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Marijuana Legalization. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Legalizes marijuana and hemp under state law. Requires case-by-case review of charges or convictions for nonviolent marijuana offenses for possible sentence modification, amnesty, or immediate release from prison, jail, parole, or probation, and for possible clearance of criminal records. Requires Legislature to adopt laws to license and tax commercial marijuana sales. Allows doctors to approve or recommend marijuana for patients, regardless of age. Allows medical marijuana patients to designate collectives or dispensaries as primary caregivers. Limits testing for marijuana for employment or insurance purposes. Bars state or local aid to enforce federal marijuana laws. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst …

A Not So Groovy Masquerader: A Case Report Of Groove Pancreatitis, Matthew Sullivan Do, Lisa Yoo Do, Nancy Khov Md, Andrew Tinsley Md, John Levenick Md

Department of Medicine

No abstract provided.

Through The Looking Glass: Finding And Freeing Modern-Day Slaves At The State Level, Michelle Crawford Rickert

Liberty University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Exploring Foodie Segmentation, Carol S. Kline, Jerusha Greenwood, Leah Joyner

Journal of Tourism Insights

Previous research studies have explored the activities, motivations, and outcomes for the culinary tourist, and researchers have theorized certain segments of culinary travelers (Boniface, 2003; Mitchell, Hall & McIntosh, 2000). Contrasting to this, investigation into “the foodie” and his or her activities at home has been strikingly infrequent. Exploring the foodie ‘at home’ or the foodie’s everyday behavior is critical to understanding different types of foodies, how to market to foodies, and their decision-making processes for culinary travel. The purpose of this study is to test, via an online survey, a scale that distinguishes between different types of foodies, and …

Guide To The Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds Papers, Linfield College Archives

Linfield Archives Finding Aids

This collection reflects the life work of Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds, a student and professor of Linfield College. A dedicated and scrupulous woman, the majority of the collection consists of her research, teaching materials, and correspondence. The collection also includes research and correspondence by Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds’s mentor, Dr. James A. Macnab.

Otter Realm, October 15, 2015, California State University, Monterey Bay

The Otter Realm

OtterMedia vote just as confusing as the issue -- Chancellor White visits CSUMB: A question & answer with the CSU chancellor -- Marina movie theater open for the public -- Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations -- Majoring in Math as easy as Pi -- College of Business adds major and reviews programs -- College of Education offers Multiple Subject Teacher Credential program -- Marina purchases Preston Park for $35 million: Marina apartments will now support local economy -- Defense spending high while other branches suffer -- Christianity and equality: Shedding light on our differences -- Get a clue, know your news! …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 91, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Mathews, Carly. Campus Police Discuss Shooting Threats Protocols – WKU Police
• Young, Alyse. Smart House – Gatton Academy of Science & Mathematics, Schneider Hall
• Mayo, Marcel & Carly Mathews. Dub the Pub Competition Draws Closer to End – Topper Grill & Pub
• Mayo, Marcel. Location for a Multicultural Center in the Works
• Mayo, Marcel. Student Government Association Discusses Smoke-Free Phase Out Plan
• Mayo, Marcel. African American Museum Moves from State Street to the Erskine House
• Wright, Samantha. Andrea Anderson Replaces Huda Melky as Title IX Coordinator
• Mayo, Marcel. WKU …

Engagement With Ehealth Self-Monitoring In A Primary Care-Based Weight Management Intervention, Kathleen Y. Wolin, Dori M. Steinberg, Ilana B. Lane, Sandy Askew, Mary L. Greaney, Graham A. Colditz, Gary G. Bennett

Kinesiology Faculty Publications

Background:

While eHealth approaches hold promise for improving the reach and cost-effectiveness of behavior change interventions, they have been challenged by declining participant engagement over time, particularly for self-monitoring behaviors. These are significant concerns in the context of chronic disease prevention and management where durable effects are important for driving meaningful changes.

