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The Association Between Race And Obesity After Controlling For Dietary Behaviors Among Adolescents, Jasmine Nicole Williams

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Childhood obesity has become a critical global public health concern due to its significant, long-term impact on overall quality of life and physical health. Despite efforts, there is a lack of information that includes all races and ages to combat childhood obesity. This study addressed the association between race and obesity after controlling for dietary behaviors among adolescents in Georgia, using quantitative cross-sectional data from the 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS). Guided by the social ecological model, the research investigated how demographic factors and dietary behaviors influence obesity rates. Specifically, the study explored the association between age, race, …

De Becker V. Uhs Of Delaware, Inc., 140 Nev. Adv. Op. 58 (Sept. 19, 2024), Hailey Hamilton

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

When a negligence claim alleges providers of health care were negligent when rendering services in a professional relationship, the proper claim is of professional negligence requiring an expert affidavit under NRS 41A.071. As pertaining to informed consent, a claim only constitutes battery if a plaintiff claims not to have consented at all to the treatment or procedure. Where a plaintiff consented to a particular treatment or procedure, and a question arises regarding whether the scope of that consent was exceeded, an expert medical affidavit is necessary under NRS 41A.071. The Supreme Court of Nevada clarified that when an accompanying expert …

The Grizzly, September 19, 2024, Kate Horan, Sophia Kumar, Ashley Adam, Katie Cressman, Xazlee Carroll-Smith, Adam Denn, Hadley Whitman

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Into the Breeches! • New AAPI House • Editor List • Confidence: Ursinus Graduate Katie Cressman's Journey and Advice • Opinions: Ritter Hall Needs Work • Ursinus Football Roars to a Strong Start! • Field Hockey Stuns #10 Rowan!

Possible Exit Strategy From The Imf Programme, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Newspaper and Magazine Articles

There seems to be a broad consensus that it is in Pakistan’ s best interests to exit from the IMF programme. The reasons are quite obvious — the loss of autonomous decision-making by the sovereign, inability to set its own priorities and their phasing, timing and sequencing, and getting out of a straitjacket framework of short-term performance criteria, structural benchmarks agreed with the IMF.

Transition Readiness Toolkit: Filling A Gap In Assessing Pre-Employment Transition Services, Brian Nelson Phillips

Funded Research Records

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Rethinking Pregnancy Recognition In Ruminants: Pregnancy Recognition In Ewes Lacking Interferon-Tau Signaling, Chris Davies

Funded Research Records

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Investigation Of The Endogenous Opioid Neural Circuitry In Pain, Erin Nicole Bobeck

Funded Research Records

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Psychological Distress And Management Of Women Who Experienced Miscarriage During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Madeline Fernandez

Sigma Foundation for Nursing Research Grant Reports

The aims were to: 1) examine levels of psychological distress (depression, anxiety, and/or PTSD) 2) explore the relationships between personal significance of miscarriage, perceived stress, and current psychological distress 3) assess participant perceptions of the psychosocial care offered by healthcare providers and their preferred interventions 4) investigate the psychological experiences, coping, and social support of women in North Carolina (NC) who suffered a miscarriage of a desired pregnancy between March 30, 2020 and February 24, 2021 of the COVID-19 pandemic

Jovian Vortex Hunter: A Citizen Science Project To Study Jupiter’S Vortices, Ramanakumar Sankar, Shawn R. Brueshaber, Lucy Fortson, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, Chris Lintott, Kameswara Mantha, Cooper Nesmith, Glenn S. Orton

Michigan Tech Publications

The Jovian atmosphere contains a wide diversity of vortices, which have a large range of sizes, colors, and forms in different dynamical regimes. The formation processes for these vortices are poorly understood, and aside from a few known, long-lived ovals, such as the Great Red Spot and Oval BA, vortex stability and their temporal evolution are currently largely unknown. In this study, we use JunoCam data and a citizen science project on Zooniverse to derive a catalog of vortices, some with repeated observations, from 2018 May to 2021 September, and we analyze their associated properties, such as size, location, and …

Diagnostic Error In Mental Health: A Review, Traber D Giardina, Hardeep Singh

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Diagnostic errors are associated with patient harm and suboptimal outcomes. Despite national scientific efforts to advance definition, measurement and interventions for diagnostic error, diagnosis in mental health is not well represented in this ongoing work. We aimed to summarise the current state of research on diagnostic errors in mental health and identify opportunities to align future research with the emerging science of diagnostic safety. We review conceptual considerations for defining and measuring diagnostic error, the application of these concepts to mental health settings, and the methods and subject matter focus of recent studies of diagnostic error in mental health. We …

