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Student-led Collection Development for Diversifying Collections and Making Connections
Get PDFPoster presented at the Association of College & Research Libraries conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 16 March, 2023.
Librarians at Bryn Mawr College established an annual paid spring break internship for undergraduate students focused on collection development. The goal was to promote diversity in library collections by providing the students with the knowledge and budget to purchase popular reading material from Philadelphia independent bookstores who collections reflect diverse voices
Growth opportunities in American and British terrorism research
Get PDFThis paper identifies what we see as opportunities to improve data collection, analysis, and interpretation of findings in American and British terrorism research. We suggest seven directions that we see as promising. These include: 1) interview methods and reporting, 2) source reporting in database studies, prioritizing available court records, 3) more comparison groups, including non-offender activists for the same cause and non-political offenders, 4) comparison of cases with and without confidential informants, 5) extremist ideas and extremist violence studied as separate problems, 6) more attention to grievances, avoiding controversies over defining ideology and narrative, and 7) more attention to emotions of terrorists, their supporters, and their victims
Mirabile Dictu: the Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter 26 (2023)
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Interactions of Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Complexes with Human Telomeric DNA
Get PDFEight [Ru(bpy)2L]2+ and three [Ru(phen)2L]2+ complexes (where bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine and phen = 1,10-phenanthrolineare ancillary ligands, and L = a polypyridyl experimental ligand) were investigated for their G-quadruplex binding abilities. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer melting assays were used to screen these complexes for their ability to selectively stabilize human telomeric DNA variant, Tel22. The best G-quadruplex stabilizers were further characterized for their binding properties (binding constant and stoichiometry) using UV–vis, fluorescence spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. The ligands’ ability to alter the structure of Tel22 was determined via circular dichroism and PAGE studies. We identified me2allox as the experimental ligand capable of conferring excellent stabilizing ability and good selectivity to polypyridyl Ru(II) complexes. Replacing bpy byphen did not significantly impact interactions with Tel22, suggesting that binding involves mostly the experimental ligand. However, using a particular ancillary ligand can help fine-tune G-quadruplex-binding propertie sof Ru(II) complexes. Finally, the fluorescence “light switch” behavior of all Ru(II) complexes in the presence ofTel22 G-quadruplex was explored. All Ru(II) complexes displayed “light switch” properties, especially [Ru(bpy)2(diamino)]2+, [Ru(bpy)2(dppz)]2+, and [Ru(bpy)2(aap)]2+. Current work sheds light on how Ru(II) polypyridyl complexes interact with human telomeric DNA with possible application in cancer therapy or Gquadruplex sensing
Interior Design: The Doll\u27s House and the Working-Class Child
No full textThis article explores the unexpected relationship that working-class children had with doll\u27s houses in the late nineteenth century. Placing texts by children\u27s author Frances Hodgson Burnett alongside historical material concerning the manufacture of doll\u27s house furniture by students in London\u27s Ragged Schools under the supervision of housing reformer Octavia Hill, I argue that both women understood the educational or formative value of the doll\u27s house as deriving from the object\u27s ability to teach lessons in temporality. I examine this object and its deployment in contemporary object lessons to show that the spatial divisions of these miniature homes operate in relation to both short- and long-term cycles of time. This article also demonstrates that apparently universal models of selfhood and development were in fact contingent on class structures (both authors, for instance, connect developmental abnormalities in poor children to the fact that they grow up in one-room homes)
Primary Care Physicians’ Experiences Treating Patients with Behavioral Health Needs
Get PDFThe delivery of behavioral health care in primary care shapes the patient-physician relationship, which is a core area of focus for examining patient outcomes. Though early research demonstrates the benefit of integrating physical and behavioral healthcare to the patient experience and health outcomes, little research examines the relational implications of this care from the perspective of the primary care physician, including the role of physician burnout. The following study utilized a mixed methods approach to first examine the experience of burnout among primary care physicians who work with patients with behavioral health needs and then, to explore the dynamics of their relationships with these patients. Qualitative findings from semi-structured interviews along with scores on the Maslach Burnout Inventory Human Services Survey for Medical Personnel (MBI-HSS MP) were analyzed from 15 physicians working in primary care for a large hospital network. Burnout scores were used to categorize participants into one of five burnout profiles, including engaged, overextended, ineffective, disengaged and burnout. Pen portraits were created for each participant and categorized by burnout profile. Findings revealed variation in physician relationship building and behavioral health treatment capacities along the burnout continuum, with burned-out physicians reporting more constraints on their time, scope of practice, and ability to maintain work-life balance, aspects that threated their relational philosophy of care with these patients. Implications for the role of medical social workers in supporting primary care patient-physician relationships with behavioral health patients is discussed.
Keywords: behavioral health, primary care, burnout, social work, integrated care, patient-physician relationshi
