Structured Literacy, Multi-Sensory Strategies, and Neurological Sciences Improve All Students Lives

Structured Literacy research indicates that orthographic mapping is the key to reading for typical learners and those with multiple types of learning differences including deafness, auditory processing disorder, and dyslexia, for example. Orthographic mapping is foundational to reading fluency, comprehension, and written expression. In this current ongoing study, multiple researchers are examined to uncover the best neurologically-based reading strategies and skills that strengthen reading for all students. These reading strategies and skills apply to cultures with character-based alphabets. I will discuss why districts and schools need a scaled orthographic system focusing on advanced phonemic awareness from preschool through high school. Age-appropriate, multi-sensory strategies, and kinesthetic activities will be incorporated to activate brain highways. Discussion also exemplifies basic health activities that synergize with brain activation strategies

Auditory Temporal Sampling Activation and Phonological Awareness

The purpose of this project is to validate how 1) Dennison’s Brain Gym movements activate 2) Temporal Sampling Framework (TSF) and phonology 3) increased academic fluency. Students aged 5-12 from three different SES groups—1600 per group—are from St Louis districts. Groups include 1) students with learning differences/average or gifted IQ. 2) Control groups have students without learning differences/average IQ 3) and students without learning differences/gifted IQ. Testing occurs outside school hours in a homework help center with occupational therapy (i.e. homework/movement), speech and language services (i.e. homework/audiology). We hope to find improved academic scores expected after Brain Gym movements and the autoregressor studies verify data. This will build on 1) prevention/intervention techniques 2) meta-analysis of learning differences a) movement/TSF functions underlying Dyslexia/learning differences b) auditory-specific and occupational therapy movement exercises c) more effective phonological screeners—infants through adulthood, and English speakers/native languages

Prevalence of Yersinia enterocolitica across phases of swine production

The objective of this study was to describe the prevalence of Yersinia enterocolitica (YE) in different swine production phases. In this cross-sectional study, individual pigs on eight farrow-to-finish farms were sampled for YE by collection of both feces and oral-pharyngeal swab

Effect of cleaning and subtherapeutic chlortetracycline on Salmonella

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of stringent cleaning and subtherapeutic chlortetracycline (CTC) on Salmonella enterica (SE) prevalence in market age swine

Quantifying tetracycline resistance

This study’s goal was to evaluate the impact of sub-therapeutic feeding of chlortetracycline (CTC) on the fecal concentration of tet(C), a gene that confers tetracycline resistance via an efflux mechanism. We developed a real-time quantitative PCR assay to measure the quantity of tet(C) in whole fecal DNA samples. The vast proportion of variability in tet(C) (91%) was associated with differences in concentration between the individual pigs, and there was no significant difference in the copy number of tet(C)/mg of feces between the treatment and control pigs (p\u3e0.05, linear regression, SPSS 11.0.5)

Effect of chlortetracycline on Salmonella and the fecal flora of swine

The goals of this study were to determine the impact of sub-therapeutic chlortetracycline in market swine diets on 1) the prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella enterica 2) antimicrobial resistance of the aerobic Gram negative fecal flora. There was no significant difference in the prevalence or antimicrobial resistance of S. enterica isolates. For the gram-negative fecal flora, there was a statistically significant difference (p\u3c0.05) between treatment groups for the frequency of antimicrobial resistance in the gram negative flora with pigs receiving chlortetracycline having a greater frequency of isolates resistant tetracycline, gentamicin, and ceftriaxone, and a lesser proportion of isolates resistant to ampicillin

Effect of group size and chlortetracycline on Salmonella in swine

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of stocking density and subtherapeutic chlortetracycline (CTC) on Salmonella prevalence in swine

Bosnia Stabilization Force (SFOR) and U.S. Policy

In December 1995, a NATO-led implementation force (IFOR) was deployed to Bosnia to enforce the military aspects of the Bosnian peace agreement. After fierce debate, the House and Senate passed separate resolutions in December 1995 expressing support for the U.S. troops in Bosnia, although not necessarily for the mission itself. Legislative efforts to bar funds for the deployment of U.S. troops to Bosnia were narrowly rejected. In the 105th Congress, similar efforts to bar a U.S. deployment after June 1998 were also rejected, although the FY 1998 defense authorization and appropriations laws contain reporting requirements that must be fulfilled before an extended deployment may take place. The defense appropriation measure requires the President to seek a supplemental appropriation for any deployment after June 1998

Development of strategies for effective communication of food risks and benefits across Europe: Design and conceptual framework of the FoodRisC project

The FoodRisC project is funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (CORDIS FP7) of the European Commission; Grant agreement no.: 245124. Copyright @ 2011 Barnett et al.BACKGROUND: European consumers are faced with a myriad of food related risk and benefit information and it is regularly left up to the consumer to interpret these, often conflicting, pieces of information as a coherent message. This conflict is especially apparent in times of food crises and can have major public health implications. Scientific results and risk assessments cannot always be easily communicated into simple guidelines and advice that non-scientists like the public or the media can easily understand especially when there is conflicting, uncertain or complex information about a particular food or aspects thereof. The need for improved strategies and tools for communication about food risks and benefits is therefore paramount. The FoodRisC project ("Food Risk Communication - Perceptions and communication of food risks/benefits across Europe: development of effective communication strategies") aims to address this issue. The FoodRisC project will examine consumer perceptions and investigate how people acquire and use information in food domains in order to develop targeted strategies for food communication across Europe.METHODS/DESIGN: This project consists of 6 research work packages which, using qualitative and quantitative methodologies, are focused on development of a framework for investigating food risk/benefit issues across Europe, exploration of the role of new and traditional media in food communication and testing of the framework in order to develop evidence based communication strategies and tools. The main outcome of the FoodRisC project will be a toolkit to enable coherent communication of food risk/benefit messages in Europe. The toolkit will integrate theoretical models and new measurement paradigms as well as building on social marketing approaches around consumer segmentation. Use of the toolkit and guides will assist policy makers, food authorities and other end users in developing common approaches to communicating coherent messages to consumers in Europe.DISCUSSION: The FoodRisC project offers a unique approach to the investigation of food risk/benefit communication. The effective spread of food risk/benefit information will assist initiatives aimed at reducing the burden of food-related illness and disease, reducing the economic impact of food crises and ensuring that confidence in safe and nutritious food is fostered and maintained in Europe.This article is available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund