Classroom v. Courtroom: Is the Right to Education Fundamental?

Classroom v. Courtroom: Is the Right to Education Fundamental

Reproducibility and accuracy of the virtual occlusal record

Purpose: To evaluate the reproducibility and accuracy of the virtual occlusal record compared to the gold standard physical bite record Methods: Two physical bite records of PVS and two virtual bites using an iTero Element scanner were obtained from 22 participants. Intraoral scans were exported as STL files, and virtual occlusal records were created. CBCT images were taken of physical occlusal records and converted to STL files. STL files were superimposed using Geomagic Control X™ Software. Root mean square (RMS) and percent similarity within 0.25 mm tolerance were compared at a significance level of 0.05. Results: Average RMS between physical records was 0.34, which was significantly higher than repeat virtual bite comparisons (p\u3c0.0001), with an average percent within tolerance of 76.33%, which was significantly lower than repeat virtual bite comparisons (p\u3c0.0001). Average RMS between repeated virtual records was 0.12 with an average percent within tolerance of 97.84%. Average RMS between physical and virtual records was 0.61, which was significantly higher than both repeat comparisons for physical and virtual records (p\u3c0.0001), with an average percent within tolerance of 50.88%, which was significantly lower than both repeat comparisons for physical and virtual records (p\u3c0.0001). Conclusion: Virtual occlusal records are significantly more reproducible than physical occlusal records. Statistically and clinically significant differences exist between virtual and physical records. Some of the differences could have been due to variations in the physical bite records themselves. Virtual occlusal records may be more accurate than physical bite records, but additional research is needed to confirm this

Psychoanalysis as an Interdisciplinary Science: From 19th Century Neuropsychology to Modern Neuropsychoanalysis

This dissertation explores interdisciplinarity from three perspectives. It emphasizes the intellectual foundations of Sigmund Freuds Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895) and Alexander Bains Mind and Body (1872). It argues that these neural networks were similar and created via borrowed and integrated knowledge. This thesis contributes to the scholarship on Bain and Freud by presenting an analysis of their models, thus, providing a qualitative comparative analysis to make explicit the continuities and discontinuities in their ideas. In comparing their works, this study finds that there is no evidence that Freud borrowed directly from Bain when he created the Project; the similarities in their models are likely due the common academic milieus they emerged from. The discontinuities, however, were due to the neuron doctrine and the new scientific methods that emerged between 1872 and 1895. Part two of this thesis posits that psychoanalysis began as an interdisciplinary field founded on the Project, and that this interdisciplinarity continues today in the field of neuropsychoanalysis. This study finds that psychoanalysis has had a long history of interaction with the various psy-disciplines, particularly experimental psychology, and that the connection between the creation of the Project and the emergence of the field of neuropsychoanalysis was not a linear one. A conceptual bibliometric citation analysis demonstrates that, while experimental academic psychologists were testing the validity of Freudian concepts via empirical methods, they were actually borrowing knowledge from psychoanalysis. This analysis expands on the work of Hornstein (1992) and presents the first quantitative analysis of the intense relationship between psychology and psychoanalysis as psychologists were testing Freudian concepts. This thesis ends with an exploration of the recently created field of neuropsychoanalysis and provides the scholarship with the first bibliometric citation analysis of the field. In so doing, this portrait of the discipline presents an analysis of the psychological concepts this field is interested in studying, the methods used, and an examination of the extent of collaboration between psychoanalysts and neuroscientists. This is followed with a brief discussion on the clinical and theoretical relevance of neuroscience to psychoanalysis and the increasing concern regarding the validity of imaging techniques

Factors affecting sickness absence from work

The Whitehall studjes include a series of papers by Stansfeld et al (1995, I997a, 1997b) that examine factors predicting sickness absence from work. These include psychological and physical well-being, social support and chronic stressors, including work-related stress.Psychological ill-health is particularly important in terms of sickness absence. It is thought to account for one third of sickness absence (Jenkins, 1985), often results in repeated absences (Taylor, 1968; Ferguson, 1972) and contributes to long spells of certified absence (Stansfeld et al, I 995). Somatisation of emotional distress highlights the fact that psychological ill-health may be an important contributory factor in absenteeism, even where this is c ited as due to physical symptoms.This study aimed to examine factors affecting sickness absence in one industrial workplace. There were 910 employees within the factory at the time of the study. Absence data was collected over a ten-month period for 8 I 0 of these workers. Approximately 200 workers had indices of physical fitness assessed as part of a health screening initiative and 166 employees completed questionnaires evaluating quality of life, attitudes towards work and psychological well-being. Interrelationships amongst these factors are examined. The relationship of these factors to sickness absence is also explored, as is the relationship between sickness absence and other demographic variables, such as gender and grade of employment. Results are discussed with reference to previous research findings

Classroom v. Courtroom: Is the Right to Education Fundamental?