Frequent Chd1 Deletions In Prostate Cancers Of African American Men Is Associated With Rapid Disease Progression, Pranshu Sahgal, Jia Zhou, Zsofia Sztupinszki, Denise Young, Darryl Nousome, Claire Kuo, Jiji Jiang, Yongmei Chen, Reinhard Ebner, Isabell A Sesterhenn, Joel T Moncur, Gregory T Chesnut, Gyorgy Petrovics, Gregory T Klus, Gabor Valcz, Pier Vitale Nuzzo, Dezso Ribli, Judit Börcsök, Aurel Prosz, Marcin Krzystanek, Thomas Ried, David Szuts, Kinza Rizwan, Salma Kaochar, Shailja Pathania, Alan D D'Andrea, Istvan Csabai, Shiv Srivastava, Matthew L Freedman, Albert Dobi, Sandor Spisak, Zoltan Szallasi

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

We analyzed genomic data from the prostate cancer of African- and European American men to identify differences contributing to racial disparity of outcome. We also performed FISH-based studies of Chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 1 (CHD1) loss on prostate cancer tissue microarrays. We created CHD1-deficient prostate cancer cell lines for genomic, drug sensitivity and functional homologous recombination (HR) activity analysis. Subclonal deletion of CHD1 was nearly three times as frequent in prostate tumors of African American than in European American men and it associates with rapid disease progression. CHD1 deletion was not associated with HR deficiency associated mutational signatures or HR …

Zero Shot Health Trajectory Prediction Using Transformer, Jaroslaw Was, Quanzheng Li, David W Bates, Arkadiusz Sitek

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Integrating modern machine learning and clinical decision-making has great promise for mitigating healthcare's increasing cost and complexity. We introduce the Enhanced Transformer for Health Outcome Simulation (ETHOS), a novel application of the transformer deep-learning architecture for analyzing high-dimensional, heterogeneous, and episodic health data. ETHOS is trained using Patient Health Timelines (PHTs)-detailed, tokenized records of health events-to predict future health trajectories, leveraging a zero-shot learning approach. ETHOS represents a significant advancement in foundation model development for healthcare analytics, eliminating the need for labeled data and model fine-tuning. Its ability to simulate various treatment pathways and consider patient-specific factors positions ETHOS as …

Exploring The Complexity Of Systemic Sclerosis Etiology By Trio Whole Genome Sequencing, Elizabeth G Atkinson, Lindsay Burrage, Kim C Worley, Brian Christopher, Marka A Lyons, Shervin Assassi, Maureen D Mayes, Brendan Lee

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a heterogeneous rare autoimmune fibrosing disorder affecting connective tissue. The etiology of systemic sclerosis is largely unknown and many genes have been suggested as susceptibility loci of modest impact by genome-wide association study (GWAS). Multiple factors can contribute to the pathological process of the disease, which makes it more difficult to identify possible disease-causing genetic alterations. In this study, we have applied whole genome sequencing (WGS) in 101 indexed family trios, supplemented with transcriptome sequencing on cultured fibroblast cells of four patients and five family controls where available. Single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and copy number variants …

Target Heart Rate Formulas For Exercise Stress Testing: What Is The Evidence?, Yochai Birnbaum

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Exercise stress testing (EST) is commonly used to evaluate chest pain, with some labs using 85% of age-predicted maximum heart rate (APMHR) as an endpoint for EST. The APMHR is often calculated using the formula 220-age. However, the accuracy of this formula and 85% APMHR as an endpoint may be questioned. Moreover, failing to reach 85% APMHR (known as chronotropic insufficiency) may also indicate poor cardiovascular prognosis, but measurements, such as percentage heart rate reserve (%HRR), maximum rate pressure product (MRPP), and the maximum metabolic equivalent of tasks (METs) reached during EST may provide better prediction of cardiovascular outcomes than …

Sequence-To-Expression Approach To Identify Etiological Non-Coding Dna Variations In P53 And Cmyc-Driven Diseases

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Disease risk prediction based on genomic sequence and transcriptional profile can improve disease screening and prevention. Despite identifying many disease-associated DNA variants, distinguishing deleterious non-coding DNA variations remains poor for most common diseases. In this study, we designed in vitro experiments to uncover the significance of occupancy and competitive binding between P53 and cMYC on common target genes. Analyzing publicly available ChIP-seq data for P53 and cMYC in embryonic stem cells showed that ~344-366 regions are co-occupied, and on average, two cis-overlapping motifs (CisOMs) per region were identified, suggesting that co-occupancy is evolutionarily conserved. Using U2OS and Raji cells untreated …

Structural Changes Likely Cause Chemical Differences Between Empty And Full Aav Capsids, Caryn Heldt, Molly A. Skinner, Ganesh S. Anand

Michigan Tech Publications

Due to the success of adeno associated viruses (AAVs) in treating single-gene diseases, improved manufacturing technology is now needed to meet their demand. The largest challenge is creating a process to separate empty and full capsids. Patients received larger capsid doses than necessary due to the presence of empty capsids. By enabling the better separation of empty and full capsids, patients would receive the greatest therapeutic benefit with the least amount of virus capsids, thus limiting potential side effects from empty capsids. The two most common empty/full separation methods used in downstream processing are ultracentrifugation and anion exchange chromatography. Both …

