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“He’S Got The Whole World In His Hands”: Seed Sovereignty And Agricultural Decision Making In Southeastern Kenya, Caroline Stahley

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Increasing corporate control of the global seed supply and restrictions to local exchange threaten the autonomy of smallholder farmers and Indigenous communities. This project contributes to agricultural sovereignty movements by examining the decisions farmers make to address climate uncertainty, market volatility, and development agendas. Specifically, how is seed saving practiced and understood in relation to sovereignty? It reimagines what global food systems might look like if investment were directed to producers rather than intermediaries, arguing that cultivators lack support, not knowledge or capacity. Across these domains, seeds act as a motif to describe the concerns, innovations, and visions of farmers.

Caduceus, Immc School Of Nursing Yearbook, 1974, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: 1974 Illinois Masonic Medical Center School of Nursing Yearbook.

Illinois Masonic Medical Center School Of Nursing Bulletin, 1974-1976, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: This IMMC Nursing School bulletin provides information about the school including admission criteria, cost, student services, policies, opportunities, and curriculum.

Illinois Masonic Medical Center School Of Nursing Bulletin, 1969-1971, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: This IMMC Nursing School bulletin provides information about the school including admission criteria, cost, student services, policies, opportunities, and curriculum.

Medical Staff Journal, 1992, V2 N2, Summer, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL: Quarterly publication produced by and for medical staff at Lutheran General Hospital. This issue includes case studies, professional activities, and a directory of new staff members.

Aurora Today : The Aurora Health Care Employee Newsletter, 2004 July, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI: Aurora Today is published monthly for the employees of Aurora Health Care. This newsletter publishes news and updates from around the Aurora Health Care system.

Aurora Today : The Aurora Health Care Employee Newsletter, 2001 April, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI: Aurora Today is published monthly for the employees of Aurora Health Care. This newsletter publishes news and updates from around the Aurora Health Care system.

Medical Staff Journal, 1991, V1 N2, Spring, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL: Quarterly publication produced by and for medical staff at Lutheran General Hospital. This issue includes case studies, professional activities, and a directory of new staff members.

Caring, 1985 Fall/Winter, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: Quarterly community education publication for IMMC. This issue includes news and updates, events, professional activites, and an article on the opending of a new Eye Center.

Caring, 1984 Fall-Winter, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: Quarterly community education publication for IMMC. This issue includes news and updates, events, professional activites, and an article on emergency medicine.

Caring, 1985 Winter, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: Quarterly community education publication for IMMC. This issue includes news and updates, events, professional activites, and an article on recreational therapy at the Warren Parr Pavillion - a skilled nursing facility for elderly patients.

Caring, 1984 Summer, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: Quarterly community education publication for IMMC. This issue includes news and updates, events, professional activites, and an article on cardiac diseases and treatments.

Caring, 1984 Winter, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: Quarterly community education publication for IMMC. This issue includes news and updates, events, professional activites, and an article on the Chronic Pain and Headache Treatment Center.

Caring, 1983 Fall, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: Quarterly community education publication for IMMC. This issue includes news and updates, events, professional activites, and an article on the new plans for the Ruth M. Seay Center for Women and Infants.

Caring, 1982 Summer, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: Quarterly community education publication for IMMC. This issue includes news and updates, events, professional activites, and an article on interventional radiology.

Caring, 1982 Winter, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: Quarterly community education publication for IMMC. This issue includes news and updates, events, professional activites, and an article on a new family medicine clinic.

Caring Annual Report, 1987, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: Annual report published as an issue of Caring, the quarterly community publication for Illinois Masonic Medical Center. Included are a financial report, statistical report, and updates from the past year. This year IMMC opened its first MRI center and completed a large parking garage. The Philanthropy Report is included as an insert.

Caring Philanthropy Report, 1987, Advocate Health - Midwest

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Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: Directory of benefactors and volunteers from 1987 published as part the Philanthropy Report portion of the Caring Annual Report.

Operationally Ready Vs Gym Ready: Training For The Real Demands Of Tactical Work, Ben Jacobs

Tactical & Occupational Performance Conference

Tactical organizations are increasingly recognizing that readiness extends beyond fitness alone. Structured performance systems that integrate training, recovery, nutrition, and fatigue management can help departments improve resilience, reduce injuries, and sustain operational capability over an entire career.

