University Housing Research Articles

Antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activity of Sambucus palmensis link, an endemic Canary Island species

Ethnopharmacological relevanceSambucus palmensis Link is an endemic species of the Canary Islands, popularly known as “Saúco canario”. This species has wide use in folk medicine practice on the islands, especially as analgesic and anti-inflammatory. So the aim of our study is to evaluate the antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activity of an aqueous extract of this species. Materials and methodsThree aqueous extract doses (35, 52.5 and 70mg/kg) were orally administered to laboratory Swiss mice obtained from the Central Animal House of La Laguna University. Writhing responses induced by phenylquinone, formalin induced paw pain response, tail-flick test and paw edema induced by carrageenan were evaluated in this work. ResultsOral pretreatment with 52.5 and 70mg/kg Sambucus palmensis aqueous extract significantly reduced the writhing number induced by phenylquinone injection (61.64 and 89.04% respectively), and the pain response in the first (36.67 and 38.89%) and second (57.28 and 70.1%) phases respectively of the formalin test. Sambucus palmensis had a very slight effect on tail-flick test and inhibited moderately the edema formation induced by carrageenan in mice. ConclusionsThese data show for the first time that Sambucus palmensis has a significant antinociceptive effect that seems to be more peripherical than central. Sambucus palmensis also displays a moderate anti-inflammatory activity in an acute inflammation model. These results support the widespread use of Sambucus palmensis in popular medicine to treat pain and inflammation.

The Privatization of College Housing: Poverty, Affordability, and the U.S. Public University

Much of the research on housing policy over the past generation has focused on its relationship to affordability and the spatial demography of poverty. Here, I focus on a particular sector of the market that has largely gone unnoticed in the academic literature: college housing. I examine the relationships among college undergraduates residing off-campus, poverty rates, and housing cost and affordability measures. Using first-difference models of tract-level data from 2000 to 2008, I find robust, positive associations between off-campus populations and poverty rates, and more modest but still visible relations to housing outcomes. The results suggest that demographers should pay attention to the presence of college students in urban areas, and also hold implications for policy related to grant provisioning and housing.

How Mary Ellen Avery Influenced my Career as an Investigator.

OPINION article Front. Pediatr., 24 April 2014Sec. Neonatology Volume 2 - 2014 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2014.00020

Transgender Individuals’ Access to College Housing and Bathrooms: Findings from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey

Within higher education settings, transgender people are at risk for discrimination and harassment within housing and bathrooms. Yet, few have examined this topic using quantitative data or compared the experiences of subgroups of transgender individuals to predict denial of access to these spaces. The current study utilizes the National Transgender Discrimination Survey to research this issue. Findings indicate that being transgender and having another marginalized identity matters for students’ access to housing and bathrooms. Trans women are at greater risk than gender-nonconforming people for being denied access to school housing and bathrooms. Implications for practice and research are detailed.

Análisis psicosocial del discurso de la prensa sensacionalista peruana y las actitudes de sus lectores

Se exploró teorías explicativas de temas como la identidad, atribuciones, motivaciones, mecanismos de defensa, comunicación, representaciones sociales y actitudes; así como investigaciones sobre discursos de medios de comunicación. Se hizo acopio de ejemplares de diarios sensacionalistas para su análisis. Se pasó luego a realizar focus group con jóvenes de diversos sectores como universitarios de San Marcos, o de sectores populares como Ventanilla o escolares como del colegio José Granda. Asimismo, se realizó observaciones en diversos distritos y puntos de venta de diarios (kioscos), para luego recoger algunos testimonios. Se abordó, luego, con una encuesta a sectores representativos de jóvenes como vivienda universitaria de San Marcos en el distrito de La Victoria, Universidad Agraria de La Molina, Universidad Ruiz de Montoya, colegio José Granda en San Martín de Porres y colegio de Chorrillos, jóvenes en Ventanilla y Pamplona y pueblos jóvenes Chapi en Callao, obteniendo un universo variado con fines comparativos. Se combinó métodos cuantitativos y cualitativos, y se realizó una encuesta con alternativas cerradas y abiertas dentro de los primeros aplicada a 511 jóvenes (255 mujeres y 256 hombres) y entre métodos cualitativos se usaron 4 focus groups, 10 observaciones en sectores poblacionales B, C y D, 2 testimonios y 1 análisis de contenido con el total de diarios desde el 26 de enero al 3 de agosto de 2007. Dentro de los resultados tenemos: Entender a la prensa sensacionalista como el reflejo de actitudes que se dan en nuestra población, que revelan un imaginario, representaciones sociales y atribuciones que se manejan en la cotidianidad. El tema sexual es privilegiado en estos medios, pero no como lo pornográfico o lo erótico, sino como instrumento de consumo, intentando convertir en espectáculo lo cotidiaño y los diversos espacios sociales y discursos. Los contenidos de esta prensa muestran violencia contra la mujer, lo cual es percibido por un muy alto porcentaje del público; sin embargo, en algunos casos, esta prensa no cuestiona esta violencia antes bien presenta supuestos causales que generaron esta violencia incluyendo el feminicidio.Esta prensa canaliza un tipo de comunicación prejuiciosa y a través de emociones inauténticas, lo cual revela problemas de habilidades sociales como baja autoestima y poca asertividad, y sobre todo, problemas de motivación de logro y dificultad para la toma de decisiones. El consumo del discurso y personajes del mundo del espectáculo es alto, e incluso se da una identificación con personajes promocionados por esta prensa como vedettes y futbolistas, a través de los cuales un buen sector de la población busca realización pese a que son severamente criticados o calificados incluso, por ejemplo los futbolistas, como fracasados, y esto último está ligado a problemas de construcción de identidad nacional. Un conjunto de temores están detrás de la censura a personajes como las vedettes y charapas en un sector de la población.