Purpose:

“Be Fit, Be Well” was an eHealth weight loss intervention that allowed participants to self-select a self-monitoring modality (web or interactive voice response (IVR)). Participants could change their modality. As such, this study provides a unique opportunity to examine the effects of intervention modality choice and changing …

Ethanol Enhances Arsenic-Induced Cyclooxygenase-2 Expression Via Both Nfat And Nf-Κb Signalings In Colorectal Cancer Cells, Lei Wang, John Andrew Hitron, James T.F. Wise, Young Ok Son, Ram Vinod Roy, Donghern Kim, Jin Dai, Poyil Pratheeshkumar, Zhuo Zhang, Mei Xu, Jia Luo, Xianglin Shi

Faculty Publications

Arsenic is a known carcinogen to humans, and chronic exposure to environmental arsenic is a worldwide health concern. As a dietary factor, ethanol carries a well-established risk for malignancies, but the effects of co-exposure to arsenic and ethanol on tumor development are not well understood. In the present study, we hypothesized that ethanol would enhance the function of an environmental carcinogen such as arsenic through increase in COX-2 expression. Our in vitro results show that ethanol enhanced arsenic-induced COX-2 expression. We also show that the increased COX-2 expression associates with intracellular ROS generation, up-regulated AKT signaling, with activation of both …

Relationship Between Caries Experience And Mothers'dental Care Knowledge And Attitude Among Palestinian Refugees In Lebanon, Tarek Dgheim, Sherine Badr, Hala Ragab

International Arab Journal of Dentistry

The aim of this study was to assess oral health care and use of dental services among preschool Palestinian refugee children aged 3 to 6 years old, as well as to evaluate oral health care knowledge of their mothers. Cross-sectional study was carried out through a survey about oral health care of 120 refugee children randomly selected from two nurseries inside a Palestinian camp for refugees in Beirut, Lebanon. Dental examination was performed and mothers were surveyed about their dental care knowledge and attitudes toward their children. The mean Decayed-Missing-Filled index (dmf) index was 6.5 ± 5.25. The main determinants …

The Alestle - Vol. 68 No. 8 - 10/15/2015, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 68 No. 8

Effects Of Cellulase Hydrolysis And Carbonates On The Probiotic Fermentation Of Noni (Morinda Citrifolia), Hui-Hung Lee, Li-Jung Yin, Shann-Tzong Jiang

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

In typical fermentation of noni (Morina citrifolia), nutrients loss, along with unfavorable taste and odor frequently occurred due to the time-consuming fermentation. To improve the quality of fermented noni, cellulase hydrolysis and probiotic fermentation were employed. Four hours of hydrolysis with 100 U/mL of cellulase at 50°C significantly increased the reducing sugar, total phenolic content, reducing power, and trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity. No probiotics tested in this study could grow on the noni slurry and its hydrolysate, except for Pediococcus pentosaceus (BCRC 14053), which was able to grow on noni with 0.6% calcium carbonate. The probiotic count increased to 8.55 …

Rfx Transcription Factors Are Essential For Hearing In Mice, Ran Elkon, Beatrice Milon, Laura Morrison, Manan Shah, Sarath Vijayakumar, Manoj Racherla, Carmen C. Leitch, Lorna Silipino, Shadan Hadi, Michèle Weiss-Gayte, Emmanuèle Barras, Christoph D. Schmid, Aouatef Ait-Lounis, Ashley Barnes, Yang Song, David J. Eisenman, Efrat Eliyahu, Gregory I. Frolenkov, Scott E. Strome, Bénédicte Durand, Norann A. Zaghloul, Sherri M. Jones, Walter Reith, Ronna Hertzano

Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders: Faculty Publications

Sensorineural hearing loss is a common and currently irreversible disorder, because mammalian hair cells (HCs) do not regenerate and current stem cell and gene delivery protocols result only in immature HC-like cells. Importantly, although the transcriptional regulators of embryonic HC development have been described, little is known about the postnatal regulators of maturating HCs. Here we apply a cell type-specific functional genomic analysis to the transcriptomes of auditory and vestibular sensory epithelia from early postnatal mice. We identify RFX transcription factors as essential and evolutionarily conserved regulators of the HC-specific transcriptomes, and detect Rfx1,2,3,5 and 7 in the developing HCs. …

