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Perilaku Pemeriksaan Kesehatan Dasar Untuk Mencegah Risiko Penyakit Jantung Pada Lansia, Natamia Kyrieleison Habeahan, Neti Juniarti, Adelse Prima Mulya

Perilaku dan Promosi Kesehatan: Indonesian Journal of Health Promotion and Behavior

Bakground. Various disease courses in the elderly have their own characteristics such as chronicity, severity, and frequent recurrence. One of them is cardiovascular disease which is a degenerative disease. Routine basic health checks to prevent the risk of heart disease in the elderly are very important. However, it is not widely known how the health check behavior of the elderly in the Sumedang area, West Java.

Aim. The study aims to identify the proportion of elderly people who conduct regular basic health checks and to find out how many elderly people have a risk of heart disease so that prevention …

Hubungan Pengetahuan Dengan Tindakan Personal Hygiene Pada Santri Yang Menderita Scabies Di Pondok Pesantren Darul Arafah Deli Serdang, Dodi Ardiansyah Panggabean, Lita Sri Andayani

Perilaku dan Promosi Kesehatan: Indonesian Journal of Health Promotion and Behavior

Background. Scabies ranks third among the twelve types of skin diseases in Indonesia. It is commonly found in high-density living environments such as pesantrens (Islamic boarding schools). Scabies affects the morbidity rate and causes itching, which can impact the concentration of affected individuals during studying. Scabies is the third most frequently reported skin disease and is prevalent in the Darul Arafah Deli Serdang poskestren.

Aim. To analyze the relationship between knowledge and personal hygiene practices among students suffering from scabies at Pondok Pesantren Darul Arafah Deli Serdang

Method. This study is a quantitative research with an analytical observational design using …

Peran Teman Sebaya Dalam Menurunkan Perilaku Merokok Pada Remaja Perempuan Di Kota Yogyakarta, Tyas Aisyah Putri, Devy Riyanti Adi Wijaya

Perilaku dan Promosi Kesehatan: Indonesian Journal of Health Promotion and Behavior

Background. Smoking behavior can threaten women's health in the future. According to Riskesdas 2018, there has been an increase in female smokers aged over 15 years from 2016 to 2018. In 2016, 2.5% in 2018, 4.8%. Smoking for women in urban areas is often considered a modern lifestyle.

Aim. This study aims to explore the experience of smoking behavior among adolescent girls in the city of Yogyakarta, including factors that can influence adolescent girls to smoke.

Method. Qualitative phenomenological research with in-depth interviews and observations. Subjects were taken by purposive sampling, totaling ten people, namely teenage female smokers aged 18-21 …

Strategi Dan Implementasi Komunikasi Pemerintah Surakarta Dalam Edukasi Pencegahan Stunting (Studi Kasus Program “Sultanikah Capingan”), Yon Setyaadi Ade Putra

Perilaku dan Promosi Kesehatan: Indonesian Journal of Health Promotion and Behavior

Background. Stunting is one of the serious problems that must be prevented from the beginning through an effective health communication strategy as an effort to increase knowledge about stunting through education to the community.

Objective. This study aims to determine the stages of the strategy carried out, communication actors, message content, and communication channels used as well as locality factors that shape the communication approach in the communication strategy carried out.

Methods. This research uses an interpretive paradigm with a qualitative type. The method used is the case study method with data collection using interview techniques.

Results. Target determination using …

Factors That Influence Colostrum Yield: Dry Period Length, Peter S. Erickson

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Chevron Deference Is Dead, Long Live Deference, Jack M. Beermann

Faculty Scholarship

The demise of Chevron deference standing alone may turn out to be much less important for the future of administrative law and agency regulation than many believe. The Court explicitly approved of deference under the Skidmore factors, which instruct reviewing courts to “resort for guidance, even on legal questions” to “the interpretations and opinions of the relevant agency, made in pursuance of official duty and based upon specialized experience.”8 Further, the Court had already created numerous limitations to the reach of Chevron deference and, as the Court noted, it had not deferred under Chevron in nearly a decade. Chevron deference …

2024-11-15 Faculty Regent Report, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

A report submitted by the Faculty Board of Regent member to the Faculty Senate on November 15, 2024.

