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Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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The Influence Of Parent Expectations, The Home Literacy Environment, And Parent Behavior On Child Reading Interest, Tammy Matvichuk

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

An important first step to children gaining early literacy skills that can shape academic achievement is a child's interest in reading. Early interest is an important predictor of long-term academic success among children and is therefore important to study. Many children are considered at risk for poorer academic outcomes, including African American children growing up in poverty and children who are overweight. Therefore, it is especially important to understand influences on early reading interest in these populations. Very little is currently known about what influences child literacy interest. Therefore, the overall goal of this study was to examine the relation …

Increasing Self-Management Of Cystic Fibrosis Through The Use Of Smartphone App Technology, Jenna Coon

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a chronic and progressive genetic disease affecting the body's transportation of salt and water through cells. Those with CF experience various respiratory, reproductive, and digestive complications. 30,000 people in the US are currently living with CF. Research indicates poor adherence to treatment regimens results in life-threatening consequences and poor long-term health outcomes. Compliance is particularly low in teenagers and young adults. The identification of current smartphone technology and applications are examined and the advantages they have in increasing self-management in the CF population. A new app specifically targeted for those with CF is introduced.

Height, Crime And Colonial History, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Matthew Cracknell, Kris Inwood

SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)

Since the 1970s historians interested in the impact of changing social and economic conditions on health outcomes have studied record collections that contain information about adult stature. Fluctuations in mean height by year of birth are potentially informative because they should reflect conditions encountered in utero and during the early years of life. Yet, like all historical records, surviving height series are not necessarily representative of the population as a whole. They are also subject to factors that might change over time. This article uses Tasmania nineteenth century criminal record series to explore these issues in greater depth. It is …

Influence Of Maternal Prior Life Adversity On The Psycho-Neuroendocrine-Immune Profile During Pregnancy, Karen J. Kotz

Dissertations

Pregnancy is accompanied by a multitude of physical and psychological changes. Adaptation to these changes through reduced anxiety and attenuated stress responsiveness is necessary across gestation and into the postpartum period for optimal maternal-infant health. In contrast, exposure to higher amounts of stressors during pregnancy can disrupt neuroendocrine-immune processes required for successful pregnancy outcomes. Evolving evidence demonstrates that exposure to adversity early in life has long-lasting effects on stress response systems that alter stress reactivity during adulthood. Given this evidence, it is posited that women who experience greater pre-pregnancy adversity during their childhood are at greater risk for negative maternal-infant …

Negotiating Diabetes: Professional Diabetes Care Work In The U.S., Melissa Marie Gesbeck

Dissertations

The rising incidence of diabetes mellitus (types 1 and 2) transcends national borders, creating a global pandemic. The U.S. leads the world in diabetes prevalence, despite its wealth and access to sophisticated medical technologies. Within health care, there is an increasing focus on lifestyle and behavioral interventions that research suggests may be the key to reversing this trend, but thus far their effectiveness in practice is uneven at best. In order to gain a better understanding of the other factors involved in professional diabetes care work that might support or inhibit effective diabetes management, this research treats diabetes as a …

Research And Reality: Towards Responsible Medical Research For Catholic Universities, Michael Patrick Mccarthy

Dissertations

It is frequently noted that 90% of medical research stands to benefit only 10% of the population. While others dispute the numbers, there is little doubt that disparities exist in the global agenda for medical research. One needs no clearer example of research—not to mention public health and health care delivery—disparities than the Ebola outbreak that plagues West Africa. Despite these disparities, Catholic universities continue to engage in the social practice of medical research that deviates very little from the national funding priorities established through the National Institute for Health.

This dissertation argues that these unjust disparities are perpetuated by …

Compliance To The Consort Statement On Participant Flow Diagrams In Infectious Disease Randomized Clinical Trials, Onyeka P. Godwin, Brandon Dyson, Paul S. Lee, Soon Park, Euni Lee

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Background: The Consolidated Standard of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Guidelines were developed to support adequate reporting of randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

Method: A systematic review was conducted including RCTs of infectious diseases published in the top general medical and infectious disease journals in 2010. The level of compliance to flow diagram and its association with the CONSORT endorsement by the journals were evaluated.

