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More Evidence Suggests That Vegetarianism Is Mostly Due To Genes, Harold Herzog

Herzog - Animal policy and attitudes

The relative influence of genes and environment on human behavior is one of the most persistent, interesting, and divisive issues in psychology. The human penchant for eating animals is a good example. Clearly, culture has a huge influence on the amount of flesh people consume. The average American, for example, consumes about 240 pounds of meat a year while per capita meat consumption in India is only 10 pounds per year. And your chances of being a vegetarian or vegan are nearly seven times higher if you live in India than in the United States (39% versus 6%). Further, cultures …

Is Time With Pets Good For Our Cardiovascular Health? The Surprising Results Of 129 Studies On Dogs’ Effect On Human Health., Harold Herzog

Herzog - Companion Animals and Health

https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/sc_herzog_comphealth/

The well-studied health benefits (of pet ownership) are claimed to be much greater than the research results actually support. For example, it is claimed that a beloved dog will lower a person’s blood pressure, reduce stress hormones, calm anxiety, and even make it easier to interact with other human beings. A recent systematic review indicate that the physiological effects of interacting with a pet may not be as strong as is commonly reported.

What You Didn’T Know About Having A Pandemic Pet, Herzog Harold

Herzog - Companion Animal Issues

Surveys show that most pet owners are convinced that living with companion animals improves their mental health and psychological well-being. However, many research reports have found that the mental health of pet owners is not measurably better than that of people without a pet. The isolation and stress associated with COVID lockdowns afforded investigators an opportunity to test this "pet effect paradox." Contrary to conventional wisdom, a large majority of studies found pets have little or no impact on human mental health during pandemics.

Do Kids And Adults Value Animal Lives Differently, Harold Herzog

Herzog - Animal policy and attitudes

Humans have various reasons for valuing some species over others. Researchers asked adults and children of different ages to rank animals from people to worms in the order they would give them a lifesaving drug. In some ways, the children were similar to adults in how they valued the species, but in other ways they were very different. There are subtle shifts in how humans prioritize different species as we develop from childhood into adults.

Operationalising One Health-One Welfare, Janice H. Cox

One Health

The World Health Organisation (WHO) describes One Health as an approach to designing and implementing programmes, policies, legislation and research in which multiple sectors communicate and work together to achieve better public health outcomes. WHO considers the ‘One Health’ approach to be “critical to addressing health threats in the animal, human and environment interface”.

The Puzzling Relationship Between Pet-Keeping And Happiness, Harold Herzog

Herzog - Companion Animal Issues

The $100 billion pet products industry promotes the idea that getting a pet makes people happier. Yet, more than a dozen studies have found that pet owners are not any happier than people who do not live with a companion animal. A psychological process called hedonic adaptation explains why pet-keeping is usually not associated with an increase in overall happiness. New research, however, has found that playing and interacting with pets does result in temporary increases in the happiness of their owners.

Variation In Alkaloid Composition And Sequestration In Dendrobatid Poison Frogs, Katherine R. Waters

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Dairy Digest 2022 : A Hoofprint In Time, South Dakota State University Dairy Club

Dairy Digest

This is the 2022 Dairy Digest. The Diary Digest is published annually by the South Dakota State University Dairy Club. The Digest contains information and news about the activities and members of the SDSU Dairy Club for the academic year 2021 - 2022.

The Therapeutic Benefits Of Children’S Literature: Responding Through Making Art And Writing Stories, Janae Dueck

Art Therapy | Theses and Dissertations

This study explores the use of a children's book followed by the application of the Draw A Story (DAS) art therapy assessment tool by Rawley Silver (1988). The study takes place in three elementary school classrooms located in the greater Bay Area region. Previous literature addresses the historical uses of children’s books and their potential to offer therapeutic benefit to young readers. Through a quasi-experimental, one-group posttest only design, eighteen second to third grade level students were asked to reflect on a children’s book by writing a story of their own. Participants were between the ages of seven and nine, …

2022 Forecast La Conference Book, Fernando J. Guerra, Brianne Gilbert, Lindsey Hendren, Alejandra Alarcon, Jorge Cortes, Julian Samuels, Viola Chow

Forecast LA

No abstract provided.

Town Of Hinsdale, New Hampshire Annual Reports Of The Town Officers, Boards And Other Agencies For Period Ending December 31, 2021., Hinsdale Town Representatives

Hinsdale, NH Annual Reports

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

Sentience Criteria To Persuade The Reasonable Sceptic, Patrick Butlin

Animal Sentience

When presented with evidence that Crump et al.’s criteria are satisfied for the animals in some taxon, a sceptic could reasonably continue to suspend judgement about whether those animals are sentient. This is because the criteria refer to abilities which are associated with sentience in humans, but it is not clear that sentience is necessary for these abilities. The criteria could be strengthed by requiring evidence of a contrast in performance between cases in which information is carried by felt and unfelt states.

