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Low Cognitive Function Is Associated With Reduced Functional Fitness Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Michelle Gray, Joshua Gills, Jordan Glenn, Erica Madero, Aidan Hall, Nami Fuseya, Jennifer Vincenzo, Nick Bott

Health, Human Performance and Recreation Faculty Publications and Presentations

Among older adults over 70, 22-30% report difficulty performing at least one activity of daily living (ADL). While the precipitants of ADL decline are multifactorial, over 50% of cognitively impaired adults require assistance with ADLs. The exact relationship between cognitive and functional decline remains unknown, but it is important to understand their relationship. Eighty-three older adults (80.9 + 5.4 years) enrolled in this study and completed functional fitness and cognitive assessments. Functional fitness assessments included: Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB), 10-meter walk, dual-task, and power chair stand (average and peak). Cognition was assessed using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and …

Association Between Allelic Variations Of -174g/C Polymorphism Of Interleukin-6 Gene And Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral And Bone Disorder In Iraqi Patients, Mohanad Yasir Al-Radeef

Baghdad Science Journal

This--study-was designed to examine association-between-174G/C-polymorphism of interleukin-6 gene and phosphate, calcium, vitamin D3, and parathyroid hormone levels in Iraqi patient with chronic kidney disease on maintenance hemodialysis. Seventy patients with -chronic renal-disease-(patients-group) and-20 healthy-subjects (control-group) were enrolled and genotyped for interleukin-6 polymorphism byconventional-polymerase-chain-reaction-restriction-fragment-length-polymorphism.There were nosignificant -differences-in phosphate -levels-observed-in –both patient-and -control-groups with -different interleukin-6 -genotypes. Control had non-significant differences in calcium levels, -while--patients--with-GG-and-GC-genotypes showed-significant elevation with time. Conversely, control and patients with GG and CC genotypes had significant elevation in vitamin D3levels with time.Regarding parathyroid hormone, control had non-significant differences,while patients with GG and CC genotypes showed significant elevation with …

Prevalence Of Diabetes Mellitus In Hepatitis C Patients In Wazirabad Tehsil Of Gujranwala District Of Pakistan, Shazia Shamas, Mahjabeen Zafar, Shumaila Irum, Lubna Khan, Haleema Sadia, Sadia Roshan, Tanzil Ur Rahman, Muhammad Yousaf Khan, Muhammad Ammar

Baghdad Science Journal

Hepatitis, a condition of liver’s inflammation that can be self-limiting or, in certain chances, it may lead to liver cancer, fibrosis or cirrhosis. Hepatitis viruses mainly cause hepatitis in the world. People with hepatitis C have predominant chances to develop diabetes as HCV virus participates in causing type 2 diabetes. HCV virus causes pathogenesis in two ways: it either directly destroys the β cells of pancreas or contributes to the specific autoimmunity of β cells. The present cross sectional study was done in Wazirabad Tahsil of Gujranwala District to analyze the percentage of patients suffering from hepatitis C who had …

Determination Of Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Enzyme (Pde-5) Inhibitors And Analogues As Adulterants In Selected Herbal Products Using Gas Chromatography–Electron Impact-Mass Spectrometer (Gc-Ei-Ms), Nur Azzalia Kamaruzaman, Mazlin Mohideen, Yin-Hui Leong, Azaharudin Awang Ahmad, Norjuliana Mohd Noor

Baghdad Science Journal

Sildenafil, tadalafil, and vardenafil are phosphodiesterase type 5 enzyme (PDE-5) inhibitors used for the treatment of male erectile dysfunction. This present study aims to investigate 55 herbal products indicated for men’s sexual health from the Malaysian market for adulteration of PDE-5 inhibitors and analogues. The screening and identification of 20 PDE-5 inhibitors and analogues in herbal products of various forms (powder, capsules, tablets, and pastels) were conducted using gas chromatography–electron impact-mass spectrometer (GC-EI-MS). The analysis has shown that 19 herbal products were adulterated with PDE-5 inhibitors and analogues. Unique ion fragmentations and the presence of molecular ion serve as potential …

