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Factors For Recurrent Injuries In Victims Of Suspected Non-Accidental Trauma: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Katherine Deans, Jonathan D. Thackeray, Johnathan I. Groner, Jennifer N. Cooper, Peter Minneci

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

Background

Many children who are victims of non-accidental trauma (NAT) may be repeatedly evaluated for injuries related to maltreatment. The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors for repeated injuries in children with suspected NAT.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study using claims data from a pediatric Medicaid accountable care organization. Children with birth claims and at least one non-birth related claim indicating a diagnosis of NAT or skeletal survey in 2007–2011 were included. Recurrent events were defined as independent episodes of care involving an urgent/emergent care setting that included a diagnosis code specific for child abuse, …

Bipolar Disorder: A Pharmacotherapy Management Overview, Huong Le, Tina Pham, Laura Tsu

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

This home-study CPE activity has been developed to educate pharmacists on bipolar disorder and its management using non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic therapies.

Ethics Consultations And Conflict Engagement In Health Care, Charity Scott

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

This article explores the intersection of two professional fields-bioethics and clinical ethics consultation in health care on one hand, and alternative dispute resolution ("ADR") and conflict management on the other-which until recent years remained relatively unknown to each other. It marries the literatures and lessons of these two fields in order to promote the quality of ethics consultations in hospitals and other health care organizations.

Increasingly, health care ethics committees and consultants acknowledge the need to employ the frameworks, approaches, and tools of good conflict management to do their work effectively. Similarly, conflict specialists and ADR professionals are becoming increasingly …

The Role Of The Head Teacher In Ensuring Public Retention Through School Feeding Programme: A Case Study Of A Government Aided Primary School In Uganda, Mugabi Milton

Master of Education

School feeding programme has been used as an intervention by poor countries to relieve hunger among school going age children and as an instrument for achieving millennium development goals. It has been claimed that SFPs increase school enrolment, class participation and retention of pupils in primary schools targeting low social economic families and schools that face poor attendance and enrolment of pupils. Thus the purpose of this study was to investigate roles of the head teacher in ensuring pupils retention through SFP in a rural government aided primary school in Kabale district, South Western Uganda. The study was conducted using …

Comparison Of Bioproduct Quality From Vermiconversion Of Spent Pleurotus Sajor-Caju Compost And Commercial Livestock Excreta, A. Abu Bakar, S. M.S., N.Z. Mahmood, N. Abdullah

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

No abstract provided.

Comparison Of Fetal Bovine Serum And Human Platelet Lysate In Cultivation And Differentiation Of Dental Pulp Stem Cells Into Hepatic Lineage Cells, P. Vasanthan, N. Gnanasegaran, V. Govindasamy, A.N. Abdullah, P. Jayaraman, V.S. Ronald, S. Musa, N.H. Abu Kasim

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

The scarcity of organs for liver transplant is a major pressure point of liver transplantation. Hence, generating hepatocytes may provide an alternative choice for therapeutic applications. At present, dental pulp stem cell (SCDs) is an emerging source in regenerative medicine. However, existing protocols for cell culture requires fetal bovine serum (FBS) as a nutritional supplement and may carry the risk of transmitting diseases. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to examine the efficacy of human platelet lysate (HPL) as a substitute for FBS in terms of proliferation and differentiation of SCDs into hepatic lineage cells. The result showed that HPL …

Healthful Effects Of Probiotics Isolated From Home-Made Food Sources, M. Kazemipoor

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Probiotics are live bacteria which are similar to beneficial microorganisms found in the human gut. They are also called “beneficial/good bacteria”. Consumption of probiotics helps in improving the balance and activity of the intestinal and urogenital micro flora which will further solve digestion and a lot of related health problems. They can also prevent osteoporosis and constipation and help to improve digestibility, immunity, production and absorption of vitamins and minerals, gut motility, development and growth. Their other crucial values include anti-candida, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-mutagenic, anti-tumor, anti-cancer and anti-allergic activities. In one word, probiotics make feeling of well-being. Today, probiotics have …

Impact Of Aspartate And Serine On Mouse Embryo Development In Vitro, J. Ali, N. Ali

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Attempts to improve in vitro culture conditions of early embryos must determine the nutritional requirement of individual nutrient components that impact embryo development in vitro. The findings of the present research effort is to assist elucidate the effect of two amino acids on embryo development. Amino acids are crucial for protein synthesis, energy metabolism and for its role as osmolytes

