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A Group Randomized Trial to Reduce Obesity among Appalachian Church Members: The Walk by Faith Study

Abstract Background: Appalachia is a rural, socioeconomically disadvantaged region with high rates of cancer and obesity. Using community-based participatory research principles, the Appalachia Community Cancer Network tested an initiative to reduce weight among overweight and obese participants by partnering with churches, an important community-based institution in Appalachia. Methods: A group randomized trial was conducted with counties or groups of counties in five Appalachian states. These groups were randomly assigned to receive either monthly diet and exercise education sessions (“Walk by Faith”; WbF) or an educational program focused on cancer screening and education (“Ribbons of Faith”; RoF) to examine effects on weight change. Participants completed questionnaires and biometric measurements at baseline and 12 months. The primary outcome of the study was weight change from baseline to 12 months. Results: The relative difference in weight loss from baseline to 12 months for WbF compared with RoF was 1.4% but was not statistically significant (P = 0.13). However, results varied by sex and marital status. WbF men experienced a significant 2.8% decrease in body weight, married WbF women a 1.5% decrease, and unmarried WbF women a 1.5% increase compared with their respective RoF subgroups (interaction P = 0.016). Among WbF participants, greater participation in monthly educational sessions was associated with greater weight loss (P = 0.002). Conclusions: WbF facilitated weight loss mainly in male participants. Level of participation in WbF activities correlated with weight loss. Impact: Findings suggest that additional research is needed to better understand factors associated with participation in health promotion programs for underserved rural communities. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 27(11); 1289–97. ©2018 AACR.

Topic: Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
<i>Chapulines</i> and Food Choices in Rural Oaxaca

Grasshoppers (chapulines) are an important part of rural Oaxacan (Mexico) cuisine and they play a key role in the local diet and market. In this paper, and using data collected over several years of interviewing and ethnographic research in the state, we describe how rural Oaxacan women manage the harvest and prepare chapulines. Second, we examine how chapulines are consumed in the rural households and their nutritional value. Finally, we turn to the important role chapulines play in the market system and entrepreneurial activities of rural Oaxacan women who sell this much valued food source.

Topic: Culinary Culture and Tourism
Subfield: Food Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Non-Radial Pulsation of General-Relativistic Stellar Models. II. Properties of the Gravitational Waves

view Abstract Citations (107) References (4) Co-Reads Similar Papers Volume Content Graphics Metrics Export Citation NASA/ADS Non-Radial Pulsation of General-Relativistic Stellar Models. II. Properties of the Gravitational Waves Price, Richard ; Thorne, Kip S. Abstract An analysis is presented of the properties of the gravitational waves emitted by a fully relativistic, non-rotating stellar model, which is pulsating in a non-radial manner. Attention is focused on quasi- normal-mode pulsations in which the star is excited at some initial moment of time, it radiates gravita- tional waves thereafter, and these waves gradually damp its nearly periodic pulsations. For such quasi- normal modes a discussion is presented of the polarization of the gravitational waves and of the energy, momentum, and angular momentum which the waves transport Publication: The Astrophysical Journal Pub Date: January 1969 DOI: 10.1086/149857 Bibcode: 1969ApJ...155..163P full text sources ADS | Related Materials (5) Part 1: 1967ApJ...149..591T Part 3: 1969ApJ...158....1T Part 4: 1969ApJ...158..997T Part 5: 1970ApJ...159..847C Part 6: 1973ApJ...181..181I

Topic: Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
THE EFFECT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP TOWARD EMPLOYEE CREATIVITY ON SMALL-MEDIUM ENTREPRISES IN MANADO

In developed countries, concern on SMEs is very high. This is due to the fact that SMEs has been considered as the backbone of the economy. However, SMEs are vulnerable to a variety of internal as well as external barriers. As a consequence, governments’ attention to SMEs is mostly in the form of creating conducive environment, entrepreneurship development, access improvement to both domestics and international markets, providing financial facilities, the competitiveness improvement and providing information and supporting network.. The creativity may depend on the employee or situation; an employee may want to be in contact at highest or lowest level although he or she has great potential. The purpose of this study are Transformational Leadership and Transactional Leadership have a simultaneous effect on Employee Creativity at Restaurant-based Small-Medium Entreprises in Manado. The Result shows that the independent variable which are Transformational Leadership and Transactional Leadership simultaneously affect Employee Creativity as the dependent variable.