Spanish-English Bilingual Toddlers’ Vocabulary Skills: The Role Of Caregiver Language Input And Warmth, Perla B. Gámez, Francisco Palermo, Jordan S. Perry, Maily Galindo

Psychology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

There is a well-documented link between bilingual language development and the relative amounts of exposure to each language. Less is known about the role of quality indicators of caregiver-child interactions in bilingual homes, including caregiver input diversity, warmth and sensitivity. This longitudinal study examines the relation between caregiver input (lexical diversity, amount), warmth and sensitivity and bilingual toddlers’ subsequent vocabulary outcomes. We video-recorded caregiver-child interactions in Spanish-English Latino homes when toddlers (n = 47) were 18 months of age (M = 18.32 months; SD = 1.02 months). At the 24-month follow-up, we measured children's vocabulary as total vocabulary (English, Spanish …

On Florida Law, Language, And Alcohol Use Disorder, Stacey A. Tovino

Nova Law Review

No abstract provided.

Censorship Of The Marketplace Of Ideas: Why Critical Race Theory Bans In Public Schools Violate The First And Fourteenth Amendments, Maria Ignacia Araya

Nova Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Servicemaster Company As A Model For Bam Startups, Larry W. Sharp

Pollard Research Fellowship Papers

A template/typology for Business as Mission startups using the redemptive methodologies of ServiceMaster, which focused on the people-first development of the employee, with a focus on areas of the world which restrict free speech.

William H. Hannon Library Year In Review 2021 – 2022, William H. Hannon Library

William H. Hannon Year-in-Reviews

No abstract provided.

School Of Health And Consumer Sciences Free Communication Day: Research Abstracts, Spring 2022., Mary Beth Zwart, Elizabeth Droke, Hungling (Stella) Liu

Health and Nutritional Sciences Graduate Students Plan B Capstone Projects

This document contains Plan B abstracts presented by graduate students at the School of Health and Nutritional Sciences Free Communication Day: Research Dissemination held on May 3rd, 2022.

Project titles and presenter included:

• Development of Balanced Budget Bites and Feasibility Evaluation
  (Holly Hansen)
  
  
• The Effectiveness of Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy on Reducing Pain and Improving Functionality in Athletes with Patellar Tendinopathy
  (Maranna Gunnerson)
  
  
• Community Perception of Small Town Outdoor Aquatic Facility: Case of the Huether Family Aquatic Center.
  (Logan Haak)
  
  
• The Gut Microbiome Profile of the American Indian and Alaska Native Population: A Narrative Review
  (Blair Groebner)
  
  
• The Prevalence of Myocarditis …

Chismearte, Catherine J. Trujillo, Jessica Eng

Creative Works

ChismeArte is a magazine of hybrid, radical street art, Barrio iconography, and avant-garde literature that questioned, expanded, and experimented with the possibilities of Chicano urban identity.

The ChismeArte Digital Experience is a collaborative effort with Robert E. Kennedy Library and Cal Poly faculty, staff, and students. The project shares the Kennedy Library 2008 onsite exhibition “ChismeArte ¡Y Que! Expanding Los Angeles’ Chicano Aesthetic” as well as scholarly access to the magazine archival editions, and an anthology of voices, remembrances, and interpretations inspired by ChismeArte.

Annual Report Of The Town Of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2021 With Proposed Budget, Warrant Articles And Other Information For 2022., Wolfeboro Town Representatives

Wolfeboro, NH Annual Reports

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

Study Of The Efficacy Of Probiotic Bacteria To Reduce Acrylamide In Food And In Vitro Digestion, Siu Mei, Emily Choi

Faculty of Science & Technology (THEi)

In this study, probiotic bacteria as a new post-processing approach to reduce acrylamide (AA) was investigated. The AA reduction ability of selected Lactobacillus strains and Bifidobacterium strains was demonstrated in (a) AA chemical solutions; (b) food matrices (biscuits and chips) and (c) in vitro digestion. The findings showed tested bacteria exhibited AA reduction ability which was probiotic strain-, AA concentration-, probiotic concentration-, incubation time- and pH-dependent. L. acidophilus LA 45 and B. longum ATCC 15707 (109 CFU/mL) showed the highest AA reduction (86.85 and 88.85%, respectively) when exposed to 350 ng/mL AA solution for 8 h. The findings also demonstrated …

