Coping With Discrimination Among Mexican Descent Adolescents

The current research is designed to explore the relationship among discrimination stress, coping strategies, and self-esteem among Mexican descent youth (N = 73, age 11-15 years). Results suggest that primary control engagement and disengagement coping strategies are positively associated with discrimination stress. Furthermore, self-esteem is predicted by an interaction of primary control engagement coping and discrimination stress, such that at higher levels of discrimination stress, youth who engaged in more primary control engagement coping reported higher self-esteem. The authors’ findings indicate that Mexican descent youth are actively finding ways to cope with the common experience of negative stereotypes and prejudice, such that their self-esteem is protected from the stressful impact of discrimination and prejudice. Implications of these findings for Latino/a youth resilience are discussed

Factors Affecting Grain Consumption: Evidence from 1999-2002 NHANES Survey Data

The latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that half of all daily grain servings be whole grains. Meeting the new guidelines may be a tall order for most Americans. Targeting nutrition messages that educate people on how to comply with these new recommendations requires a solid understanding of who needs to boost their whole grain intake. It also requires a better understanding of the way people consume grain-based foods - which types of foods, eating occasion and locations are more conducive to whole grain intake and which are more conducive to refined grain intake. This analysis makes use of the most recent NHANES data (1999-2002). We use data from the dietary recall and link it to a nutrient database that provides the number of food group servings for each food consumed in the 24 hour period to estimate how individuals' consumption of both total and whole grain correlate with socio-economic factors, specific health indicators, and behaviors related to food choices.Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,

A random matrix definition of the boson peak

The density of vibrational states for glasses and jammed solids exhibits universal features, including an excess of modes above the Debye prediction known as the boson peak located at a frequency $\omega^*$ . We show that the eigenvector statistics for boson peak modes are universal, and develop a new definition of the boson peak based on this universality that displays the previously observed characteristic scaling $\omega^*\sim p^{-1/2}$ . We identify a large new class of random matrices that obey a generalized global tranlational invariance constraint and demonstrate that members of this class also have a boson peak with precisely the same universal eigenvector statistics. We denote this class as boson peak random matrices, and conjecture it comprises a new universality class. We characterize the eigenvector statistics as a function of coordination number, and find that one member of this new class reproduces the scaling of $\omega^{*}$ with coordination number that is observed near the jamming transition.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, Supplementary Figures available at https://mmanning.expressions.syr.edu/epl2015

Human Hepatitis B Viral Proteins HBX and HBE: Roles in HepG2 Cell Line Survival and Cell Death

Existing reports of viral hepatitis, resulting in liver cell death have not been fully explained with regards to the mechanism ofthe viral proteins involved. The objective of the study is to determine if any of the Hepatitis B viral proteins cause changes in the survival of human hepatocytes and if so by what means. The two main candidates for inducing survival changes were the precore proteins (HBE) and HBX, both of which have been reported to accumulate in the liver of patients and to trigger an immune response. The human liver HepG2 cell line was chosen to study the effect ,of these proteins during transient expression. The results from this study show that both viral proteins can induce cell death by an apoptotic mechanism via caspases. HBX appears to trigger more cell death than HBE, while HBE-induced an initial proliferation of the cell culture followed by cell death. HBX-induced apoptosis appears to involve both extrinsic and intrinsic cell death systems through the Fas system and the mitochondria, respectively. There is also a total loss of the PI3K/Akt pathway surivial signals. The HBE-induced apoptosis appears to be through DNA damage triggering an intrinsic cell death program, coupled with a partial loss of the PI3K/Akt pathway that allows GSK313 to be activated, while keeping FHKR inactive. In both cases, the viral cell death can be prevented using the correct dosage of IL-6 stimulation, while loss of serum or the addition of ethanol can have an overall positive effect on the viability of HBX and HBE transfected cells. The deaths can also be prevented in varing degress by the inhibition of MEKI and PPIA/2A suggesting these pathways are involved probably by cross talking

Waterfront metropolitan borders: reshaping the waterfront of the City of Buenos Aires

Waterfront transformations represent key urban design strategies regarding metropolitan regeneration projects. Throughout history, the waterfront borders have been transformed mainly from industrial spaces to leisure, open and green areas. By analyzing different case studies and their criteria concerning the decision on morphological, environmental and urban aspects this research establishes what are the concepts that can be taken into account when reshaping public spaces in relation to the coastal border in the City of Buenos Aires

The Relationship Between Optional Developmental Education Enrollment and the Mathematics Achievement of Students at One Community College in Florida

Although nearly half of community college students require some type of remediation, less than one-third of the students who start in developmental education graduate within eight years (Park, Tandberg, Hu, & Hankerson, 2016). As such, there is great uncertainty regarding the effectiveness of developmental education (Ari et al., 2016; Bailey et al., 2013). Additionally, because most institutions rely on standardized testing to determine student course placements, many critics blame placement testing procedures for the perceived ineffectiveness of developmental education (Fletcher, 2014; Jaggars & Hodara, 2013). However, rather than adjust placement procedures, some states moved away from mandated placement, and in 2013, the Florida legislature passed Senate Bill 1720, effectively eliminating college placement requirements for most students by making developmental education course enrollment optional. This study examines the relationship between developmental education enrollment options and the mathematics achievement of students at one community college in Florida. Logistic regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between mathematics achievement (defined as course success and course grade) and developmental course enrollment. Logistic regression analyses were also conducted to examine the relationships between socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, enrollment status, developmental course enrollment, and mathematics achievement

The Post-2020 European Disability Strategy

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Cititizen's Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the PETI Committee, analyses the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 and makes recommendations regarding the new European Disability Strategy. The study reflects on the design and implementation of the current Strategy, as well as its achievements and shortcomings. The study makes recommendations in respect of the post-2020 European Disability Strategy. Those recommendations are addressed to the European Parliament, the European Commission and other EU institutions, Member States and key stakeholders, and relate to the groundwork needed to prepare the new Strategy, and the design, content and mechanisms for implementation and enforcement.<br/

Poster 148 Delayed Presentation of Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome in the Bilateral Anterior and Lateral Leg Compartments in a Soldier Exposed to Multiple Blasts From Improvised Explosive Devices: A Case Report

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