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Research: South Dakota State University, Fall 2013, Chrisite Delfanian, Eric Landwehr

State of Discovery South Dakota State University's Research Magazine

CONTENTS:

Breaking Waves: Study of breaking waves relevant for lake shorelines [Page] 2
Poetic imagery rooted in research [Page] 3
Virus genome may hold key to better PRRS vaccine [Page] 4
Consumer survey examines savings behaviors, goals [Page] 4
Soybean meal may decrease fish production costs [Page] 5
Alternative fuel sources add value to SD products [Page] 6
International collaboration helps meet global demand for wheat [Page] 7
Commercialization requires big thinking [Page] 9
Young scientist develops software for cancer detection, image transmission [Page] 10
Nursing research to improve rural health care [Page] 11
New vaccine-delivery system targets influenza, cancer …

Cancer In Louisiana: 2006-2010, Volume 28, Louisiana Tumor Registry, Patricia A. Andrews, Mei-Chin Hsieh, Lauren Maniscalco, Lisa Pareti, Brent Mumphrey, Beth A. Schmidt, Diane Ferguson, Christina Lefante, Xiangrong Li, Xiao-Cheng Wu, Vivien W. Chen

Policy & Position Papers

Mission:

To collect and report complete, high-quality, and timely population-based cancer data in Louisiana to support cancer research, control, and prevention.

Vision:

To reduce suffering and death from cancer using information collected by the Louisiana Tumor Registry.

History:

Cancer registration in Louisiana began in 1947 at the Charity Hospital Tumor Registry in New Orleans. In 1974, as part of its Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program, the National Cancer Institute provided funds for a population-based cancer incidence and survival registry covering Jefferson, Orleans, and St. Bernard parishes. Five years later, the Louisiana Tumor Registry (LTR) was transferred to the …

Trends In Retail And Urgent Care Clinics In Nebraska, Jim P. Stimpson, Marlene Deras

Reports: Center for Health Policy

There is considerable interest nationwide in the growth of retail clinics (kiosks located inside a retail store, supermarket, or pharmacy that treat simple illnesses and provide preventive care services) and urgent care clinics (walk-in clinics that treat injuries or illnesses requiring immediate attention). These clinics have the potential to improve access to healthcare by providing more convenient care and transparent prices (compared to a typical physician office visit). This brief describes the trend in the number of retail and urgent care clinics in Nebraska. We found a 40% increase in the number of urgent care clinics from 2008 to 2013, …

What's Happening: September 30, 2013, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

The Santa Clara, 2013-09-26, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

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Crime And Public Health: Interdisciplinary Approach To Education, Karen Miner-Romanoff, Leslie J. King

Scholarship Forum 2013

Dr. Karen Miner-Romanoff and Dr. Leslie King state that although crime rates have decreased in the last several years, they remain alarmingly high. Recidivism rates, in the meantime, continue to rise with up to half of all new prison inmates incarcerated for reoffending after their initial release (Matz, et al., 2012). As the costs of a failed criminal justice system becomes unsustainable, scholars search for new evidence-based, innovative and collaborative solutions to lower crime and increased public health and safety. As a result of this collaboration, some criminal justice and public health leaders are seeking to develop new theoretical and …

Beyond Codes: Translating Genetics To Nursing Practice, Rachel Choudhury

Scholarship Forum 2013

Genetics in nursing practice has moved beyond the study of genes and heredity and now includes genomics, which considers both genetic and environmental causes of diseases across the lifespan. The National Coalition of Health Professionals in Genetic Education (NCHPEG) developed core competence frameworks required of nurses in the area of genetics and genomics. This shift in nursing practice has potential implications for baccalaureate-prepared nurses to have the foundation in genetic and genomic knowledge and skills. Nursing research studies have shown that a link exists between self-efficacy and acquisition of competencies. These studies also suggest that enhancing nursing student’s self-efficacy can …

Advanced Technologies: Health Care Anytime... Anywhere?, Danielle Hart, John Pilutti, Leslie J. King