An investigation of the endowment effect in the context of a college housing lottery

The endowment effect was examined in a two-part study in the context of a college housing lottery. Students who were awarded their first choice of residence hall were asked the lowest dollar amount they would be willing to accept (WTA) to give up their first choice hall whereas students who were denied their first choice were asked the highest dollar amount they would be willing to pay (WTP) to obtain their first choice. Results from the initial assessment showed the presence of the endowment effect regarding students’ valuation of their first choice residence hall immediately after the housing lottery (i.e., WTA price was significantly higher than WTP price). The follow-up surveyed participants from the initial assessment who responded when contacted a second time after they had experienced two months of life in the residence hall they were awarded in the lottery. Results from the follow-up showed that the endowment effect was still present after experiencing life in the residence hall. Moreover, further analyses revealed that the endowment effect was, in fact, enhanced after the living experience. These findings demonstrate that within the context of a housing lottery, a highly-valued commodity, long-term experiences substantially increase the magnitude of the endowment effect, even when controlling for other factors that have been shown to impact this effect.

Competency development of southern African housing officers

The Report on the Ministerial Committee for the Review of the Provision of Student Housing at South African Universities (Department of Higher Education and Training, 2011) has provided a comprehensive review of residences across several housing functional areas. In one of the residence management and administration recommendations it stated, “The professionalisation of housing staff is an urgent priority” (p. 141). This coupled with the report’s estimated “current residence bed shortage of approximately 195 815 beds […] with a cost of overcoming this shortage over a period of ten years is estimated at R82.4 billion” (pp. xvii–xviii) will mean the hiring and training of hundreds of housing professional staff to meet not only the demand of the additional residence beds but the training of current housing staff. In 2010 The Association of College and University Housing Officers – International Southern Africa Chapter (ACUHO-I SAC) initiated a Student Housing Training Institute (SHTI) first held in 2011 to meet the demands for professionalising housing staff. The SHTI was organised using a competency development model first used to develop the Association of College and University Housing Officers –International (ACUHO-I) James C. Grimm National Housing Training Institute (NHTI) held in the US.

Food Safety Knowledge and Behaviors of Students Living in University Housing

Participants will identify food safety education needs of college students living in university housing.

CAESALPINIA DECAPETALA

Members of genus Caesalpinia are found world widely in tropical and temperate areas. Caesalpinia species have variouspharmacological actions that include antidiabetic, antiulcer, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and antirheumatic. Objectives:To assess the Hepatoprotective activity of ethanol extract of Caesalpinia decapetala. Duration of study: September 2012 to November2012. Setting: Pharmacology and Pathology departments of Independent medical college and animal House of university of agriculture,Faisalabad. Study design: Experimental study. Materials and Methods: Hepatoprotective activity was determined by measuring the livermarker enzymes like Bilirubin, AST, ALT and ALK levels and then hepatic biopsy to see any structural changes. Phytochemical analysis ofplant extract indicates that it contains polyphenols and flavonoids that possess antioxidant potential and hence possess Hepatoprotectiveactivity. Results: Liver enzyme levels were significantly raised in rabbits receiving paracetamol and the enzyme levels were significantlyreduced in rabbits who were receiving Caesalpinia Decapetala and paracetamol comparable to silymarin and Paracetamol. Resultsobservation was done in concentration and dose dependent manner. Histopathological studies indicated centrizonal and focal necrosisand ballooning in liver of rabbits treated with paracetamol. It showed only mild steatosis with sinusoidal dilatation and binucleate cells ingroups receiving Caesalpinia decapetala. Conclusions: It is concluded that Caesalpinia decapetala possesses significantHepatoprotective activity.

Dispersal in microbes: fungi in indoor air are dominated by outdoor air and show dispersal limitation at short distances

The indoor microbiome is a complex system that is thought to depend on dispersal from the outdoor biome and the occupants' microbiome combined with selective pressures imposed by the occupants' behaviors and the building itself. We set out to determine the pattern of fungal diversity and composition in indoor air on a local scale and to identify processes behind that pattern. We surveyed airborne fungal assemblages within 1-month time periods at two seasons, with high replication, indoors and outdoors, within and across standardized residences at a university housing facility. Fungal assemblages indoors were diverse and strongly determined by dispersal from outdoors, and no fungal taxa were found as indicators of indoor air. There was a seasonal effect on the fungi found in both indoor and outdoor air, and quantitatively more fungal biomass was detected outdoors than indoors. A strong signal of isolation by distance existed in both outdoor and indoor airborne fungal assemblages, despite the small geographic scale in which this study was undertaken (<500 m). Moreover, room and occupant behavior had no detectable effect on the fungi found in indoor air. These results show that at the local level, outdoor air fungi dominate the patterning of indoor air. More broadly, they provide additional support for the growing evidence that dispersal limitation, even on small geographic scales, is a key process in structuring the often-observed distance–decay biogeographic pattern in microbial communities.

The Emergence of Gender-Neutral Housing on American University Campuses

American college housing is beginning to introduce gender-neutral housing, or the housing of students in the same room regardless of gender. This study provides a descriptive overview of gender-neutral housing from 148 universities and documents central areas of debate in current policy discussions. Information regarding gender-neutral housing policies and practices at each of these campuses was collected. Results suggest that gender-neutral housing is currently an uncommon occurrence as a formalized housing option for most students. However, almost half of the schools sampled are currently engaging in formal or informal policy discussion regarding the addition of gender-neutral housing. Important future questions and priorities for both college administrators and scholars are suggested.

Who is teaching 'Fluid and Electrolytes'?

The nephrology teaching legacy is extensive. Claude Bernard, Carl Ludwig, Homer Smith, William Schwartz, Arnold Relman, Karl Gottschalk, Robert Narins, Jerome Kassirer, Mitchell Halperin and many others made their mark in the area of teaching the internal environment and its regulation, a discipline commonly termed ‘fluid and electrolytes’. Other medical specialties need these skills every day: critical care medicine, anaesthesiology, surgery, paediatrics and many others. However, the duty of teaching this material to medical students and house staff physicians is the purview of nephrologists. Thus, when other doctors cannot come to grips with these problems, we should become introspective and blame ourselves. We must insist that more time be devoted in medical school to house staff training, board examination preparation for medical specialties other than our own and to continuing medical education to pass this information on to younger colleagues. A recent patient underscored the lack of skills inherent in our own university house staff training programme in this regard.

