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Health Training Workshop Prepares Future Clinical Assistants, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

Students and faculty members gain skills to give screenings in Delta communities

Steering At Risk Students In The Right Direction On Life's Highway, Sheila Coats Mrs.

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

The commitment of the W.O.R.K.S. Program is to educate our students for life, so they can maximize their potential and the totality of their lives: academically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically.

The Effects Of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners On The Health Of Youth In United States, Ashley E. Passantino, Michael A. Hinson, Padmini Shankar

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Obesity results from a multitude of problems from depression, an imbalance in hormones, genetics, environmental factors, and can also result from a poor diet, where we are focusing our attention. A strong correlation is made with low income and obesity in children. In 2014, 14.5% of patients ages 2-4 were obese. From 2011 to 2014 17% of adolescents experienced obesity and this affects around 12.7 million people. Statistics have shown the as the age increases in adolescents, so does the prevalence of obesity.

Effects Of Excessive Sugar Consumption In Adolescents, Michael A. Hinson, Ashley Passantino, Padmini Shankar

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

With sugar consumption in the youth on the rise, many people have turned their heads towards this epidemic in response to the many side effects associated with excess sugar in the diet. Roughly 75% of all foods and beverages have some form of added sugar. It’s difficult to find a safe product for your child to eat without running into something like high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Sugar-sweetened beverage intake has increased nearly 500% since 1950. This excessive sugar intake is very taxing on the body and may lead to long term impairments if not properly regulated. A study documented …

Let's Take A Walk, Kate Riordan, Pete Fritz

Purdue Road School

This session provides tools and techniques to facilitate an effective walk audit as a means to make better planning decisions. We will discuss why communities use walk audits, how to organize one, who should participate, and how to plan a route that showcases built environment issues. Attendees will go on a sample walk audit to experience effective techniques for leading a group.

Evaluation Of Consumer Health Information Websites Based On International Guidelines, Vahideh Zarea Gavgani, Morteza Ghojazadeh, Masoumeh Sattari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Background and Aim: Since health information websites in the Internet is almost the first and the most used source of information for public. It is therefore necessary to comprehensively evaluate websites which provide health information for the public.

Objective: The research aimed to investigate the quality of Farsi health information websites comparing the international pairs provided with recognized quality standards including those from the Medical Library Association of America (MLA).

Materials and Methods: Checklists of the British Medical Association (BMA), MLA, Health On the Net Foundation Code (HONcode) principles, and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (W3C) were use as the research …

The “Journal Of Functional Morphology And Kinesiology” Journal Club Series: Highlights On Recent Papers In Motor Control And Learning, Deepak K. Ravi, William R. Taylor, Navrag B. Singh, Brach J. Poston, Christoph Mickel, Marinella Coco

Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences Faculty Research

We are glad to introduce the sixth Journal Club. This edition is focused on several relevant studies published in recent years in the field of Motor Control and Learning, chosen by our Editorial Board members and their colleagues. We hope to stimulate your curiosity in this field and to share with you the passion for sport seen also from the scientific point of view. The Editorial Board members wish you an inspiring lecture.

Academic Senate - Agenda, 3/6/2018, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

March 6, 2018 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

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Deadline For Summer, Fall Study Abroad Opportunities Is Wednesday, Christina Steube

University of Mississippi News

Students can participate in short-term or semester exchange programs

Efektifitas Program Suplementasi Zat Besi Pada Remaja Putri Di Kota Bogor, Tyas Permatasari, Dodik Briawan, Siti Madanijah

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

Prevalence of anemia in adolescent girl was still high. The iron supplementation program for improving
the iron status, but this program is not always successfully to reducing prevalence anemia. The objective was to
analyzed factor that influenced succesfully of iron supplementation program at the adolescent girls. A quasi experiment
pre-post intervention design was applied in female student at Bogor City between September 2016 until
January 2017 run by the Health Office of Bogor City. A number of 172 adolescent girls (aged 10-18 years) participated
in the study from 4 school in Bogor City. Blood was collected through fingerthick and analyzed …

