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Assisted Reproduction Inequality And Marriage Equality, Seema Mohapatra J.D., Mph

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In Obergefell v. Hodges, Justice Kennedy declared that “marriage is fundamental under the Constitution and [should] apply with equal force to same-sex couples.” This Article examines how the advent of marriage equality may impact the rights of same-sex couples to have biological children via assisted reproduction and surrogacy. Specifically, this Article points out the ways that the Obergefell decision affects the law of infertility. By the law of infertility, I mean the laws that require insurance coverage of infertility treatments and other assisted reproductive technologies (“ART”). Because same-sex couples are not able to have biological children with each other …

Parents, Babies, And More Parents, June Carbone, Naomi Cahn

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Article makes two basic points. First, the three-parent family is here. Once states accept that parenthood does not depend on either biology or marriage, then three parents are inevitable unless the states go out of their way to rule that adults who otherwise meet their definitions of parenthood will not be recognized. Second, as three-parent family recognition increases, there are difficult questions on how to manage the status of each parent. This difficulty arises because the two major trends in the family law—the recognition of a multiplicity of family forms and the insistence on parental equality—are on a collision …

Reforming The Processes For Challenging Voluntary Acknowledgments Of Paternity, Jeffrey A. Parness, David A. Saxe

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Voluntary acknowledgements of paternity (VAPs) significantly determine male legal parentage at birth for many children born of sex to unwed mothers in the United States. VAP processes are chiefly dictated by the federal Social Security Act, which places certain mandates on states participating in federally-subsidized welfare programs. These processes include norms on effective VAP establishments and on VAP disestablishments, either via early rescissions (within sixty days) by signatories or via later contests (after sixty days) by challengers, including signatories. The norms are driven by the Act’s desire to increase reimbursements of state child welfare payments from unwed fathers regardless of …

Cervical Cancer, Mary Jedlicka

Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN)

No abstract provided.

Volume 54, Number 50: July 26, 2017, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Table Of Plenty, University Of Dayton

News Releases

A project involving the University of Dayton Hanley Sustainability Institute is turning heads and stopping traffic.

All of the excitement is about the work the institute, Mission of Mary Cooperative and East End Community Services are doing to transform a one-time Dayton public school site into a flourishing urban oasis.

After a year, Lincoln Hill Gardens has produced nearly 2 tons of food for 80 families, plus more to be sold at local markets. The proceeds go toward developing Lincoln Hill Garden, according to Stephen Mackell, urban farm manager at Mission of Mary Cooperative.

The Loaded Squat, Gianluca Scerri

Honors College Theses

Although torque on the knee joints and it’s various supporting structures has been shown to increase when an individual allows for their knees to track farther over their toes, this action alone should not stop an individual from performing a squat, because of a possible fear of “damaging” their knees. Instead, the individual should take three main aspects of proper squat technique into consideration, in order to maximize their squat potential using a barbell. These include: the force being placed upon their lumbar spine and the stability of the trunk, proper ankle dorsiflexion, and adequate knee flexion.

This thesis will …

Using The Task Analysis Process With Teachers To Uncover Language Demands Within An Eight-Week Ngss Summer Course, Leah Plack

Dissertations and Theses

The state of Oregon has adopted the Next Generation Science Standards as well as the English Language Proficiency standards, both of which affect elementary school teachers. These standards adoptions challenge teachers and professional developers to rethink how they approach science conceptual understanding and language acquisition. The Math Science Partnership K-6 Instructional Specialist Grant made the decision to incorporate a Task Analysis process, which asks the participant to analyze the demands of a content-based task in the domains of content knowledge, analytical skills and language, into six eight-week summer courses focused on the Next Generation Science Standards. A pre and post-assessment …

Effects Of Aromatherapy Massage On Pregnant Women's Stress And Immune Function: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Jen-Jiuan Liaw

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This study examined the effects of aromatherapy massage on women"s stress and immune function during pregnancy. The study"s evidence guided clinicians in incorporating aromatherapy massage into prenatal care to improve maternal and fetal health.

Social Networking For Improved Maternal Child Health In Rural Settings, Autumn L. Argent, Erika Ruth Gavenus

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This presentation will cover key qualitative aspects of developing a social networking nutrition program for the improvement of maternal child health outcomes in rural and remote settings.

Cultural Humility And Nursing Education For Study Abroad Nursing Students, Dalit Wilhelm, Cheryl Zlotnick

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Ethnocentrism influences our learning. Educators are challenged to address the lack of cultural humility in study abroad nursing students by finding methods to help them acclimate, learn, and function in practice. This project describes a program designed to support the evolution of students' understanding and relating to a different culture.

