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Understanding The Roles Of Nutrient-Niche Dynamics In Clostridioides Difficile Colonization In Human Microbiome Colonized Minibioreactors, Xiaoyun Huang

Department of Food Science and Technology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Clostridioides difficile is a Gram-positive pathogen that is one of the most common causes of health care-associated infections in the U.S. Because of its importance to human health, researchers are trying to understand risk factors for infection and identify new therapies to treat disease. A “healthy” gut microbiome has the ability to protect the host against colonization of C. difficile or other pathogens by providing colonization resistance. One proposed mechanism for colonization resistance is through competition for nutrients with pathogens by the members of the healthy microbiome. We tested whether competition for nutrients was important for colonization resistance in human …

Investigating The Prevalence And Control Of Listeria Monocytogenes In Food Facilities, Cyril Nsom Ayuk Etaka

Department of Food Science and Technology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Small and very small food facilities in the ready-to-eat food industry face difficulties complying with the Food Safety Modernization Act-Preventive Controls for Human Food rule (FSMA-PCHF). This regulation highlights the need for sanitation to control environmental pathogens like Listeria monocytogenes. The main goal of this project was to investigate the prevalence and control of Listeria monocytogenes in food facilities. This study provides technical assistance to facilities to comply with the PCHF rule and addresses sanitation alternatives for food contact surfaces like aqueous ozone.

First, the prevalence of Listeria spp and L. monocytogenes in small and very small food manufacturing …

Wooster Magazine: Summer 2021, Caitlin Paynich Stanowick

Wooster Magazine: 2021-2030

The summer 2021 issue of Wooster magazine highlights the ways Wooster students and alumni responded to a year of change and constant adaptation. Throughout the year, seniors constantly adapted as research, communicating, and learning changed due to the pandemic, and yet the Class of 2021 still experienced the hallmarks of The College of Wooster Independent Study program: mentored research, interdisciplinary and critical thinking, and establishing tools for future achievement. Students who drew inspiration from events that impacted them like the Black Lives Matter movement, online learning, or untapped areas of research they explored in compelling ways. Also in this issue, …

Efficacy, Safety, And Tolerability Of Seladelpar In Patients With Compensated Liver Cirrhosis Due To Primary Biliary Cholangitis (Pbc): A Pooled Analysis Of Phase 2 And Phase 3 Studies, Stuart C. Gordon, Palak Trivedi, Christopher Bowlus, Galambos Michael, Aparna Goel, Aliya Gulamhusein, Cynthia Levy, Guy Neff, Carmen Stanca, Douglas Thorburn, Bruce Bacon, Brian Borg, Yvonne Doerffel, Lisa Forman, Bradley Freilich, Liana Gheorghe, María S. González, Stephen Harrison, Jonathan Huang, Sook-Hyang Jeong, Seung U. Kim, John Lake, Joseph Odin, Won Y. Tak, Hillel Tobias, John M. Vierling, Ke Yang, Alexandra Steinberg, Yun-Jung Choi, Charles Mcwherter, Marlyn J. Mayo

Gastroenterology Meeting Abstracts

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of The Covid-19 Pandemic In Intestinal Rehabilitation And Transplant Patients, Initial Results Of An International Survey, M Fernandez, M Cristina Segovia, D Dijkstra, G Herlenius, A Testro, L Sharkey, F Braun, C Rumbo, F Lacaille, P Friend, Syed-Mohammed Jafri

Gastroenterology Meeting Abstracts

Introduction: On January 30, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2019-CoV outbreak in China as a global public health emergency and subsequently, a pandemic on March 11th. It was considered that intestinal failure and intestinal transplant patients might have a higher risk of severe complications from the COVID-19 disease, multidisciplinary intestinal failure teams had to adapt their clinical approaches in order to keep this vulnerable group of patients as safe as possible during the pandemic; but data was lacking. Therefore, in order to improve our knowledge, we designed a voluntary, international survey aiming to address the impact of …

Quality Of Trace Mineral Monitoring And Replacement For Patients On Teduglutide For Short Bowel Syndrome, Austin H. Qasawa, Nemie Beltran, Shunji Nagai, Yakir Muszkat, Syed-Mohammed Jafri

Gastroenterology Meeting Abstracts

No abstract provided.

