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Psychology Department Newsletter- Feb. 14, 2019, Department Staff

Psychology Department Newsletter

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Vol.46 N.30 February 14th 2019, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

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Commentary: Sugar Metabolism Regulates Flavor Preferences And Portal Glucose Sensing, Anthony Sclafani, Karen Acroff

Publications and Research

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Weight Cycling Does Not Adversely Affect Cardiovascular Outcomes In Women With Suspected Myocardial Ischemia, Adam Pope

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Brassica Glucosinolates Improve Metabolism Efficiency Of Drosophila Melanogaster By Promoting Efficient Mitochondrial Respiration, Jeremiah Nance, Slavko Komaryntsky

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Brassica Glucosinolates (GSL's) reduce accumulation of reactive oxygen species which suggests a reduction in damage to the metabolism of larval fruit flies fed a high fat diet.

The Weekly Challenger, February 14, 2019, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The February 14, 2019, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Senior Resource Alliance Needs Assessment 2018, Lauren Daniel, Tashanda Dennison, Amy Donley

Institute for Social and Behavioral Science (ISBS)

The University of Central Florida’s Institute for Social and Behavioral Science (ISBS) conducted a needs assessment on behalf of the Senior Resource Alliance.

An Exploration Of Infant And Toddler Unstructured Outdoor Play, Danae Dinkel, Kailey Snyder, Tyler Patterson, Shane Warehime, Miriam E. Kuhn, Deborah Basler Wisneski

Health and Kinesiology Faculty Publications

Unstructured outdoor play is important for children's development. The present study examined infants’ and toddlers’ physical and social unstructured outdoor play behaviors within childcare centers. Children's outdoor play behaviors were video recorded at two centers (A&B) and assessed using a modified version of the Observational System for Recording Physical Activity in Children in Preschool (OSRAC-P). Children in this study primarily took part in active play (56.7%) and engaged in play without any type of prompting from a teacher (91.2%). There was a significant interaction between the effect of center and location on physically active play (p < 0.001). Children at Center B were most active in open play areas (77.6%), while children at Center A were most active in gross motor play areas (72.2%). In sum, the outdoor play environment influences infants’ and toddlers’ physical and social play behaviors; however, more research is needed to determine the optimal environment for development.

Deep Sea Biofilms, Historic Shipwreck Preservation And The Deepwater Horizon Spill, Rachel L. Mugge, Melissa L. Brock, Jennifer L. Salerno, Melanie Damour, Robert A. Church, Jason Lee, Leila J. Hamdan

Faculty Publications

Exposure to oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may have lasting impacts on preservation of historic shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico. Submerged steel structures, including shipwrecks, serve as artificial reefs and become hotspots of biodiversity in the deep-sea. Marine biofilms on submerged structures support settlement of micro- and macrobiota and may enhance and protect against corrosion. Disruptions in the local environment, including oil spills, may impact the role that biofilms play in reef preservation. To determine how the Deepwater Horizon spill potentially impacted shipwreck biofilms and the functional roles of the biofilm microbiome, experiments containing carbon steels disks (CSDs) …

Divergent Switchgrass Cultivars Modify Cereal Aphid Transcriptomes, Kyle G. Koch, Erin D. Scully, Nathan A. Palmer, Scott M. Geib, Gautam Sarath, Tiffany Heng-Moss, Jeff D. Bradshaw

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

Schizaphis graminum Rondani (Hemiptera: Aphididae) and Sipha flava Forbes (Hemiptera: Aphididae) are two common pests of bioenergy grasses. Despite the fact that they are both considered generalists, they differ in their ability to colonize Panicum virgatum cultivars. For example, S. flava colonizes both P. virgatum cv. Summer and P. virgatum cv. Kanlow whereas S. graminum can only colonize Summer. To study the molecular responses of these aphids to these two switchgrass cultivars, we generated de novo transcriptome assemblies and compared the expression profiles of aphids feeding on both cultivars to profiles associated with feeding on a highly susceptible sorghum host …

The Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University

The Relationship Between Diet Quality And Depressive Symptoms In Postpartum African American Women, Annabeth Daley, Erin Ferranti

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between diet quality and depressive symptom scores in a socioeconomically diverse sample of African American women.

The Unbearable Lightness Of The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Accomplishment Of Diversity At An Urban Farmers Market, Sofya Aptekar

Publications and Research

This article provides a critique of work on urban public space that touts its potential as a haven from racial and class conflicts and inequalities. I argue that social structures and hierarchies embedded in the capitalist system and the state’s social control over the racialized poor are not suspended even in places that appear governed by civility and tolerance, such as those under Anderson’s “cosmopolitan canopy”. Durable inequality, residential segregation, nativism, and racism inevitably shape what happens in diverse public spaces. Using an ethnographic study of an urban farmers’ market in New York City, I show that appearances of everyday …

In Defense Of Cities: On Negative Presentation Of Urban Areas In Environmental Preference Studies, Anu Besson

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This paper critiques a common research method, image-based studies, in assessing environmental references. The method is used, in particular, in the fields of environmental psychology, landscape studies, and health studies, here called empirical environmental preference studies or EEP studies. I argue that the established view in the EEP field that nature is inherently experienced as more aesthetically appealing and restorative than urban environments may be biased because of the image-based method. This paper presents a literature review of EEP studies, discussing them in a framework of environmental and everyday aesthetics. The conclusion is that EEP studies may strip cities of …

Critical Dietetics And Sustainable Food Systems, L Carlsson, K Mehta, C Pettinger

School of Health Professions

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Outcomes Comparison Of Enculturating Advance Directives Process At A Health System, Rose Allen, Tanya Cohn, Christine Edozie, Susan Howard, Patricia Mccrink

