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Investigation Of The Efficacy Of Tarantula Cubensis Extract (Theranekron D6) In The Treatment Of Subclinical And Clinical Mastitis In Dairy Cows, Kutlay Gürbulak, Aytaç Akçay, Kadi̇r Semi̇h Gümüşsoy, Birgit Sist, Simone Steiner, Murat Abay, Esra Canooğlu, Tayfur Bekyürek

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the use of Theranekron alone or in combination with intramammary antibiotic therapy for the treatment of subclinical and clinical mastitis on the recovery rate from mastitis. The study material was composed of 177 mammary lobes of 63 Holstein cows with subclinical (groups S1 and S2) and clinical mastitis (groups C1, C2, C3, and C4). In all of the treatment groups, excluding group S2, the California mastitis test scores were determined to have decreased after treatment (P < 0.05). In groups C1, C2, C3, and C4, which were treated for clinical mastitis, the somatic cell count (SCC) values were observed to have decreased. The decrease in SCC values was statistically significant except in group C2 (P < 0.01). While the SCC values were observed to have decreased in group S1 (P > 0.05), which was treated with Theranekron alone, the same values were found to …

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Turkish Journal of Biology

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Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Summer 2014), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Summer 2014 issue of the Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following articles:

• Message from the President
• PCOM Updates
• Development News
• Institutional Advancement: Gifting the Optimum in Simulation
• Technology for Skills Training and Competency Assessment
• Institutional Memory: Remembering Herbert Lotman, LLD (Hon.)
• Institutional Heritage: Founders’ Day 2014
• Institutional Feature: A Time of Transition
• With Gratitude . . .
• Reflection about Dr. Schure: Collegial Harmony
• Reflection about Dr. Schure: Doctoring the Doctor
• Reflection about Dr. Schure: Legacy in the South
• Reflection about Dr. Schure: Seeds Planted Are Bearing Fruit
• PCOM Welcomes Jay S. Feldstein, DO ’81, …

Bartram Healthy Lifestyles Initiative, James Barrett, James Seternus

Bridging the Gaps Posters 2014

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Tapestry Of Hope: Inspiration & Victory In The Face Of Adversity, Anna Bossert, Amy Surti

Bridging the Gaps Posters 2014

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Promoting Advancement Of Eye Care, Nutrition And Oral Health In Underprivileged Youth, Nicole Frerichs, Joseph Moran

Bridging the Gaps Posters 2014

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Promoting Health, Fitness And Nutrition In North Philadelphia's Youth, Meghan Hubert, Eliz Uricoechea

Bridging the Gaps Posters 2014

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Veterans Helping Veterans, Christopher Damiano, Laurel Garber

Bridging the Gaps Posters 2014

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Preparing North Philadelphia's Teen Population For A Healthy Future, Marissa Goldberg, Marc Wagner

Bridging the Gaps Posters 2014

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Play Is Child's Work: Play Pods Invade North Philadelphia To Put Children To Work, Amanda Mastrogiovanni, Nicole Viray

Bridging the Gaps Posters 2014

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The Advocate Cafe: A Hand-Up, Not A Hand-Out, Maggie Gandhi, Kelsey Mcglade

Bridging the Gaps Posters 2014

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Substance Abuse Recovery: Mind, Body, And Soul, Chinwendu Opara, Aisha Uddin

Bridging the Gaps Posters 2014

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Working It Out At Haddington Townhouses, Rachael Oyewole, Aliya Shaikh

Bridging the Gaps Posters 2014

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The Performance Puzzle: Understanding The Factors Influencing Alternative Dimensions And Views Of Performance, Anna A. Amirkhanyan, Hyun Joon Kim, Kristina T. Lambright

Public Administration Faculty Scholarship

There is a large literature on the determinants of organizational performance, and its multidimensional nature is well recognized. However, little research has examined how different organizational and environmental factors influence different stakeholders’ performance assessments of the same service. We address this gap by comparing the factors influencing performance evaluations by different constituencies of child care centers in Ohio. We operationalize performance using (1) regulatory violations documented during state licensing inspections, (2) satisfaction with the center’s quality reported by center directors, (3) satisfaction with the center’s quality reported by teachers, and (4) satisfaction with care quality reported by parents. Our findings …

