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Using Experiential And Collaborative Methods With Undergraduates And Older Persons As Part Of An Introduction To Gerontology Course, Amy Ramsey, A. Nancy Mendoza, Joyce Weil

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

This study examines an Introduction to Gerontology course for undergraduate students that integrates experiential and collaborative learning experiences as part of a general course requirement. Experiential learning encourages students to go outside of the classroom and learn about aging from an older person in a field setting. The collaborative group approach is designed to have peers work together in the course. This study used qualitative methods to examine undergraduates’ learning experiences as a result of participation in a multiple-interview and groupwork-based project through their enrollment in the Introduction to Gerontology course. Content analysis was used to analyze multiple sources of …

Target Shooting As A Serious Leisure Pursuit–An Exploratory Study Of The Motivations Driving Participant Engagement, David Spencer Martin, Douglas Murray, Martin A. O'Neill, Martin Maccarthy, Jason Gogue

Department of Nutrition and Food Studies Scholarship and Creative Works

The current study is an attempt to better understand the motivations of consumers that engage in target shooting as a serious leisure activity. The instrument design was based on the Leisure Satisfaction Scale and the Leisure Motivation Scale. A total of 5502 usable surveys were collected utilising the Internet and a website related to gun ownership and target shooting. Exploratory in nature, results indicated that three variables in particular, Escapism, Social Interaction and Self-Actualisation, were primary motivators when it comes to engagement in target shooting as a serious leisure pursuit. These findings have important implications to the target-shooting community, and …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern University Hosts Nutrition Training to Reverse Childhood Obesity

2014-July-03-Etsu’S Lowe Receives Grant For Healthy Opportunities At Local School, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

How To Eat To Live: Black Nationalism And The Post-1964 Culinary Turn, Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Study the South

Beginning in the late 1960s, an increasing number of black food reformers rejected, or at least complicated, what they regarded as standard American food practices. They asserted a separate black national identity and a competing value system. Culinary black nationalists did not conceive of food decisions as a series of trivial personal consumer choices but rather as an arena for communal activism. The construction of black nationalist foodways was both an evolutionary process and a dialectical one. Radical food reformers analyzed white-owned eating establishments and dominant American foodways in opposition to southern, regional cuisine and in contrast to a vegetarian-inclined …

July 2, 2014 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Volume 51, Number 46: July 02, 2014, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Are Gopher Tortosies (Gopherus Polyphemus Daudin) Comapatible With Cows?, Thomas William Hentges

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Many Gopher Tortoise populations are in steep decline throughout Florida, and various measures have been attempted to curb the trend. One such measure is to relocate tortoises to protected recipient sites on private lands. The majority of private lands in Florida are used for cattle, however, production and the effect of cattle production on tortoises is not known. Here, I tested six parameters of tortoise behavior by monitoring 1403 gopher tortoises released at the Barthle Brothers Ranch, Pasco County Florida, between August 2009 and December 2012. The parameters tested were (1) burrow density, (2) burrow spacing, (3) burrow relocation, (4) …

Metabolomics Analysis Identifies Intestinal Microbiota-Derived Biomarkers Of Colonization Resistance In Clindamycin-Treated Mice, Robin L.P. Jump, Myreen Tomas, Abhishek Deshpande, Curtis J. Donskey

Faculty Scholarship

Background: The intestinal microbiota protect the host against enteric pathogens through a defense mechanism termed colonization resistance. Antibiotics excreted into the intestinal tract may disrupt colonization resistance and alter normal metabolic functions of the microbiota. We used a mouse model to test the hypothesis that alterations in levels of bacterial metabolites in fecal specimens could provide useful biomarkers indicating disrupted or intact colonization resistance after antibiotic treatment. Methods: To assess in vivo colonization resistance, mice were challenged with oral vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus or Clostridium difficile spores at varying time points after treatment with the lincosamide antibiotic clindamycin. For concurrent groups of …

Water Current, Volume 46, No. 3, Summer 2014

Water Current Newsletter

Partnership of UNL, Private Firm Works to Clean Contaminated Groundwater

USGS Grant to Help Fund Research into Mobilization of Groundwater

Meet the Faculty

From the Director

WRAP Discusses University Advancements, Water Sustainability Fund

Have Your Private Well Water Tested Now

Water Center Begins in 1964, Leaps Forward in 1970s and 1980s

Water Resources Planning and Management

Nebraska Water Center Directors

Current Faculty and Staff of the Nebraska Water Center and NU Water Sciences

Annual Water Tours

Summer Water and Natural Resources Tour

Annual Water Conference Topics

Water Seminar Series Topics

Legacies of the Nebraska Water Center

Water Sciences Laboratory.....a Cutting-Edge …

News Capsule, Academy Of Student Pharmacists - University Of The Pacific

News Capsule

No abstract provided.

A Study To Determine Student Perceptions Of The Cal Poly Veterinary Clinic, Fallon Bliss Sheridan

Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine the important benefits of Cal Poly Veterinary Clinic (CPVC) and establish areas of interest for the students at the CPVC. The CPVC is a student run veterinary clinic that exposes students to teachable hands-on veterinary experiences by addressing the needs of animals on campus as well as animals in the San Luis Obispo.

This study thoroughly investigated the student who have taken or are currently taking any of the five courses taught at the CPVC. The research was accomplished through a survey questionnaire. The student questionnaire was conducted by the researcher at …

Cultivatingbigideas, July 2014, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Technology Development Foundation

Cultivating Big Ideas

No abstract provided.

