129 results match your criteria: "Wabash College[Affiliation]"
Trop Med Infect Dis
September 2024
Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador UIDE, Quito 170411, Ecuador.
We discuss the potential usefulness of molecular testing of soil, dust, and water samples to detect medically important parasites, and where such testing could be used to supplement stool sampling in humans. A wide variety of parasites including protozoa and helminths, many of which are zoonotic, have an important infection reservoir in the environment. In some cases, this environmental period is essential for further parasite development.
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November 2024
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Lancet Planet Health
September 2024
Consortium of Universities for Global Health, Washington, DC, USA.
Planetary health is an emerging field that emphasises that humans depend on a healthy Earth for survival and, conversely, that the sustainability of Earth systems is dependent on human behaviours. In response to member demands for resources to support teaching and learning related to planetary health, the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) convened a working group to develop a set of planetary health learning objectives (PHLOs) that would complement the existing ten CUGH global health learning objectives. The eight PHLOs feature Earth system changes, planetary boundaries, and climate change science; ecological systems and One Health; human health outcomes; risk assessment, vulnerability, and resilience; policy, governance, and laws (including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement); roles and responsibilities of governments, businesses, civil society organisations, other institutions, communities, and individuals for mitigation, adaptation, conservation, restoration, and sustainability; environmental ethics, human rights, and climate justice; and environmental literacy and communication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Chem Educ
August 2024
Department of Chemistry, Wabash College, 301 W. Wabash Ave., Crawfordsville, Indiana 47933, United States.
Placing chemistry in the context of complex societal issues is one way to help students see the application of fundamental ideas in the general chemistry curriculum. Here, we describe the impact of an in-class deliberation on environmental contaminants, which encourages students to consider different perspectives when addressing the issue of water and soil quality in communities. Student surveys were used to analyze the quality of the deliberation and several key factors regarding student attitudes before and after the activity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: An electronic health record-based tool could improve accuracy and eliminate bias in provider estimation of the risk of death from other causes among men with nonmetastatic cancer.
Objective: To recalibrate and validate the Veterans Aging Cohort Study Charlson Comorbidity Index (VACS-CCI) to predict non-prostate cancer mortality (non-PCM) and to compare it with a tool predicting prostate cancer mortality (PCM).
Design, Setting, And Participants: An observational cohort of men with biopsy-confirmed nonmetastatic prostate cancer, enrolled from 2001 to 2018 in the national US Veterans Health Administration (VA), was divided by the year of diagnosis into the development (2001-2006 and 2008-2018) and validation (2007) sets.
Parasite Epidemiol Control
November 2023
Laboratorio de Ecología y Utilización de Pastizales, Departamento Académico de Producción Animal, Facultad de Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru.
This study aimed to develop maps for infection occurrence in dairy cattle in the districts of Matahuasi and Baños in the Peruvian central highlands. For this, a model based on the correlation between environmental variables and the prevalence of infection was constructed. Flukefinder® coprological test were performed in samples from dairy cattle from 8 herds, during both the rainy and wet season.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCurr Zool
June 2023
Department of Biology, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN 47933, USA.
Roads may influence the selection of phenotypic traits of wildlife. In particular, the likelihood of vehicle collisions with wildlife may vary depending on body coloration in contrast to the road, which may be exaggerated by cultural attitudes toward the species. The timber rattlesnake is a threatened species that varies widely in coloration, and their color pattern could influence thermoregulatory use of roads and visibility to motorists.
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May 2023
Wabash College, Baxter Hall 37, 301 W. Wabash Avenue, Crawfordsville, IN 47933 USA.
This study utilizes a classroom experiment to determine the effectiveness of the flipped classroom in a growth theory module of intermediate macroeconomics. We compare the performance of small section flipped groups to control groups at a liberal arts college. The treatment groups watched growth lecture videos before class, while the control groups followed a traditional lecture format.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCommun Biol
December 2022
Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA.
Sunk cost sensitivity describes escalating decision commitment with increased spent resources. On neuroeconomic foraging tasks, mice, rats, and humans show similar escalations from sunk costs while quitting an ongoing countdown to reward. In a new analysis taken across computationally parallel foraging tasks across species and laboratories, we find that these behaviors primarily occur on choices that are economically inconsistent with the subject's other choices, and that they reflect not only the time spent, but also the time remaining, suggesting that these are change-of-mind re-evaluation processes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiochem Mol Biol Educ
September 2022
Department of Chemistry, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA.
Biochemistry is a data-heavy discipline, yet teaching students to work with large datasets is absent from many undergraduate Biochemistry programs. Ensuring that future generations of students arevbv confident in tackling problems using big data first requires that educators become comfortable teaching big data skills. The activity described herein introduces educators to working with big data and a framework for generating sequence similarity networks using JupyterLab and Python.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The COVID-19 pandemic posed many challenges for local health departments (LHDs). This study examines how stay-at-home orders impacted the provision of essential public health services and subsequent increased use of online health communication by LHDs for rural populations in Appalachian Kentucky during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: A survey to gather information about provision of essential public health services was administered to five LHDs representing 13 counties between June 2020 and December 2020.
Children (Basel)
May 2022
Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
This study used a newly developed coding system for measuring the quality of parenting behavior to examine associations with children's social-emotional development. The Risky Interaction Support and Challenge Scale (RISCS) measures the extent to which parents engage in behaviors that present physical and regulatory challenges to children, as well as parents' tendency to allow children to pursue action goals autonomously. These behaviors were observed while parents ( = 57 fathers; = 55 mothers; = 50 pairs) interacted with their 1-year-olds who played on a structure that included a slide, a small climbing wall, and a tunnel.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Vis
April 2022
Psychology Department, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, USA.