Classroom v. Courtroom: Is the Right to Education Fundamental

Improving the Lives of Transgender Older Adults: Recommendations for Policy and Practice

Transgender and gender non-conforming adults face a myriad of challenges as they age. While very limited, the existing research on transgender people paints a picture of many people aging in isolation and without a network of knowledgeable or welcoming providers in the aging, health and social services arenas. Further, transgender elders often experience extreme disparities in access to health care and low rates of health insurance coverage due in large part to systemic discrimination from providers and insurance companies, as well as economic instability resulting from discrimination in employment and housing, among other areas. An overarching challenge for policymakersand practitioners isthe dearth in research examining the challenges facing this population--and the types of policies and programmatic interventions that would improve their lives. While the need for better data and more research on lesbian, gay and bisexual communities has gained support over the last few years, gender identity remains largely absent from the scope of social research and analysis. Moreover, few studies have addressed the specific challenges facing transgender elders. Research focused on transgender people of color is even more limited, despite some studies suggesting that they experience high levels of violence and discrimination

Origins and Developments of Christian Baptism (to the year 230 AD)

The paper which follows is not an attempt to prove or disprove any particular theories of baptism. It will, rather, try to survey some of the baptismal references to be found in Biblical books and in documents both of the mainstream Church and of the less orthodox (or totally non-orthodox) sects, which were written within the first two hundred years of the Church's history. The existence of washing rites in many religions other than Christianity, and pre-dating Christianity, is indisputable and requires no further proof, therefore, the fact that the Christian Church itself adopted such a practice can hardly be surprising and there is no reason to expect that the origins of this baptismal practice should be found solely in the New Testament. To say that this is so does not in any way devalue the rite of baptism but acknowledges that the Church did not exist in isolation from the world around it - a world in which ritual washings were commonly practised. In the following pages the baptismal references which are discussed are not necessarily those from the most reputable or esteemed sources, nor are some of the views expressed those most widely accepted in modern studies, but they are of some general interest and as such have been included here. Even though, in the end, they might prove to say little or nothing about Christian baptism, that is in itself a comment (indirect and negative perhaps) upon the Christian rite. Because some of the sources used in this work are now out-dated and otherwise long-forgotten; because some of the primary sources are not the most commonly cited; because . the study of sources is not exhaustive, it might be thought that, somewhere between the lines, a case is being made for or against particular attitudes within the Church or academic community. It must, therefore, be stated that this is definitely not the writer's intent. It might be suggested that to begin with Hippolytus and to try to imply any connection between the baptismal rite recorded so fully by him and the modern Roman Catholic rite is to call into question the validity of the Roman Catholic tradition of baptism. This kind of criticism might be levelled at various points in the work regarding different sections of the Church and their practices (baptism or otherwise). In the hope, then, that all that follows will be read in the spirit in which it was written, it should perhaps be pointed out that the comparison between the rite of Hippolytus and that of the modern Roman Catholic Church is drawn by Edward Yarnold SJ in his book "The Awe Inspiring Rites of Initiation" (pp265ff) - a book approved by the Roman Catholic Church. In this work such comparisons are noted as being of interest even if they actually prove nothing, and that may best summarise the trend of this whole paper

AI-Informed Approaches to Keyword Generation, Text Summarization, and Document Clustering for Improved Resource Discovery

Academic and cultural institutions are grappling with problems of how to organize, label, and search disparate bodies of texts. As aggregators, preservers, and disseminators of substantial repositories of digital texts, research libraries are naturally situated at the heart of these problems. This chapter explores how unsupervised machine learning may be used to capture and simplify the complexity and nuances of text. Traditional approaches to improving discoverability and accessibility of text through metadata and controlled vocabularies have time-tested strengths. As the volume of digital data explodes, the obstacles and limitations of traditional approaches become more pronounced, and machine learning “show(s) the potential to create efficiencies that smooth the path to access, enhancing description and expanding forms of discovery along the way.”1 In light of the need for new approaches to metadata generation to facilitate discovery, the authors look at Doc2Vec and topic modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to explore their utility as assistive tools for authors, librarians, and readers. The authors apply the two approaches to a corpus of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) completed at Ohio universities and colleges