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University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, December 8, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

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Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Senile Cardiac Amyloidosis: An Undervalued Cause Of Heart Failure., Toni Anne Alvarez De Venecia, Scott Blumhof, Daniel Ukpong, Marvin Lu, Claudia Nieves, Vincent M. Figueredo, M.D.

Division of Cardiology Faculty Papers

Despite recurrent hospitalizations for heart failure exacerbations, the underlying cause can be missed. Senile amyloidosis is a disease prevalent in the elderly African American population. Senile amyloidosis is underdiagnosed as a cause of heart failure because of its occurrence with more common comorbidities, such as long-standing systemic hypertension. It is important to maintain a high index of suspicion for senile amyloidosis in patients such as this case, who presented with multiple exacerbations of heart failure combined with characteristic electrocardiographic and echocardiographic findings.

Pharmacy Student-Led Evaluation Of Patient Willingness For Smoking Cessation Utilizing Various Smoking Cessation Methods, Anita Peña, Matthew Stryker, Angela Nagel, Nabila Ahmed-Sarwar

Pharmacy Faculty/Staff Publications

Purpose: The ever-growing variety of methods available for smoking cessation have the potential to lead to confusion influencing a patient’s willingness to quit smoking. The aim of this study is to investigate if a change in patient motivation and product preference has occurred after receiving education on the various smoking cessation products

Methods : An informative poster was created to highlight different smoking cessation methods .A questionnaire was developed to assess patient motivation to quit utilizing the ‘Readiness to Quit Ladder’ and patient experiences with or preference between various smoking cessation methods.1The poster was displayed in various pharmacy settings, including …

The Free Press Vol 46 Issue 11, 12-08-2014, Sam Hill

Free Press, The

Flanagan responds to AAUP--USM offers free HIV screening tests--Committee searches for new president--AAUP member publishes petition to reverse cuts--Flanagan balances budget gap--BoT committee recommends dropping investments in coal

Potential Competitive Effects Of Vertical Mergers: A How-To Guide For Practitioners, Steven C. Salop, Daniel P. Culley

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The purpose of this short article is to aid practitioners in analyzing the competitive effects of vertical and complementary product mergers. It is also intended to assist the agencies if and when they undertake revision of the 1984 U.S. Vertical Merger Guidelines. Those Guidelines are out of date and do not reflect current enforcement or economic thinking about the potential competitive effects of vertical mergers. Nor do they provide the tools needed to carry out a modern competitive effects analysis. This article is intended to partially fill the gap by summarizing the various potential competitive harms and benefits that can …

Synthetic Retinoid Interventions And Outcomes In People With Cancer Or Potentially Malignant Disorders Of The Upper Aerodigestive Tract: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Al Norman, R Perry, Ar Ness, Ss Prime, H Cole-Hawkins, S Thomas

School of Psychology

Background & Aims: Retinoids may have a role in the chemoprevention of potentially malignant disorders of the upper aerodigestive tract. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review of randomised controlled trials to examine the effect of synthetic retinoid interventions in people with cancer or potentially malignant disorders of the upper digestive tract. Methods: We searched five electronic databases and reference lists to locate all eligible trials and analysed trial quality. Outcome measures were all-cause and cancer mortality, disease-free survival, second primary cancer, cancer and potentially malignant disorder recurrence and progression to cancer. Results of individual trials were combined by use of …

The Perceptions Of Marijuana From College Athletes, Michael A. Magnarelli

Sport Management Undergraduate

The study that was conducted examined the perceptions and the relationship college athletes have towards marijuana. As time progresses and more people become used to the idea of marijuana being fully legalized in the United States, institutions like the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) will have to deal with the fact that a vast majority of their college athletes use marijuana regardless of it being on the banned substance list. A survey that featured 14 questions was sent out to over 200 male and female student athletes at St. John Fisher College which 60 of the 200 agreed to partake …

An Empirical Estimation Of Statistical Inferences For System Dynamics Model Parameters, Mohammed Mesabbah, Wael Rashwan, Amr Arisha

Conference papers

For system dynamics simulation (SD) models, an estimation of statistical distributions for uncertain parameters is crucial. These distributions could be used for testing models sensitivity, quality of policies, and/or estimating confidence intervals for these parameters. Assumptions related to normality, independence and constant variation are often misapplied in dynamic simulation. Bootstrapping holds a considerable theoretical advantage when used with non-Gaussian data for estimating empirical distributions for unknown parameters. Although it is a widely acceptable approach, it has had only limited use in system dynamics applications. This paper introduces an application of Direct Residual Bootstrapping (DRBS) for statistical inference in system dynamic …

