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Do We Owe Each Other Our Emotional Labor?, Aliya Hamid Rao

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In academia our intellectual pursuits are also inherently emotional. It is thus unsurprising that in a recent blog post (here) another graduate student makes a case for acknowledging that academic work is infused with emotional labor, and for creating a space for “crying in academia.” She urges us to move away from scripts of professionalism so that we can stop pretending that emotional labor is not intrinsic to almost all that we do as aspiring academics.

Vital Yet Vulnerable: Mental And Emotional Health Of South Asian Migrant Workers In Singapore, Nicholas Harrigan, Chiu Yee Koh

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Numbering nearly one million persons, low-waged, low-skilled migrant workers are a vital yet vulnerable part of Singapore’s economy and society. This study, undertaken several months before the Little India riots of December 2013, measures the psychological distress of 261 South Asian Work Permit holders, and 344 South Asian injury and salary claim workers. While most regular Work Permit holders are relatively happy and healthy, our study finds that 62 per cent of injury and salary claim workers meet the screening conditions for a Serious Mental Illness. We find that the three main drivers of psychological distress are (1) the housing …

Living Arrangements And Psychological Well-Being Of The Elderly After The Economic Transition In Vietnam, Ken Yamada, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Objectives: We examine the relationship between living arrangements and psychological well-being of the older adults in Vietnam, where there is an influence of Confucian values and a lack of close substitutes for family care of the older adults, by exploiting a great deal of regional variation in economic development. We also examine the role of living arrangements in well-being differentials across regions. Method: We estimate a triangular simultaneous-equation discrete-response model, which accounts for the simultaneity between living arrangements and psychological well-being (happiness, depression, loneliness, poor appetite, and sleep disorder), using a nationally representative sample of 2,225 adults aged 60 and …

What Can Pakistan Do To Address Maternal And Child Health Over The Next Decade?, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Assad Hafeez

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Pakistan faces huge challenges in meeting its international obligations and agreed Millennium Development Goal targets for reducing maternal and child mortality. While there have been reductions in maternal and under-5 child mortality, overall rates are barely above secular trends and neonatal mortality has not reduced much. Progress in addressing basic determinants, such as poverty, undernutrition, safe water, and sound sanitary conditions as well as female education, is unsatisfactory and, not surprisingly, population growth hampers economic growth and development across the country. The devolution of health to the provinces has created challenges as well as opportunities for action. This paper presents …

Taking Flight – November 2015 Edition, Georgia Southern University

College of Business: News & Publications

• Message from the Dean
• Alumni Spotlight – Shannaan Dawda, CPA
• Mooney Elected Chair of Georgia CPAs
• Eagle Executive Society – Student Chapter Hosts Annual Golf Outing for Members
• Fraud & Forensic Accounting Visits FBI Atlanta
• College of Business & Eagles Soar into Athens
• Fraud & Forensic Accounting Holds a Mock Civil Trial
• Logistics Roundtable Continues to Grow
• MBA Association Helps with Breast Cancer Awareness
• Target Guests Speak to Introduction to Business Class
• BIG Café November
• Fraud & Forensic Accounting Visits Prison
• Honors Student Presents at State Conference
• Stalcup Winner of School Nutrition Award
• Eagle Connect

English Legal Thought, American Colonial Experience And The Creation Of The United States’ Constitution, Roberto O. Flores De Apodaca

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

About the author

Roberto O. Flores de Apodaca is a Junior studying History at Concordia University in Irvine, CA. He hopes to go to graduate school and eventually become a history professor.

Event Detection In Wireless Sensor Networks In Random Spatial Sensors Deployments, Pengfei Zhang, Ido Nevat, Gareth W. Peters, Gaoxi Xiao, Hwee-Pink Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We develop a new class of event detection algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks where the sensors are randomly deployed spatially. We formulate the detection problem as a binary hypothesis testing problem and design the optimal decision rules for two scenarios, namely the Poisson Point Process and Binomial Point Process random deployments. To calculate the intractable marginal likelihood density, we develop three types of series expansion methods which are based on an Askey-orthogonal polynomials. In addition, we develop a novel framework to provide guidance on which series expansion is most suitable (i.e., most accurate) to use for different system parameters. Extensive …

Openline Newsletter, November 2015, Civil Service Council

OpenLine Newsletter

A monthly newsletter for Civil Service employees, November 2015.