Globalisation and its discontents: an Indonesian perspective

It is indeed a great honour for me to give the 2011 Heinz Arndt Memorial Lecture.The first time I met the great Professor Heinz Arndt was as a nine‐year‐old back in 1966 when our family first came to Canberra and Heinz was my father's (Panglaykim) new boss. I recall that he picked us up at the airport and within the first week we had visited his house in Deakin, where he gave me and my two brothers games such as Chinese checkers and books that his own kids had outgrown. So my first thought was: what a kind and thoughtful man.Little did I know that I would end up being what he often termed his ‘academic grandchild’. I never took a class from Heinz or was fortunate enough to be supervised by him. However, I had many interactions with him when I was a student at the Australian National University (ANU) and, upon graduation, as an aspiring young academic. He had an important influence on the course of my life. First, he encouraged me to do my PhD in the USA. After I completed my masters at the ANU under Peter Drysdale, I toyed with the idea of continuing with a PhD at the Research School of Pacific Studies. However, Heinz convinced me to go to the USA because he thought it would widen my horizons. He was right.Second, there was the importance of being disciplined and thorough in undertaking country or regional research. One of the most important initiation exercises for an academic working on Indonesia was to do a ‘Survey of Recent Developments’ for the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. I recall being given a yellowed document that had been formulated by Heinz with precise guidelines on topics, structure, and people to see and interview. We found similar guidelines on regional surveys when we did economic surveys of all the provinces a few years later. I found that doing the research and interviews for the survey was the easy part. The hard part was the two weeks spent in Canberra writing up the survey and being subjected to peer review. The draft was presented to the ‘editorial team’ and others, including, of course, the venerable Professor Arndt. I am glad to say that I passed in terms of substance; but of course there were lots of edits to do following Heniz's traditional typed‐up comments, both general and specific!Third, despite being a formidable figure and someone with a reputation for strong opinions, Heinz was the same kind and thoughtful man I remembered as a nine‐year‐old. He always had the time of day for the young academics, especially those from Indonesia. I had many cups of tea with him as a student and later as an aspiring academic. I still recall his room in University House filled with his books and the filing cabinet near the bathroom, where he would inevitably pull out the right references and reading materials that one needed. I learned a lot about the importance of mentoring and encouraging the young—many of whom have succeeded and are in the room today.This lecture is to honour Professor Heinz Arndt. I believe Professor Arndt was a true internationalist and therefore he would tackle with gusto the rumblings of discontent on globalisation. He would be thorough in trying to understand the manifestations of globalisation and its sources of discontent. He would also be of the firm belief that the benefits of globalisation outweigh its costs and come up with strategic ideas on how to best manage globalisation to counter ‘globaphobia’. I hope I do justice to this topic in the Heinz Arndt tradition.

Fulbright Programs

In 2010, I was named a Fulbright Scholar and was placed in Hangzhou, China, to teach and conduct research in the Public Health Program at Zhejiang University. Living and working in China from February to July 2011, was the most exciting, rewarding, and personally satisfying experience of my career. The purpose of this article is to explain Fulbright programs of interest to health educators, to share some of my Fulbright experiences, and to encourage more health educators to participate in Fulbright programs. Fulbright is a wonderful way to share one’s expertise with professionals in a foreign country, to learn new things from colleagues in your host country, to fully experience a new culture, and to further develop one’s career through networking and future international exchanges. The Fulbright program began in 1946 when Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas introduced legislation to establish an international exchange program with the goal to “increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries” (Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 2011b, Fulbright Section, para. 1). Fulbright is now considered the “flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government” (U.S. Department of State, 2011, What Is Fulbright Section, para 1). Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the Fulbright program is “a centerpiece in American engagement around the world, and has helped to provide unforgettable experiences to hundreds of thousands of students and scholars from so many countries” (Still4Hill, 2010, Secretary Clinton, para. 4). Since its inception Fulbright has sponsored more than 300,000 participants to study, teach, and conduct research in 155 countries around the world. The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation made by the United States Congress to the Department of State. Participating governments and host institutions in foreign countries also contribute through direct funding as well as salary supplements, tuition waivers, and university housing.

Advancement of Integrated Pest Management in University Housing

Research was conducted in collaboration with the University of Florida (UF), Department of Housing and Residence Education (DOHRE) to assess and advance the campus integrated pest management (IPM) program they initiated in 2003. Beginning in 2008, the UF, DOHRE advanced IPM program was based on resident education, periodic inspection, and a systematic decision-making process whereby apartments were monitored, pests identified, action thresholds determined, and safe and effective pest management options used. The continuously improved process began with pest management methods based on resident behavior, such as sanitation and pest exclusion accomplished by the residents, accompanied by physical controls, including barriers installed by maintenance personnel and pest control devices maintained by DOHRE IPM technicians. If pest problems persisted, low risk materials were used, for example, dishwashing detergent solutions, boric acid, diatomaceous earth, bait stations, and botanical or microbial insecticides. There was a significant improvement in pest prevention behavior of the residents after the 2008 DOHRE IPM education and inspection campaign; however, there was no change in the already low annual number of pest complaints. From 2003 through 2008, ants were the most common pest reported, followed in order by cockroaches, stored product pests, and termites. The amount of insecticide active ingredient used per year decreased by ≈92%, virtually eliminating the use of hydramethylnon, borate, desiccants, organophosphates, fipronil, and pyrethroids. Further advancements can be made in campus IPM by increasing resident education and DOHRE IPM technician training, and the level of pest preventative inspection and maintenance.