Neurons in the cortex typically respond best to elongated stimuli, or gratings, whereas neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) typically prefer circular stimuli, or spots. Further, neural mechanisms specifically tuned for non-cardinal colors largely do not emerge until the cortex; therefore, the use of gratings should better reveal non-cardinal color mechanisms. This hypothesis has been tested in the isoluminant color plane in macaque monkeys (Stoughton, Lafer-Sousa, Gagin, & Conway, 2012) and in the L-M versus L+M color plane in human subjects (Gegenfurtner & Kiper, 1992).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Parasitol
March 2022
Global Health Initiative and Department of Biology, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana 47933.
Dioctophyme renale has a worldwide distribution and has been diagnosed in several wild and domestic animals as well as in humans. As numerous reports in the literature exist concerning the presence of D. renale in different animal species, as well as its diagnosis, treatment, and confirmation in new geographic areas, we reviewed existing information to contribute to the knowledge of the etiology, biology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of D.
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February 2022
Departamento de Anatomía, Biología Celular y Zoología, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz E-506071, Spain.
Characterizing the diversity and structure of host-parasite communities is crucial to understanding their eco-evolutionary dynamics. Malaria and related haemosporidian parasites are responsible for fitness loss and mortality in bird species worldwide. However, despite exhibiting the greatest ornithological biodiversity, avian haemosporidians from Neotropical regions are quite unexplored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiomolecular visualization skills are paramount to understanding key concepts in the biological sciences, such as structure-function relationships and molecular interactions. Various programs allow a learner to manipulate 3D structures, and biomolecular modeling promotes active learning, builds computational skills, and bridges the gap between two dimensional textbook images and the three dimensions of life. A critical skill in this area is to model a protein active site, displaying parts of the macromolecule that can interact with a small molecule, or ligand, in a way that shows binding interactions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc
September 2021
Wabash College, Department of Biology & Global Health Initiative. Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States of America.
Background: Diseases related to enteroparasites are a serious public health problem.
Objective: To assess the prevalence of enteroparasites in Peru and its relationship with the Human Development Index (HDI).
Material And Methods: A coproparasitological study using the direct method from children and adults from the communities of Pamplona Alta in Lima, the province of San Sebastián de Quera, Castillo Grande, Pillco Marca and Puelles in Huánuco, Llupa-Huaraz in Ancash, and Machaguay in Arequipa, Peru, was carried out from 2012 to 2016.
J Phys Chem B
December 2021
Department of Physics, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-3273, United States.
Numerous health benefits are associated with omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA) consumed in fish oils. An understanding of the mechanism remains elusive. The plasma membrane as a site of action is the focus in this study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychol Men Masc
July 2021
Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota.
We investigated whether dual-earner fathers' adherence to traditional masculine norms, father nurturing role beliefs, and maternal gate closing behavior predicted the quality of new fathers' observed parenting and coparenting behavior. Data were drawn from a longitudinal study of the transition to parenthood among 182 dual-earner different-sex couples. Expectant fathers reported their masculine agency, hostile sexism, gendered provider beliefs, and father nurturing role beliefs in the third trimester of pregnancy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiochem Mol Biol Educ
September 2021
Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Westfield State University, Westfield, Massachusetts, USA.
Proteopedia (proteopedia.org) is an open resource to explore the structure-function relationship of proteins and other biomolecules. This guide provides practical advice on how to incorporate Proteopedia into teaching the structure and function of proteins and other biomolecules.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Behav Neurosci
April 2021
Department of Psychology, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, United States.
Foraging tasks provide valuable insights into decision-making as animals decide how to allocate limited resources (such as time). In rodents, vicarious trial-and-error (back and forth movements), or VTE, is an important behavioral measure of deliberation which is enhanced early in learning and when animals are presented with difficult decisions. Using new translational versions of a rodent foraging task (the "Movie Row" and "Candy Row"), humans navigated a virtual maze presented on standard computers to obtain rewards (either short videos or candy) offered after a variable delay.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur Phys J E Soft Matter
March 2021
Physics Department, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, USA.
Constant pressure pumps are an invaluable yet underutilized resource for microfluidic flow systems. In particular, constant pressure pumps are able to stabilize the fluid pressure in systems where the viscosity may change due to chemical reactions or the flow rate may vary due to deformations of the channels. The constant pressure pump presented here is designed on the premise of creating and maintaining a pressure differential between the laboratory and a pressure reservoir.
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March 2021
Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mote Aquaculture Research Park, 874 WR Mote Way, Sarasota, FL, 34240, USA.
Background: The environment exerts a strong influence on the fish external microbiota, with lower diversity and increased abundances of opportunistic bacterial groups characterizing cultured fish compared to their wild counterparts. Deviation from a healthy external microbiota structure has been associated with increased susceptibility to bacterial pathogens. Treatment of wild-caught broodstock with copper sulfate for the removal of external parasites is a common aquaculture practice.
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March 2021
Department of Orthopedics, Indiana University, 46280, USA.
Proximal fifth metatarsal fractures are common in the athlete and can be a source of significant, temporary disability and missed playing time. The pattern of fracture can vary, and the type of fracture leads to a significantly different prognosis and treatment. Jones fractures of the fifth metatarsal are particularly common and difficult to treat in the athlete, can have recurrence and refracture, and require expertise to heal.
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