Real-Time Supervised Detection Of Pink Areas In Dermoscopic Images Of Melanoma: Importance Of Color Shades, Texture And Location, Ravneet Kaur, P. P. Albano, Justin G. Cole, Jason R. Hagerty, Robert W. Leander, Randy Hays Moss, William V. Stoecker

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Background/Purpose: Early detection of malignant melanoma is an important public health challenge. In the USA, dermatologists are seeing more melanomas at an early stage, before classic melanoma features have become apparent. Pink color is a feature of these early melanomas. If rapid and accurate automatic detection of pink color in these melanomas could be accomplished, there could be significant public health benefits.

Methods: Detection of three shades of pink (light pink, dark pink, and orange pink) was accomplished using color analysis techniques in five color planes (red, green, blue, hue, and saturation). Color shade analysis was performed using a logistic …

Osats For Total Knee Replacement: Assessment Of Surgical Competence In The Operating Room, Shahryar Noordin, Salim Allana

Department of Surgery Docs

No abstract provided.

K Wire Fixation Of Supra-Condylar Humerus Fractures In Children. Is Ulnar Nerve At Risk?, Waseem Ahmed, Haroon Rashid, Yasir Mohib, Rizwan Haroon Rashid

Department of Surgery Docs

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

To compare iatrogenic ulnar nerve injury in lateral entry pin fixation versus medial and lateral entry pin fixation in the treatment of supracondylar fractures of the humerus in children. Measurement of clinical parameters in terms of elbow range of motion and postop radiographic alignment was also targeted.

METHODS:

The retrospective cohort study was conducted at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, and comprised data of paediatric patients who underwent closed reduction and percutaneous pin fixation for the treatment of displaced extension type supracondylar fractures of the humerus between July 2007 and June 2012. Data regarding socio-demographic status, disease and …

Calcaneal Fractures: An Audit Of Radiological Outcome., Tashfeen Ahmad, Zehra Abdul Muhammad, Bilal Humayun Matin, Azeem Tariq Malik, S. A. Quadri

Department of Surgery Docs

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

To assess radiological outcome of management of calcaneal fractures.

METHODS:

The retrospective study was conducted at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, and comprised data of calcanealfractures managed between February , 2008 and February, 2014 Cases were identified through medical records, and X-rays were reviewed through digital radiology archive. Bohler\'s angle, Gissane\'s angle, calcaneal height and width were assessed digitally on pre-operative and post-operative X-ray images.

RESULTS:

Of the27 patients, only 1(3.7%) was female. The cause of fracture was fall from height 15(56%), road traffic accidents 7(26%) and bomb blasts5(19%). Tongue type fractures were 16(59%) and 11(41%) were joint …

Commartstalk, Georgia Southern University

Communication Arts Talk (2007-2020)

• See you again next year, comm. arts, INC
• PR students with co-advisor, Dr. Pam Bourland-Davis Attend PRSSA National Conference
• Theatre students to take international trip

Characterization Of L-Type Calcium Channel Activity In Atrioventricular Nodal Myocytes From Rats With Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetes Mellitus, Kathryn H. Yuill, Lina T. Al Kury, Frank Christopher Howarth

All Works

© 2015 The Authors. Physiological Reports published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of the American Physiological Society and The Physiological Society. Cardiovascular complications are common in patients with Diabetes mellitus (DM). In addition to changes in cardiac muscle inotropy, electrical abnormalities are also commonly observed in these patients. We have previously shown that spontaneous cellular electrical activity is altered in atrioventricular nodal (AVN) myocytes, isolated from the streptozotocin (STZ) rat model of type-1 DM. In this study, utilizing the same model, we have characterized the changes in L-type calcium channel activity in single AVN myocytes. Ionic currents were recorded …

Illinois State, November 2015, Illinois State University, University Marketing And Communications

State: The Magazine of Illinois State University (1999-present)

Illinois State University alumni magazine

Rehabilitation Engineering Universal Design Challenge, Madeleine Lowery

Theme 3: Innovating in Product and Service Design

No abstract provided.