Integrated Pest Management Policy and Treatment Options for University Housing

The purpose of this manual is to train pest management technicians of the UF Department of Housing and Residence Education in integrated pest management (IPM). It includes the DOHRE IPM policy, specific IPM objectives, responsibilities of the DOHRE Senior IPM Technician, a flow chart of IPM actions, and requirements for using pesticides and associated recordkeeping. Pest-specific IPM options are provided for ants; bed bugs; bees and wasps; birds and bats; booklice, silverfish, and earwigs; cockroaches; flies; rodents; stored product pests; termites; and weeds. Selected references are provided, and there are forms for assuring service, pest surveillance, and record keeping. This 42-page training manual was written by Kevyn J. Juneau, Jennifer L. Gillett-Kaufman, Norman C. Leppla, Kirk W. Martin and A. Wayne Walker and published by the UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, February 2010. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in880 Revised 2012.

Keys to Survive/Thrive as African American Women at PWIs

Keys to Survive/Thrive as African American Women at PWIs

For the last time!

This will be my last Editorial for ANZJOG. Four years seem to have gone very quickly, but I can look back over this time with a great deal of satisfaction. As I foreshadowed at the end of the last Editorial, the Impact Factor (IF) has risen again to 1.316 and the journal has also increased its ranking to 46 of 69. This is a great achievement given the nature of our journal and the types of articles that we publish, focussing very much on general O&G with clinical research being at the forefront. Impact factors are calculated based on the numbers of citations over the last year for articles published in the two previous years. In some branches of medicine, there is often very rapid translation into numerous citations. Also, with some highly specialised journals, there is a large amount of ‘self-citing’ as the field is very narrow and a much higher likelihood that a related article will cite one previously published. A general journal will sometimes publish articles that will be cited for many years into the future, but which will not be taken into account when the IF is calculated. We do still have some way to go to reach the average IF of Wiley-Blackwell’s journals, which currently stands at 2.05. The annual report for ANZJOG tells us that last year we published 162 articles (including Case Reports and Letters) out of well over 500 submitted, which represents an acceptance rate of about 28%. There were over 86 000 full text downloads of articles, and over 459 000 abstracts were accessed! These articles came from 29 different countries, reflecting the truly international nature of ANZJOG. Australian & New Zealand authors contributed 108 articles (66.5%). There has been a significant shift in the time that I have been in this position. When I started, it was proving quite hard to fill each issue with publishable material. Now, it is getting much easier and in some cases, the time to publication is longer than I would like. Unfortunately, this means that we do now have to reject many articles that are of a publishable standard as a result of lack of space. Contrary to a popular view that I have heard expressed from many quarters, we do not have any publication bias towards local material, nor should we. All articles are considered on their merits regardless of where they originate, and from which professional group they have come. I have chosen another article myself for this issue. It is the turn of the first decade of this century and I have selected one from right at the beginning of the decade. One of the co-authors is Caroline Crowther from Adelaide who remains one of our most prolific O&G academics with a truly international profile. The article is not one which changed practice, but is certainly of important historical interest as it reflects the views of the Fellowship on screening for group B streptococcus (GBS) at that time. This survey shows that the Fellowship was almost split down the middle in favour of either screening or a ‘treat by risk factors’ approach. Even today, despite two very definite College statements, it is evident that the screening approach is not by any means universal, and in some cases, treatment does not follow in the face of risk factors. The problem of what to do about GBS remains one of the vexed questions in modern obstetrics. Finally, I thank all the people who have helped to make this venture a success. My Editorial Board (past and present) are invaluable and I thank them personally for all their hard work. The staff of College House and those at Wiley-Blackwell who turn my decisions into published material have all been wonderful. Finally, I thank all the reviewers who do this as a ‘labour of love’. We have a very small pool to select from and I am conscious that I am often asking people who are already over-committed to take on just one more thing! Your work is very much appreciated and I hope that all of you will continue to support our new Editor-in-Chief, Professor Jan Dickinson, to whom I wish every success in her new role.

The Live-In Librarian

Because of the proliferation of remote resources that allow users to complete research without visiting a library in person, many academic librarians have responded with outreach initiatives that extend library services to a variety of campus locations. Residence halls, however, have received little attention as an outreach venue despite the fact that most universities stress the importance of housing’s educational mission. In the three years that University of Oklahoma librarian Karen Antell lived as Faculty-in-Residence, she developed extensive library and educational programming for the students in her residence hall. These experiences formed the basis of a successful continuing outreach program to students in university housing even after Antell was no longer living in the dormitory. This article describes these programs and places them in the context of other institutions’ outreach efforts, identifying factors necessary for successful library outreach to residence halls

Women Reflect on the SSAO Job Search Process

Women Reflect on the SSAO Job Search Process