antara lain dengan penggunaan naungan net dan pengaturan interval panen. Percobaan ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari pengaruh naungan net dan interval panen yang dapat memberikan pertumbuhan, hasil dan kualitas hasil yang baik pada tanaman buncis Kenya. Percobaan ini dilaksanakan di Lahan Percobaan Laboratorium Kultur Terkendali Fakultas Pertanian Universitas Padjadjaran, Jatinangor …

Characterization Of Gait Patterns In Common Gait Rehabilitation Exercises, Jared Green, Elizabeth Debartolo, Kathleen Lamkin-Kennard

Annual Effective Access Technology Conference

Abstract - Gait training is an important part of recovery from stroke or surgery, or treatment for neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease or Multiple Sclerosis. A gait monitor that uses infrared sensing technology has been developed at RIT and proven to successfully monitor an individual's walking patterns over a variety of different terrain types.

Propsectus, August 6, 2014, Kaleb Schwaiger

Prospectus 2014

EBOLA VIRUS UNLIKELY TO SPREAD IN U.S.; City or tropics? Obama ponders where to put presidential library; Twin sisters turn mere mortals into mermaids; Tips to get ready for the new school year; EPA's limits can be met; Understanding the difference: curriculum and standards; Winona State football player passes away during practice; 'Guardians of the Galaxy' rockets to $94 million opening; Twenty years later, NIN and Soundgarden still rock

What Enables Size-Selective Trophy Hunting Of Wildlife?, Chris T. Darimont, K. Rosie Child

Big-Game and Trophy Hunting Collection

Although rarely considered predators, wildlife hunters can function as important ecological and evolutionary agents. In part, their influence relates to targeting of large reproductive adults within prey populations. Despite known impacts of sizeselective harvests, however, we know little about what enables hunters to kill these older, rarer, and presumably more wary individuals. In other mammalian predators, predatory performance varies with knowledge and physical condition, which accumulates and declines, respectively, with age. Moreover, some species evolved camouflage as a physical trait to aid in predatory performance. In this work, we tested whether knowledge-based faculty (use of a hunting guide with accumulated …

Vision 2020: An Analysis Of Policy Implementation And Agrarian Change In Rural Rwanda, Sterling Recker

Dissertations

In 2000, President Paul Kagame introduced a plan to alleviate poverty as well as to maintain political control over the policy process through a decentralized bureaucracy. Since adoption of Vision 2020 in 2000, Rwanda has been reforming its rural sector to commercialize agriculture, reduce pressures on land, and move the country into middle income status by the year 2020. In order to achieve the goals outlined in Vision 2020, the Government of Rwanda (GoR) adopted a policy of administrative decentralization in 2001 to facilitate the transition from subsistence to commercial agriculture. I am addressing two related questions: 1) How has …

"Having Our Say": Exploring The Processes And Feasibility Of A Community-Based Participatory Intergenerational Physical Activity Program For Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, Tiffany Lenell Young

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Over the past twenty years, the number of grandparents raising grandchildren has increased substantially. In many cases, raising grandchildren can be stressful and may aggravate pre-existing health conditions. Grandchildren in these kinship relationships often experience poor health outcomes as well. Typically, both grandparents and grandchildren do not engage in positive health behaviors. Thus, there is a need to develop intergenerational health promotion interventions for grandparents raising grandchildren. This study used the community-based participatory research approach to develop and implement an eight-week intergenerational program for kinship families. The specific goals of this descriptive study were to understand the process and feasibility …

Obesity In The United States, Kimberly Greenlee, Larry Pilgrim

Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Recipe Makeover: Finding Flavorful Healthy Alternatives For Traditional Foods, Rebecca Blubaugh

Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Plenary 2 - The Australian Early Development Index : Predictive Validity, Sally Brinkman

2009 - 2019 ACER Research Conferences

Plenary 2

Interior Design Student Wins National Scholarship, College Of Education And Human Development

Family and Consumer Sciences News

Miranda Thomaston, an interior design student from the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, has been named a winner of the 2014 Association of University Interior Designers (AUID) scholarship.

Set Kids On The Path To School Year Success With Tips From Uab Experts, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Amici Curiae Of Columbia Legal Services, The Children's Alliance, And The Washington Low Income Housing Alliance

Washington Supreme Court Documents

No abstract provided.

Bjc Today

BJC Today

No abstract provided.