Scholarship Forum 2013

Advanced technology in the medical profession has had a significant impact on the access, efficiency, and cost of health care delivery services over the past decade. Technological advancements in the medical profession can be bucketed into two main categories: mobile and biological/physiological. Some examples of mobile technology include web apps that can monitor a patient’s vital signs remotely and mobile phone attachments that can provide medical imaging data for doctors in the most remote areas of the globe. Remote patient monitoring and the use of mobile health apps to deliver timely, useful information to the patient about their health decision …

What's Happening: September 23, 2013, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Today - September 20, 2013, Loma Linda University Health

TODAY

Inside this issue:

-- LLU Health to receive nearly $1 million to help people access affordable health care
-- Children's Hospital patient lobbies U.S. Congress
-- Disaster drill prepares campuses for hazardous chemical release
-- Interweave: The Wholeness Story
-- Regional clergy invited to join Faith Community Health Network
-- Dentistry professor named Pierre Fauchard Teacher of the Year
-- LLUMC orthopedic surgeon repairs legs for Nigerian girl
-- New task force forms to promote NIH Center of Excellence
-- LLU Health representatives at ASI Convention in Orlando
-- Monthly lunch seminars keep researchers apprised of trends
-- LLUH to …

What's Happening: September 16, 2013, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Grant Application: Photovoice, Lilia Bottino, Collyn Baeder

Photovoice: A Visual Narrative Into The Lives Of Maine Refugee Women

IPEC Mini-grant application for funding of UNE student project Photovoice: A Visual Narrative into the Lives of Maine Refugee Women. Photovoice was proposed as a participatory action strategy which would provide Maine refugee women the opportunity to teach their community and policy makers about health and social issues they face. A UNE MSW student and MPH student sought to understand the barriers to health that Maine refugee women face. They proposed a project where participants would be given a camera to take photos of perceived health and social problems refugees face living in Maine. The photos would seek to …

The Stethoscoop, September 13, 2013, Mennonite College Of Nursing

The Stethoscoop

The Stethoscoop is the newsletter for Mennonite College of Nursing students.

Anti-Chaperone Activity And Cytotoxicity Of Chemical Components In Copaiba Oil, Daniel Kulman, Janine Naim, Bin Su Ph.D.

Undergraduate Research Posters 2013

Copaiba oil derived from the oleoresin of the Copaiba tree has been widely used as an antiseptic and expectorant for the respiratory tract, and as anti-inflammatory agent in various skin diseases. Studies have indicated that Copaiba oil exhibited anti-carcinogenic properties in various preclinical studies. However, the anti-cancer mechanisms of copaiba oil still remain unclear. There are various diterpenoid compounds within Copaiba oil, which also make the mechanism investigation very difficult. Hardwickiic acid (HAA), a clerodane diterpenoid isolated from Copaiba oil shows anti-chaperone activity from a recent study. In the current study, cytotoxicity and anti-chaperone assay guided isolation led to 9 …

What's Happening: September 9, 2013, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Conceptualization And Design Of A Surface Translation Balance Training Device, Annie Djukic, Omri Tayyara, Deborah Espy, Majid Rashidi

Undergraduate Research Posters 2013

Research supports the idea that dynamic control of both a person's center of mass and base of support are necessary to prevent falls, and that older adults can learn this combined control through specific balance training. Effective balance training requires a large number of repetitions of task-specific practice. Externally induced movements have been employed in balance studies both to test and train balance responses, most often using mechanized surface perturbations. These systems however are quite expensive; therefore, we chose to investigate a more cost effective solution focusing on surface translation for balance training in our lab.

We performed a literature …

Controlling The Size And Shape Of Polypeptide Colloidal Particles: Temperature Dependence Of Particle Formation, John P. Gavin, Nolan B. Holland, Kiril A. Streletzky

Undergraduate Research Posters 2013

A promising approach for developing new drug delivery vehicles is by using stimuli responsive hydrogel nanoparticles. Polypeptide surfactants designed in our lab have been shown to form micellar particles of varying sizes and shapes depending on the solution salt concentration. These responsive polypeptide surfactants consist of a small charged protein domain (foldon) with three elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) chains forming a three-armed star polymer. The size and shape of the micelles they form is dependent on the ratio of total ELP volume to head group area. By introducing linear ELP into the ELP-foldon solution, the total volume of ELP in the …

What's Happening: September 2, 2013, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Department Of Surgery Update, September 2013, Wright State University Department Of Surgery

Department of Surgery Updates

A two page newsletter created by the Department of Surgery documenting changes to the department. This issue contains a message from the chair, a list of important dates, committee meetings, scholarly activity and more.

