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In Memoriam, No Author

Verbum

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

The Office of Campus Ministry continues to mourn the loss of Fr. Joe Lanzalaco, who passed away a little more than three months ago. We have each written an open letter to share what Fr. Joe meant to us.

Non-Traditional Nursing Students’ Experiences With Stress: Barriers To Health Promotion And Academic Success, Bradley Bastian

Nursing Masters

Purpose: To gain insight on nontraditional undergraduate nursing students’ perception of potential stressors and how they approach health promoting behaviors.

Background & Significance: The average undergraduate nursing student has evolved from women in their early 20’s to a far more diverse, older and educated population including a greater percentage of minorities, single parents and men. The current literature on student stressors and health promoting behaviors is extensive; however there is disproportionally less data on nontraditional student populations and their health promotion practices. When considering the changing student demographic, new approaches to education and student support measures and need to be …

Nutrition For The Primary Prevention And Treatment Of Cardiovascular Disease: A Needs Assessment Of Medical Providers, Rachael T. Skeldon

Nursing Masters

Background: There is conflicting evidence informing the dietary recommendations for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention. In addition, there is a lack of education regarding nutrition for medical providers. In order to effect change among the growing population of Americans at risk for CVD, there needs to be a better understanding of the knowledge and attitudes towards nutrition among providers, as well as development and implementation of an educational module with evidence-based research to guide dietary recommendations.

The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate medical providers’ (including nurses, physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants) knowledge and attitudes towards nutrition for …

Actions Memo December 2015, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Action Memos

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Exploring Patterns Of Obsidian Conveyance In Baja California, Mexico, Lee M. Panich, Érika Moranchel Mondragón, Antonio Porcayo Michelini

Faculty Publications

The X-ray fluorescence analysis of obsidian artifacts from four study areas in Baja California, Mexico, suggests regional and local patterning in the geological sources used by indigenous hunter-gatherers during the late prehistoric and colonial periods. Obsidian artifacts were typically made from materials from the closest geological source, creating a distinct north-south pattern of obsidian distribution. In the northern region of Baja California, this pattern appears to correspond to ethnographically-documented language boundaries. However, within each study area, particular sites exhibit higher degrees of obsidian source diversity than others—a pattern that may suggest chronological or social variation in access to particular obsidian …

Viability Of Developmental Stages Of Schistosoma Mansoni Quantified With Xcelligence Worm Real-Time Motility Assay (Xworm)., Gabriel Rinaldi, Alex Loukas, Paul J. Brindley, Jeff T. Irelan, Michael J. Smout

Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine Faculty Publications

Infection with helminth parasites causes morbidity and mortality in billions of people and livestock worldwide. Where anthelmintic drugs are available, drug resistance is a major problem in livestock parasites, and a looming threat to public health. Monitoring the efficacy of these medicines and screening for new drugs has been hindered by the lack of objective, high-throughput approaches. Several cell monitoring technologies have been adapted for parasitic worms, including video-, fluorescence-, metabolism enzyme- and impedance-based tools that minimize the screening bottleneck. Using the xCELLigence impedance-based system we previously developed a motility-viability assay that is applicable for a range of helminth parasites. …

Health Center Trends: Recent Experience In Medicaid Expansion And Non-Expansion States., Peter Shin, Jessica Sharac, Julia Zur, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Julia Paradise

Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative

In thousands of medically underserved communities across the U.S., community health centers enroll lowincome people in health coverage and provide care to millions of patients. Against the backdrop of significant health center expansion over several years and a full year of expanded health coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), this brief examines change between 2013 and 2014 in the volume and health coverage profile of health center patients, and health center enrollment activities and service capacity, comparing states that implemented the ACA Medicaid expansion in 2014 and states that did not expand Medicaid in 2014. The study is based …

Functional Analysis Of The Unique Cytochrome P450 Of The Liver Fluke Opisthorchis Felineus., Mariya Y. Pakharukova, Valentin A. Vavilin, Banchob Sripa, Thewarach Laha, Paul J. Brindley, Viatcheslav A. Mordvinov

Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine Faculty Publications

The basic metabolic cytochrome P450 (CYP) system is essential for biotransformation of sterols and xenobiotics including drugs, for synthesis and degradation of signaling molecules in all living organisms. Most eukaryotes including free-living flatworms have numerous paralogues of the CYP gene encoding heme monooxygenases with specific substrate range. Notably, by contrast, the parasitic flatworms have only one CYP gene. The role of this enzyme in the physiology and biochemistry of helminths is not known. The flukes and tapeworms are the etiologic agents of major neglected tropical diseases of humanity. Three helminth infections (Opisthorchis viverrini, Clonorchis sinensis and Schistosoma haematobium) are considered …

Effect Of Kidney Function On Drug Kinetics And Dosing In Neonates, Infants, And Children., Frederique Rodieux, Melanie Wilbaux, Johannes N. Van Den Anker, Marc Pfister

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

Neonates, infants, and children differ from adults in many aspects, not just in age, weight, and body composition. Growth, maturation and environmental factors affect drug kinetics, response and dosing in pediatric patients. Almost 80 % of drugs have not been studied in children, and dosing of these drugs is derived from adult doses by adjusting for body weight/size. As developmental and maturational changes are complex processes, such simplified methods may result in subtherapeutic effects or adverse events. Kidney function is impaired during the first 2 years of life as a result of normal growth and development. Reduced kidney function during …

Effect Of Kidney Function On Drug Kinetics And Dosing In Neonates, Infants, And Children., Frederique Rodieux, Melanie Wilbaux, Johannes N. Van Den Anker, Marc Pfister

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

Neonates, infants, and children differ from adults in many aspects, not just in age, weight, and body composition. Growth, maturation and environmental factors affect drug kinetics, response and dosing in pediatric patients. Almost 80% of drugs have not been studied in children, and dosing of these drugs is derived from adult doses by adjusting for body weight/size. As developmental and maturational changes are complex processes, such simplified methods may result in subtherapeutic effects or adverse events. Kidney function is impaired during the first 2 years of life as a result of normal growth and development. Reduced kidney function during childhood …

Clock Maker, Michael L. Johnson

The Prairie Light Review

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The Proper Mousing Cat Is Buried With Soldiers, Jason Snart

The Prairie Light Review

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A Cannibal Of Sexuality, Angela Ferdinardo

The Prairie Light Review

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A Haunting Grief, Ashley Curtice

The Prairie Light Review

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Hypnotic, Kassandra Galang

The Prairie Light Review

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Nymc Synapse Volume 1 Issue 5, School Of Medicine Student Senate, New York Medical College

The Synapse

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"I Have Chicken Fat In My Urine!" A Case Of Candida Tropicalis Induced Emphysematous Pyelitis, Ahmed Alansari, Manuel D. Borras, Noella Boma

NYMC Faculty Publications

A patient with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus presented with fever and flank pain. A computed tomography scan showed free air within both collecting systems. A diagnosis of emphysematous pyelitis was made after other alternative diagnoses were ruled out. Urine culture grew Candida tropicalis. The emphysematous pyelitis resolved with conservative management using antifungal therapy.

A Qualitative Exploration Of A Massachusetts Drug Court: How Are The 10 Key Components Applied?, Isabel Pires

Master’s Theses and Projects

With the overwhelming drug offense and policy changes that occurred in the 1980s, the criminal justice system was forced to create other methods of dealing with offenders suffering from substance abuse problems. Therefore, drug court was created as a diversion program. Drug court was first created in 1989 in Florida to offer a therapeutic method to assist offenders with substance abuse problems and criminal cases. The purpose of drug court was to prevent addicts from constant contact with the criminal justice system. Drug court professionals developed a guideline based on the therapeutic jurisprudence theory called the “10 key component”. The …

The Narrative Of Traumatic Memory In Postcolonial Irish Fiction, Kayla Mccarthy-Curtis