Results: A total of 67 studies were included in the analysis and a half of the studies were HIV/AIDS RCTs. About 78% of the studies included the flow diagram and 66% of the studies described …

Socio-Economic Determinants Of Modern Agricultural Technology Adoption In Multiple Food Crops And Its Impact On Productivity And Food Availability At The Farm-Level: A Case Study From South-Eastern Nigeria, Chidiebere Daniel Chima

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Farmers generally produce multiple crops while selectively adopting modern technologies to meet various needs. The main aim of this study is, therefore, to identify the range of socio-economic factors influencing the adoption of modern agricultural technology in multiple food crops and the corresponding impacts on productivity and food availability at the farm-level in South-eastern Nigeria. In this study, three major food crops (i.e., rice, yam and cassava) and two elements of modern technologies (i.e., HYV seeds and inorganic fertilizers) are considered. The hypotheses of the study are that inverse farm size – technology adoption, size – productivity, size- profitability and …

Encouraging Faculty Attendance At Professional Development Events, Dakin Burdick, Tim Doherty, Naomi Schoenfeld

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

For faculty development events to have the greatest impact on campus practice, faculty developers need to attract and include as many faculty members as possible at their events. This article describes the testing of a checklist regarding faculty attendance at professional development events through a survey of 238 faculty members at small colleges in the United States. The results demonstrate the influence of social relationships upon faculty attendance at teaching and learning events, the difficulties of scheduling such events, and motivational differences between full-time and adjunct faculty. The use of food as a motivator for attendance is also appraised. The …

Environmental Concerns In India: Problems And Solutions, Mahesh Chandra

Journal of International Business and Law

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High-Throughput Comparison, Functional Annotation, And Metabolic Modeling Of Plant Genomes Using The Plantseed Resource, Samuel M. D. Seaver, Svetlana Gerdes, Océane Frelin, Claudia Lerma-Ortiz, Louis M. T. Bradbury, Rémi Zallot, Ghulam Hasnain, Thomas D. Niehaus, Basma El Yacoubi, Shiran Pasternak, Robert Olson, Gordon Pusch, Ross Overbeek, Valérie De Crécy-Lagarde, Doreen Ware, Andrew D. Hanson, Christopher S. Henry

Publications and Research

There is a growing demand for genome-scale metabolic reconstructions for plants, fueled by the need to understand the metabolic basis of crop yield and by progress in genome and transcriptome sequencing. Methods are also required to enable the interpretation of plant transcriptome data to study how cellular metabolic activity varies under different growth conditions or even within different organs, tissues, and developmental stages. Such methods depend extensively on the accuracy with which genes have been mapped to the biochemical reactions in the plant metabolic pathways. Errors in these mappings lead to metabolic reconstructions with an inflated number of reactions and …

Population Briefs, Vol. 21, No. 2, Population Council

Population Briefs

IN THIS ISSUE: Understanding the adolescent experience in Tanzania | New program demonstrates success in reducing gender-based violence in Bangladesh | Effects of the new one-year reusable Nestorone®/ethinyl estradiol contraceptive vaginal ring on risks of vaginal infection | Estimating population-based characteristics of people who inject drugs in Kenya

Population Briefs, Vol. 21, No. 3, Population Council

Population Briefs

IN THIS ISSUE: Surveying young people in Egypt before and after the revolution | Assessing the long-term impact of the PRACHAR project in India | Early and unintended pregnancy: Impact on educational opportunities for adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa | Involving men in family planning in Pakistan

Impact Of Algae Supplemented Diets Combined With Antioxidants On The Nutritional Profile, Quality Attributes, And Storage Stability Of Chicken Breast Meat, Rebecca G. Norcross