Tooth Loss Strongly Associates With Malnutrition In Chronic Kidney Disease, Efthimia Effie Ioannidou, Helen Swede

UCHC Articles - Research

Background

In chronic kidney disease (CKD), inadequate nutritional intake, inflammation, and increased oxidative stress have been the major contributing factors in malnutrition pathogenesis. However, there is still a paucity of evidence assessing the magnitude of the effect of tooth loss on malnutrition in CKD populations. The authors hypothesize that among patients with CKD, tooth loss may affect nutritional status, using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1988 to 1994 (NHANES III).

Methods

Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was estimated based on cystatin C levels using the relevant equation. Urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (albuminuria) was calculated in milligrams per gram with a …

Physical Activity And Sedentary Behaviors Associated With Risk Of Progression From Gestational Diabetes Mellitus To Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Prospective Cohort Study, Wei Bao, Deirdre K. Tobias, Katherine Bowers, Jorge Chavarro, Allan Vaag, Louise Groth Grunnet, Marin Strom, James Mills, Aiyi Liu, Michele Kiely, Cuilin Zhang

Publications and Research

Importance: Women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are at substantially increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The identification of important modifiable factors could help prevent T2DM in this high-risk population.

Objective: To examine the role of physical activity and television watching and other sedentary behaviors, and changes in these behaviors in the progression from GDM to T2DM.

Design, Setting, and Participants: Prospective cohort study of 4554 women from the Nurses' Health Study II who had a history of GDM, as part of the ongoing Diabetes & Women's Health Study. These women were followed up from …

U Of Mn, Extension - Food To Institution Survey, Ryan Pesch

Center for Small Towns

This project worked with the U of M Extension – Center for Family Development on implementing a survey measuring the quantity, frequency and types of food that food service units in health and education institutions order. Rojas' research informed an Extension analysis on the capacity for local foods to be utilized for these meals.

Los Baños Times, Vol. 34, No. 6, College Of Development Communication, University Of The Philippines Los Baños

Los Baños Times

No abstract provided.

Registration Of ‘Ci0947bmr’ Sorghum, O. R. Portillo, R. Clara-Valencia, J. Ramírez, R. Estebez, M. Hernández, A. Morán, R. Obando, N. Gutiérrez, R. Tinoco-Mora, N. De Gracia, D. Herrera, Luis Orlindo Tedeschi, W. L. Rooney

INTSORMIL Scientific Publications

The sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] cultivar CI0947bmr (Reg. No. CV-137, PI 672153) was jointly developed and released by the Centro Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria y Forestal (CENTA) research program in El Salvador and the Texas A&M Agrilife Research sorghum breeding program in 2013. CI0947bmr is a brown midrib (bmr), dual-purpose sorghum selected for productivity in Central American environments. CI0947bmr was developed from a pedigree breeding program, and it was derived from a BC₁F₂ population of the pedigree B03292bmr/Tortillero//Tortillero. All generation advancement and selection were completed in San Andres, El Salvador. To confirm performance …

Healthy You, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Healthy You

No abstract provided.

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

Utah State Magazine, Summer 2014, Utah State University

Utah State Magazine

The quarterly magazine for friends and alumni of Utah State University.

Magnet Attractions, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Magnet Attractions

No abstract provided.

Alumni Journal, Bob Woods, Laurie Taishoff, Rick Burton, N. Lester Stoddard, Rob Enslin, David Staller, Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro, Amy Speach, Christine Yackel

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Wpa News 94 (2014), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (Summer 2014), number 94

Published by the World Pheasant Association

The Fire-Oak Literature Of Eastern North America: Synthesis And Guidelines, Patrick D. Brose, Daniel C. Dey, Thomas A. Waldrop

Joint Fire Science Program Synthesis Reports

Guidelines for using prescribed fire to regenerate and restore upland oak forests, woodlands, and savannas in eastern North America were developed by synthesizing the results of more than 100 scientific publications. The first four chapters provide background information on the values of oak ecosystems, eastern fire history, oak’s adaptations to fire, and the findings of fire-oak research conducted over the past 50 years. The final chapter synthesizes that background information into guidelines that explain how to use prescribed fire to facilitate oak seedling establishment, release oak reproduction from competing mesophytic hardwoods, and rehabilitate open oak woodlands, oak savannas, and scrub …

2014 July 1 - Medical Student Education Committee Minutes, Medical Student Education Committee, East Tennessee State University

Medical Student Education Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Two Essays On Large Agricultural Producer Buying Behaviors, Jacqueline K. Holland

Open Access Theses

The trend of consolidation of large farms into high volume operations has continued over the past 30 years. Large farm management is a juggling act of a variety of biological processes, financial management, technology adaptation, and human resource development activities. This research looks to provide insights into the underlying management psychology of those large farmers to serve not only as a benchmark for other producers, but to provide customer information to agribusinesses so these firms can strengthen their relationships with their large farmer customers. The first part of this analysis will use Best-Worst modeling to examine five predetermined success factors …

Insites, 2014, Utah State University

inSites

Magazine of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

Impact, Summer 2014, College Of Liberal Arts

College of Liberal Arts Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Imperative For Diversity In A Transpersonal Psychology Of The Whole Person (Editor's Introduction), Glenn Hartelius

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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