University of Nebraska Omaha

About: University of Nebraska Omaha is a education organization based out in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 4526 authors who have published 8905 publications receiving 213914 citations. The organization is also known as: UNO & University of Omaha.

Diet quality and the eating environment of preschool children

Abstract: The feeding relationship between parent and child involves the intricate interaction of a number of variables. It has been estimated that more than one fourth of American children have eating problems that began before adolescence (1,2). Parents not only must provide quality food to meet their children's nutrient requirements, they must establish a positive and supportive eating environment so that children develop healthy food-related attitudes and behaviors (3-5). This study was conducted to assess the current eating environment and the nutritional quality of the diets of preschool children

Can Sinful Firms Benefit from Advertising Their CSR Efforts? Adverse Effect of Advertising Sinful Firms’ CSR Engagements on Firm Performance

Abstract: This study investigates corporate social responsibility (CSR) of sinful firms, which refer to ones that are operating in controversial industries, including the production and distribution of alcohol, tobacco, gambling, adult entertainment, firearm, military, and nuclear power. We attempt to answer two questions in this study: (1) Do these sinful firms actively advertise their CSR engagements compared to non-sinful firms? And (2) do their advertising efforts really yield increased financial performance? Positing that advertising not only can make sinful firms’ good deeds visible, but also can highlight the contradiction between these firms’ stigma and their prosocial activities, we claim that sinful firms are likely to advertise their CSR engagement to overcome their stigmatized firm image, but these advertising activities will make the firms’ performance vulnerable by inducing skepticism from stakeholders. Using KLD database in conjunction with COMPUSTAT and Center for Research in Security Prices from 1991 to 2010, where 337 firms are involved in the controversial sinful industries, namely tobacco, alcohol, gaming, firearms, military, and nuclear power, we examine the effect of advertising spending of sinful firms’ CSR engagement on performance vulnerability, which is instantiated with idiosyncratic risk. The empirical results indicate that sinful firms increase their advertising expenditure when they engage in CSR programs, but these efforts for advertising CSR tend to increase idiosyncratic risk. This finding indicates that even though sinful firms can benefit from engaging in socially responsible initiatives, advertising their CSR efforts may backfire.

RAPD: a database of recombinantly-produced antimicrobial peptides.

Abstract: We have developed the Recombinantly-produced Antimicrobial Peptides Database (RAPD) to house relevant information on recombinant approaches to generate antimicrobial peptides Key information stored in the database, which is extracted from published experiments, includes expression host, fusion strategy, release method and yield for individual peptides Bibliographic data directly related to each particular case are also available RAPD allows easy comparison of the relative popularity and efficiency of different strategies, and can thus be used as a guideline for future production of similar peptides The database is freely available at http://facultyistunomahaedu/chen/rapd/indexphp

Gender and Sentencing of Drug Offenders: Is Chivalry Dead?

Abstract: Citing figures showing dramatic increases in the number of women imprisoned for drug offenses since 1980, Chesney-Lind (1995: 111) concludes that the ‘war on drugs' has translated into a war on women“ and Durham (1994: 111) suggests that female drug offenders ”… are now being treated like their male counterparts, or even more harshly.“ The purpose of this study is to test the validity of these assertations. We compare the likelihood of incarceration for males and females convicted of drug offenses in Chicago. The results of our analysis reveal that females are significantly less likely than males to be sentenced to prison. Our tests for interaction reveal that preferential treatment is confined to offenders without dependent children and to offenders without a prior conviction for a drug offense. We conclude that chivalry is not dead in Cook County. We also conclude that judges' calculation of the social costs of punishment are not invariant, but reflect the combined effects of the offender's gender, chil...