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Current Perspectives On Humanitarian Hearing Healthcare: A Survey Of U.S. Audiologists, Rachael Marie Kingma Queen

Independent Studies and Capstones

A national survey of U.S. audiologists examines the level of participation of U.S. audiologists in humanitarian audiology efforts, characteristics of U.S. humanitarian audiology trips, barriers preventing U.S. audiologists from volunteering internationally, factors related to increased humanitarian audiology participation, and topics within humanitarian audiology needing further investigation and research.

Interference With Nature: Xenotransplantation Procedure And Its Potential Effects On Man, Peter B. Bisong

Journal of Health Ethics

Xenotransplantation is not yet a clinical success and therefore pose no risk at present. The major concern of the researchers is that, the research on xenografting is ongoing, and possibly in the nearest future xenografting might become a clinical routine. If this becomes the case, then its potential risks would become actual risks. It is however, wrong to wait till the risks begin to manifest before action is taken. It is on this ground that, the researchers believe that if the ethical implications of this relatively new procedure (xenografting) could be well spelt out, it might serve to discourage research …

Climate Driven Changes To Malaria Transmission Patterns In Ethiopian Highlands, Amir Said Siraj

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In the highlands of East Africa, the most populated regions in Africa, temperature is assumed to be intimately connected to the patterns of malaria both in time and space. A large section of the Ethiopian population in this region has historically been shielded from the disease mainly due to the altitudes in the highland regions that have remained free of the disease. However, the region has also seen a large part of its population being affected by malaria in epidemic outbreaks that seem to follow climatic anomalies, especially those of inter-annual increases in temperature. This project examines the inter-annual variability …

Human Cytomegalovirus Interleukin-10 Promotes Proliferation And Migration Of Mcf-7 Breast Cancer Cells, Robin K. Bishop, Cendy A. Valle Oseguera, Juliet Spencer

Biology Faculty Publications

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy affecting women worldwide. While a small fraction of breast cancers have a hereditary component, environmental and behavioral factors also impact the development of cancer. Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a member of the Herpesviridae family that is widespread in the general population and has been linked to several forms of cancer. While HCMV DNA has been found in some breast cancer tissue specimens, we wanted to investigate whether a secreted viral cytokine might have an effect on cancerous or even pre-cancerous cells. HCMV encodes an ortholog of the human cellular cytokine interleukin-10 (IL-10). The …

Unreliable Bodies: A Follow-Up Twenty Years Later By A Mother And Daughter About The Impact Of Illness And Disability On Their Lives, Kaethe Weingarten, Miranda Worthen

Faculty Publications

We are a mother and daughter, both health care professionals, who offer a follow-up to an article we published twenty years ago about the impact of each other’s ongoing, serious medical problems on our relationship. In this article, we contribute a long-term perspective on the differences between having an illness that is well or poorly understood by medical professionals and the lay community. We also discuss health in the cont ext of identity formation and life stage, as during this interval the daughter left home, graduated college, married, and had two children. Also in this period, the mother survived a …

Clostridium Difficile Infection Among Veterans Health Administration Patients, Yinong Young-Xu, Jennifer L. Kuntz, Dale N. Gerding, Julia Neily, Peter Mills, Erik R. Dubberke, Margaret A. Olsen, Ciarán P. Kelly, Cédric Mahé

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Evaluate To Learn: Integrating Assessment Data To Improve Outcome Of A Didactic Biomedical Science Course, Paramita Basu, John Fisher, Batoul Senhaji-Tomza, Suzanne R. Soliman

Touro College of Pharmacy (New York) Publications and Research

Objectives: To describe the evaluation system used to identify curricular issues within a pre-clinical biomedical science course in a Pharm.D program and report the difference in outcome after implementation of the resulting changes.

Method: Course content, sequence of delivery and integration of topics with other courses in the relevant tracks were reviewed to identify discrepancies. Evaluation feedback from students and faculty were obtained from E-value online course evaluation system, and end of course discussion reports. Student performance in the course before and after implementing the recommended changes were compared to assess their effectiveness.

Results: Content duplications and …

An Introduction To The Loop Analysis Of Qualitatively Specified Complex Causal Systems, Alexis Dinno

Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

This presentation introduces the loop analysis method.

