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2020-May-29-Going Places, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

ETSU welcomes the following new faculty and staff to the university family:

Chelsey S. Blevins is a secretary in Gatton College of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmacy Practice. She was previously an executive aide in the Department of Literature and Language. She holds a B.A. in English from ETSU.

Dr. Leon J.A. Dumas is an assistant professor of medical education in the Quillen College of Medicine after serving as director of Dr. Leon Dumas Inc. He holds his M.Med. degree from the University of the Free State in South Africa.

Nicole Fisher is a secretary in the Department of Psychiatry and …

2020-May-29-Going Places, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

ETSU welcomes the following new faculty and staff to the university family:

Chelsey S. Blevins is a secretary in Gatton College of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmacy Practice. She was previously an executive aide in the Department of Literature and Language. She holds a B.A. in English from ETSU.

Dr. Leon J.A. Dumas is an assistant professor of medical education in the Quillen College of Medicine after serving as director of Dr. Leon Dumas Inc. He holds his M.Med. degree from the University of the Free State in South Africa.

Nicole Fisher is a secretary in the Department of Psychiatry and …

Impact Of A Preschool Obesity Program (I-Pop) Program On Nutrition Knowledge Scores Of Head Start Parents And Teachers, Holly Huye, Carol Connell, Caroline Newkirk

Faculty Publications

Objectives: To determine the effectiveness of an evidence-based preschool obesity prevention intervention on rural, low-income parents’ and Head Start teachers’ nutrition knowledge relative to advice from experts, nutrient content of foods, and health benefits of foods.

Methods: Parent-child dyads were recruited from 9 randomized Head Start centers with 5 centers in the experimental group and 4 centers in the control. The intervention consisted of 8 weekly evidence-based nutrition education sessions for children delivered by the Head Start teachers; a teacher workshop on the use of Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) in the classroom; and 8 parent workshops …

Maize Flavan-4-Ols And Anthocyanins Alleviated Dextran Sulfate Sodium-Induced Colitis In Mice Via Intestinal Barrier Function Restoration, Binning Wu, Shiyu Li, Haotian Chang, Ruth Anderson, Surinder Chopra, Lavanya Reddivari

Department of Food Science Faculty Publications

This study investigated the anti-inflammatory effects of anthocyanins and flavan-4-ols (precursor of phlobaphenes) within a whole-food matrix against dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis using four maize near-isogenic lines (NILs) that differ only in a single class of flavonoids. The four NILs are A (lacks anthocyanins and phlobaphenes), B (phlobaphenes +), C (anthocyanins +) and D (anthocyanins + and phlobaphenes +).

Azelaic Acid Promotes Fatty Acid Desaturation In Caenorhabditis Elegans At Cold Temperature, Thereby Enhancing Longevity, Juan Bai, Miran Jang, Renalison Farias Pereira, Yuan Zhang, Hanqiu Xu, Yeonhwa Park, Kee Hong Kim

Department of Food Science Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Piceatannol, A Natural Stilbene, Extends The Lifespan Of Caenorhabditis Elegans Under Fasting Through Inhibition Of Lipolysis, Miran Jang, Yuan Zhang, Juan Bai, An Jun-Bae, Gun-Hee Kim, Yeonhwa Park, Kee Hong Kim

Department of Food Science Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Responding To Health Needs Of Women, Children And Adolescents Within Syria During Conflict: Intervention Coverage, Challenges And Adaptations, Chaza Akik, Aline Semaan, Linda Shaker-Berbari, Zeina Jamaluddine, Ghada E. Saad, Katherine Lopes, Joanne Constantin, Abdulkarim Ekzayez, Neha S. Singh, Karl Blanchet, Jocelyn Dejong, Hala Ghattas Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

Background:

Women and children suffer disproportionately in armed-conflicts. Since 2011, the protracted Syrian crisis has fragmented the pre-existing healthcare system. Despite the massive health needs of women and children, the delivery of key reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH&N) interventions, and its underlying factors are not well-understood in Syria. Our objective was to document intervention coverage indicators and their implementation challenges inside Syria during conflict.

