Model Practice Building: Case Examples

This case study from the Missouri Foundation for Health Healthy and Active Communities Initiative (H&AC) provides examples of Model Practice Building strategies. Five MPB grantees were identified as Model Practices and are included as case examples in this report. The Model Practices and lessons learned were used by MFH to guide future funding decisions.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1094/thumbnail.jp

2012 Evaluation Report

This report provides a summary of key evaluation findings for 2012 for the Missouri Foundation for Health’s Healthy & Active Communities (H&AC) initiative.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1080/thumbnail.jp

Promising Strategies: Case Examples

This case study from the Missouri Foundation for Health Healthy and Active Communities Initiative (H&AC) provides examples of Promising Strategies projects that promote healthy living to provide key lessons, inform others doing similar work, and inform future grant making strategies.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1072/thumbnail.jp

Point-of-Sale Report to the Nation: Realizing the Power of States and Communities to Change the Tobacco Retail and Policy Landscape

Advancing Science and Policy in the Retail Environment (ASPiRE) is funded by the National Cancer Institute\u27s (NCI) State and Community Tobacco Control (SCTC) Research Initiative. ASPiRE is a consortium of researchers from the Center for Public Health Systems Science (CPHSS) as Washington University in St. Louis, the Stanford Prevention Research Center, and the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. In 2011, ASPiRE received a five-year grant from SCTC to conduct research on how to maximize state and local policies to restrict tobacco marketing at the point of sale (POS) and in the broader retail environment. It is important for professionals looking to advance retail policy work to understand the current retail and legal landscape, as well as potential policy options. We gave the first snapshot of the tobacco retail and policy environments in the first Report to the Nation. This report provides new findings on tobacco retailer density, examines changes in product availability and marketing and promotion at retailers since our first report, and documents the growth in retail policy activity in states and localities since 2012. We also present reported barriers to retail policy activity, helpful resources, examples of recent policy successes, and a roadmap of strategies to help demonstrate how states and communities are changing the tobacco retail and policy landscape.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1047/thumbnail.jp

Healthy & Active Communities Final Evaluation Report

This final evaluation report presents key findings from the Healthy & Active Communities (H&AC) initiative. Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) established the Healthy & Active Communities (H&AC) initiative in 2005 to promote healthy living projects in Missouri.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1077/thumbnail.jp

Show Me Health: Clearing the Air About Tobacco Evaluation Instruments

This report depicts a holistic overview of the evaluation instruments used in the Show Me Health: Clearing the Air About Tobacco (SMH) evaluation.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1100/thumbnail.jp

Polymers for hydrogen infrastructure and vehicle fuel systems : applications, properties, and gap analysis.

This document addresses polymer materials for use in hydrogen service. Section 1 summarizes the applications of polymers in hydrogen infrastructure and vehicle fuel systems and identifies polymers used in these applications. Section 2 reviews the properties of polymer materials exposed to hydrogen and/or high-pressure environments, using information obtained from published, peer-reviewed literature. The effect of high pressure on physical and mechanical properties of polymers is emphasized in this section along with a summary of hydrogen transport through polymers. Section 3 identifies areas in which fuller characterization is needed in order to assess material suitability for hydrogen service

The Lick AGN Monitoring Project: Reverberation Mapping of Optical Hydrogen and Helium Recombination Lines

We have recently completed a 64-night spectroscopic monitoring campaign at the Lick Observatory 3-m Shane telescope with the aim of measuring the masses of the black holes in 12 nearby (z < 0.05) Seyfert 1 galaxies with expected masses in the range ~10^6-10^7M_sun and also the well-studied nearby active galactic nucleus (AGN) NGC 5548. Nine of the objects in the sample (including NGC 5548) showed optical variability of sufficient strength during the monitoring campaign to allow for a time lag to be measured between the continuum fluctuations and the response to these fluctuations in the broad Hbeta emission, which we have previously reported. We present here the light curves for the Halpha, Hgamma, HeII 4686, and HeI 5876 emission lines and the time lags for the emission-line responses relative to changes in the continuum flux. Combining each emission-line time lag with the measured width of the line in the variable part of the spectrum, we determine a virial mass of the central supermassive black hole from several independent emission lines. We find that the masses are generally consistent within the uncertainties. The time-lag response as a function of velocity across the Balmer line profiles is examined for six of the AGNs. Finally we compare several trends seen in the dataset against the predictions from photoionization calculations as presented by Korista & Goad. We confirm several of their predictions, including an increase in responsivity and a decrease in the mean time lag as the excitation and ionization level for the species increases. Further confirmation of photoionization predictions for broad-line gas behavior will require additional monitoring programs for these AGNs while they are in different luminosity states. [abridged]Comment: 37 pages, 18 figures and 15 tables, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journa

The Lick AGN Monitoring Project: Photometric Light Curves and Optical Variability Characteristics

The Lick AGN Monitoring Project targeted 13 nearby Seyfert 1 galaxies with the intent of measuring the masses of their central black holes using reverberation mapping. The sample includes 12 galaxies selected to have black holes with masses roughly in the range 10^6-10^7 solar masses, as well as the well-studied AGN NGC 5548. In conjunction with a spectroscopic monitoring campaign, we obtained broad-band B and V images on most nights from 2008 February through 2008 May. The imaging observations were carried out by four telescopes: the 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), the 2-m Multicolor Active Galactic Nuclei Monitoring (MAGNUM) telescope, the Palomar 60-in (1.5-m) telescope, and the 0.80-m Tenagra II telescope. Having well-sampled light curves over the course of a few months is useful for obtaining the broad-line reverberation lag and black hole mass, and also allows us to examine the characteristics of the continuum variability. In this paper, we discuss the observational methods and the photometric measurements, and present the AGN continuum light curves. We measure various variability characteristics of each of the light curves. We do not detect any evidence for a time lag between the B- and V-band variations, and we do not find significant color variations for the AGNs in our sample.Comment: 16 pages, 20 figures, 8 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

What do child characteristics contribute to outcomes from care: A PRISMA review

This article presents the findings from a systematic review of the literature regarding factors related to positive placement outcomes. Children in care are particularly vulnerable to problems with their emotional and behavioural development. It is important to know which factors affect whether children will have a positive placement outcome or not. Previous research has aimed to examine this, and has found that certain child characteristics can affect placement outcome. Reviews have not reported their search strategy in line with PRISMA guidelines, nor have they always reported the source of the data. This review was particularly interested in which studies had contact with the children or carers themselves, as opposed to a reliance on administrative data. There appear to be child characteristics that affect placement outcome, but findings need to be interpreted with caution due to a high volume of results from administrative data. Future research should aim to conduct full assessments with children when they come into care