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Synthesis Of Gadolinium-Doxorubicin Prodrug Carrying Functional Nanoceria For The Targeted Drug Delivery And Cancer Treatment, Arth Patel

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The main focus of this research was the development of a polymer-coated nanoceria (PNC) platform to be used as a drug delivery system. Water-dispersible PNC is synthesized using a water-based alkaline precipitation method. Cerium nitrate hexahydrate and poly (acrylic acid) are used for the preparation of PNC. The synthesized PNC was characterized using ZETA, and UV- Vis characterization techniques. Polyacrylic acid (PAA)-coated cerium oxide nanoparticles fabricated for the targeted combination therapy of TNBC (MDA-MB-231) and MCF-7. Using EDC/NHS chemistry, the surface carboxylic acid groups of nanoceria was designed and synthesized with ICAM-1 antibody to target ICAM-1 overexpressing TNBC. Next, doxorubicin …

Diet And Lifestyle Tips For Better Health Outcomes, Annie Ferreri

All Student-Created Educational Resources

The handout provides an evidence-based overview of a healthy diet and lifestyle for an adolescent. It is intended to provide enough detail to be motivational without resulting in overwhelm. Tips for a successful outcome are provided on the handout.

Healthy Weight Management For Teens, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

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This handout has been created to educate teenagers on healthy eating tips and physical activity to maintain a healthy weight across a lifespan.

Healthy Weight Management For Teens, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This handout has been created to educate teenagers on healthy eating tips and physical activity to maintain a healthy weight across a lifespan.

It’S Your Choice. Create Your Healthy Weight! (A Handout), Micheline D. Cormier

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This handout gives information and tips to achieve a healthy energy balance. It encourages calorie neutral hydration, exercise, fruit, vegetable and whole grain intake as well as cooking at home while creating a positive and healthy environment for continued support.

Mindfully Empowered Health (A Handout), University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This educational handout focuses on delivering the concept of Mindfulness to adolescent young women when choosing healthier food choices alongside appropriate portion sizes recommended by the 2,000 kcal/diet MyPlate Plan. Acknowledging that teen girls have a greater desire for autonomy in their food and exercise choices, the first side educates them on ways to monitor their healthy to not so healthy food choices utilizing the Traffic Light Diet concept. Colorful pictures alongside each section illustrate which choices correlate to “always appropriate”, “pause”, and “stop and think” foods. Portion size control is depicted through everyday objects so that the user can …

Steps For A Healthier Lifestyle (A Handout), University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This handout provides seven tips for leading a healthier lifestyle, including both nutritional and physical exercise tips as found through scientific research.

What Does A Good Life Look Like To You?, Mackenzie Zelensky

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

History and Purpose of Heaven Can Wait Animal Society Heaven Can Wait Animal Society is an organization that helps rescue dogs and cats from homelessness, starvation, and death. The founding principle of this organization is to save these animals lives, specifically be means of not euthanizing the animals that they rescue. The founders of Heaven Can Wait created this organization to “stop the senseless killing of dogs and cats,” according to hcws.org. This objective is achieved every day by HCWS. Based on the organization’s website, the people I’ve interreacted with, and my personal experience, it is blatantly clear that animals …

Volunteering With Project F.O.C.U.S., Brooke Knoles

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

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Project 150, Blakeleigh Loughery

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

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Project 150: High School Is Tough Enough, Mathew David Salcedo

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

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Project 150, Hunter Speier

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

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Project F.O.C.U.S., Valery Urdaneta

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

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Volunteering At Dean Peterson, Justice Williams

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

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Project 150, Madisen Yoder

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

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Clearance Of Chikungunya Virus Infection In Lymphoid Tissues Is Promoted By Treatment With An Agonistic Anti-Cd137 Antibody, Jun P Hong, Mary K Mccarthy, Bennett J Davenport, Thomas E Morrison, Michael S Diamond

Open Access Publications

CD137, a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily of cell surface proteins, acts as a costimulatory receptor on T cells, natural killer cells, B cell subsets, and some dendritic cells. Agonistic anti-CD137 monoclonal antibody (MAb) therapy has been combined with other chemotherapeutic agents in human cancer trials. Based on its ability to promote tumor clearance, we hypothesized that anti-CD137 MAb might activate immune responses and resolve chronic viral infections. We evaluated anti-CD137 MAb therapy in a mouse infection model of chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an alphavirus that causes chronic polyarthritis in humans and is associated with reservoirs of CHIKV …

The Psychological Abuse According To Self – Silencing Of Educational Counselors, نادرة جميل حمد حمود

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The current research aims to identify:

5.the Psychological abuse according to self-silencing of educational counselors.