Weighting The Perceived Importance Of Minimising Economic, Social, And Environmental/Cultural Risks In Flood Risk Management, Zeinab Bedri, John O'Sullivan

Reports

A new national flood policy adopted in Ireland in 2004 set out that a range of flood-related impacts should be taken into account in planning flood risk management strategies and projects, including impacts on people, properties, the environment and cultural heritage. This was reinforced by the 2007 EU 'Floods' Directive that is aimed at the reduction of adverse consequences of flooding for human health, the environment, cultural heritage and economic activity.

In 2006, the Office of Public Works (OPW) began the National Catchment-based Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme through a series of pilot studies. A Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) …

Race And Crime Sixty Years After Brown V. Board Of Education, Donald A. Dripps

San Diego Law Review

Whether the Court, let alone the electorate, has the political will to start down this path is another question. But I remind myself that Dr. King did not despair in his Birmingham jail cell, that Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not despair when asked by the Dean of the Harvard Law School why she was taking a place from a man, and that Evan Wolfson did not despair when the high Court declared that any claim of a constitutional right to private sex between consenting adults was “at best, facetious.”

Ever since abolitionism, the heroes of every American civil rights movement …

Fetal Sex And Rhd Genotyping With Digital Pcr Demonstrates Greater Sensitivity Than Real-Time Pcr, Kelly A. Sillence, Llinos A. Roberts, Heidi J. Hollands, Hannah P. Thompson, Michele Kiernan, Tracey E. Madgett, Welch C Ross, Neil D. Avent

School of Biomedical Sciences

Abstract BACKGROUND Noninvasive genotyping of fetal RHD (Rh blood group, D antigen) can prevent the unnecessary administration of prophylactic anti-D to women carrying RHD-negative fetuses. We evaluated laboratory methods for such genotyping. METHODS Blood samples were collected in EDTA tubes and Streck® Cell-Free DNA™ blood collection tubes (Streck BCTs) from RHD-negative women (n = 46). Using Y-specific and RHD-specific targets, we investigated variation in the cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) fraction and determined the sensitivity achieved for optimal and suboptimal samples with a novel Droplet Digital™ PCR (ddPCR) platform compared with real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR). RESULTS The cffDNA fraction was significantly …

All In For Wesleyan, Nancy Brokaw

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Alcoholism, Miscomprehension And Salvation : Edwin O'Connor's The Edge Of Sadness, Eamon Maher

Articles

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Thujone On The Function Of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors, Ahmed Salaheldin Mustafa Ali Sultan

Theses

Thujone is a natural compound found in plants such as “wormwood” and “sage” and it’s also found in the alcoholic drink “Absinthe”. Thujone has been suggested as a neurotoxic compound and reported to modulate GABAA receptors. In this study, we investigated the pharmacology of Thujone on nicotinic receptors expressed in Xenopus oocytes using the two electrode voltage clamp method. Thujone (100μM) caused an 80% inhibition of Acetylcholine (ACh) induced currents in human α7-nAChRs expressed in frog oocytes while only 30% inhibition currents in α4β2 expressed oocytes and no effect on α3β4, α3β2 and α4β4 nAChRs. The mechanisms of Thujone effect …

Let’S Look To Uk To Solve Problems Of Our Ageing Population, Lorcan Sirr

Media

Europe is going grey, very grey. In 1800 no country had a life expectancy beyond age 40, but by 2050 one in three people in Europe will be over 60. By then, one in 10 will be over 80—nearly 500,000 people in Ireland. The ageing population will bring its own problems, caused mainly by health, income and government support. Denmark spends about €5,000 a year on social protection in old age; Latvia, Romania and Croatia spend €500. In Ireland, in 2011, the figure was €2,000.

Missing Perspectives: Servicemembers’ Transition From Service To Civilian Life, Corri Zoli, Rosalinda Maury, Daniel Fay

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

The report prioritizes an evidence-based approach through targeted surveys, interviews, and focus groups and centers the perspectives of recent servicemembers (active-duty, reserves, National Guard, veterans, and their families) in its analyses. Research findings are based on multi-method studies of servicemembers in their multiple roles: as warfighters, civilians, students, professionals, employees, and family members, among others. Research results are designed to elevate the public, academic, and policy discourse on Post- 9/11 servicemembers, to inform recommendations to improve post-service transition, and to form the foundation for a second study on best strategies for servicemembers in higher education and civilian careers.