Theses and Dissertations--Animal and Food Sciences

Consumers’ demands for ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are at all-time high. Algae, a common source of PUFAs, and antioxidants are both used as supplements in livestock feeds, are known to affect the overall quality of meat. To implement PUFA deposits into broiler meat, this study evaluated combining antioxidants and algae in broiler feed to enhance the breast meat quality. Broilers were fed diets supplemented with 50 IU Vitamin E or 200 g/ton EconomasE (EcoE, an antioxidant pack) plus 10 IU Vitamin E, with or without 0.5% algae extract (SP-1). The feed oil was partially oxidized soybean oil (POV: 86 …

Antimicrobial Efficacy Of Natural Bioactive Compounds And High Pressure Processing Against Potential Pathogens In Infant Foods, Hayriye Cetin-Karaca

Theses and Dissertations--Animal and Food Sciences

This study investigated the antimicrobial efficacy of bioactive plant compounds along with high pressure processing (HPP) against pathogens Bacillus cereus and Cronobacter sakazakii in infant formula and infant rice cereal. The influence of these applications on antimicrobial activity, shelf-life and sensory attributes of infant foods were examined.

Trans-cinnamaldehyde (TC), (-)-Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and [10]-Gingerol (GI) were incorporated (0.05%) in infant rice cereal reconstituted with infant formula. The cereal was inoculated with either B. cereus (ATCC 14579) or B. cereus spores (10⁷-10⁸ log CFU g^-1). All the samples were stored at 7, 23 or 37°C for …

Determining Soil Texture By Feel, Edwin L. Ritchey, Joshua M. Mcgrath, David Gehring

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

Soil texture refers to the proportion of sand, silt, and clay in a soil. Texture influences almost every aspect of soil use, both in agricultural and engineering applications, and even how natural ecosystems function. Many scientists consider soil texture the most important soil property as it can influence soil/water relationships, gas exchange, and plant nutrition. Accurately determining soil texture in a lab requires time and money; therefore, it is often necessary to estimate soil texture in the field by feel, which can be very accurate if done correctly.

The Cost Of Education: An In Depth Look Into Texas's Education Funding System Over The Last Two Decades, Hannah Elsaadi

Texas A&M Journal of Property Law

This Article will analyze the Texas school finance system, evaluate its challenges, and propose reforms to simplify it. Although the Texas Legislature repeatedly promotes the idea that education is a priority, there is a long history of controversy over many aspects of education, particularly funding. Thus, to fully understand the current funding and legislative dilemma, Part III will analyze the current funding scheme. Part IV will examine the history of the finance system culminating in February 2013 when a Texas District Court ruled the current school finance system is unconstitutional due to claims of adequacy and a finding that the …

Antitrust And The Future Of Nursing: Federal Competition Policy And The Scope Of Practice, Daniel J. Gilman, Julie Fairman

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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Prosecuting Women For Drug Use During Pregnancy: The Criminal Justice System Should Step Out And The Affordable Care Act Should Step Up, Erin D. Kampschmidt

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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Associations Among African American Parent Education, Perceptions, Behaviors, And Child Weight Status: A Cross-Sectional Data Analysis, Tracey Marie Barnett

Social Work Dissertations - Archive

Purpose: Obesity in children and adolescents is a worldwide epidemic that is anticipated to worsen over time (Budd & Volpe, 2006; Chatterjee, Blakely, & Barton, 2005; Hossain, Kawar, & El Nahas, 2007). Within the past 30 years, the prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States has more than doubled among children and quadrupled in adolescents (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2014). People often have inaccurate perceptions of their body size and weight status and this may play a key role in the prevalence of obesity especially for ethnic minorities (Gillard, Lackland, Mountfored, & Egan, 2007; Hendley, et al., 2011). …

Layered, Flexible Drug Delivery Films For The Prevention Of Fibrotic Scar Tissue Formation, Cheryl L. Rabek

Theses and Dissertations--Biomedical Engineering

Open wounds account for about 50% of military injuries and 10% of non‐fatal traffic injuries. Scar tissue formation in these wounds may be reduced or prevented if treated with a combination of molecules whose release is tuned to the healing phases. The goal of this research was to develop flexible, layered drug delivery films for sequential, localized release of anti‐inflammatory, anti‐oxidant, and anti‐fibrotic molecules to soft tissue.