Validity And Stability Of The Decisional Balance For Sun Protection Inventory, Hui-Qing Yin, Joseph S. Rossi, Colleen A. Redding, Andrea L. Paiva, Steve F. Babbin, Wayne F. Velicer

Cancer Prevention Research Center Faculty Publications

The 8-item Decisional Balance for sun protection inventory (SunDB) assesses the relative importance of the perceived advantages (Pros) and disadvantages (Cons) of sun protective behaviors. This study examined the psychometric properties of the SunDB measure, including invariance of the measurement model, in a population-based sample of N = 1336 adults. Confirmatory factor analyses supported the theoretically based 2-factor (Pros, Cons) model, with high internal consistencies for each subscale (α ≥.70). Multiple-sample CFA established that this factor pattern was invariant across multiple population subgroups, including gender, racial identity, age, education level, and stage of change subgroups. Multivariate analysis by stage …

December 7, 2014: Nagle Essay On Sade Published, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Perspectives On Languages For Specifying Simulation Experiments, Luiz Felipe Perrone, Johannes Schützel, Danhua Peng, Adelinde Urhmacher

Faculty Journal Articles

While domain specific languages are well established for describing the system of interest in modeling and simulation, the last years have seen increasingly domain specific languages also exploited for specifying experiments. This development, whose application areas range from computational biology to network simulation, is motivated by the desire to facilitate the reproducibility of simulation results. Thereby, the experimentation process is treated as a first class object of simulation studies. As the experimentation process contains different tasks such as configuration, observation, analysis, and evaluation, domain-specific languages can be exploited to specify experiments as well as individual sub-tasks or even the goal …

Motivated To Adapt: Applying Goal-Setting Theory, Primed Subconscious Goal, And Implementation Intention, Graham Benjamin Wohler

Dissertations

This study investigated the effects that several motivational interventions have on transition and reacquisition adaptability. Goal-setting, whether assigned or self-set, had no effect on either form of adaptability; however, the two goal-setting conditions differed from each other once goal commitment was taken into consideration. High commitment was negatively associated to transition adaptability for assigned goals, but positively related for self-set goals; this trend was marginally significant in reacquisition adaptability as well. Primed subconscious goals were found to have no effect on either form of adaptability. An implementation intention was found to negatively relate to transition adaptability and to have no …

Data Visualization For Network Simulations, Luiz Felipe Perrone, Greg L. Shrock, Christopher S. Main

Faculty Journal Articles

As many other kinds of simulation experiments, simulations of computer networks tend to generate high volumes of output data. While the collection and the statistical processing of these data are challenges in and of themselves, creating meaningful visualizations from them is as much an art as it is a science. A sophisticated body of knowledge in information design and data visualization has been developed and continues to evolve. However, many of the visualizations created by the network simulation community tend to be less than optimal at creating compelling, informative narratives from experimental output data. The primary contribution of this paper …

Um Museum 75 For 75: University Greys Jacket, Michael Newsom

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.

Vawa @ 20: Hiv, Violence Against Women, And Criminal Law Interventions, Aziza Ahmed

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Seroepidemiological Study Of Measles Virus Among Young Adults: Response To Revaccination, Arwa H. Al–Hamdani

Baghdad Science Journal

The 2011 Iraqi Measles Control Campaign had as its aim to improve immunization coverage among young adults' 17-24years and, in the longer term, prevention of measles epidemics. The aim of the study is estimation measles vaccination and revaccination efficacy by evaluate the seroprevalence of antibody and response to reimmunization in young adults. A previously vaccinated 189 young adult medical students were tested for measles specific IgG and IgM pre and post catch-up revaccination by using commercially available ELISA. To assess the seroprevalence of antibody response pre measles reimmunization in previously vaccinated young adults; 45 were found to be seronegative. To …

The Effect Of Different Doses Levels Of Silver Nanoparticles (Agnps) On The Kidney And Liver In Albino Male Rat. Histopathological Study, Ruqayah Ali Salman

Baghdad Science Journal

Objective: In this study ,the effects of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs)were investigated on the liver and kidney tissues. Methodology: The produced nanoparticles have an average particle size of about 30 nm. Eighteen male albino rats were used by dividing them into three groups, each group comprise 6 rats. First group(control group) given food and water like other groups by liberty. Second group was tail injected by (AgNPs) at dose of (0.4 mg/kg. body weight/day). Third group was injected by (AgNPs) at dose of (0.6 mg/kg. body weight/day) for 15 days. All animals were sacrified at the end of experiment. The …

Synthesis Of N –Sulfamethoxazolederivative Imide On Polymeric Chain, Sameaa J. Khammas Al-Bayati, Amal S. Sadiq, Tamador A. Mahmood