The Research Express, Georgia Southern University

Research & Economic Development

• Grant Award Winners
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Effect Of Imperceptible Vibratory Noise Applied To Wrist Skin On Fingertip Touch Evoked Potentials – An Eeg Study, Na Jin Seo, Kishor Lakshminarayanan, Leonardo Bonilha, Abigail W. Lauer, Brian D. Schmit

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Random vibration applied to skin can change the sense of touch. Specifically, low amplitude white-noise vibration can improve fingertip touch perception. In fact, fingertip touch sensation can improve even when imperceptible random vibration is applied to other remote upper extremity areas such as wrist, dorsum of the hand, or forearm. As such, vibration can be used to manipulate sensory feedback and improve dexterity, particularly during neurological rehabilitation. Nonetheless, the neurological bases for remote vibration enhanced sensory feedback are yet poorly understood. This study examined how imperceptible random vibration applied to the wrist changes cortical activity for fingertip sensation. We measured …

The Right To Food Under Hugo Chávez, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Political Science Faculty Publications

This article investigates the right to food in Venezuela under President Hugo Chávez (1999–2013). Although Chávez respected Venezuelans’ right to food, he failed to protect it. In the short term, he fulfilled the right to food by establishing state-run stores where food was sold cheaply, and by imposing price controls. At the same time, he reduced the food supply by undermining property rights, expropriating large-scale ranches as well as wholesale and retail distributors. Violations of civil and political rights made it difficult for Chávez’s critics to oppose his food policies. By the time Chávez died food shortages were extremely severe.

Pdgfra Expression In Adult Astrocytoma And Its Relation To Cell Cycle Regulators; P53 And Cyclin D1, Afaf. T Ibrahiem, Hoda Saleh, Shaimaa M Yussif

Mansoura Medical Journal

Background: Over the past decadethere have been several attempttries for molecular classification ofCNStumors, also to identify biologicalmarkers that reflect the degree oftumourmalignancy. Such markersmightassist in identifying tumorswitha poor prognosis and applicationof new medical target therapy.Platelet-derived growth factor(PDGF) signalling has been shownto be a key regulator of glioma development.Clinical trials evaluating theefficacyof anti-PDGFRA therapiesongliomas are ongoing31Objectives: evaluation of PDGFRAprotein in adult astrocytoma as anew hope to use PDGFRA as biologicalprognostic marker and possi- bility of using anti PDGFRA as a targettherapy in astrocytoma. Also weaimedto correlate expression ofPDGFRAprotein to p53 and cyclinD1expression in astrocytoma.Material & Methods: well representativeparaffin embedded blocksof57 cases …

Impact Of Specialized Nursery Care For Late Preterm Infants On Nicu Admission Rate And Length Of Stay, Laura Hunt, Gene Hallford, Candace Robledo, Edgardo Szyld, Clara Song

School of Medicine Publications

Objective To compare neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission rates and length of stay (LOS) of late preterm infants (LPIs) born before and after opening a specialized care nursery (SCN) at our academic, pediatric tertiary care center with 4,500 total deliveries annually

Study Design Retrospective chart review of inborn LPIs (350/7–366/7 weeks) who were asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic at birth and delivered 7 months before the opening of the SCN (pre-SCN) or 7 months subsequently (post-SCN). Infants were excluded for major congenital anomalies or other conditions requiring immediate NICU admission. The pre-SCN options for care were standard couplet care or …

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Instructional Technology Integration And Student Achievement, Carla Holt

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This correlational, causal-comparative research study examined the relationships between secondary career and technical education teachers’ gender, experience, professional development and their perceptions of technology use. The research also investigated how the teachers in this study perceive the adequacy of their student’s technology skills for meeting college and workplace demands. Eighty-four career and technical education teachers in six North Carolina high schools completed the School Technology Needs Assessment Survey 4.0 (STNA), which also included demographic questions that asked about age, gender and years of experience. A two sample t test, correlation analysis and multiple linear regression were performed. The results of …