Session's revolve around the concept of Tactical Readiness Architecture, a systems-based framework designed to help departments build structured, sustainable performance support for their personnel. Rather than focusing solely on workouts or individual habits, Tactical Readiness Architecture integrates training, recovery, nutrition, fatigue management, and data-informed monitoring into a cohesive readiness model.

Independent Living Skills For The Aging Population Of Adults With Disabilities, Sara K. Fetter Otd, Otr, Jennifer L. Martin Otd, Otr, Cht, Clt, Michele L. Mccarroll Phd, Faacvpr, Acsm-Ccep, Ccrp, Lssbb

Developmental Disabilities Network Journal

Adults with intellectual disability (ID) are living longer and increasingly outlive family caregivers. Strengthening independent living and vocational skills has therefore become a critical public-health priority. Occupational therapy (OT) can address this need through person-centered, community-based programming. This paper describes the co-design, delivery, and preliminary outcomes of a short occupation-based curriculum intended to enhance autonomy and work readiness in aging adults with ID. In partnership with a Dallas, Texas nonprofit, the authors conducted a needs assessment and created an 8-session course rooted in the Independent Living Model and the Occupational Competence Model. The curriculum addressed four domains (physical health, financial …

Hypovitaminosis A - Associated Neurologic Syndrome With Concurrent Babesiosis In A Captive African Lion Cub (Panthera Leo), Kano, Nigeria, Shaarani Habibu Musa, Aminu Bello Hanga, Auwal Usman Nagoma, Caleb Ayuba Kudi, Paul Ayuba Abdu, Musa Ibrahim Waziri, Haruna Baba Galadima, Yusuf Aminu Yusuf, Muhammed Mikail

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Neurological disorders in captive wild felids presents diagnostic and therapeutic challenges, particularly in juveniles animals maintained under suboptimal nutritional transitions. This case report describes the synergistic effects of dietary deficiencies and a concurrent hemoparasitic infection in a seven-month-old male African lion cub (Panthera leo) weighing 30 kg, housed at Audu Bako Zoological Garden in Kano, Nigeria. Following premature weaning onto an unsupplemented muscle-meat diet, the cub exhibited progressive neurological symptoms, including ataxia, hindlimb paresis, star-gazing, and opisthotonos. Hematological analysis revealed a mild normocytic, normochromic anemia (packed cell volume; 23%) and the presence of erythrocytes rouleaux formation, while Giemsa-stained …

Psycho-Behavioral And Psychosocial Factors Influencing Childhood Obesity In The United States, Nadia Ntori Nkansah

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Exploring Low Birth Weight In The Metro Atlanta Area Using The Urban Institute’S Social Mobility Dashboard, Jason Davis, David Pena, Lisa Holland-Davis

The Journal of Public and Professional Sociology

Infant birth weight is the foundation for childhood and adult health outcomes, and health, according to the Urban Institute, is an important predictor of upward social mobility. Prior studies have found that infants with low birth weight are susceptible to a host of physical, cognitive, and social deficiencies that can adversely impact the ability to achieve upward mobility. The current study utilizes the Urban Institute's Mobility Metrics to explore low infant birth rates among the 11 counties that comprise the Metro Atlanta area. We focus on the average rate of low birth weight from 2021-2023 overall and disaggregated by mothers’ …

Breaking Bread And Barriers: Interprofessional Strategies To Improve Mental And Nutritional Health In Family Caregivers, Candy Ratliff

The Journal of the Research Association of Minority Professors

Family caregivers provide essential unpaid support to individuals with chronic illness, disability, dementia, and age-related decline; however, caregiving responsibilities often place caregivers at increased risk for psychological, physical, nutritional, and social challenges. This literature review examines the mental health and nutritional implications of family caregiving and explores barriers that contribute to declining caregiver wellness. Findings reveal elevated rates of depression, anxiety, emotional exhaustion, social isolation, food insecurity, sleep disturbances, financial strain, and chronic stress among caregivers. The literature further highlights the interconnected relationship between mental health, nutrition, and overall quality of life. Given the multidimensional nature of caregiver burden, interprofessional …

An Inseverable Link To The Outside: Describing Shifting Food Consumption Patterns And Predicting Food Dysregulation During Covid Lockdown, Andrew F. Baird, Andria D. Timmer, Morgan E. Miller

