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Deep Tissue Swedish Massage Therapy as a Weight Loss Aid in Overweight and Obese Adult Clients
Massage therapy has been claimed by doctors, spas, and estheticians as a powerful and effective weight-loss tool; however, many of these claims appear anecdotal.
There has been evidence of the biological effects that massage therapy has on the human body (Tunay, Akbayrak, Bakar, Kayihan & Ergun, 2009). This study will evaluate the effects and outcomes that these biological effects have relating to the participants’ weight by utilizing the massage therapy treatment plan.
Existing clients of the Kenton Family Wellness Center will be invited to participate. Each person will fill out a health history form to determine selection to participate, as well as each participant’s baseline prior to treatment. Data will be obtained from interviews, physical assessments, and circumference measurements taken once a month for one year followed by one 60-minute massage therapy session once a week for one year. Data collected throughout the study will be analyzed for circumference and overall weight loss when compared to the control group, which will be receiving only physical assessments.
This study will be a way to enhance the knowledge of the benefits of massage therapy specific to using massage as a weight loss aid
Octonionic Cayley Spinors and E6
Attempts to extend our previous work using the octonions to describe
fundamental particles lead naturally to the consideration of a particular real,
noncompact form of the exceptional Lie group E6, and of its subgroups. We are
therefore led to a description of E6 in terms of 3x3 octonionic matrices,
generalizing previous results in the 2x2 case. Our treatment naturally includes
a description of several important subgroups of E6, notably G2, F4, and (the
double cover of) SO(9,1), An interpretation of the actions of these groups on
the squares of 3-component "Cayley spinors" is suggested.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure, contributed talk at 2nd Mile High Conference
(Denver 2009
Finite Lorentz Transformations, Automorphisms, and Division Algebras
We give an explicit algebraic description of finite Lorentz transformations
of vectors in 10-dimensional Minkowski space by means of a parameterization in
terms of the octonions. The possible utility of these results for superstring
theory is mentioned. Along the way we describe automorphisms of the two highest
dimensional normed division algebras, namely the quaternions and the octonions,
in terms of conjugation maps. We use similar techniques to define and
via conjugation, via symmetric multiplication, and via
both symmetric multiplication and one-sided multiplication. The
non-commutativity and non-associativity of these division algebras plays a
crucial role in our constructions.Comment: 24 pages, Plain TeX, 2 figures on 1 page submitted separately as
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Octonionic Mobius Transformations
A vexing problem involving nonassociativity is resolved, allowing a
generalization of the usual complex Mobius transformations to the octonions.
This is accomplished by relating the octonionic Mobius transformations to the
Lorentz group in 10 spacetime dimensions. The result will be of particular
interest to physicists working with lightlike objects in 10 dimensions.Comment: Plain TeX, 12 pages, 1 PostScript figure included using eps
Protecting Patient Privacy: Strategies for Regulating Electronic Health Records Exchange
The report offers policymakers 10 recommendations to protect patient privacy as New York state develops a centralized system for sharing electronic medical records. Those recommendations include:Require that the electronic systems employed by HIEs have the capability to sort and segregate medical information in order to comply with guaranteed privacy protections of New York and federal law. Presently, they do not.Offer patients the right to opt-out of the system altogether. Currently, people's records can be uploaded to the system without their consent.Require that patient consent forms offer clear information-sharing options. The forms should give patients three options: to opt-in and allow providers access to their electronic medical records, to opt-out except in the event of a medical emergency, or to opt-out altogether.Prohibit and sanction the misuse of medical information. New York must protect patients from potential bad actors--that small minority of providers who may abuse information out of fear, prejudice or malice.Prohibit the health information-sharing networks from selling data. The State Legislature should pass legislation prohibiting the networks from selling patients' private health information
Emerging patterns of genetic overlap across autoimmune disorders.
Most of the recently identified autoimmunity loci are shared among multiple autoimmune diseases. The pattern of genetic association with autoimmune phenotypes varies, suggesting that certain subgroups of autoimmune diseases are likely to share etiological similarities and underlying mechanisms of disease. In this review, we summarize the major findings from recent studies that have sought to refine genotype-phenotype associations in autoimmune disease by identifying both shared and distinct autoimmunity loci. More specifically, we focus on information from recent genome-wide association studies of rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, celiac disease, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, type 1 diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease. Additional work in this area is warranted given both the opportunity it provides to elucidate pathogenic mechanisms in autoimmunity and its potential to inform the development of improved diagnostic and therapeutic tools for this group on complex human disorders
Assessing student reasoning in upper-division electricity and magnetism at Oregon State University
Standardized assessment tests that allow researchers to compare the
performance of students under various curricula are highly desirable. There are
several research-based conceptual tests that serve as instruments to assess and
identify students' difficulties in lower-division courses. At the
upper-division level, however, assessing students' difficulties is a more
challenging task. Although several research groups are currently working on
such tests, their reliability and validity are still under investigation. We
analyze the results of the Colorado Upper-Division Electrostatics diagnostic
from Oregon State University and compare it with data from University of
Colorado. In particular, we show potential shortcomings in the Oregon State
University curriculum regarding separation of variables and boundary
conditions, as well as uncover weaknesses of the rubric to the free response
version of the diagnostic. We also demonstrate that the diagnostic can be used
to obtain information about student learning during a gap in instruction. Our
work complements and extends the previous findings from the University of
Colorado by highlighting important differences in student learning that may be
related to the curriculum, illuminating difficulties with the rubric for
certain problems and verifying decay in post-test results over time.Comment: 11 pages, 12 figure
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