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Title: PERFECTIONISM AS A MODERATOR OF ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN BODY DISSATISFACATION AND DISORDERED EATING: AN ECOLOGICAL MOMENTARY ASSESSMENT STUDY
Creator: Hansen, Meghan A.
Date: 2017, 2017-07
Description: Disordered eating attitudes and behavioral urges are prevalent in community samples and contribute to numerous negative physical and...
Show moreDisordered eating attitudes and behavioral urges are prevalent in community samples and contribute to numerous negative physical and psychological outcomes. Using an ecological momentary assessment, this study examines how body dissatisfaction, perfectionism, and disordered eating relate to one another. Over the course of one week, women (n=49) with disordered eating completed multiple daily ratings of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating attitudes, urges and behaviors. Multilevel model analyses were used to test study hypotheses that; (1) body dissatisfaction prospectively predicts disordered eating attitudes and urges; and (2) perfectionism moderates the associations between body dissatisfaction and subsequent disordered eating attitudes and behaviors, such that individuals higher in perfectionism will report stronger associations between these variables. Results indicate that, in this sample, greater body dissatisfaction does not predict disordered eating attitudes, urges or behaviors. However, the interaction between increased body dissatisfaction and perfectionism predicted subsequent disordered eating attitudes and behavioral urges, but did not predict engagement in eating disorder behaviors. Results have important clinical and treatment implications for including perfectionism in the treatment of eating disorders.
Ph.D. in Psychology, July 2017
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Title: DEPRESSION AND ATTRIBUTIONS FOR DISTRESS
Creator: Hanson, Bjorn J.
Date: 2013, 2013-07
Description: Distress caused by depressive symptoms includes both direct and mediated pathways. Attributions for distress in individuals suffering from...
Show moreDistress caused by depressive symptoms includes both direct and mediated pathways. Attributions for distress in individuals suffering from depressive symptoms represent indirect pathways that have a high potential to be modified by psychotherapeutic interventions; however, little research has focused on the content of these attributions. This study provides the first quantitative measurement of this reasons-for-distress paradigm. Specifically, we aim to describe the frequencies, intensities, and co-occurrence patterns of attributions for distress, as well as distinguish the attributions for distress paradigm from previous attributions for depression research. Furthermore, we seek to demonstrate the accuracy of an illness behavior model for conceptualizing distress caused by depressive symptoms by differentiating symptom severity from symptom distress. In addition to quantifying attributions for distress, this study also extends previous research regarding rumination, the severity of distress caused by cognitive and vegetative symptoms of depression, and the co-occurrence of specific symptoms and specific reasons for distress. Individuals currently suffering from depressive symptoms were recruited from web-based advertisements to participate in this cross-sectional, online self-report study. A total of 204 individuals qualified for the study and completed some portion of the Reasons for Distress Questionnaire-Depression (RDQ-D). Results demonstrated that all reasons provided as part of the RDQ-D represented common attributions for distress in depressed individuals. Reasons related to personalized reasons for distress (Other), long-term outcomes (Long-term Consequences), productivity impairment (Work and Productivity Impairment), and x existential distress (Lack of Purpose or Meaning) were rated as significantly more distressing when compared with all reasons for distress. Cluster analysis suggested that certain reasons tended to co-occur and that some attributions for distress are nearly universal amongst individuals suffering from significant depressive symptoms. The reason-for-distress paradigm was demonstrated to be related to, yet distinct from, the reason-for-depression paradigm (Addis, Truax, & Jacobson, 1995). Distress ratings were also found to be moderately positively correlated with some depressive symptoms, but not others, providing support for an illness behavior conceptualization of distress severity in depression. Expanding on prior research, results showed that rumination was equally distressing and frequent across gender. Also, cognitive/affective symptoms of depression were rated as more distressing than vegetative symptoms of depression. Additionally, participants demonstrated the capacity to endorse specific reasons for distress in association with specific symptoms. As predicted, the existential reason for distress Lack of Purpose or Meaning was endorsed more frequently in relation to cognitive/affective symptoms of depression as compared to vegetative symptoms of depression. By focusing on specific symptoms of depression, the RDQ-D provides a clinical assessment that has the ability to identify specific unhelpful responses to symptoms that may be causing distress in addition to that inherent in the experience of the symptom. These unhelpful responses can then be included in case conceptualization, treatment planning, and intervention selection.
