Unpublished Thesis Research Articles

Position Statement on Tobacco Exposures in Children and Families

Tobacco use was declared a “pediatric disease” in 1995 by the US Food and Drug Administration due to the strong connection between tobacco use/exposure in children (Kessler et al., 1997). Tobacco use and exposure are the single most preventable causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States and worldwide. The health consequences during childhood have been clearly documented, and the US Surgeon General stated in 2006 there are no safe levels of tobacco exposure (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010a). The first position statement on tobacco exposures was developed by the Society of Pediatric Nurses (SPN) Public Policy Committee in 2004. Tobacco use, particularly among childbearing and childrearing families, has decreased slightly since 2004, though tobacco use and exposure remains a critical health issue for vulnerable populations of children and families. SPN is dedicated to supporting its members in their practice, as well as promoting the health and wellbeing of children and families. Pediatric nurses can play a pivotal role in reducing tobacco use and children’s tobacco exposure. Interventions to reduce tobacco use and exposure can include clinical advice, counseling, referral to smoking cessation, and policy changes. While most pediatric nurses may conduct these interventions in health-related settings, attention must be directed to other settings that serve children, such as preschool programs, schools, recreational programs, community settings, and others. Working together we, as pediatric nurses, can strive for the goal that all children have the right to grow up in a smokefree and healthy environment. Tobacco exposures—that is, tobacco use, secondhand smoke, or thirdhand smoke exposure—are highly prevalent

Cooking Up Healthy Citizens: The Pedagogy of Cookbooks

Cooking Up Healthy Citizens: The Pedagogy of Cookbooks

Towards a Structured Approach to Reading Historic Cookbooks

Towards a Structured Approach to Reading Historic Cookbooks

Searching for the hidden story in Ben Marais' theology SA ePublications

BJ Marais' theology is seemingly mainline Protestant with a focus on the New Testament and the Christ event. However, not least a close reading of his unpublished dissertation on the early church and his other major writings reveals apophatic tendencies. He continuously drew inspiration from the early church as well as from the ecumenical movement (World Council of Churches), while the South African church and his people remained a major concern. Here three stories are reflected : The Christ event, the sad and unresolved South African story and the hidden story of how the early church handled slavery. Tensions between these stories are never resolved. In addition he remains undecided on a number of theological issues.

New (and Ancient) Lights on the Life of Juan Pérez de Montalbán

This article, based partly on data contained in its author's unpublished doctoral thesis, and conceived as a tribute to Don Cruickshank's masterly biography Don Pedro Calderón, offers a brief account of the life of that dramatist's coeval, collaborator and friend, Juan Pérez de Montalbán. After an initial section on his family, in particular his father, the important bookseller and publisher Alonso Pérez, it gives details of Montalbán's many years as a student at the University of Alcalá (from which it emerges that he was born not in 1602 but in 1601), and of his various religious activities. The next section deals with his development as a poet, prose writer and playwright, with reference to all his important works, especially of course his autos and comedias. A final section covers the last seven years of his life, the mental illness which led to his premature death in 1638, and the tributes which followed to a dramatist—as popular as any in his day—who had been seen as Lope de Vega's heir apparent, and welcomes a recent initiative aimed in particular at making his plays far more accessible than heretofore.

The Influence of Social Support on Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Survival: A Systematic Review of Literature

