Digital Commons Network^™

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

Prairie View Magazine Collection

No abstract provided.

Residential Proximity To Major Roadways Is Associated With Increased Levels Of Ac133+ Circulating Angiogenic Cells, Natasha Dejarnett, Ray Yeager, Daniel J. Conklin, Jongmin Lee, Timothy E. O’Toole, James Mccracken, Wes Abplanalp, Sanjay Srivastava, Daniel W. W. Riggs, Jasmit Shah

Brain and Mind Institute

OBJECTIVES: Previous studies have shown that residential proximity to a roadway is associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk. Yet, the nature of this association remains unclear, and its effect on individual cardiovascular disease risk factors has not been assessed. The objective of this study was to determine whether residential proximity to roadways influences systemic inflammation and the levels of circulating angiogenic cells.

APPROACH AND RESULTS: In a cross-sectional study, cardiovascular disease risk factors, blood levels of C-reactive protein, and 15 antigenically defined circulating angiogenic cell populations were measured in participants (n=316) with moderate-to-high cardiovascular disease risk. Attributes of roadways surrounding …

November 2015 Quicknotes, Southern Adventist University

QuickNotes – Advancement e-Newsletter

QuickNotes is an e-newsletter that comes from Advancement at Southern Adventist University. November 2015 edition features the article "Advancement Welcomes New VP".

Trends In Management Of Neck Of Femur Fracture, Tashfeen Ahmad, Umair Ashraf, Omar Irfan, Zehra Abdul Muhammad

Department of Surgery Docs

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

To identify trends related to surgical procedure for the management of neck of femur fracture to see how the choice is changing over time in relation to different age groups.

METHODS:

The retrospective audit was conducted at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, and comprised data of all patients who presented with neck of femur fracture from 1995 to 2014. Patients with open fractures and those having external fixators were excluded. Data was retrieved from the hospital database, and analysed using SPSS 17.

RESULTS:

Records of 1039 patients were reviewed. The proportion of patients in the 70+ years age …

Socioeconomic Integration And The Greater Richmond School District: The Feasibility Of Interdistrict Consolidation, Barry Gabay

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

Rising Substance Abuse And Indiana Families: What Are Legislators To Do?, Center For Families

Center for Families Publications

No abstract provided.

Role Of Acute Pain Service In Optimizing Postoperative Pain Relief In A Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital, Aliya Ahmed, Muhammad Yasir

Department of Anaesthesia

Objective: To assess the frequency and types of adjustments that acute pain service makes to postoperative analgesic regimes to improve pain relief or treat side effects.Methods: The prospective observational study was conducted at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, from December 1, 2012, to March 31, 2013. Data was collected from Acute Pain Service register four hours after the pain rounds by a Service member not involved in rounds. Data was collected on a standardised form and analysed using SPSS 19.Results: Of the 323 patients, 209(65%) were receiving epidural infusions and 114(35%) were receiving intravenous patient-controlled analgesia. Overall, 114(35%) required …

Strength Training And Body Composition In Middle-Age Women, Rachelle Burrup

Theses and Dissertations

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between strength training and body composition before and after controlling for several covariates. A cross-sectional study including 257 female subjects was conducted. METHODS: Subjects' level of involvement in strength training was determined via questionnaire. Body composition was assessed using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). Diet was assessed using 7-d weighed food records. RESULTS: Strong linear relationships between subjects' level of involvement in strength training and body composition were identified. For each additional day of strength training reported per week, body fat was 1.32 percentage points lower (F = 14.8, …

Repression Of Esophageal Neoplasia And Inflammatory Signaling By Anti-Mir-31 Delivery In Vivo., Cristian Taccioli, Michela Garofalo, Hongping Chen, Yubao Jiang, Guidantonio Malagoli Tagliazucchi, Gianpiero Di Leva, Hansjuerg Alder, Paolo Fadda, Justin Middleton, Karl J. Smalley, Tommaso Selmi, Srivatsava Naidu, John L. Farber, Carlo M. Croce, Louise Fong

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Overexpression of microRNA-31 (miR-31) is implicated in the pathogenesis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), a deadly disease associated with dietary zinc deficiency. Using a rat model that recapitulates features of human ESCC, the mechanism whereby Zn regulates miR-31 expression to promote ESCC is examined.