PH.D in Psychology, July 2013
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Title: INTERACTION OF DAIRY BASED PROTEIN WITH PHENOLIC ANTIOXIDANT OF STRAWBERRY POWDER
Creator: Feng, Haoshi
Date: 2012-05-04, 2012-05
Description: Fruits contain an abundant amount of polyphenolic compounds that have antioxidant properties. These compounds have shown the ability of...
Show moreFruits contain an abundant amount of polyphenolic compounds that have antioxidant properties. These compounds have shown the ability of reducing the risk of major degenerative diseases, relief from allergies/asthma, weight loss and improved circulation. Dairy proteins have numerous benefits as enhancing muscle formation, weight and blood pressure control, beneficial effect in bone and dental health and protection against toxins, bacteria, and viruses. The combination of both fruit and dairy in commercial or homemade mixtures, such as smoothies, is readily available and popular. But in fact, the interactions which happen between proteins and fruit antioxidants could affect the availability and potential activity of antioxidants. This thesis will focus on the interaction of dairy proteins with antioxidant from freeze dried strawberry and measure the availability of the antioxidant capacity. Freeze dried strawberry powder at different concentrations (1.64%, 3.28% and 6.56%) was mixed with four types of proteins at different concentration to demonstrate the interaction over a range. The proteins used were skim milk powder (6.89%), whey from bovine milk (0.51%), casein from bovine milk (2.04%), and albumin from bovine serum (2.55%). The antioxidant content was measured by several analytical techniques using LCMS/MS, Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) assay and Folin-Ciocalteu assay. SDS-PAGE was used to examine the change of protein molecular weight before and after the reactions. The binding interaction resulted in significantly reduced ORAC and Folin- Ciocalteu assay values compared to the respective non-protein strawberry mixtures (P<0.001 and P<0.05). The SDS-PAGE images between protein strawberry mixtures and non-protein strawberry mixtures showed similar results. The (+)-catechin, cyanidin-3-O glucoside, pelargonidin-3-O-glucoside and kaempferol-3-coumaroylglucoside content were significantly reduced when comparing skim milk based strawberry powder mixtures and non-protein strawberry mixtures (P<0.05). This research indicates the binding interaction between dairy protein and freeze dried strawberry powder reduces the antioxidant activity of the freeze dried strawberry powder.
M.S. in Food Safety and Technology, May 2012
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Title: MEASUREMENT OF INTRARETINAL NITRIC OXIDE IN EARLY DIABETIC RETINOPATHY
Creator: Guthrie, Micah
Date: 2014, 2014-12
Description: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most frequent cause of new cases of blindness among adults aged 20-74 years. Nearly all patients with Type 1...
Show moreDiabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most frequent cause of new cases of blindness among adults aged 20-74 years. Nearly all patients with Type 1 diabetes and greater than 60% of patients with Type 2 diabetes will develop retinopathy within the rst two decades of the disease. Nitric oxide (NO) has been shown to play a role in the progression of DR, contributing to neuronal dysfunction and the breakdown of the blood-retina barrier early stages of the disease. The objective of the current study was to investigate the changes in intraretinal NO levels in early DR. To accomplish this, a dual NO/electroretinogram (ERG) electrode was developed to make the rst direct measurements of NO concentration throughout the in vivo retina. These electrodes were validated in an in vivo animal model by comparing control recordings to those taken after injection of the broad spectrum nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor L-NG-Nitroarginine methyl ester (L-NAME). Control NO pro les showed high levels of NO in the photoreceptor layer with localized areas of increased NO in the amacrine/ganglion cell layer. L-NAME NO pro les showed substantially reduced NO in the retina, indicating that the electrodes were measuring actual NO. The electrodes were then used to record NO pro les from the retinas of rats made diabetic with streptozotocin (STZ). The recordings were obtained three weeks after injection of STZ. Blood glucose levels were also monitored in order to correlate the blood glucose level with intraretinal NO concentration. It was found that mild diabetic rats (blood glucose 250-400 mg/dL) had higherthan- control levels of NO throughout their retinas. Severe diabetics (500-600 mg/dL) had lower-than-control levels, while moderate diabetics (400-500 mg/dL) did not have signi cantly di erent NO levels than controls. The NO pro les from the severe diabetics were very similar to L-NAME pro les, indicating that NOS production may be abnormal in severe diabetics. It was also found that intraretinal NO concentration was inversely correlated with the blood glucose of diabetic rats. To determine if the changes in NO seen in diabetic rats were due to direct tissue exposure to high glucose, NO pro les were also recorded from rats acutely injected with glucose solution to achieve similar levels of hyperglycemia. No changes in NO levels were seen in the retinas of these acute hyperglycemic rats, indicating that there are other factors besides high glucose contributing to the NO changes in DR. The results show that there is not a simple increase in NO as severity of diabetes increases and highlight the importance of being able to make measurements of bioavailable NO in retinal tissue. The electrodes were able to detect clear di erences in experimental DR, indicating their utility in investigating NO changes in the early stages of the disease. Future work with the electrodes needs to be performed to investigate the mechanisms of NO changes in DR in order to develop potential treatments which could mitigate the damage at an early stage before vision loss occurs.
