34 research outputs found
Psychedelics for Substance Use Disorders: Updates for the Psychiatric Trainee
No full textPsychedelics have recently gained attention as potential therapeutic agents for treating patients with substance use disorders, with studies showing promise of psychedelics for reducing substance use and cravings. Despite a limited number of well-controlled modern trials examining psilocybin treatment for alcohol or tobacco use disorder, the available evidence suggests that many serotonergic psychedelics may have benefits for managing various substance use disorders. In this narrative review, the authors aimed to critically evaluate the literature on the use of psychedelics for substance use disorders, including evidence for their efficacy, safety, and potential risks
Whatever Happened To…U.S. v. Burns: Extradition and the Death Penalty
No full textAuthor has retained copyright of article. Article was deposited after permission was granted by CPLEA 05/07/201
Compassionate Care: A New Basis for Temporary Unpaid Leave from Work
No full textAuthor has retained copyright on article. Article was deposited after permission was granted by CPLEA 03/26/201
Lockdown and a Dove’s Tale!
No full text36-37The author shares his observations on Eurasian Collared dove that has set up her home in author’s balcony just on the top of the hanging fan
The Res.pon.se model: for implementing and developing global health
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the challenges in global health efforts. The World Health Organization while keeping the nations informed and updated about the transmission and spread of the disease has called for solidarity, in all forms and shapes, as a measure to respond to COVID-19 management. The personal journey of the author weaving through between countries, professions, disciplines and learnings is conceptualised as experiences constructed being an educator, researcher and coordinator in global health. Using an auto-ethnographic approach, the personal account draws upon the knowledge for the purpose of enhancing and realizing individual resources to implement global health. A Res.pon.se (Research, Education, System, Projects, Operations, Networks, Sustainable, Evidence) model interlinked with eight working Cs is proposed. This model is used as a framework to explore social solidarity, and its two components: i) social regulation and ii) social integration. While constructing deconstructing and re-constructing processes in different spaces, roles and responsibilities an academician operationalises and advances global health. This model (pedagogical model) facilitates exploration of solidarity, from an individual (global) public health professional’s perspective. It provides a space for a dialogue on how one complies with regulations and strives for integration within academia and how some of the realizations may contribute towards reforming the academia. </p
Systems integration with DLSI
No full textSystems integration aims to provide a homogenous view to a system consisting of many heterogeneous systems. Systems integration can be achieved by many means out of which the middleware approach is the most popular. This is because middleware can be built around existing systems thereby reducing the amount of changes needed for the integration. Nowadays many middleware technologies are available to integrate heterogeneous systems. One can chose among them depending upon the requirements. But due to the many technologies available for Middleware, a muddle of middleware exists. To reduce this muddle and to integrate the systems already implemented using different middleware technologies, Web Services plays a key role. Web Services is an XML-based technology which uses known protocols to communicate between applications, thus making them platform and technology independent.