Seasonal Variation And Correlation Between The Physical, Chemical And Microbiological Parameters Of Nile Water In Selected Area In Egypt (Case Study), Sayed Rashad, Muhammad Abdul Moneem, Ghadir El-Chaghaby

Baghdad Science Journal

Fresh water resources in terms of water quality is a crucial issue worldwide. In Egypt, the Nile River is the main source of fresh water in the country and monitoring its water quality is a major task on governments and research levels. In the present case study, the physical, chemical and algal distribution in Nile River was monitored over two seasons (winter and summer) in 2019. The aims of the study were to check the seasonal variation among the different water parameters and also to check the correlations between those parameters. Water samples were collected from the Nile in Cairo …

Stopping Power And Range Calculations Of Protons In Human Tissues, Iftekhar Ahmed, Hridita Nowrin, Hriday Dhar

Baghdad Science Journal

In this research, the stopping power and range of protons in biological human soft and hard tissues (blood, brain, skeleton-cortical bone, and skin) of both child and adult are calculated at the energies ranging from 1MeV to 350 MeV. The data is collected from ICRU Report 46 and calculated the stopping power employing the Bethe formula. Moreover, the simple integration (continuous slowing down approximation) method is employed for calculating protons range at the target. Then, the stopping power and range of protons value in human tissues have been compared with the program called SRIM. Moreover, the results of the stopping …

Detection Of Suicidal Ideation On Twitter Using Machine Learning & Ensemble Approaches, Syed Tanzeel Rabani, Qamar Rayees Khan, Akib Mohi Ud Din Khanday

Baghdad Science Journal

Suicidal ideation is one of the most severe mental health issues faced by people all over the world. There are various risk factors involved that can lead to suicide. The most common & critical risk factors among them are depression, anxiety, social isolation and hopelessness. Early detection of these risk factors can help in preventing or reducing the number of suicides. Online social networking platforms like Twitter, Redditt and Facebook are becoming a new way for the people to express themselves freely without worrying about social stigma. This paper presents a methodology and experimentation using social media as a tool …

Indigenous Yak And Yak‐Cattle Crossbreed Management In High Altitude Areas Of Northern Nepal: A Case Study From Rasuwa District, Shikui Dong, Eklabya Sharma, Zhaoli Yan, K. K. Shrestha, D. Pariya

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Immersion Pedagogy For Ignatian Leadership: The Creighton Haddix Dean’S Fellows, Thomas M. Kelly, Jennifer Moss Breen

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

There are times and places where learning can be heightened. The proliferation of high-impact pedagogies attests to this. International immersions, done with intentionality, reflection, and follow-up, can be times and places where theories and concepts move from the abstract to the real. Immersion experiences in poor and marginalized communities are also where Ignatian leadership can be understood more profoundly, largely because of the values and commitments of Ignatius of Loyola and the spirituality that emerged from his life.

Ignatian Leadership In The Undergraduate Curriculum And Classroom, Erika L. Dakin Kirby

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

This article: (a) describes the (Ignatian) Leadership Minor structure and curriculum for undergraduates at Creighton and (b) suggests how to embed principles of Ignatian leadership into undergraduate classrooms whether or not “leadership” is the explicit focus. First, I explain how the Leadership Minor was created specifically to embrace Ignatian Leadership and describe the required courses in terms of their learning objectives and related assignments. Second, I illustrate how principles of Ignatian leadership could be used in other undergraduate classrooms, offering additional units including Ignatian Charisms, the Examen, Downward Mobility/Living Simply, and Discernment that includes a “Personal Manifesto” based on Pedro …

Ignatian-Centered And Appreciative Advising: Supporting The Holistic Development Of Students In 15-Minute Intervals, Joseph Defeo Ph.D., Bridget Keegan Ph.D.