The Use Of Donabedian Quality Model To Implement Quantification Of Blood Loss: Preventing Maternal Hemorrhage, Deborah Renee Jones

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This presentation will discuss the significance of the obstetric hemorrhage globally. Secondly, a dialogue will be presented regarding the recognition of and response to an obstetric hemorrhage through simulation and quantification of blood loss by using Donabedian"s Quality Model.

What Is The Relationship Between Pregnancy Symptoms, Vitamin D Status, And Quality Of Life?, Jennifer G. Woo

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

There are many physiological changes in pregnancy that can cause symptoms such as back pain, fatigue, etc. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with some of the more common pregnancy symptoms. A cross sectional study was done to examine and relationships between vitamin D status, pregnancy symptoms and quality of life.

Mobile Platform For Assessment, Early Detection, And Management Of Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema, Jane M. Armer, Nathan C. Armer, Guilherme N. Desouza

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

We will describe development and testing of the 3D mobile device for application in clinical and home use for assessment, early detection, and self-management of lymphedema in those at risk following breast cancer treatment.

Mobile Health Technologies And Precision Health, Ryan Jeffrey Shaw

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Come see a demonstration on how emerging mobile health and sensing technologies are being used as tools for precision health. Participants will learn how data science is used to analyze real-time data in ongoing clinical trials, and hear about futuristic technologies on the horizon.

Open Source Software For Automatic Detection Of Cone Photoreceptors In Adaptive Optics Ophthalmoscopy Using Convolutional Neural Networks, David Cunefare, Leyuan Fang, Robert F. Cooper, Alfredo Dubra, Joseph Carroll, Sina Farsiu

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Imaging with an adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscope (AOSLO) enables direct visualization of the cone photoreceptor mosaic in the living human retina. Quantitative analysis of AOSLO images typically requires manual grading, which is time consuming, and subjective; thus, automated algorithms are highly desirable. Previously developed automated methods are often reliant on ad hoc rules that may not be transferable between different imaging modalities or retinal locations. In this work, we present a convolutional neural network (CNN) based method for cone detection that learns features of interest directly from training data. This cone-identifying algorithm was trained and validated on separate data …

Disentangling Sources Of Variation In Ssu Rdna Sequences From Single Cell Analyses Of Ciliates: Impact Of Copy Number Variation And Experimental Error, Chundi Wang, Tengteng Zhang, Yurui Wang, Laura A. Katz, Feng Gao, Weibo Song

Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Small subunit ribosomal DNA (SSU rDNA) is widely used for phylogenetic inference, barcoding and other taxonomy-based analyses. Recent studies indicate that SSU rDNA of ciliates may have a high level of sequence variation within a single cell, which impacts the interpretation of rDNA-based surveys. However, sequence variation can come from a variety of sources including experimental errors, especially the mutations generated by DNA polymerase in PCR. In the present study, we explore the impact of four DNA polymerases on sequence variation and find that low-fidelity polymerases exaggerate the estimates of single-cell sequence variation. Therefore, using a polymerase with high fidelity …

Investigating The Potential Of Plant-Derived Antimicrobials And Probiotic Bacteria For Improving The Microbiological Safety Of Dry Pet Food, Chi-Hung Chen

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Integration Of Virtual Monitoring Technology To Empower Advanced Practice Nurses To Optimize Health Outcomes, Eugene Lewis, Carole Marie Kulik

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background: The use of virtual monitoring in Homebased Primary Care through technology enhanced patient reporting provides automated environmental monitoring to monitor symptoms and medication compliance is an effective way for Advanced Practice Nurses to provide timely care, practice to full scope of practice and serve populations with limited access.

Objective: This program aimed to implement the feasibility and acceptability of virtual symptom and compliance management systems with patients in rural communities receiving Home Based Primary Care, Assessment in the changes of patient outcomes from baseline and implementation of the virtual monitoring will be evaluated for effectiveness, cost reduction and hospitalizations. …

Androgyny, Yu-Chi Chien

Theses

Cognition is a mental activity during which information is received through perception and judgment. From birth people gradually construct their own cognitive understanding of the world. Predecessors often transmit their own past experiences to others in order to efficiently build up the values that they think are correct. For constructing cognition easily and rapidly, predecessors tend to generalize and simplify the information so that others can readily understand and judge, but it is often distorted and doesn’t express the full meaning inside.