M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, December 2014
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Title: HIV-RELATED TRAUMA AND ANTIRETROVIRAL ADHERENCE: THE EFFECTS OF PERSONAL RESOURCES
Creator: Guy, Arryn A.
Date: 2017, 2017-05
Description: Suboptimal adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) can interfere with virologic suppression and increase risk of developing drug-resistant...
Show moreSuboptimal adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) can interfere with virologic suppression and increase risk of developing drug-resistant strains of the virus. People living with HIV (PLH) have difficulty complying with ART—a treatment regimen that is unforgiving of non-adherence—in large part because this population is at higher risk for stressors, including experiencing their HIV diagnosis as a traumatic event (e.g., Boarts et al., 2006; Theuninck, Lake, & Gibson, 2010). Perceived social support and coping are contextual and changeable factors that can be focused on in interventions to improve treatment adherence. This study aimed to confirm that more perceived social support is related to optimal treatment adherence in PLH who experienced HIV-related trauma, through bolstering coping strategies, namely, emotion-focused coping strategies like positive reappraisal and emotional social support seeking, and problem-focused coping related to managing ART (i.e., active coping). Participants were 62 young adults living with HIV recruited from a local HIV clinic. Participants were assessed for experiencing their HIV diagnosis as a traumatic event, perceived social support, coping, and medication adherence. Positive reappraisal, emotional support seeking, and active coping strategies did not mediate the relation between perceived social support and adherence, however, active coping had a statistically significant effect on adherence when controlling for other hypothesized mediators in the model. This finding has practical significance for clinicians in that it suggests active coping plays a more direct role in improving treatment adherence than emotional support seeking and positive reappraisal coping strategies.
M.S. in Psychology, May 2017
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Title: Grinnell variable pressure alarm valve
Creator: Eyers, Walter, Thomson, F. L.
Date: 2009, 1908
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/grinnellvariable00eyer
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1908 B.S. in Fire Protection Engineering,...
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Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1908 B.S. in Fire Protection Engineering, 1908
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Title: Highway improvement in the state of Illinois
Creator: Sears, I. Lee
Date: 2009, 1915
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/highwayimproveme00sear
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Includes "Contract form and general...
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Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Includes "Contract form and general specifications for bridge work"
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Title: SALMONELLA SURVIVAL DURING INOCULATION AND STORAGE OF DRIED SPICES CONTAINING ANTIMICROBIAL COMPONENTS
Creator: Hu, Chuxuan
Date: 2016, 2016-05
Description: To provide an adequate initial microbial level for spices containing antimicrobial compounds for use in stability testing of foodborne...