Topic: Employee Performance and Leadership
Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Field: Business, Management and Accounting
Domain: Social Sciences
Rare tau decays at Belle

We report results of a search for tau lepton decays strongly suppressed in the Standard Model based on the world-largest data sample accumulated with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e + e − collider. The decays include: lepton flavor and lepton number violating tau decays into a lepton (e or µ) and two charged mesons (K or π) as well as lepton and baryon number violating tau decays into a Λ and a charged meson (K or π). The sensitivity to the branching fractions is significantly improved compared to our previous results and reaches

Topic: Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Total marrow failure induced by pegylated stem-cell factor administered before 5-fluorouracil

To examine the potential role of stem-cell factor (SCF) in cancer chemotherapy, we have administered it to mice either before or after 5- fluorouracil (5-FU). When polyethylene glycolated (PEG-ylated) SCF was administered to mice before 5-FU, it had a significant sensitizing effect on primitive bone marrow cells. Examination of the hematopoietic status of these mice showed that the damage caused by 5-FU to both bone marrow and spleen hematopoiesis was exaggerated when it was preceded by SCF. SCF given before each of two 5-FU treatments at 7-day intervals resulted in the death of all treated mice. The time of death and hematopoietic status of these animals are compatible with the onset of hypoplastic marrow failure leading to pancytopenia and death. SCF given after 5-FU had little impact either on the initial degree of hematopoietic damage or subsequent recovery. Gut populations were similarly sensitized to 5-FU by prior treatment with SCF, and the damage caused to intestinal populations was greater than that resulting from 5-FU alone. This indicates that the different tissues may be similarly sensitized by SCF. The sensitizing effect of SCF was reversed by concurrent administration of transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta 3, and survival of the majority of the mice was ensured. Examination of hematopoiesis in mice treated concurrently with SCF and TGF-beta 3 showed that the degree of marrow and spleen damage had reverted to that caused by 5-FU alone. In further experiments, 100% survival and normal hematopoiesis could be attained by transplantation of 1 million syngeneic bone marrow cells 24 hours after 5-FU treatment following SCF sensitization. These data indicate that PEG-ylated SCF can sensitize normally resistant hematopoietic and gut stem cells to the effects of 5- FU. This sensitization resulted in effective eradication of hematopoiesis in SCF-pretreated/5-FU-treated animals and their subsequent death from marrow failure. These findings imply that SCF pretreatment may represent a novel method of increasing the effectiveness of conventional chemotherapy, making marrow ablation more effective without drug dose escalation and perhaps sensitizing some tumor cells to the effects of therapy.

Topic: Cancer Cells and Metastasis
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Megachile (Eutricharaea) communis Morawitz 1875

Megachile (Eutricharaea) communis Morawitz, 1875 Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC: Central Asia (Ascher & Pickering 2021). GBIF 2021, SEMC: Bekaa, Der Mar Maroun, 700 m, 26.V.1996, 1♂, determiner unknown; 2.VI.1996, 1♀, determiner unknown, 1♂, det. Baker D.; 9.VI.1996, 1♂, determiner unknown; all leg. Roche C.G. Viewing the distribution of this species, the taxon name may be wrongly assigned to the specimens, they have to be re-examined for confirmation.

Topic: Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
A Case Report of Multiple (29) Myomectomies

Fibroids uterus also called uterine leiomyoma are the most frequently encountered benign tumours of the uterus.Many fibroids are asymptomatic and are picked up on routine examination.Clinical features depend on number, size and location of the fibroids.Symptomatic fibroids may be managed medically or surgically.Hysterectomy by different routes is the commonest operation performed for fibroid uterus.Hysterectomy may not be the desired where uterus needs to be retained for different reasons.Removal of fibroids called myomectomy followed by reconstruction of uterus is the correct and desired mode of management in such cases.We report one such case where 29 fibroids of varying sizes were removed abdominally and uterus reconstructed in an unmarried girl who conceived spontaneously within one year of surgery after marriage.Vasopressin is effective in reducing the blood loss at the time of myomectomy.Mifepristone is a new mode of treating fibroids medically.

Topic: Uterine Myomas and Treatments
Subfield: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Ether and Aesthetics in the Dialogue between Relativists and Their Critics in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

This chapter pairs a study of ether and aesthetics in exploring dialogues between relativists and critics in two different periods. In the 1880s, Ernst Mach argued against absolute time and space but also offered new perspectives on aesthetic phenomena and speculated on a gravitational ether. In 1905, Albert Einstein announced the superfluity of the luminiferous ether, but by 1918 had described space without the ether as ‘unthinkable’. Responding to his friend H. A. Lorentz and critics Ernst Gehrke and Philipp Lenard, Einstein both used the literary form of a dialogue between a relativist and a critic and defined a new gravitational ether that might have disarmed criticism. Neither strategy was successful, however, and the chapter concludes with an examination of social and aesthetic dimensions of the environment of political debate, commercial publishing and disciplinary discussions that marked the emergence of relativity in the public sphere in the post-war period.

