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Embryonic and Larval Zebrafish Bioassays for Biomedical Research : The Larval Photomotor Response Screening Assay and Phenotype

Creator:: Fisher, Joseph A.
Abstract:: Laboratories around the world are using the zebrafish model for biomedical research and conducting investigations using morphological, physiological, behavioral, and genomic endpoints. All assays provide information, but physiological and behavioral endpoints or phenotypes are a fast way to understand how an animal is responding to its environment. We investigate the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: State University. I wish a special thank you to Dr. Anna K. Harding for taking over as my first

Hydrologic and Land Cover Effects on Sources and Fate of In-Stream Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter

Creator:: Lee, Baek Soo P.
Abstract:: Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a critical component of the carbon cycle linking terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Although many factors influence DOM fluxes and quality in rivers, controls on DOM compositions in catchments of the western U.S. are poorly understood. UV and fluorescent spectroscopy is a simpler, faster, and less...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: caring personality was much appreciated. I would like to thank Dr. Anna Harding for serving as the

West Nile virus : forecasting models for a resurging vector-borne disease in Arizona, U.S.A.

Creator:: Roldan, Josiah Javier
Abstract:: West Nile Virus (WNV), a vector-borne disease continues to be a serious threat to public health in the United States, particularly in the Southwest region. While all the states in the U.S. experienced a decreasing trend of WNV disease in 2010, the state of Arizona experienced a sharp increase from...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Anna Harding, Susan Carozza, and David Stone for their guidance, support, and mentorship throughout

Transforming social relations : how caregiving sons "do" gender subversively

Creator:: Hirayama, Ryo
Abstract:: In this dissertation, I explored how social relationships influence, and are influenced by, men's experiences of caregiving to their aging parents. Because of sociodemographic trends such as fewer siblings in younger generations and the growth of women seeking professional careers, men are increasingly likely to be called upon to meet...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: been difficult for me to survive my graduate program. Anna Harding has taken a genuine interest in my

Evaluation of alcohol education on attitude, knowledge and self-reported behavior of college students

Creator:: Sharmer, Laurel
Abstract:: This research was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of two different types of alcohol education interventions on the attitudes about alcohol consumption in college, knowledge about alcohol, and self-reported alcohol consumption behavior of college students. The educational interventions were a student-centered CD-Rom interactive program, and a teacher-centered motivational speaker. Each...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: gratitude goes as well to Dr. Anna Harding for her willingness to sit as a member of my committee at the

"Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems" : an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace

Creator:: Little, Peter C.
Abstract:: This dissertation draws on ethnographic data and political ecological theory to analyze the experience of residents living in the IBM-Endicott Superfund site in Endicott, New York. Combining in-depth narratives and quantitative measures from a household survey, it highlights residents' perceptions of 1) environmental health risk, 2) risk mitigation, 3) deindustrialization...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Application of an ecological model to dairy product consumption behavior among eighth graders in Taipei, Taiwan

Creator:: Lai, I-Ju
Abstract:: Calcium is important to bone health as well as related to a number of health problems such as osteoporosis, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers. Calcium intake level was far below the Dietary Reference Intake and dairy product consumption was inconsistent with the Daily Dietary Guidelines among adolescents in Taiwan...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Long-term fertilizer input influences total and bioavailable metal in agricultural soils and crops

Creator:: Pérez, Angela L.
Abstract:: Protection of the quality and integrity of food supplies is of global concern. Crops can accumulate non-nutritive and sometimes toxic metals and metalloids. Accumulated metals/metalloids can come in part, from fertilizers, which may contain variable levels of non-nutritive metals or metalloids such as arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), nickel...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , and Anna Harding for their encouragement and valuable contributions to this work. Appreciation is

Owner's Role in Brownfield Remediation : The Brownfield Experts' Perspective

Creator:: Saberiyan, Amireh G.
Abstract:: Former industrial or commercial sites that have been left unused are typically referred to as brownfield sites, or simply, brownfields. Many communities have such properties that are abandoned, idle or underused. Despite public efforts to facilitate brownfields revitalization projects, the rate of remediation remains unexpectedly slow. Efforts to resolve this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

In Utero Exposure to Arsenic and Mercury : Epigenome-Wide Associations and Newborn Health Outcomes

Creator:: Cardenas, Andres
Abstract:: Mercury and arsenic are known developmental toxicants and environmental exposures are ubiquitous worldwide from natural and anthropogenic sources. Prenatal exposure to both contaminants are independently associated with adverse perinatal health outcomes and latent disease risk that could be in part mediated by epigenetic reprogramming events. Fetal programming events involving DNA...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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ScholarsArchive@OSU

Embryonic and Larval Zebrafish Bioassays for Biomedical Research : The Larval Photomotor Response Screening Assay and Phenotype

Hydrologic and Land Cover Effects on Sources and Fate of In-Stream Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter

West Nile virus : forecasting models for a resurging vector-borne disease in Arizona, U.S.A.

Transforming social relations : how caregiving sons "do" gender subversively

Evaluation of alcohol education on attitude, knowledge and self-reported behavior of college students

"Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems" : an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace

Application of an ecological model to dairy product consumption behavior among eighth graders in Taipei, Taiwan

Long-term fertilizer input influences total and bioavailable metal in agricultural soils and crops

Owner's Role in Brownfield Remediation : The Brownfield Experts' Perspective

In Utero Exposure to Arsenic and Mercury : Epigenome-Wide Associations and Newborn Health Outcomes

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