Mitochondrial Pyruvate Transport Regulates Presynaptic Metabolism And Neurotransmission, Anupama Tiwari, Jongyun Myeong, Arsalan Hashemiaghdam, Marion I Stunault, Hao Zhang, Xiangfeng Niu, Marissa A Laramie, Jasmin Sponagel, Leah P Shriver, Gary J Patti, Vitaly A Klyachko, Ghazaleh Ashrafi

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Glucose has long been considered the primary fuel source for the brain. However, glucose levels fluctuate in the brain during sleep or circuit activity, posing major metabolic stress. Here, we demonstrate that the mammalian brain uses pyruvate as a fuel source, and pyruvate can support neuronal viability in the absence of glucose. Nerve terminals are sites of metabolic vulnerability, and we show that mitochondrial pyruvate uptake is a critical step in oxidative ATP production in hippocampal terminals. We find that the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier is post-translationally modified by lysine acetylation, which, in turn, modulates mitochondrial pyruvate uptake. Our data reveal …

Fort Hays State University Tiger Weekly, November 15, 2024, University Relations

Tiger Weekly Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Isolation, Discrimination, And Feeling “Constant Guilt”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis Of Female Physicians’ Experience With Fertility, Family Planning, And Oncology Careers, Sarah Marion, Shraddha M Dalwadi, Aleksandra Kuczmarska-Haas, Erin F Gillespie, Michelle S Ludwig, Emma B Holliday, Bridgette Thom, Fumiko Chino, Anna Lee

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Introduction: Family planning among female physicians is harmed by high risks of infertility, workload burden, poor family leave policies, and gender discrimination. Many women report feeling unsupported in the workplace, despite national policies to protect against unfair treatment.

Methods: This secondary analysis applied a modified version of the rigorous and accelerated data reduction technique to conduct a thematic analysis of comments to an open-ended prompt. Comments were coded by multiple trained researchers then grouped and merged into illustrative themes via qualitative techniques.

Results: Of 1004 responses to the quantitative survey, 162 physicians completed the open-ended prompt. Initial codes (n = …

Going Against The Family: Perturbation Of A Greenbeard Pathway Leads To Falsebeard Cheating, Peter Lehmann, Mariko Katoh-Kurasawa, Peter Kundert, Gad Shaulsky

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Greenbeards facilitate cooperation by encoding a perceptible signal, the ability to detect it, and a tendency to help others that display it. Falsebeards are hypothetical cheaters that display the signal without being altruistic. Despite many examples of greenbeards, evidence for falsebeards is scarce. The Dictyostelium discoideum tgrB1-tgrC1 allorecognition pathway encodes a greenbeard. It allows development, which yields fruiting bodies with altruistic stalks that increase spore dispersal. Here we show that cells lacking rapgapB, a tgrB1-tgrC1 signaling element, cheat by avoiding the stalk fate and generating more spores in chimeras than in pure populations. rapgapB– cells cheat only on …

Therapeutic Effect Of Recombinant Echinococcus Granulosus Antigen B Subunit 2 Protein On Sepsis In A Mouse Model, Ya-Yun Qian, Fei-Fei Huang, Si-Yu Chen, Wei-Xiao Zhang, Yin Wang, Peng-Fei Du, Gen Li, Wen-Bo Ding, Lei Qian, Bin Zhan, Liang Chu, Dong-Hui Jiang, Xiao-Di Yang, Rui Zhou

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: Sepsis is a potentially fatal systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) that threatens millions of lives worldwide. Echinococcus granulosus antigen B (EgAgB) is a protein released by the larvae of the tapeworm. This protein has been shown to play an important role in modulating host immune response. In this study we expressed EgAgB as soluble recombinant protein in E. coli (rEgAgB) and explored its protective effect on sepsis.

