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Promotion And Distribution Of Itik Pinas: A Solution To The Declining Ph Duck Industry, Elmer Delen, Cyrill Estimado

CSPPS Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

A Systematic Literature Review Of Research From 2010 To 2020 Addressing User-Generated Online Comments Related To Health Issues And Recommendations For Future Research, Muhammad Ittefaq, Mauryne Abwao, Ioana A. Coman, Waqas Ejaz

School of Communication Studies - Faculty Scholarship

This systematic literature review was conducted to provide insights into how online readers’ comments have been studied in the context of health over a 10-year span. About 593 studies published between 2010 and 2020; of these, 34 met the research criteria for inclusion. Our findings reveal that 60% of the studies focused on the United States, and a qualitative method was used in 74.3% of these studies. About 23.5% of the studies explored vaccine-related issues. Our results reveal that among the selected studies, 76.5% and 20.6% had female and male first authors, respectively. Textual analysis of abstracts shows that the …

No. 57: Pandemic Precarity And Food Insecurity In Urban Ghana During Covid-19, Elizabeth Opiyo Onyango, Bernard Owusu, Jonathan Crush

Hungry Cities Partnership

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban households in the Global South has not yet been adequately explored, despite an emerging consensus that impacts of the pandemic were more severe in urban than rural Africa. This paper addresses the knowledge gap by examining the relationship between pandemic precarity and food insecurity in Ghana’s urban areas during the pandemic in 2020. The data comes from the World Bank (WB) and Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) COVID-19 High-Frequency Phone Survey. Using a sub-sample of 1,423 urban households, the paper evaluates household experiences of the pandemic. Our findings show that household demographic characteristics …

Graduate Catalogue 2023-2024, Seton Hall University

Graduate Catalogues

No abstract provided.

Improvement Of Weight Management Counseling In Primary Care, Heather M. Kuriger

DNP Projects

There are cultural, genetic, fiscal, historical, and geographic factors that have contributed to Mississippi having the highest level of obesity in the United States. As the only available source of treatment for obesity for many patients, primary care providers need to feel prepared and effective in treating obesity, and need ways to address obesity that are respectful and person-centered. Motivational interviewing is a counseling process for behavior change that empowers the patient to determine their own goals, motivations, and strategies to establish weight reducing habits. A quality improvement project was developed for primary care providers to educate them on the …

Food Security, Factors Influencing Food Acceptance, And Preferred Food Assistance Delivery Modalities: A Survey Of Students Attending A Medium Sized, Primarily Residential Emerging Research Institution, Amy Caroline Martin

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Food pantries are the most common form of food assistance provided on college campuses. However, there are several barriers that prevent college students from utilizing pantry resources, leading to low campus food pantry utilization and awareness. Barriers, poor pantry utilization, and awareness have been well documented. However, there is little information currently available regarding factors that facilitate college students’ acceptance of food assistance, and the food distribution modalities that food insecure college students prefer. The purpose of this study was to determine these factors and preferences so they may be used to improve food assistance programs on college campuses.To investigate …

Can An Instrument Be Developed To Evaluate Trauma Intervention Programs?, Julie D. Hancock

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Trauma experiences impact countless individuals every day. Trauma neither favors nor discriminates against any segment of the population; it is an equal opportunity pillager, often striking with no warning. No one is immune to trauma experience and effects, but one population is especially vulnerable to the aftereffects of trauma: the adolescent population. At a stage of life comprised of rapid physical changes and brain growth, the effects of trauma can have overwhelming consequences. However, even with increased vulnerability, this population is often overlooked in the selection of trauma intervention programs and practices for schools. The purpose of this quantitative study …

2023-2024 Nsu Undergraduate Student Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Proteomic Identification Of Seasonally Expressed Proteins Contributing To Heart Function And The Avoidance Of Skeletal Muscle Disuse Atrophy In A Hibernating Mammal, Msr Abid, E. C. Bredahl, A. D. Clifton, H. Qiu, M. T. Andrews, J. W. Checco

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Statistical Learning Methods To Identify Nonwear Periods From Accelerometer Data, Sahrej Randhawa, Manoj Sharma, Madalina Fiterau, Jorge A. Banda, Farish Haydel, Kristopher Kapphahn, Donna Matheson, Hyatt Moore Iv, Robyn L Ball, Clete Kushida, Scott Delp, Dennis P. Wall, Thomas Robinson, Manisha Desai

Faculty Research 2023

Background: Accelerometers are used to objectively measure movement in free-living individuals. Distinguishing nonwear from sleep and sedentary behavior is important to derive accurate measures of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep. We applied statistical learning approaches to examine their promise in detecting nonwear time and compared the results with commonly used wear time (WT) algorithms. Methods: Fifteen children, aged 4–17, wore an ActiGraph wGT3X- BT monitor on their hip during overnight polysomnography. We applied Hidden Markov Models (HMM) and Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) to classify states of nonwear and wear in triaxial acceleration data. Performance of methods was compared with …

2023 Spring - Veterans Upward Bound Newsletter, Veterans Upward Bound, East Tennessee State University

Veterans Upward Bound Newsletters

No abstract provided.