Show moreTo provide an adequate initial microbial level for spices containing antimicrobial compounds for use in stability testing of foodborne pathogens, a dry-transfer inoculation was designed and compared with a traditional aqueous inoculation protocol. A five serovar cocktail of Salmonella spp. was prepared at different concentrations (~11 log CFU/mL, ~8 log CFU/mL and ~4 log CFU/mL). It was inoculated onto 1g silica beads and four types of dried ground spices (clove, oregano, ginger, and black pepper). Both spices and beads were dried for 24h at ambient conditions (~22°C). Silica beads were then used as a carrier to inoculate the same four types of spices. The results suggest that dry-transfer of Salmonella via inoculated silica beads provided a greater starting inoculum than aqueous transfer alone and are a viable alternative to aqueous inoculation when spices contain antimicrobial components. This dry-transfer inoculated ground clove with 8.4 log CFU/g and 3.9 log CFU/g initial populations was then used to determine the survival of Salmonella on spices containing antimicrobial components. Salmonella spp. survival on silica beads with 9.2 log CFU/g and 5.9 log CFU/g initial populations and subsequent transfer to ground clove was also examined. Samples were enumerated at selected time point up to 210 d. Results of this study indicate that Salmonella transfer and recovery from beads and in ground clove was not affect by storage and that Salmonella may persist for an extended period of time. The calculation of recovery was, however, affected by detection limits in clove. To improve detection limits an oil extraction was used and compared to the BAM method (detection limit 3.7 log CFU/g). After oil extraction the clove samples were soaked for 1 h (or 24 h for low inoculum concentration) in TSB at 37ᵒC and subsequently enumerated on tryptic soy agar with 0.6% yeast extract and xylose lysine deoxycholate agars. The result demonstrates that the oil extraction detection method holds promise as an alternative method to detect Salmonella in dry spices containing antimicrobial components and can provide a lower detection limit (1.7 log CFU/g).
M.S. in Food Process Engineering, May 2016
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Title: Humidifying air in living rooms by attachments to the steam radiator
Creator: Andre, G. L.
Date: 2009, 1918
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/humidifyingairin00andr
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Biblography: leaf 60

Title: DESIGN OF INDUCTORLESS LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER
Creator: Huo, Yunsheng
Date: 2017, 2017-05
Description: With the rapidly increasing number of elements integrated on a single chip. The area on a chip became much costlier. And the difficulty of...
Show moreWith the rapidly increasing number of elements integrated on a single chip. The area on a chip became much costlier. And the difficulty of planning all the elements has been growing. So, decreasing the area cost of each single element became important to be considered. In the conventional technology, to cancel the imaginary part of the input impedance, inductors were used in the design of a LNA. However, inductor is an area consuming element, it would cost most of the chip area. To reduce the area cost of LNA, it is important to reduce the number of inductor, the best case is to design a LNA without any inductor. What’s more, without inductor, LNA would be able to work in a wideband frequency, but not a specific narrow-band frequency. But considering the imaginary part of input impedance, the highest frequency would reduce, depending on the f T of the MOSFET used in the design. In this thesis, the design considerations of heterodyne transceiver, which is the most popular architecture in modern RF design, are introduced firstly. Then, to reduce the undesired effect from image signal, a special architecture, called image-ejection architecture, is explained. To implement the proposal function, different architectures are shown. In RF receiver design, Low Noise Amplifier is one of the most important stages in the RX chain. To design a LNA which can meet different requirements of the RX design. Different topologies are explained, including CS stage, CG stage and differential LNA. Besides conventional technique, some up-to-date techniques are also shown, such as modified CG stage. The main propose of this thesis is to design an inductorless LNA. In this LNA design, Noise Canceling technology and Amplifier Enhancement technology were utilized to improve the noise and amplifying performance. After explaining the technologies theoretically, the circuit is simulated in a 65nm technology with working frequency band from 2 to 6 GHz. By the simulation, the gain of the design is beyond 14dB in the whole band, while the noise figure less than 2.8dB.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2017
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Title: CRITICISM, HEALTH FUNCTIONING, AND MARITAL ADJUSTMENT IN COUPLES WITH CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Creator: Hicks, R. Elliott Iii
Date: 2017, 2017-07
Description: Destructive communication and hostile interactions between spouses are associated with poor behavior maintenance and can elicit substantial...
