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Occupational Therapists’ Perspectives on Working in Mental Health Roles
Full text linkOccupational therapists working in mental health settings face a multitude of challenges to practice, including role blurring, generic roles, lack of support, and a lack of community, yet continue to pursue these positions. The current literature primarily highlights these barriers and discusses the under utilization of occupational therapists in mental health. Despite these challenges, occupational therapists are still holding prominent roles in this area and the question remains of why these therapists are continuing to pursue these roles and how they are creating meaning in their work. For this research, interviews were conducted with occupational therapists currently working or who have worked in mental health within the last five years in order to gain a better understanding of the occupational therapists’ perspective of their role in mental health
Seeking Religious Toleration: Anabaptist Communication Networks and Migration in the 17th Century - Snowden Lecture
No full textRose Beiler explores the connections between seventeenth-century European Anabaptists in Switzerland and the Netherlands and many places in between. She explains why those connections arose, how participants communicated across cultural, linguistic and political borders, and how their relationships shaped migration opportunities and flows. The networks and processes of mobility that began in the seventeenth century extended across generations and expanded well beyond the Rhine Valley by the eighteenth century. Beiler has published Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650-1750 (Penn State University Press, 2008) and essays that look at the intersections of religion and migration within Europe and to the British North American colonies. She is currently working on a book titled Communication Networks and the Dynamics of Migration, 1630-1730 and a companion digital project, PRINT—People, Religion, Information Networks, and Travel
The Spine Lab: A Short-Duration, Fully-Remote Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience
No full textCourse-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are increasingly common approaches to provide students with authentic laboratory experiences. Typically, CUREs are semester-long, in-person experiences that can be financially and time prohibitive for some institutions, faculty, and students. Here, we developed a short-duration, fully-online CURE, the Spine Lab, to provide an opportunity for students to conduct original research. In this CURE, we focused on synaptic spines in the mammalian brain; synapses are the unit structure that functions in rapid information processing. The students worked together in pairs and as a class to analyze cortical neuron spine density and structural morphology changes between a mouse line with learning impairments (forebrain-specific β-catenin knockouts [β-cat cKOs]) and control (Ctl) littermates. The students showed their results in an online poster presentation. Their findings show that spine density is significantly reduced, while spine structural maturation is unaltered in the β-cat cKO. Defining pathophysiological changes caused by CTNNB1/β-catenin loss-of-function provides important insights relevant to human disorders caused by disruptive mutations in this gene. To assess the benefits of this CURE, students completed a pre- and post-test assessment including a content quiz, STEM identity survey, and a standardized CURE survey. Participation in the Spine Lab correlated with improved content and STEM identity scores, and decreased negative attitudes about science. Moreover, direct comparison to the CURE database reveals that the Spine Lab produces comparable benefits to traditional CUREs. This work as a whole suggests that short-duration, fully-online CUREs can provide benefit to students and could be an inclusive tool to improve student outcomes
Cold-formed steel sheathing connections at elevated temperature
No full textThe objective of this paper is to provide experimental results related to the elevated temperature performance of connections between cold-formed steel members and sheathing. Cold-formed steel building structures rely on sheathing for their mechanical benefits including bracing against member twist, global flexural and flexural-torsional buckling, and cross-section distortional buckling, as well as to supply lateral strength and energy dissipation in shear walls and diaphragms. Sheathing is also relied upon for non-structural benefits, including: fire, acoustic, and thermal performance. Predicting the degradation of the connection performance between cold-formed steel members and sheathing at elevated temperature is critical for any attempt to predict the structural performance of cold-formed steel buildings under fire demands. Steady-state connection tests were conducted under in-plane shear and pull-through at temperatures up to 400 °C for cold-formed steel members attached to gypsum board and oriented strand board. By combining the conducted tests with others in the literature retention factors for initial stiffness and ultimate strength of the connections are proposed