2023 Spring And Winter - Schedule Of Classes, Office Of The Registrar, East Tennessee State University

Registration Resources

No abstract provided.

Merrimack County New Hampshire Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2022, January 1st - December 31st, Merrimack County Representatives

Merrimack County, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a county in the state of New Hampshire.

Investigating Sources Of Microplastics And Effects Of Plastic Pollution On Biofilm Function In The Huron River, Sadie Baker

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Plastics are a global environmental threat due to mass production and the many unknowns regarding the long-term effects of plastic pollution in the environment. Microplastics (MPs) are plastic particles less than 5 mm in size, and they have become ubiquitous in aquatic ecosystems. MPs enter aquatic ecosystems through non-point sources such as urbanization, runoff, or atmospheric fallout or through point-sources such as wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). To determine MP sources in the Huron River, we evaluated MP load (MPs/day) upstream and downstream from urban centers (Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti) and the Ann Arbor WWTP. The average MP load among sample …

Forming The Perception Of Wic Infant Feeding Recommendations: A Qualitative Study, Emily Fisher, Kathryn Wouk, Priyanka Patel, Chuanyi Tang, Qi Zhang

Community & Environmental Health Faculty Publications

Nearly half of newborns in the United States are enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Promoting breastfeeding is a programmatic priority, although formula vouchers are provided for those who do not exclusively breastfeed. Previous literature suggests that participant perception of WIC’s breastfeeding recommendations is a significant factor predicting breastfeeding initiation, duration, and exclusivity outcomes. However, little is known about how participants’ perceptions of WIC’s breastfeeding recommendations are formed. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a qualitative pilot study in Nevada, interviewing 10 postpartum WIC mothers and 12 WIC staff who had interacted …

2023-2024 Factbook, Tennessee. General Assembly

Factbook

This Fact Book provides an overview of the state's budget for the fiscal year.

A Case Study Comparing The Life Skills Development And Knowledge In Youth Participants Of Horseless And Traditional Horse Programs In Utah, Haley M. Johnson, Kelsey L. Hall, Benjamin Scow

Applied Sciences, Technology and Education Faculty Publications

This study compared four horseless and seven traditional horse participants from Washington County 4-H in Utah for horse knowledge gained and for the development of 10 life skills from Hendricks's Targeting Life Skills Model: leadership, teamwork, self-responsibility, personal safety, problem-solving, decision-making, critical thinking, goal setting, communication, and concern for others. This study's mixed methods design employed interviews to learn about life skill development and quantitative data from a 20-item horse knowledge quiz and demographic survey. The traditional horse youth showed greater development of leadership, self-responsibility, decision-making, goal setting, and communication than the horseless youth. Roughly half of the participants in …

Assessment The Effect Of Doramectin On Female Rat Fertility, Samar Elsayed, Asmaa Elsayad, Reham El-Shafei, Mohamed Gabr

Mansoura Veterinary Medical Journal

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the adverse effects of doramectin (DRM) on apoptosis, oxidative stress, and fertility in female Wistar rats.
Design: Descriptive study.

Animals: Thirty clinically healthy mature female Wistar rats in the estrus phase.

Procedures: Female rats in the estrous phase were randomly divided into three equal groups. The 1st group, female rats were subcutaneously injected with sesame oil as a single dose and were kept as the control group. The 2nd group, female rats were subcutaneously injected with a single therapeutic dose of doramectin (200µg/kg B.wt). When the 3rd group, female rats were subcutaneously injected with …

Las 188 Sample Im#2, Patti Verstrat

LAS 188 and 189 Materials

This is an instructional handout is an example of an inquiry-based writing project for LAS 188, Introduction to Liberal Arts, at Parkland College.

Three Essays On The U.S. Beef Supply Chain: Production, Marketing, And Price Dynamics, Erdal Erol

Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics

This dissertation contains three essays on select economic components of the U.S. beef industry. The first and second essays concentrate on the different economic problems in beef cattle production. The third essay evaluates the price dynamics and the impact of COVID-19 along the beef supply chain.