Multicentre International Evaluation Of Autoimmune Hepatitis And Liver Transplantation: Disease Recurrence Is Associated With Recipient Features, Type Of Immunosuppression And Impaired Outcomes, Aldo J. Montano-Loza, Vincenzo Ronca, Maryam Ebadi, Bettina Hansen, Gideon Hirschfield, Saleh Elwir, Mohamad Alsaed, Piotr Milkiewicz, Maciej K. Janik, Hanns-Ulrich Marschall, Maria A. Burza, Cumali Efe, Ali R. Caliskan, Murat Harputluoglu, Gökhan Kabacam, Debora R. Terrabuio, Fernanda Onofrio, Albert Pares, Laura P. Llovet, Murat Akyildiz, Cigdem Arikan, Michael P. Manns, Richard Taubert, Anna-Lena Weber, Thomas Schiano, Brandy Hayde, Piotr Czubkowski, Piotr Socha, Natalia Oldak, Nobuhisa Akamatsu, Atsushi Tanaka, Cynthia Levy, Eric F. Martin, Aparna Goel, Mai Sedki, Irena Jankowska, Toru Ikegami, Maria Rodriguez, Martina Sterneck, Christina Weiler-Normann, Christoph Schramm, Maria F. Donato, Ansgar W. Lohse, Raul J. Andrade, Alan Bonder, Vilas Patwardhan, Bart Van Hoek, Maaike Biewenga, Andreas E. Kremer, Yoshihide Ueda, Mark Deneau, Mark Pedersen, Marlyn J. Mayo, Annarosa Floreani, Patrizia Burra, Maria F. Secchi, Benedetta T. Beretta-Piccoli, Marco Sciveres, Giuseppe Maggiore, Syed-Mohammed Jafri, Dominique Debray, Muriel Girard, Florence Lacaille, Ellina Lytvyak, Andrew L. Mason, Michael Heneghan, Ye Htun Oo

Gastroenterology Meeting Abstracts

No abstract provided.

Protective Role Of Palmitoleate Against Zika Virus-Induced Apoptosis In Placental Trophoblasts, Philma Glora Muthuraj

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in pregnant women causes congenital Zika syndrome which involves birth defects such as intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), retinal defects and microcephaly in the fetus. ZIKV infection results in placental pathology which plays a crucial role in disease transmission from mother to fetus. Currently, there is no Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved vaccine or therapeutic drug against ZIKV. In this thesis, we have elucidated the cell signaling pathways connected to ZIKV-induced apoptosis in trophoblasts and also the protective effect of palmitoleate against ZIKV-induced apoptosis. First, we demonstrated the molecular mechanism behind ZIKV-induced apoptosis using an in …

2021 - 2022 University Catalog, Loma Linda University

University Catalog (2005 - present)

This is a one-year CATALOG, effective beginning Summer Quarter 2021.

Volume 110, Number 1, July 2021

Consulting Place As Stakeholder: Accessing The Input Of Ecological Community, Hunter Adkisson

Landscape Architecture Undergraduate Honors Theses

This is a project about how landscape architects approach the landscape in their design process. Indigenous worldviews hold that the world is living and animate in its own right. When we consider stakeholder engagement in this light, the need arises to extend the definition of stakeholders to include the ecological communities of place – the flora, fauna, soils, and other non-human elements of place. To gather that input, I experimented with techniques to access a greater awareness of ecological community at two sites with different levels of urbanity and types of land management practices. This experimental approach was surprisingly successful …

University Of Central Florida Graduate Catalog, 2021 - 2022, University Of Central Florida

UCF Catalogs

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Evaluating The Economics Of Gluten-Free Households, Keia Mornys Alicia Jones

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Over the past two decades, the diagnoses of gluten allergies and celiac disease has increased significantly. Although there has been no development of a cure for either ailment, these conditions can be managed by the elimination of glutenous foods from a person’s diet. In previous studies, the financial cost of replacing or excluding glutenous foods was higher than the financial cost of diets that do not exclude gluten. The objective of this study is to examine the differences in the economic feasibility of a conventional diet in comparison to a gluten-free diet. Using a sample of foods and prices from …

Telling The Atypical Truth: Disability Community-Building Through Podcasting, Erica Stearns

Honors Theses

The community of disabled and/or medically complex individuals represents a relatively small demographic worldwide; therefore, it is difficult for community members to find and build relationships with others directly within the local community whose lived experiences reflect their own. As a result, many individuals within the disabled and/or medically complex community experience isolation and depression. Social media and other digital resources often serve as a mechanism for community-building in such situations. Atypical Truth is a podcast that episodically explores a variety of topics that relate to life as caregivers, disabled individuals, and/or individuals with complex medical conditions.

I used …

Co-Creating A Legal Check-Up In A School-Based Health Center Serving Low-Income Adolescents, Lisa Kessler, Yael Cannon, Nicole Tuchinda, Ana Caskin, Christina Balz Ndjatou, Vicki W. Girard, Deborah F. Perry

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Problem: Marginalized populations experience health-harming legal needs—barriers to good health that require legal advocacy to overcome. Medical–legal partnerships (MLPs) embed lawyers into the healthcare team to resolve these issues, but identifying patients with health-harming legal needs is complex, and screening practices vary across MLPs.

