Digital Commons Network^™

Toe-Tourniquet Syndrome: A Rare Potentially Devastating Entity, Naveed Baloch, M Atif, Rizwan Hussain Rashid, Pervaiz Mahmood Hashmi

Section of Orthopaedic Surgery

Toe-tourniquet syndrome is a rare and commonly misdiagnosed condition caused by a hair or a fiber wrapped around digits (fingers and toes). A four months baby girl who was crying and presented with redness and swelling at her 2nd and 3rd toes of right foot. Child had red and swollen 2nd and 3rd toes of right foot with hair end protruding through wounds. Constricting hairs were cut and removed. Toetourniquet syndrome is a rare entity which is caused by hair wrapped around a toe or a digit. Diagnosis is mostly clinical. In order to prevent this condition to happen, education …

Surveillance In The Service Of Safety, Rashid Jooma

Section of Neurosurgery

The World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention of 2004 recommended that the newly motorizing countries establish road injury surveillance to define the burden, identify highrisk groups, plan intervention and monitor their impact. Despite its stated importance in the literature, very few examples of sustained surveillance systems are reported from low income countries. This presentation shares the results of an urban RTI surveillance program that has been running for the past 8 years since 2007 in the emergency departments of five major hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan. We describe the process of establishing the road injury surveillance system incorporating a multi-institution …

Mentoring And Managing Employees To Ensure Husbandry And Assure Consumers, Tracey Erickson

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Building your team…

1. Share Purpose, Mission and Vision
2. Train Employees – onboarding
3. Communicate and Evaluate
4. Include employees – farm planning and direction
5. Celebrate Success

Making The Opportunities Work, Zach Thode

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Thinking long term on how we do things

• Don’t abuse your situation
• Keep the range healthy
• Keep the livestock healthy
• Keep your neighbors happy

Use Of Annual Forages In A Grazing Livestock System, Nancy Peterson

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Conclusions

• We believe our phosphorus levels are at a point that we will no longer include it in our fertilization program except where it can be put in row with a cash crop to aid early establishment.
• We still need to be adding nitrogen in spite of increased availability because microbiologic activity eats up a lot of N in residue break down. You have to feed the bugs.

What's The Value Of Low-Stress Stockmanship From A Feed Yard's Perspective?, Anne Burkholder

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Why Acclimate?

• Teach cattle to recognize that the home pen is where they want to be.
• Teach cattle to walk in straight lines -­‐-­‐ exit the home pen – travel with confidence down the alleyway and into the corral – walk past a handler with some element of trust.
• Cattle gravitate toward the feed bunk and water tank more quickly; thereby going on feed more smoothly.
• Enables safer, more effective handler –animal interactions which increases safety at the feed yard.
• Comfortable Cattle = More efficient feed conversion and higher quality beef.
• Acclimated cattle are easier to handle and make the …

Seismic Surveys And Marine Turtles: An Underestimated Global Threat?, Sarah E. Nelms, Wendy Dow Piniak, Caroline R. Weir, Brendan J. Godley

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

Seismic surveys are widely used in marine geophysical oil and gas exploration, employing airguns to produce sound-waves capable of penetrating the sea floor. In recent years, concerns have been raised over the biological impacts of this activity, particularly for marine mammals. While exploration occurs in the waters of at least fifty countries where marine turtles are present, the degree of threat posed by seismic surveys is almost entirely unknown. To investigate this issue, a mixed-methods approach involving a systematic review, policy comparison and stakeholder analysis was employed and recommendations for future research were identified. This study found that turtles have …

Clinical Report Of The Spinose Ear Tick, Otobius Megnini (Acari: Parasitiformes: Argasidae), From A Domestic Cat, Felis Silvestris Catus, And First Record From Northwest Arkansas, M. J. Skvarla, G. E. Evans, J. R. Fisher, A. P. G. Dowling

Midsouth Entomologist

We provide a brief overview of the spinose ear tick, Otobius megnini (Dugès 1884) (Acari: Parasitiformes: Argasidae), describe a clinical case from a domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus L. 1758, and report the species for the first time from Northwest Arkansas.