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Abstract

Ignatian pedagogy offers a powerful vision and methodology for learning and for life. The majority of work devoted to Ignatian pedagogy focuses on its integration into the traditional curriculum and classroom. However, as many educators are aware, learning, reflection, and self-discovery continue after and between courses and class meetings. Here the role of the faculty or staff advisor is essential, providing continuity and longer-term accompaniment for the student over the course of his or her educational career. This essay examines how Ignatian pedagogy builds upon and enhances secular theories of advising and how Ignatian pedagogy can inform advising relationships. …

Ignatian Leadership And The Contemporary Leadership Landscape An Exercise In Counter-Cultural Engagement, Thomas M. Kelly, Jennifer Moss Breen

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

This paper is written as a dialogue between two faculty members and scholars working within a Jesuit institution. Through their shared interest in leadership, especially an interest in Ignatian Leadership, the following dialogue has emerged. Kelly works in our institution as a theologian and former director of academic service-learning, and Moss-Breen works in the graduate school directing an interdisciplinary leadership EdD program. Their backgrounds and fields are different, but their interest in the leadership of Ignatius is a common thread between them. Kelly starts the conversation and Moss Breen responds in kind.

New Faculty Perspectives In A Jesuit Institution Amidst Unprecedented Challenges, Cassandra Stroup, T.J. Sayre, Allyson L. Spence

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

The struggles and stressors that new faculty members face has been well documented, but during our first year at a Jesuit institution, we encountered unexpected, unprecedented challenges. Fortunately, we developed a unique sense of community as new faculty stemming from Regis University’s Manresa Experience. The Manresa Experience exposed us to Jesuit Values, provided networking opportunities with colleagues, and introduced a togetherness that would help unite us against two unforgiving viruses. The first virus plagued Regis University in Fall 2019, when a cyberattack crippled our entire network security. As new faculty members, we were unable to utilize valuable resources that would …

Ignatian Leadership And Place-Based Learning, Rebecca Murray

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

In An Ignatian Method of City Dwelling (2011) John M. Staudenmaier, SJ notes that “Ignatius teaches that prayer is geographical at its core.” On his own journey of leadership, Ignatius himself learned much about the lives of others, and of himself, through the particular places he visited (often for much longer than he intended). By focusing on a specific geography, place-based community engagement can foster Ignatian leadership as it encourages faculty, staff and students to journey with a community in their own home. Because this unique way of engaging the community emphasizes depth of engagement over breadth, it is …

Editorial, H. Luis Vargas

Counseling and Family Therapy Scholarship Review

Editor-in-Chief H. Luis Vargas' editorial for the latest issue of Counseling and Family Therapy Scholarship Review.

Stem Education In College: An Analysis Of Stakeholders’ Recent Challenges And Potential Solutions, Santanu De, Georgina Arguello

FDLA Journal

A vast majority of academic disciplines and curricula in the college center around Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), which are critical to developing the skills necessary for a global workforce. Rapid changes in pedagogical setups, educational modes, and advances in instructional technology entail diverse challenges for key stakeholders (i.e. students, faculty, and the organizations). This paper highlights the most relevant challenges and potential solutions in STEM higher education at the college level, reported in the last decade. The holistic analysis combining the three stakeholders’ perspectives would help elucidate significant contemporary aspects impacting the fields. The goal is to further …

Evaluation Of Outpatient Anticoagulation Bridging After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation, Rebecca A. Rainess, Lauren Alderman, Teresa Cicci, Monty Yoder, Barbara Pisani, Thomas O’Neill, Diego Malaver

The VAD Journal

Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the safety of outpatient anticoagulation bridging following left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation.

Methods: This study is a retrospective, single-center cohort of adult patients who underwent LVAD implantation (HeartMate II™ or HeartMate 3™) and received warfarin and at least one dose of therapeutic enoxaparin or fondaparinux for outpatient anticoagulation bridging. The primary endpoint was the incidence of bleeding complications within one week of completing the bridging episode. Secondary endpoints included the incidence of new hemolysis or thrombosis within 30 days, INR at the time of bridge initiation, duration of anticoagulation bridge, …

The Battleship Maine As A Florida State Board Of Health Quarantine Vessel, Joseph Y. Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

This is the first part of Dr. Porter’s Reminiscences mentioned in the last number of the Quarterly. They are told in narrative style, without revision, for it is believed that in this form they will not only be more interesting but will be of at least as great historical value. -Editor.

Capital Removal, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Seldom has the site for a city been deliberately selected, less often has it been chosen in a wilderness, and scarcely ever has a capital been so placed not only many miles from any settlement but far from any single habitation of civilized man. Yet thus it was with Tallahassee when its site was chosen for the seat of government of the Territory of Florida and as the permanent home of its wandering Council.