Purpose of Article: Academic and community partners who collaborate in an MLP at a school-based health center (SBHC) share their process of co-creating a two-stage legal check-up for adolescents.

Key Points: Screening adolescents for health-harming legal needs is challenging. It took ongoing collaboration to refine the process to fit the needs of …

Response-To-Failure Analysis Of Global Food System Initiatives: A Resilience Perspective, Prince Agyemang, Ebenezer Miezah Kwofie

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

International food system initiatives have led the efforts to combat the threats to global food security resulting from the failure of the current food systems. This study set out to investigate and assess the contributions of global food system initiatives in tackling the food system challenges. In assessing the food system initiatives, we develop a three-step methodology for Food System Initiative (FSI) selection and then conduct a qualitative evaluation using relevant indicators based on food system failure narratives. Furthermore, the authors synthesize present literature in the context of the extent to which coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has compounded food …

Rescue Mission, Sarah Schaier

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Ethnic Identity And Local Government Responsiveness In Taiwan, Sara A. Newland, John Chung En Liu

Government: Faculty Publications

Countless studies have shown that local officials are less responsive to ethnic minority citizens. Surprisingly, we find no similar pattern of discrimination by Taiwanese local officials. In an online contacting experiment, we send citizen service requests to the websites of 358 township and district chiefs, randomly varying the name of the putative citizen to reflect an indigenous or an ethnically Chinese identity and collecting data on officials' responses. We find that officials are equally responsive to both identities. Drawing on in-depth interviews and nonparticipant observation in government service centers, we attribute this surprising finding to institutional elements of Taiwan's local …

Knowledge Extraction And Inference Based On Visual Understanding Of Cooking Contents, Ahmad Babaeian Babaeian Jelodar

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation, we discuss our work on analyzing cooking content for the ultimate goal ofautomatic robotic manipulation. For a robot to perform a cooking task, it will need to both have an understanding of the scene and utilize prior knowledge. We will explore two main sub-problems: knowledge extraction and inference, and visual understanding of the scene in this dissertation. Visual understanding of a scene, requires algorithms that can visually infer information from a single image or video. Many algorithms in the area of image classification, object detection, or activity recognition can be used in this area. Although great advances …

Using Social Listening To Inform Integrated Social And Behavior Change Programs In Burkina Faso, Nrupa Jani, Leanne Dougherty, Martha Silva

Reproductive Health

No abstract provided.

Health And Ideations Of Married Female Adolescents, Breakthrough Research

Reproductive Health

This brief provides rigorous evidence-based insights to implementers and researchers of social and behavior change (SBC) programs that seek to improve knowledge, attitudes, norms, and behaviors of married female adolescents. The brief focuses on married adolescents’ uptake of services and health knowledge in Kebbi, Sokoto, and Zamfara states in northwestern Nigeria using a subset of data from a household survey of married women ages 15–49 years. It is one of a series of briefs that present findings from a Breakthrough RESEARCH study that uniquely captures data on a wide range of psychosocial drivers of behavioral outcomes in the areas of …

Improving Health Literacy For Diabetics In A Rural Community, Elissa Purvis

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Adults with type II diabetes mellitus need to understand the disease and manage their chronic condition to live a healthy and comfortable life. This project aimed to educate adults with type II diabetes mellitus in self-management of their chronic illness to increase their health literacy to improve their heart health, kidney health, nutrition, and exercise. The project utilized a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) approach to education for adults with type II diabetes mellitus on the disease process.

METHODS: This project is a quality improvement project focused on educating adults with type II diabetes mellitus in managing their chronic conditions …

Can Provision Of Additional Education For Nursing Staff Increase Breastfeeding Knowledge And Feelings Of Self-Efficacy?, Akeba Deqwan Thompson

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Post-partum nurses are responsible for preparing new mothers with the necessary skills to feed and care for their infants and need proper education to effectively and confidently discuss feeding options with their patients.

Purpose: This quality improvement project aims to increase nursing knowledge of breastfeeding and their feeling of self-efficacy in promoting breastfeeding as an option to new mothers.

Design Methods: A quasi-experimental design including a pre-test/post-test used to quantify the effect of education on therapeutic communication, nursing responsiveness, and feelings of self-efficacy.