Medical Education Digest, Vol. 15 No. 5 (September/October 2013), Nova Southeastern University

Medical Education Digest

No abstract provided.

Labrad : Vol 39, Issue 1 - September 2013, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi

LABRAD - Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Radiology Archives

• Immunophenotyping by Flowcytometry
• Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia: Diagnosis and Prognostic Factors
• Tumour Markers
• Role of Chemical Pathology in Screening and Diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma
• 1p/19q Deletion: Favourable Prognostic Marker for Oligodendroglioma
• EGFR Mutation Screening Test for Lung Cancer Patients
• Clinical Utility of BCR-ABL1 Kinase Domain Mutational Analysis
• Molecular Cytogenetic Testing for Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
• Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) Subgroups have Different Phenotype

Pharmacy Newsletter : September 2013, Pharmacy Department

Department of Pharmacy Archives

Content:

• Pharmacist-Run One Window Immunization
• Pharmacy Take Away Service
• Insulin
• Pencillin Test Dose Dilution
• Pharmacist Interventions

Oncolog, Volume 58, Number 09, September 2013, Jill Delsigne, Markeda Wade

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Advances in Neuroimaging Help Unveil the Mechanisms of Chemobrain: Chemobrain, a catchall term for the cognitive dysfunction and neurophysiological changes produced bt chemotherapy toxicity, is an important quality-of-life issue for cancer survivors
• Opioid Rotation Can Improve Pain Control and Reduce Neurotoxicity for Cancer Patients: Opioids are a main stay in the relief of pain-especially the chronic cancer-related pain often encountered in the palliative care setting. However, extended opioid use can result in tolerance, dependence, and opioid-induced neurotoxicity
• INBRIEF: Researchers Identity Inhibitor of Cancer-Promoting Protein SKp2/ Change in CA-125 Level Over Time Shows Promise for Ovarian cancer Screening
• HOUSE CALL: Myths …

Grant Application: Maine Partners For Health In Africa, Lindsay Katona, William Douglas, Sean Lena, Daniel Crothers

Maine Partners For Health In Africa

IPEC Mini-grant application for funding of UNE student project Maine Partners for Health in Africa: Clinical and Public Health Initiatives. The team organized a day long conference in February 2014, "The Maine Africa Connection," to bring together UNE community, Maine organizations, members of the public, and practitioners to discuss best practices, challenges, and begin new collaborations for future health projects. Goals of the conference were to gather experts on interdisciplinary approaches to health care for African refugees and immigrants in Maine, educate health providers, administrators, educators, and community members on best practices for refugee health care, and set a …

What's Happening: August 26, 2013, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Today - August 23, 2013, Loma Linda University Health

TODAY

Inside this issue:

-- Alumnus Dr. Frank Jobe honored at Cooperstown's Baseball Hall of Fame
-- LLU Medical Center-Murrieta receives full accreditation for weight loss surgery
-- Live video stream of weekly chapel available campus-wide
-- LLU alumna influences legislation and drug prevention education in Chile
-- New hiring process finds the right employees to nurture LLU Health's mission
-- Loma Linda University researchers find link between vegetarianism and longevity
-- Alumnus and assistant professor elected president of implant dentistry society
-- Alumnus Dr. Frank Jobe honored by Cooperstown's Baseball Hall of Fame (pictorial)
-- LLUH representative briefs U.S. House …

What's Happening: August 19, 2013, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: August 12, 2013, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: August 5, 2013, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Department Of Surgery Update, August 2013, Wright State University Department Of Surgery

Department of Surgery Updates

A three page newsletter created by the Department of Surgery documenting changes to the department. This issue contains a message from the chair, a list of important dates, committee meetings, scholarly activity and more.