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Research Progress On Cold Chain Logistics Technique Of Vegetables, Yan Can, Liu Sheng, Jia Lie, Wang Da, Zhang Xiaofang

Food and Machinery

The postharvest vegetables have high respiration rate and are easy to perish at high temperature with high moisture. Therefore, it is very important for postharvest vegetables to precool the temperature approach the appropriate storage temperature. Then the vegetables are stored, transported, sold and preserved in fridges in the condition. Cold chain logistic is a physical method, keeping qualities and prolonging the shelf life of vegetables, and then providing customers with fresh, green, safety, nutrition vegetables. In this review, the author described situations and applications of precooling, storage, transportation and marketing of vegetables at home and abroad, which provide a reference …

Summer Research And Creativity Grants, Uk Office Of Undergraduate Research

Kaleidoscope

The abstracts in this section were submitted by students who received Research and Creativity Awards for the summer of 2009. Many are not final reports because the projects were still in process when the submissions were due. Rather, they are progress reports. However, these abstracts provide a clear and wonderfully diverse picture of the broad range of scholarly activities being undertaken by undergraduates at the University of Kentucky.

Showcase Of Undergraduate Scholars, Uk Office Of Undergraduate Research

Kaleidoscope

No abstract provided.

Childhood Obesity: What Role Does Public Policy Play?, Shannon Turbeville

Kaleidoscope

The purpose of this review is to explore public policies that impact the health of American children and adolescents. The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) has a significant impact on school-age children’s nutritional intake. Foods provided by the NSLP have been analyzed for their nutritional content. Although these foods did not exceed the recommended total caloric intake, they were below other nutritional standards, and these shortcomings are primarily attributable to cultural preferences. Other important contributors to childhood obesity are unregulated school food items sold in vending machines. These items are becoming increasingly more prevalent in schools. Public policy is an …

The Agricultural Footprints On The Environment, Philip Houtz

Kaleidoscope

Industrialized agricultural systems have given America a convenient and affordable means to supply a surplus of food products to its citizens. Transgenic technology, synthesized fertilizers, advanced pesticides, concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), and the use of farm machinery have all contributed to humanity’s ability to feed the world’s rapidly growing population. However, the energy-intensive food operation of today may not be as ideal as we assume. Fossil fuels are burned to meet the energy requirements for the continual production of large quantities of fertilizer and to keep farm machines operational. Fertilizer and pesticide runoff from farmland ultimately drains into rivers …

The Weekly Challenger, August 27, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The August 27, 2015, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Regulation Of Chemical Risks: Lessons For Reform Of The Toxic Substances Control Act From Canada And The European Union, Adam D.K. Abelkop, John D. Graham

Pace Environmental Law Review

The purpose of this Article is to compare the regulatory systems in Canada and the EU, and use comparative insights to draw some lessons that may be of interest to U.S. policy makers engaged in TSCA reform. CEPA and REACH are seen by stakeholders as state of the art in chemicals assessment and management, and thus the U.S. may draw useful insights from them. Indeed, the European Union and Canada have each been urging other countries to join in a globalization of the REACH or Canadian programs, respectively. Regardless of what TSCA reformers choose to learn from the Canadian and …

My Service-Learning Experience In Haiti, Holly M. Renner

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

No abstract provided.

Changing Perspective: Linking Cultures Through Hearing, Alexis Holt

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

An example of a service-learning project at Purdue University is the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences study abroad program in Zambia, Africa. Twelve students and two faculty members spent two weeks in Lusaka, the capital of the South African country of Zambia. The objective of this trip was to perform hearing screenings, primarily on children, in centers, primary schools, orphanages, and the Beit CURE Hospital. Prior to the trip, students received training on how to conduct hearing screenings, information about Zambia, and instruction on what to expect during our journey. Students achieved the goal of performing hearing screenings on children, …

Volume 53, Number 2: August 26, 2015, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Summary Report Of Key Findings For New South Wales Catholic Education Schools: Catholic Education New South Wales - How Are Primary Education Health And Physical Education (Hpe) Teachers Best Prepared?, Tj Lynch

Plymouth Institute of Education

Health and Physical Education (HPE) as an Australian curriculum learning area is associated with holistic lifelong health and wellbeing. Research suggests that the optimum time for children to learn and refine their motor skills and to be introduced to positive HPE experiences is during preschool and early primary school years. This report presents the key findings of an investigation into primary school principals’ perceptions of a university pre-service teacher education course where the graduate teacher is qualified as both a generalist primary classroom teacher and a HPE specialist.

The Food Education Project: Teaching Nutrition Through Environmental Awareness, Caren R. Pinto

Master's Projects and Capstones

This paper examines a 300-hour fieldwork internship that took place during a summer semester at a local non-profit called the Food Education Project (FEP). FEP provided a practical and hands- on opportunity, which allowed for the knowledge gained over the past two years at the University of San Francisco’s Public Health Program to be put to public health practice. The experience was invaluable for the author’s professional and personal growth.