Methods:

We conducted 1) a desk review to extract RMNCAH&N intervention coverage indicators inside Syria during the conflict; and 2) qualitative interviews with decision makers and health program implementers to …

Characterizing Variation In Nitrogen Use Efficiency In Wheat Genotypes Using Proximal Canopy Sensing For Sustainable Wheat Production, Mohammed A. Naser, Raj Khosla, Louis Longchamps, Subash Dahal

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Global nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) for cereal production is marginal and is estimated to be about 33%. Remote sensing tools have tremendous potential for improving NUE in crops through efficient nitrogen management as well as the identification of high-NUE genotypes. The objectives of this study were (i) to identify and quantify the variation in NUE across 24 winter wheat genotypes (Triticum aestivum L.) and (ii) to determine if the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) could characterize the variability in NUE across wheat genotypes. This study was conducted in 2010 and 2011 in the semi-arid climate of Northeastern Colorado across dryland …

Microrna-Mrna Co-Sequencing Identifies Transcriptional And Post-Transcriptional Regulatory Networks Underlying Muscle Wasting In Cancer Cachexia, Geysson Javier Fernandez, Juarez Henrique Ferreira, Ivan Jose Vechetti Jr, Leonardo Nazario De Moraes, Sarah Santiloni Cury, Paula Paccielli Freire, Jayson Gutierrez, Renato Ferretti, Maeli Dal-Pai-Silva, Silvia Regina Rogatto, Robson Francisco Carvalho

Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

Cancer cachexia is a metabolic syndrome with alterations in gene regulatory networks that consequently lead to skeletal muscle wasting. Integrating microRNAs mRNAs omics profiles offers an opportunity to understand transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory networks underlying muscle wasting. Here, we used RNA sequencing to simultaneously integrate and explore microRNAs and mRNAs expression profiles in the tibialis anterior (TA) muscles of the Lewis Lung Carcinoma (LLC) model of cancer cachexia. We found 1,008 mRNAs and 18 microRNAs differentially expressed in cachectic mice compared with controls. Although our transcriptomic analysis demonstrated a high heterogeneity in mRNA profiles of cachectic mice, we identified a …

"I Should Have Moved Somewhere Else": The Impacts Of Gentrification On Transportation And Social Support For Black Working-Poor Families In Portland, Oregon, Steven Anthony Howland

Dissertations and Theses

Portland has faced a mass displacement of Black households from the historically segregated area of Albina through various phases of urban renewal, urban deterioration, and gentrification. A substantial number of them have moved to East Portland, a suburban segment of the City of Portland that was unincorporated county land prior to the 1990's. As Black people have left Albina, the roots of Blackness there have eroded from the area as businesses and churches catering to them have also closed as a result of lost patrons.

In this study I interviewed 27 low-income working-age Black people with children with the sample …

Analyzing User Behaviour And Page Views Based On Visitor Traffic In Kolej Universiti Poly-Tech Mara Website Using Google Analytic, Mohamed Ghazali Khairuzzaman, Shuhadah Othman, Rukhiyah Adnan, Noraini Ismail

Malaysian Journal of Computing (MJoC)

The approach of the Internet has affected organizations in numerous features. The website has become an integral part of the organizations, from publicizing the organization's profile to giving web services. This study is to evaluate and analyze user behaviour pattern at Kolej Universiti Poly-Tech MARA (KUPTM) website using Google Analytics (GA) as one of the web analytic tools. Website design and its services have become a crucial part for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to attract users in visiting their website. Therefore, the use of web analytic tools can be an effective solution in measuring, analyzing and identifying the traffic sources …

Maternal Viral Load Monitoring: Coverage And Clinical Action At 4 Kenyan Hospitals., Matthew Sandbulte, Melinda Brown, Catherine Wexler, May Maloba, Brad Gautney, Kathy Goggin, Elizabeth Muchoki, Shadrack Babu, Nicodemus Maosa, Sarah Finocchario-Kessler

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: Kenya's guidelines for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) recommend routine viral load (VL) monitoring for pregnant and breastfeeding women.

METHOD: We assessed PMTCT VL monitoring and clinical action occurring between last menstrual period (LMP) and 6 months postpartum at 4 Kenyan government hospitals. Pregnant women enrolled in the HIV Infant Tracking System from May 2016-March 2018 were included. We computed proportions who received VL testing within recommended timeframes and who received clinical action after unsuppressed VL result.