The George H. Bradley Black Fly Papers (Diptera: Simuliidae), T. M. Nations, K. T. Edwards, J. Goddard

Midsouth Entomologist

Dr. George H. Bradley, a former USDA and Army entomologist, conducted research on a variety of medically important insects during his career; most notably mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) and black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae). Much of Dr. Bradley’s personal library was donated to the Mississippi Entomological Museum at Mississippi State University after his death. Six of Dr. Bradley’s papers in that library, apparently never published, were discovered concerning the ecology and biology of the southern buffalo gnat, which he called Eusimulium pecuarum, (now known as Cnephia pecuarum). These unpublished works provide much needed and never before seen information on this medically important …

Fiduciary Governance, Andrew S. Gold, Paul B. Miller

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Comparison Of Frequency Of Insulin Resistance In Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease With Normal Controls, Zareen Kiran,, Numan Majeed, Bader Faiyaz Zuberi

Section of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism

Objective: To compare mean homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in patients with and without chronicobstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Methods: A Case control analytic study was conducted in medical outpatient department of Medial Unit-II of Dow University of Health Sciences from April 2013 to September 2013. All patients with the diagnosis of COPD were included as cases. Controls were age match healthy individuals with minor illnesses. Age, weight, height and forced expiratory volume in one second to forced vital capacity (FEV1/FVC) ratio were documented. Fasting blood glucose and fasting insulin levels were done. Body mass index (BMI) …

Arc To Success: A Campus-Wide Collaboration Between Learning Support Services, Career Services, Information Services, And Research Services, Molly Allen

Library Scholarship

This article details the establishment of the Academic and Research Commons (ARC), a collaborative project between Learning Support Services, Career Services, Information Services, and Research Services at the Central Washington University Library.

Resonant Interneurons Can Increase Robustness Of Gamma Oscillations., Tikidji-Hamburyan Ra, Martínez Jj, White Ja, Canavier Cc

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Hip Fragility Fractures: Anaemia, Calcium And Vitamin D Supplementation, Iqra Khan, Ambreen Jawaid, Khabir Ahmad, Shahryar Noordin

Department of Family Medicine

Objective: To assess the burden of anaemia and osteoporosis in hip fracture patients, to determine the rate of blood transfusion per-operatively, to assess the use of calcium and vitamin D supplements and the use of anti-osteoporotic medications postoperatively.
Methods: A retrospective study was conducted at Aga Khan University and Hospital (AKUH) between June 2009 and May 2011, and comprised record of patients treated for intertrochanteric and femur neck fractures. Patients with associated pathological, open or long bone fractures were excluded. The main study outcome measures were the use of pre-operative and post-operative calcium, vitamin D, bisphosphonates and management of anaemia …

November 2015, Pope Francis

Marian Thoughts of Pope Francis

No abstract provided.

Addressing Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Through Service Learning, Eileen J. Coussens

VA Engage Journal

ABSTRACT

This essay focuses on a Service Learning project which a group of students from my Advanced Composition class at Old Dominion University participated in regarding sexual assault awareness on college campuses. Throughout our class, we learned what Service Learning projects consist of and used what we learned to form our own proposals for projects that would reach from the classroom to the surrounding area to address community issues. We have written about our experiences with this Service Learning project in a reflective essay which acts as our final exam. In doing this, we also have attained our course goals …

Might I Finally Take Part In A Huntington’S Disease Clinical Trials? An Update On The Latest Research, Kenneth P. Serbin

At Risk for Huntington's Disease

No abstract provided.

Socially Responsible And Small: A Quantitative Study Of Corporate Social Responsibility In Small And Medium Organizations In The United States, Abigail Sorenson Berk

Dissertations

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a global imperative supported by governments, industry, and citizens alike. In 2000, the United Nations launched the Global Compact to encourage businesses to adopt socially responsible policies. In tandem, businesses became increasingly attentive to their social practices with the vast majority of executives declaring CSR important to their organization’s success. Despite this increase in attention – which occurred among businesses of all sizes – the academic literature on CSR has focused almost exclusively on large, public companies. Ironically, the majority of businesses in the United States are small, private businesses suggesting the existing CSR …

November 2015 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Communique, November 2015, Tennessee Health Facilities Commission

2015

This periodical is the monthly publication of the Health Services and Development Agency.

