Modelling Provenance of Sensor Data for Food Safety Compliance Checking

The research described here was funded by an award made by the RCUK IT as a Utility Network+ (EP/K003569/1) and the UK Food Standards Agency. We thank the owner and staff of Rye & Soda restaurant, Aberdeen for their support throughout the project.Postprin

Description and Practical Application of the Physiologic Distribution of 3’-Deoxy-3’-[18F]Fluorothymidine in Companion Animals

Access to positron emission tomography (PET), and more recently PET combined with computed tomography (PET/CT), is increasing in veterinary medicine. This molecular imaging technology allows clinicians to map biological functions within patients based on the distribution and selective uptake of specialized positron-emitting radiopharmaceuticals. Although most clinical studies utilize 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-Dglucose (18FDG), a versatile but relatively nonspecific tracer that interrogates the energy metabolism of tissues, there is a growing need to establish reference values for alternative or adjunct tracers in veterinary species. Among these is 3’-deoxy-3’- [18F]fluorothymidine (18FLT), a thymidine analog that selectively accumulates in proliferating tissues. In the present work, 18FLT distribution in clinically healthy adult dogs and young adult cats was imaged using a state-of-the-art PET/CT scanner to define normal uptake levels within numerous tissues, including major parenchymal organs, bone marrow, and other sites of increased radiopharmaceutical uptake. The marrow signal was subsequently segmented into separate skeletal regions, and used to quantitatively define the adult marrow distribution pattern in the dog. Marrow activity is concentrated in the vertebral column (particularly within the thoracic and lumbar regions), sternum, ribs, and proximal aspects of the appendicular skeleton in the adult dog. Feline marrow distribution is similar; however, considerable uptake within more distal appendicular structures suggests that age-related marrow conversion is ongoing in 3-year-old cats. Outside the marrow compartment, physiologic uptake was observed within the urinary and biliary systems, intestinal tract, and variably within lymphoid structures. Prominent uptake within the hepatic parenchyma was also observed in cats, but not dogs, at the times imaged in this study. The details of normal canine and feline 18FLT biodistribution included in this dissertation may be used to inform lesion interpretation in dogs and cats with suspected disease. Likewise, quantitative details of adult marrow distribution in dogs may be used by clinicians to guide the selection of marrow sampling sites or inform tissue-sparing efforts during radiotherapeutic planning in canine patients

Fathers in home visiting: An examination of father participation in Iowa MIECHV

In this dissertation, father participation in early childhood home visits was examined using observational data from 50 Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) home visits where a father figure was present for a visit with a mother receiving services and a target child two years old or younger. The sample included 34 different home visitors. Videos were coded using the HVOF-R and HOVRS A+ observational tools. Fathers were more present and available during home visits than previous research indicates (Holmberg & Olds, 2015; McBride & Peterson, 1997; Raikes, Summers & Roggman, 2005). A father-figure was present in 25.1% of the initial home visit videos with a mother recorded for the state-led MIECHV evaluation. When fathers were home during the visit, they were available for 76.4% of parent-involved home visit activities. Average father engagement when he was available was 3.5 on a 1 to 7 scale. When available, fathers were included in parent-involved home visit activities by the home visitor an average of 42.5% of the time. Roggman, Boyce and Innocenti’s (2008) developmental parenting approach for early childhood practitioners and Korfmacher et al’s (2008) model for influences on parent involvement in early childhood home visiting were used as a conceptual framework. No home visitor practices were significantly related to father availability. Home visitor inclusion of the father was the only home visitor practice in this study significantly predictive of his engagement. Father engagement increased .053 (p \u3c .01) for each percent increase of father inclusive practices by the home visitor. In addition, father inclusive practices explained a significant proportion of variance in father engagement, R2 = .702, F(1, 48) = 112.43, p \u3c .001. The home visitor having a social science degree resulted in an increase in father inclusive practices by 14.50% (p \u3c .05)