RESULTS: Of 424 participants, any VL testing was documented for 305 (72%) women and repeat VL testing was documented for …

Negotiating Future Foods: Cultural Practices And Nutritional Knowledge In Nasa's Space Food Research Programs, Julia-Katharina Neier, Alwin Cubasch

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

No abstract provided.

On Wine And Food, Together, Patricia Rogers, Marcella Giannasio

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

The subject of food and wine pairing in the 21st century is an animated area of discussion. Consider this comment from the University of Arkansas Hospitality Program. ‘The concepts of beverage management or wine evaluation are far from under-utilised in most hospitality programs, but other than in relatively large hospitality programs, food and wine pairing is not provided as a standalone course and is covered at a relatively cursory level in most beverage management’. (Harrington et al, 2010, p.110) It is currently topical that a cultural change in the drinking and eating styles of the millennial and gen. z generations …

Speculative Futures For Mindful Meat Consumption And Production, Alexandra Kenefick

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

The stuff of food constantly shifts register between matter and meaning; animal and meat; calories and flavours, stretching and folding the time/spaces of here and now, ‘us’ and ‘them’, producing and consuming in complex and contested ways (Probyn, 1999 in Stassart and Whatmore, 2003, p.450). Meat consumption has entangled our human histories and lived experiences with those of other animals and humans unlike any other food. This co-evolution of experiences finds itself in deeply embedded sociocultural materials such as feasting and fasting rituals, religious dogma, gendered role divisions, ethics discourse, animal domestication, slaughter procedures, and government policies the world over …

Certified B Corps Within The Food Industry And Their Innovative Practices To Improve Environmental And Social Impact, Julie-Anne Finan

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

: In this paper, I take an introspective look at the B Corp Certification to better understand why so many food companies have engaged with it as a means to improve their positive impact in an age where agricultural practices have a clear link to climate change and increasing social injustices across global food supply chains. The first part of the paper discusses the three stages involved in becoming a Certified B Corp - completing the B Impact Assessment, making a legal change to the company structure to consider all stakeholders and providing full transparency. The second part of the …

Safe, Risk-Free, Standardised Food For All, Is That What We Will Eat Tomorrow?, Penny Wilson

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

ur foods today are becoming more and more industrialised, manufactured, globalised; requiring rules and regulations to ensure the safety of those who eat. The rules and regulations are designed to manage the processes of big businesses and corporations that make our food. But these rules and regulations, once in place, come to cover all manner of foods that are local, artisanal and special. Those special, artisanal foods include those with an array of resident microbes creating, arguably, better more complex flavour, foods that might confer good health. But resident microbes are the target of the rules and regulations that ensure …

Training New Providers Dobhoff Tube Insertion During Covid-19: Rapid Training And A Novel “Opt In” Approach To Learning, Michele Decastro, Msn, Crnp, Heather M. Etzl, Msn, Rn, Cbc, Jacqueline E. Crawford, Ms, Rn, Accns-P

Health Equity and Quality Improvement (HEQI) Summit

As increasing numbers of Covid-19 patients were admitted to the hospital and progressed thru their disease course, the Division of Hospital Medicine noted an increased need for enteral feeding access for their patients. At the same time, the Nutritional Support Clinical Nurse Specialists were seeing an increase in requests for assistance with use of Cortrak technology for insertion of Dobhoff tube (DHT) insertion for high risk patients diagnosed with Covid-19.

Experience With A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Geriatric Oncology Center, Michael Weissberger, Md, Ms, Emma De Louw, Md, Kristine Swartz, Md, Lauren Hersh, Md, Andrew Chapman, Do, Facp

Health Equity and Quality Improvement (HEQI) Summit

Research Goals

1. 1. Describe the population seen in the SAOC over the past 6 years
2. Remediate and complete the EPIC flowsheets
3. Merge data with existing RedCAP data

A Collaborative Approach To Learning Motivational Interviewing (Mi): One Mi Learning Community And Its "Mi Learning Day", Cynthia J. Osborn, Victoria Giegerich, Yvette R. Tolbert, Stephanie Marder, Greg Emanuelson

Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision

The inaugural year of one Motivational Interviewing Learning Community (MILC) in one counselor education program is described, along with its capstone project, “MI Learning Day,” that involved simulated clients and external consultants to measure MI skill performance. The MILC’s faculty, student, and counselor composition exemplifies professional collaboration, peer supervision, and ongoing professional development. Recommendations are provided for establishing and maintaining extracurricular MI Learning Communities in other counselor education programs and with community-based partners.