BackgroundHematopoietic Stem cell Transplantation (HSCT) can negatively impact the psychosocial well-being of the patient. Social support is a complex term that has been variably used to encompass perceived and objective support, including caregiver presence. Social support has been associated with superior psychosocial outcomes; however the influence of social support on HSCT survival remains unclear. We sought to summarize the literature on the influence of social support on HSCT survival.MethodsMedline, EMBASE, Cochrane, CINAHL, and PsycINFO were searched using the following search categories/concepts: 1) HSCT, 2) Social support, 3) Caregiver, 4) Survival, and 5) Treatment outcomes.ResultsWe identified 6 relevant studies: 4 publications, 1 dissertation, and 1 abstract. Three studies were retrospective and 3, prospective. Sample size ranged between 92–272 with a mean/median patient age between 30–55 yrs. The duration of follow-up ranged between 13.3–48 months. Social support was measured inconsistently: 2 by retrospective investigator assessment, 2 as patients’ perceived support, 1 as caregiver presence, and 1 included caregiver presence and retrospective investigator assessment. The 4 published studies and 1 abstract demonstrate an association between better social support and survival. However, the unpublished dissertation, with the largest sample size found no association.ConclusionsThere is a paucity of evidence examining social support with HSCT survival. Available studies are older, with the most recent publication in 2005. A heterogeneous group of HSCT patients were studied with variable follow-up times. Further, covariates were variably considered in HSCT survival analyses and we suggest that there may be publication bias, given the negative unpublished study with the largest sample size. Prospective studies using validated scales are necessary to better assess the influence of social support on HSCT mortality. Given the potential for improved HSCT survival with better social support, HSCT centres should routinely provide HSCT recipients and their caregivers with enhanced psychosocial services.

(2122) Proposal to conserve the name Dunbaria (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae) with a conserved type

TAXONVolume 62, Issue 1 p. 180-181 Proposals to Conserve or Reject NamesFree Access (2122) Proposal to conserve the name Dunbaria (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae) with a conserved type Jos van der Maesen, Corresponding Author Jos van der Maesen jos.vandermaesen@wur.nl Wageningen University, Naturalis Biodiversity Center (section NHN), Biosystematics Group, Herbarium Vadense, Generaal Foulkesweg 37, 6703 BL Wageningen, The NetherlandsSearch for more papers by this authorGea Zijlstra, Gea Zijlstra Laboratory of Palaeobotany & Palynology, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, The NetherlandsSearch for more papers by this author Jos van der Maesen, Corresponding Author Jos van der Maesen jos.vandermaesen@wur.nl Wageningen University, Naturalis Biodiversity Center (section NHN), Biosystematics Group, Herbarium Vadense, Generaal Foulkesweg 37, 6703 BL Wageningen, The NetherlandsSearch for more papers by this authorGea Zijlstra, Gea Zijlstra Laboratory of Palaeobotany & Palynology, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, The NetherlandsSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 February 2013 https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.621021AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume62, Issue1February 2013Pages 180-181 RelatedInformation

Using Deterministic, Gated Item Response Theory Model to detect test cheating due to item compromise.

The Deterministic, Gated Item Response Theory Model (DGM, Shu, Unpublished Dissertation. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2010) is proposed to identify cheaters who obtain significant score gain on tests due to item exposure/compromise by conditioning on the item status (exposed or unexposed items). A "gated" function is introduced to decompose the observed examinees' performance into two distributions (the true ability distribution determined by examinees' true ability and the cheating distribution determined by examinees' cheating ability). Test cheaters who have score gain due to item exposure are identified through the comparison of the two distributions. Hierarchical Markov Chain Monte Carlo is used as the model's estimation framework. Finally, the model is applied in a real data set to illustrate how the model can be used to identify examinees having pre-knowledge on the exposed items.

