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Natural Treatment Options for Moraxella catarrhalis (Pink Eye) Infections in Cattle
Get PDFMoraxella bovis is the leading cause of pink eye in cattle (Peek, 2017). Organic beef farmers cannot use antibiotics or they will lose their organic certification (“Pink Eye in Organic Cattle”, 2020). This project investigated natural treatments (honey, hydrogen peroxide, and silver nitrate) as alternatives for organic farmers. These were chosen because of their previous benefits in treating open wound injuries and their antibacterial properties (Mandal and Mandal, 2011). Moraxella catarrhalis, a BSL-1 bacterium that is similar to Moraxella bovis, was cultivated and lawns of growth were created on BHI agar plates, then the treatments were impregnated into discs and added to the lawn of growth. Then every 24 hours the zone of inhibition was measured. Penicillin-impregnated disks, water with blank discs, and just blank discs served as control treatments. All of the treatment options produced a zone of inhibition. Hydrogen peroxide produced the largest zones while honey produced the smallest. All natural treatments were more effective than water. Both dilutions of hydrogen peroxide were more effective than penicillin. There was a statistically significant difference between the average size of the zones of inhibition created by each group on the last day of measurement (p- value of 3.54x10⁻¹⁶)
Utilization of a Heart Failure Clinic in Rural Missouri
Get PDFTo assess the utilization of the heart failure clinic at one health system, an evaluation will be conducted of the primary patient management of heart failure by the clinic, cardiologist, or primary care provider. Heart failure clinics have been instituted to provide quality education to patients which require in depth teaching to care for themselves appropriately at home. The education that patients receive regarding heart failure allows a patient to provide self-efficacious self-care. Patients’ subjective treatment outcomes will be assessed with the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire and identification of their primary source of education and treatment. Patients to be included will be selected from a cohort scheduled for a left heart catheterization with a previous diagnosis of heart failure. Primary care and cardiologists will be provided a questionnaire identifying their management of heart failure and propensity to refer to the heart failure clinic. Comparisons will be made regarding the patient’s subjective assessment within each provider category, as well as including data for 30-day readmission related to heart failure within the last year. Results will attempt to identify strengths and weaknesses in education provided in each setting and patient subjective assessment related to the management of heart failure. Should patients’ subjective assessments provide data identifying a singular source of management as superior, recommendations will be made to incorporate this into the standard of care for this system when managing heart failure
PSU/ KNEA Event 05.23
Get PDFPhotos taken during the May 2023 event held for PSU/KNEA faculty members
Outbreak Communication: Exploring the Relationships between Health Information Seeking Behaviors, Vested Interests, and COVID-19 Knowledge in U.S. Midwest Populations
Get PDFOn February 15, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director, General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated at a Munich Security Conference, “We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic,” (Zarocostas, 2020, p. 676). The term ‘infodemic’ refers to the onslaught of both accurate and inaccurate health information surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. The concept of an ‘infodemic’ was quickly integrated into mass media, popular culture (i.e., documentaries, podcasts), and eventually scholarly literature. In response to COVID-19, health communication scholars have centered on understanding specific messaging strategies such as the use of fear appeals (Stolow et al., 2020), nature of advertising narratives (Deng et al., 2022), the impact of visual health communication messages such as comics (Kearns & Kearns, 2020), the inclusiveness and accessibility of COVID-related health information (e.g., readability ) (Basch et al., 2020; Goggin & Ellis, 2020), as well as other message features and content attributes. Scholarly efforts have also explored the impacts of the specific sources of COVID-19 messages (Carico et al., 2021; Ju et al., 2023) and popular distribution channels such as social and mass media (Lwin, 2020; Meppelink, 2022). The effects of these messages and sources about COVID-19 have been studied in relation to a variety of health-related attitudes (i.e., public trust, vaccine hesitation, vaccine confidence) (Chou, & Budenz, 2020; Paek & Hove, 2020; Thaker, 2021) and health related-behaviors (i.e., vaccine uptake) (MacPherson, 2020)
For that all over toastiness!
No full textIt\u27s a warm picture. There are bright yellow slices of lemons, knobby rounds of ginger, and a bottle of chili pepper honey. There is a bright almost fevered haze around the ingredients.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/openartexhibit/1008/thumbnail.jp
Resilient
No full textResilient - A Poster Design by, McKennah Ring
This is a poster design I created in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. I wanted this poster to display exactly what Resilience feels like to me. I had also been wanting to create a 3D metallic text render, and this was the result. The poster has 5 words displayed on it which are Always (the 3D metallic text render), It\u27ll be okay, Resilience . I really loved creating this poster I think It really stands out from others I have made.
Thanks & best wishes,
McKennah Ringhttps://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/openartexhibit/1007/thumbnail.jp
Exploring Professional Dispositions with Preservice Teachers Assignment Description
Get PDFThe dispositions needed to be an educator is vast. Some dispositions come naturally to teacher candidates and others are nurtured by teacher education programs. According to the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (2008), professional dispositions expected of teacher candidates include “the ideal of fairness and the belief that all students can learn (p. 22). This assignment provides teacher candidates an opportunity to explore, analyze, and discuss various professional dispositions needed by educators using six examples of children’s literature, all of which by the author, Patricia Polacco.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/oer-teaching/1002/thumbnail.jp
Journey “Box” Assignment Description
Get PDFThe Journey “Box” allows preservice teachers to explore and share their own historical narrative as they different aspects of their own family’s journey to America. The Journey “Box” first asks preservice teachers to explore themes by reading children’s literature and then positions preservice teachers as interviewers as they seek out different facets of their family’s historical narrative from members of their family. Preservice teachers then use their experience with a Journey “Box” to design an inquiry that could be used in their field experience. The Journey “Box” integrates social studies standards and best practices with ELA standards.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/oer-teaching/1004/thumbnail.jp