METHODS: The sepsis model was established by cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) procedure in BALB/c mice. The therapeutic effect of rEgAgB on sepsis was performed by interperitoneally injecting 5 µg rEgAgB in …

Update On Recommendations For Cancer Screening And Surveillance In Children With Genomic Instability Disorders, Yoshiko Nakano, Roland P Kuiper, Kim E Nichols, Christopher C Porter, Harry Lesmana, Julia Meade, Christian P Kratz, Lucy A Godley, Luke D Maese, Maria Isabel Achatz, Payal P Khincha, Sharon A Savage, Andrea S Doria, Mary-Louise C Greer, Vivian Y Chang, Lisa L Wang, Sharon E Plon, Michael F Walsh

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

Genomic instability disorders are characterized by DNA or chromosomal instability, resulting in various clinical manifestations, including developmental anomalies, immunodeficiency, and increased risk of developing cancers beginning in childhood. Many of these genomic instability disorders also present with exquisite sensitivity to anticancer treatments such as ionizing radiation and chemotherapy, which may further increase the risk of second cancers. In July 2023, the American Association for Cancer Research held the second Childhood Cancer Predisposition Workshop, where multidisciplinary international experts discussed, reviewed, and updated recommendations for children with cancer predisposition syndromes. This article discusses childhood cancer risks and surveillance recommendations for the group …

Gastrointestinal Ischemia In The Horse: Preoperative Detection And Surgical Intervention, Michael P. St. Blanc

LSU Master's Theses

The objective of this study was to evaluate the utility of calprotectin, a protein released by activated leukocytes during inflammation, in the detection of gastrointestinal ischemia in horses with signs of abdominal pain (colic). Additionally, one-layer end-to-end anastomoses of the descending colon were critically evaluated in comparison to two-layer closures. For the calprotectin portion of the study, samples were obtained from ten control horses and nineteen clinical cases assigned to three treatment groups (non-strangulating, strangulating small intestinal, or strangulating large intestinal lesions). Objective data was collected from each patient, and calprotectin concentration in serum and peritoneal fluid was determined using …

Sample Multiplexing For Retinal Single-Cell Rna Sequencing, Justin Ma, Ting-Kuan Chu, Maria Polo-Prieto, Yong H Park, Yumei Li, Rui Chen, Graeme Mardon, Benjamin J Frankfort, Nicholas M Tran

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Rare cell populations can be challenging to characterize using microfluidic single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) platforms. Typically, the population of interest must be enriched and pooled from multiple biological specimens for efficient collection. However, these practices preclude the resolution of sample origin together with phenotypic data and are problematic in experiments in which biological or technical variation is expected to be high (e.g., disease models, genetic perturbation screens, or human samples). One solution is sample multiplexing whereby each sample is tagged with a unique sequence barcode that is resolved bioinformatically. We have established a scRNA-seq sample multiplexing pipeline for mouse retinal …

Alternatively Spliced Map4 Isoforms Have Key Roles In Maintaining Microtubule Organization And Skeletal Muscle Function, Lathan Lucas, Larissa Nitschke, Brandon Nguyen, James A Loehr, George G Rodney, Thomas A Cooper

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Skeletal muscle cells (myofibers) are elongated non-mitotic, multinucleated syncytia that have adapted a microtubule lattice. Microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) play roles in regulating microtubule architecture. The most abundant MAP in skeletal muscle is MAP4. MAP4 consists of a ubiquitous MAP4 isoform (uMAP4), expressed in most tissues, and a striated-muscle-specific alternatively spliced isoform (mMAP4) that includes a 3,180-nucleotide exon (exon 8). To determine the role of mMAP4 in skeletal muscle, we generated mice that lack mMAP4 and express only uMAP4 due to genomic deletion of exon 8. We demonstrate that loss of mMAP4 leads to disorganized microtubule architecture and intrinsic loss of …

The Use Of Real-World Evidence To Generate Cost Analysis Of Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (Ast) In Patients With Elicobacter Pylori Treatment Failure In Thailand: A Large Population-Based Study, Natsuda Aumpan, Pornpen Gamnarai, Arti Wongcha-Um, Muhammad Miftahussurur, Yoshio Yamaoka, Ratha-Korn Vilaichone

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND:H. pylori eradication is effective for gastric cancer prevention. Treatment failure is caused by increased antibiotic resistance. This study aimed to determine eradication rates and perform cost analysis between susceptibility-guided therapy and empirical treatment in patients with H. pylori treatment failure.