The Urgency To Train Online Instructors, David L. Hart Jr., Rebecca J. Armstrong

FDLA Journal

Coronavirus (COVID-19) has redefined the manner in which those seeking advanced degrees will succeed in the academic arena. Due to the effectiveness of learning in the traditional brick-and-mortar classroom, a certain sense of complacency exists but suddenly, learners are forced to alter that established learning path and arrive at new methods of acquiring information. Alongside the COVID-19 attack, the modern era of academia calls for the need and desire to learn in online, distance education learning programs. Long distance teaching programs are designed to rely upon the abilities of technology to facilitate effective communication as well as the sharing of …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 3, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents

Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Address Before The Florida Historical Society, Duncan U. Fletcher

Florida Historical Quarterly

An address given by Duncan U. Fletcher

Old Pictures Of The New Florida: Ponce De Leon And His Land, Benjamin Harrison

Florida Historical Quarterly

The discoverers of a new world are accepted as among the boldest and shrewdest men, with very few exceptions; it is the misfortune of Florida that her history is made to begin in popular conception, with her discovery by an old man, who foolishly sought here a renewed youth, that he might gain the love of a young girl. But Ponce stood high among the soldiers and statesmen of Spain, because of the services already given. When he received permission to seek and govern a new land, he was only in the maturity of mental and physical vigor, and if …

Home Life Of The Florida Indians, Benjamin Harrison

Florida Historical Quarterly

Every family of mankind refers fondly to a Golden Age, when peace and innocence reigned on earth. The lost paradise is no monopoly of the Christian, of the Greek or even of the Old World, since the Inca and the Aztec were equally confident in the truth of his traditions describing it. When Columbus compared the happy conditions he observed in the islands to which he came, with those of Europe, he declared the inhabitants were close to the angels in disposition as well as in geography, and he confidently looked for his Blessed Mountain in all his wanderings. When …

Princesse Achille Murat: A Biographical Sketch, Ellen Call Long

Florida Historical Quarterly

Cold in death is the heart so long attuned to suffering's call, friendship's genial mingling, and love's devotion. Ail that a prodigal nature gave in a noble, generous and gentle heart, with enchanting face and form, of almost perennial youth and loveliness, is lost to us, and how can we do without her in a world where such are so few? For more than forty years the subject of this sketch had lived in Florida, having removed to the Territory from the State of Virginia not very long after the "Exchange of Flags," which made it the property of the …

Senator David L. Yulee (Continued), C. Wickliffe Yulee

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

In Memoriam: Francis Philip Fleming, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Among the most distinguished names of Floridians who have been honored with the position as chief magistrate of the state stands the name of Francis Philip Fleming. Notable and conspicuous as were his many public services unquestionably that of the establishment of a State Board of Health exceeded all others, since this service has proven of immeasurable benefit to the state and also to the country at large in preventing the introduction of epidemic diseases from other lands.

Cutaneous Manifestations Of Covid-19: Case Report And Discussion, Abigail Russell, Gary Gross, Vashist Nobbee

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Introduction: Various cutaneous manifestations of COVID-19 have been described and awareness of these findings is beneficial for clinicians for an accurate diagnosis.

Clinical Findings: We present a case of skin findings consistent with acral microthrombi induced changes in an elderly gentleman who was positive for COVID-19.

Outcomes: The patient had a mild course of COVID-19. Cutaneous findings resolved after one week from presentation with supportive care.

Conclusions: This case highlights the importance of awareness of manifestations of COVID-19, which may assist in timely diagnosis and prevention of transmission.

Covid-19 With Congruent Affect, Mitchell Thomas

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Music is a vehicle of capturing an individual’s experiences: a new beginning, a broken heart, complete joy, and even catharsis. Before deciding to embark on my path in medicine, music was my interest. Creating music is my therapeutic method of relieving stress, providing a productive outlet when coping with my stressors, and allowing me to focus on becoming a better student doctor. It has carried me through tough times and continues to do so. This instrumental song I wrote represents how I felt as a second-year medical student going through the COVID-19 pandemic; from being isolated in a state away …