Undergraduates In The News
PURPOSE: Although prior work highlights an exercise dose-response relationship for glucose regulation, no study has assessed the exercise dose needed for reducing arterial stiffness. We tested the hypothesis that increased exercise dose would correlate with reduced arterial stiffness in obese adults with prediabetes.
Background: Wound healing for a cardiac device implantation is a complex process, prompting doctors to shift their focus on the prevention of hematomas that could eventually lead to bacterial infection. The current practice incorporates anticoagulation interruption and application of pressure dressing over the post-cardiac device implantation site.
Kinesin-6 family member, Kif20b, is a microtubule motor with a known role in microtubule bundling and neuron morphogenesis. We have previously reported that the loss of Kif20b causes microcephaly. When neurons from brains of mutant embryos are grown in vitro on poly-L-lysine (PLL) they have decreased neuron polarization.
Purpose: Utilizing firsthand accounts of student’s biographies as well as second-hand material to construct a better understanding of the student experience and their beliefs. UVA was a center of intellectual activity but also the students here illustrated the pinnacle of mainstream attitudes and behaviors.
The human brain is an incredibly complex machine. Mother nature has evolved to efficiently create such an intricate structure by massively overproducing neurons and synapses during human development. Over time, only half of these original neurons survive. How does the brain achieve this? How does it differentiate between those neurons that survive, and those that die?
The U.S. faces a crisis that is burying cities in tons of landfill waste each day. Most waste management occurs downstream after commingled material has been collected from buildings. Sorting waste at that stage is expensive, slow, and manual.
Toxoplasmosis, a disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii, affects about a third of Americans and can be harmful to people with immunodeficiencies. The parasite, Toxoplasma gondii has strange characteristics including its invasion of host, epithelial cells.
There are many different factors that contribute to a legislator's effectiveness, and perhaps one of the strongest among armchair political scientists is a track record in a previous lawmaking position.
Particle physics research requires collecting massive amounts of particle collision data. In this data one can extract evidence for the production and decay of new, interesting types of matter.
The past is often mysterious. By analyzing firsthand accounts and primary documents, a fraction of the mystery becomes clearer. The Washington Papers assists this endeavor by collecting, editing and publishing all of George Washington’s documentary record from his colonial days to the week of his death.
Much of the scholarship centered around the May 1968 Paris protests have ignored women’s participation in the protests, and its correlation to subsequent developments in French feminism.
UVA-GI Women’s Reproductive Health (WRH) project is an ongoing effort to provide quality sexual and reproductive education for the indigenous community of the South Lake Atitlan Basin (SLAB) of Guatemala. Cervical cancer (CC) is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Guatemala, yet only an estimated 40% of women have been screened for CC.
This study investigates the high concentration of female workers in Senegal’s informal economy. Women in the informal sector generally do not receive social or legal protections, often face poor working conditions, and receive relatively low wages. As a result, these individuals are at greater risk of suffering from health issues, discrimination, and violence at work, as well as poverty.
The aging of the global population is associated with an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and functional impairments, resulting in a greater proportion of homebound patients. Homebound status prevents people from accessing hospitals, office-based medical care, and social interactions.