METHODS: To inhibit in vivo esophageal miR-31 overexpression in Zn-deficient rats (n = 12-20 per group), locked nucleic acid-modified anti-miR-31 oligonucleotides were administered over five weeks. miR-31 expression was determined by northern blotting, quantitative polymerase chain reaction, and in situ hybridization. Physiological miR-31 targets were identified by microarray analysis and verified by luciferase reporter …

Cultural Influence Of Storytelling: An Examination Of The Use Of Narratives In Political Campaigns, Charla Bansley

Masters Theses

Television has changed political discourse. The thirty second commercial has replaced typography and rhetoric. After losing the popular vote in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections, the Republican National Committee concluded that the GOP has lost the ability to persuade. Walter Fisher's Narrative Paradigm states that meaningful communication is in the form of storytelling, which enables public discourse to observe not only differences, but commonalities. In a postmodern culture that does not believe in absolute truth, this study asked the following question: Are conservatives still using statistics and facts to communicate conservative principles? The rhetorical research conducted here examined …

Salud Y Saludos: The E-News Of The College Of Health Sciences, College Of Health Sciences

College of Health Sciences

E-newsletter of the College of Health Sciences.

Resistant Starches For The Management Of Metabolic Diseases, Laure B. Bindels, Jens Walter, Amanda E. Ramer-Tait

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

Purpose of review—Recent clinical trials and animal studies indicate that resistant starches (RS) may be beneficial therapeutic tools for the management of metabolic diseases. The purpose of this review is to summarize these findings and discuss the established and proposed mechanisms by which RS exert their benefits. We also examine open questions regarding how RS improve metabolism and propose future research directions for the field.

Recent findings—Data from both humans and animal models clearly support a role for RS in improving a variety of metabolic features; however, discrepancies do exist regarding specific effects. Concomitant improvements in both insulin …

Decline In Menarcheal Age Among Saudi Girls, Areej A. Ibrahim, Motasim A. Badri, Bassam S. Bin-Abbas

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To estimate age at menarche and to assess trends in menarcheal age among Saudi women. Methods: A prospective longitudinal study was conducted among healthy prepubertal female school children and adolescents from September 2006 to July 2012 in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Study participants were invited from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Tanner stage, height, weight, body mass index, and socioeconomic parameters including parent’s level of education were collected. Age at menarche was compared with maternal age at menarche. Results: The study included 265 girls and mothers. Mean±standard deviation (SD) age at menarche for girls was 13.08 ± 1.1 years, and …

Effects Of Prenatal Environment Are Revealed By Post-Natal Challenges: Embryonic Hormone Exposure, Adrenocortical Function And Food In Seabird Chicks, Z. Morgan Benowitz-Fredericks, Jannik Schultner, Alexander S. Kitaysky

Faculty Journal Articles

The interaction between prenatal environments and postnatal environments is an important source of phenotypic variability. We examined the ability of prenatal steroid exposure and postnatal energy restriction to explain adrenocortical function and fledging age in captive seabird chicks. We proposed and tested two hypotheses: (1) the strength of prenatal effects is attenuated by challenging postnatal environments (postnatal override) and (2) the strength of prenatal effects increases with the severity of postnatal challenges (postnatal reveal). We reared common murre (Uria aalge) chicks and measured prenatal exposure to corticosterone (CORT) and testosterone (T) from allantoic waste. Adrenocortical function was assessed after 10 …

Predicting Consumer Demand Responses To Carbon Labels, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Sharon A. Shewmake, Abigail Okrent, Lanka Thabrew

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Providing carbon footprint labels for all food products is a daunting and potentially infeasible project. Knowing how consumers substitute away from high carbon goods and what they choose as substitutes is essential for understanding which goods are likely to result in meaningful reductions in carbon emissions. This paper proposes a model to systematically estimate how consumers will respond to information from a carbon footprint label. Our model uses consumers' value of their individual carbon footprint with own- and cross-price elasticities of demand data on carbon emissions from life cycle analysis to simulate shifts in consumer demand for 42 food products …