Strength And Conditioning Coaches' Perceptions Of Sport Psychology Strategies, Alessandro Quartiroli, Erin Whitney Grandy Moore, Rebecca A. Zakrajsek

Kinesiology, Health and Sport Studies

Strength and conditioning coaches (SCCs) hold a central role in the development of student-athletes. Although they certainly focus on student-athletes' physical skill development, SCCs are in an ideal position to integrate mental skills into their strength and conditioning sessions. For example, sport psychology (SP) strategies can be used within strength and conditioning sessions to assist in athlete exercise execution by regulating arousal, improving concentration, confidence, as well as improve self-correction through self-talk and imagery. The purpose of this study was to assess collegiate SCCs' use of SP skills/strategies. A total sample of 415 SCCs (19.7% return rate) across the United …

Cloning,Expression And Purification Of Β-Conglycin Inα-Subunit Core Region, Li Yao-Xi, Yuan Yan-Qiu, Ju Qian, Gao Meng-Nan, Zhou Shu-Yi, Hu Ya-Yun, Luan Guang-Zhong

Food and Machinery

The full-length cDNA of the soybean seeds was obtained by RT-PCR, and amplified by self-designed primers to obtain the target gene α_c, The target gene was linked to the vector to construct a recombinant cloning vector pGEM-α_c, which was identified by double digestion with XhoⅠ/EcoRⅠ and ligated with vector pET-28a to construct a recombinant plasmid pET-28a-α_c. After correctly transferred into competent cells E.coli BL21 (DE3), the recombinant protein of α-subunit core region was expressed by inducing with the OD_{600 nm} value 0.8, isopropylthiogalactoside (IPTG) 0.2 mmol/L at 37 ℃ for 9 h, and …

Study On Antioxidant Peptides From Bean Dregs Fermented Bysolid Neurospora Crassa, Wei Chang-Hao, Deng Ze-Yuan, Fan Ya-Wei, Zou Xin-Hua, Li Jing, Li Hong-Yan

Food and Machinery

Neurospora crassa was used to ferment the bean dreg, and the fermentation was operated under the optimal conditions for protease production. The peptide, total phenol, total flavonoid and the antioxidant capacity of soybean dregs at different fermentation time were measured. Experiments results showed that the contents of peptide, total phenol and total flavone of soybean dregs increased with the progress of fermentation, as well as the antioxidant capacity. The maximum contents of total phenol (2.513±0.032) mg/g and total flavone (0.787±0.052) mg/g were detected at 60 h after fermentation; after fermentation for 84 h, the peptide reached (75.602±3.599) mg/g, and the …

Study On Physicochemical Properties Of The Starch Fiom Dioscorea Alata L., He Hai-Xia, Li Dong-Ming, Wu Ying-Ying, Li Qiao-Mei, Xiao Jian-Hui, Tu Jin

Food and Machinery

Alkaline process was used to extract the starch from Dioscorea alata L., and the composition, transparency, freeze-thaw stability, settling property, water holding capacity, solubility, swelling, gelatinization and viscosity characteristics of the extracted starch were analyzed. The results showed that the content of amylose in legume Dioscorea alata L. was 27.05%. Compared with the starch from wheat, mung bean, and potato, the transparency, settling ability, water retention, and thermal stability of legume potatoes were found best. However, the freeze-thaw stability was poor, and it was difficult to gelatinize. The dissolving power and swelling power of the starch from legume potato increased …

Effect Of Cacl2 On Water Holding Capacity And Microstructure Of Tilapia Myosin Gel Under The Low Salt Condition, Feng Rui, Hong Peng-Zhi, Yang Ping, Zhou Chun-Xia