Show moreDestructive communication and hostile interactions between spouses are associated with poor behavior maintenance and can elicit substantial increases in systolic blood pressure, heart rate, and cardiac output in patients (Broadwell, & Light, 2005; Nealey-Moore et al., 2007; Ryan & Deci, 2000). This negatively impacts the cardiovascular health of the targeted partner (Nealey-Moore et al., 2007; Ryan & Deci, 2000; Smith et al., 2009). Constructive, non-hostile criticism between partners may bolster behavior change and maintenance (Zinbarg, 2007). The present study assesses the relationship between forms of criticism and reports of marital adjustment, autonomous support, health functioning, and health behavior change in a sample of couples participating in a cardiac risk reduction intervention. Results indicate that Hostile Criticism predicted Physical Health Functioning. Further, there were no significant moderating relationships. Interpretation of results and future directions are discussed.
Ph.D. in Psychology, July 2017
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Title: High speed tool steel on lathe work
Creator: Hayes, C. E., Wilson, F. N.
Date: 2009, 1906
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/highspeedtoolste00haye
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: A KINETIC MODEL TO ESTIMATE VASCULAR PERMEABILITY FROM FLUORESCEIN VIDEOANGIOGRAPHY DATA
Creator: Hu, Shaoxian
Date: 2017, 2017-05
Description: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a disease affecting the tissue of the retina through hemodynamics and vascular damage that is a side effect of...
Show moreDiabetic retinopathy (DR) is a disease affecting the tissue of the retina through hemodynamics and vascular damage that is a side effect of hyperglycemia. As such, markers of hemodynamic and vascular irregularity have been proposed as potential early indicators of the disease. However, conventional approaches to estimate these conditions are not sensitive enough, leading to indications that are too late, appearing only after irreversible vision problems have occurred. Indicator-dye-dilution tracer kinetic modeling is a decades-old methodology that can be used to quantify blood flow and vascular permeability based on the kinetics of a rapidly injected blood pool imaging agent. The methodology is able to track sensitive hemodynamic changes in stroke and heart disease patients, yet it has never been applied to blood flow and vascular permeability mapping of the retina. The purpose of my Master’s thesis was to adapt those tracer kinetic methods to fluorescein retinal videoangiography data collected in human to map both blood flow and vascular permeability so that in future work, changes in these parameters can be quantified at varying stages of the development of DR. Studies were carried out on simulated data, healthy and diabetic rats, and healthy and diabetic humans. While a robust validation of measures of blood flow and vascular permeability are still required, this first-of-its-kind study exposed many unique complications in applying the kinetic models to human fluorescein videoangiography data. Specifically, eye motion must be accounted for, both detector and fluorescein fluorescence quenching signal saturation must be avoided, and standard use of automatic gain control of imaging exposure should not be used (though corrections were developed for this); rather, data should be collected at a stable exposure throughout a measurement. Solutions were developed for all of these complications that were tested in rat models (optimal data collection in humans is ongoing). In rat study, average vascular permeability in the rat measured by the “extraction fraction”, the extraction fraction in control subject (n=3) 9.4e-4±1.3e-3, is lower than STZ-diabetic subjects (n=3) 5.5-2±5.17e-2 and VEGF group (n=3) 7.6e-2±5.1e-2. In healthy human volunteers, retinal extraction fraction was measured to be 5.0e-5 ± 6.1e-5 (n=2), whereas this was found to be elevated to 1.2e-3 ± 1.0e-3 in patients for diagnosed DR (n=3). These early results clearly demonstrated a statistically significant elevation in vascular permeability in all diabetic groups compared to controls (p<0.05). The human study was carried out on advanced cases of patients who were known to have DR as a test case; however, the sensitivity of the approaches is demonstrated by the eatly changes in extraction fraction observed at only 48 h after the onset of hyperglycemia in the rat experiments (well before irreversible damage to the retina had occurred). These results are promising for the adaptation of our modified kinetic modeling approach to measure hemodynamics and vascular permeability changes during the early onset of DR when preventative therapies could be most effective.
M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, May 2017
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Title: INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF EDUCATION AND CONTACT-BASED ANTI-STIGMA INTERVENTIONS ON THE STIGMA OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE COLLEGE POPULATION
Creator: Kosyluk, Kristin
Date: 2014, 2014-12
Description: Approximately one in four college students screen positive for a mental illness, however many who might benefit from mental health care do not...