METHODS: This retrospective cohort study included patients with dyspepsia undergoing gastroscopy at tertiary care center in Thailand from March 2014 to October 2021. Treatment failure was defined as persistent H. pylori infection after ≥1 regimen completion. Early AST was defined as AST performed shortly after first-line treatment failure. Demographic data, AST results, eradication regimens, and medication costs were …

Lung Tissue Multilayer Network Analysis Uncovers The Molecular Heterogeneity Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Nuria Olvera, Jon Sánchez-Valle, Iker Núñez-Carpintero, Joselyn Rojas-Quintero, Guillaume Noell, Sandra Casas-Recasens, Alen Faiz, Philip Hansbro, Angela Guirao, Rosalba Lepore, Davide Cirillo, Alvar Agustí, Francesca Polverino, Alfonso Valencia, Rosa Faner

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Rationale: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a heterogeneous condition. Objectives: We hypothesized that the unbiased integration of different COPD lung omics using a novel multilayer approach might unravel mechanisms associated with clinical characteristics.

Methods: We profiled mRNA, microRNA and methylome in lung tissue samples from 135 former smokers with COPD. For each omic (layer), we built a patient network on the basis of molecular similarity. The three networks were used to build a multilayer network, and optimization of multiplex modularity was used to identify patient communities across the three distinct layers. Uncovered communities were related to clinical features.

Measurements …

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Edge Line Sinusoidal Rumble Strips On Lane Departure Crash Prevention And Injury Severity, Shubhankar Chintamani Shindgikar

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Lane departure crashes are one of the most prevalent accidents in Florida and the United States. Various forms of rumble strips have been employed to mitigate and decrease these incidents. The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) recently adopted a new sinusoidal rumble strip pattern for statewide implementation of audible and vibratory treatment (AVT). Recent research indicates sinusoidal rumble strips are highly effective in alerting drivers audibly and through tactile vibrations, thus aiding lane departure prevention. Moreover, they generate less external noise compared to other rumble strip textures.

However, a systematic assessment of the safety effectiveness of sinusoidal rumble strips in …

Spatiotemporal Dynamics Of Coastal Nekton Metacommunities In The Western Atlantic, Jonathan A. Peake

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The processes of diversification, selection, dispersal, and stochastic drift can combine in many ways to assemble ecological communities. A key focus in ecology is to describe and quantify the relative influences of these processes for different systems and explain the mechanisms by which these processes produce patterns of community structure. To accomplish this goal, ecologists have developed several frameworks that seek to integrate processes that occur locally andregionally. The metacommunity concept treats local communities as pieces of a broader landscape that are connected through dispersal of their constituent organisms. Empirical studies have generally lagged behind the development of metacommunity theory. …

Multi-Sided Information Asymmetry In A Single Contract: Why Revocable Living Trusts Go To Court, James P. Wells

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Revocable living trust documents (trusts) are among the most important documents created in contemporary estate planning. One of the trust’s objectives is to provide clear guidance to the trustees on how to carry out the grantor's intent. When a trust is contested in court, the objective of the trust has clearly failed. Consequently, understanding why trusts go to court and developing approaches that reduce or eliminate the number of trusts in our courts is an endeavor worthy of research and the primary objective of this research effort.

Ideally, with a clearly stated grantor’s intent and clearly executed interpretation of the …

Clinical Outcomes Of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy Amongst Persons Living With Hiv Attending A Referral Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study, Mwaka Dick Odong, Wafula Bossa, Muhwezi Loyce, Nangobi Christine Faith, Mbusa Chrispus, Bontu Aschale Abebe, Daniel Chans Mwandah, Silas Ojuka, Tadele Mekuriya Yadesa

AUIQ Complementary Biological System

Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common opportunistic infection amongst persons living with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) (PLWHIV). World Health Organisation recommends tuberculosis preventive therapy (TPT) to avert the effects of TB/HIV co-infection. This study aimed at determining the incidence of active tuberculosis infection, assessing the burden of adverse drug events (ADEs) and identifying the associated factors. In this study, records of 379 patients who started isoniazid preventive therapy at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH) between 1^st July, 2017 and 30^th June, 2022 were retrospectively reviewed. Data was analyzed using a statistical software (SPSS version 20.0) and presented using …

Optimized Image Preview And Capture For Different Aspect Ratios, Colvin Pitts

Defensive Publications Series

In different applications, images and videos are used with different orientations and aspect ratios. However, camera devices typically capture images with a limited set of aspect ratios. Cropping an image to a different aspect ratio can result in a loss of substantial amount of image content. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically provide previews that display the impact of different crops on a captured image and to capture images that are suitable for different aspect ratios. A user interface is provided for a camera device that includes visual affordances, e.g., guidelines indicating crop regions or a picture-in-picture view showing the …