The Journal of Public and Professional Sociology

This study examines how COVID-19 lockdown shaped household food practices and contributed to food dysregulation, defined as anxiety, stress, indecisiveness or impulsivity surrounding diet. We conducted a mixed-methods community survey of Newport News, Virginia (n ≈ 400), administered shortly after the March–May 2020 lockdown. Open-ended responses revealed widespread disruption of food routines, with participants describing heightened anxiety about shopping, increased meal planning, stress-related snacking, and difficulties maintaining healthy diets. These qualitative themes were systematically mapped to survey items, yielding a composite Food Dysregulation Index and predictors spanning life circumstances, income strain, and food-related behaviors. Regression analyses showed that meal planning …

Social Stratification Of Ace Biomarkers: A Story Of Perpetual Inequality, Sheena Martin, Ellis S. Logan

The Journal of Public and Professional Sociology

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are early-life deviations from expected environments that contribute to adverse health, social, and behavioral outcomes. Fundamental cause theory and Marxist theory link these outcomes to structural inequality, while life course theory and cumulative disadvantage theory highlight compounded long-term disparities. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory integrates these perspectives across multiple levels and their interactionary relationships. Using 2021-2023 NHANES data, we grouped ACE proxies into SES and health categories to measure influence on biology. To assess the biological impact, we examined 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, a key factor in DNA methylation, a process inhibited by early-life adversity. After exploring a binary variable, …

Fear Appeal Advertising As A Tool For Preventative Medicine And Chronic Disease Mitigation, Samuel J. Moore

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Chronic disease refers broadly to a group of diseases that develop and progress as individuals age, that last 1 or more years, and that require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living, or both (“About chronic diseases,” 2026). Chronic disease is most often associated with years of compounding effects of poor nutrition and physical inactivity. Since negative emotion-based advertising, also known as “fear campaigns,” have been shown to be effective forms of communication for other health related topics (Huang et al, 2017), we sought to test a fear campaign’s potential to discourage unhealthy physical activity practices in young …

Processing Mechanism And Efficacy Maintenance Strategy Of Ginseng Active Ingredients Based On Spectroscopy Technology, Yang Hantong, Kong Linghui, Jiang Mengmeng, Wang Yingxiu, Li Xiangguo

Food and Machinery

Ginseng, as a medicinal and edible plant, has ginsenosides as its core active components, which are widely applied due to their physiological functions such as antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities; however, their structures and activities are easily affected by food processing. During processing steps such as cleaning, steaming/boiling, and fermentation, temperature, pH, and microbial enzyme systems alter the types, contents, and stability of active components through reactions such as hydrolysis and oxidation. The intrinsic linkage mechanism of "component transformation-activity-bioavailability" constitutes a core focus and challenge in current research. This study, based on spectroscopic techniques including high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), nuclear magnetic …

Effect Of Processing Methods On Polygonatum Kingianum Collett & Hemsl . Metabolites Based On Widely Targeted Metabolomics, Wei Zhen, Tang Yayuan, Yue Jian, Su Juan, Sun Jian, He Xuemei

Food and Machinery

［Objective］ To investigate the effect of processing methods on Polygonatum kingianum Collett & Hemsl.metabolites, to reveal the regulatory pattern of processing methods on the metabolites, and to clarify the characteristic metabolites enriched by various processing methods.［Methods］ Metabolites of P.kingianum samples processed via boiling (BP), roller processing (HP), and traditional processing (JZ) are analyzed using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) based on widely targeted metabolomics. Differential metabolites are screened using multivariate statistical analyses, including principal component analysis, orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis, and hierarchical clustering analysis, followed by Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and 何雪梅（1981—），女，广西农业科学院农产品加工研究所研究员，硕士。E-mail：[email protected]|Genomes (KEGG ) metabolic enrichment analysis.［Results］ …

Effects Of Yeast Extract And Reheating Methods On Gel Properties And Warmed-Over Flavor Formation Of Hairtail Surimi, Huang Qianyi, Li Xianghong, Li Shuang, Ma Xiayin, Liu Dongmin, Wang Faxiang, Liu Yongle, Wu Jinhong

Food and Machinery

［Objective］ To control the gel property and warmed -over flavor formation of hairtail surimi products.［Methods］ Surimi gel is prepared using hairtail as the raw material. Then, by examining changes in sensory evaluation, microstructure, gel property,moisture content, and volatile flavor substances, this study investigates the effects of yeast extract addition and reheating methods on gel property and warmed-over flavor formation in hairtail surimi products.［Results］ Yeast extract addition significantly promotes internal structural cross-linking and reduces the number of pores in the product, thereby enhancing the gel properties, including gel strength, hardness, and elasticity. Specifically, an optimal gel property is observed at a …