Immunotherapy For Human Breast Cancer, Nasrah Ali Al Kamal

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

Al Kamal, Nasrah. M.S. Program of Microbiology and Immunology, Wright State University, 2015.Immunotherapy for Human Breast Cancer. The study focuses on the methodologies that are used in breast cancer therapy. The review finds major evolutions of these methods and the influence they have made on the increased survival rates in cancer patients. There is also a projection of the processes that are involved in the therapy practices and the way the protocols have been improved over time. The various stages of cancer treatment project the various aspects of better performance articulations in the therapy sector. There is also reference to …

Cd8+ T-Cells Count In Acute Myocardial Infarction In Hiv Disease In A Predominantly Male Cohort., Oluwatosin A Badejo, Chung-Chou Chang, Kaku A So-Armah, Russell P Tracy, Jason V Baker, David Rimland, Adeel A Butt, Adam J Gordon, Charles R Rinaldo, Kevin Kraemer, Jeffrey H Samet, Hilary A Tindle, Matthew B Goetz, Maria C Rodriguez-Barradas, Roger Bedimo, Cynthia L Gibert, David A Leaf, Lewis H Kuller, Steven G Deeks, Amy C Justice, Matthew S Freiberg

Medicine Faculty Publications

Human Immunodeficiency Virus- (HIV-) infected persons have a higher risk for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) than HIV-uninfected persons. Earlier studies suggest that HIV viral load, CD4+ T-cell count, and antiretroviral therapy are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Whether CD8+ T-cell count is associated with CVD risk is not clear. We investigated the association between CD8+ T-cell count and incident AMI in a cohort of 73,398 people (of which 97.3% were men) enrolled in the U.S. Veterans Aging Cohort Study-Virtual Cohort (VACS-VC). Compared to uninfected people, HIV-infected people with high baseline CD8+ T-cell counts (>1065 cells/mm3) had increased AMI …

Use Of Smartphones In Hospitals, N. A. Thomairy, M. Mummaneni, S. Alsalamah, N. Moussa, Alberto Coustasse

Management Faculty Research

Mobile technology has begun to change the landscape of the medical profession with more than two-thirds of physicians regularly using smart phones. Smartphones have allowed healthcare professionals and the general public to communicate more efficiently, collect data and facilitate the clinical decision making. The methodology for this study was a qualitative literature review following a systematic approach of the smartphone usage among physicians in hospitals. Fifty-one articles were selected for this study based on inclusion criteria. The findings were classified and described into seven categories: use of smartphone in obstetrics, pediatrics, surgery, internal medicine, radiology, and dermatology which were chosen …

Reporting Of Results In Clinicaltrials.Gov And High-Impact Journals: A Cross-Sectional Study, Jessica Elizabeth Becker

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

In 2007, the FDA Amendments Act expanded requirements for ClinicalTrials.gov, a public clinical trial registry maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, mandating results reporting within 12 months of trial completion for all FDA regulated drugs. We compared clinical trial results reported on ClinicalTrials.gov with corresponding published articles. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of clinical trials published from July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011 in high impact journals (impact factor 10 or higher) that were registered and reported results on ClinicalTrials.gov. We compared trial results reported on ClinicalTrials.gov and within published articles for the following: cohort characteristics, trial …

Ua94/6/15 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Dorris Hutchinson, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Correspondence and publications created by and about the Dorris Hutchison during her time at Sloan-Kettering Institute.

Observational Longitudinal Study Of Symptom Burden And Time For Recovery From Community-Acquired Pneumonia Reported By Older Adults Surveyed Nationwide Using The Cap Burden Of Illness Questionnaire., Kathleen W. Wyrwich, Holly Yu, Reiko Sato, John H. Powers

Medicine Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Millions of older adults who develop community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) each year survive, but there is a large knowledge gap on the burden of CAP and the recovery process in survivors from the patient perspective.

