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Canine-Assisted Therapy (Cat): A Nurse-Initiated Program To Reduce Patients’ Perception Of Pain And Anxiety At A Critical Access Hospital, Victoria Mccue, Molly Vlach, Sherry Stathers, Clair Hefner, Theresa Worden, Julie Erickson

All Publications

Background/Purpose: The use of animals to promote or improve human health and wellbeing has a long history. However, it is yet to be recognized and accepted as either a complementary therapy or integrated into mainstream healthcare. Even though studies have reported the benefits of animal-assisted therapy, critics dispute results, citing that personal beliefs about the value of companion animals as pets are insufficient as a basis for claims about the possible psychological and physical health benefits of interacting with animals. Hospitalized patients encounter stressors that impact their experience and recovery. Studies have shown that the presence of animals has a …

Chimes: October 25, 2019, Calvin University

Chimes

Meeter Center adds eleven rare books to colllection by Harm Venhuizen

The Haunt continues to scare Grand Rapidians by Abby Poirer & David Schwartzentruber

Grand Rapids launches public health campaign to combat lead poisoning by Grace Swanson

Scholarship changes offer legroom to incoming students by Connor Veenstra

After grant veto, students' financial situations uncertain by Ethan Stafford

Film Arts Committee presents the films of Terrence Malik by Abby Poirier

Unlimited meal plans keep dining hall food consumption stable by McKinley Anderson

Encountering an ancient saint in modern times by Joshua Polanski

Intrusive Advising And Retention Practices In A College Of Agriculture: A Case Study Of First-Year Student Experiences, Amanda Martin

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perceptions of first-year students who experienced intrusive advising and retention initiatives in the College of Agriculture at Louisiana State University (LSU). Research participants consisted of 20 first-year students enrolled in the college in the fall of 2018. One-on-one, face-to-face interviews with first-year students were conducted to gain insight and understand student experiences with intrusive advising and retention initiatives within the College of Agriculture. College student retention and factors that contribute to understanding retention have been extensively studied (Astin, 1993; Braxton, Hirschy, & McClendon, 2004; Habley, Bloom, & Robbins, 2012; …

A Parent-Teacher Reading Conference Project: Using A Virtual Environment (Teachlive™) To Improve Elementary Pre-Service Teachers’ Conferencing Skills, Michelle J. Kelley, Taylar Wenzel

The Reading Professor

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Improving Reading Comprehension Skills Of Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Supplemental Guide For Early Childhood Educators In Inclusive Settings, Neal Nghia Nguyen, William Garnett, Patrick Leytham, Jeff Gelfer

The Reading Professor

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Literacy Teachers’ Learning Through A Recursive Coaching Cycle, Yang Hu, Jennifer Tuten

The Reading Professor

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Exploring The Use Of Interest Inventories With Elementary Students: A Rich Foundation For Literacy Curriculum Making, Bev Brenna, John-Etienne Myburgh, Shannon Aubichon, Alexandra Baker, Raelyn Fee, Shania Hounsell, Leslie Kennedy, Santana Kennedy, Jessie Pilon, Shayna Thomas

The Reading Professor

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Never Too Late To Learn: The Unique Literacy Profile Of A Teen With Multiple Disabilities, Beverley Brenna, Alison Bell

The Reading Professor

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Políticas De Feminicidio En México: Perspectivasinterseccionales De Mujeres Indígenas Para.Reconsiderar Su Definición Teórica-Legal Y Las Metodología De Recolección De Datos, Dolores Figueroa Romero

Journal of International Women's Studies

Feminicides of indigenous women are not easy to distinguish in the data and statistics that feminist activists collect, to document gender-based violence against women in general. The killing of women because they are women responds to a legal definition that specifically refers to a particular type of victim: poor, working-class, urban women (Lagarde 2008). Very often the violent deaths of indigenous women defending communal/territorial resources, or violent acts related to the militarization of rural areas and extortion by organized crime may not necessarily be classified as feminicide since that violence is the result of the intersectionality of several orders of …

Curriculum And Standards Committee Report No. #2019-20-2 (Courses), University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

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How Vegan Are You? The Impact Of Audience And Organizational Value Orientation On The Evaluation Of Vegan Restaurants, Eunice Rhee

Fall Scholarship Showcase 2019

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Prospectus, October 24, 2019, Erin Morrison, Mason Gentry, Michelle Barnhart, Andrew Waner, Bryan Heaton, Kylie Moubry, Sidney Mounts, Kerry Lippold Jr., William Penne

Prospectus 2019

APO PLANS ANNUAL PENNIES FOR PUMPKINS; Costume Shop Provides Last-minute Halloween Ideas; Students Reveal Halloween Traditions & Superstitions; Annual U of I Homecoming Parade: A Long-lasting Tradition; A teacher, creator, and mentor of theatre; Fall festivities anyone?; History of the holiday: What is Halloween?

