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The Potential to Promote Resilience: Piloting a Minority Stress-informed, GSA-based, Mental Health Promotion Program for LGBTQ Youth
This article describes the results of a pilot study to determine the feasibility and acceptability of a mental health promotion program that was developed to address minority stressors and promote coping skills among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth. It was hypothesized that the program would be feasible to implement within the context of a gay–straight alliance (GSA) and that GSA members would find the program acceptable (e.g., educational, enjoyable, helpful, and relevant). Participants included 10 members of a high school GSA in the northeastern United States. The program sessions were delivered during GSA meetings. The first session emphasized the identification of minority and general stressors, which was followed by a discussion of coping strategies. The remaining sessions emphasized the development of cognitive coping, affect regulation, and problem-solving skills. After each session, participants completed a 13-item feedback form. Ten items assessed acceptability and 3 open-ended items allowed participants to provide constructive feedback. Although the program was feasible to implement within the GSA setting, attendance at the sessions was variable. Those who attended the sessions reported them to be enjoyable, informative, relevant to their lives, and potentially helpful for other LGBTQ students. After revising the program, future research is needed to investigate its dissemination potential and determine whether the program can disrupt the minority stress–psychiatric distress relationship
Geological Survey of Alabama
This is the homepage of the Geological Survey of Alabama (GSA), a data gathering and research agency that explores and evaluates the mineral, water, energy, biological, and other natural resources of the State of Alabama and conducts basic and applied research in these fields as a public service to citizens of the State. The GSA homepage contains a geologic map of Alabama; information on GSA news and events; GSA publications; GIS data and maps; an Ask the Geologist, Hydrogeologist and Biologist link; and a Geospatial Data Clearinghouse. Educational levels: General public, Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division, Graduate or professional
Study of Interplanetary Magnetic Field with Ground State Alignment
We demonstrate a new way of studying interplanetary magnetic field -- Ground
State Alignment (GSA). Instead of sending thousands of space probes, GSA allows
magnetic mapping with any ground telescope facilities equipped with
spectropolarimeter. The polarization of spectral lines that are pumped by the
anisotropic radiation from the Sun is influenced by the magnetic realignment,
which happens for magnetic field (<1G). As a result, the linear polarization
becomes an excellent tracer of the embedded magnetic field. The method is
illustrated by our synthetic observations of the Jupiter's Io and comet Halley.
Polarization at each point was constructed according to the local magnetic
field detected by spacecrafts. Both spatial and temporal variations of
turbulent magnetic field can be traced with this technique as well. The
influence of magnetic field on the polarization of scattered light is discussed
in detail. For remote regions like the IBEX ribbons discovered at the boundary
of interstellar medium, GSA provides a unique diagnostics of magnetic field.Comment: 11 pages, 19 figures, published in Astrophysics and Space Scienc
Formation and propagation of great salinity anomalies
North Atlantic/Arctic ocean and sea ice variability for the period 1948–2001 is studied using a global Ocean General Circulation Model coupled to a dynamic/thermodynamic sea ice model forced by daily NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data [Kalnay et al., 1996]. Variability of Arctic sea ice properties is analysed, in particular the formation and propagation of sea ice thickness anomalies that are communicated via Fram Strait into the North Atlantic. These export events led to the Great Salinity Anomalies (GSA) of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s in the Labrador Sea (LS). All GSAs were found to be remotely excited in the Arctic, rather than by local atmospheric forcing over the LS. Sea ice and fresh water exports through the Canadian Archipelago (CAA) are found to be only of minor importance, except for the 1990s GSA. Part of the anomalies are tracked to the Newfoundland Basin, where they enter the North Atlantic Current. The experiments indicate only a minor impact of a single GSA event on the strength of the North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation (THC)
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