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Ice Cream Substitute For Patients With End Stage Renal Disease, Abby Iocca

Theses and Dissertations

Background: Quality of life for patients with end stage renal disease is less than similar-aged, general population counterparts. A large part of the decrease in quality of life is change of diet and nutritional restrictions, oral nutrition supplements are a way to combat this decrease in quality of life.

Methods: An ice cream substitute product was developed for patients with end stage renal disease and that are on dialysis. The product consisted of rice milk, egg whites, evaporated coconut milk, sugar, and vanilla bean paste. There were two flavors: cinnamon and lemon. These flavors were both tested subjectively and objectively. …

Program Coordinators’ Experiences With Introducing Parent-Focused Health Lessons To A Child-Centered Micronutrient Supplementation Program: An Exploration Of Recent Programmatic Changes In Liahona Children’S Foundation, Shannon Barham

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This paper utilizes survey responses from local coordinators of LCF, an international micronutrient supplementation humanitarian organization, to provide insight into the challenges and personal rewards of providing nutrition education to parents of malnourished children. LCF is based in Utah and operates in 19 countries throughout the world. LCF recently introduced a series of health lessons geared toward parents of malnourished children. A survey was sent to LCF workers in 12 countries in order to gather feedback about the health lessons. Qualitative survey responses are explored, and potential suggestions for future changes to the health lessons are proposed. Additionally, data gathered …

Tlr10 Senses Hiv-1 Proteins And Significantly Enhances Hiv-1 Infection, Bethany M. Henrick, Xiao-Dan Yao, Muhammad Atif Zahoor, Alash’Le Abimiku, Sophia Osawe, Kenneth L. Rosenthal

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play a crucial role in innate immunity and provide a first line of host defense against invading pathogens. Of the identified human TLRs, TLR10 remains an orphan receptor whose ligands and functions are poorly understood. In the present study, we sought to evaluate the level of TLR10 expression in breastmilk (BM) and explore its potential function in the context of HIV-1 infection. We evaluated HIV-1-infected (Nigerian: n = 40) and uninfected (Nigerian: n = 27; Canadian: n = 15) BM samples for TLR expression (i.e., TLR10, TLR2, and TLR1) and report here that HIV-1-infected BM from Nigerian …

Shirli Self, Shirli Self, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Shirli Self is an Idaho native who has worked in school nutrition both in Idaho and Oregon, in a unique position. The area where she currently works in Oregon is so rural and remote that Oregon pays for her students to finish high school in Idaho after they complete eighth grade in Oregon, because the nearest Idaho high school is much closer than the nearest Oregon high school. She has twenty-one years of school nutrition experience and is a one-woman show, having no employees and being responsible for feeding ninety-three K – 8 students every day.

Hydrodistillation Extraction Kinetics Regression Models For Essential Oil Yield And Composition In Juniperus Virginiana, J. Excelsa, And J. Sabina, Ivanka B. Semerdjieva, Santosh Shiwakoti, Charles L. Cantrell, Valtcho D. Zheljazkov, Tess Astatkie, Vicki L. Schlegel, Tzenka Radoukova

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

The chemical profile and antioxidant capacity of Juniperus virginiana, J. excelsa, and J. sabina essential oil (EO) fractions as a function of time was the subject of this study. The hypothesis was that, capturing EO in sequential timeframes during hydrodistillation would generate fractions containing unique compositions and antioxidant capacity. In J. virginiana, the highest limonene (43%) was found in the 0–5 min oil fraction, with safrole (37%) being highest in the 10–20 and 20–40 min fractions, and elemol (34%) being highest in the 160–240 min fraction. In J. excelsa, α-pinene (34-36%) was the highest in the 0–5 min …

Improving Access To Clean Water Through Service Learning, Rachel E. Gehr, Tolu Odimayomi, Carolina Tornesi Mackinnon

Engagement & Service-Learning Summit

No abstract provided.

Reparation Ecologies: Regimes Of Repair In Populist Agroecology, Kirsten Valentine Cadieux, Stephen Carpenter, Alex Liebman, Renata Blumberg, Bhaskar Upadhyay

Department of Nutrition and Food Studies Scholarship and Creative Works

Amidst the backdrop of attention to populism in general, it is instructive to understand populism through social movements focused on food and agriculture. Agrarian populism is particularly salient in agrifood movements. Agroecology has been widely identified as a domain of populist claims on environmental and social governance surrounding agricultural–ecological and political–economic systems. As authoritarian populist leaders gain power throughout the world at a time of expanding economic globalization and contingent socioecological crises, contests over populism in agrifood regimes can highlight current dynamics relevant for formative evaluation of alternative political agroecology strategies and of populist environmental governance more broadly. Can populism …

Food – Eating With My Eyes, Nadia Arévalo

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

Whole foods are visually stunning while being scientifically proven to be healthy. Here I share some images and notes of my colorful preparations that embrace the knowledge of the ever-expanding Nutritional Sciences.

