Browsing 25th Hayes Graduate Research Forum (March, 2011) by Issue Date
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Structural Determinants of a Positive Campus Climate for Sexual Minorities
Fine, Leigh E. ( 2011-03 )Most studies of the interaction between lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons and the American college campus environment have been confined to the micro-level. However, little is known about factors at ... -
Pharmacologic Restoration of PP2A Activity by FTY720 as a Novel Therapy for Polycythemia Vera
Oaks, Joshua ( 2011-03 )Polycythemia Vera (PV) is an incurable rare myeloproliferative disorder driven by Jak2 V617F with few viable treatment options and no curative therapy available. With the intention of developing a curative treatment modality, ... -
Evidence for a step-wise program of T cell development within the human tonsil
McClory, Susan ( 2011-03 )Human T cell development within the thymus is a well-characterized event, and it is known that a functional thymus is required for normal T cell generation to take place. Individuals with poor thymic function, from either ... -
Development of a Primary Care Clinician Intervention in the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescent: A Pound of Cure
Anzeljc, Samantha ( 2011-03 )Primary care clinicians, despite regular access to young families, lack a cohesive model for approaching office visits regarding excess weight. Using the 2007 Expert Committee’s Recommendations, a set of clinician guidelines ... -
Activated microglia from aged mice are less sensitive to anti-inflammatory feedback from IL-4
Fenn, Ashley ( 2011-03 )Aging is associated with increased inflammatory conditions both peripherally and centrally. Our lab has previously shown that microglia, innate immune cells of the central nervous system, become primed and reactive as a ... -
Effects of Processing on the Oxidative Stability of Docosahexaenoic Acid Oil
Atnip, Allison ( 2011-03 )Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an omega-3 fatty acid which is essential for normal brain and retinal development. A deficiency in fetal cerebral DHA content has been associated with preterm delivery, which may lead to ... -
Triangulate then Reconnect: An Observation of Within Session Communications
Marchionda, Daria ( 2011-03 )This paper provides evidence to support the efficacy of Ecologically Based Family Therapy in increasing parental direct communications within 6-8 sessions. It also provides some support to show that EBFT results in a ... -
Dramatic differences in global dynamic properties and activity of closely-related consensus-designed variants of triosephosphate isomerase
Sullivan, Brandon ( 2011-03 )Consensus design, meaning the selection of mutations based on the most common amino acid in each position of a multiple sequence alignment, has proven to be an efficient way to engineer stabilized mutants and even to design ... -
Spinal Loading and Immune Responses to Personality and Mental Load During Repetitive Lifting - Evidence for a New Low Back Pain Injury Model
Splittstoesser, Riley ( 2011-03 )Objective. To demonstrate an immune response to multiple low back pain risk factors as well as to interactions between risk factors. Background. Biomechanical, individual and psychosocial risk factors for low back pain ... -
Parenting Perfectionism as a Predictor of Parental Adjustment
Lee, Meghan ( 2011-03 )Perfectionism is conceptualized as the extent to which an individual holds excessively high standards for themselves, and is thought to be multi-dimensional, consisting of maladaptive and beneficial aspects. This paper ... -
(E)MERGING VOICES: UNDERSTANDING CONSTRUCTIONS OF CITIZENSHIP FROM THE ECONOMIC MARGINS
Kock, Stacia ( 2011-03 )Using feminist theory as a background, this study explores the relationship between citizenship and economic identities, specifically looking at how those living in poverty define citizenship. Whether political or social ... -
The Physics of Massive Star Death
Pejcha, Ondrej ( 2011-03 )Neutrino heating may drive explosions of massive stars (core-collapse supernovae). Although it is known that the stalled accretion shock turns into explosion when the neutrino luminosity reaches critical value (L_crit), ... -
Influence of Packaging Material and Storage Conditions on the Quality Attributes of Pressure-Assisted Thermally Processed Carrots
Ayvaz, Huseyin ( 2011-03 )The influences of barrier properties of packaging materials and storage conditions on selected quality attributes of carrot samples processed by pressure-assisted thermal processing (PATP) were investigated. Baby carrots ... -
What Do Fathers Do? A look into the daily activities of fathers versus mothers using time diary data
Kotila, Letitia ( 2011-03 )This study compares levels of mother and father involvement within activity categories that include engagement, responsibility, and childcare, across the transition to parenthood for dual-earner, first time parents. Findings ... -
Dynamic Trunk Control Influence on Run-to-Cut Maneuver: A Risk Factor for ACL Rupture
Jamison, Steve ( 2011-03 )ACL rupture is one of the most common serious knee injuries in field and court sports, with an estimated 70% of these being non-contact in nature, often from sudden changes in direction or pivoting. Previous studies have ... -
Maximizing Wealth and Happiness: Improving Investor Decisions Through Improved Affective Forecasting
Easwar, Karthik ( 2011-03 )Investor behavior has long been plagued by a conservatism that keeps individuals from maximizing their wealth. We examine how experience and explicit feedback can reduce two of the main impediments to successful investor ... -
Lexical Ambiguity in Evolutionary Discourse: Implications for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Rector, Meghan ( 2011-03 )This study investigates lexical ambiguity in evolutionary discourse and explores the implications of such language for teaching, learning, and assessment. Specifically, this study investigated what students' mean when they ... -
CD103 blockade reduces CD8 T cell accumulation during GVHD, but does not attenuate GVL effects
Anthony, Bryan ( 2011-03 )Purpose: Every four minutes someone in America is diagnosed with a blood cancer, and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society estimates that over 50,000 people die of a blood cancer each year1. Many blood cancers are caused by ...