Response Of Fusarium Thapsinum To Sorghum Brown Midrib Lines And To Phenolic Metabolites, Deanna L. Funnell-Harris, Scott E. Sattler, Jeffrey F. Pedersen

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Sorghum lines were bred for reduced lignin for cellulosic bioenergy uses, through the incorporation of brown midrib (bmr)6 or -12 into two backgrounds (RTx430 and Wheatland) as either single or doublemutant lines. When these lines were assessed for resistance to Fusarium thapsinum stalk rot, a cause of lodging, they were as resistant to F. thapsinum as the near-isogenic wild type. Peduncles of newly identified bmr lines from an ethyl-methanesulfonate-mutagenized population, inoculated with F. thapsinum, were as resistant as the wild-type line, BTx623. One bmr line (1107) had significantly smaller mean lesion lengths than BTx623, suggesting that a mutation …

The Effect Of Technology On Obesity Rates, Derek Juracek

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Obesity is the condition of having too much excess body fat

•5th leading global cause of death

•2nd most preventable death in the United States

•Obesity can lead to diabetes, high blood pressure, artery disease, vascular disease, heart attacks, and much more

•Technology has created processed foods, less physical activity and many technological advances, making life much too convenient

Consuming Fire Ants Reduces Northern Bobwhite Survival And Weight Gain, P. Evans Myers, Craig R. Allen, Hannah E. Birge

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

Northern bobwhite quail, Colinus virginianus (L.) (Galliformes: Odontophoridae), population declines are well documented, but pinpointing the reasons for these decreases has proven elusive. Bobwhite population declines are attributed primarily to loss of habitat and land use changes. This, however, does not entirely explain population declines in areas intensively managed for bobwhites. Although previous research demonstrates the negative impact of red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta Buren) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on northern bobwhites, the mechanisms underlying this effect are largely unknown. To meet the protein demands of early growth and development, bobwhite chicks predominantly consume small insects, of which ants are …

Genome-Wide Identification And Functional Analysis Of Apobec-1-Mediated C-To-U Rna Editing In Mouse Small Intestine And Liver, Valerie Blanc, Eddie Park, Sabine Schaefer, Melanie Miller, Yiing Lin, Susan Kennedy, Anja M. Billing, Hisham Ben Hamidane, Johannes Graumann, Ali Mortazavi, Joseph H. Nadeau, Nicholas O. Davidson

Open Access Publications

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Sigfuge: Single Gene Clustering Of Rna-Seq Reveals Differential Isoform Usage Among Cancer Samples, Patrick K. Kimes, Christopher R. Cabanski, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Ni Zhao, Amy R. Johnson, Charles M. Perou, Liza Makowski, Christopher A. Maher, Yufeng Liu, J. S. Marron, D. Neil Hayes

Open Access Publications

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Diabetes And Pancreatic Cancer Survival: A Prospective Cohort-Based Study, Adetunji T. Toriola, Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon, L. Dalidowitz, David C. Linehan, Graham A. Colditz

Open Access Publications

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An Animal Model With A Cardiomyocyte-Specific Deletion Of Estrogen Receptor Alpha: Functional, Metabolic, And Differential Network Analysis, Sriram Devanathan, Timothy Whitehead, George G. Schweitzer, Nicole Fettig, Attila Kovacs, Kenneth S. Korach, Brian N. Finck, Kooresh I. Shoghi

Open Access Publications

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Spring Migration Ecology Of The Mid-Continent Sandhill Crane Population With An Emphasis On Use Of The Central Platte River Valley, Nebraska, Gary L. Krapu, David A. Brandt, Paul J. Kinzel, Aaron T. Pearse

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

We conducted a 10-year study (1998–2007) of the Mid-Continent Population (MCP) of sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) to identify spring-migration corridors, locations of major stopovers, and migration chronology by crane breeding affiliation (western Alaska–Siberia [WA–S], northern Canada–Nunavut [NC–N], west-central Canada–Alaska [WC–A], and east-central Canada–Minnesota [EC–M]). In the Central Platte River Valley (CPRV) of Nebraska, we evaluated factors influencing staging chronology, food habits, fat storage, and habitat use of sandhill cranes. We compared our findings to results from the Platte River Ecology Study conducted during 1978–1980. We determined spring migration corridors used by the breeding affiliations (designated subpopulations for management …