A Comparative Analysis Of The Fermentation Capabilities Of Various Bifidobacterium Strains, Ella Oney

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Bifidobacterium is a genus of anaerobic bacteria that are commonly found to inhabit the gastrointestinal tract of many members of the animal kingdom. These microorganisms are adapted to obtain their carbon from the breakdown of complex carbohydrates. Marmosets, a mammal whose gut microbiome is inhabited by high levels of Bifidobacteria, consume gum Arabic as a major part of their diet. The purpose of this experiment is to determine whether Bifidobacterium strains isolated from the guts of marmosets are able to degrade and ferment this complex carbohydrate or one of its main constituents, arabinose. This was accomplished by inoculating isolates of …

The Effect Of Alcohol And Bitterness Levels On Brewing Yeast Viability, Nichole Elizabeth Bryant

Master's Theses

Two of the most popular beer styles within the craft brewing industry are India Pale Ales (IPA’s) and those with high alcohol by volume (ABV). Production of these styles requires high gravity fermentation and high amounts of bittering hops in order to reach the required values for ABV and International Bitterness units (IBU) respectively. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of high gravity fermentation and high IBU levels on yeast viability and repitching cycles.

An initial experiment on high gravity fermentations was done in order to assess the effects this variable had alone. Successive five day …

Ethiopia’S High Childhood Undernutrition Explained: Analysis Of The Prevalence And Key Correlates Based On Recent Nationally Representative Data, Tafere Gebreegziabher Belay, Nigatu Regassa

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

Objective

To examine the contribution of child, maternal and household factors in stunting, wasting and underweight among children under 5 years in Ethiopia. Design

Quantitative cross-sectional design based on nationally representative data. Setting

Urban and rural areas of Ethiopia. Participants

Younger (0–24 months; n 4199) and older age groups (25–59 months; n 5497), giving a total of 9696 children. Results

Among the younger age group, 29 % were stunted, 14 % were wasted and 19 % were underweight; and among the older age group, the prevalence of stunting, wasting and underweight was 47, 8 and 28 %, respectively. Being female, …

An Iterative Process For Training Design And Implementation Increased Health Workers' Knowledge For Taking Nutrition Behavior Change To Scale, Wendy Gonzalez, Anabelle Bonvecchio Arenas, Armando García-Guerra, Mireya Vilar-Compte, Alejandría Villa De La Vega, Laura Quezada, Cynthia Rosas, Ana Lilia Lozada-Tequeanes, Amira Hernández

Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works

The shortage of skilled, motivated, and well-supported health workers is a major barrier to scaling up nutrition interventions and services. Objective: The objective of this study is to describe the process for developing and implementing a training of health personnel for the delivery of the Integrated Strategy for Attention to Nutrition (EsIAN), an evidence-based strategy for promoting infant and young child feeding through primary health care in Mexico. The specific objective is to provide a case study and highlight challenges, as well as elements to successfully mitigate these, and discuss potential applications of findings beyond the Mexican context. Methods: The …

Farmer Attitudes Toward Cooperative Approaches To Herbicide Resistance Management: A Common Pool Ecosystem Service Challenge, David E. Ervin, Elise H. Breshears, George B. Frisvold, Terrance M. Hurley, Katherine E. Dentzman, Jeffrey L. Gunsolus, Raymond A. Jussaume, Micheal D. K. Owen, Jason Norsworthy, Mustofa Mahmud Al Mamun, Wesley Everman

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Dramatic growth in herbicide-resistant (HR) weeds in the United States threatens farm profitability and may undercut environmentally beneficial farming practices. When HR weeds move across farm boundaries due to ecological processes or human action, a common pool resource challenge emerges, requiring farmer cooperation to manage such weeds effectively. We investigate the scope for cooperative management using responses to a national survey on HR weed issues to test a recursive model of three preconditions for collective action: (1) concern about HR weeds migrating from nearby lands; (2) communication with neighbors about HR weeds; and (3) belief that cooperation is necessary for …

Formation And Regulation Of 1,2-Dicarbonyl Compounds And Ages In Steamed Cakes, Lu Yongling, Lu Min, Wang Xi, Lv Lishuang

Food and Machinery

In view of the formation of harmful products of Maillard reaction in baked foods, different recipes of steamed cakes (sugar type, oil type, cake acidity regulator and the ratio between egg white and yolk) were selected to analyze the changes of glyoxal (GO), methylglyoxal (MGO) and advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in cakes, and the inhibitory effects of natural flavonoids (geneistein and luteolin) were investigated. The results showed that fructose (hexacarbohydrate) produced the highest MGO, xylose (pentose) produced the highest GO, GO and MGO contents were the lowest in cakes produced by xylitol; The influence of oil on the production …