To achieve the objectives of the current research, the researcher developed a measure to measure the psychological abuse of female educators, and preparing of a measure of self-silence after the translation from foreign language into Arabic and extracting the characteristics of the psychometric characteristics of both measurements, then she applied the two measures on a sample of educators in the province of Baghdad whose number is amounted to (320) educational counselors After analyzing the data, the results showed that:1. There is psychological abuse of female …

Gratitude And Its Relationship To The Multiple Intelligences Of The University Students, ذر منير مسيهر العاني

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Gratitude is a positive aspect of the human psyche and the behavior is sometimes important to the human, and the personality of the individual is clearly visible and clear. It also affects behaviors such as happiness and love, coupled with improved mental health in the individual. The researcher believes that psychological variables may affect gratitude, including multiple intelligence. The objectives of the current research aimed at the following:

1- Gratitude to university students.

2- Differences of gratitude among university students according to gender (male, female)

3- Multiple intelligence among university students

4- Differences in multiple intelligence among university students according …

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder And Its Relation To Cognitive Distortions Among University Students, محمد حميد محمد الهيتي

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The current research aims to identify the Post-traumatic stress disorder and its relation to Cognitive Distortions among university students. The researcher adopted the steps of his research depending on the descriptive approach. The sample was randomized by (100) individuals: (47) for males and (53) for females - for each of the General Sciences and Arabic Language specialization at the Faculty of Basic Education. To achieve the research objectives, the researcher adopted the scale (Khawaja and Bahraini, 2008) for the post-traumatic stress disorder, and (Alasar 2015) scale for cognitive Distortions after achieving validity and Reliability of both measurements. The results showed …

Analysis Of The Work Of The Educational Advisor In Secondary Schools, نور بدري نوري

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The aim of the current research is to analyze the work of the educational advisor in the secondary schools in the city of Baghdad and to achieve this research, the researcher adopted a note form consisting of seven areas:

((Field of school card, field of guidance records, meeting area, Field of collective guidance, field of cases, problem area, area of extra-curricular activities)). An individual interview was conducted with the educational advisors during their visit to their schools, their number is (30) male and female advisors distributed in the Educational Directorates of Karkh (1st-2nd-3rd) for the academic year 2018-2019.

The researcher …

Protection Of The Child's Psychological Security Under Criminal Legislation (Comparative Study), وسام كاظم زغير

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The subject of research: (protection of the child's psychological security under criminal legislation) has a practical significance to guarantee the right of the child to enjoy psychological security away from violence or ill-treatment, since The child is weak at this stage; he cannot defend himself in the face of the dangers to which he is exposed. Moreover, he needs care and concern for his physical and psychological rights, and although there are some provisions in the Iraqi Penal Code No. 111 of 1969, which provides criminal protection, but the protection of his right to psychological security was not within the …

Emotional Deprivation And Its Relation With The Cognitive Failure Of The Intermediate Stage Students, رؤى مهدي جابر البعاج

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The research has objectives that are conducted as the following:

The current research has determined sample of the intermediate stage students for both males and females in the General Directorates in Baghdad for the academic year 2018-2019.

The theoretical frame this research viewed several theories related to the research variables.

The research procedures:

(Al-Saadi2016) and Adopting Cognitive Failure scale(AL – Kaby2013) investigatiy their validity and reliability and the way of answeng their items.

Barbara Kingsolver: Evaluating Her Contribution To The Eco-Feminist Novel, صباح عطا الله خليفة علي, زيد ابراهيم اسماعيل

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Climate change, together with terrorism, economic depressions, and mass-destructive weaponry, is a source of international phobia for many people. The advancement in technology increases the competition among world powers and economic systems to develop their industrial enterprises. The smoke that emits from the factories, the pollution caused by the industrial projects, the excessive use of green gas result in the increase of global warming and have catastrophic effects on the ecosphere of the planet. Besides, man’s wrong practices even in agricultural matters are exhausting the natural resources of the lands, and they badly affect the ecological diversity and the wellbeing …

Infection Control: The Nurse's Responsibility, Marisa Francis

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Over the last century and a half, infection control measures implemented by nursing staff have continued to evolve, resulting in improved patient outcomes. While this progress is impressive, a decline in rates of hospital acquired infections (HAIs) seems to have slowed, with only a 0.5% decrease in the last seventeen years. Unfortunately, nurses are rarely provided educational support on infection control practices beyond undergraduate and new employee trainings. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is frequently updating their infection control practice recommendations.