The “Less Fashionable” Influence of Max Beerbohm on Flannery O’Connor

DONALD E. HARDY University of Nevada, Reno The “Less Fashionable” Influence of Max Beerbohm on Flannery O’Connor IN A 2008ISSUE OF MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY. DEVOTED TO LITERARY influence, Andrew Elfenbein comments, “Writing about influence turns out to be harder than it looks” (“Defining Influence” 436). I would say that writing about influenceisalsomuchmoredifficultthan feeling with certainty that one has recognized influence. Happening upon a passage in an earlier author’s work that might have been echoed, however subtly, in Flannery O’Connor’s fiction, for instance, is exhilarating. There is a sense of being in the presence of a written voice that O’Connor knew well. The question of influence on such a stylistically striking writer as Flannery O’Connor has, naturally, occupied many readers and scholars. Melvin J. Friedman, for example, finds motivation for O’Connor’s “Dickensian devotion to oddity” of characters in François Mauriac’s call for a “transposition of reality and not a reproduction of it” (10) in fiction; Friedman also notes that others, including O’Connor herself, have discussed her connection to Mauriac (10-11). Further influence studies include analyses of O’Connor focused on the impact of the content, style, or thought of the following: Aquinas (Rath), Conrad (Burkman and Meloy), Dostoevsky (McMillan; Hooten), Eliot (Sally Fitzgerald), Gogol (Maus), Hawthorne (Emerick), James (Desmond), Poe (Evans), and West (Sally Fitzgerald). This small sample includes only some of the more widely recognized writers who have attracted the attention of O’Connor scholars. Yet, proving influence or even distinguishing influence from the effects of two authors simply and accidentally using similar images, for example, is sometimes dangerous ground, as Elfenbein implies (“Discrimination” 483) and as some of O’Connor’s comments on her readers’ suggestions of influence warn them and us. Kathleen Feeley’s remarks in her book on the influence of O’Connor’s theological readings on her fiction are especially apt, both specifically and generally, for my explorations in this essay: “Because many of the books [in O’Connor’s library] are not dated, it is difficult to discern whether other writers inspired ideas in her, or whether their 280 Donald E. Hardy ideas confirmed her own thought” (10-11). Knowing what O’Connor read and when she read it are only two of the many problems with proving influence. In 1964, very shortly before she died, O’Connor wrote a letter to Marcus Smith in response to his suggestion that Nathanael West figured heavily in her literary development.1 She admits, “West may have had some influence on me stylistically.” But she concludes, “Thanks for your interest. I wish I could be of more help but I doubt if most writers have much idea of where their greatest influence came from. For me, I wouldn’t say West” (Collected 1215-16). O’Connor was very ill at this time; it is remarkable that she had the energy to respond to the inquiry at all. In one of the best essays yet published on O’Connor’s influences, Sally Fitzgerald traces the heavy significance of T. S. Eliot on the composition of Wise Blood, with some treatment of Nathanael West’s more widely recognized impact; Fitzgerald notes her own indebtedness to James O. Tate’s discussion of Eliot’s influence in his unpublished dissertation (“The Owl” 52). In that essay, Fitzgerald argues that O’Connor denied West’s influence on her for the same reason she rejected Kafka’s influence: “If at any point she rejected—or found that she was greatly at variance with—theessential vision of a writer, she was likely to reject, as well, the idea that she had been influenced or affected byhim”(“TheOwl”51).CharacterizingO’Connor’sviewofthesewriters and their works, Fitzgerald points out in particular that Kafka’s writing was “too deeply pessimistic” and that West’s “Christ-figure” was “sentimental” in Miss Lonelyhearts (“The Owl” 47, 50). As for O’Connor’s fiction itself, it is far from being taken as either pessimistic or sentimental, except perhaps by those few who grossly misunderstand her deeply spiritual yet clear-eyed view of human nature. In a 1953 letter to her good friend Ashley Brown, written much earlier than the...

Fruit anatomy of some Ferulago (Apiaceae) species in Turkey

The genus Ferulago W.Koch is represented with 49 species in the world and 34 species in Turkey. In this study, comparative fruit anatomical properties based on mericarp shape in transverse section of 27 Ferulago species grown in Turkey are given. A description of Ferulago cypria H.Wolff, which was mentioned as a new record in an unpublished postdoctoral thesis, is also given. As a result of this study, we are able to identify and classify the species of this genus by using anatomical features of the fruit. In addition, an identification key has been prepared to represent the similarities and differences between the species. The number of vittae distributed in the mesocarp demonstrates large differences between closely related species such as F. pauciradiata Boiss. & Heldr. (5-10 vittae) and F. isaurica Peşmen (97-102 vittae). Anatomical studies also confirm morphological classification, e.g., in sections Aucheria and Anisotaenia. According to this study, F. glareosa should be placed in a section other than Anisotaenia.