METHODS: The newly developed CAP Burden of Illness Questionnaire was administered through a Web survey to a nationwide sample of US adults aged ≥50 years who were recently diagnosed with CAP. Survey respondents with unresolved symptoms or other CAP-related health problems completed a second survey 30 days later; a third survey was completed another 30 days later by respondents with unresolved symptoms or problems. Nationally …

The Frequency Of Ticks Carrying Rickettsia Sp., Sarah C. Canterberry, Daniel J. Bennett, Robert J. Wiggers

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Urbanization On The Occurrence Of Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis: Do Urban Environments Provide Refuge From The Amphibian Chytrid Fungus?, Daniel Saenz, Taylor L. Hall, Matthew Kwiatkowski

Faculty Publications

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is a widespread pathogenic fungus that is known to cause the disease, chytridiomycosis, which can be lethal to many amphibians. We compared occurrence rates on spring peepers (Pseudacris crucifer) in urban and forested breeding sites in eastern Texas, USA. All study sites were at approximately the same latitude and altitude, and samples were collected at the same time of year to isolate differences in Bd infection rates between habitat types. We found significant differences (p<0.001) in the occurrence of Bd between habitats; with dramatically lower rates of occurrence at urban sites (19.5 %), compared to forested sites (62.9 …

A Human Right To Health: Is There One And, If So, What Does It Mean, Carol Castleberry

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

The human right to health, maybe more than any other right, uncovers disparities in respect for the human dignity of persons, based on race or ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geographic location, gender or sexual orientation, age, mental health, disability, and other characteristics. This article discusses the place of the human right to health in international law: whether a human right to health exists at all and, if so, what that means. It will illustrate that while the right to health is not universally legally enforceable the realization of the right to health is indeed progressing. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human …

Emergency Preparedness For A Radiological Disaster: Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant Release, Meghan A. Jackson

Master of Public Health Program Student Publications

Over the course of human history, man has tried to find an ultimate source of energy. Nuclear energy has been paramount to this sustainability. There have been over 420 nuclear related disasters since 1944 and preparedness has only marginally increased in response. This study examines the potential outfall of a major nuclear accident within the United States at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant. Using data from the incident that occurred in Fukushima, Japan in 2011, radiation plumes were plotted using HotSpot software over northern Ohio to examine the dispersion and concentration of radioactive particles and their potential health effects on …

Icipe Annual Report 2015, International Centre Of Insect Physiology And Ecology (Icipe)

icipe Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Analysing The Role Of Semiochemicals In The Oviposition Substrate Choices Of The Malaria Vector Mosquito Anopheles Gambiae Sensu Lato, Michael Okal Nyanganya

All PhD Dissertations

The search for tools that target malaria vector that resist insecticides and bite outdoors has become a research priority. Such tools will be necessary for managing residual malaria transmission and hastening the eradication of this devastating disease. This study investigated chemicals that potentially affect the oviposition substrate choices of Anopheles gambiae sensu lato (s.l.). It is foreseen that increased knowledge of the oviposition behaviour of this major malaria vectors and chemicals cues that mediate oviposition site-selection can be applied in the development of additional sampling methods and alternative interventions that to trap gravid malaria mosquitoes outdoors. To achieve a reproducible …

Impact Of Detergent On The Biophysical Properties And Immune Response Of The Ipadb Fusion Protein, A Candidate Subunit Vaccine Against Shigella Spp., X. Chen, S. P. Choudhari, F. J. Martinez-Becerra, J. H. Kim, N. E. Dickenson, R. T. Toth, S. B. Joshi, J. C. Greenwood, J. D. Clements, W. D. Picking, C. R. Middaugh, W. L. Picking

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Publications

Shigella spp. are causative agents of bacillary dysentery, a human illness with high global morbidity levels, particularly among elderly and infant populations. Shigella infects via the fecal-oral route, and its virulence is dependent upon a type III secretion system (T3SS). Two components of the exposed needle tip complex of the Shigella T3SS, invasion plasmid antigen D (IpaD) and IpaB, have been identified as broadly protective antigens in the mouse lethal pneumonia model. A recombinant fusion protein (DB fusion) was created by joining the coding sequences of IpaD and IpaB. The DB fusion is coexpressed with IpaB's cognate chaperone, IpgC, for …

Annual Report 2015, University Libraries

Annual Reports & Newsletters

FY 2015 Annual Report University Libraries, University of South Dakota.