Master’s Theses and Projects

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Knowing Your Place: The Impact Of Public Sphere Rhetoric On Face-To-Face Communities, And The Rhetorics That Support Racial Equality, Laura Hanson Ells

Master’s Theses and Projects

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Writing To Save The Earth, Jill Blye, Brea Caisey, Samantha Cicirelli, Brianna Davidson, Brianna Gallagher, Adam Hayes, Sydney Holbrook, Julianne Kilduff, Cassidy Morrow, Haley Piotrowski, Danielle Souza, William Tkaczuk, Leonarda Vieira

Student Scholarship and Projects

A Magazine of Sustainable Ideas from EN199 Writing for the Earth (Professor John Kucich, Fall 2015)

A Sense of Place: Essays on Where We Live

• Fogo, Cabo Verde, by Leonarda Vieira
• Weweantic River, by Sydney Holbrook
• Carver Pond, by Brianna Gallagher
• Nantasket Beach, by Brianna Davidson
• Ames Nowell, by Cassidy Morrow
• Old Orchard Beach, by Jill Blye
• A Place in the Sky, by Danielle Souza
• Pond Meadow, by Samantha Cicirelli

Imagining a Future: Speculative Fiction

• Peggy the Penguin in Antarctica, by Haley Piotrowski
• Lives Change in One Day, by Julianne Kilduff
• Dust, by Adam Hayes

Taking Action: Policy, Politics and …

Campus Assembly Minutes 12/1/2015, Campus Assembly

Campus Assembly

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Australian Child Wellbeing Project Technical Report, Petra Lietz, Elizabeth O'Grady, Mollie Tobin, Martin Murphy, Greg Macaskill, Gerry Redmond, Katherine Dix, Sue Thomson

Wellbeing

The Australian Child Wellbeing Project (ACWP) was conducted from 2012 – 2015 using a mixed-methods, child-centred approach. Young people’s perspectives were used to inform a nationally representative survey of children’s wellbeing in the middle years. The aims of the ACWP survey were to benchmark child wellbeing in Australia and to provide useful information for services that promote young people’s healthy development. A final outcome of this project was to make the extensive ACWP database publically available in order to provide further opportunity to exploit the rich data and improve understanding. Accordingly, this technical report consolidates the research conducted by ACER …

Oral History/Abby Jansen, Abby Jansen

World War II

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Oral History Interview With William Combs, Elizabeth Paiva

World War II

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Oral History Project/ Dave Casey, D'Arce Peter

Vietnam

This is an interview with Dave Casey, a former navy seal, talking about his experiences with the Navy and Vietnam. It covers his education with the military and some challenges he had when returning from the Navy.

Keeping Sabbath During The Week, Michael E. Cafferky

Faculty Works

Would Sabbath-keeping be less meaningful if, on the other six days, our work disrupted human well-being or otherwise failed to honor the Sabbath Giver? This article is an abridged version of the longer peer-reviewed article "Sabbath: The Theological Roots of Sustainable Development" published in the Journal of Biblical Integration in Business available at http://cbfa-jbib.org/index.php/jbib/article/view/108/108 .

Minutes, December 1, 2015

Educational Policies Committee

No abstract provided.

Descriptive Analysis Of Ted Cruz's Announcement Speech, Jacqueline A. Bast

Rhetorical Analyses of the Announcement Speeches of Presidential Hopefuls

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Survey For Spotted-Wing Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae) In The Five-County Nursery Production Region Of Middle Tennessee, Usa, Karla M. Addesso, Jason B. Oliver, Paul A. O'Neal

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

Through global trade, spotted-wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae), a native of Southeast Asia, has spread to at least 3 other continents since 2008. Initial reports of the fly in new regions often are associated with damage in agriculture fields, but the fly may be present in the landscape for years before populations reach a level at which they become a pest in fruit production. In 2012, spotted wing drosophila was reported in blueberry fields in eastern Tennessee, USA, for the first time. In order to determine whether the fly was established in middle Tennessee, we conducted landscape surveys …