Comparison of the mean photospheric magnetic field and the interplanetary magnetic field

Polarity comparison of solar magnetic field and interplanetary magnetic fiel

Counseling the Kink Community: What Clinicians Need to Know

Recent media portrayals of Kink are prevalent, but not always culturally accurate and can perpetuate a stigma that impacts the therapeutic environment when working with Kink-oriented individuals. Misunderstanding the culture can increase prejudice, misdiagnosis, and maltreatment of Kink-oriented clients. The authors provide readers with an introductory primer on language used within the Kink culture, avoiding the pathology of cultural and personal preferences, and myths associated with Kink community practices. Implications for best practices are offered

Over the Rainbow: A Career Development Group for LGBTQ+ Teens

LGBTQ+ teens’ career decision-making processes are confounded by LGBTQ+ identity development and negative experiences in school. The authors present literature identifying specific needs of LGBTQ+ teens involved in career planning and propose a specialized career group counseling model designed to address those needs. Potential application for counselors in schools and the community are discussed

The Effects of Stacking on the Configurations and Elasticity of Single Stranded Nucleic Acids

Stacking interactions in single stranded nucleic acids give rise to configurations of an annealed rod-coil multiblock copolymer. Theoretical analysis identifies the resulting signatures for long homopolynucleotides: A non monotonous dependence of size on temperature, corresponding effects on cyclization and a plateau in the extension force law. Explicit numerical results for poly(dA) and poly(rU) are presented.Comment: 4 pages and 2 figures. Accepted in Phys. Rev. E Rapid Com

Synthesis of functionalized membranes for metal capture to tunable separations

Membrane pores functionalized with appropriate macromolecules provide applications ranging from tunable flux and separations at low pressure, toxic metal capture, chemical synthesis, to protein separations. The synthesis may involve direct pore surface grafting of macromolecules or in-situ polymerization in MF type membrane pores. Traditionally, microfiltration membranes have been used for filtration of suspended solids, bacteria, viruses, etc. However, microfiltration membranes (eg, cellulosics, silica, polysulfone, polycarbonate, alumina) can be functionalized with a variety of reagents. Depending on the types of functionalized groups (such as, chain length, charge of groups, biomolecule, etc.) and number of layers, these types of membranes could be used in applications A. Colburn ranging from environmental applications to various organics separations.. In addition, electrostatic self assembly in pores (layer-by-layer, LBL) can also be achieved through alternate adsorption of cationic and anionic polyelectrolytes under convective flow conditions. Non-stoichiometric immobilization of charged multilayers within a confined pore geometry leads to an enhanced volume density of ionizable groups in the membrane phase. For example, the use of polypeptides with helix-coil transitions allows nano-domain interactions in membrane pores for selective environmental separations (using layer-by-layer nano-assembly in pores), and for the capture of various toxic metals. Multilayer assemblies of polyelectrolytes also provide excellent platform for protein/enzyme immobilization by providing reusability and high reactivity. The (1) presentation will include the media synthesis and the role of nano-domain interactions for selective separations, (2) polypeptide/polyeletrolyte assembly in membrane pores for high capacity metal capture to other separation applications, and (3) tunable separations with pH and temperature responsive membrane systems. The author would like to thank NSF KY EPSCoR (Grant no: 1355438) program and by NIH-NIEHS-SRC (Award number: P42ES007380) program for funding various aspects of this work

Counselor Educators’ Experiences of Gatekeeping in Online Counselor Education Programs

Counselor educators serve as gatekeepers by ensuring that only those students who meet standards of competence enter the counseling field. This qualitative study explored the gatekeeping experiences of seven counselor educators in online Master’s-level counseling programs. The resulting themes offer implications for counselor education, administration, and research