Indian mental concepts: Looking forward

Byline: T. Sathyanarayana Rao, L. Sam. Manickam, Roy. Kallivayalil Only he who can see the invisible, can do the impossible - Frank Gomes. The Beginning When we envisaged this project 2 years ago, we were clear as to what we intended to do. However, as we moved along we realized its complexities as aired by some of the eminent members of the psychiatry community. Though there were differences of opinion among the editorial team, we felt that we have to make a beginning. Over the years of practice of psychiatry in India, we realized that in order to provide effective care of the persons and families with mental disorders, we need to be innovative and inclusive of the diverse cultural setting which we hail from. Therefore, the real art of psychiatry depends on how well one integrates the diversity in one's practice. When we announced this initiative, several eyebrows were raised as to where we are heading to. Though we are not completely content with what we have achieved, but we could see the end of the tunnel after 2 years of incubation. We are hoping that there will be more psychiatrists who would dare to tread the path that we are laying, though it is not easy. The Impetus The models that we have are the steps taken by some of the pioneers in psychiatry who made solo ventures during their times and dared to move forward from the scientific tradition in which we are trained. Concepts that were considered alien to medicine and psychiatry were keenly searched and brought under the fabric of science. One of the treatises that was left unnoticed is ' The Yoga Sutras ' written by Girindrasekhar Bose. [sup][1] Efforts by Vahia, [sup][2] on bringing in Yogic concepts into the main stream has helped develop the branch of Yoga into a wider perspective and now a separate journal of Yoga is being published from India. Guru-Chela relationship that was proposed by Neki [sup][2] made researchers re-look at the doctor-patient and teacher-student relationship in the Asian cultural context. [sup][3] The concept of mind that is referred to in different Indian philosophical schools of thought intrigues many. [sup][4],[5],[6] The Current Effort From the time we launched this project two years ago, we have received numerous articles and many have shown interest to write. Out of the articles that we received, the editorial team has accepted almost half of the submitted articles for publication in this current volume. This decision was based on the pattern and flow of the content, relevance, completeness, and congruity with the basic Indian mental concepts as envisaged for this project. The very important determinant was its application to behavioral sciences, in general and psychiatric practice, in particular. Above all, space constraint had a significant role in the final outcome.. We would like to interact with those authors in future and provide mentorship to the young researchers as well. Some of the authors have considered Indian thoughts, without referring to the Indian treatise but have solely relied on authors from abroad that were available in Google search. However, there are several researchers in India, who have worked on different concepts but those may be in the libraries of different institutions in India or published in journals that are not yet accessible through the net search. Till Indian of Psychiatry was available online and was indexed in PubMed, a lot of Indian research in psychiatry also went unnoticed by the International Community of Psychiatrists. Therefore, we urge those who are interested in the Indian mental concepts to unearth the unpublished doctoral and master level thesis as well as those articles that are published in several Indian journals, including the Journal of Indian Psychology and to scan through the comprehensive list of articles that are available in the ICSSR publication. [sup][7] Some Thoughts The current issue is being brought out as a first volume/supplementary and we look forward to your valuable suggestions, creative and critical comments, and feedback on this initiative, which would help us to develop a guideline for the new authors to explore the Indian mental concepts. …

Test Taking Strategies Instruction and Iranian EFL Learners’ Performance on International Language Tests

This article has been retracted: please see AIAC PTY.LTD. Policy on Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement.(http://www.aiac.org.au/journals/Subtemps/PEPMS.pdf ) This article has been retracted based on the editorial decision upon conducting a thorough investigation. It came to our notice that the author has plagiarized this paper from an unpublished thesis carried out in a state university, Iran in 2010.

