Credit Card Usage of College Students: Evidence from Louisiana State University (Research Information Sheet #107)

In recent years, there has been a dramatic growth in credit card usage among college students. How are Louisiana State University undergraduates using credit cards? Are LSU students managing credit card debt wisely? What can LSU do to offer the appropriate kinds of help to enable students to be financially literate? These are the issues addressed in this publication.https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/agcenter_researchinfosheets/1007/thumbnail.jp

The MMC BioBank is a Resource that Supports Biomedical Research

Mission: To provide normal and diseased annotated human biospecimens to the research community that supports discoveries leading to improved patient therapies and advances in personalized medicine.https://knowledgeconnection.mainehealth.org/lambrew-retreat-2021/1052/thumbnail.jp

Contamination and growth of Bacillus cereus and Clostridium perfringens in Mexican-style beans

Because Mexican foods have been implicated in a number of outbreaks of foodborne illness in the United States, production procedures used in Mexican restaurants were investigated by interviewing four managers. Two major problems identified through these interviews were failure to cool large quantities of beans rapidly and failure to reheat beans thoroughly before placement on the steam table. Experiments were designed to study the effects of varying temperatures, duration of incubation, and the location in the product as it might affect aeration on growth of B. cereus and C. perfringens, singly and combined, in cooked mashed pinto beans. Growth of both B. cereus and C. perfringens was rapid at 37°C, with numbers of cells associated with illness reached in 4 and 6 hours, respectively. B. cereus may present more of a health hazard, since obvious signs of spoilage did not occur in these beans until 12 hours, whereas C. perfringens caused obvious spoilage of beans within 6 to 8 hours. At 23°C with B. cereus, the numbers associated with illness were found at 12 hours. However, the beans appeared to be spoiled before this level was reached with C. perfringens at 24 hours. Aeration, as indicated by location in the jar, appeared to have more of an effect on B. cereus growth than on C. perfringens, but good growth of the two species occurred in both top and bottom locations. Restaurant samples of bean dip and mashed beans were analyzed for contamination with B. cereus and C. perfringens. Total aerobic and anaerobic counts were determined. Only two of the 42 samples were found to contain B. cereus or C. perfringens and these were present in low numbers. The total aerobic and anaerobic counts varied from less than 100 to 100,000,000 per gram: chiefly lactic acid bacteria which appeared to be related to the seasoning ingredients. However, one batch of bean dip and one of mashed beans were found to contain large numbers of coagulase-positive S. aureus (>100,000/g)

Achieving a Pedagogical Transformation

This multi-disciplinary roundtable will discuss four distinct pedagogical transformations. These include using representations of children in world cinema to enable students to better understand the politics and formal elements of films across cultures, blending contemplative with more conventional analytical methodologies to enhance students’ comprehension of cultural production and practices, employing online learning systems to make assignment parameters more accessible to students and preserve valuable class time, and, lastly, creating assignments that encourage students to think, read, and write historically. In 2013, all four discussants received a Summer Teacher-Scholar Grant from the Office of Teaching and Learning, which support faculty efforts to achieve meaningful classroom change or renewal. The members of the roundtable will share the highs and lows they experienced in transforming their pedagogical approaches through new course design and innovations to current course offerings

Successful implementation of Helping Babies Survive and Helping Mothers Survive programs-An Utstein formula for newborn and maternal survival

Globally, the burden of deaths and illness is still unacceptably high at the day of birth. Annually, approximately 300.000 women die related to childbirth, 2.7 million babies die within their first month of life, and 2.6 million babies are stillborn. Many of these fatalities could be avoided by basic, but prompt care, if birth attendants around the world had the necessary skills and competencies to manage life-threatening complications around the time of birth. Thus, the innovative Helping Babies Survive (HBS) and Helping Mothers Survive (HMS) programs emerged to meet the need for more practical, low-cost, and low-tech simulation-based training. This paper provides users of HBS and HMS programs a 10-point list of key implementation steps to create sustained impact, leading to increased survival of mothers and babies. The list evolved through an Utstein consensus process, involving a broad spectrum of international experts within the field, and can be used as a means to guide processes in low-resourced countries. Successful implementation of HBS and HMS training programs require country-led commitment, readiness, and follow-up to create local accountability and ownership. Each country has to identify its own gaps and define realistic service delivery standards and patient outcome goals depending on available financial resources for dissemination and sustainment

MMC Biobank: A resource for translational research.

BioBank Director develops an Internal Investigator protocol which outlines collection logistics, sample processing, communications with clinical personnel for executing the study plan and transport of samples to MMCRI

Illustration of the 4-stage implementation model and categories for discussion during the 1^st and 2^nd Utstein-rotation related to the “Utstein Formula for Survival” (adapted from Søreide et al [26] with permission).

<p>Illustration of the 4-stage implementation model and categories for discussion during the 1^st and 2^nd Utstein-rotation related to the “Utstein Formula for Survival” (adapted from Søreide et al [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0178073#pone.0178073.ref026" target="_blank">26</a>] with permission).</p

Tanzania: Champions of LDHF in-situ training (adapted from Perlman et al [29] with permission).

<p>Tanzania: Champions of LDHF in-situ training (adapted from Perlman et al [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0178073#pone.0178073.ref029" target="_blank">29</a>] with permission).</p

Uganda: Implementing a broader program after scanning and planning.

<p>Uganda: Implementing a broader program after scanning and planning.</p