Derajat Kesehatan Jasmani Dan Postur Siswa Sekolah Di Makassar, Muhammad Nadjib Bustan, Ians Aprilo, Khairil Anwar

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

The future of the physical health status of the Indonesian nation is determined by the degree of physical
fitnessess of the young generation. Therefore, it is important to know how the status of youth physical health by
measuring the degree of physical fitness of school children. The purpose of this study was to determine the degree
of physical health of children through measurement of body height, nutritional status, and posture of school children.
A cross-sectional studywas conducted by drawing samples from four primary schools and four first middle
schools in Makassar City. The schoolchild population was represented by 252 students …

Manfaat Media Flipchart Dan Spanduk Dalam Perilaku Kesehatan 1000 Hpk Di Sulawesi Tengah, Nasrul Nasrul, Zainul Zainul, Fahmi Hafid, Taqwin Taqwin

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

Flipchart and banner are communications media in behavioral change that can improve the effectiveness of
the specific program effort of the first 1000 days of life. This study aims to prove the benefits of Flipchart media and
banners in health behavior of 1000 HPK in Central Sulawesi. The quasi-experimental design of pretest and post
test with control design is consisted of three groups of flipchart (n=32), banner (n=32) and control (n=31). The
Intervention of study is held for 6 months in Sigi, Touna and Bangkep regencies from April 15 to October 28, 2016.
The population is mothers with children aged …

Perbedaan Status Pemberian Asi Eksklusif Terhadap Perubahan Panjang Badan Bayi Neonatus, Ade Devriany, Zenderi Wardani, Yunihar Yunihar

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

Exclusive breastfeeding is the first and foremost of natural food for baby because breastfeeding can
fulfill the baby’s needs for energy and nutrients the baby even during the first 6 months of life.The Ministry of
Health in 2015 targets for exclusive breastfeeding 80%. In 2013, the highest coverage of exclusive breastfeeding
in Bangka Belitung is Pangkalpinang (59,4%)So this study aimed to assess the difference between the status of
exclusive breastfeeding to changes the body lenght of neonates in RSUD Depati Hamzah Pangkalpinang.This type
of research was a cohort with a sampel of 34 mothers who gave birth in RSUD Depati …

Serum Anti-Flagellin And Anti-Lipopolysaccharide Immunoglobulins As Predictors Of Linear Growth Faltering In Pakistani Infants At Risk For Environmental Enteric Dysfunction, Sana Syed, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Kamran Sadiq, Jennie Z. Ma, Tauseef Akhund, Shahida Qureshi, Kerri Gosselin, Andrew Gewirtz, Christopher P. Duggan, Syed Asad Ali

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Background: Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED) in children from low-income countries has been linked to linear growth declines. There is a critical need to identify sensitive and early EED biomarkers.
Objective: Determine whether levels of antibodies against bacterial components flagellin (flic) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) predict poor growth.
Design/Methods: In a prospective birth cohort of 380 children in rural Pakistan blood and stool samples were obtained at ages 6 and 9 months. Linear mixed effects models were used to examine longitudinal associations between quartiles of anti-flic and anti-LPS antibodies and changes in LAZ, WAZ and WLZ scores. Spearman's correlations were measured between …

Feminist Microenterprise: Vindicating The Rights Of Women In The New Global Order?, Lucie E. White

Maine Law Review

The subject of this symposium is “Law, Feminism & the 21st Century.” What are the greatest challenges for feminism in the coming century and how can the law help to meet them? I want to begin this essay by asking that question from two radically different vantage points. The first is very far removed from the usual starting point for feminist analysis, which is the “lived” experience of women's lives. Let us move far away from a place from which we can feel the lines on women's faces, and move to a place from which we can see only numbers, …

Recombinant Promoter (Muascsv8cp) Driven Totiviral Killer Protein 4 (Kp4) Imparts Resistance Against Fungal Pathogens In Transgenic Tobacco, Debasish Deb, Ankita Shrestha, Indu B. Maiti, Nrisingha Dey

Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center Faculty Publications

Development of disease-resistant plant varieties achieved by engineering anti-microbial transgenes under the control of strong promoters can suffice the inhibition of pathogen growth and simultaneously ensure enhanced crop production. For evaluating the prospect of such strong promoters, we comprehensively characterized the full-length transcript promoter of Cassava Vein Mosaic Virus (CsVMV; -565 to +166) and identified CsVMV8 (-215 to +166) as the highest expressing fragment in both transient and transgenic assays. Further, we designed a new chimeric promoter ‘MUASCsV8CP’ through inter-molecular hybridization among the upstream activation sequence (UAS) of Mirabilis Mosaic Virus (MMV; -297 to -38) and CsVMV8, as the core …

A 40-Day Journey To Better Health: Utilizing The Danielfast To Improve Health Outcomes In Urban Church-Based Settings., Nicole Vaughn, Darryl Brown, Beatriz O Reyes, Crystal Wyatt, Kimberly T Arnold, Elizabeth Dalianis, Paula J Kalksma, Caryn Roth, Jason Langheier, Maria Pajil-Battle, Meg Grant

College of Science & Mathematics Departmental Research

Background: As the costs associated with obesity increase, it is vital to evaluate the effectiveness of chronic disease prevention among underserved groups, particularly in urban settings. This research study evaluated Philadelphia area Keystone First members and church participants enrolled in a group health education program to determine the impact of the Daniel Fast on physical health and the adoption of healthy behaviors. Methods: Participants attended six-weekly health education sessions in two participating churches, and were provided with a digital healthy eating platform. Results: There was a statistically significant decrease from baseline to post assessment for weight, waist circumference and cholesterol. …

The Adipokine C1q Tnf Related Protein 3 (Ctrp3) Is Elevated In The Breast Milk Of Obese Mothers, Megan R. Kwon, Eileen M. Cress, W. Andrew Clark, Arsham Alamian, Yongke Lu, Jonathan M. Peterson

ETSU Faculty Works

Background C1q TNF related protein 3 (CTRP3) is a relatively novel hormonal factor primarily derived from adipose tissue and has anti-diabetic properties. To determine if CTRP3 could play a role in early childhood development, the purpose of this study was to establish the presence of CTRP3 in breast milk (BM) and to determine whether CTRP3 levels were correlated with pregravid obesity status of the mother. Methods Breast milk was collected from breast-feeding mothers who had a pregravid body mass index (BMI) classification of normal weight (BMI 18–25 kg/m2, n = 23) or obese (BMI > 30 kg/m2, n = 14). Immunoprecipitation …

Protection Effect Of Exogenous Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 On The Kidney Injury In Vascular Calcification Rats, Yu-Chen Shi, Wei-Wei Lu, Yue-Long Hou, Kun Fu, Feng Gan, Shu-Juan Cheng, Shao-Ping Wang, Yong-Fen Qi, Jing-Hua Liu

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Publications

Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is closely related to the cardiovascular events in vascular calcification (VC). However, little has known about the characteristics of kidney injury caused by VC. Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) is an endocrine factor, which takes part in various metabolic actions with the potential to alleviate metabolic disorder diseases. Even FGF21 has been regarded as a biomarker in CKD, the role of FGF21 in CKD remains unclear. Therefore, in this study, we evaluate the FGF21 on the kidney injury in VC rats.

Methods: The male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into three groups: (1) control group, (2) …

Um Graduate Student Explores The Secrets Of Sloths, Shea Stewart

University of Mississippi News

Curious creatures may offer better understanding of microbes' health roles

Bjc Today

BJC Today

No abstract provided.

