The effect of Ocuvite supplementation on the density of macular lutein and zeaxanthin

A major disease of the retina is age related macular degeneration, or ARMD. In this disease, the photoreceptor cells die and blindness results. Lutein and zeaxanthin, two carotenoids highly concentrated in the macular area, are thought to help protect against ARMD. Supplementation has been shown to raise macular pigment levels of lutein. It is proposed that Ocuvite (Bausch & Lomb) supplementation, which is a preparation of lutein plus other antioxidant molecules, will increase the macular pigment density of lutein and zeaxanthin. This study had forty-eight optometry students, twenty-four male and twenty-four female, who were divided into two groups. Group one, the control group, received no intervention. Group two, the experimental group, received one tablet of lutein daily for six months. Heterochromic flicker photometry, a psychophysical technique, was used to measure the macular pigment density level over a seven-month period. The macular pigment density level was assessed at baseline before any intervention, and then approximately every month for six months. Lutein did not significantly increase macular pigment density levels over a six-month period in the experimental group versus the control group

Prospectus, February 3, 1975

PC SPEECH, DEBATE RAP OPPONENTS; Forensics Squad Third In 27 Team Field; Debate Team Takes 1st In DuPage Tourney; Young Republicans To Try Again; Japanese Flower Arrangers Meeting; StuGo Ends Boycott Against Canteen; UFO Expert Speaks Today; Parkland-MTD Conference; WIU Offers BIO Scholarship; Get Your Own Inner Peace; Financial Aid; Quarter To Semester System Switch Coming; editorials; The Kaleidoscope; The Short Circuit; essay: Boycott Canteen?; True Happenings; letters; Classified Ads; Cobras Continue On Rampage; Lake Land Losses; Becky Beach Leads Women Cagers; Bouncing Bob\u27s Basketball Bonanza; Intramural Basketball; \u27Oswald Acted Alone\u27?; Parkland Events; Convocations To Show Marlon Brando Flicks; Deodato, Christopoulos To Play At ISU Wed.; Callboardhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1975/1016/thumbnail.jp

Prospectus, December 18, 1974

REID IS LANDSLIDE VEEP VICTOR: MANDEL, PFAAB, HEDRON ALSO ASSUME OFFICE; Nutritional Labeling To Become Law Jan. 1; Boneyard Hassle May Be Nearing An End; New Debaters Impressive At Greenville; Vets\u27 Benefits Slow In Arriving (Again); The Sky Is Falling, The Sky...; ISU Announces 18 Scholarships For Top JC Applicants; Bouncing Bob Bonanza; Support Grape Boycott; Christmas Is What You Make It; Saturday On The Mall In Words And Action-Packed Pictures; Keeping Our Share; The Short Circuit; The Strange Case Of Del Boyd; The Kaleidoscope; A Column By And For Women; True Happenings; essay; letters; Peace On Earth?; \u27Silver Morning\u27 Rankin\u27s Return A Culmination; Share This One With A Friend; \u27War Child\u27 Return Of The Mutant Minstrel; Young Volunteers Here Working With The Aged; Blues At Ruby Gulch, Advice Well Taken; Rec Music Sponsors Christmas Singalong; Classified Ads; Ski Trip Leaves In Mid-January; Bank Offers PC License Plates; Student Association Rips State Pot Laws; Electronics Association Sponsors \u27Ham\u27 Giveaway; Cobra Offense Improving ; PC Cagers 5-0; Intramural Basketball Scores; Lee Oswald - Killer or Patsy?; Schoolboy All-Stater Davidson Joins Cagers; Fast Freddy\u27s Football Forecasthttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1974/1000/thumbnail.jp

Voices for food: Methodologies for Implementing a Multi-state Community-based Intervention in Rural, High Poverty communities.

BACKGROUND: Rural communities experience unique barriers to food access when compared to urban areas and food security is a public health issue in rural, high poverty communities. A multi-leveled socio-ecological intervention to develop food policy councils (FPCs), and improve food security in rural communities was created. Methods to carry out such an intervention were developed and are described.METHODS: A longitudinal, matched treatment and comparison study was conducted in 24 rural, high poverty counties in South Dakota, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, Nebraska and Ohio. Counties were assigned to a treatment (n = 12) or comparison (n = 12) group. Intervention activities focus on three key components that impact food security: 1) community coaching by Extension Educators/field staff, 2) FPC development, and 3) development of a MyChoice food pantry. Community coaching was only provided to intervention counties. Evaluation components focus on three levels of the intervention: 1) Community (FPCs), 2) Food Pantry Organization, and 3) Pantry Client & Families. Participants in this study were community stakeholders, food pantry directors, staff/volunteers and food pantry clients. Pantry food access/availability including pantry food quality and quantity, household food security and pantry client dietary intake are dependent variables.DISCUSSION: The results of this study will provide a framework for utilizing a multi-leveled socio-ecological intervention with the purpose of improving food security in rural, high poverty communities. Additionally, the results of this study will yield evidence-based best practices and tools for both FPC development and the transition to a guided-client choice model of distribution in food pantries. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov; NCT03566095 . Retrospectively registered on June, 21, 2018