Diet-Responsive Micrornas Are Likely Exogenous, Janos Zempleni, Scott R. Baier, Kendal Hirschi

Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

In a recent report Title et al. (1) fostered miRNA-375 and miR-200c knock-out pups to wild-type dams and arrived at the conclusion that milk microRNAs are bioavailable in trace amounts at best and that postprandial concentrations of microRNAs are too low to elicit biological effects. Their take home message is flawed. First, the majority of microRNAs in bovine milk are encapsulated in exosomes, thereby conferring protection against degradation and a mechanism for intestinal transport (2). Second, numerous dietary microRNAs have been cataloged among human samples (3). Third, the mere absence of a postprandial increase does not equate with zero absorption. …

The Trial Of Calcium And Vitamin D For The Prevention Of Colorectal Adenomas, John A. Baron, Elizabeth L. Barry, Leila A. Mott, Judy R. Rees

Dartmouth Scholarship

BACKGROUND Epidemiologic and preclinical data suggest that higher intake and serum levels of vitamin D and higher intake of calcium reduce the risk of colorectal neoplasia. To further study the chemopreventive potential of these nutrients, we conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of supplementation with vitamin D, calcium, or both for the prevention of colorectal adenomas. METHODS We recruited patients with recently diagnosed adenomas and no known colorectal polyps remaining after complete colonoscopy. We randomly assigned 2259 participants to receive daily vitamin D3 (1000 IU), calcium as carbonate (1200 mg), both, or neither in a partial 2Å~2 factorial design. Women …

Quaker Campus, October 15, 2015 (Vol. 102, Issue 6), Whittier College

Quaker Campus

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Ocean Acidification On Marine Organisms—Unifying Principles And New Paradigms, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Mike Thorndyke, Sam Dupont

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Time-Specific Fear Acts As A Non-Photic Entraining Stimulus Of Circadian Rhythms In Rats, Blake A. Pellman, Earnest S. Kim, Melissa Reilly, James Kashima, Oleksiy Motch, Horacio O. De La Iglesia, Jeansok J. Kim

Faculty Publications - Psychology Department

Virtually all animals have endogenous clock mechanisms that “entrain” to the light-dark (LD) cycle and synchronize psychophysiological functions to optimal times for exploring resources and avoiding dangers in the environment. Such circadian rhythms are vital to human mental health, but it is unknown whether circadian rhythms “entrained” to the LD cycle can be overridden by entrainment to daily recurring threats. We show that unsignaled nocturnal footshock caused rats living in an “ethological” apparatus to switch their natural foraging behavior from the dark to the light phase and that this switch was maintained as a free-running circadian rhythm upon removal of …

October 2015 Academic Affairs Minutes, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Academic Affairs Committee

Academic Affairs Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Bates Student - Volume 145 Number 5 - October 14, 2015, Bates College

The Bates Student

No abstract provided.

The Tri-Ag Academics Research Extension College Of Agriculture Sciences - October 2015, Prairie View A&M University

Prairie View Magazine Collection

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Co2 On Growth Rate, C:N:P, And Fatty Acid Composition Of Seven Marine Phytoplankton Species, Andrew L. King, Bethany D. Jenkins, Joselynn R. Wallace, Yuan Liu, Gary H. Wikfors, Lisa M. Milke, Shannon L. Meseck

Cell and Molecular Biology Faculty Publications

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is the primary substrate for photosynthesis by the phytoplankton that form the base of the marine food web and mediate biogeochemical cycling of C and nutrient elements. Specific growth rate and elemental composition (C:N:P) were characterized for 7 cosmopolitan coastal and oceanic phytoplankton species (5 diatoms and 2 chlorophytes) using low density, nutrient-replete, semi-continuous culture experiments in which CO₂ was manipulated to 4 levels ranging from post-bloom/glacial maxima (ppm) to geological maxima levels (>2900 ppm). Specific growth rates at high CO₂ were from 19 to 60% higher than in low CO_{2 …}

