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Client Perspectives of Engaging in Romantic Relationships After a Spinal Cord Injury: A Phenomenological Inquiry
Get PDFIntimacy and romantic relationships are an integral component of an individual, providing love and support through one’s lifetime and increasing life satisfaction and well-being. However, individuals who live with a spinal cord injury (SCI) experience relationships and intimacy differently than the rest of the population. Being paralyzed after any injury can affect the individual’s self-esteem, making the individual feel unattractive and self-conscious. Current literature suggests a variety of client reported barriers to engaging in romantic relationships after SCI such as decreased self-esteem, negative body image, and lack of support and education; however, there is limited research regarding the lived experiences of individuals with SCI regarding intimacy. Having a better understanding of the personal perspectives of individuals with SCI related to engaging in intimacy and romantic relationships will help occupational therapists to better address their clients’ needs after SCI. This study addressed the following research questions: 1) What are the personal experiences of individuals with SCI engaging in romantic relationships? 2) What are the reported facilitators and barriers of engaging in romantic relationships for individuals with SCI? And 3) How do individuals with SCI think that occupational therapy can better support their engagement in romantic relationships? This project was completed using a phenomenological approach and semi-structured interviews, which were transcribed and analyzed for common themes
Exploring the Effects of Nicotine on Reward Learning in Female Sprague-Dawley Rats
No full textNicotine addiction harms millions of individuals worldwide: financially, socially, and psychologically. Successful smoking cessation could dramatically improve the quality of life for these people. A key driver of smoking relapse centers around associated environmental cues, which induces craving and drives a smoker to re-initiate smoking. Previous work has shown that nicotine can enhance the reinforcing properties of reward-associated cues in male rats. This research aims to evaluate nicotine’s effect on female rats using a behavioral assay called “cue-induced reward-seeking.” In this behavioral assay, rats are trained to press a lever that produces liquid sucrose along with an audiovisual cue. After the training period, the liquid sucrose reward is omitted. Surprisingly, animals will keep pressing the lever, as the cue has become synonymous with the reward. Here, we describe various approaches (water deprivation, food restriction, and shaping) that could potentially be helpful in establishing sucrose self-administration with the goal of examining how nicotine influences cue-induced sucrose-seeking. Shaping was found to be the most influential approach in promoting sucrose self-administration. In future experiments, nicotine (0.4 mg/kg, s.c.) will be administered in these rats in a comparison with controls (saline, s.c.) prior to training to assess the effects of nicotine on cue-induced sucrose-seeking
SECTOR: A Web-based Data Management and Sharing System Secured by Blockchain
No full textSince the advent of technology, securely transferring data between two computers over the internet has been a difficult task. This is especially true for organizations and universities who want to take advantage of technology to securely transfer or share data. Although many file transfer services exist, none have achieved secure transfers while also offering a friendly and easy-to-use user interface. SECTOR uses an existing secure transfer service called Globus to conduct secure file transfers and has built a safe and secure user permissions system on top of their functionality. All data used by SECTOR is stored on a distributed ledger using Hyperledger Fabric, which is built upon Blockchain technology. Because data is stored on a distributed ledger, the data of its users stay safe and out of the hands of potential hackers while also allowing greater data access and less downtime for SECTOR in case an institution goes offline
Incorporation of Luminescent Osmium Complexes into Metal-Organic Frameworks: Optimization of Osmium Complex Synthesis and Effect of MOF Structure on Complex Inclusion and Emission
No full textMetal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are materials that contain metal centers coordinated by organic molecules that form an extended, porous lattice. These MOFs are of interest in the field of sensing for their unique properties such as high stability, high surface area, high crystallinity, and ability to perform small molecule exchange. Luminescent metal-organic frameworks (LMOFs) are of specific interest since they contain the potential to detect odorless volatile organic compounds (VOCs) via adsorption into the porous framework. Luminescent properties can be imparted to MOFs in several ways. This project focused on the inclusion of a luminescent osmium complex into the MOF scaffold. The optimization of the osmium complex synthesis will be detailed. Doping of several MOF systems with the luminescent osmium complex was explored and the resulting emission spectra from these studies will be presented