All Publications

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires organizations to comply with the Patient Self-Determination Act by having processes that inform patients about their rights to execute an advance directive (AD) and engage in shared decision-making. The aim of this study was to compare AD data from a previous study (1999–2002) to a postenculturation (2011–2015) of a structured process for documented patient’s preferences. Second, to conduct a descriptive, bivariate analysis of the enculturated structured ADs process during 2011 and 2015. This descriptive, comparative analysis included 500 random patients from four hospitals, and the enculturated descriptive analysis included 302 patients …

Optimization Of Processing Parameters Of Nanocomposite Film For Fresh Sliced Okra Packaging, Adeshina Fadeyibi Phd, Zinash Delebo Osunde Phd, Professor, Mohammed Gana Yisa Professor

Journal of Applied Packaging Research

Nanocomposite film can be regarded as an active packaging material which is capable of curtailing microbial growth and keeping food for an extended life. In this research, the optimum processing parameters of cassava starch-zinc nanocomposite film was determined for packaging fresh-sliced okra. Samples of the films, with thickness ranging between 15– 17µm, were developed from the blends of 24g of cassava starch, 0–2 % zinc nanoparticles (NP) and 45–55 % glycerol in 600 ml distilled water. The ideal film was determined by optimizing the film processing parameters using Box-Behnken Design in Surface Response Methodology. It was subsequently used to package …

Manual: Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida Annual Grants, 2002-2003, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

A manual of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Annual Grants from 2002-2003.

New Morbidities 2.0, Angelo P. Giardino, Robert Sanborn

Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk

Robert Sanborn and Angelo Giardino's introduction for Volume 4, Issue 1: New Morbidities 2.0

Mrub_3018 Is Orthologous To E. Coli B2759 (Casb), Kyle Parker, Dr. Lori Scott

Meiothermus ruber Genome Analysis Project

This project is part of the Meiothermus ruber genome analysis project, which uses a collection of online bioinformatics tools to predict gene function. We studied the biological activity of the Mrub_3018 gene, which we hypothesize is orthologous to E. coli gene B2759. We predicted that Mrub_3018(DNA coordinates 3057916… 3058524) encodes the protein CasB. CasB is a protein in the CRISPR CASCADE that will function as a structural protein. When the rest of the proteins form an “S” formation CasB will connect the front and back of the “S” creating a back bone for the structure. It will help bind DNA …

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Identifying Barriers And Supports To Breastfeeding In The Workplace Experienced By Mothers In The New Hampshire Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants, And Children Utilizing The Total Worker Health Framework, Eric A. Lauer, Karla Armenti, Margaret Henning, Lissa Sirois

Institute on Disability

Variations in the barriers and contributors to breastfeeding across industries have not been well characterized for vulnerable populations such as mothers participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Our study used the Total Worker Health Framework to characterize workplace factors acting as barriers and/or contributors to breastfeeding among women participating in the New Hampshire WIC. Surveys were collected from WIC mothers (n = 682), which asked about employment, industry, and workplace accommodation and supports related to breastfeeding in the workplace. We found workplace policy factors supporting breastfeeding (i.e., having paid maternity leave, other maternity …

Icue Spotlight: Feb. 15-21, 2019 (February 13, 2019), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

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Hotline Press Newspaper- Feb 13, 2019 Vol 34 No 44, Hotline Press Newspaper

Hotline Press Newspaper 2019

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The Montclarion, February 13, 2020, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

Global Disease Outbreaks Associated With The 2015–2016 El Niño Event, Assaf Anyamba, Jean-Paul Chretien, Seth C. Britch, Radina P. Soebiyanto, Jennifer L. Small, Rikke Jepsen, Brett M. Forshey, Jose L. Sanchez, Ryan D. Smith, Ryan Harris, Compton J. Tucker, William B. Karesh, J. Linthicum

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Interannual climate variability patterns associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation phenomenon result in climate and environmental anomaly conditions in specific regions worldwide that directly favor outbreaks and/or amplification of variety of diseases of public health concern including chikungunya, hantavirus, Rift Valley fever, cholera, plague, and Zika. We analyzed patterns of some disease outbreaks during the strong 2015–2016 El Niño event in relation to climate anomalies derived from satellite measurements. Disease outbreaks in multiple El Niño-connected regions worldwide (including Southeast Asia, Tanzania, western US, and Brazil) followed shifts in rainfall, temperature, and vegetation in which both drought and flooding occurred in …

Farm Animal Cognition—Linking Behavior, Welfare And Ethics, Christian Nawroth, Jan Langbein, Marjorie Coulon, Vivian Gabor, Susan Oesterwind, Judith Benz-Schwarzburg, Eberhard Von Borell

Social Cognition Collection

Farm animal welfare is a major concern for society and food production. To more accurately evaluate animal farming in general and to avoid exposing farm animals to poor welfare situations, it is necessary to understand not only their behavioral but also their cognitive needs and capacities. Thus, general knowledge of how farm animals perceive and interact with their environment is of major importance for a range of stakeholders, from citizens to politicians to cognitive ethologists to philosophers. This review aims to outline the current state of farm animal cognition research and focuses on ungulate livestock species, such as cattle, horses, …

Wellworks Joins Partnership On Eating Disorders Prevention And Treatment (February 12, 2019), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

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The Utah Statesman, February 12, 2019, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Assessment Of The Quality Of Working Life Of Nurses: Care For The Caregiver Supportive Strategies, Deidra Claire Dudley, Maria Nix, Shelley Thibeau, Tracey Moffatt, Jana Semere

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

In 2017, the nursing leadership of a large healthcare system launched a Care for the Caregiver initiative founded on the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Healthy Work Environment Standards. The purpose of this program was to implement strategies to promote the nurses' well-being and a higher quality of working life.