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Comparison of potential contact allergens in best-selling adult and baby cleansers
No full textare that the contents of this article are their own original unpublished findings. Title: Comparison of potential contact allergens in best-selling adult and baby cleansers Authors: Jayden Galamgam1 MD, Sasan D Noveir2 BA, Carol E Cheng1 MD Affiliations: 1Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2 David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA Corresponding Author: Jayden Galamgam MD, Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095, Email: [email protected]
Knowledge Translation and Transfer to Advance Rural Economic Development in Ontario
No full textRural economic development practitioners are at the front line of facilitating prosperous rural economies, places, and environments across Ontario. The role of economic development practitioners has greatly evolved since the last comprehensive assessment in the early 2000s. This knowledge translation and transfer research initiative examines the role of rural economic development practitioners, determine the key skills and capacities required to succeed in field, identify what knowledge is needed to support rural economic development practitioners and identify the key formats for receiving new knowledge. This contribution provides an update on project activities to better understand how knowledge translation and transfer can support rural economic development and rural economies throughout Ontario
Adapting to Change: Evolving Roles and Knowledge Needs of Rural Economic Development Practitioners in Ontario
No full textRural economic development practitioners are essential in fostering prosperous economies and communities across Ontario. Over the past few decades, the role of these practitioners has evolved significantly. The COVID-19 pandemic has further reshaped how rural economies are organized, and how economic development professionals must adapt to support them. As a result, there is a growing need for updated information to better understand the evolving role of rural economic development practitioners, the skills and capacities they require to effectively support rural economies, and the formats in which they need to acquire this new knowledge. An online survey was conducted in the spring of 2025 among economic development officers working in rural local governments across Ontario. The survey gathered valuable insights into current activities, policies, strategies, and resources aimed at supporting rural economic development. The findings reveal a clear trend of increasing responsibilities and activities, coupled with limited human and financial resources. The survey also highlights key areas of knowledge necessary to support rural economies, along with the preferred formats for knowledge sharing. This analysis enhances our understanding of economic development in rural Ontario and provides insights into how to better support rural economic development practitioners
Navigating Change: Understanding Transformations in Rural Economic Development Knowledge Translation and Transfer
No full textRural economic development practitioners are essential in fostering prosperous economies and communities across Ontario. Over the past few decades, the role of these practitioners has evolved significantly. The COVID-19 pandemic has further reshaped how rural economies are organized, and how economic development professionals must adapt to support them. As a result, there is a growing need for updated information to better understand the evolving role of rural economic development practitioners, the skills and capacities they require to effectively support rural economies, and the formats in which they need to acquire this new knowledge. The purpose of this research is to understand the key skills, capacities, and knowledge sets required by economic development practitioners in rural Ontario; to understand the role and activities conducted by rural economic development practitioners to support rural prosperity, particularly in light of COVID-19; and to evaluate existing KTT activities and outputs and to identify the ideal formats for sharing knowledge with rural economic development practitioners. An online survey was conducted among economic development officers working in rural local governments across Ontario. The survey gathered valuable insights into current activities, policies, strategies, and resources aimed at supporting rural economic development. The findings reveal a clear trend of increasing responsibilities and activities, coupled with limited human and financial resources. The survey highlights key areas of knowledge necessary to support rural economies, along with the preferred formats for knowledge sharing. This analysis enhances our understanding of economic development in rural Ontario and provides insights into how to better support rural economic development practitioners
CHARACTERIZATION OF TOXOPLASMOSIS REPORTING AND SURVEILLANCE IN THE UNITED STATES
No full textMaster of Public HealthPublic Health Interdepartmental ProgramMajor Professor Not ListedThis online experience was completed with Dr. Anne Straily from the Parasitic Diseases
Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the Summer of 2021. As part of this field experience, the author assisted Dr. Straily with a study investigating the surveillance systems for toxoplasmosis in states where this disease is currently categorized as “reportable.” Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by the protozoan species Toxoplasma gondii
