"The opioid epidemic has been an ongoing concern since the 1990s, and the number of opioid overdose deaths has quadrupled since 1999. Recent actions have been taken to educate the public and guide opioid prescribing ...

"Bystander CPR rates and AED use in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) vary widely across EMS service areas in Missouri. EMS agencies report the number and outcome of OHCAs in their service area annually, in addition ...

Self-regulation, the control of behavior through self-monitoring, self- evaluation, and self- reinforcement, enable a child to manage their behavior and emotions in adaptive ways. This skill is key for school eadiness, ...

"Diabetic patients suffer from shoulder joint pathologies at a rate five times higher than the non-diabetic population. Diabetes is an independent risk factor for postoperative complications. We sought to determine to what ...

Purpose of the project: to understand the perceptions of both Latino newcomers and receiving community members regarding the integration of Latino immigrants in rural communities in the Midwest. This study is part of a ...

The purpose of this research is to examine the strategies newcomers employ to accumulate assets, minimize their vulnerability to risk exposure and become part of their new communities. "Getting by and getting ahead". The ...

"Historically, immigrants are part of an exploited and underserved population. More research is needed to give voice to life experiences of the disenfranchised and the marginalized groups of society. Culturally competent ...

"'Recent developments in the cultural identity literature can help us to move beyond a deficits approach to viewing culture not an obstacle but as a resource from which individuals draw to create strategies to function in ...

Vascular stiffness plays a key role in cardiovascular diseases, and recent studies suggest that intrinsic stiffness of vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) accounts for as much as one-half of overall arterial stiffness. ...

In the United States, the incidence of thoracolumbar injures is approximately 15,000 per year due to highenergy trauma resulting mainly from a motor vehicle accident in younger patients. Most commonly, thoracolumbar (TL) ...

The United States is facing a physician shortage of immense proportions in the future, with an estimated shortage of approximately 37,800 - 124,000 physicians by 2034. In an effort to increase graduate medical education ...

Presentation slides from the Fall 2015 BB&T Global Capitalism Lecture at Radford University, given by Brady Deaton. "Brady J. Deaton, chancellor emeritus at the University of Missouri, addressed the resilience of global ...

Abstract of a paper presented at the International Conference and Exhibition on Obesity & Weight Management, 2012: Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnically diverse group in the U.S.; they are also the most ...

Abstract of a paper presented at the 16th Global Diabetes Conference & Medicare Expo, 2017: Diabetes is the fourth cause of death in the United States. Both IT and HI have been applied in the management of diabetes but ...

Abstract of a paper presented at the 2nd Health International Conference on Health Informatics and Technology, 2015: Introduction: Because public health funds are limited, programs need to be prioritized. We developed two ...

Proposito del estudio: Entender las perspectivas de Latinos y miembros de la comunidad de acogida sobre la integracion de imigrantes Latinos en comunidades rurales en el medio-oeste del pais.

Purpose of the current study: To understand the perceptions of both Latino newcomers and receiving community members regarding the integration of Latino immigrants in rural communities in the Midwest. This study is part ...

Purpose of the current study: To understand the perceptions of both Latino newcomers and receiving community members regarding the integration of Latino immigrants in rural communities in the Midwest.

Overall goal of the project is to examine the strategies newcomers use to accumulate assets, minimize vulnerabilities, and to integrate in their communities.