Guest Artist Masterclass - Stephanie Blythe, Mezzo-Soprano

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Guest Artist Masterclass - Stephanie Blythe, Mezzo-Soprano

Guest Artist Masterclass - Ryan Mccullough, Piano

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Guest Artist Masterclass - Ryan McCullough, Piano

Request For Change (Rfc-Rmap-2024-002), Mike Mcanulty, Eric Hassler

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

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The Abfm Core Outcomes: The Next Step To Outcome-Based, Time-Variable Training In Family Medicine., Bryce A Ringwald

Medical Education Articles

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Nurturing Well-Being In Dentistry: A Mindshed Approach, Tej Morjaria, Morag Powell

Peninsula Dental School

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Dental Therapy Foundation Training: A Dental Therapist's View, Molly Langford, Morag Powell

Peninsula Dental School

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Version 1 Noaa-20/Omps Nadir Mapper Total Column So2 Product: Continuation Of Nasa Long-Term Global Data Record, Can Li, Nickolay A. Krotkov, Joanna Joiner, Vitali Fioletov, Chris Mclinden, Debora Griffin, Peter J.T. Leonard, Simon Carn, Colin Seftor, Alexander Vasilkov

Michigan Tech Publications

For nearly 2 decades, the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) aboard the NASA Aura spacecraft (launched in 2004) and the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) aboard the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellite (launched in 2011) have been providing global monitoring of SO2 column densities from both anthropogenic and volcanic activities. Here, we describe the version-1 NOAA-20 (N20)/OMPS SO2 product (10.5067/OMPS/OMPS_N20_NMSO2_PCA_L2_Step1.1, Li et al., 2023), aimed at extending the long-term climate data record. To achieve this goal, we apply a principal component analysis (PCA) retrieval technique, also used for the OMI and SNPP/OMPS SO2 products, to N20/OMPS. For volcanic …

Craig, Ayotte Neck-And-Neck In Nh Governor Race; Dems Hold Advantage In Races For Congress 9/19/2024, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Joyce Craig and Kelly Ayotte are tied in the race to replace outgoing Governor Chris Sununu in New Hampshire. Democrat Maggie Goodlander leads Republican Lily Tang Williams in New Hampshire's Second Congressional District while incumbent Democrat Chris Pappas leads Republican Russell Prescott in the First Congressional District. Likely voters are generally unfamiliar with and don't understand the proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot in November raising the required judicial retirement age in the state, and very few plan at the moment to vote in favor of it.

Warren Comfortably Ahead In Ma Senate Re-Election Bid; Voters Generally Positive On Ballot Questions 9/19/2024, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Incumbent Senator Elizabeth Warren holds a comfortable lead over Republican nominee John Deaton in the race for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. Warren is only somewhat popular in Massachusetts while large numbers are unfamiliar with Deaton. Concerning ballot questions in the upcoming election, likely voters are largely supportive of Questions 1, 3, 4, and 5, while voters are divided on Question 2. However many voters have not heard much about these questions or are undecided.

Whitehouse Leads Morgan In Ri Senate Race; Voters Divided On Constitutional Convention Question 9/19/2024, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Sheldon Whitehouse leads Republican nominee Patricia Morgan by double-digits in the race for U.S. Senate in Rhode Island. Three-quarters of likely voters have definitely decided who they will support in this race. Whitehouse and Morgan have similar net favorability ratings but Morgan is not nearly as well-known. Despite appearing on the ballot every ten years in Rhode Island, many likely voters have not heard about and do not understand a ballot question this year asking if the state should hold a constitutional convention to propose amendments. When asked how they will vote on this issue, residents are divided with many …

The Role Of America’S European Allies In The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022–24, John R. Deni, Lisa A. Aronsson

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

©2024 John R. Deni

What more can US allies in Europe do to assist Ukraine militarily? More broadly, what can the United States expect from its closest allies in Europe in strategic competition with Russia and China? In this monograph, John R. Deni and Lisa A. Aronsson assess whether US allies and partners in Europe can continue providing military assistance to Ukraine or expand assistance, while preserving their own national security and fulfilling their NATO commitments. They also explore what the Russia-Ukraine War reveals about the role of European allies in future iterations of strategic competition. Their findings indicate European …

2024 State Of The University Address, Aondover Tarhule

State of the University Addresses

Annual address delivered by the president of Illinois State University discussing the university's accomplishments and plans for the future.

Relationship Among Parenting Styles And Latino Adolescent Self-Esteem And Aggression, Jocelyn Evans-Shaw

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

There is considerable evidence that parenting influences the development and growth of children. Research on the psychological effects of parenting styles on children has traditionally neglected some cultures, such as the Latino community. The proposed study explored Latino parenting (authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive) styles and how they affect children's wellbeing. This quantitative study used correlational analysis to examine the relationships among aggression, self-esteem, and parenting styles among Hispanic adolescents. The study sample consisted of 77 participants. Snowball sampling (technique used in which research participants are asked to identify other potential participants) and social media platforms were used to acquire a …