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Instagram Use And Young Women's Body Image And Self-Objectification In Egypt, Sara Hussein

Theses and Dissertations

The present study investigates the effect of Instagram use on young Egyptian women’s body image and how it is related to self-objectification. The aim of this research is to understand how Instagram usage affects women’s body image and makes them dissatisfied with their bodies; besides, it also tests how the comments women receive on their Instagram accounts affect them positively or negatively, and how the more hours they spend on Instagram, the more pressure they face to acquire a better body shape. Additionally, it examines the direct relationship between feministic beliefs and body surveillance and self-objectification. Moreover, self-objectification and Cultivation …

Graphene Oxide Biopolymer Aerogels For The Removal Of Lead From Drinking Water Using A Novel Nano-Enhanced Ion Exchange Cascade, J. M. Bloor, R. D. Handy, S. A. Awan, D. F.L. Jenkins

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Co-Phosphorylation Networks Reveal Subtype-Specific Signaling Modules In Breast Cancer, Marzieh Ayati, Mark R. Chance, Mehmet Koyuturk

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Motivation Protein phosphorylation is a ubiquitous mechanism of post-ranslational modification that plays a central role in cellular signaling. Phosphorylation is particularly important in the context of cancer, as down-regulation of tumor suppressors and up-regulation of oncogenes by the dysregulation of associated kinase and phosphatase networks are shown to have key roles in tumor growth and progression. Despite recent advances that enable large-scale monitoring of protein phosphorylation, these data are not fully incorporated into such computational tasks as phenotyping and subtyping of cancers.

Results We develop a network-based algorithm, CoPPNet, to enable unsupervised subtyping of cancers using phosphorylation data. For this …

Ascension And Adhesion Of Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli During Pyelonephritis, Lisa Kristine Mclellan

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

The ability of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) to successfully establish an infection within the urinary tract relies on the pathogen to be able to navigate the complex interactions between pathogen and host. During a urinary tract infection (UTI), UPEC must ascend, adhere, and form bacterial communities in various infection niches, from the bladder (cystitis) to the kidneys (pyelonephritis). Each of these steps is critical for bacterial survival, and host and pathogen factors required at each stage can vary depending on host sex and anatomic niche. Preclinical modeling of pyelonephritis and sex effects on UTI has been limited due to the …

Traditional Uses Of Wild Grasses Amongst Three Kenyan Farming Communities, N. M. Nganga, F. N. Muyekho, Z. R. Khan, R. S. Copeland

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

2021 January 14 - Academic Council Agenda And Minutes, Academic Council, East Tennessee State University

Academic Council Agenda and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Caesarean Birth By Maternal Request: A Poorly Understood Phenomenon In Low- And Middle-Income Countries., Margo S. Harrison, Ana Garces, Lester Figueroa, Fabian Esamai, Sherri Bucher, Carl Bose, Shivaprasad Goudar, Richard Derman, Archana Patel, Patricia L. Hibberd, Elwyn Chomba, Miusaku Mwenechanya, Michael Hambidge, Nancy F. Krebs

Global Health Articles

BACKGROUND: While trends in caesarean birth by maternal request in low- and middle-income countries are unclear, age, education, multiple gestation and hypertensive disease appear associated with the indication when compared with caesarean birth performed for medical indications.

METHODS: We performed a secondary analysis of a prospectively collected population-based study of home and facility births using descriptive statistics, bivariate comparisons and multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression.