Using Artificial Intelligence To Adjust Entity Risk Scores Based On Rule Activity, Pramod Joisha, Timothy Peacock

Defensive Publications Series

An entity risk score can be determined based on how an entity interacts with an organization’s computing resources. The entity risk score can be adjusted based on a rule hit score (RHS), which determines how many rules are triggered by the entity’s interactions with the organization’s computing resources. A value of the RHS can be determined using a bipartite graph that includes information for a certain time interval. The RHS value, and how the RHS value change over time, can be used to alter the entity risk score.

Mixed Reality Environment Selection Using A Virtual Object, Samuel Wu

Defensive Publications Series

A computer-implemented method comprising providing, within a first mixed reality environment, an environment selection user interface element; receiving, using the environment selection user interface element, an environment selection; and generating, according to the environment selection, a second mixed reality environment.

Subscriber Selection For New Service Rollout Based On Call Detail Records, Mahendra M. Periyadanam

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques that make use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to intelligently select subscribers for new service rollouts based on call detail record (CDR) analysis. CDR data, obtained with user permission, is analyzed to select subscribers who frequently or infrequently use an existing service, enabling prioritizing such subscribers to rollouts of new services. The prioritized subscriber list is provided to a provisioning system to deliver configuration updates over-the-air (OTA) (or via any other mechanism, such as over the internet) to subscriber devices. Feedback from subscriber devices regarding adoption of new features is incorporated enabling refinement …

Seamless Bootstrapping For Esim Provisioning, Pavan Nuggehalli, Jayachandran C, Jean-Philippe Cormier, Amol Tuli, Sathish K

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques to seamlessly bootstrap embedded subscriber identity modules (eSIM) in mobile devices. In particular, the techniques enable a user to download an operating eSIM on a new or factory-reset mobile device when WiFi connectivity is unavailable. Per the techniques, in standards-agnostic bootstrapping, the platform detects the user’s choice of carrier based on the hardware SKU (stock-keeping unit) or user selection in the eSIM manager and triggers the modem to establish a bootstrap connection with the particular carrier. Alternatively, in a standards-based bootstrapping technique, the mobile device attaches to cellular (4G, 5G, LTE, etc.) network for provisioning purposes …

Structural Behavior Of Corroded Reinforced Concrete Beam Elements Repaired With Fabric-Reinforced Matrix Composites, Youssef Ibrahim Elmezayen

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

Advanced methods for rehabilitation of reinforced concrete (RC) beams with corroded reinforcement were designed and implemented in this research. The nonlinear flexural and shear behaviors of RC beams with corroded reinforcement repaired with fabric-reinforced matrix (FRM) composites were investigated. Numerical simulation models were developed to predict the flexural response of flexure-deficient continuous RC beams before and after repair with FRM composites. A novel sustainable repair solution that involves the use of cement-free geopolymeric matrix reinforced with nonmetallic fabrics was also introduced for rehabilitation of shear-critical RC beams with corroded stirrups. Simplified and easy-to-use analytical approaches were adopted to estimate the …

Utility Of New Remote Sensing Data In Evaluating The Hydrological Response To Land Use And Land Cover Changes, Chithrika Jayamini Alawathugoda

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

Land use and land-cover (LULC) changes have profound impacts on hydrological responses, influencing both runoff dynamics and flood risks. This study focuses on two contrasting environments undergoing rapid LULC transformations: the arid Wadi Ham watershed in the UAE and the tropical Imphal watershed in India. The study addresses the need for accurate LULC data in hydrological modeling, particularly in climate-sensitive regions where changes in land use are accelerating. The primary objective of this research was to assess the impact of LULC changes on the hydrological behavior of the Wadi Ham and Imphal watersheds. It aimed to elucidate how these changes …

Correction Notice To: The Effect Of Nigella Sativa Oil On The Prevention Of Phlebitis Induced By Chemotherapy: A Clinical Trial, Niaz Behnamfar, Zohreh Parsa Yekta, Faraz Mojab, Seyyed Mohammad Kazem Naeini

BioMedicine

No abstract provided.