265 research outputs found
Zipporah and Circumcision as a Form Of Preparation: Cutting Away At the Comfort Zone, 2003
No full textGrowth in ministry, resulting from a clear understanding of Gods call, compels one to discard life’s non-essentials. Things, people, and experiences once terribly important become non issues, irritants, or frivolous. In some respects, they are cut away. When God calls us to a work, often before we can responsiblycomplete the task, some things have to be excised—a circumcision of sorts. This essay explores the importance of circumcision as a form of preparation as seen in Exodus 4:24-26. Attention is given to Zipporah, the woman in the passage
Student Response System and Learning: Perceptions of the Student
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/30/2017
Student perceptions of a student response system (SRS) were examined. Students were surveyed to determine perceptions of the impact the SRS has on learning. Results indicate that using an SRS may help support engagement and learning by using pedagogical methods perceived by the learner as current and familiar.
Primary Author and Speaker: Meredith Taylor
Additional Authors and Speakers: Jeryl D. Benson, Kimberly Szucs</jats:p
Depressive symptoms and parenting alliance as mediators between food insecurity and child behavior
No full textThe Family Stress Model provides a versatile framework for family research, and while researchers have recently used it to explore constructs among Latinx families, few studies have used it in research about rural Latinx families. The FSM is used to examine the relations between food insecurity, maternal depressive symptoms, parenting alliance, and child behavior. Data from NC 1171, “Rural Families Speak about Health”, are analyzed in a study using path analysis for 99 Latinx participants. Results will show that maternal depressive symptoms were associated with a decrease in parenting alliance. Implications regarding food insecurity, depression, parenting, and child behavior in the context of rurality and culture are discussed.This article is published as Kimberly D. Doudna & Kimberly Greder (2023) Depressive symptoms and parenting alliance as mediators between food insecurity and child behavior, Cogent Social Sciences, 9:2, DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2023.2271594. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent
Patient responsibility: a comparative review of administrator and patient perspectives
No full textHealthcare entities across the United States establish responsibilities that competent patients are expected to assume throughout the duration of the physician-patient relationship. While these might vary between organizations, the author suggests that healthcare institutions, nationwide, widely agree on four patient responsibility categories, each of which encompass six specific responsibilities. This essay examines these six responsibilities and the extent to which patients at UPMC are believed to assume them throughout the duration of the physician-patient relationship. The conclusion will establish that the majority of competent patients at UPMC are not fully knowledgeable and do not assume their expected responsibilities. This study suggests that healthcare costs could be reduced and our nation’s public health could be improved if more patients were active participants in their healthcare
Use of Pooled State Administrative Data for Mental Health Services Research
No full textOpen Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. Correspondence to: Kimberly Eaton Hoagwood
Characterization of influenza A virus evolution in laboratory hosts
No full textThesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, 2018.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references.Surveillance of influenza A virus (IAV) is conducted for many different hosts including humans, swine, poultry, and wild birds. The surveillance samples are screened by various methods, but ultimately the isolates that are positive for IAV are propagated in a laboratory host prior to genome sequencing and characterization. Previous research has shown that passaging influenza viruses in laboratory hosts results in changes in viral sequence and receptor binding preferences. These studies have been limited to human IAV strains, and it remains unclear how propagation in laboratory hosts alters viruses isolated from animals. This thesis explores the evolutionary dynamics of IAV in a laboratory host environment. Chapter 2 of the thesis examines how the genomes of avian IAV strains change during a single infection in ECEs and MDCKs, and during ten serial infections in ECEs. The results from these experiments indicate that there is a wide range in the number of sequence differences between pre- and post-passaged viruses, and that sequencing viruses prior to passage results in better identification of mixed infections. The sequencing results from the serial passaged viruses show that egg adaptation is not limited to a single set of predictable changes. The results also suggest that the hemagglutinin gene is important for adaptation to a novel host environment. The aim of this thesis is to identify the changes associated with propagation of IAV in different laboratory host environments. This data can be incorporated into phylodynamic studies that track global IAV transmission through different hosts. In combination with surveillance efforts, these experiments will augment our ability to predict influenza evolution and our pandemic preparedness.by Kimberly Ryan Davis.Ph. D
Higher concentrations of vitamin D in Canadian children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis compared to healthy controls are associated with more frequent use of vitamin D supplements and season of birth
No full textA number of studies have demonstrated that patients with autoimmune disease have lower levels of vitamin D prompting speculation that vitamin D might suppress inflammation and immune responses in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). The objective of this study was to compare vitamin D levels in children with JIA at disease onset with healthy children. We hypothesized that children and adolescents with JIA have lower vitamin D levels than healthy children and adolescents. Data from a Canadian cohort of children with new-onset JIA (n= 164, data collection 2007-2012) were compared to Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) data (n=4027, data collection 2007-2011). We compared 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations with measures of inflammation, vitamin D supplement use, milk intake, and season of birth. Mean 25(OH)D level was significantly higher in patients with JIA (79 ± 3.1 nmol/L) than in healthy controls (68 ± 1.8 nmol/L P <.05). Patients with JIA more often used vitamin D containing supplements (50% vs. 7%; P <.05). The prevalence of 25(OH)D deficiency (<30 nmol/L) was 6% for both groups. Children with JIA with 25(OH)D deficiency or insufficiency (<50 nmol/L) had higher C-reactive protein levels. Children with JIA were more often born in the fall and winter compared to healthy children. In contrast to earlier studies, we found vitamin D levels in Canadian children with JIA were higher compared to healthy children and associated with more frequent use of vitamin D supplements. Among children with JIA, low vitamin D levels were associated with indicators of greater inflammation
Shifting ground: Can community development loan funds continue to serve the neediest borrowers?
No full textCommunity development financial institutions (CDFIs) are designed to improve economic conditions for low-income individuals and communities by providing a range of financial products and services that often are not available from mainstream lenders and financiers. ; Part I of this paper reviews CDLF origins, structures, and current activities. Part II discusses the field’s historic sources of subsidized capital and why they have shrunk. Part III reviews potential new sources of capital and the organizational ways that CDLFs are responding to their changed environment. The paper concludes with recommendations for CDLFs, funders, and policy makers.Community development ; Loans
Autoethnography as a Never-Ending Story: A Review of Guyana Diaries: Women’s Lives across Difference
No full textThe proliferation of autoethnographies offers scholars and writers multiple opportunities to consider the various methods of authorial positioning in qualitative research inquiry. In this article, I review Guyana Diaries: Women\u27s Lives across Difference, by Kimberly D. Nettles, while reflecting my own choices as an autoethnographic author. Autoethnographic writing is presented as a \u27never-ending story,\u27 which may have lasting, transformative effects on those who produce i
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