RESULTS: Of 28 751 patients who underwent caesarean birth and had a documented primary indication for the surgery, 655 (2%) were attributed to caesarean birth by maternal request. The remaining 98% were attributed to maternal and …

Lat1 Protein Content Increases Following 12 Weeks Of Resistance Exercise Training In Human Skeletal Muscle, Paul A. Roberson, Christopher Brooks Mobley, Matthew A. Romero, Cody T. Haun, Shelby C. Osburn, Petey W. Mumford, Christopher G. Vann, Rory A. Greer, Arny A. Ferrando, Michael D. Roberts

Physiology Faculty Publications

Introduction: Amino acid transporters are essential for cellular amino acid transport and promoting protein synthesis. While previous literature has demonstrated the association of amino acid transporters and protein synthesis following acute resistance exercise and amino acid supplementation, the chronic effect of resistance exercise and supplementation on amino acid transporters is unknown. The purpose herein was to determine if amino acid transporters and amino acid metabolic enzymes were related to skeletal muscle hypertrophy following resistance exercise training with different nutritional supplementation strategies.

Methods: 43 college-aged males were separated into a maltodextrin placebo (PLA, n = 12), leucine (LEU, n = 14), …

Dispersal And Land Cover Contribute To Pseudorabies Virus Exposure In Invasive Wild Pigs, Felipe A. Hernandez, Amanda N. Carr, Michael P. Milleson, Hunter R. Merrill, Michael L. Avery, Brandon M. Parker, Cortney L. Pylant, James D. Austin, Samantha M. Wisely

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

We investigated the landscape epidemiology of a globally distributed mammal, the wild pig (Sus scrofa), in Florida (U.S.), where it is considered an invasive species and reservoir to pathogens that impact the health of people, domestic animals, and wildlife. Specifically, we tested the hypothesis that two commonly cited factors in disease transmission, connectivity among populations and abundant resources, would increase the likelihood of exposure to both pseudorabies virus (PrV) and Brucella spp. (bacterial agent of brucellosis) in wild pigs across the Kissimmee Valley of Florida. Using DNA from 348 wild pigs and sera from 320 individuals at 24 sites, we …

Program Implementation And Church Members' Health Behaviors In A Countywide Study Of The Faith, Activity, And Nutrition Program, John Bernhart Ph.D., Mph, Ches, Sarah Wilcox Phd, Ruth P. Saunders Ph.D., Brent E. Hutto Msph, Jessica Stucker

Faculty Publications

Implementation research of health programs in faith-based organizations is lacking. The Faith, Activity, and Nutrition (FAN) program helps churches improve physical activity and fruit and vegetable behaviors of members. This study examined associations between implementation of FAN intervention components and church members' physical activity, fruit and vegetable behaviors, and self-efficacy for improving these behaviors. FAN was implemented in 35 churches in a southeastern US county. After attending in-person training, led by community health advisors, church committees received 12 months of telephone-delivered technical assistance to implement FAN according to 4 components: increasing opportunities, increasing guidelines and policies, increasing pastor support, and …

Approach To Ruq Pain, Jose Medina, Md, Msw

Department of Family & Community Medicine Presentations and Grand Rounds

Objectives:

• Highlight the prevalence of RUQ pain
• Review the anatomy relevant to RUQ pain
• Discuss the broad differential associated
• Walk through important history, physical exam, and lab work components of the work up for RUQ pain
• Review the appropriateness/clinical utility of different imaging modalities
• Highlight common US findings associated with RUQ pain
• Case review and management of common RUQ diagnoses

Embodying Punishment: Emotions, Identities, And Lived Experiences In Women’S Prisons, By Anastasia Chamberlen, Joshua Shaw

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Laws are experienced, and produced, with and through bodies. By this, I mean the prohibitions, permissions, rights, and duties often understood as shaping the topology of a social community, amount to more than a system of rules incorporated in mental schema. Laws exist in dialectical relation with agents who construct, rely upon, and find meaning in law, and that dialectical relation is a consequence of both the representations agents impose upon social order and the material conditions of their environment that inform or otherwise give shape to their social practices. That environment, in which the legal actor is emplaced, includes …

Greed, Self-Interest And Business Ethics – A Comparative Discussion Of Gandhi And Novak, Daniel Cheung, Jacob N. Bauer