Prospectus, October 14, 2015, Parkland College, Sarah Powers, Matthew D. Moss, Scott Barnes, Peter Floess, Adam Vilmin

Prospectus 2015

New RN bridge program for paramedics the first of its kind in the state, Parkland working to head off campus violence, Many students want more options in the cafeteria, Monument to honor King planned for Georgia’s Stone Mountain(AP), Students return to Oregon college after shooting(AP), Interstate 95 reopening in South Carolina after record flood(AP), In Review: A Photographer's life of Love and War, Obama: Clinton made mistake; security not endangered(AP), That New York twang: Nashville calls on Big apple schools(AP), Obama gives Kanye West some tips for his presidential run(AP), Injuries just another challenge for Cobra baseball team, Records: Illini …

Assessment Of Dietary Behaviors, Body Composition, And Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among College Club Rugby Team, Carly R. Macdougall, Gytis Balilionis, Svetlana Nepocatych

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 8(4): 403-413, 2015. The purpose of this study was to evaluate dietary behaviors, body composition, and potential cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among college club rugby team players. 15 athletes completed demographics, three 24-hour dietary recalls, body composition and blood lipid profile assessments following an overnight fast. Mean ± SD age of participants was 20 ± 1 years; weight 81 ± 16 kg; BMI 25.7 ± 3.2 kg/m²; body fat 13 ± 5%; total cholesterol 133 ± 37 mg/dl; high-density lipoprotein 49 ± 18 mg/dl; low-density lipoproteins 77 ± 26 mg/dl; triglycerides 86 …

The Influence Of Short-Term Quercetin Supplementation On Peak Oxygen Uptake During Simulated Altitude Exposure In Trained Cyclists, Justin A. Carlstrom

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 8(4): 394-402, 2015. Endurance performance and peak oxygen uptake (VO_2peak) decline as altitude increases. Some data exist suggesting that quercetin supplementation improves aerobic capacity in trained and untrained individuals at sea-level (normobaric normoxic conditions). Few studies have examined the effects of quercetin on endurance performance during simulated altitude exposure (normobaric hypoxic conditions). The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of consuming 1000 mg·day^-1 of quercetin for two weeks on cycling VO_2peak in healthy trained male cyclists performing under normobaric normoxic and hypoxic conditions (NP and HP, respectively). Fourteen …

Executive Committee - Meeting Minutes, 10/13/2015, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

You Don't Need Any Special Talent To Join Fight Against Hunger, Terri Susan Fine

UCF Forum

The United Nations itself had not yet been officially established when its own Food and Agriculture Organization was formed, even though it was by just a few days. The U.N. was established Oct. 24, 1945, just eight days following the establishment of the Food and Agriculture Organization, and it was not until 1948 that the international body ratified its Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Uab Study Looks To Improve Medication Adherence In African-American Glaucoma Patients, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: October 13, 2015, Eastern Illinois University

October

No abstract provided.

Association Of Adipokines With Insulin Resistance, Microvascular Dysfunction, And Endothelial Dysfunction In Healthy Young Adults., Cindy Cheng, Md, Phd, Constantine Daskalakis

Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Faculty Papers

Proinflammatory adipokines (inflammation markers) from visceral adipose tissue may initiate the development of insulin resistance (IR) and endothelial dysfunction (ED). This study's objective was to investigate the association of five inflammation markers (CRP and four adipokines: IL-6, TNFα, PAI-1, and adiponectin) with IR (quantitative insulin resistance check index (QUICKI)), microvascular measures (capillary density and albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR)), and endothelial measures (forearm blood flow (FBF) increases from resting baseline to maximal vasodilation). Analyses were conducted via multiple linear regression. The 295 study participants were between 18 and 45 years of age, without diabetes or hypertension. They included 24% African Americans and …