and generally only causes clinical disease in immunocompromised individuals and children of mothers infected during gestation. This study sought to determine if toxoplasmosis would be a good candidate to become a nationally notifiable disease with the CDC. This allowed the author to use skills from several classes from the MPH coursework as well as expand on crucial writing and communication skills when preparing the results for publication and presentation to relevant individuals both within and outside the host agency. During this time, the author was also able to be a part of several other functions of this branch of the CDC, including monthly meetings and other events to learn more about their various projects and global reach. In addition to the author’s responsibilities with the CDC, he separately engaged in various teaching opportunities
with his faculty mentor, Dr. Justin Kastner. This included a lecture to undergraduate students about the risks of toxoplasmosis and a lecture to graduate students about the trade-policy implications of African Swine Fever Virus over the past century (a topic that combined aspects of the author’s public health, veterinary, and PhD research-related knowledge). This experience, while primarily completed virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was a rewarding opportunity for the author to learn more about how a federal public health agency like the CDC operates, to apply techniques learned from the MPH coursework regarding surveillance systems, and to gain experience in teaching future public health professionals and veterinarian
Learning modules: problem-based learning, blended learning and flipping the classroom
No full textIn 2020, the author introduced a new learning and assessment programme to the compulsory Land Law course at the University of Auckland, Faculty of Law. This article introduces, explains and evaluates the programme design. The Learning Modules programme has five components: structured pre-tutorial activities guiding students through a problem; tutorials in which tutors facilitate discussion on the problem; post-tutorial quizzes testing understanding of ideas arising in the problem; and exam-oriented review exercises in the form of modelling exercises and example exercises. First, the article discusses three pedagogical theories: problem-based learning, blended learning and flipping the classroom. Secondly, the article outlines the Learning Modules programme. Thirdly, the article uses student survey data from 2020 and 2021 to evaluate the extent to which the programme represents problem-based learning, blended learning and flipping the classroom. In doing so, the article considers how closely a programme needs to conform with the classical characteristics of each theory to be considered to represent them. The article concludes that the programme can be said to represent each of the three theories, depending on how they are formulated
On Idempotent Measures of Small Norm
No full textIn this Master’s Thesis, we set up the groundwork for [8], a paper co-written by the author and Hung Pham. We summarise the Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes algebras on both abelian and general locally compact groups. Let Г be a locally compact group. We answer two questions left open in [11] and [13]:
1. When Г is abelian, we prove that if ϰs ∈ B(Г) is an idempotent with norm 1 < ||ϰs|| < 4/3 then S is the union of two cosets of an open subgroup of Г.
2. For general Г, we prove that if ϰs ∈ McbA(Г) is an idempotent with norm ||ϰs||cb < 1+√2/2 , then S is an open coset in Г
The Systemic Side of Disinformation: The Reid Technique as Exploitative Knowledge Production
No full textIn this paper, the author analyzes the Reid Technique – the most commonly employed interrogation technique in the United States – to argue that it employs disinformation to reinforce the power and authority of the police while disregarding the harm caused to the individual suspect. Furthermore, the author shows how the Reid Technique reproduces the structural, systemic side of disinformation when false confessions lead to wrongful convictions that codify disinformation as legal precedent. In turn, these wrongful convictions are interpreted as high-quality data that gets incorporated into the fabric of what scholars and members of our society know about crime and justice in America
Thermal dark matter implies new physics not far above the weak scale
No full textIn this work we complete a model independent analysis of dark matter constraining its mass and interaction strengths with data from astro- and particle physics experiments. We use the effective field theory framework to describe interactions of thermal dark matter particles of the following types: real and complex scalars, Dirac and Majorana fermions, and vector bosons. Using Bayesian inference we calculate posterior probability distributions for the mass and interaction strengths for the various spin particles. The observationally favoured dark matter particle mass region is 10-100 GeV with effective interactions that have a cut-off at 0.1-1 TeV. This mostly comes from the requirement that the thermal abundance of dark matter not exceed the observed value. Thus thermal dark matter coupled with present data implies new physics most likely under 10 TeV.JHEP is an open-access journal funded by SCOAP3 and licensed under CC BY 4.