The purpose of this project was to observe the current rate of infection control compliance by nurses, …

Restructuring Of The Axon Initial Segment In Mouse Models Of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Rachel Ali Rodriguez

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) affect more than 36% of children in countries with low- and middle- incomes (Boivin, 2015; McCoy, 2016). Interestingly, these heterogeneous disorders share a high incidence of epileptic seizures, suggesting a shared pathology. Seizures result when neuronal firing activity becomes disturbed and neurons fire excessively or in unregulated patterns. A key site in the control of neuronal firing patterns is the axon initial segment (AIS), where the local density of proteins and the morphology of the AIS in part determine the firing of neurons. We hypothesized that a disruption in the morphology and/or composition of the AIS can …

Chatting Online: An Ethnographic Case Study Of Educator Discourse On Social Media, Lindsay J. Russell

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This study sought to examine the online discussions of teachers located in the Southwestern area of the United States regarding social justice issues on social media. Specifically, it looked to discover how educators in this region are attempting to assert agency when faced with socially inequitable situations. Teachers in this region are hired as public employees in a state that penalizes public workers for exhibiting opinions (SRS § 288.260, 1969).

The study utilized Cultural Historical Activity Theory along with Critical Multiculturalism to demonstrate that our present actions are culturally and historically situated while illuminating hegemonic forces. The study found that …

Evaluating Parents Sociodemographic Factors And Childhood Vaccine Decisions, Mehret Girmay

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Vaccination is considered one of the most successful public health achievements of the 20th century. However, with increasing vaccine skepticism emerging over the past decades, there is a threat to the ongoing sustainment of vaccine coverage within all US communities. This study evaluated and compared parents’ sociodemographic factors associated with childhood vaccine decisions. This study is a secondary analysis of 893 parents/guardians, age 18-55 years with child(ren) < 7 years living in the U.S.

Predictive analysis was conducted using multinomial logistic regression modeling was used to examine vaccine decisions (accept, hesitant, and refuse) in relation to parents’ sociodemographic factors. Overall, (66.6%) of parents accepted recommended vaccines, while …

Compounding Effects Of Reducing Nurse Burnout And How It Can Produce An Increase In Patient Safety And Satisfaction, Alexander Mua

Master's Projects and Capstones

The reduction of nurse burnout has shown to have an increase in patient satisfaction and quality of care. It also has shown a decrease in patient-related or sentinel events. Accordingly, with the reduction of nurse burnout, there has also been a reduction of compassion fatigue. This project has illuminated the benefits of acuity-based caseload at the micro-level, including the cost-effective nature of overtime pay, including HCHAPS benefit score. The method of obtaining, planning, and implementing was based on the Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA), which required collaboration amongst multiple disciplines, groups, departments, and executives. The process and goals concluded to …

Healthy Choices: The Building Blocks Of A Healthy Lifestyle (An Educational Handout), University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

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This educational handout provides guidance for healthy weight management through lifestyle interventions including healthy eating, exercise and familial involvement.

Role Of Echocardiography In Diagnostic Evaluation Of Patients Admitted To Observation Unit., Muhammad Arslan Cheema, Hafez Mohammad Ammar Abdullah, Waqas Ullah, Yasar Sattar, Shujaul Haq, Khadija Cheema, Asrar Ahmad, Zain Ali, Asoka Balaratna

Abington Jefferson Health Papers

BACKGROUND: Syncope is a transient loss of consciousness due to transient decrease in cerebral perfusion. Syncope accounts for a 3-6% of all emergency department visits. Etiology of syncope can be neural, cardiogenic, or vascular. Previous studies have evaluated the types and management of syncope. Echocardiography is a commonly used test in the evaluation of causes of syncope. Whether the benefit compared to financial burden of this diagnostic study is in all subsets of syncope cases remains unclear.

AIM: To evaluate the impact of echocardiography in the diagnostic evaluation of syncope and to evaluate the subset of patients that would benefit …