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Come, Let’s Understand The Story of Our World
Get PDFThe author shares her personal experiences through this work as she examines and analyzes our ever-changing society and world, especially during the pandemic. As we continue to live and navigate the world in these unprecedented times, inequities and societal problems have been more evident than before. This work is dedicated to women from all walks of life who actively work and support their families without prioritizing themselves
Multi-component redox system for selective and potent antineoplastic activity towards ovarian cancer cells
No full textOrganizing a Local Job Fair During the Pandemic: Challenges and Takeaways
Get PDFThe purpose of this project was to organize a local job fair for the local businesses in these two counties to match them with the students from the university. The goal of the project was to have 8 local small businesses vendors and students. Students who attended were able to make connections with the prospective employers. TAKEAWAY
Returning What Was Lost: Reengaging and Reconnecting Students through Community Engagement
Get PDFHumanistic geographers have referred to the theory of sense of place as a personal connection with place, built up over both years of residence and involvement in the community (Hay, 1988). Community engagement activities such as the SFA Stone Fort Museum’s “Esperanza’s Night Out” provided a venue for the students to belong to a place after the pandemic. Students were able to reconnect and reengage through a collaborative event with the university and the local community
Aquatic Macroinvertebrates as Sentinels of Changes in Local Stream Conditions in East Texas
Get PDFStudy objective: To use aquatic macroinvertebrates to assess the habitat quality and biological conditions of a stream, La Nana Creek, impacted by different land use
Differences in Attachment, Resilience, and Negative Affect in Non-Treatment-Seeking and Treatment-Seeking EMS Professionals
Get PDFEmergency medical service (EMS) professionals have a stressful vocation, inarguably worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, which affects their mental health and makes them a vulnerable population warranting further study. However, to date, no published research has compared non-treatment and treatment-seeking EMS professionals in the same greater metropolitan area. In this study, we examined differences and similarities among the non-treatment-seeking EMS professionals (n = 57) from a local EMS agency and treatment-seeking EMS personnel (n = 53) from a non-profit community treatment center on six assessment instruments that measure attachment avoidance, attachment anxiety, resilience, depression, generalized anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suicidality. The Mann-Whitney U test revealed attachment avoidance, attachment anxiety, depression, generalized anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were significantly higher in the treatment-seeking sample compared to the non-treatment-seeking group
Public Libraries as Community Health Partners
Get PDFPublic libraries are a combination meeting space, educational resource, information repository, and community building organization. As such, they are already positioned to act as a valuable partner in the public health arena. This article researches the basic tenets of public health and identifies areas that public libraries could participate in productively. This article also reviews literature about the potential of public libraries as health partners, as well as what is already being accomplished from the perspective of both library/information sciences and public health studies. This will include the benefits that libraries can bring to public health work and the barriers that need to be overcome for a successful partnership. It also discusses existing methods in library service that can be used to promote public health objectives and describes several library-based public health initiatives and the opinions of Central Texas librarians regarding providing health information services to their patrons
An Application of Differential Mathematical Modeling Techniques to Study the Ongoing Rabies Epizootic in China
Get PDFRabies remains a global public health issue with a wide variety of neurological symptoms such as confusion, slight paralysis, hypersalivation, and hydrophobia. Rabies is usually fatal once symptoms appear. Many species are reservoirs for rabies, such as foxes, racoons, and wild dogs, which in turn can transmit the disease to humans, leading to complex transmission chains. There is a long latent period of rabies, between 1 to 3 months after infection, which further complicates control efforts. Mathematical modeling is a valuable tool in the study of infectious disease outbreaks and there have been many models applied to rabies outbreaks. However, these focus on localized outbreaks that usually involve a single lineage and there have been fewer studies that attempt to model a rabies outbreak at the national level. In this work, we will investigate the surveillance data collected by the Chinese Center for Disease Control for the current Rabies epizootic in China that involves a displacement of one rabies lineage with another. This paper will investigate the suitability of different models for capturing the observed case data at the provincial level