Bestowing the Blessing: Practical Strategies for Christian Educators

Christian teachers in the public schools who wish to improve student motivation and outcomes can effectively apply the strategies suggested by Smalley and Trent (1986) in The Blessing. Smalley and Trent set forth a five-fold plan for parents to bless their children with unconditional love and acceptance. The techniques of using meaningful touch, speaking words of honor, encouragement, and affirmation, and making an active commitment to student success are supported both by Scripture and research in educational best practices

Travel Writers and Traveling Writers in Australasia: Responses to Travel Literatures and the Problem of Authenticity

This article compares responses to travel writing and imaginative fiction about the settler colonies, in particular Australia and New Zealand, between 1870 and 1945—a time when distinctions between travel, mobility, and emigration were hard to pin down. Very little scholarship has shown an interest in what the subject society’s inhabitants thought of its portrayal, and what this can tell us about colonial and national identities. Australasian responses to works about Australasia, in the form of published reviews, were influenced by the knowledge and particular concerns of the reviewer and their own negotiations with identity. What mattered to readers and critics was the authenticity of the portrayal of the place, but this was not only related to whether the work claimed to be fiction or non-fiction. The perceived level of familiarity that the writer had with the area was the most important factor in determining whether the reception of a work was positive or negative

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain in Veterans

This paper is an exploration of the use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as treatment for chronic pain amongst veterans. CBT has been used as a treatment options for veterans since 2012 in order to decrease the use and misuse of opioids. It focuses on giving the patient tools to control the impact that chronic pain has on their body and mind. The paper explore this treatment, the aspects of it, complementary treatments, and results

Heroes, Villains, and Blackouts: A Rhetorical Criticism of the News Media Narrative of the 2021 Texas Power Crisis

The present study sought to determine what social reality news media broadcasts created for their audiences during the 2021 Texas power freeze. The study was conducted through a rhetorical criticism of applying symbolic convergence theory to four communication artifacts from news broadcasts from February 2021. The results of this study indicate three fantasy themes that contributed to the overall rhetorical vision, or social reality, for the audience of the crisis. First, Texas was portrayed as the fallen hero. Second, heroes were identified as active participants in the crisis who represented a large group of people, while villains were identified as passive. Third, there was always someone to blame. Finally, these three fantasy themes led to the rhetorical vision that when established organizations fail, it is up to the individual to take responsibility and step into hero-hood. Given its recency, more research should be done to determine the effects of this social reality on survivors of the crisis

The West Island: Five Twentieth-Century New Zealanders in Australia

Stephanie Johnson’s The West Island is a collective biography of four writers and one artist and their experiences of living trans-Tasman lives. Like Johnson herself, Ronald Wakelin, Douglas Stewart, Jean Devanny, Eric Baume and Dulcie Deamer were born and raised in New Zealand and then spent a considerable portion of their lives in Australia

What You Can See from the Top

A series of interrelated vignettes about a family of circus people and a sixteen-year-old girl who becomes involved with them in strange ways

Evaluation of Enterolactone for the Treatment and Prevention of Type-2 Diabetes

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Pathogenesis and Therapeutics of Huntington\u27s Disease

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a rare, incurable, inherited neurological disease that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain. The mutant huntingtin gene contains 40 to 80 repeats of a CAG trinucleotide sequence. The pathogenesis of HD is multifaceted and includes pathways related to glutamine aggregation, mitochondrial and oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and DNA damage. Currently two drugs, tetrabenazine and deutetrabenazine, are FDA approved for the treatment of HD. Otherwise, medications given to HD patients include general antipsychotics, antidepressants, and mood-stabilizer drugs. Other treatment methods include speech and physical therapy. This research provides an understanding of the various maladapted HD pathways, as well as a comparison of the current HD drug therapies and other methods of treatment

Extraction and analysis of pharmaceutical residues in environmental samples using SPE with LC-MS/MS

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) have recently emerged as a significant new class of organic micro-contaminants. Of recent years a number of reports detailing the presence of PPCPs in a variety of environmental matrices and compartments have been published in the peer-reviewed literature. However, in Ireland very little research has been conducted to determine the level of environmental contamination due to the presence of drug residues. The primary focus of this research is to develop suitably sensitive analytical methods for the determination of residual PPCP contamination based upon solid phase extraction (SPE) and liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS). Monolithic silica based stationary phases were used for the development of high performance liquid phase separations of common pharmaceuticals, the antifouling and anti-dandruff agent zinc pyrithione and a range of illicit drugs and abused pharmaceuticals. As a pre-requisite to all the developed methods, a SPE sample enrichment procedure was also developed focusing upon either off-line formats using modern hydrophilic lipophilic balanced polymeric phases or the use of column switching, whereby short reversed-phase monolithic micro-columns were applied as suitable traps for on-line preconcentration. Method performance data for all the developed methods were also determined and analytical detection limits were found to lie in the ngL-1 range. The developed methods were applied for the determination of the selected analytes in environmental aquatic samples