Baghdad Science Journal

The present work involved synthesis of several new N-Sulfamethoxazol derivatives imide on Polymeric chain by two steps. The first stip involved preparation of N- (sub.orunsub benzoyl and sub unsub acetyl) amidyl sub sulfamethoxazole (1-5) by condensation of sulfamethoxazole drug with many substituted acid chloride, then the second step include, preparation new five N-(acrly-N–sub or unsub benzoyl) imidyl substituted sulfamethoxazol(6-10) by reaction of poly acryloyl chloride with the prepared compound (1-5) in first stepin asuitable solvent in the presenceamount triethylamine (Et3N) with heating. The structure confirmations of all polymers wereconfirmed using FT-IR,1H-NMR,13C-NMR and UV spectroscopy. Other physical properties including softeningpoint's, melting …

2014-2015 Gingerbread Holiday Concert, Lynn University Philharmonia, Guillermo Figueroa, Seanna Pereira

Philharmonia

12th Annual Gingerbread Holiday Concert presented by Lynn University and Friends of the Conservatory

The Level Of Il-1Α, Il-10 And Il-17a In Alzheimer's Disease Patients: Comparative Study, Alaa A. Hamdan, Alice K. Melconian, Ali H. Adhia, Amir F. Alhaidary

Baghdad Science Journal

The objective of this study is to evaluate the level of cytokines IL-1α, IL-10 and IL-17A in the serum of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), vascular dementia (VD) and down syndrome (DS). The results showed that Serum level of IL-1α was significantly increased in AD patients (3.79 ± 0.26 pg/ml) as compared with DS patients (2.78 ± 0.39 pg/ml) or controls (2.78 ± 0.22 pg/ml), while no significant difference was observed between AD and VD (3.25 ± 0.20 pg/ml) patients or between VD patients, DS patients and controls. The serum level of IL-10 was approximated in VD and DS patients …

Applied Energy Systems - Rudimentary Fluid Mechanics, Jim Mcgovern

Book/Book Chapters

This is a compact textbook for a module addressing rudimentary fluid mechanics within the context of applied energy systems. It is at an introductory level for engineers or technologists. The book does not attempt to cover the principles of fluid mechanics comprehensively. Rather, it provides a practical but theoretically sound foundation, linked to two key areas: hydrostatic power transmission systems and the flow of fluids through pipes and fittings. This selection allows the two areas to be presented in some detail. Through this approach learners can put the principles of fluid mechanics into context, while developing their knowledge and understanding. …

Determinants Of The Irish Bail System Before And After 1997., Adrian Berski

Reports

Bail can be defined as:

The setting at liberty of an accused person upon others becoming sureties for the accused at his trail. The decision to admit a person to bail is judicial matter and, consequently, the court cannot delegate the exercise of this judicial power to an administrative official^[1].

According to the above definition it should be emphasized that an accused person has to ensure the State that he/she will return to the court proceedings or Garda Síochána Station at the particular time. It is imperative that bail is established on the fact that a criminal is …

Careers In Quality Panel, Joseph M. Montella, Md, Ms, Cpe (Moderator And Panel Speaker), Lawrence D. Ward, Md, Mph, Facp, Robert M. Dressler, Md, Mba, Marina V. Zeltser, Md, Mba

Future Leaders in Quality and Safety

No abstract provided.

Engaging In Quality Panel, David B. Nash, Md, Mba (Moderator), Rebecca C. Jaffe, Md, Bracken Babula, Md, Martin Wegman, Maria Montano

Future Leaders in Quality and Safety

No abstract provided.

Case Discussions: We Made The New York Times, James F. Pelegano, Md, Ms

Future Leaders in Quality and Safety

No abstract provided.

Case Discussions: Post Event Debrief An Integral Part Of Our Patient Safety Culture, Kathleen Mcnicholas, Md, Facs, Jd, Llm, Cmq

Future Leaders in Quality and Safety

No abstract provided.

Lunch And Small Group Discussions, Bracken P. Babula, Md, Samara Ginzburg, Md, Brian Glynn, Bs, Rrt, Rabecca C. Jaffe, Md, Jennifer Myers, Md, Fhm, Facp, Elisabeth J.S. Kunkel, Md, Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz, Phd, Mph, Mark Lyles, Md, Mba, Facmq, Martin Wegman

Future Leaders in Quality and Safety

No abstract provided.

The Team Approach: A Conversation With Acmq Vice President, Mark Lyles, Md, Mba, Facmq

Future Leaders in Quality and Safety

No abstract provided.

Quality And Safety In The Urban Environment, Susan L. Freeman, Md, Ms, Facpe, Face

Future Leaders in Quality and Safety

No abstract provided.

Undergraduate And Graduate Curriculum In Quality, Jennifer Myers, Md, Fhm, Facp

Future Leaders in Quality and Safety

No abstract provided.