Growth And Gas Formation By Lactobacillus Wasatchensis, A Novel Obligatory Heterofermentative Nonstarter Lactic Acid Bacterium, In Cheddar-Style Cheese Made Using A Streptococcus Thermophilus Starter, Western Dairy Center, Utah State University, Megan Jane Ostler, Jeff Broadbent, Craig J. Oberg, Donald J. Mcmahon

Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

A novel slow-growing, obligatory heterofermentative, nonstarter lactic acid bacterium (NSLAB) Lactobacillus wasatchensis WDC04 was studied for growth and gas production in Cheddar-style cheese made using Streptococcus thermophilus as the starter culture. Cheesemaking trials were conducted using St. thermophilus alone or in combination with Lb. wasatchensis deliberately added to cheese milk at a level of ~10⁴ cfu/ml. Resulting cheeses were ripened at 6 or 12°C. At d 1, starter streptococcal numbers were similar in both cheeses (~10⁹ cfu/g) and fast-growing NSLAB lactobacilli counts were below detectable levels (<10² cfu/g). As expected, Lactobacillus wasatchensis counts were 3 x 10 …

Class Notes

DePaul Magazine

Class notes for fall 2015, including a short article of Professor Emeritus Alexander Davis celebrating his 100th birthday, alumni event recaps, and DePaul Pride and photos.

Diabetes Self-Management Education For Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Rondalyn Dennis-Bradshaw

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Diabetes, a major public health challenge in St. Kitts, has been a focus of international public health community research. Although researchers have demonstrated that diabetes self-management education is a cost-effective strategy for the prevention of diabetes-related complications, they have yet to establish whether there is adequate education occurring in treatment settings with diabetic patients. The purpose of the study was to implement and evaluate the short-term effectiveness of a diabetes self-management education intervention on diabetes-related knowledge and accepted behavioral changes to decrease risk for complications. Based on a self-care approach, this education intervention was designed to improve diabetes-related knowledge and …

Arkansas Animal Science Department Report 2015, Paul Beck, Jason Apple, Beth Kegley, Charles Rosenkrans Jr.

Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Series

No abstract provided.

Residual Barriers For Utilization Of Maternal And Child Health Services: Community Perceptions From Rural Pakistan., Zahid Memon, Shehla Zaidi, Atif Riaz

Community Health Sciences

Low utilization of maternal and child care services in rural areas has constrained Pakistan from meeting targets of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5. This study explores community barriers in accessing Maternal and Child Health (MCH) services in ten remote rural districts of Pakistan. It further presents how the barriers differ across a range of MCH services, and also whether the presence of Community Health Workers (CHWs) reduces client barriers. Qualitative methods were used involving altogether sixty focus group discussions with mothers, their spouses and community health workers. Low awareness, formidable distances, expense, and poorly functional services were the …

Can Contracted Out Health Facilities Improve Access, Equity, And Quality Of Maternal And Newborn Health Services? Evidence From Pakistan., Shehla Zaidi, Atif Riaz, F. Rabbani, Iqbal Azam Syed, Syeda Nida Imran, Nousheen Pradhan, Gul Nawaz Khan Nawaz Khan

Community Health Sciences

BACKGROUND:

The case of contracting out government health services to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has been weak for maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) services, with documented gains being mainly in curative services. We present an in-depth assessment of the comparative advantages of contracting out on MNCH access, quality, and equity, using a case study from Pakistan.

METHODS:

An end-line, cross-sectional assessment was conducted of government facilities contracted out to a large national NGO and government-managed centres serving as controls, in two remote rural districts of Pakistan. Contracting out was specific for augmenting MNCH services but without contractual performance incentives. A …

Plums In The Home Garden, Michael Caron, Taun Beddes, Brent Black

All Current Publications

This fact sheet describes three types of plums commonly grown in Utah: European, Japanese, and American species. their care and selection, and how to harvest, store, and use them.