People have the ability to explore their own answer for everything. However, after the process of simplifying information …

An Examination Of The Impostor Phenomenon And Psychological Distress In Graduate Counseling Students, Jennifer Anne Drabowicz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The impostor phenomenon is commonly identified by a distinct set of psychological and behavioral symptoms that are grounded in a pervasive sense of fraudulence or intellectual phoniness. Experiences of impostor symptoms are frequently associated in the literature with increased likelihood of simultaneously experiencing symptoms of psychological distress including depression and anxiety. The present study intended to address a gap in the literature by exploring the relationship between symptoms of the impostor phenomenon and specific student demographic variables (student degree program and student enrollment status), psychological distress variables (anxiety, depression, and perceived stress), and student help-seeking behavior in counseling graduate students …

Knowledge And Perceptions About Zika Virus In A Middle East Country, Sohaila Cheema, Patrick Maisonneuve, Ingmar Weber, Luis Fernandez-Luque, Amit Abraham, Albert B. Lowenfels, Ravinder Mamtani

NYMC Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Zika virus, an emerging serious infectious disease, is a threat to persons living or travelling to regions where it is currently endemic, and also to contacts of infected individuals. The aim of this study was to assess knowledge about this new public health threat to persons residing in a Middle Eastern country.

METHODS: We conducted a survey at several international universities in Qatar to assess knowledge and awareness about this disease. An adapted version of the survey was also conducted using online channels from Qatar.

RESULTS: The median age of the 446 participants, was 25 years, 280 (63%) were …

Core Handling And Processing For The Wais Divide Ice-Core Project, Joseph M. Souney, Mark S. Twickler, Geoffrey M. Hargreaves, Brian M. Bencivengo, Matthew J. Kippenhan, Jay A. Johnson, Eric D. Cravens, Peter D. Neff, Richard M. Nunn, Anais J. Orsi, Trevor J. Popp, John F. Rhoades, Bruce H. Vaughn, Donald E. Voigt, Gifford J. Wong, Kendrick C. Taylor

Faculty Publications

On 1 December 2011 the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide ice-core project reached its final depth of 3405 m. The WAIS Divide ice core is not only the longest US ice core to date, but is also the highest-quality deep ice core, including ice from the brittle ice zone, that the US has ever recovered. The methods used at WAIS Divide to handle and log the drilled ice, the procedures used to safely retrograde the ice back to the US National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) and the methods used to process and sample the ice at the NICL are …

Microfeatures Of Modern Sea-Ice-Rafted Sediment And Implications For Paleo-Sea-Ice Reconstructions, Kristen E. St. John, Sandra Passchier, Brooke Tantillo, Dennis Darby, Lance Kearns

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Distinguishing sea-ice-rafted debris (SIRD) from iceberg-rafted debris is crucial to an interpretation of ice-rafting history; however, there are few paleo-sea-ice proxies. This study characterizes quartz grain microfeatures of modern SIRD from the Arctic Ocean, and compares these results with microfeatures from representative glacial deposits to potentially differentiate SIRD from ice-rafted sediments which have been recently subjected to glacial processes. This allows us to evaluate the use of grain microfeatures as a paleo-sea-ice proxy. SIRD grains were largely subrounded, with medium relief, pervasive silica dissolution and a high abundance of breakage blocks and microlayering. The glacial grains were more angular, with …

Volume 2, Issue 1 (Fall 1969), Stephan Stojanovic

One Little Candle

Self-described anthology of poetry. Four descriptive poems from students in an experimental writing class from West Cleveland School in Boiling Springs. The first printed edition of the literary magazine, the previous editions being mimeographed. Photography and art accompany select works. This volume is the last edited by Stephan Stojanovic.

Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 1969), Stephan Stojanovic

One Little Candle

Includes short stories and poems from Gardner-Webb students, faculty, and community members. The previous literary magazine, The Green Scribe, is recognized for once acting as the campus’ literary outlet. This volume was edited by Stephan Stojanovic. The cover art was designed by Jack Clawson.

Optimizing Heart Failure Outcomes Through Diet: A Review, Farley B. Neasman Iii

Marshall Journal of Medicine

Heart failure is a growing epidemic that will add significant monetary and human costs to an already overtaxed health-care system. Though promising new medications have recently been approved, this complex condition is largely preventable through aggressive risk factor modification, with diet being shown to have a greater effect than exercise. An underrated component of a healthy diet is the simple addition of nuts – the anti-inflammatory fatty acids, healthy proteins, and general availability have been shown to improve survival and reduce the primary risk factors contributing to heart failure, making the addition of nuts and legumes to the diet an …

Physician, Heal Thy Community, Clay B. Marsh Md

Marshall Journal of Medicine

What if the opioid epidemic and the chronic health problems we encounter in West Virginia and beyond are a symptom of a deeper problem? How can we create healthcare to address the root issues here, and then spread these solutions globally?

Full Issue, Thomas V. Dailey, Clait E. Braun

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

No abstract provided.

In Memoriam

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

No abstract provided.