Topic: Philosophy, Science, and History
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Digital Intelligence Transformation of Energy Conservation Management in China’s Public Institutions: Evolution, Innovation Approach, and Practical Challenges

Energy conservation management in public institutions is a critical area of administrative affairs, playing a leading and exemplary role in implementing China’s “green development strategy” and accelerating the transition to green and low-carbon development. The evolution of energy conservation management in public institutions has generally progressed from behavioral energy conservation and policy-driven energy conservation to digital and intelligent energy conservation. Each stage is characterized by distinct conceptual foundations, tool selections, key tasks, and value orientations. From a theoretical perspective, the innovative practices of digital intelligence transformation in energy conservation management are deeply driven in China by problem solving, environmental factors, and technological advancements. This transformation is the result of the interplay between the broader context of digital government construction and the specific challenges and structural adjustments within energy conservation management in public institutions, combined with the strong momentum of innovation diffusion in energy conservation management informatization. The innovative practices of digital intelligence transformation in energy conservation management in China can be categorized into four models: the “Technology Demonstration + Digital Platform” model, the “Edge–Cloud Data Middle Platform” model, the “Operation + Platform” split front–back-end model, and the “Intelligent Function Aggregation Platform” model. Each model has unique functional characteristics and applicable scenarios, yet faces various inherent challenges. Currently, the digital intelligence transformation of energy conservation management in China’s public institutions is constrained by the tension between innovation pressure and limited grassroots resources, the diminishing marginal returns and internalization costs of digital intelligence transformation, the inverted hierarchy dilemma, and the “floor effect” of digital energy conservation under traditional governance norms.

Topic: Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
The DR1 and DR6 First Exons of Human Herpesvirus 6A Are Not Required for Virus Replication in Culture and Are Deleted in Virus Stocks That Replicate Well in T-Cell Lines

ABSTRACT Human herpesvirus 6A (HHV-6A) and HHV-6B are lymphotropic viruses which replicate in cultured activated cord blood mononuclear cells (CBMCs) and in T-cell lines. Viral genomes are composed of 143-kb unique (U) sequences flanked by ∼8- to 10-kb left and right direct repeats, DR L and DR R . We have recently cloned HHV-6A (U1102) into bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) vectors, employing DNA replicative intermediates. Surprisingly, HHV-6A BACs and their parental DNAs were found to contain short ∼2.7-kb DRs. To test whether DR shortening occurred during passaging in CBMCs or in the SupT1 T-cell line, we compared packaged DNAs from various passages. Restriction enzymes, PCR, and sequencing analyses have shown the following. (i) Early (1992) viral preparations from CBMCs contained ∼8-kb DRs. (ii) Viruses currently propagated in SupT1 cells contained ∼2.7-kb DRs. (iii) The deletion spans positions 60 to 5545 in DR L , including genes encoded by DR1 through the first exon of DR6. The pac-2-pac-1 packaging signals, the DR7 open reading frame (ORF), and the DR6 second exon were not deleted. (iv) The DR R sequence was similarly shortened by 5.4 kb. (v) The DR1 through DR6 first exon sequences were deleted from the entire HHV-6A BACs, revealing that they were not translocated into other genome locations. (vi) When virus initially cultured in CBMCs was passaged in SupT1 cells no DR shortening occurred. (vii) Viral stocks possessing short DRs replicated efficiently, revealing the plasticity of herpesvirus genomes. We conclude that the DR deletion occurred once, producing virus with advantageous growth “conquering” the population. The DR1 gene and the first DR6 exon are not required for propagation in culture.

Topic: Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
David R. Como. Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii+513. $65.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-8047-4443-2. - Theodore Dwight Bozeman. The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xv+349. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-8078-2850-5.

David R. Como. Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii+513. 49.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-8078-2850-5. - Volume 44 Issue 3

Topic: Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Effect of work activity on students’ learning motives at schools for working youth