Journal of Religion and Business Ethics

Today it is commonly believed that capitalism is driven by greed. However, greed is condemned by various religious traditions. In this paper we compare how Mahatma Gandhi, a Hindu, and Michael Novak, a Catholic, see the possibilities of engaging in competitive business practice without the motive of greed. This discussion suggests a need to distinguish greed from self-interest. We therefore analyze whether it makes a difference in moral evaluation to claim that the real driving force of capitalism is self-interest but not greed. Our analysis makes use of the rational-care theory of self-interest developed by Stephen Darwall, the discussion of …

Latest Developments In Turfgrass Research, Robert C. Shearman

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Provision Of Turf Surfaces For Major Football Stadiums In Europe: Environmental Issues And Design Criteria, Stephen W. Baker

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Integrating Forage Into Traditional Farming System In The Western Loess Plateau, China--Challenges, Constraints And The Future, Yuying Shen, Murray Unkovich, Zhibiao Nan

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Working With Communities: Rural And Urban Underserved Program Scholars Take On Broader Health Issues Working With Communities, Crystal Krabbenhok, Jesse Barnes, A Carolyn Ice, Claire Sava, Tenzin Desel, Robert Williams

HSC Education Days

Clinicians in medically underserved communities encounter both community-wide health issues and community strengths. Together these raise the opportunities and responsibilities for clinicians to take action outside the clinical exam room to improve health in the community. Rural and Urban Underserved Program (RUUP) Scholars develop skills through engagement with communities in: 1) Health related advocacy, 2) Volunteer clinical care, 3) Health education pipeline support, 4) Non-clinical public health based community work, and/or 5) Community health education. Emphasis is on meaningful yet practical ways of partnering with others to work toward improved health goals. Students are encouraged to choose projects which take …

Effects Of Website Interactivity On Skin Cancer-Related Intentions And User Experience: Factorial Randomized Experiment, Zhaomeng Niu, Jessica Fitts Willoughby, Elliot J. Coups, Jerod L. Stapleton

Health, Behavior & Society Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Digital media technologies provide users with the ability to interact with content and to receive information based on their preferences and engagement.

OBJECTIVE: We used skin cancer and sun protection as a health topic to explore how modality interactivity, interface tools that afford users greater activity, resulting in greater depth and breadth of mentally representing and experiencing mediated content, and message interactivity, the extent to which the system allows users to exchange messages back and forth on health websites, influenced users' attitudes, knowledge, behavioral intentions, and experience.

METHODS: We employed a 2×2 (modality interactivity: high vs low; message interactivity: …

Rsif Weekly Vol.2 No.1 - Happy New Year!, Regional Scholarship And Innovation Fund (Rsif)

Rsif Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Prenatal And Postnatal Nutrition Influence Pancreatic And Intestinal Carbohydrase Activities Of Ruminants, Ronald J. Trotta, Kendall C. Swanson

Animal and Food Sciences Graduate Research

In ruminant livestock species, nutrition can play an important role in the long-term programming of gastrointestinal function. Pancreatic and small intestinal digestive enzymes are important for postruminal digestion of carbohydrates and protein. Carbohydrases have been shown to respond to changes in the level of feed intake and the dietary inclusion of specific nutrients, including arginine, butyrate, folic acid, fructose, and leucine. Understanding how diet influences enzyme development and activity during prenatal and postnatal life could lead to the development of dietary strategies to optimize offspring growth and development to increase digestive efficiency of ruminant livestock species. More research is needed …

Stoking The Flame: Subsistence And Wood Energy In Rural Alaska, United States, Jennifer I. Schmidt, Amanda Byrd, Jennifer Curl, Todd J. Brinkman, Krista Heeringa

ISER Articles

Energy costs are large and increasing in rural Alaska communities, so communities are turning to renewable energy. While, many of these communities have a mixed subsistence-cash economy, the relationship between renewable energy and subsistence has not been studied. Tanana, Alaska has a biomass program and we conducted interviews with 61 households in 2017 to understand how residents perceive the program and its association with subsistence activities. We analyzed Alaska Department of Fish & Game subsistence surveys from 89 communities to estimate differences in subsistence harvest between households that harvest wood and those that do not. Interviews indicated that people who …

Why Do People Follow Popular, Or Fad, Diets?, Christopher R. Gustafson

Cornhusker Economics

The tradition of goal setting at the start of a year—New Year’s resolutions—is deeply engrained in American society: estimates suggest that between 40 and 50% of adults set New Year’s Resolutions. Many of the most common goals relate to weight management—initiating exercise programs, dieting, or both—which is perhaps unsurprising since over 70% of American adults are overweight or obese.

No. 94 An Order To Provide Relief To Victims Of Severe Weather And Tornadoes In Tennessee, Bill Lee

Executive Orders

No abstract provided.

Management Of The Phosphorus-Cladophora Dynamic At A Site On Lake Ontario Using A Multi-Module Bioavailable P Model, Martin Auer, Cory P. Mcdonald, Anika Kuczynski, Chenfu Huang

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

The filamentous green alga Cladophora grows to nuisance proportions in Lake Ontario. Stimulated by high phosphorus concentrations, nuisance growth results in the degradation of beaches and clogging of industrial water intakes with attendant loss of beneficial uses. We develop a multi-module bioavailable phosphorus model to examine the efficacy of phosphorus management strategies in mitigating nuisance algal growth. The model platform includes modules simulating hydrodynamics (FVCOM), phosphorus-phytoplankton dynamics (GEM) and Cladophora growth (GLCMv3). The model is applied along a 25 km stretch of the Lake Ontario nearshore, extending east from Toronto, ON and receiving effluent from three wastewater treatment plants. Simulation …

Anorexia Nervosa And The Family: A Look At Well-Siblings, Parents, And Family Dynamics Through A Family Systems Perspective, Martha Avila-Zavala

Modern Psychological Studies

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is one of the main, and one of the most common types of eating disorders among adolescent individuals, especially females. It is characterized by limited eating, increased amounts of physical activity, low self-esteem, and extreme criticism of oneself and one’s body. An individual diagnosed with AN is greatly physically, mentally, and emotionally affected by it. However, an AN diagnosis also has a significant impact on the whole family. In recent years, the family has been incorporated into the treatment of an individual diagnosed with AN, which has shown to be effective in the recovery process and in …

Puerto Rico’S Separate And Unequal Status Under U.S. Law, Brendan Williams

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Novel Dietary Multi-Strain Yeast Fraction Modulates Intestinal Toll-Like-Receptor Signalling And Mucosal Responses Of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss), Mark Rawling, Eric Leclercq, Andrew Foey, Mathieu Castex, Daniel Merrifield

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Abnormal Nutritive Sucking As An Indicator Of Neonatal Brain Injury, Sabrina Shandley, Gilson J. Capilouto, Eleonora Tamilia, David M. Riley, Yvette R. Johnson, Christos Papadelis

Communication Sciences and Disorders Faculty Publications

A term neonate is born with the ability to suck; this neuronal network is already formed and functional by 28 weeks gestational age and continues to evolve into adulthood. Because of the necessity of acquiring nutrition, the complexity of the neuronal network needed to suck, and neuroplasticity in infancy, the skill of sucking has the unique ability to give insight into areas of the brain that may be damaged either during or before birth. Interpretation of the behaviors during sucking shows promise in guiding therapies and how to potentially repair the damage early in life, when neuroplasticity is high. Sucking …

Resiliency Training Gives All Students The Tools To Bounce Back, Matt Windsor

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Encephalopathy And Complex Hyperkinesia In A Patient With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 Infection, Wenyang Li, Elif Pinar Coskun, Rolando Berger, John T. Slevin, L. Creed Pettigrew

Neurology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.