Food and Machinery

Myosin was extracted from tilapia (Oreochromis niloti-cus) and the heat-induced gel was prepared, and the effect of CaCl₂ addition on the water holding capacity, microstructure and chemical interactions of myosin gel was investigated under different salt conditions (1,50,150,600 mmol/L NaCl). The effects and mechanisms of Ca²⁺on thermal gel properties of myosin were determined under the low salt conditions. Experimental results showed that under the conditions of low salt concentration (1~150 mmol/L NaCl), there were weak opaque gels due to a rapid aggregation of myosin filaments during heating. These myosin gels exhibited a cross-linked network with coarse cross-linked …

Research Status And Prospect Of Scraped-Surface Heat Exchanger, Li Shi-Cheng

Food and Machinery

The structure and principle of the scraped-surface heat exchanger were systematically summarized, and the relative process applications, internal flow laws, shear rate, heat transfer mechanism, residence time distribution and power consumption were also reviewed. Moreover, the future development trend and research direction of the scraped-surface heat exchanger were prospected.

Optimization Of Ultrasonic-Assisted Extraction Process And Analysis Of Fatty Acid Composition Of Panicum Miliaceum L. Shell Oil, Miao Xin-Yue, Zhu Dan, Yan Fei-Xiang, Niu Guang-Cai, Wei Wen-Yi, Zhu Li-Bin

Food and Machinery

The n-hexane was used as extraction solvent, and the ultrasonic-assisted extraction parameters of Panicum miliaceum L. shell oil were optimized by response surface methodology based on the single factor experiment of ultrasonic power, liquid-solid ratio, extraction time and extraction temperature. The results showed that the optimum extraction parameters were as follows: the ultrasonic power was 400 W, the liquid-solid ratio was 12∶1 (mL/g), the extraction temperature was 70 ℃, and the extraction time was 50 min, and the yield of Panicum miliaceum L. shell oil reached 6.95% under the optimal condition. Five kinds of fatty acids were identified by GC, …

Effect Of Vacuum Extrusion On The Quality And Function Of Coarse Cereal Noodles, Yan Mei-Jiao, Li Yun-Long, Li Hong-Mei, Yi Xin, Sun Yuan-Lin, Zhao Lin

Food and Machinery

In order to explore the effect of vacuum extrusion on the noodles, the nutritional components, quality analysis and functional evaluation of the vacuum extruded coarse cereal noodles, common extruded coarse cereal noodles and wheat flour noodles were carried out. The results showed that the effect of vacuum extrusion on the nutritional composition and functional characteristics of noodles was not significant (P＞0.05); Compared with normal-pressure extruded multi-grain noodles, the vacuum-extruded ones had good texture characteristics with a smooth surface, showing teeth non-sticky. The content of total phenols, total flavonoids, rutin and quercetin in the multigrain noodles was significantly higher than that …

Research Progress On Chemical Constituents And Anticancer Activities In Different Parts Of Papaya, Xiao Shuang-Ling, Teng Jie

Food and Machinery

A variety of bioactivities induding papaya alkaloids, rutin, benzyl isothiocyanate, carotenoids in Papaya (Carica Papaya L.) were investigated in this study. Some of these compounds exhibited a broad array of pharmacological activities in gastrointestinal protection, hepatoprotective effect, anti-inflammatory, weight loss and beauty, anti-cancer, anti-bactericidal and antioxidation properties. This review summarizes the research progress of main bioactive substances, anticancer functions in different parts of papaya, and its wide application prospects in food industry, pharmaceutical industry and health care industry were proposed.

Reduction Of Secondary Transmission Of Sars-Cov-2 In Households By Face Mask Use, Disinfection And Social Distancing: A Cohort Study In Beijing, China, Yu Wang, Huaiyu Tian, Li Zhang, Dandan Guo, Wenting Wu, Xingxing Zhang, Ge Lin Kan, Lei Jia, Da Huo, Beiwei Liu, Xiaoli Wang, Ying Sun, Quanyi Wang, Peng Yang, C. Raina Macintyre

Environmental & Global Health Faculty Research

Introduction Transmission of COVID-19 within families and close contacts accounts for the majority of epidemic growth. Community mask wearing, hand washing and social distancing are thought to be effective but there is little evidence to inform or support community members on COVID-19 risk reduction within families. Methods: A retrospective cohort study of 335 people in 124 families and with at least one laboratory confirmed COVID-19 case was conducted from 28 February to 27 March 2020, in Beijing, China. The outcome of interest was secondary transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) within the family. Characteristics and practices of …