The theory and practice of Meles Zenawi

In the months following his death on 20 August, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has been eulogized and demonized in equal measure. But his policies, and the transformational paradigm on which they were based, have rarely been elucidated. While alive, Meles was equally indifferent to praise and blame. To those who acclaimed Ethiopia's remarkable economic growth, he would ask, do they understand that his policies completely contradicted the neo-liberal Washington Consensus? To those who condemned his measures against the political opposition and civil society organizations, he demanded to know how they would define democracy and seek a feasible path to it, in a political economy dominated by patronage and rent seeking? Meles did not hide his views, but neither did he ever fully present his theory of the ‘democratic developmental state’ to an international audience. Over nearly 25 years, I was fortunate to be able to discuss political economy with him regularly, including critiquing his incomplete and unpublished master's dissertation. During this time, his thinking evolved, but his basic principles and sensibilities remained constant. World leaders have lauded Meles' economic achievements without acknowledging their theoretical basis. Human rights organizations have decried his political record as though he were a routine despot with no agenda other than hanging on to power. Reviewing his writings on the developmental state, this essay shows the unity of his theory and practice. Meles had the quiet certitude of someone who had been tested – and seen his people tested – to the limit. Along with his comrades in arms in the leadership of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), he had looked into the abyss of collective destruction, and his career was coloured by the knowledge that Ethiopia could still go over that precipice. Many times during sixteen years of armed struggle in the mountains …

Sci-fi Eco-Architecture: science fiction, sustainability and design studio

In the summer of 2009, while on vacation in Italy, I lay on a deck chair on a beach under the scorching sun reading Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. I had taken Mike Davis's book as holiday reading after becoming interested in attitudes to sustainability as represented in films through supervising the unpublished dissertation ‘The Science and Fiction of Sustainable Living’. The dissertation analysed approaches to the green movement of the 1970s versus those held today. It did this through the study of ecological science fiction movies made during the two periods. As someone grounded in humanities research, using film studies research methods rather than conventional building science methods seemed to me an engaging, original approach to sustainability. The dissertation compared the 1972 American environmental science fiction film Silent Running to the 2007 British science fiction film Sunshine. During this supervision, the student gave me a copy of the films. Because Silent Running resonated with me, I took it on that same Italian holiday and watched it again. I recall thinking that Silent Running offered a departure point for an alternative kind of sustainable design studio. Then and there, I selected a film clip that I screened – in the background and without volume – at studio presentations to students held in September 2009.

A new species of Togoperla (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from China with a revised key to Togoperla males

The Togoperla is a relatively well-known genus in the family Perlidae including 12 recognized species (Stark and Sivec 2008, Cao & Bae 2010). However, Uchida (1990) proposed an additional species from Japan in an unpublished PhD dissertation. DeWalt et al. (2012) listed this taxon as a nomen nudum. Additionally, this species may be a synonym (B. P. Stark, personal. communication). The genus is most diverse in China (Table 1) with seven species recorded (DeWalt et al. 2012, Du & Chou 1999; Du et al. 1999; Sivec et al. 1988; Wu 1935, 1938; Wu & Claassen 1934). In recent surveys of the early spring stonefly fauna in Zhejiang and Guangxi provinces, we discovered a previously unrecognized species of Togoperla. Since Stark and Sivec (2008) have provided an excellent review on the genus, we focus our study on the description of this new species. All specimens are deposited in the Insect Collection of Henan Institute of Science and Technology (HIST), China.

A systematic review of population-based dental caries studies among children in Saudi Arabia

Dental caries critically impacts the health and development of children. Understanding caries experience is an important task for Saudi Arabian policymakers to identify intervention targets and improve oral health. The purpose of this review is to analyze current data to assess the nationwide prevalence and severity of caries in children, to identify gaps in baseline information, and to determine areas for future research. A search of published and unpublished studies in PubMed, Google, and local Saudi medical and dental journals was conducted for the three keywords "dental," "caries," and "Saudi Arabia." The inclusion criteria required that the articles were population-based studies that assessed the prevalence of dental caries in healthy children attending regular schools using a cross-sectional study design of a random sample. The review was comprised of one unpublished thesis and 27 published surveys of childhood caries in Saudi Arabia. The earliest study was published in 1988 and the most recent was published in 2010. There is a lack of representative data on the prevalence of dental caries among the whole Saudi Arabian population. The national prevalence of dental caries and its severity in children in Saudi Arabia was estimated to be approximately 80% for the primary dentition with a mean dmft of 5.0 and approximately 70% for children's permanent dentition with a mean DMFT score of 3.5. The current estimates indicate that the World Health Organization (WHO) 2000 goals are still unmet for Saudi Arabian children. Childhood dental caries is a serious dental public health problem that warrants the immediate attention of the government and the dental profession officials in Saudi Arabia. Baseline data on oral health and a good understanding of dental caries determinants are necessary for setting appropriate oral health goals. Without the ability to describe the current situation, it is not possible to identify whether progress is being made toward these goals. A roadmap with a clear starting point, destination, and pathway is a desperately needed tool to improve the oral health of Saudi Arabian children.