The Detection And Molecular Evolution Of Francisella Tularensis Subspecies, Mark K. Gunnell

Theses and Dissertations

Francisella tularensis is the etiological agent of tularemia, a zoonotic disease with worldwide prevalence. F. tularensis is a highly pathogenic organism and has been designated as a potential biothreat agent. Currently there are four recognized subspecies of F. tularensis: tularensis (type A), holarctica (type B), mediasiatica, and novicida. In addition, genomic studies have further subdivided type A tularensis into two subclassifications, type A.I and type A.II. These two subclassifications differ in geographic distribution with type A.I appearing mainly in the Eastern United States and type A.II appearing mainly in the Western United States. Because of differences of virulence among the …

Volume 69 Issue 1 (Fall/Winter 2015)

Utah Science

2 Awareness, Appreciation, Conservation

The sage-grouse is an iconic bird that inhabits vast seas of sagebrush in western North America and has been the focus of extensive discussion and concern among wildlife managers, ranchers, mineral extraction and energy companies, land developers and others in the west and beyond. Why all the discussion about a 2-to 5-pound bird?

8 Recreation Ecology in National Parks and Protected Areas

People love national parks, but managing a growing numbers of visitors with a mandate to preserve natural conditions in perpetuity is a challenge. Recreation ecologists are providing park managers with good science to help …

Returning To Eden: Toward A Faith-Based Framing Of The Environmental Movement, Chika Okafor

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

No abstract provided.

Against The Current: Five States' Upstream Battle Against An Aquatic Nuisance Invasion In Michigan V. United States Army Corps Of Engineers, Joseph J. Clemente

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

No abstract provided.

The End Of A War Does Not End Its Adverserial Reach: The Federal Government's Indemnification Of World War Ii Contractors For Toxic Waste Cleanup Resulting From Wartime Manufacturing Efforts In Shell Oil Co. Et Al. V. United States, Andrew P. Lawson

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

No abstract provided.

Vascular Access: Inukshuk, Jerry Yee

Nephrology Articles

No abstract provided.

Potential Impact Of Prescribing Metformin According To Egfr Rather Than Serum Creatinine, Delphine S. Tuot, Feng Lin, Michael G. Shlipak, Vanessa Grubbs, Chi-Yuan Hsu, Jerry Yee, Vahakn Shahinian, Rajiv Saran, Sharon Saydah, Desmond E. Williams, Neil R. Powe

Nephrology Articles

OBJECTIVE: Many societies recommend using estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) rather than serum creatinine (sCr) to determine metformin eligibility. We examined the potential impact of these recommendations on metformin eligibility among U.S. adults.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Metformin eligibility was assessed among 3,902 adults with diabetes who participated in the 1999-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys and reported routine access to health care, using conventional sCr thresholds (eligible if

RESULTS: Among adults with sCr above conventional cutoffs, MDRD eGFR ≥45 mL/min/1.73 m(2) was most common among men (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 33.3 [95% CI 7.4-151.5] vs. women) and non-Hispanic …

Bridgewater Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, November 2015

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Communities That Sustain: Legacy Exploration And Preservation Groups. A Presidential Fellow’S Journey, Victoria L. Bacon

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

The Perceptions Of Elementary Stem Schools In Missouri, Kelli Michelle Alumbaugh

Dissertations

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education, or STEM, is an area that is currently growing in popularity with educators (Becker & Park, 2011). A qualitative study consisting of interviews was conducted and data were gathered from three leaders in professional STEM organizations, four principals from elementary STEM schools, and six teachers from elementary STEM schools to gain their perceptions of elementary STEM schools in Missouri. The perceptions of leaders in professional STEM organizations regarding STEM education were consistently all positive, and each leader was a proponent of STEM education at the elementary level. The perceptions of principals and teachers were …