Placement testing in college is important partly because initial placement recommendations may be followed by further placement recommendations based on retakes of the placement test. This study examines a particular ...

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) affects 5.7 million Americans. White button mushrooms (WBMs) are considered an antioxidant due to their high source of selenium and have been shown to promote nerve growth factors (NGFs). Selenoproteins, ...

Chronic stress can be deleterious to the brain and it is the unpredictability of these stressors that fails to permit habituation, the effects of which are exhibited through maladaptive behaviors such as Post Traumatic ...

Individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI) experience decreased lung volumes, ambiguous minute ventilation (VE), increased fatigability, and decreased performance. Previous research has shown improved VO2 kinetics, walking ...

This thesis investigated the relationship of iron in the brain enhanced by an elevated level in the drinking water and Amyloid precursor protein (APP) in a transgenic (Tg) model of Alzheimer’s disease. Mice were given ...

A wealth of research has identi ed how distractions impair driving performance and compromise safety. Research has shown that drivers can strategically adapt their interac- tions with distractions to mitigate decrements ...

As early as first grade, children begin to present differentiated achievement motivation patterns—mastery goals (engaging in a task for challenge) and performance goals (engaging in a task to demonstrate competence) ...

Working memory capacity (WMC) is generally referred to as a quantitative measure of the ability to maintain relevant information while performing unrelated tasks (Delaney & Sahakyan, 2007). Studies have shown that WMC can ...

The role of essential trace elements, such as zinc and copper, in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has received much attention in the last decade. Zinc (Zn) and copper (Cu) are involved in many biological processes. Amyloid-β (Aβ) ...

La llegada del cine tanto a México como a Egipto, un año después de su invención por los hermanos Lumière (1896), coincide con el trayecto hacia la modernización en los dos países. Las producciones cinematográficas también ...