Conclusion: An overall increase in feelings of self-efficacy and knowledge of breastfeeding was noted amongst nursing …

Effect Of Increased Confusion Assessment Method For The Intensive Care Unit Delirium Assessments On Patients In The Surgical Intensive Care Unit, William Lemon

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Delirium is an acute syndrome of the central nervous system (CNS) that affects patients of all ages and all hospital areas. Furthermore, delirium can lead to frequent complications for these patients, especially those in intensive care units (ICU) (Kanova, Sklienka, Burda, & Janoutova, 2017). Nationally delirium affects 20-80% of patients that require ICU care (American Nurses Association, 2019). In the Surgical intensive care unit (SICU) at the acute care hospital used in the project, the average number of patients suffering from delirium is about 23%. The purpose of this project was to provide a more in-depth analysis of delirium, and …

Improving Patient Outcomes With Post-Op Education For Nurses Caring For Patients Undergoing Total Joint Replacement, Amanda Collier

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Surgical site infections (SSI) are the third most reported nosocomial infection causing an increased length of stay, increased healthcare cost, and a substantial increase in morbidity. A SSI is an infection developing within 30 days of surgery without using an implant and within one year of surgery utilizing any form of implant. Typically SSI occurs at the time of incision. However, poor postoperative wound care can lead to an SSI.

Purpose: This project aims to educate nursing staff on care of the total joint replacement (TJR) patient to reduce readmission rates for postoperative SSI.

Design Methods: This …

Adverse Maternal Environment Alters Microrna-10b-5p Expression And Its Epigenetic Profile Concurrently With Impaired Hippocampal Neurogenesis In Male Mouse Hippocampus., Xingrao Ke, Yingliu Huang, Qi Fu, Robert H. Lane, Amber Majnik

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

An adverse maternal environment (AME) predisposes adult offspring toward cognitive impairment in humans and mice. However, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Epigenetic changes in response to environmental exposure may be critical drivers of this change. Epigenetic regulators, including microRNAs, have been shown to affect cognitive function by altering hippocampal neurogenesis which is regulated in part by brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF). We sought to investigate the effects of AME on miR profile and their epigenetic characteristics, as well as neurogenesis and BDNF expression in mouse hippocampus. Using our mouse model of AME which is composed of maternal Western diet and …

Facilitating Awareness Of Trauma For All Staff In An Educational Environment, Kelly Rygh

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

It is important to address the effects of trauma in the K-12 education system because those effects can have crippling effects on how students succeed academically and in life. The research uncovered in this review of literature pointed to the fact that there are inconsistencies in even defining trauma. There are multiple versions of how to categorize trauma and various ways they manifest, with only some of them being observable. The methods used for addressing trauma have their positives and negatives, however, those methods are inconsistent. This makes it confusing and difficult to evaluate their effectiveness. The capstone project sought …

Helping Primary School Students Exposed To Stress Or Trauma To Learn In The Language Classroom, Ekaterina Shamaeva

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

Perhaps, every teacher would like to see their students thrive academically and succeed in their future careers. However, some learners face challenges which are not related neither to their individual characteristics, nor to aptitude, but to stressful and traumatic experiences in their lives, which represent huge barriers on the way to success. Therefore, the question addressed in this project was how can English as foreign language teachers in Russia mitigate the impact of stress and trauma on primary school learners to facilitate learning in the language classroom? Extensive literature review concludes that the effects of stress and trauma at a …

Balancing Screen Time: Teaching To The Whole Student, Victoria Neuburger

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

In a technology driven world, I often wonder where the balance is between the utility of technology tools, such as smartphones, tablets, or computers, and the social and health implications of the intense use of these technologies. On the one hand, smartphones, tablets, and other like devices, deliver information at the touch of our fingertips in ways only imagined just a few decades ago. The use of these technologies has greatly increased our capacity for research and learning new information. Because of this speed and efficiency of accessible information, along with the ability to reach anyone at any time, it …

The Benefits Of Utilizing Technology In The Physical Education Classroom, Brooke Benecke

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

As a first-year teacher in a school with a high English learner population, I struggled to communicate with my students. As I began creating visuals and short videos for them, I saw both their confidence and their skills improve. This experience led me to my research question: How can technology enhance learning in a physical education classroom? In what ways can it be implemented? Thus, I created a website full of technology tools that will benefit the physical education classroom. During the research process, a lot of valuable information was found about the current trends of technology and how important …

Phosphorus And Zinc Effects On Soybean [ Glycine Max ( L. ) Merrill ] Yield And Agronomic Efficiency, Godfred Ankomah

Theses and Dissertations

Phosphorus (P) and zinc (Zn) are required for the growth and development of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill). However, their interactions may affect the uptake of each nutrient and soybean growth, development, and yield. The objective of this research study was to identify possible interactions of P and Zn and determine the effect upon soybean nutrient status, yield, and agronomic efficiency. This study was conducted at the Illinois State University Farm at Lexington and Normal in 2020. The experimental design was a 4 × 4 factorial arranged in a randomized complete block design with four blocks at each location. Phosphorus …