One or other motives, being the main stimulus in multifaceted human activities, also play an important role when attending school. &#x0D; The research by Soviet psychologists demonstrated that a student learning is stimulated by twofold motives at general education schools – directly incentive and indirectly sense-bearing; the content of one or other motives essentially consists of a student’s endeavor to prepare for life and take a particular place in the socialist society, as well as interest in one or another educational subject.&#x0D; Our research demonstrated that students at schools for working youth differ in the majority of cases in terms of learning motives from students of the larger general education schools.&#x0D; The main factor forming student learning motives at schools for working youth is their daily work in different sectors of the national economy.&#x0D; As a result of work, both direct incentive and indirect sense-bearing learning motives of students at schools for working youth are broader content-wise as compared with those at mass schools.&#x0D; If students at mass schools most often understand the necessity of knowledge as a condition to ensure their future, students at schools for working youth see it already today, in their daily work. The majority of this type of students seek knowledge because they understand that this is the only one condition enabling them to master contemporary sophisticated technique and technology processes.&#x0D; Thus, apart from the motives which are common to students of both type schools, the most important motives of students at schools for working youth is the perception that knowledge is necessary for successful work. In our opinion, here lies the main difference between the learning motives of students at schools for working youth and those at larger general education schools.&#x0D; However, when investigating learning motives of students at schools for working youth some diversity has been noticed. The following groups of students may be distinguished.&#x0D; a) Working students have essentially made up their minds about their place in life and have one or other goal. The essence of content of learning motives of these students lies in the knowledge being necessary for them in their direct work and for attaining the goal set.&#x0D; b) Students for whom knowledge is necessary for further studies. Unlike the first group students, the latter do not feel a huge impact of work that directly prompts their learning motives; this group mostly consists of students who come to school for working youth willing to acquire a job record necessary for entering a higher education school.&#x0D; c) Students forming a relatively small group who do not have clearly formulated learning motives.

Topic: Higher Education Learning Practices
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Thermally Induced Reversible Double Phase Transitions in an Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Iodoplumbate C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>12</sub>NPbI<sub>3</sub> with Symmetry Breaking

A one-dimensional (1D) organic-inorganic hybrid iodoplumbate crystal (1, C4H12NPbI3, TMAPbI3) can undergo two reversible phase transitions as the temperature decreases. Its dynamic phase-transition behaviors were carefully studied by dielectric measurements, thermal analysis, and variable-temperature crystallographic studies. These results indicate that the phase transitions possess a disorder-order feature with a noncentrosymmetrical intermediate phase structure. Due to the existence of the ordered motion and reorientation of the C4H12N(+) cation, 1 undergoes two phase transitions: the first one from space group P63/m at room temperature to Pm at 163 K with symmetry breaking, and the second one from space group Pm at 163 K to P61 at 142 K with partial symmetry restoration. Our results indicate that there is an existence of a transitional structure with a low symmetry space group during the disorder-order-type phase transitions, which can provide us valuable information to deeply understand the disorder-order phase transition in organic-inorganic hybrids.

Topic: Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Performance of a Nickel<i>-</i>Activated Candle Filter for Naphthalene Cracking in Synthetic Biomass Gasification Gas

The concept of a ceramic candle filter for high-temperature gas filtration, catalytically activated with nickel using a deposition−precipitation method with urea, was introduced to perform the simultaneous removal of tar and particles from hot biomass gasification gas. Tar cracking over nickel-activated ceramic filter substrates was studied with a synthetic biomass gasification gas (free of H2S and dust) under industrial hot gas filtration conditions. Naphthalene was used as the model compound for high-temperature biomass gasification tar. The main parameters investigated were reaction temperature (750−900 °C), gas velocity (2.5−6 cm/s), and catalyst loading (0.5 and 1 wt % nickel). It was found that when typical filtration gas velocities are used, naphthalene can be completely converted mainly to syngas (H2 and CO) at 800−900 °C over activated filter substrates with a catalyst loading of only 1 wt % nickel.

Topic: Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Effect of thickness on characteristics of ZnSe thin film synthesized by vacuum thermal evaporation

Zinc selenide (ZnSe) thin films with various thicknesses were grown on ultrasonically clean glass substrates using vacuum evaporation of 99.99% pure ZnSe powder. Thickness dependence of the structural, optical and electrical properties was thoroughly investigated. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses revealed that (110) ZnSe plane is the dominant crystal plane for all the fabricated films. Both dislocation density and micro-strain go down with the increase in film thickness, indicating lower lattice defects and improvement in crystallinity at higher film thickness. Transmittance spectra show that all the films have almost linear upward tendency of transmittance in near-infrared region and small fluctuations in visible region for higher-thickness films. With the increase in film thickness, the optical bandgap increases and also an increasing tendency of dielectric constant was observed. Studies of electrical properties showed a sharp increase in carrier mobility and concentration with film thickness. As the film thickness increases from 30 to 90 nm, the carrier mobility goes up from 255 to 1250 cm2/VS and the carrier concentration increases from 2.14 × 1018 to 9.37 × 1018 cm−3. The electrical transport properties of the deposited thin films were explained in terms of scattering of the charge carrier.

Topic: Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences