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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Other Medicine and Health Sciences"”.
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Influencers and Barriers to Consumption of Healthful Diets in Rural Youth in Context of the Bioecological Model
… of this study is to determine influencers and barriers to healthful dietary intake in rural youth in context of the bioecological model. Four focus groups as part of Ignite, a tri-state, five-year, community based partipatory research (CBPR) intervention were conducted with 6th to 8th grade …
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12-DAY ADVENTURE RUN-HIKE TRAINING AT ALTITUDE IMPROVES SEA LEVEL 5KM PERFORMANCE
<p>Elite and recreational endurance athletes routinely seek strategies to enhance sea level (SL) performance. Altitude (ALT) training continues to be an appealing approach. The primary purpose of this study was to measure the effect of a 12-day adventure running camp at ALT on 5 km time trial (TT) …
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Are Women Aware? : Factors Related to Women's Knowledge of Risk and Preventive Factors in Breast Cancer
… of less than 1% in breast cancer morbidity and mortality rates. Breast cancer continues to be a feared disease that ravages even its survivors, and grips many with fear. Furthermore, breast cancer remains the highest cost of care among cancers. In 1990 the overall cost of care for breast …
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Segmentation and Strain Mapping of a Beating Heart
… optically often compare image intensities before and after deformation to help estimate the strain fields. However, these current meth ods often introduce undesirable error that propagates through the system, growing larger through each strain calculation. These errors create false, concentrated …
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Is Private Long-Term Care Insurance Affordable For Older Adults?
… of Medicaid, misperceptions that Medicare or other policies cover LTC, beliefs that one's own risk of needing LTC services is small, or desires to simply rely on children and spouses for LTC. This study examines another possible explanation - that private LTC insurance is simply "unaffordable" …
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Computational Investigation of the Biomechanics of Babywearing in Regards to Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip
… where an infant’s hip socket is either loose or otherwise unstable. DDH causes a joint instability where the femoral head is not properly situated inside the acetabulum. Etiology of the condition is in part congenital and developmental, with a difference of DDH prevalence between ethnicities. …
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Impact of Prolonged Sitting on Cognitive Function: Implications for Cardio-metabolic Risk
… impacts cognitive function, cerebral perfusion, and central cardiovascular hemodynamics; and secondly, to test whether weight or physical activity status alters this response. <strong>Methods:</strong> Participants (N=20, age=26±7; BMI=30±7 kg/m<sup>2</sup>; 7 female) were taken through 3 hrs of …
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Educating Nurses on the Use of the Bedside Mobility Assessment Tool (BMAT) to Create a Culture of Safety
<p>Healthcare workers are more at risk for injury than workers in any other industry, the injury rate in hospitals is almost double that of the entire private sector put together (OSHA, 2013). This high rate of injury has led hospital administrators and policymakers to take a closer look at the job …
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Validation of TEG5000 Functional Fibrinogen Reagent as Abnormal Quality Control Material for TEG 6s PlateletMapping
… manufacturer's abnormal quality control ranges and met the acceptable minimum criteria established by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute EP28-A3C Defining, Establishing, and Verifying Reference Intervals in the Clinical Laboratory Approved Guideline. The Functional Fibrinogen …
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Exploring Relationships Between School-based Health Clinics and Academic Performance in Elementary School-aged Children
<p>School based health clinics provide medical services and healthcare to students within the school setting. Research suggests that students who use school based health clinic services perform better academically in school by improving their attendance, health status, and addressing their medical …
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Design and Implementation of a Sustainable, University-Based, Emergency Medical Response Service
… to provide pre-hospital basic life support and emergency services, are venues by which nurses and other healthcare professionals, with an understanding of community health and social network issues, can maximize health promotion objectives for university and college campus communities. These …
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Non-Invasive Prenatal Screening (Nips) Testing Motivations and Informed Decision Making In The Low-Risk Population
… such as for fetal sex disclosure, may arise and result in a less informed decision about proceeding with NIPS. Therefore, our study aimed to characterize low-risk patients’ motivations for NIPS election, compare motivations between informed and uninformed decision makers, and determine …
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Regulating rsmA Expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
… commonly infects immunocompromised individuals and uses a variety of virulence factors to persist in these hosts. The posttranscriptional regulator, RsmA, plays a role in the expression of many virulence factors in <em>P. aeruginosa</em>. RsmA up regulates virulence factors used in colonizing …
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Systemic Leptin Modulates the Expression of E-cadherin, β-catenin in the Ovary of Dietary-Induced Obese Infertile Rats
… leptin modulates the expression of E-cadherin and β-catenin in dietary-induced obese infertile rats to reverse infertility. Female Sprague-Dawley rats were fed either regular chow diet (RCD) (n=6) or high fat diet (HFD) (n=14). Oestrus cycles were monitored daily until their cycles became …
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Development of Soft-Matter Delivery Systems: Coupling pH Responsive Polymers to Porous Silica Particles
… for potential use in controlled drug release and therapeutics. As demonstrated here, lipid bilayer coatings can be easily replaced with different polymer analogs allowing for dynamic response to environmental stimuli. In addition to coupling commercially available diblock polymers we …
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The experiences of undergraduate students of color in the field of speech-language pathology
… students of color were completed to understand their journey that led them to the field. The results of the study indicated that the students of color who succeeded in getting accepted into a speech-language pathology major had support, internal motivation, and were financially stable.</p>
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Implementation and Cost Analysis of Performing Molecular Assays using FFPE Tissue Blocks in the Clinical Laboratory at VA Palo Alto Health Care System
… (FFPE) tissue blocks.</p> <p>At VA Palo Alto Health Care System, FFPE samples for BRAF, KRAS and EGFR mutation detection assays are usually sent out to reference laboratories. However, with the increasing demand and cost of these tests, it would be more cost effective to bring these assays to …
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Distinct Neuropsychological Profile and Associated Neurochemical Changes in Individuals with Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-Like Episodes (MELAS)
… Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like Episodes (MELAS) is a maternally inherited progressive multisystemic disorder. Occurrence of seizure and/or stroke-like episode, as well as classic biomarkers (i.e., cerebral lactic acidosis, depleted N-acetylaspartate (NAA)), have …
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The Creation and Implementation of Guidelines for the Appropriate Termination of Patient-Provider Relationships
… when they deem them no longer therapeutic. Healthcare providers are increasingly considering this an acceptable practice. However, the criteria for this decision remain unclear. As providers discharge <em>challenging </em>or <em>difficult</em> patients from their practices, questions to …
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