Films were composed of cellulose acetate phthalate (CAP) and Pluronic F‐127 (Pluronic). To impart flexibility, plasticizers, triethyl citrate (TEC) or tributyl citrate (TBC), were added. Mechanical analysis was performed on films as prepared …

The Lanham Act's Wonderful Complement To The Fdca: Pom Wonderful V.Coca-Cola Enhances Protection Against Misleading Labeling Through Integrated Regulation, Jennifer Thurswell Radis

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

POM Wonderful sued Coca-Cola under the Lanham Act claiming that it suffered losses due to the misleading label on Coca-Cola’s Minute Maid brand’s Pomegranate Blueberry juice blend. Reversing the Ninth Circuit’s decision in June 2014, the Supreme Court found that POM’s claim was not precluded even though the label was regulated by the FDCA. In fact, the Court acknowledged the complementary nature of private enforcement with FDA regulation, as it did in Wyeth v. Levine in 2009. This Article submits that POM exemplifies the Court’s willingness to strengthen the Lanham Act’s protections against misleading labeling, as it did the same …

Integration Of Gis And Logistic Regression To Develop A Habitat Suitability Model For Predicting Seagrass Distribution, Samantha Cope

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

Habitat suitability modeling can reveal connections between seagrass and environmental variables namely water quality. This can help predict seagrass distribution affected by changing water quality variables. Seagrass, and its density distribution in Tampa Bay, Florida, is an important environmental and economic resource providing a habitat for fish and invertebrates, a food source for larger vertebrates, and a significant source of primary productivity. The overall goal of this study was to loosely couple GIS and logistic regression methods to analyze relationships between seagrass distribution and water quality variables. Specific objectives were i) to determine key water quality variables that influenced seagrass …

Drug Repurposing: A Study Of The Potential Antitumorgenic Activity Of Nonchemotherapeutic Drugs, Katelyn Hoagland

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

In this thesis, the topic and applications of drug repurposing are explained. Drug repurposing is the process of finding new biological targets for existing drugs which have already been approved for treatment of other diseases, or whose targets have already been discovered [1]. The fact that there are many drugs that interact with biological elements outside their targets is being continually reinforced as more and more drug repurposing success stories are revealed [2]. In this thesis, the process of drug development is outlined and the benefits and ethics of drug repurposing are discussed. Possible applications of drug discovery are outlined, …

The Role Of Cancer Workshops On Peer Acceptance For Adolescents With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Tenley Hitz

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Rates of adolescent cancer, specifically Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), are on the rise despite advancements to modern medicine. An ALL diagnosis may create unique challenges for adolescents, who often receive more severe treatment plans than do younger children, while at the same time they rely more readily on their peers for psychosocial support. Peer acceptance is vital for all adolescents, and is especially so for an adolescent with ALL, as it has the potential to not only increase resiliency but also to ease a sometimes-tumultuous transition back to the school setting. It is believed that cancer workshops could serve to …

From Silicon Valley To The Kitchen Table: Innovative Online Agriculture & Food Start-Ups And The Law, Matthew A. Forcum

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

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Distant War Clouds, With Clearing Paths For Development Ahead [1942-1951], James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Remarks delivered by Schnur at the fifth program of the "Pinellas by the Decades" centennial lecture series, Pinellas Room, Heritage Village, on 12 February 2012. The Pinellas County Communications Office videotaped the program and the actual lecture varies slightly from this printed document due to time constraints. The program, including questions, was approximately 61 minutes in length.

Combating Terrorism And Violent Extremism In Nigeria: Defining A New Approach To Winning Modern Jihadist Conflict, Steven E. Hendrix

The International Lawyer

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Caring Minds, University Of Texas Health Science Center At Houston School Of Nursing

Caring Minds

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