Show moreApproximately one in four college students screen positive for a mental illness, however many who might benefit from mental health care do not seek treatment. Amongst both the general adult population and college students, stigma has been shown to be a predictor of treatment engagement, with higher levels of stigma with regard to mental illness predicting lower levels of treatment utilization. It has been demonstrated in the general adult population that contact-based anti-stigma programs are the most effective approach to stigma change, followed by education-based programs. This study aimed to investigate the impact of contact- and education-based anti-stigma interventions, relative to a control condition, on mental illness stigma, affirming attitudes towards individuals with mental illness, discrimination towards individuals with mental illness, and treatment seeking amongst college students. Both contact- and education-based interventions were found to have a significant impact on personal stigma, perceptions of empowerment, desired social distance from individuals with mental illness (a proxy of discrimination), attitudes towards treatment seeking, and intentions to seek treatment from formal sources of support. No difference in effect was demonstrated between the contact- and education-based conditions. These findings suggest that these two approaches may be equally effective for challenging stigma amongst college students.
Ph.D. in Psychology, December 2014
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Title: Ease of Contamination and Subsequent Sanitation of Food Contact Surfaces Using Salmonella Contaminated Nut Butters
Creator: Kamineni, Prashanthi
Date: 2012-07-23, 2012-07
Description: Salmonella species can survive and or persist for long periods of time in low moisture foods and on food contact surfaces. Understanding...
Show moreSalmonella species can survive and or persist for long periods of time in low moisture foods and on food contact surfaces. Understanding parameters of transfer and survival can provide information required for successful control of this foodborne microorganism. This study investigated the recovery of Salmonella from food contact surfaces (stainless steel, Delrin, polyethylene, polyurethane) as well as their transfer from nut butters onto the contact surfaces. S. Tennessee and S. Oranienburg were grown overnight to stationary phase, harvested and inoculated separately into peanut butter and almond butter. One gram of inoculated nut butter was applied to each of the three separate 4 X 4 cm areas on the materials and stored at room temperature. The nut butters were removed after 1, 7, and 14 day intervals to leave a visually clean surface. Surfaces were swabbed and/or tested with contact plates to determine the population of any remaining cells. Using contaminated peanut butter, highest numbers of S. Tennessee of about 4.27 ± 0.30 per cm2 were recovered from stainless steel surface after 1 day of contact time. Both serovars were recovered at low numbers over time. However, when contaminated almond butter was used, lower recovery was obtained with both serovars. Visually clean surfaces were also treated with various sanitizers to determine efficiency of treatments. Of the three sanitizers, isopropanol proved most effective overall in reducing Salmonella contamination whereas chlorine was least effective. BDD and isopropanol gave best efficiency on stainless steel with a reduction of about 2.5 logs and least on polyurethane surface with a reduction of only about 1 log (p<0.05). Results were similar for both the serovars tested. In general, sanitizers were most effective on stainless steel while polyurethane surface was the most difficult to sanitize. These studies contribute to a better understanding of the behavior of S. Tennessee and S. Oranienburg in nut butters and on food contact surfaces. Estimation of contamination levels may be determined from transfer rates for Salmonella from contaminated to uncontaminated foods and food contact surfaces.
M.S. in Food Safety and Technology, July 2012
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Title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATTRIBUTIONAL STYLE, DEPRESSION, AND ACCEPTANCE OF DISABILITY IN CHINESE INDIVIDUALS WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY
Creator: Heyne, Mark Michael
Date: 2011-03-27, 2011-05
Description: The positive relationship between negative attributional style and depression has been established in both those with and without chronic...