Stress Model And Fluid Solid Coupling Simulation Ofmicrocapsule In Simulated Intestine, Li Xiao, Yu Jinghu, Qian Shanhua, Cao Shu

Food and Machinery

The theoretical of the stress of capsule was analyzed in viscous liquid environment. and studied the dynamic characteris-tics of magnetic drive capsules with different sizes of round and oval heads under fluid-solid coupling in intestinal environment. The effects on the capsule exercise stress were also studied from the gut dynamic viscosity, the capsule size and capsule shape by COMSOL. According to the principle of similar mechanical properties, using superelastic solid material, the intestinal fluid model and the intestinal wall model were designed by multiple factors and levels of numerical simulation experiments. Results: At the same level of dynamic viscosity and …

The Ultrahigh-Pressure/Thermally Induced Technologies Of The Β-Glucan Mixed Gel And The Evaluation System For Their Properties, Fan Rui

Food and Machinery

The apparent and functional properties of the mixed gel prepared with the thermal and ultrahigh-pressure were compared by rheological, texture, scanning electron microscopy and other analytical methods. The results showed that the β-glucan typical gels formed by ultra-high pressure and thermally induced at the total concentration of 7% and 8%, respectively, and the properties in water hold capacity, gel hardness, elasticity, chewiness and internality of β-glucan mixed gel formed by ultra-high pressure showed the more superior, in which the hardness of gel formed by ultrahigh pressure was significantly stronger than gel formed by thermal-induced gel (P＜0.05), while the oil hold …

Study On Changes Of Gel Moisture Characteristic And Texture Properties Of Duck Eggs During Salting Period By Low-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Long Men, Zhang Wenhao, Zheng Suling, Qi Anqi, Zhan Ge

Food and Machinery

In order to explore the effects of salt ions on gel texture properties and moisture characteristic of duck eggs，low field nuclear magnetic resonance (Low-field NMR) was integrated to analyze the changes of the moisture status. Water relaxation time（T₂）, proton density and relaxation area (A₂) were explored by magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), and water distribution was visualized by MRI. Meanwhile, the differences in traditional characteristic indices of gels such as texture properties (hardness, springiness, cohesiveness and chewiness) were also investigated. The results showed that the relative proportions of free water increased, and the relative proportions of immobilized …

Comparison Of Fermentation Characteristics Between Clostridium Butyricum And Clostridium Tyroburicum, Wang Youling, Wei Zhujun, Liu Qing, Zhu Lilei, Xiao Haifang, Song Yuanda

Food and Machinery

In this study, three strains of Clostridium butyrate were isolated from human feces, pit mud and animal intestinal contents. Which were named as Clostridium butyricum NK, SY and RX respectively. The fermentation characteristics of C. butyricum NK, SY and RX and C. tyroburicum ATCC25755 grown in synthetic medium were compared. The results showed that the growth ability of C. butyricum NK and SY were strong. C. tyroburicum had higher butyric acid, but lower lactic acid-production than C. butyricum. Compared among the three different strains of C. butyricum, C. butyricum NK had a stronger ability to produce butyric acid, with the …

Preparation Of Gadolinium Metal Organic Framework And Its Application For Adsorption Of Phoxim, Tang Xiong, Chen Maolong, Xu Zhou, Cheng Yunhui

Food and Machinery

Metal-organic-frameworks is a new type of porous crystal material which is assembled by metal ions and organic ligands. Gd-MOF was prepared by GdCl₃·6H₂O and H₃BTC, and its adsorption performance for phoxim pesticides was inves-tigated. The results showed that Gd-MOF could effectively adsorb phoxim pesticides from water, and the saturated adsorption amount of phoxim was 33.5 mg/g. When Gd-MOF was 40~80 mg, the adsorption rate of phoxim could reached 90%; and in all pH range 3~7, there was a certain adsorption force on the phoxim table. It is speculated that the adsorption of phoxim by …

Effect Of Microwave Radiation On Acetic Acid And Ethyl Acetate In Luzhou-Flavor Liquor, Dai Jiahui, Liu Jianxue, Han Sihai, Li Xuan, Liu Jinke, Dong Xinluo, Li Peiyan, Xu Baocheng, Luo Denglin

Food and Machinery

Microwave irradiation was used to treat three kinds of luzhou-flavor liquors with different ages and qualities at different temperatures, and the contents of acetic acid and ethyl acetate in the liquor were measured every 20 min. The results showed that microwave irradiation could accelerate the reduction of acetic acid content in liquor, while ethyl acetate content increase with the extension of irradiation time. When the microwave irradiation time was between 20 and 100 min, the increasing trend showed an S-shaped curve. Through the fitting study, the logistic regression model could be used to describe the change of ethyl acetate during …