This publication is intended to support Black women in navigating the healthcare system before, during, and after pregnancy. Written by Tyler S. Nesbit, Karen Awura-Adjoa Ronke Coker, Sarah McKune, Larry Forthun, LaToya O’Neal, published UF/IFAS Department of Family, Youth Community Sciences, November 2022.

Biology Department, University of North Carolina, Coker Hall, CB#3280, Chapel Hill, NC 27599–3280 USA Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Box U-125, 75 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269–3125 USA Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, 220 Biological Science Center, 1445 Gortner Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108–1095 USA *Corresponding author, e-mail: ...

This publication highlights the role established presence of UF/IFAS Extension in rural regions can play dissemination community-based professionals into these areas. The integration and various programs services they offer will serve as a buffer to many stressors faced by residents, complexities which often lead overall poor mental health. Written Ashlyn Michael, LaToya O’Neal, Erin Kersey, An...

Recently, it was reported that the tuberculosis mortality in 2009 has dropped to 35% since 1990 (WHO, 2010). Nevertheless, the disease caused by the facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis still remains the leading cause of death from a single bacterial species (Coker, 2004; Russell et al., 2010). The emergence of Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) and Extreme Drug Resis...

The authors examined 13 skilled and 12 novice tennis performers’ ability to use visual information of an opponent’s movement pattern to anticipate and respond. In Experiment 1, skilled and novice players anticipated the type of stroke and the direction in which the ball was hit in a highly coupled perception–action environment. Both groups of players correctly anticipated at greater than chance...

B. Ann Boyce is with the Kinesiology Program Area, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904. E-mail: [email protected]. Cheryl A. Coker is with the Dept of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003. Linda K. Bunker is in the Kinesiology Program Area, and is Director of the Motor Learning Laboratory at the University of Virginia, Charlo...

Background: Approximately 30% of reproductive age women and 35% of reproductive age men in the United States smoke cigarettes. Substantial harmful effects of cigarette smoke on fecundity and reproduction have become apparent but are not generally appreciated. smoking is becoming increasingly popular in many parts of the world as in eastern Mediterranean and Arabic countries including Iran. The ...

To maintain data integrity hash functions are generally used. Hash function is one type of cryptographic primitives, which provide an assurance for data integrity. NAS has designed SHA hash functions which are the set of cryptographic hash function. There are so many SHA function existing in which SHA-1 produces message digest that is of 160 bits long. Later in SHA-1 has been identified securit...

Industrial Relations and the Wage Differentials between Skilled and Unskilled Blue-Collar Workers within Establishments: An Empirical Analysis with Data of Manufacturing Firms Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many developed countries. Among the explanations advanced for this phenomenon is the increasing globalization, a...