The first essay explores the economics of culling decisions in cow-calf operations in the U.S. with a novel application of a dynamic mathematical programming model. The results provide an optimal culling strategy under the base model and a range of optimal strategies that vary with respect to different components such as fertility probabilities, market …

Community Supported Agriculture Values: A Comparison Across Groups, Thomas B. Pierce

Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs offer consumers the chance to share the risk with farming operations while gaining access to fresh, local foods. While research on CSA shareholder values such as share affordability or the local impact of participation has been conducted in the past decade and beyond, less attention has been paid to direct value-mapping of the shareholders themselves. This research seeks to determine consumer values around the CSA purchasing decision using the Best-Worst Scaling Approach. Based on a focus group discussion with CSA shareholders in a university wellness voucher program, we used affinity diagramming to develop a list …

Heated High Flow Oxygen Therapy Management Of Respiratory, Swallowing/Dysphagia And Nutrition Needs, Jenelle Overgaard

Nursing Posters

Problem

• Patients diagnosed with COVID-19 pose challenges for oxygenation. Often requiring heated high flow oxygen therapy (HHFOT) for days to weeks, with literflow commonly over 40 L/min with maximum of 60 L/min.
• There is minimal research on aspiration risk at higher literflow, therefore practice included decreasing liter flow to 20 L/min for oral intake was standard.
• During oral intake, with literflow decreased to 20 L/min, patients' oxygen saturations would quickly trend down.
• Alarms indicating low saturation would create anxiety, cause patients to eat faster potentially increasing risk for aspiration.

Solution

• For adult inpatients meeting criteria, increase maximum literflow allowed during …

Periodic Paralysis : Pursuing A Protocol, Kirsten Denman

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis is an autosomal dominant disease of skeletal muscle in which patients experience episodes of weakness. There is currently no highly effective therapy. A mouse model has been created to study the disease to better understand the physiological changes leading to weakness and to develop novel treatments. However, the work done with the mouse model has used ever-changing protocols and the data produced have been insufficient to answer key questions and bring treatments closer to clinical trials. I evaluated factors of temperature, insulin, potassium concentrations, and length of protocol or exercise, to develop a protocol that reproducibly triggers …

Culturally Tailored Better Choices, Better Health® Sd Programs For South Dakota Tribal Communities: Engaging American Indian And Alaska Native Adults In Chronic Disease Self-Management Education, Sandra Melstad, Lori Oster, Megan Jacobson, Richard Mousseau

SDSU Extension Special Reports

The purpose of this guide is to support the implementation of culturally tailored chronic disease self-management education programs in tribal communities in South Dakota. The guide builds on the Better Choices, Better Health® South Dakota (BCBH-SD) chronic disease self-management education (CDSME) workshops designed to support adults living with chronic conditions and caregivers to understand how healthier choices can improve quality of life, boost self-confidence, and inspires positive lifestyle changes. This guide outlines considerations to tailor the program to align with the unique traditions, culture, beliefs, and practices of each tribal community in South Dakota without compromising the core components of …

The Relationship Between Dairy Products And Motivation & Resilience, Anya Skripkin, Frema Akuoko, Ting Chen

Student-Created Sustainability Resources

●Consumption of dairy products has been linked to increased motivation and resilience, and better mental health.

●We studied the correlation between dairy consumption and motivation in primarily young adults to examine the relationship between diet and mental toughness.

●How does dairy intake relate to motivation and resilience? Using a short survey, we collected data on the nutritional habits from 152 individuals.

●We did not find a significant correlation between consuming dairy and feelings of motivation and resilience.

Sheep Ingestive Behavior And Tannin Selection In Pampa Grassland And Feedlot, Marina Terra Braga

Green Canyon Environmental Research Area, Logan Utah

The Pampa grassland biome has high plant biodiversity, some with significant secondary compound concentrations such as tannins. Tannin inclusion in ruminant diets may improve meat quality and productivity. However, voluntary intake of this phenolic compound can be a challenge. This dissertation includes three studies within this context. The first study documented whether sheep consume tannin-rich Desmodium incanum (DI), the most common Pampa herbaceous legume species. The second study evaluated how forage tannin and protein concentration influenced sheep feedlot feed selection and the diet affects performance parameters. The third study evaluated sheep feeding behavior in a Pampa native pasture, and how …

Food, Lauri Deruiter-Willems, Misty Rhoads, Nikki Hillier, Amanda Harvey, Stacey Knight-Davis

Belonging, A photovoice project: Exhibit

Photos and short writings from Public Health & Nutrition undergraduate students describing the food dimension of the social determinants of health.

Community, Safety And Social Context, Lauri Deruiter-Willems, Misty Rhoads, Nikki Hillier, Amanda Harvey, Stacey Knight-Davis

Belonging, A photovoice project: Exhibit

Photos and short writings from Public Health & Nutrition undergraduate students describing the community, safety and social context dimensions of the social determinants of health.

Health Care, Lauri J. Deruiter-Willems, Nikki Hillier, Misty Rhoads, Amanda Harvey, Stacey Knight-Davis

Belonging, A photovoice project: Exhibit

Photos and short writings from Public Health & Nutrition undergraduate students describing the Health Care and Community dimensions of the social determinants of health.

Physical Environment, Lauri Deruiter-Willems, Misty Rhoads, Nikki Hillier, Amanda Harvey, Stacey Knight-Davis

Belonging, A photovoice project: Exhibit

Photos and short writings from Public Health & Nutrition undergraduate students describing the physical environment dimension of the social determinants of health.