Wildfire Effects On Extractable Elements In Ash From A Pinus Pinaster Forest In Portugal, Paulo Pereira, Xavier Ubeda, Deborah Martin, Jorge Mataix-Solera, Artemi Cerda, Maria Burguet

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

The aim of this work is to study the effects of a wildfire on water-extractable elements in ash from a Pinus pinaster forest located in Portugal. The pH, electrical conductivity (EC), calcium (Ca²⁺), magnesium (Mg²⁺), sodium (Na⁺), potassium (K⁺), sodium and potassium adsorption ratio (SPAR), aluminium (Al³⁺), manganese (Mn²⁺), iron (Fe²⁺), zinc (Zn²⁺), sulphur (S), silica (Si) and phosphorous (P) were analysed in ash sampled from a sloped area burned in a wildfire and from litter from a contiguous unburned area, with similar morphological …

Modelling The Effects Of Natural Antimicrobials As Food Preservatives, Amit Jaiswal, Swarna Jaiswal

Books/Book Chapters/ Proceedings

A predictive food microbiological model is a mathematical representation of mechanisms that describes the growth, survival, inactivation or biochemical process of an organism and are used in the food industry to predict food pathogen growth and to help in the evaluation of food safety. Furthermore, it reduces the number of expensive and time-consuming experiments; however, adequate statistical analysis is a crucial step during all phases of model development and validation. Therefore, the present chapter is focused on the basic concept of mathematical modelling which can be applied to estimate the effects of natural antimicrobials as food preservatives. Initial section discusses …

Development And Women's Rights As Human Rights: A Political And Social Economy Approach Within A Deep Democratic Framework, Haider A. Khan

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

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2014 Author Recognition Bibliography, Grand Valley State University Libraries

Author Recognition Archives

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Work Stress, Meaning, And Values: A Study Of Intellectual Disability Support Staff, Jennifer Marie Ladner-Graham

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Employees who work with individuals with intellectual disabilities report high levels of work-related stress. Staff stress is associated with a variety of negative outcomes, such as poor psychological health, job burnout, and high turnover rates. The current study investigated the relationship between staff stress and negative outcomes. Specifically, this study examined whether positive psychology concepts such as perceived meaning in life and values moderated the relationship between staff stress and poor psychological health, job search/intention to leave the job, and use of sick leave. Participants included staff members from an inpatient facility for people with intellectual disabilities located in North …

Toward A Conceptualization Of Emetophobia: Examining Intolerance Of Uncertainty As A Unique Predictor Of Symptoms, Mimi Zhao

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Emetophobia, a poorly understood disorder, is a specific phobia characterized by an irrational and persistent fear of oneself vomiting or others vomiting. Though research on the disorder is sparse, previous investigations have reported interference in social, occupational, and health domains in the lives of individuals with emetophobia (Lipsitz et al., 2001; McFayden & Wyness, 1983; Veale & Lambrou, 2006). To this end, the current study examined whether individual differences in Anxiety Sensitivity (AS), Disgust Sensitivity (DS), and Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) are associated with symptoms of emetophobia, whether AS predicts symptoms of emetophobia above and beyond DS, IU, and expected …

I Am See-Through: Participatory Video Making As A Method For Social Change In The Mississippi Delta, Paige Prather

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis traces my application of critical participatory video scholarship to the development of a teen video documentary course that I facilitated during my graduate school tenure at the Tutwiler Community Education Center in the Mississippi Delta. Since at least the 1960s, documentarians have utilized participatory video methodologies as a way to tackle social issues through a ground-up approach in which community members play a vital role in the production of documentary projects. The development and application of participatory video varies greatly across disciplines including radical documentary filmmaking, visual studies, developmental studies, and emerging social media studies. Over the years, …

Can Student-Driven Changes Increase Salad Bar Usage In Schools?, Shannon Leeke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Increasing student salad bar participation may increase students' consumption of fruits and vegetables while decreasing their risk of chronic disease. This study observed student perception, experience, and participation of the school salad bar in two northwest Mississippi high schools. The subjects were students' age 15-18 years old. One school served as the control variable and one served as the intervention variable. A three-week baseline of salad bar participation was collected before surveying students at the intervention school. Surveying student perception and experience of the salad bar provided data to implement changes to the salad bar. Student perception and experience was …