Digital Library Service Integration (DLSI) provides a systematic approach in integrating the digital library collections and services. Amazon\u27s website www.amazon.com is integrated with DLSI such that users see the same web pages as they see when they are logged in normally, but these pages will be augmented with link anchors. Wrappers will parse the web pages to look for elements of interests like book title, author name, etc., and provide them with link anchors which will connect the user to the library at New Jersey Institute of Technology where he or she can search for books or request them through interlibrary loan. The thesis proposes a new architecture for the DLSI as a web service, which can provide this functionality
Design and finite element analysis of racing jack using Cosmos Works and Cosmos Motion
No full textThis project is an attempt to design a racing jack with reduced weight and effort required to lift a racing car. Microsoft Excel was used to analyze and calculate various design parameters. Based on these parameters, the racing jack and its lifting components have been designed and analyzed in Cosmos Works by transferring motion loads. For most of racing jacks, engineers use a single cylinder in hydraulic design, but the author has attempted to use two cylinders to reduce effort and the number of strokes. To study the kinematics of the model, each component was designed and simulated. Plots for stress, displacement, and strain produced during the motion were obtained, and then analyzed. Some of the components which failed during the analysis were redesigned. During the analysis phase, Cosmos Motion provided reaction loads which were imported into Cosmos Works in order to produce stress analysis. For the lift plate design, all links were analyzed so that model should work kinematically and the lift plate should always be in horizontal position. From these parameters, the hydraulic piston was analyzed in terms of length and size.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 33)California State University, Northridge. Department of Engineering
Utility of Considering Multiple Alternative Rectifications in Data Cleaning
No full textabstract: Most data cleaning systems aim to go from a given deterministic dirty database to another deterministic but clean database. Such an enterprise pre–supposes that it is in fact possible for the cleaning process to uniquely recover the clean versions of each dirty data tuple. This is not possible in many cases, where the most a cleaning system can do is to generate a (hopefully small) set of clean candidates for each dirty tuple. When the cleaning system is required to output a deterministic database, it is forced to pick one clean candidate (say the "most likely" candidate) per tuple. Such an approach can lead to loss of information. For example, consider a situation where there are three equally likely clean candidates of a dirty tuple. An appealing alternative that avoids such an information loss is to abandon the requirement that the output database be deterministic. In other words, even though the input (dirty) database is deterministic, I allow the reconstructed database to be probabilistic. Although such an approach does avoid the information loss, it also brings forth several challenges. For example, how many alternatives should be kept per tuple in the reconstructed database? Maintaining too many alternatives increases the size of the reconstructed database, and hence the query processing time. Second, while processing queries on the probabilistic database may well increase recall, how would they affect the precision of the query processing? In this thesis, I investigate these questions. My investigation is done in the context of a data cleaning system called BayesWipe that has the capability of producing multiple clean candidates per each dirty tuple, along with the probability that they are the correct cleaned version. I represent these alternatives as tuples in a tuple disjoint probabilistic database, and use the Mystiq system to process queries on it. This probabilistic reconstruction (called BayesWipe–PDB) is compared to a deterministic reconstruction (called BayesWipe–DET)—where the most likely clean candidate for each tuple is chosen, and the rest of the alternatives discarded.Dissertation/ThesisM.S. Computer Science 201
ECHOING VOICES: CONTEXTUALIZING NAWAL EL SAADAWI?S THE INNOCENCE OF THE DEVIL
No full text<h3 data-fontsize="17" data-lineheight="23">Abstract</h3>
<p>riting is multidisciplinary since it comprises all aspects of religion, economic, cultural and social domains. Fiction better accommodates women’s silence because writer’s imagination deals with and explores possibilities in their society. Fiction can capture women’s unspeakable experiences. The unchanging reality of the patriarchal society remains that a woman is just a liability of the household and her existence always puts her parents in a perpetual threat to losing honour. The only purpose of her existence is to get married at a ?proper? age and to bear sons. Religion has always been tampered by patriarchal society to counter to the needs of a chosen few. The present paper deals with the same problem of oppression and voicing by taking up an Egyptian author El Saadawi’s novel The Innocence of the Devil (1994). Set in an asylum, The Innocence of the Devil is a complex and chilling novel that recasts the relationship of God and Satan, of good and evil. Intertwining the lives of two young women as they discover their sexual and emotional powers, El Saadawi weaves a dreamlike narrative that reveals how the patriarchal structures of Christianity and Islam are strikingly similar; physical violence of women is not simply a social or political phenomenon; it is a religious one as well.</p>
Classic Psychedelics for the Treatment of Depressive Disorders: An Update for Psychiatrists in Training
No full textPsychedelics as therapeutic agents have generated significant attention from clinicians and media sources in recent years. The authors provide an update to the psychiatric trainee on the evidence for psychedelics in the treatment of major depressive disorder and treatment-resistant depression. Many modern clinical trials of the classic, serotonergic psychedelics, such as psilocybin, ayahuasca, lysergic acid diethylamide, and N,N-dimethyltryptamine, have shown promise in the treatment of depressive disorders. Future clinical trials should elucidate severe adverse effects and explore the efficacy of psychedelics utilizing larger, double-blinded trials