Apricots In The Home Garden, Michael Caron, Taun Beddes, Brent Black

All Current Publications

This fact sheet provides information about apricots, including how to grow, harvest, store and use them.

In Praise Of Ex Ante Regulation, Brian Galle

Vanderbilt Law Review

The plaintiffs' daughter was four years old when they brought her in to the local medical clinic. Clinic staff gave the girl a sedative to keep her calm while they examined her, but they miscalculated the dose, and she later died.' Tort liability, or the specter of it, is supposed to discourage these kinds of preventable tragedies. The clinic's owner, fearing a potential crippling award to bereaved families, should have trained his staff more carefully. As it happens, the owner instead had carefully scooped all the assets out of the firm. When the girl's parents won a $34.6 million award …

Role Of Central Ghrelin In Maintaining Energy Homeostasis, Gehan A. Elwakeel, Vivian B. Abdou, Gehan Ahmed Shaker

Mansoura Medical Journal

BackgroundIn the past few years, muchprogress has been made in the understandingof how people maintainbodyweight and how energy homeostasisis affected. Many homeostasticprocesses including appetite andfoodintake are controlled by neuroendocrinecircuits involving theC.N.S.Mean while the C.N.S. maydirectlyregulates adipocyte metabolism. ObjectiveIn this work we aim to show andprove that central ghrelin in physiologicalnot pharmacological doseplaysan important role in maintenanceof energy homeostasis. Methods 2 sets of experiments werecarried out to investigate both theacute and chronic effects of intrace- rebroventricular Ghrelin on energyhomestasis and adipocyte metabolism.Each set of experiment include3groups, each group consists of 8rats:group A (control group) : Were injecteddaily with saline in a …

Potential Prophylactic Effect Of Oral Versus Intraarticular Atorvastatin In Experimental Model Of Osteoarthritis, Ali Mohamed Ali Gaballah, Essam Ahmed Ghayaty, Nagih Rizk Mohamed, Eman Abdo Elsayed Farrage, Amany Ahmad El Hawary

Mansoura Medical Journal

Osteoarthritis (OA) is highly prevalentchronic disease affecting synovialjoints leading to irreversible damageto all joint structures. Statins, inadditionto their cholesterol-loweringactivity,have pleiotropic effects. Theaimof this study is to evaluate andcomparethe potential prophylacticeffectsof oral, intraarticular atorvastatinor their combination in surgicallyinduced OA in rats through medialmeniscaltear procedure. Rats weredividedinto five groups; control normalgroup, control non-treated osteoarthriticgroup, oral atorvastatinegroup < br />(10 mg/kg), intraarticular atorvastatinegroup (0.4mg/ /kg) and combined oral and intraarticular atorvastatinegroup. The drug given immediatelyafter surgical induction ofOAfor six weeks.. All atorvastatintreatedgroups showed significant reductionin matrix metalloproteinase13(MMP 13), interleukin- 1 ß (IL- 1ß)and tumor necrosis factor- α(TNF-α),malondialdehyde (MDA)andsignificant increase in reducedglutathione(GSH). Also, there weresignificanthistological improvementcomparedto …

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

Illinois State Magazine, November 2015, University Marketing And Communications

Illinois State Magazine (1999-present)

Alumni magazine for Illinois State University

A Global Perspective On The Influence Of Environmental Exposures On The Nervous System, Desire Tshala-Katumbay, Jean-Claude Mwanza, Diane S. Rohlman, Gladys E. Maestre, Reinaldo B. Oria

School of Medicine Publications

Economic transitions in the era of globalization warrant a fresh look at the neurological risks associated with environmental change. These are driven by industrial expansion, transfer and mobility of goods, climate change and population growth. In these contexts, risk of infectious and non-infectious diseases are shared across geographical boundaries. In low- and middle-income countries, the risk of environmentally mediated brain disease is augmented several fold by lack of infrastructure, poor health and safety regulations, and limited measures for environmental protection. Neurological disorders may occur as a result of direct exposure to chemical and/or non-chemical stressors, including but not limited to, …