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Liturgical Signs and Gestures
Get PDFFully, consciously, and actively participating in the sacred liturgy was one of the goals of the renewal of the liturgy called for by the Second Vatican Council. This paper explores the question, how do we enter in? The answer is there are many ways to help the faithful take part in the sacred action of the liturgy. One of the best ways is understanding what we are doing or celebrating in the Sacred Liturgy of the Church. The practical way is comprehension of the meaning of the liturgical gestures
Effect of Endurance Exercise Training and High-Fat Diet on Muscle Fiber Type and Aerobic Performance in Tibialis anterior of Mice
Get PDFOur world has an increasing demand for finding different exercise and diet combinations that lead to greater aerobic performance. Previous studies show that independently, endurance training and high-fat diets increase aerobic muscle fibers and fatigue resistance of muscle. My experiment tested whether the combination of high-fat diet and endurance training would produce greater increases in aerobic muscle fibers and fatigue resistance than either treatment alone. I predicted that there would be an increased proportion of type I and type IIa, oxidative fibers, in addition to an increase time for muscle to fatigue and a decrease in lactic acid concentrations after exercise. Mice were broken into four groups. One experimental group was a control, one ate a high-fat diet, one followed an exercise regime, and one group did both. Weights and lactic acid levels were monitored throughout the experiment. The tibialis anterior muscle was analyzed with in vitro tests and microscopic analysis. All mice experienced weight gain, but it was most pronounced in the two high-fat groups. In vitro properties, such as contraction time and time to fatigue, showed no significant difference between groups. There were also no significant changes in fiber type ratios. Conversely, fiber cross-sectional area significantly decreased for groups undergoing the exercise regime. Lactic acid concentrations following standardized exercise decreased significantly for the High-Fat & Exercise group after the 28-day experiment but were unchanged for all other groups. The lower lactic acid levels could have been the result of a decrease in fiber area and an increase in capillarization of the tissue. This would have increased the oxidative capacity of the cells, reducing the need for anaerobic respiration. The timeframe, sample size (N=32) and exercise intensity appeared insufficient to induce significantly noticeable changes in muscle function, fiber type, and lactic acid dynamics
Education of Long-Term Care Staff on the use of Aromatherapy to Reduce Use of Psychotropic Medications
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Sophomore Exhibition: New Majors
Get PDFFor the exhibition, I wanted to capture artistic growth from my first 2 years of college. In my work I use materials such as, acrylic paint, magazines, graphite, charcoal, colored paper, text, sharpies and prismacolors. A major part of my art is collages and black and white drawings. I love how collages allow me to be messy but create something so put together. I have noticed that I have a certain color pallet I use, which happens to be red, metallic colors, and black and white. I stick to black and white drawings/paintings simply because it allows me to practice my values and for some reason I feel that it allows me to capture detail better. My art is heavily impacted by pop culture, Mexican culture, texts (books, lyrics, poems.), life events, but in general, I find inspiration in the weirdest and simplest things
The Impact of Gluten and Inulin on Sensory Attributes, Breath Hydrogen, Gastrointestinal Symptoms, and Satiety in Healthy Adults
Get PDFBackground: Gluten and inulin type fibers have been shown to impact satiety, breath hydrogen, GI symptoms, and properties of different food products.
Objective: To investigate the effects of gluten and inulin on sensory attributes, breath hydrogen, GI symptoms, and satiety in healthy individuals.
Methods: A randomized, controlled crossover design was conducted with 24 healthy adults (ages 18-39). Fasted subjects consumed a 16 oz. low FODMAP smoothie as the control. Treatment smoothies consisted of the low FODMAP base and either gluten (5g) or inulin (5g). Breath hydrogen measures were taken at baseline (0), 1, 2, and 3, hours. Subjective GI symptoms surveys were collected at baseline (0), 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 12, and 24 hours. VAS was collected at baseline (0), 10 min, 30 min, 1, 1.5, 2, and 3 hours. Sensory analysis was completed after the first initial sips of smoothie consumption. Breath hydrogen, GI symptoms, and VAS scales were assessed by area under the curve using the trapezoidal rule. Repeated Measures ANOVA was used to evaluate differences between treatments with significance set at P\u3c0.05.
Results: In the sample of healthy adults, there was no difference (p\u3e0.05) in breath hydrogen between treatments at any time point or total AUC. There was a difference for GI symptoms between the low FODMAP control and gluten treatment, with gluten producing less total GI symptoms (mean difference 2.84; p=.015). There was no difference in any sensory attribute or overall liking between treatments. There were significant differences in hunger between control and inulin treatments (MD=-6.18; p=0.024). There were also significant differences in fullness between control and inulin (MD=5.96; p=.026) and gluten and inulin treatments (MD=6.74; p=.016). There were no differences between treatments for satisfaction and volume of food to eat (p\u3e.05).
Conclusion: The use of gluten and inulin at levels of 5 grams in a smoothie application had no impact on sensory attributes. Consumption of inulin resulted in a decrease in hunger and an increase in fullness. These results support not limiting gluten or inulin consumption in healthy individuals, as they did not lead to increased breath hydrogen or GI symptoms
Excerpts from Student Poetry Portfolio
Get PDFFrom a short poetry collection with the working title, “Landmarks.” Landmarks, as we know, are a feature of a landscape that is easily seen from a distance—an object that enables someone to establish their location. In Knapp’s earlier writings, he often stays tethered to more private landmarks: his hometown, his friendships, his emotions—and, he believes, fears the “otherness” that lays beyond them. In this collection, he certainly keeps one eye on those points—after all, one’s personal experience is all he knows—but has also tried to find the “other”—to find more collective landmarks to triangulate his experience as somewhere between them
Synodality as the Listening Church: Pope Francis Continues and Expands Vatican II\u27s Teaching on Collegiality
Get PDFAt the Ceremony Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Institution of the Synod of Bishops, 17 October 2015, Pope Francis affirmed that synodality is an essential dimension of the Church, and it is what the Lord asks the Church in the third millennium. The goal of this thesis is to investigate the origins and history of the concept of synodality in the life and mission of the Church in the light of theology and doctrine. The theoretical intention is to study what is old and what is new in Pope Francis’s idea of synodality and how the old is made new in his vision of the synodal way. In completing the analysis, I want to raise some issues about the limits of his theology: what are to be the parameters and practices of synodality in the global Catholic Church of today
Humility: A Powerful Remedy for Destructive Envy
No full textSessioin 7 of 8 in the 33rd Monastic Institute series “Humility: Paradoxical Pathway to Union with God.”
Speaker bio: Abbey of St. Gertrude, Alexanderdorf, Germany; Instructor in the Monastic Institute at Sant’ Anselmo, Rome since 2008; author of Gehorsam gegenüber dem Abt (St. Ottilien, 2009); “Explication of the RB As a Signal of the Time. Rule Commentaries of the Twentieth Century”, Tjurunga 72/5 (2007) 75-86; ABR 61:2 (2010) 138-149