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How young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds experience mental health: some insights for mental health nurses
This article reports on a part of a study which looked at the mental health of
culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) young people. The research sought to learn
from CALD young people, carers, and service providers experiences relevant to the
mental health of this group of young people. The ultimate goal was to gain insights that
would inform government policy, service providers, ethnic communities and most
importantly the young people themselves. To this end, qualitative interviews were
undertaken with 123 CALD young people, 41 carers and 14 mental health service
providers in Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia.
Only one aspect of the study will be dealt with here, namely the views of the
young CALD participants, which included risk factors, coping strategies and
recommendations about how they could be supported in their struggle to maintain
mental health. One of the most important findings of the study relates to the resilience
of these young people and an insight into the strategies that they used to cope. The
efforts of these young people to assist us in our attempts to understand their situation
deserve to be rewarded by improvements in the care that we provide. To this end this
article sets out to inform mental health nurses of the results of the study so that they will
be in a position to better understand the needs and strengths of their CALD clients and
be in a better position to work effectively with them
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Compositions and methods for making a pharmaceutical dosage form include making a pharmaceutical composition that includes one or more active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) with one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients by thermokinetic compounding into a composite. Compositions and methods of preprocessing a composite comprising one or more APIs with one or more excipients include thermokinetic compounding, comprising thermokinetic processing the APIs with the excipients into a composite, wherein the composite can be further processed by conventional methods known in the art, such as hot melt extrusion, melt granulation, compression molding, tablet compression, capsule filling, film-coating, or injection molding.Board of Regents, University of Texas Syste
The Importance of Local and Global Social Ties for the Mental Health and Well-Being of Recently Resettled Refugee-Background Women in Australia
Social connections are foundational to the human condition and are inherently disrupted when people are forcibly displaced from their home countries. At a time of record high global forced migration, there is value in better understanding how refugee-background individuals engage theirsocial supports or ties in resettlement contexts. A mixed methods research design aimed to understand the complexities of how 104 refugee-background women experienced their social networks in the first few months of resettlement in Australia. One of the research activities involved participants completing a survey with both quantitative and qualitative components. The quantitative analyses identified the impact of post-migration living difficulties that represented social stressors (worry about family, loneliness and boredom, feeling isolated, and racial discrimination) on the women’s mental health outcomes in the months following resettlement. The qualitative data highlighted the complexities of social relationships serving as both stressors and sources of support, and the importance of recognizing extended families and supports around the globe. The findings point to the need for nuanced accounts of the social contexts surrounding refugee resettlement as important influences able to promote trauma-informed and gender sensitive practices to support mental health and well-being in new settings
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Satellite galaxies undergo little structural change during their quenching phase
At fixed stellar mass, satellite galaxies show higher passive fractions than
centrals, suggesting that environment is directly quenching their star
formation. Here, we investigate whether satellite quenching is accompanied by
changes in stellar spin (quantified by the ratio of the rotational to
dispersion velocity V/) for a sample of massive (10
M) satellite galaxies extracted from the SAMI Galaxy Survey. These
systems are carefully matched to a control sample of main sequence, high
central galaxies. As expected, at fixed stellar mass and
ellipticity, satellites have lower star formation rate (SFR) and spin than the
control centrals. However, most of the difference is in SFR, whereas the spin
decreases significantly only for satellites that have already reached the red
sequence. We perform a similar analysis for galaxies in the EAGLE
hydro-dynamical simulation and recover differences in both SFR and spin similar
to those observed in SAMI. However, when EAGLE satellites are matched to their
`true' central progenitors, the change in spin is further reduced and galaxies
mainly show a decrease in SFR during their satellite phase. The difference in
spin observed between satellites and centrals at 0 is primarily due to
the fact that satellites do not grow their angular momentum as fast as centrals
after accreting into bigger halos, not to a reduction of due to
environmental effects. Our findings highlight the effect of progenitor bias in
our understanding of galaxy transformation and they suggest that satellites
undergo little structural change before and during their quenching phase.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRA
Environmental Dependence of the Structure of Brightest Cluster Galaxies
We measure the Petrosian structural properties of 33 brightest cluster
galaxies (BCGs) at redshifts z<0.1 in X-ray selected clusters with a wide range
of X-ray luminosities. We find that some BCGs show distinct signatures in their
Petrosian profiles, likely to be due to cD haloes. We also find that BCGs in
high X-ray luminosity clusters have shallower surface brightness profiles than
those in low X-ray luminosity clusters. This suggests that the BCGs in high
X-ray luminosity clusters have undergone up to twice as many equal-mass mergers
in their past as those in low X-ray luminosity clusters. This is qualitatively
consistent with the predictions of hierarchical structure formation.Comment: 11 pages, accepted for publication in MNRA
A comparison of trackbed design methodologies: a case study from a heavy haul freight railway
One of the major roles of railway trackbed layers is to reduce vehicle induced stresses applied to the underlying subgrade to a level that limits the progressive build up of permanent deformation. The ability of trackbed layers to satisfy this requirement is dependent upon the materials used for construction and their thickness. Numerous design methods, (both empirical and analytical), have been developed across the World to evaluate trackbed design thickness. However, where there is limited information or experience of previous trackbed design with the specific materials or site conditions under consideration, the choice of methodology becomes one of engineering judgment, in assessing the significance and reliability of the design input parame-ters.