Assessing Undergraduate Student And Faculty Views On Animal Research: What Do They Know, Whom Do They Trust, And How Much Do They Care?, Eric P. Sandgren, Robert Streiffer, Jennifer Dykema, Nadia Assad, Jackson Moberg

Attitudes Toward Animal Research Collection

Research using animals is controversial. To develop sound public outreach and policy about this issue, we need information about both the underlying science and people’s attitudes and knowledge. To identify attitudes toward this subject at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we developed and administered a survey to undergraduate students and faculty. The survey asked respondents about the importance of, their confidence in their knowledge about, and who they trusted to provide information on animal research. Findings indicated attitudes varied by academic discipline, especially among faculty. Faculty in the biological sciences, particularly those who had participated in an animal research project, reported …

October 24, 2019, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

The Setonian, October 24, 2019, Seton Hall University

2019

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Linalool Acts As A Fast And Reversible Anesthetic In Hydra, T. Goel, R. Wang, S Martin, Elizabeth Y. Lanphear , '19, Eva-Maria S. Collins

Biology Faculty Works

The ability to make transgenic Hydra lines has allowed for quantitative in vivo studies of Hydra regeneration and physiology. These studies commonly include excision, grafting and transplantation experiments along with high-resolution imaging of live animals, which can be challenging due to the animal’s response to touch and light stimuli. While various anesthetics have been used in Hydra studies, they tend to be toxic over the course of a few hours or their long-term effects on animal health are unknown. Here, we show that the monoterpenoid alcohol linalool is a useful anesthetic for Hydra. Linalool is easy to use, non-toxic, fast …

Corridors Or Risk? Movement Along, And Use Of, Linear Features Varies Predictably Among Large Mammal Predator And Prey Species, Melanie Dickie, Scott R. Mcnay, Glenn D. Sutherland, Michael Cody, Tal Avgar

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

1. Space‐use behaviour reflects trade‐offs in meeting ecological needs and can have consequences for individual survival and population demographics. The mechanisms underlying space use can be understood by simultaneously evaluating habitat selection and movement patterns, and fine‐resolution locational data are increasing our ability to do so.
2. We use high‐resolution location data and an integrated step‐selection analysis to evaluate caribou, moose, bear, and wolf habitat selection and movement behaviour in response to anthropogenic habitat modification, though caribou data were limited. Space‐use response to anthropogenic linear features (LFs) by predators and prey is hypothesized to increase predator hunting efficiency and is thus believed …

Curriculum And Standards Committee Report No. #2019-20-2 (Courses), University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

No abstract provided.

Curricular And Standards Committee Report No. #2019-20-2: Curricular Proposals, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

No abstract provided.

50th Anniversary: Leading The Way In Rehabilitation Medicine (1969-2019), Carol Abbott

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Posters

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The Comment, October 24, 2019, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

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Diy Neuroscience Tools Help Thyme Break New Ground In Schizophrenia Research, Matt Windsor

Browse All News

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Matrix Metalloproteinases And Temporomandibular Joint Disorder: A Review Of The Literature, Logan Herm, Ardit Haxhia, Flavio Camejo, Lobat Tayebi, Luis Eduardo Almeida

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are progressive degenerative disorders that affect the components of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), characterized by pain and limitations in function. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) are enzymes involved in physiological breakdown of tissue that can have a pathological effect from an increase in activity during inflammation. A PubMed search of the current literature (within the past 10 years) was conducted to identify human studies involving matrix metalloproteinases activity in TMJ components of patients with TMD. Two separate searches results in 34 studies, six of which met inclusion criteria. Immunohistochemistry and gene analysis were used to evaluate MMP expression in …

Contributing Factors To Diabetic Brain Injury And Cognitive Decline, Nirmal Verma, Florin Despa

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Publications

The link of diabetes with co-occurring disorders in the brain involves complex and multifactorial pathways. Genetically engineered rodents that express familial Alzheimer's disease-associated mutant forms of amyloid precursor protein and presenilin 1 (PSEN1) genes provided invaluable insights into the mechanisms and consequences of amyloid deposition in the brain. Adding diabetes factors (obesity, insulin impairment) to these animal models to predict success in translation to clinic have proven useful at some extent only. Here, we focus on contributing factors to diabetic brain injury with the aim of identifying appropriate animal models that can be used to mechanistically dissect the …

Garnet & Black Fall 2019, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

Garnet & Black Magazine

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Embodied Gestalts: Unstable Visual Phenomena Become Stable When They Are Stimuli For Competitive Action Selection, Dobromir Dotov, Michael T. Turvey, Till D. Frank

Journal Articles

An animal’s environment is rich with affordances. Different possible actions are specified by visual information while competing for dominance over neural dynamics. Affordance competition models account for this in terms of winner-takes-all cross-inhibition dynamics. Multistable phenomena also reveal how the visual system deals with ambiguity. Their key property is spontaneous instability, in forms such as alternating dominance in binocular rivalry. Theoretical models of self-inhibition or self-organized instability posit that the instability is tied to some kind of neural adaptation and that its functional significance is to enable flexible perceptual transitions. We hypothesized that the two perspectives are interlinked. Spontaneous instability …

Hawks' Herald -- Oct. 24 , 2019, Roger Williams University

Hawk's Herald

No abstract provided.

The Montclarion, October 24, 2019, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

Intraspecific And Interspecific Interactions Between Two Species Of North American Vulture At Feeding Sites., Dixie Claire Grammer

Theses and Dissertations

Vultures are a necessity to the natural world. These elite scavengers have the ability to eliminate disease, bacteria, and other harmful pathogens from the environment by simply eating infected carcasses. There are several species of vulture that are threatened with extinction due to a number of reasons, human connotation being one of them. These birds are often persecuted because of their appearance and also because of damage that they have caused. Although at times they may be considered nuisance animals, their need in their environment greatly outweighs the problems they sometimes cause. Research is a way to educate the public …

The George-Anne Inkwell Edition, Georgia Southern University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.