The Correlation Between Spiritual Well-Being And Burnout Of Teachers, Joe Pong

Faculty of Management & Hospitality (THEi)

This study examines the correlation between spiritual well-being and burnout symptoms, including emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalisation (DP), and personal accomplishment (PA), among Chinese secondary school teachers in Hong Kong. The data were collected from 427 Chinese secondary school teachers (189 males, 238 females) aged 25–37 from different schools with one to eight years of teaching experience. The participants completed the Spiritual Health and Life-orientation Measure (SHALOM) to evaluate the status of their spiritual well-being in the personal and communal, environmental, and transcendental domains. The Maslach Burnout Inventory—Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS) was also used to measure the extent of burnout in …

The Relationship Between Spiritual Well-Being And Game Addiction Of Youths: A Cross-Sectional Study, Joe Pong

Faculty of Management & Hospitality (THEi)

game addiction among Chinese youths in Hong Kong. To examine such a relationship, cross-sectional data (N = 401) were taken from a sample of 209 Chinese university students in 2021 and 132 Chinese university students in 2022. They are between 18–21 years old. The participants answered the Spiritual Well-being Questionnaire to gauge their spiritual well-being in the personal-communal, environmental and transcendental domains. Then, the respondents accomplished the Game Addiction Scale 21 to assess the extent of their gaming use in seven dimensions, namely, salience, tolerance, mood modification, relapse, withdrawal, conflict and problems of game addiction. The study revealed a negative …

Spectrophotometric Determination Of Sulfamethoxazole In Pure And Pharmaceutical Formulations, Sumayha Muhammed Abbas, Farah A. Dawood, Zahra Muhammed Abbas

Al-Nisour Journal for Medical Sciences

New, easy, simple, and fast spectral method for estimation of sulfamethoxazole (SMZ) in pure and pharmaceutical forms. The proposed method is based on the azotization of the drug compound by sodium nitrite in an acidic medium and then coupling with 2,3dimethyl phenol reagent (DMP) in a basic medium to yield an orange-coloured dye which shows λmax at 402 nm. Different affection of the optimization reaction has been completed, following the classical univariate sequence. The concentration of sulfamethoxazole about (1-15) μg. mL-1 with molar absorptivity of (14943.461) L.mol1 .cm-1 that obeyed Beer’s law. The detection and quantification limits were (0.852, 2.583) …

Evaluation Of Liver Function (Gpt, Got, Alp) And Cardiac Isoenzyme (Ldh1, Ldh2, Ldh3, Ldh4) In Covid19 Patients After Recovering, Abeer Ghazi Nazzal, Ahmmad Ghazi Sabbar

Al-Nisour Journal for Medical Sciences

The present study was carried out to evaluate liver function and estimate specific cardiac biomarker in 200 subject including 150 recovered Covid-19 Patients and 50 healthy control groups. GOT, GPT, ALP and LDH isoenzyme were estimated using CUSIBIO protocol. While LDH isoenzymes were also estimated using CUSBIO protocol. The data revealed increase levels of liver enzyme GOT, GPT and ALP in recovered patients, while the LDH isoenzyme showed increasing level of LDH2, LDH3, and LDH4 except LDH1 revealed decrease level. We conclude that the dysregulation in liver function and increase of liver enzyme is due to the present the ACE2 …

Role Of Grasses In Oviposition Site Selection By Malaria Vectors In Western Kenya, Eticha Bokore Getachew

All PhD Dissertations

Malaria continues to be among the top leading causes of illness and deaths in Africa. Its elimination is challenging in high transmission areas using insecticide-based intervention tools alone. Understanding the ecology and behaviour of disease vectors, including the olfactory cues, are essential for the development of novel, insecticide-free control tools. Recent work has highlighted that selected graminoid plants release volatile chemicals that attract malaria vectors. However, there is dearth of information on the type of dominant graminoid plants in habitats, nature of volatiles they emit and how volatiles affect behaviour of malaria vectors during oviposition sites selection. The objectives of …

A Primer On Obesity-Related Cardiomyopathy, Willis K. Samson, Gina L.C. Yosten, Carol Ann Remme

Biological Sciences Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

A Comprehensive Review Of The Neuroscience Of Ingestion: The Physiological Control Of Eating: Signals, Neurons, And Networks, Willis K. Samson, Gina L.C. Yosten

Biological Sciences Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Blue Room 2022, Blue Room Magazine Rso

Blue Room

Editorial Team

• Caleb Cunningham
• Mya Harbison
• Muhammad Ibrahim
• Molly Kollross
• Rachael Perino
• Kalvin White

History 3250 Reader: Renaissance Europe, 1300-1500, Robert J. Mueller

Course Materials

No abstract provided.