The paper will explore the prevalence of obesity and type II diabetes in the nation’s youth today. Second, a literature review will be conducted to examine the relevance of in …

The Role Of Public Libraries In Addressing Food Insecurity: A Model For Community Feeding, Monica De La Cruz

Master's Projects and Capstones

Food insecurity is a serious problem in the United States. Not having enough food to eat can negatively impact children more severely than adults. Children who are food insecure are more likely to suffer from a range of physical, mental, and developmental delays in growth. There is prior evidence that the effects of food insecurity in children can be ameliorated through national feeding programs, like the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), which provides daily lunch at school for eligible low-income children. Though these types of programs are considered successful in addressing food insecurity within the community, the lack of these …

Engaging San Francisco’S Western Addition In A Community Needs Assessment: A Field Work Report, Bridget Walsh-Dahlberg

Master's Projects and Capstones

San Francisco’s Western Addition is a neighborhood steeped in a history of discriminative policies and actions. Today, while the Western is a vibrant community, it continues to feel the effects of the historic discriminatory practices. This is evident in the disparities seen across many indicators, including: educational success and attainment; health; employment; and housing opportunities. Engage San Francisco, an initiative born from the University of San Francisco’s Leo T. McCarthy for Public Service and Common Good seeks to help improve the lives and success of children, youth and families in the Western Addition through community identified needs. Through campus-community relationships …

Health Hub Program Evaluation, Natalie Macias

Master's Projects and Capstones

This paper examines and evaluates the work of LIFT-Levántate a non-profit organization in San Rafael, California on their school-based nutritional education “health hub,” through health promotion interventions with adolescents. The James B. Davidson Middle School health hub educates students on topics related to nutrition and physical activity with the goal of providing access and increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables while lowering students’ intake of high-fat and sugary processed foods. Through research and observations of the students and families in this community, the data seems to indicate apparent disparities which vary by ethnicity, socioeconomic status and access. Underserved populations, including …

Caring For Those Who Care The Most: Bill Wilson Center Wellness Program Assessment, Anne Cunniffe Marcy

Master's Projects and Capstones

Executive Summary

Bill Wilson Center (BWC) is a community-based not-for-profit organization that provides mental health services, shelter, and support services to homeless youths and families in Santa Clara County. The agency currently has 137 staff members in the mental health division. The agency currently does not have an existing wellness program. The goal of this project is to evaluate the needs of the employees and what type of wellness activities they are interested in. BWC’s employees are the agency’s most valuable assets. Only through top performance can the agency continue to provide the highest level of services to more than …

A Call For Environmental Justice: Water Access And Alcohol Policies, Alexandra Rosalsky

Master's Projects and Capstones

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Community Engagement and Health Policy Department (CEHP) bridges academic research, health policy, and community practice to improve public health. Within CEHP is the San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership (SFHIP). The SFHIP partners work together to promote synergies and create innovation to achieve more substantial gains in community health and health equity. Thorough community assessments and academic research precede the development of public health policy. It is the SFHIP department that conducts the community assessments and collects the academic research in order to promote public health policies to the City of San Francisco. SFHIP …

Bringing The Elephant Into The Room: Integrating Risk Into Interdisciplinary Water Programs, Laura Read, Laura Kuhl

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Problems that require risk management are usually cross-disciplinary in nature, which makes it difficult to educate students and professionals on common language, skills, and strategies. Recognition of the interdisciplinary nature of many water challenges in terms of quality, allocation, future supply, infrastructure, damages, etc. has led to the establishment of interdisciplinary graduate water programs. Motivated by experience in an interdisciplinary water program at Tufts University, this paper argues that explicit coverage of the subject of risk is an important component of an interdisciplinary water training program, and that understanding risk should be a core competency of a water professional. The …

The Human And Environmental Health Impacts Of Food Quality Among Emergency Food Providers, Alexina Cather

Master's Projects and Capstones

Abstract

Human health and environmental health are inextricably entwined, and the ways in which we grow, process, package, transport, market, and consume food are critical factors for both human and environmental health. The current industrial food system in the United States has numerous adverse effects on environmental and human health, which significantly impact the millions of food insecure Americans who receive their nutritional needs from emergency food providers (American Public Health Association, 2007). The widespread food insecurity in the United States and the increasing prevalence of obesity among adults and children have drawn attention to the role that emergency food …

Assessing The Needs Of Ihss Providers, Renesha M. Westerfield

Master's Projects and Capstones

San Francisco IHSS (In Home Supportive Services) Public Authority serves over 2,000 consumers and this number is growing daily due to the amount of people in need here in San Francisco. The consumers are in need of providers. Currently there is a lack of well-trained providers to aid in meeting the needs of the consumers. This has lead to consumers going back to hospital for injuries and other complications that could have been avoided if they had providers who were properly trained on their condition. This is not the purpose of IHSSPA, they receive funding to prevent hospital recidivism but …

Electromyographic Responses From The Vastus Medialis During Isometric Muscle Actions, C. M. Smith, Terry J. Housh, Trent J. Herda, Jorge M Zuniga, Clayton L. Camic, Haley Bergstrom, D.B. Smith, John R. Weir, Joel T. Cramer, E.C. Hill, Kristen C. Cochrane, N. D. M. Jenkins, R. Schmidt, G. Johnson

Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

This study examined the electromyographic (EMG) responses from the vastus medialis (VM) for electrodes placed over and away from the innervation zone (IZ) during a maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC) and sustained, submaximal isometric muscle action. A linear electrode array was placed on the VM to identify the IZ and muscle fiber pennation angle during an MVIC and sustained isometric muscle action at 50 % MVIC. EMG amplitude and frequency parameters were determined from 7 bipolar channels of the electrode array, including over the IZ, as well as 10 mm, 20 mm and 30 mm proximal and distal to the …

Hexabromocyclododecane And Tetrabromobisphenol A Alter Secretion Of Interferon Gamma (Ifn-Γ) From Human Immune Cells, Haifa Almughamsi, Margaret M. Whalen

Chemistry Faculty Research

Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) and tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) are brominated flame-retardant compounds used in a variety of applications including insulation, upholstery, and epoxy resin circuit boards. Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) is an inflammatory cytokine produced by activated T and NK cells that regulates immune responsiveness. HBCD and TBBPA are found in human blood, and previous studies have shown that they alter the ability of human natural killer (NK) lymphocytes to destroy tumor cells. This study examines whether HBCD and TBBPA affect the secretion of IFN-γ from increasingly complex preparations of human immune cells—purified NK cells, monocyte-depleted (MD) peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), and …

Is Soil Quality Linked To Psnp Graduation In East And West Hararghe, Ethiopia?, Elizabeth Gladding

Capstone Collection

Many households in Ethiopia have struggled to remain food secure and meet their nutritional needs. In response to chronic food insecurity the Ethiopian government developed the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) to provide support to households in the form of food or cash transfers in exchange for public service work. The idea of the program is that households will develop their livelihoods through the public work and eventually become self-sufficient, food secure and graduate from the PSNP.

Some households graduate from PSNP in a shorter time than others, attributing to many different factors. This study looks at soil quality as …

Early Mortality And Functional Outcome After Acute Stroke In Uganda: Prospective Study With 30 Day Follow-Up, Martha Sajatovic

Faculty Scholarship

Identification of early outcomes post stroke and their predictors is important in stroke management strategies. We prospectively analysed 30-day outcomes (mortality and functional ability) after stroke and their predictors among patients admitted within 7 days post event to a national referral hospital in Uganda. This was a prospective study of acute stroke patients consecutively enrolled between February and July 2014. Social demographics, clinical, laboratory, imaging characteristics, outcomes (all through 30 days), time of death were assessed using standardised questionnaires. Multiple regression was used to analyse the independent influence of factors on outcomes. Of 127 patients, 88 (69.3 %) had ischemic …

Patterns Of Dominance Relationships Among The Females Of A Captive Female-Only Group Of Lion-Tailed Macaques (Macaca Silenus) During The Course Of The Introduction Of A New Adult Male, Pia Zaunmair, Madhur Mangalam, Werner Kaumanns, Mewa Singh, Leopold Slotta-Bachmayr

Journal Articles

Lion-tailed macaques are generally considered to have more despotic than egalitarian dominance relationships; however, research lacks any conclusive evidence. In the present study, we examined dominance relationships among the females (of which the genealogical relationships were known) of a captive female-only group of lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) during the course of introduction of a new adult male to the group at the Wels Zoo, Wels, Austria. We determined the structure of dominance hierarchy and the corresponding changes in dominance relationships, possibly mediated by an increase in sexual competition among the females. When the females were housed together without any adult …

Academic-Community Partnerships Effectiveness Evaluated Beyond The Ivory Walls, Rosemary M. Caron, Jessica Ulrich-Schad, Catherine C. Lafferty

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has furthered our understanding of the working principles required for academic-community partnerships to address persistent public health problems. However, little is known about how effective these partnerships have been in eliminating or reducing community-based public health issues. To contribute to the literature in this area, the authors conducted a survey of U.S. schools and programs in public health and community groups working with these academic partners to: (1) identify the most common local public health issues addressed; (2) examine the characteristics of the partnership and the actual or perceived benefits and challenges for each partner; (3) …

What's Happening: August 24, 2015, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Commonwealth Times 2015-08-24

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Biology Of Muscle Atrophy And Of Its Recovery By Fes In Aging And Mobility Impairments: Roots And By-Products., Ugo Carraro, Helmut Kern, Paolo Gava, Christian Hofer, Stefan Loefler, Paolo Gargiulo, Simone Mosole, Sandra Zampieri, Valerio Gobbo, Barbara Ravara, Francesco Piccione, Andrea Marcante, Alfonc Baba, Sheila Schils, Amber Pond, Francesco Gava

Publications

There is something in our genome that dictates life expectancy and there is nothing that can be done to avoid this; indeed, there is not yet any record of a person who has cheated death. Our physical prowess can vacillate substantially in our lifetime according to our activity levels and nutritional status and we may fight aging, but we will inevitably lose. We have presented strong evidence that the atrophy which accompanies aging is to some extent caused by loss of innervation. We compared muscle biopsies of sedentary seniors to those of life long active seniors, and show that these …

Bjc Today

BJC Today

No abstract provided.