Show moreThe positive relationship between negative attributional style and depression has been established in both those with and without chronic illness or physical disability; however, this relationship remains uncharacterized in those with spinal cord injury (SCI), which is surprising, given this condition’s significant potential for negative psychosocial implications. Although there is evidence that the association among these two variables generalizes across cultures and disabilities, other findings suggests that the Chinese have a more negative attributional style than their Western counterparts, which could alter the relationship between attributional style and depression among Chinese with SCI. Likewise, the construct of acceptance of disability (AD) and its correlates has been covered extensively in Western samples with SCI, but has received virtually no attention in Eastern samples. The present study examined these variables within the context of SCI in a Chinese sample. Participants were 158 Chinese individuals with SCI who completed a battery of self-report measures of demographic, injury-related, and psychosocial variables. Cluster analysis results suggested three distinct clusters based on attributional style (positive, neutral, negative). Those in the positive attributional style cluster were more likely to have tetraplegia than paraplegia, but exhibited less functional disability and depressive symptoms, and higher AD than the negative cluster. Path analysis indicated that higher functional disability predicted both more negative attributional style and higher depressive symptomology; attributional style did not directly predict depression, in contrast to findings from previous studies. Higher depressive symptomology was found to predict lower AD, consistent with existing research.
Ph.D. in Psychology, May 2011
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Title: Manufacture and uses of steel pipes
Creator: Harvey, James S., Jr.
Date: 2009, 1914
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/manufactureuseso00harv
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1914 Bibliography: leaf 82 B.S. in...
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Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1914 Bibliography: leaf 82 B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1914
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Title: The manufacture of salicylic acid
Creator: Kendall, S. W.
Date: 2009, 1917
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/manufactureofsal00kend
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Manufacture of soaps and the recovery of glycerine
Creator: Polhman, E.f., Martin, H.w.
Date: 2009, 1910
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/manufactureofsoa00polh
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: THE ROLE OF EXPERIENTIAL AVOIDANCE IN THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ANXIETY SENSITIVITY AND EMOTIONAL EATING IN NON-EATING DISORDERED OVERWEIGHT/OBESE INDIVIDUALS SEEKING WEIGHT LOSS TREATMENT BY
Creator: Dave, Pooja N.
Date: 2015, 2015-12
Description: Obesity is one of the most rapidly emerging public health concerns whose prevalence far exceeds that of eating disorders (Hudson et al., 2007)...
Show moreObesity is one of the most rapidly emerging public health concerns whose prevalence far exceeds that of eating disorders (Hudson et al., 2007). As most obese individuals do not meet criteria for an eating disorder, emotional eating (EE) may be a more useful construct in understanding obesity more broadly. Anxiety sensitivity (AS) has been recognized as a transdiagnostic risk factor for a variety of problem behaviors including EE in obese individuals (Hearon et al., 2012). In addition, recent research has highlighted the mediating role of maladaptive responses to internal experiences in the association between AS and eating pathology (Anestis et al., 2008). Experiential avoidance (EA) is one such maladaptive response that has garnered attention for predicting maladaptive coping for a range of psychiatric conditions. To date, only one study has examined the relationship between AS and EE in obese individuals (Hearon et al., 2012). This study aims to replicate and extend their findings by examining the role of EA in this relationship. A sample of 127 obese patients without an eating disorder seeking weight-loss treatment completed questionnaires to assess emotional eating, experiential avoidance, and anxiety sensitivity. When controlling for gender, negative affect, and current psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, EA was found to fully mediate the relationship between AS and EE. There was a significant positive indirect effect (B = .285, CI95% = .155-.462) and a non-significant direct effect (B = .039, p = .786. These findings provide initial support for the mediating role of EA in the association between AS and EE in an obese, non-eating disordered, weight-loss treatment-seeking sample.Further, the identification of AS and EA as relevant in the development of emotional eating adds to the growing literature base arguing for the conceptualization of these two factors as transdiagnostic risk factors for a wide range of problem behaviors, including emotional eating. Clinical and research implications are discussed, as well as strengths and limitations of the study. Recommendations for the development of interventions targeting individuals high in anxiety sensitivity, with the intention of reducing experiential avoidance, are also reviewed.Further, the identification of AS and EA as relevant in the development of emotional eating adds to the growing literature base arguing for the conceptualization of these two factors as transdiagnostic risk factors for a wide range of problem behaviors, including emotional eating. Clinical and research implications are discussed, as well as strengths and limitations of the study. Recommendations for the development of interventions targeting individuals high in anxiety sensitivity, with the intention of reducing experiential avoidance, are also reviewed.
Ph.D. in Psychology, December 2015
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