Nickel(Ii) Complex Of Polyhydroxybenzaldehyde N4-Thiosemicarbazone Exhibits Anti-Inflammatory Activity By Inhibiting Nf-Κb Transactivation, H.B. Shawish, W.Y. Wong, Y.L. Wong, S.W. Loh, C.Y. Looi, P. Hassandarvish, A.Y.L. Phan, W.F. Wong, H. Wang, I.C. Paterson, C. Kwee

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Background The biological properties of thiosemicarbazone have been widely reported. The incorporation of some transition metals such as Fe, Ni and Cu to thiosemicarbazone complexes is known to enhance its biological effects. In this study, we incorporated nickel(II) ions into thiosemicarbazone with N4-substitution groups H3L (H; H3L1, CH3; H3L2, C6H5; H3L3 and C2H5; H3L4) and examined its potential anti-inflammatory activity. Methodology/Principal Findings Four ligands (1–4) and their respective nickel-containing complexes (5–8) were synthesized and characterized. The compounds synthesized were tested for their effects on NF-κB nuclear translocation, pro-inflammatory cytokines secretion and NF-κB transactivation activity. The active compound was further evaluated …

Polymorphisms In Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Gene And Risk Of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma In A Multi-Ethnic Population, S. Sujatha, G.G. Gan, S.M. Zain, B.S. Haerian, P.C. Bee, L.H. Lian, K.M. Chang, T.C. Ong, Z. Mohamed

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

An imbalance in folate metabolism can adversely affect DNA synthesis and methylation systems which can lead to susceptibility to non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). Whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and their haplotypes in the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) are associated with NHL, remain inconclusive. We investigated the association between MTHFR C677T and A1298C SNPs and NHL risk in a population which is made up of Malay, Chinese and Indian ethnic subgroups. A total of 372 NHL patients and 722 controls were genotyped using the Sequenom MassARRAY platform. Our results of the pooled subjects failed to demonstrate significant association between the MTHFR C677T and …

A Cross-Sectional Study On Medications Used By Pregnant Women: Any Safety Concern?, S.C. Siew, V.K. Jey, S.Z. Omar

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Background: Medication use during pregnancy is widespread and should be considered as a public health concern. This study was conducted to determine the types and safety of medications used by pregnant women. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on pregnant women who attended the antenatal clinic of a major teaching hospital in Kuala Lumpur. Data was collected via face-to- face interviews using a structured questionnaire from January to April 2013. Results: Of the 500 respondents, 62% (95% confidence interval, CI: 57.7%, 66.3%) used at least one medication during their pregnancy while 30.8% (95% CI: 26.8%, 34.8%) took the medications during …

Novel Anti Reflux Bariatric Surgery: Laparoscopic Revision Of Gastric Band To Nissen Fundoplication And Sleeve Gastrectomy, E.H. Pok, W.J. Lee

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

In this video we present the case of a 32-year old lady without co-morbidity (BMI 35kg/m2) presented with severe gastro-oesophageal reflux (GERD) having previously undergone an laparoscopic gastric banding in 2011 (original BMI 34kg/m2) to aid weight loss. The barium swallow demonstrated impaired motility in the entire oesophagus with gastro-oesophageal reflux to the level of the mid-oesophagus. Although Roux-en-Y gastric bypass would be an ideal revisional procedure for GERD but she considered it was too drastic procedure for weight loss with risk of long term complications. Therefore, a novel anti-reflux sleeve gastrectomy with combination of Nissen fundoplication and sleeve gastrectomy …

Three Comments On Paternalism In Public Health Response, Yofi Tirosh

Connecticut Law Review

This Article offers three critical observations concerning the debates surrounding paternalism in public health. First, the assessment of paternalistic health-promoting policies stops at efficacy considerations and fails to consider the possibility that such policies may infringe basic rights. Second, discussions on health and paternalism are not sufficiently context-specific, as they tend to classify policies according to their degree of paternalism rather than according to the often unique characteristics of each risky behavior. And third, debates on public health and paternalism fail to address background structural conditions that may change our understanding of whether paternalistic means are at all needed.