Connections is published once a year for the benefit of alumni, students, faculty and friends of the University of South Dakota University Libraries. Contributions and feedback are welcome.

Retrospective, 2015, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries

Retrospective

No abstract provided.

A Unifying Gravity Framework For Dispersal, E. Jongejans, O. Skarpaas, M. J. Ferrari Et Al.

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Breeding Sites Of Aedes Species Mosquito In Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines, Butch Lanticse, Milagros Greif

CNU Journal of Higher Education

A survey on the breeding sites of Aedes species mosquito in Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines, was conducted for the development of an integrated community-based dengue control program. The study included the identification of Aedes species breeding sites and an interview of households on their practices towards dengue prevention. Villages of six Barangays (lowest level of formal local administration) with the highest and lowest dengue incidences based on 2013 to August 2014 record of City Health Office were sampled for the study. Barangays with the highest dengue incidences include Banilad, Canduman and Subangdako, while the three remaining Barangays with the lowest …

Integrating Mrna And Mirna Weighted Gene Co-Expression Networks With Eqtls In The Nucleus Accumbens Of Subjects With Alcohol Dependence, Mohammed Mamdani, Vernell Williamson, Gowon O. Mcmichael, Tana Blevins, Fazil Aliev, Amy Adkins, Laura Hack, Tim Bigdeli, Andrew D. Van Der Vaart, Bradley Todd Webb, Silviu-Alin Bacanu, Gursharan Kalsi, Coga Consortium, Kenneth S. Kendler, Michael F. Miles, Danielle Dick, Brien P. Riley, Catherine Dumur, Vladimir I. Vladimirov

Psychology Publications

Alcohol consumption is known to lead to gene expression changes in the brain. After performing weighted gene co-expression network analyses (WGCNA) on genome-wide mRNA and microRNA (miRNA) expression in Nucleus Accumbens (NAc) of subjects with alcohol dependence (AD; N = 18) and of matched controls (N = 18), six mRNA and three miRNA modules significantly correlated with AD were identified (Bonferoni-adj. p≤ 0.05). Cell-type-specific transcriptome analyses revealed two of the mRNA modules to be enriched for neuronal specific marker genes and downregulated in AD, whereas the remaining four mRNA modules were enriched for astrocyte and microglial specific marker genes and …

The Feral Cat Conundrum: Assessing The Science And Ethics Of Trap-Neuter-Return, Emily Vincent 15

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.

Horizons Fall 2015, Nova Southeastern University

Horizons

• Features
  • Saving the Players 3
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  • #NSUsuccess 19
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  • Students Benefit from Academic Realignment 26
  • NSU’s Miami Campus 34
  • Changes Make the Grade 40
• Departments
  • Message from the President 2
  • Faculty Profiles
    • Leslie Tworoger 30
    • Jedidiah Siev 32
  • Alumni Profiles
    • Randall K. Williams 10
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  • Student Profile
    • Lauren Alfino 38
  • Athletics
    • Seven Is the Magic Number for NSU Sharks 42
    • Baseball Player Is the Heart of NSU 43
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    • Donors Advance Scholarship Funds at NSU 44

Waterpipe Smoking And Regulation In The United States: A Comprehensive Review Of The Literature, Linda Haddad, Omar El-Shahawy, Roula Ghadban, Tracey E. Barnett, Emily Johnson

Social and Behavioral Sciences Publications

Background: Researchers in tobacco control are concerned about the increasing prevalence of waterpipe smoking in the United States, which may pose similar risks as cigarette smoking. This review explores the prevalence of waterpipe smoking in the United States as well as the shortcomings of current U.S. policy for waterpipe control and regulation. Methods: Researchers conducted a literature review for waterpipe articles dated between 2004 and 2015 using five online databases: MEDLINE, CINHAHL, ScienceDirect, PMC, and Cochrane Library. Results: To date, few studies have explored the marketing and regulation of waterpipe smoking in the U.S., which has increased …

2015 Annual Report, Center For Applied Research On Substance Use And Health Disparities

Center for Applied Research on Substance Use and Health Disparities Annual Reports

No abstract provided.