[(1,2,5,6-η)-Cyclo-octa-1,5-diene](1-ethyl-3-isopropyl-1,3-imidazol-2-yl-idene)(tri-phenyl-phosphane)rhodium(I) tetra-fluorido-borate
No full textA new -heterocyclic cationic rhodium(I) complex with a tetra-fluorido-borate counter-anion, [Rh(CHN)(CH)(CHP)]BF, has been prepared and structurally characterized. The cationic complex exhibits a distorted square-planar environment around the rhodium(I) ion. Two connections are made from rhodium(I) to the carbon atom of an -heterocylic carbene ligand and to the phospho-rus atom of a tri-phenyl-phosphane ligand. The remaining two coordination sites are made a bidentate inter-action from the two olefinic bonds of cyclo-octa-diene to the rhodium(I) ion. The compound includes an out-sphere tetra-fluorido-borate counter-anion. Within the crystal of the compound exist several weak inter-molecular C-H⋯F inter-actions
Systematic Generation of the Dunham Coefficients Using Symbolic Mathematics Software
No full textThe Dunham coefficients are an indispensable part of the analysis of the ro-vibrational spectrum of a diatomic molecule. They provide a direct connection between the ro-vibrational states observed and the interatomic potential that must exist in the molecule. One may deduce the interatomic potential from the spectrum or, alternatively, predict the spectrum from a theoretically generated interatomic potential. The coefficients result from a mathematical analysis of the Schrödinger equation for such a system. Dunham\u27s derivation relied on the WKB approximation and, as such, was subject to the associated limitations. In this paper, the quantum condition is derived without any reliance on the WKB approximation, using only principles of complex analysis. This sidesteps the need for introducing an approximate function to join solutions and suggests that the expansion has a more fundamental basis. Also in this paper, a mathematical algorithm for generating the Dunham coefficients is elaborated in detail. Careful attention is paid to keeping these coefficients accurate to a specified order in the smallness parameter, τe = Be/ωe. This algorithm is intended to be presented in a way that makes it amenable to incorporation into computer code and points where the efficiency can be improved are indicated. Coefficients have been generated and presented in the literature through the years. The current paper presents the coefficients explicitly to tenth order in the smallness parameter, far more than have been generated in any previous work
\u27Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from?\u27: Englishness and the Search for an American National Style, 1850-1900
No full textThe identification of the American elite with the Renaissance in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as seen in the extended Capitol Building and National Mall in Washington DC, can be traced back to architectural, historiographical and cultural trends taking place in Britain. The writings of John Ruskin, Walter Pater and John Addington Symonds framed the debate in the United States. At first Ruskin\u27s antipathy towards the Renaissance was exacerbated by the Nativist Party\u27s opposition to Catholic immigration, but then the writings of Pater and, particularly, Symonds achieved what Wallace K. Ferguson described as \u27the thorough naturalization of Renaissancism in the English-speaking world\u27. Symonds\u27s Hegelian interpretation of the historical era as a \u27spirit of self-conscious freedom\u27 enabled Americans from the 1870s onwards to post-rationalise the Renaissance as a national style. Symonds dethroned the Ruskinian cult of the Gothic and celebrated Renaissance classicism and secular individualism. His image of Italian despots as \u27self-made men of commerce\u27 and an \u27aristocracy of genius and character\u27 appealed to US capitalists, while his admiration for the sumptuous palaces built by these Renaissance \u27men of power\u27 reinforced the evolutionary theories of the British sociologist Herbert Spencer, whose principle of \u27the survival of the fittest\u27 became the creed of American plutocrats as they built their own palatial houses. Finally, his frequent references to the discovery of America by Columbus came to legitimise the image of the US as the heir of Renaissance culture, as proclaimed at the World\u27s Columbian Exposition of 1893
The role of the US baccalaureate social work program director: a national survey
No full textA national survey of Bachelor of Social Work program directors in the United States was conducted to learn about their current role including their environment, tasks and preparation, and support. Results indicated that most were untenured with no formal training when they assumed the role, and major stressors included accreditation, time demands, and budgetary issues. The vast majority indicated feeling supported and satisfied in their role, with the most common joys being students and their colleagues. Their identified training needs included online education and technology in education followed by accreditation. Implications include a need for increased training and time release
My Mom: My Role Model
No full textThis is an interview with my mom who is my biggest role model and my inspiration for becoming a teacher