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and air pollution
No full textThe study empirically investigates and shows that on average, the implementation of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) may contribute in the fight against global warming. This study finds that on average, a 1 percent increase of a percentage point in the bilateral volume of trade as a portion of GDP between Canada and a typical EU member could help reduce annual per capita emissions of GHGs in an average CETA member by about.57%. The results also show that the presence of CETA may decrease annual per capita emissions of GHGs in almost all CETA members. There is no statistically significant evidence suggesting an increase of GHGs per capita emissions in any CETA member, regardless of the model or statistical method employed in the paper. These results stand because of the combinations of the factor endowment hypothesis (FEH), the pollution haven hypothesis based on population density variations (PHH2) and the pollution haven hypothesis based on national income differences (PHH1) between each EU member and Canada
Transparency in the News: The Impact of Self-Disclosure and Process Disclosure on the Perceived Credibility of the Journalist, the Story, and the Organization
No full textAn experimental study was conducted to see what impact varying the level of self-disclosure by a journalist, as well as providing information about why and how a story is being covered, has on the perceived credibility of the journalist, the story, and the organization for which the journalist works. A study was conducted that included 885 participants from the United States. Results indicate the group that saw a picture of the journalist, a low level of disclosure regarding the journalist, and information about why and how the story was being covered rated the journalist, story, and organization highest in terms of perceived credibility. These findings indicate that traditional news organizations, when it comes to building audience credibility, should consider including at least some information about the journalist, and perhaps, more importantly, information about why and how the story is being covered
Comparing Black Bear Immobilization Performance of Ketamine-Xylazine and Ketamine-Xylazine-Telazol®
Full text linkOptimal wildlife anesthetic protocols should induce rapid immobilization, allow for rapid recovery, and provide a wide margin of safety. The ketamine and xylazine (KX) anesthetic protocol is commonly used in chemical immobilizations of Ursus americanus (American black bear); however, some biologists report unreliability due to inconsistent recovery times and side effects such as convulsions, sudden arousals, and hyperthermia. In recent years, some biologists have employed the ketamine, xylazine and Telazol® (TKX) anesthetic protocol, which requires relatively lower dose of ketamine and telazol when administered together. Black bears drastically decrease their vital and metabolic rates during hibernation as compared to the active and hyperphagic states. This scenario could alter the efficacy of anesthetic agents during different bear physiological stages. Unfortunately, there is no evidence on whether TKX performs better than the KX protocol under any bear physiological stage. Thus, our objective was to compare the chemical immobilization performance of both KX and TKX protocols in bears housed at Virginia Tech’s Black Bear Research Center. Protocol performance was assessed through vital sign frequencies, induction time, and recovery time in 16 bears (11F and 5M). We used linear models to compare variables across different metabolic states. We found more consistent vitals using TKX compared to the KX protocol. Induction times remained similar in pre-hibernation ~10min, yet TKX produced longer inductions (8min) than KX during hibernation, and TKX produced shorter inductions (21min) than KX post-hibernation. Route of reversal agent administration influenced recovery times regardless of anesthetic protocol or physiological stage, where intravenous was 21min faster than intramuscular, and 29min less than per rectum. Both TKX and KX produced immobilization lasting at least 100min. We recommend using KX if immobilizing bears during hibernation and administering TKX during the pre and post hibernation states, as it produces shorter induction times and less variable bear vital signs
Effective Usage of Instagram as a Food Influencer
Full text linkSocial media allows individuals to reach publics worldwide within seconds. The risks and benefits of organizations using social media as a tool for promotion has been researched extensively with social networks’ growing popularity. In recent years, individual profiles with large followings have been used as opinion leaders and have earned the term influencer. This research examines the engagement of influencer’s followers, then analyzes the content with the most engagement. A review of literature and examination of data leads to the thesis of: Due to the rise of social media engagement, it is vital to analyze the content of posts and personalities that elicit this high engagement to determine effective strategies for future influencers