Con Respeto: A Conceptual Model For Building Healthy Community-University Partnerships Alongside Mexican Migrant Families, Miguel Zavala, Patricia A. Pérez, Alejandro González, Anna Díaz Villela

Education Faculty Articles and Research

In this paper we grapple with the question of how healthy community and university partnerships can be formed in order to support migrant students’ access to higher education. Employing autoethnographic and narrative research, and drawing from our work within the context of the migrant family conference at California State University, Fullerton from 2011 to 2013, we outline a conceptual model for building healthy partnerships. The first section of this paper offers a general overview of the literature on community-university engagement and collaboration as well as provides background information about the migrant farmworker community. The next section puts forward a new …

Litter Deposition And Nitrogen Return In Rotationally Stocked Smooth Bromegrass Pastures, John A. Guretzky, Walter H. Schacht, Ana B. Wingeyer, Terry J. Klopfenstein, Andrea K. Watson

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Understanding how management systems impact nutrient cycling is important to pasture sustainability. From 2010 to 2011, we investigated how supplementation of beef cattle (Bos taurus) with corn (Zea mays L.) dried distillers grains plus solubles (DDGS) on unfertilized, rotationally stocked smooth bromegrass (Bromus inermis Leyss.) pasture (SUPP) affected the litter pool, residual herbage mass, litter deposition, and litter quality relative to unsupplemented beef cattle rotationally stocked on unfertilized control (CONT) and N-fertilized (FERT) smooth bromegrass pastures. As hypothesized based on management for greater herbage mass and animal demand during the grazing season, litter deposition was 48% …

Comparative Digestibility By Cattle Versus Sheep: Effect Of Forage Quality, S. A. Soto-Navarro, R. Lancaster, C. Sankey, B. M. Capitan, B. P. Holland, L. A. Balstad, C. R. Krehbiel

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

The objective was to determine the effect of forage quality on apparent total tract digestibility and ruminal fermentation in cattle versus sheep. Five yearling English crossbred (Hereford × Angus) steers (440.4 ± 35.6 kg of initial BW) and 5 yearling whiteface (Rambouillet × Columbia × Debouillet) wethers (44.4 ± 4.6 kg of initial BW), each fitted with a ruminal cannula, were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 forage sources within ruminant specie, and the study was conducted over 3 periods. For forage source, both animal and period served as the blocking factor with all forage sources represented once within each …

Effects Of Beef Production System On Animal Performance And Carcass Characteristics, C. L. Maxwell, C. R. Lopez, B. K. Wilson, B. T. Johnson, B. C. Bernhard, C. F. O'Neill, D. L. Vanoverbeke, G. G. Mafi, D. L. Step, C. J. Richards

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

The objective of this study was to evaluate conventional (CONV) and natural (NAT) beef production systems from annual pasture through finishing through grazing. Beef steers (n = 180, initial BW = 250 ± 19 kg) were assigned randomly to 2 treatments in the pasture phase. Steers were implanted with 40 mg of trenbolone acetate (TBA), 8 mg estradiol, and 29 mg tylosin tartrate (CONV), or received no implant (NAT). Steers on the 2 treatments grazed wheat or cereal rye for 109 d. Conventional steers had an 18.5% improvement in ADG (1.22 vs. 1.03 kg/d, P < 0.01) and a heavier final BW (385 vs. 366 kg, P < 0.01) compared with NAT steers. Following the pasture phase, steers (n = 160 steers, 5 steers/pen, 8 pens/treatment) were assigned to a 2 × 2 factorial in the feedlot phase. Production system (NAT vs. CONV) was maintained from the pasture phase, and the second factor was 7 vs. 12% low-quality roughage (DM basis, LOW vs. HIGH). During finishing, CONV steers were given 120 mg of TBA and 24 mg estradiol at processing, fed monensin and tylosin, and fed zilpaterol hydrochloride for the last 20 d of the experiment. There were no program × roughage level interactions (P > 0.07). The CONV steers ate …

Short-Term Effects Of Lower Oil Dried Distillers Grains With Solubles In Laying Hen Rations, Sheila E. Scheideler, Kathy Hanford, Brett Kreifels

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Extraction of oil from dried distillers grains has become a common practice among US ethanol producers. The valuable oil has been diverted to markets other than poultry feed, leaving new dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) products higher in fiber and purportedly lower in ME. This study compared 3 DDGS products with 10.3, 7.3, or 5.2% ether extract, respectively, with a corn-soy control ration in young Bovan laying hens for a feeding period from 20 to 33 wk of age. The DDGS was fed at the rate of 20% of the ration. Lower oil content of DDGS had no effect …

High Prevalence Of Dissociative Amnesia And Related Disorders In Immigrated People, Angelica Staniloiu, Hans J. Markowitsch

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Across various cultures, dissociative amnesic disorders have been shown to be triggered by psychological stress or trauma. In immigrant populations, stressful experiences can arise during pre-emigration, migration or post-migration phase. Preliminary data suggest that stresses related to various phases of migration and acculturation could trigger dissociative amnesic disorders via a dysregulation of hormonal stress responses. These findings are highly relevant in the era of increased globalization and call for culturally sensitive approaches, in order to accurately diagnose and optimally manage these conditions in the future.