An Environmental Scan of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on University and College Campuses: A Research Note

The purpose of this research note is to provide readers with an understanding of the diverse types of student mental health interventions that are being offered on North American universities/ colleges broken down into two types of interventions: (1) traditional, or non-mindfulness-based interventions, and (2) mindfulness-based interventions. Data were collected, organized, and synthesized during the first 5 months of 2016 (via a simple Google searches) for all North American universities/colleges that offered their students mental health interventions on their campuses. Traditional, or non-mindfulness-based interventions remain widely in use on university/college campuses and include: prevention and outreach, support groups and workshops, individual counseling, and self-help. Mindfulness-based interventions, although less widely available, include: mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, mindfulness- based stress reduction, guided meditations and yoga, compassion training, mindfulness-based technology, and mindful eating. There is an abundance of data that seem to indicate that colleges/universities are increasing the mental health interventions they offer to their students. In addition, the use of mindfulness- based interventions (a sub-set of mental health interventions) seems to be being used with an increasing frequency

Prospectus, January 20, 1975

STUDENTS RESPOND TO BOYCOTT; CU Mass Transit Increases Service; Few Support Canteen, Hate Food And Prices; A Separate Reality?; Dental Hygiene Gives Students Free Care; Trustees Approve Funding For New (Yellow Bricj?) Road; Amateur Radio Class To Begin; String Club To Present Music Festival; Sangamon State Rep. Here Feb. 4; Handicapped Left Out In Parking Lot Cold; Walker Blasts Fed Agencies, Refuses State-Level Tax Cut; \u27Sorry, Wrong Number\u27 Is PC Players\u27 Hit; Mighty Joe Young Sings Blues With Style; Right To Life To Meet; \u27Front Page\u27 A Flat Disappointing Comedy; what happens after boycott?; The Kaleidoscope; letters; PSA President Answers Day Care Questions; Monroe Doctrine Plays Bluegrass at PC Friday; New Student Privacy Law In Effect; The People\u27s Choice; Lit One: The Obscure Poet, Laying play dreaming..., Li Po..., Snow on the high Mountains..., Survival, Ode to you, O School!; Milhouse & Outhouse; Christmas Reprise; Classified Ads; Jack Ruby: Cubans And Strippers; File Petition For Graduation; Cobras Meet Top-Ranked Lakeland Tonight; Oliver Nets 40 Points As Cagers Rebound To Dump Springfield; Parkland No. 2 In Basketball; New Fencing Club Strives To Gain Members, Recognition; Women Cobras Open Season; Intramural Basketball; Parkland Events; Bouncing Bob\u27s Basketball Bonanzahttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1975/1018/thumbnail.jp

Prospectus, September 16, 1974

STUGO ELECTIONS SEPT. 25, 26; Student Senate Positions To Be Filled; Meet The New Prospectus Staff; 29 Added To Parkland Staff; BSA Sponsors Black Queen Contest; Lit. Page To Take Place of \u27Quill\u27; The $150,000 Gift; Letters To the Editor; The Short Circuit; Crime Pays . . . Well; The Kaleidoscope; This Is Your Newspaper; Opinion; Essay: Eulogy for Simple Justice; In The Dark With Craig Hoff; Parkland Debate Is Now Forming; International Meditation Society; Art Association; Stevie Wonder\u27s Latest \u27Beautiful, Creative\u27; Fewer And Fewer Fabulous Fashions; Right To Life To Reorganize; Really Raunchy Record Review; Heartsfield Rocks Gulch; Alpha Phi Omega; Health Insurance; Newman Club; Activities Budget Figures Released; Young Republicans To Reconvene; Republicans Plan Candidate Debate; Postage Machine; Classified Ads; Security Guard Enjoys His Job; A Column By And For Women: Continuing Education For Women; Rape Hotline System Available To Victims; Road Rally; Christian Fellowship; Jock Talk; PC Faculty Routs Maynards. Grabs Seecond; Fast Freddy\u27s Football Forecast: Rules Of The Game; Brock Expresses Relief After Breaking Record; Baseball Tryouts; Golfer At Bradley; Ski Club; Cross Country; Golf Schedule; Parkland Basketball Meeting; Callboard; Newman Club Welcomes Students; Bake Sale; TB Skin Tests; ID Cards; Bridge Clubhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1974/1010/thumbnail.jp

An optimized microarray platform for assaying genomic variation in Plasmodium falciparum field populations

We present an optimized probe design for copy number variation (CNV) and SNP genotyping in the Plasmodium falciparum genome. We demonstrate that variable length and isothermal probes are superior to static length probes. We show that sample preparation and hybridization conditions mitigate the effects of host DNA contamination in field samples. The microarray and workflow presented can be used to identify CNVs and SNPs with 95% accuracy in a single hybridization, in field samples containing up to 92% human DNA contamination