Diagnosis-Specific Readmission Risk Prediction Using Electronic Health Data: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Courtney Hebert, Chaitanya Shivade, Randi Foraker, Jared Wasserman, Caryn Roth, Hagop Mekhjan, Stanley Lemeshow, Peter Embi

Dartmouth Scholarship

Background: Readmissions after hospital discharge are a common occurrence and are costly for both hospitals and patients. Previous attempts to create universal risk prediction models for readmission have not met with success. In this study we leveraged a comprehensive electronic health record to create readmission-risk models that were institution- and patient- specific in an attempt to improve our ability to predict readmission. Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study performed at a large midwestern tertiary care medical center. All patients with a primary discharge diagnosis of congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction or pneumonia over a two-year time period were …

Involvement And Labor Efficiency Of Rural Women In Agricultural Sector: A Study In Darrang District Of Assam (India), Ghana Kanta Sarma, Purabi Sarmah Baruah, Pabitra Kr. Bordoloi

Journal of International Women's Studies

Agriculture plays a very important role in the economic development of rural India. It is well known that the contribution of rural women in agricultural sectors is very significant. A study was conducted in the Darrang district of Assam with the objectives to explore the involvement of rural women in decision-making of different agricultural activities and to find out the labor efficiency of rural women in agricultural activities. Purposive sampling technique was used for selection of development blocks and random sampling technique was used for selection of villages in the study. The study revealed that in case of sericulture and …

The Earning Power Of Mothers And Children's Time Allocation In Lao Pdr, Sevinc Rende

Journal of International Women's Studies

In this paper I explore the relationship between a mother’s contribution to household income and her children’s work and school outcomes. Using household data from Lao PDR, I find that as a mother’s share of total household earnings increases, her children shift time away from school and wage work to work under parental control. The findings demonstrate that a mother’s short-term needs and interests may not always align with her children’s long-term interests, and work may become a contested terrain between mothers and children.

Tools For Educational Innovation, Jonathan Bacon, Angela Glascock, Adam C. Holden, Deborah Taylor

SIDLIT Conference

How does an instructor keep abreast of educational technology changes and developments? What tools, apps and add-ins are available and how can they be used innovatively? This session will cover a variety of resources and tools that answer these two questions plus address how to pick the best tools for your instructional environment.

Increasing Energetic Cost Of Biosynthesis During Growth Makes Refeeding Deleterious, Chen Hou

Biological Sciences Faculty Research & Creative Works

Diet restriction (DR) enhances animals' health maintenance, but refeeding reverses its beneficial effects. However, to what degree refeeding reverses the beneficial effects of DR remains controversial. Here, I develop a theoretical model for reconciling the results of refeeding studies and understanding the dynamic and reversible mechanism underlying the effects of diet on health from the energetic viewpoint. By illustrating the negative correlation between health maintenance and the energetic cost of growth in animals under different diet regimes, the model explains why, in some cases, refed animals have better health and live longer than freely fed controls. More importantly, the model …

The View From Lu Cooperative Extension, August 2014, Lincoln University Cooperative Extension

The View from LU Cooperative Extension

Volume 1, Issue 5

Checkup, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Checkup

No abstract provided.

Academic Affairs Division Newsletter, August 2014, San Jose State University

Academic Affairs Division Newsletter

No abstract provided.

2014-15 Graduate Bulletin

Graduate Bulletins

After 2003 the University of Dayton Bulletin went exclusively online. This copy was downloaded from the University of Dayton's website.

2014-2015 Bulletin

Undergraduate Bulletins

After 2003 the University of Dayton Bulletin went exclusively online. This copy was downloaded from the University of Dayton's website.

Somatic Intronic Microsatellite Loci Differentiate Glioblastoma From Lower-Grade Gliomas, Enusha Karunasena, Lauren J. Mciver, Brian R. Rood, Xiaowei Wu, Hongxiao Zhu, Jasmin H. Bavarva, Harold R. Garner

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

Genomic studies of glioma sub-types have amassed new disease specific mutations, yet these only partially explain how mutations are linked to predisposition or progression. We hypothesized that microsatellite variation could expand the understanding of glioma etiology. Furthermore, germline markers for gliomas are typically undetectable; therefore we also hypothesize that the predictability of cancer-associated microsatellite loci in germline DNA may support the current hypothesis of a glioma cell of origin.

In this study, “normal” germline exome sequenced DNA from the 1000 Genomes Project (n=390) were compared with exome sequences from germlines of subjects with WHO grade II and III lower-grade glioma …

Failure To Refinance, Benjamin J. Keys, Devin G. Pope, Jaren C. Pope

Kreisman Working Paper Series in Housing Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Habit Formation In Children: Evidence From Incentives For Healthy Eating, Joseph Price

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

Large set of field experiments designed to increase fruit/veggie consumption at school; main project is about the impact of incentives on healthy eating

Consumer Perceptions And Knowledge Of Genetically Modified Organisms In Belgium: A Case Study Of The Potato Event, Maggie Jo Pruitt

Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology Undergraduate Honors Theses

It is widely known that Europeans have the strongest resistance to genetically modified organisms (GMO). Despite biotechnology advancements in the United States and other countries, European Union (EU) policymakers continue to argue over market-driven GMO regulations. Because humans depend on agriculture for survival, they tend to be concerned with the fundamental risk of combining agricultural production and scientific/technological advancements. In 2011, scientists at a large research institution in Belgium planted a field trial of GM potatoes (during this time GM foods were not in the market). On May 29, an activist group arrived at the field and uprooted the potatoes. …