The Hang-Up With Hamburg: How Center For Food Safety V. Hamburg Will Alter The Food Industry, Joella Roland

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.

Uri Undergraduate And Graduate Course Catalog 2014-2015, University Of Rhode Island

URI Course Catalogs Archive

This is a downloadable PDF version of the University of Rhode Island course catalog.

Legislating Corporate Social Responsibility: Expanding Social Disclosure Through The Resource Extraction Disclosure Rule, Thea Reilkoff

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

Breastfeeding Knowledge, Practice, Attitudes, And Influencing Factors: Findings From A Selected Sample Of Breastfeeding Mothers In Bemidji, Minnesota, Hadeel Adnan Tanash

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Breastfeeding is generally considered by health professionals as the ideal feeding practice for infants. It is the first communication pathway between the mother and her infant. This study was designed to describe breastfeeding knowledge, attitudes, practice and influencing factors among breastfeeding mothers in Bemidji, MN. This cross-sectional study allowed the researcher to determine trends and other information about the sample in the Bemidji area. The participants for this study were breastfeeding mothers who gave a birth at Sanford Health located in Bemidji, MN. A written data collection instrument containing forty nine questions was used to collect data. The findings of …

Transparently Opaque: Understanding The Lack Of Transparency In Insurance Consumer Protection, Daniel Schwarcz

Articles

Consumer protection in most domains of financial regulation centers on transparency. Broadly construed, transparency involves making relevant information available to consumers as well as others who might act on their behalf, such as academics, journalists, newspapers, consumer organizations or other market watchdogs. By contrast, command and control regulation that affirmatively limits financial firms’ products or pricing is relatively uncommon. This Article describes a remarkable inversion of this pattern: while state insurance regulation frequently employs aggressive command and control consumer protection regulation, it typically does little or nothing to promote transparent markets. Rather, state lawmakers routinely either completely ignore transparency-oriented reforms …

Effects Of Caffeine On Athletic Performance, Natasha Hernandez

Kinesiology Student Research - Archive

INTRODUCTION: Caffeine is considered the most widely used stimulant in the world. According to the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) the average consumption of caffeine in the USA is approximately 2 cups of coffee per day (200 mg). Caffeine is often referred to as a nutritional ergogenic aid, but it has no nutritional value. Caffeine that is ingested is rapidly absorbed from the stomach and peaks in the blood within the first two hours. Caffeine has the potential to affect all systems of the body, as it is absorbed by most tissue. The remaining caffeine is broken down in …

Invisible Starlit, Lindsey Grandt

Honors Capstones

For my honors capstone project, I created an artistic piece called “Invisible Starlit.” “Invisible Starlit” is a one-woman show about my childhood years as I struggled with being bullied and unnoticed. This script is non-fiction and gives readers a first-hand look at the effects of bullying and metaphoric invisibility through my eyes as it happened to me with a comedic twist for relief. What started out as just a short, personal paper for one of my theatre classes turned out to be an entire play after I found myself continuing to write more about my personal experiences with bullying and …

2014 Spring Commencement, Georgia Southern University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

The Cross Education Of Neuromuscular Economy, Kyle Beyer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Cross education is the phenomenon by which the untrained limb will experience a gain in strength following a unilateral resistance training program. However, little is known as to the underlying adaptation occurring in the untrained limb. Purpose: To examine the effect of dynamic unilateral resistance training on the strength and neuromuscular adaptations of both the trained and untrained legs. Methods: Eight previously untrained males (22.38±2.92 y, 1.73±0.08 m, 75.26±14.53 kg) completed a four-week unilateral resistance training program, while another eight untrained males (24.00±4.57 y, 1.84±0.05 m, 94.21±16.14 kg) served as controls. Isometric leg extension strength, leg press 1 repetition maximum …

Commencement Program (December 2014), Csusb

CSUSB Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

New Methods For Trace Analysis Of Iodine And Perchlorate In Biological Fluids, Charles Phillip Shelor

Chemistry & Biochemistry Dissertations - Archive

Iodine is an essential element necessary for the production of the thyroid hormones T3 and T4. These hormones are necessary for metabolism and are especially important for brain development in infants and young children. Iodine is transported into the thyroid by the sodium iodide symporter. Perchlorate is known to inhibit iodine uptake into the thyroid by binding to the sodium iodide symporter, thus acting as a potential neurotoxicant for developing children.The research in this dissertation consists of two goals. The primary is the development of novel methods for measuring iodine and perchlorate and the second is performing analyses to determine …