Sebouh David Aslanian. From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa.

As the title suggests, this book has an enormous geographic scope carefully anchored to early modern Armenian trade communities. Scholarship on both the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, especially for late ancient and early modern periods, has in the past fifteen years or so been increasingly creative and evocative of world history themes, such as maritime violence (piracy and hostage taking) and long-distance travel literature produced by Asians. Sebouh David Aslanian takes a fresh look at a more the familiar theme of wide-ranging trade between Asia and Europe. He argues that relevant Armenian records from church, monastic, and family archives constitute important Eurasian primary sources. These sources, he contends, help to reduce the gaps in quantity and quality between overall Asian sources and those of European trading companies and travelers that constitute “proxy” sources of Asian history (p. 22). Aslanian generously acknowledges the scholarship on which he builds, especially the unpublished dissertation of Edmund Herzig, “The Armenian Merchants from New Julfa: A Study in Premodern Trade” (1991).

A new species of Oecetis McLachlan, 1877 (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae) from Southeast Brazil: Validation of an unpublished species

Oecetis McLachlan is the most speciose genus within the Leptoceridae Leach, 1815. It contains more than 400 species distributed all over the world except Antarctica. The genus is easily recognized by its apparently unbranched M vein in the forewings, a character that McLachlan used to differentiate this genus from Setodes. Milne divided the genus into four subgenera, Quaria being one of them. The males of this subgenus are recognized by their prominent dorsolateral processes from abdominal segment IX in lateral view. Chen, in his unpublished PhD thesis, recovered this subgenus and erected three others based on a phylogenetic analysis. Herein we describe a new species collected in Southeast Brazil based on male specimens. This species was described by Chen but not published. The new species is recognized by its dorsolateral process on segment IX being slender, curved ventrad, and with the same length as the phallic apparatus, and by its inferior appendages each with its distal lobe cylindrical.

Iranella inopinata Gollestaneh 1965, a puzzling dasycladalean alga from the Lower Cretaceous shallow carbonate shelf deposits of the Zagros fold-thrust belt, SW Iran

Iranella inopinata gen. and sp. nov. was first described in the unpublished thesis of Gollestaneh (1965), as an incertae sedis from the Lower Cretaceous carbonate rocks of the Zagros fold-thrust belt. More recently, the taxon was formally, although provisionally described by Hosseini and Conrad (Geol Croat 61:215–237, 2008), as a dasycladalean alga named Salpingoporella? inopinata. Here, based on the interpretation of quite-abundant although scattered fragments, it is assigned to Iranella, a large-sized, stalked, and capitulum-shaped new genus of Dasycladales. The lower, stalked part of the thallus is cylindrical, strongly calcified, with first-order laterals only, while the large capitulum is only partly calcified, showing one or two orders of laterals. Traces of cysts (reproductive organs) are present in the basal stalk, either in the stipe or the laterals. Iranella inopinata looks to be endemic to the southwestern part of the Tethyan realm, in the Zagros area and also south of the Persian Gulf. In the Zagros Mts., it extends from the Berriasian to the Aptian, with an Acme Zone in the Valanginian. Sequential interpretation proves the presence of this species in the late transgressive and early highstand stages of system tracts, and reveals a low-energy, restricted, lagoonal or back-reef depositional environment, in an inner-platform setting.

OC-005 An exploration of the health and social needs of people living with inflammatory bowel disease: a metasynthesis

IntroductionThe Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire and the Rating Form for IBD patient's Concerns, are widely used measures in IBD but fail to capture the essence of living with IBD from...