Utilizing Mindfulness and Movement to Promote Executive Function and Self-Regulation

Self-regulation and executive function skills are imperative to learning in school and success later in life. The current reality shows that these skills are not often taught, yet early childhood remains a vital time of development and is an ideal time to introduce these skills. This school improvement plan presents mindfulness and movement as strategies to explicitly teach self-regulation and executive function skills in an inclusive setting. As strategies are implemented, reflection and assessment will occur to better understand their effectiveness. Families will also be involved to encourage application of skills and strategies outside of academic settings

Petrology and volcanic stratigraphy of the El Sueco area, Chihuahua, Mexico

Detailed mapping of a 2000 km² area approximately midway between El Paso and Chihuahua City has delineated a greater than 1000 m section of rhyolitic, andesitic, and basaltic lava flows and rhyolitic ash-flow tuffs unconformably overlying Lower Cretaceous limestone. The area is dominated by large, NNW-trending fault-bounded mountains separated by bolsons. The volcanic section can be compositionally and texturally divided into four sequences: 1. A thick sequence of ash-flow tuffs and related volcaniclastic sediments lie over an erosional surface on Cretaceous limestone. These deposits comprise the Liebres formation, the first sequence. 2. Voluminous flows of the Rancho El Agate tholeiitic andesite, a crystal-rich unit which has a source in the map area, make up the second sequence. 3. Lava flows, plugs, flow domes, sills and minor ash-flow tuffs of the Gallego, Carneros, El Dos, and Mesteño rhyolites make up the third sequence of volcanic activity. Some of these rhyolite bodies domed the adjoining rocks. 4. Basalt and minor interlayered ash-flow tuffs comprise the fourth sequence. Chemical analyses indicate basaltic rocks of the area are metaluminous, and andesitic and rhyolitic rocks are peraluminous. A plot of alkalinity against silica indicates the rocks are gradational between the dominantly peraluminous rocks of the Sierra Madre Occidental and the metaluminous portion of the dominantly peralkaline rocks of Trans-Pecos Texas.Geological Science

Causes and Consequences of Intraspecific Variation in Behavior of the Red Imported Fire Ant

Organisms vary at the individual and population level in many ecologically relevant traits. This study documents and quantifies colony-level variation in ecologically important behaviors of a widespread invasive social insect, demonstrates multitrophic ecological effects of this colony-level variation, and explores genetic factors that may affect and predict behavior at the colony-level. I quantified significant, persistent regional and colony-level variation in the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) in behaviors such as extra-nest activity, exploration, and resource discovery speed and recruitment effort. Colony behavior correlated with both colony productivity and colony growth. Using single-lineage colonies, I estimated broad-sense heritability of between 0.45 and 0.5 for the observed colony behaviors. I created experimental microcosms comprised of fire ant colonies, plants, and insect herbivores. Differences in fire ant colony behavior linked to carbohydrate attraction directly impacted herbivore mortality and indirectly impacted plant damage. I quantified colony differences colony differences in the expression of the fire ant foraging gene (sifor) as well as colony-level differences in behavior for fire ant colonies collected from across a large area of Texas. Expression of sifor was more than three-fold higher in fire ant foragers than in fire ant workers in the interior of the nest, and colony-level differences in sifor expression of foragers and interior workers correlated with colony behavior. Higher sifor expression in foragers correlated with higher foraging activity, exploratory activity, and recruitment to nectar in fire ant colonies. Finally, I explored the hypothesis that fire ant foundress groups could maximize inclusive fitness benefits and alter cooperative and competitive behaviors in response to cues indicating higher relatedness of foundresses. I found that group and queen performance was significantly affected by group composition. Groups composed of foundresses that were less likely to be related produced no more workers than queens founding alone, while groups composed of foundresses from the same site produced the most workers of all group types. The conclusions of this study have widespread implications for many social insects and their ecological interactions. By further exploring these effects at the mechanistic, organismal, and ecological level we will improve our understanding of collective behavior, social evolution, and intraspecific variation

Effects of image‐based and text‐based active learning exercises on student examination performance in a musculoskeletal anatomy course

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Poles apart: Does the export of mental health expertise from the Global North to the Global South represent a neutral relocation of knowledge and practice?

© 2015 Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness.The World Health Organization's Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 identifies actions for all member states to alleviate the global burden of mental ill health, including an obligation for mental healthcare to be delivered in a 'culturally appropriate' manner. In this article we argue that such a requirement is problematic, not least because such pronouncements remain framed by the normative prepositions of Western medical and psychological practice and their associated ethical, legal and institutional standpoints. As such, when striving to export Western mental health expertise, different paradigms for evidence will be necessary to deliver locally meaningful interventions to low and middle income countries. Our discussion highlights a number of philosophical concerns regarding methodologies for future research practice, including those relating to representation and exclusion in the guise of epistemic injury, presumptive methodologies arising from Western notions of selfhood, and related ethical issues

Poles apart: Does the export of mental health expertise from the Global North to the Global South represent a neutral relocation of knowledge and practice?

© 2015 Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness.The World Health Organization's Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 identifies actions for all member states to alleviate the global burden of mental ill health, including an obligation for mental healthcare to be delivered in a 'culturally appropriate' manner. In this article we argue that such a requirement is problematic, not least because such pronouncements remain framed by the normative prepositions of Western medical and psychological practice and their associated ethical, legal and institutional standpoints. As such, when striving to export Western mental health expertise, different paradigms for evidence will be necessary to deliver locally meaningful interventions to low and middle income countries. Our discussion highlights a number of philosophical concerns regarding methodologies for future research practice, including those relating to representation and exclusion in the guise of epistemic injury, presumptive methodologies arising from Western notions of selfhood, and related ethical issues

Moral treatment in American psychiatry.

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