New Frontiers in Management Research: The Case For Industrial Archeology

Management scholars traditionally rely on the review of journals and empirical data for information used in research projects and in the classroom. However, there is also a vast amount of material that remains virtually untapped by many management researchers - the artifacts, pictures, and remains of industrial and commercial organizations. Industrial archeologists specialize in studying organizational life, particularly, the life of manufacturing facilities, by examining of empirical data, as well as pictures, records, internal and external correspondence, other printed materials, and artifacts. This article delineates how management scholars can also take advantage of the wealth of secondary material that exists by integrating an industrial archeological perspective into their teaching and research programs

Don't Answer Back! The Community Land Trust and Narratives of Urban Resistance

A small part of the self-help housing campaign has been the slow emergence of the Community Land Trust (CLT) movement. CLTs are heterogeneous not only in terms of their scale and urban/rural contrast, but because the motivation behind their inception appear to be so different. In this paper we draw on the concepts of resistance put forward by those such as Ward (1996) and Scott (1985) and look specifically at two CLTs. In our two cases we find activists who work within the conditions and constraints under which home ownership ideology is generated. Both cases are located in major US cities, one in Boston and one in New York, and offer an insight into why a particular type of community organizing took place. We see a stand against gentrification in the heart of Manhattan, radical action to secure the ownership of land and to prevent displacement in a Lower East Side neighbourhood. In contrast, the second case shows a stand against the violence exerted in the degeneration of a South Boston neighbourhood. Here we see a community conversant with civil rights struggles who were able to secure the compliance of the local state through their direct action. Our work shows how narratives of resistance rely on activists and professionals who both share similar aims in resisting the hegemony of private capital and the state and in their resistance, highlight the contradiction between housing as commodity and housing as a process, something that is a central dialectical puzzle to the CLT movement

Literacy as a pathway between schooling and health-related communication skills: a study of Venezuelan mothers

This article addresses the mechanisms by which women’s schooling might affect the survival and health of their children. A theoretical model is proposed in which academic literacy skills serve as a pathway between formal schooling and maternal health-related behaviors. The model is tested through multivariate analyses of interview and literacy data from 161 mothers in a poor, urban community in Venezuela. Results show that the academic literacy skills women learned in school and retained into adulthood, predict their health-related communication skills above and beyond the amount of schooling they received. The importance of female schooling in developing countries is discussed

Making my faith my own: church attendance and first-year college student religious and spiritual development

There is a glaring lack of research on spiritual and religious development in human development journals. Emerging adulthood, specifically, is an important period to study religious and spiritual development because it is characterized by identity formation and an enhanced power of free will. Church attendance can provide a context for identity formation, but declines in religious service attendance are prevalent throughout late adolescence into emerging adulthood. Twelve first-year undergraduate students at a public Midwestern university who attended a Christian church regularly during their childhood participated in a semi-structured interview and shared their experiences, thoughts and feelings regarding church, their transition to college and their religious or spiritual identity. Six participants were attending a church or college ministry and 6 were non-attenders in college. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) revealed participants valued close relationships, acceptance, freedom of individual thought, and religious understanding at church and reasoned their attendance by previous church experience, desire for spiritual support and personal beliefs. Analysis also revealed critical events which coincided with changes in religious meaning or commitment. Additionally, a process of personalization of faith was discovered. Implications for these findings were discussed

Maternal literacy and health behavior: a Nepalese case study

This article addresses the question of whether literacy could be mediating the relationships of schooling to maternal health behavior in populations undergoing demographic transition. Recent studies in which literacy was directly assessed suggest a literacy pathway to demographic change. The literacy skills of 167 urban and rural mothers of school-aged children in Lalitpur District of the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal were assessed by tests of reading comprehension, academic language proficiency, health media skills and health narrative skill, as part of studies in the urban and rural communitiesthat included a maternal interview and ethnographic fieldwork on the contexts of family life, health care and female schooling. Regression analysis of the data indicates the retention of literacy skills in adulthood and their influence on health behavior; ethnographic evidence shows that selective bias in school attainment does not account for the results. Further direct assessment studies are recommended