Editorial: Harm And Benefit Of Plant And Fungal Secondary Metabolites In Food Animal Production, Michael D. Flythe

Animal and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Towards A Sar System For Personalized Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Patient With Pci, J Casas, B Irfan, E Senft, Lf Gutiérrez, M Rincon-Roncancio, M Munera, T Belpaeme, Ca Cifuentes

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Physical activity has been shown to have multiple benefits, such as reducing mortality rate caused by cardiovascular diseases and providing an optimal health status, making it one of the most important components of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs. However, the adherence to the program is low, and finding strategies to motivate people to perform physical training is a priority. This work proposes the introduction of a socially assistive robotics system in order to provide monitoring and motivation to patients within a CR program. A study was carried out with one patient accompanied by the robot during a conventional phase II, namely …

Alumnus Helps Connect Um Students To Luxury Travel Industry, Margaret Griffin

University of Mississippi News

Networking event brings global executives to recruit best and brightest hospitality management majors

Pulsed Infrared Radiation For Stimulation Of Vestibular System In Vivo: Evoked Eye Movements, Weitao Jiang

Open Access Dissertations

Vestibular dysfunction and balance disorders significantly impact the quality of life of patients. To assist patients with bilateral vestibulopathies and in cases where current forms of treatment are not effective, there is a need to develop neural prosthesis. In some cases, although the vestibular system could not sense the input balance signals, a significant numbers of nerve cells remain to respond to electrical stimulation(Jensen 1983). So developing a electrode based vestibular prosthesis becomes a practical solution. Vestibular prosthesis has been researched over the past decades, and vestibular function restoration is partly realized in animals such as chinchilla(Santina, Migliaccio et al. …

Hub City Farmers’ Market Revitalization Of The Spartanburg Northside Community, Caitlynn Myer

Wofford Bonner Scholar Senior Capstone Projects

The Northside Community in the early 20th century was a thriving prominent community in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Not only was Spartan Mill – the largest mill in the county, located in the Northside, but also the community became the central destination of the railroad line – thus, coining the epithet “hub city.” How did such a thriving community succumb to destruction? What is the history behind the Northside Community historically remaining a food desert for over 40 years? What changes of investment into the Northside Community have aimed to not only revitalize the community, but also to bring access to …

The Effectiveness Of Monarch Café And Hub City Farmers’ Market In Feeding The Northside: Perspectives From Two Communities, Aleah Qureshi

Wofford Bonner Scholar Senior Capstone Projects

The Northside was once considered a food desert, or a low-income area that lacks access to fresh produce and other healthy foods while having 33% of the census tract population reside more than a mile from a supermarket (Gallagher, 2011). A solution to combat the of food insecurity in the Northside is the creation of Harvest Park, a food hub compromised of Hub City Farmers’ Market, Monarch Café, and a community garden/farm. The Hub City Farmers’ Market runs every Saturday from April to mid-December. Vendors at the market are from local farms and businesses (Hub City Farmers’ Market, n.d.-a). To …

Association Of Obesity And Thyroid Cancer At A Tertiary Care Hospital In Pakistan, Adnan Ali, Yumna Mirza, Urooj Faizan, Nida Zahid, Muhammad S. Awan

Section of General Surgery

Objective: Thyroid cancer (TC) is one of the most common endocrine malignancies with a rapidly increasing worldwide presence. In Pakistan, it is more prevalent in females than males and has an incidence rate of 2.1%. Obesity and excess body mass index (BMI) has been linked to several cancers and is thought to be a risk factor for TC. We aim to investigate the incidence of TC in our population and understand it's correlation with obesity.
Subjects: The study was a retrospective case series conducted in the years 2000 to 2014, at the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Karachi, Pakistan where …

Exploring Identity: What We Do As Qualitative Researchers, Kerstin Roger, Tracey A. Bone, Tuula Heinonen, Karen Schwartz, Joyce Slater, Sulaye Thakrar

The Qualitative Report

Although there has been much discussion about distinctions between quantitative and qualitative research, our purpose here is not to revive those conversations, but instead to attempt to explore and articulate our identities as researchers who practice in the qualitative tradition. Using autoethnography as our methodology, we as six researchers from various social science disciplines and at various career stages engaged in focused introspection by responding individually to two questions: who am I as a qualitative researcher; and how did I come to that understanding? This reflection led to discussions of those elements and experiences that have shaped the way we …