This paper describes a number of design methods which were assessed in a recent project to design a new heavy haul freight railway trackbed, founded on moisture sensitive subgrades, using locally available materials for the track support layers. The produced design thicknesses for each of the methods are compared for differing subgrade conditions. The results show considerable variation of thicknesses from each method with little consistent pattern to the variation. Reasons for these variations are suggested and the choice of the final design used for specific subgrade conditions are presented together with appropriate justification. Concluding on these issues, recommendations are made for a more considered approach to trackbed design
Post‐Impact Evolution of the Southern Hale Crater Ejecta; Mars
As one of the youngest large (> 100 km wide) impacts on Mars, Hale crater offers a unique opportunity to observe well‐preserved deposits of Mars’ former interior. We utilize visible imagery (CTX and HiRISE) and elevation data (MOLA, HRSC and HiRISE stereo pairs) to examine the region south of Hale crater, which contains the greatest density of landforms caused by with the impact. Linear depressions, mounds, and polygons indicate that the ejecta material contained volatiles and underwent substantial post–impact geomorphic evolution after it was emplaced. Ejecta landform formation was facilitated by volatiles, likely water ice displaced from the subsurface during the impact, contained within the material. We suggest that the ejecta flowed into valleys where it acted in a manner similar to terrestrial debris flows, leaving mounds, high‐standing deposits, lobate flow margins and fan structures. Continued flow and settling of the ejecta then caused deposit dewatering, producing networks of linear depressions, particularly in places where the flows of ejecta were constricted. However, these landforms are not present everywhere, and their formation was likely influenced by topography. This work highlights that, while volatiles were present over much of Hale crater’s ejecta blanket, the surface expression of them is spatially variable on local and regional scales
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the intrinsic shape of kinematically selected galaxies
Using the stellar kinematic maps and ancillary imaging data from the Sydney
AAO Multi Integral field (SAMI) Galaxy Survey, the intrinsic shape of
kinematically-selected samples of galaxies is inferred. We implement an
efficient and optimised algorithm to fit the intrinsic shape of galaxies using
an established method to simultaneously invert the distributions of apparent
ellipticities and kinematic misalignments. The algorithm output compares
favourably with previous studies of the intrinsic shape of galaxies based on
imaging alone and our re-analysis of the ATLAS3D data. Our results indicate
that most galaxies are oblate axisymmetric. We show empirically that the
intrinsic shape of galaxies varies as a function of their rotational support as
measured by the "spin" parameter proxy Lambda_Re. In particular, low spin
systems have a higher occurrence of triaxiality, while high spin systems are
more intrinsically flattened and axisymmetric. The intrinsic shape of galaxies
is linked to their formation and merger histories. Galaxies with high spin
values have intrinsic shapes consistent with dissipational minor mergers, while
the intrinsic shape of low-spin systems is consistent with dissipationless
multi-merger assembly histories. This range in assembly histories inferred from
intrinsic shapes is broadly consistent with expectations from cosmological
simulations.Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures, MNRAS in prin
Galaxy And Mass Assembly: The xSAGA Galaxy Complement in Nearby Galaxy Groups
Groups of galaxies are the intermediate density environment in which much of
the evolution of galaxies is thought to take place. In spectroscopic redshift
surveys, one can identify these as close spatial redshift associations.
However, spectroscopic surveys will always be more limited in luminosity and
completeness than imaging ones. Here we combine the Galaxy And Mass Assembly
group catalogue with the extended Satellites Around Galactic Analogues (xSAGA)
catalogue of Machine Learning identified low-redshift satellite galaxies. We
find 1825 xSAGA galaxies within the bounds of the GAMA equatorial fields (m <
21), 1562 of which could have a counterpart in the GAMA spectroscopic catalogue
(m < 19.8). Of these, 1326 do have a GAMA counterpart with 974 below z=0.03
(true positives) and 352 above (false positives). By crosscorrelating the GAMA
group catalogue with the xSAGA catalogue, we can extend and characterize the
satellite content of GAMA galaxy groups. We find that most groups have <5 xSAGA
galaxies associated with them but richer groups may have more. Each additional
xSAGA galaxy contributes only a small fraction of the group's total stellar
mass (<<10%). Selecting GAMA groups that resemble the Milky Way halo, with a
few (<4) bright galaxies, we find xSAGA can add a magnitude fainter sources to
a group and that the Local Group does not stand out in the number of bright
satellites. We explore the quiescent fraction of xSAGA galaxies in GAMA groups
and find a good agreement with the literature.Comment: 11 pages, 13 Figures, 2 Tables, accepted by MNRA
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