Counsellors’ Perceptions of Counselling Western Australian Drug Court Clients

The Drug Court of Western Australia provides treatment and diversionary options to offenders whose addiction to drugs and/or alcohol has played a part in their offending. There are concerns regarding the potential impacts on the therapeutic relationship when counselling a court-referred client and whether or not court-mandated counselling is effective in assisting clients to address their drug use and offending behaviour. Ten counsellors of drug court referred clients were interviewed to identify the counsellors’ perceptions of drug court referred clients and the potential impact on the therapeutic relationship and effectiveness of counselling. Semi-structured interviews were analysed using thematic content analysis to identify common themes among the data. The research findings will provide a better understanding of the issues facing counsellors of drug court referred clients and may identify the need for further training and development within treatment providers and the drug court

Partnering Universities with Their Neighboring High School Writing Centers: A Local Study Through Interviews and Observations

This study includes the interviews and observations of three secondary school writing centers in the metro-Atlanta area with a purpose to compare these centers to identify commonalities among them. My hope is to establish a generative context to explore partnership opportunities between these schools and the rhetoric and composition department at Georgia State University. The implications of this study directly benefit the professional status of writing scholarship as, despite decades of history, this field is still vying for a seat at the table of academia. Writing centers – specifically at the secondary level—need scholars at the forefront of their leadership; however, building continuity among these scholars is complicated due to their diversity as each center is fitted to work within its own school. Therefore, to prepare scholars for these directorships as another career opportunity, universities need to look directly at the centers geographically nearby, which is what this study entails

Luminescence probes for the measurement of oxygen

The goal of this project was to design an optical sensor for oxygen. One type of system suitable for oxygen detection in aqueous solutions is based on two distinct emission bands: one band oxygen-sensitive, the other insensitive to oxygen quenching. By taking the ratio of these bands, a quantitative measurement of the oxygen present could be obtained. This could be accomplished in a system where a fluorescing compound, through triplet state energy transfer, causes a lanthanide ion to luminesce. By choosing a compound which has a triplet energy near the excitation wavelength of terbium (III) or europium (III) and which has a fluorescence that is itself insensitive to oxygen quenching, a suitable system could be developed. The lanthanide luminescence bands would not be subject to direct oxygen quenching. Rather, the triplet state energy transfer to the lanthanide would compete with the rate of quenching of the triplet state by oxygen. As the solution is deaerated, an increase in lanthanide luminescence would be observed. Chemical systems tested for this application include micellar solutions containing a naphthalene- or pyrene-derivative and terbium (III) or europium (III)

Vocabulary aids in the teaching of civics

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1947. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

Laboratory divergence of Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 through unintended domestication and past selection for antibiotic resistance

Background: A common assumption of microorganisms is that laboratory stocks will remain genetically and phenotypically constant over time, and across laboratories. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that mutations can ruin strain integrity and drive the divergence or “domestication” of stocks. Since its discovery in 1960, a stock of Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 (“AM1”) has remained in the lab, propagated across numerous growth and storage conditions, researchers, and facilities. To explore the extent to which this lineage has diverged, we compared our own “Modern” stock of AM1 to a sample archived at a culture stock center shortly after the strain’s discovery. Stored as a lyophilized sample, we hypothesized that this Archival strain would better reflect the first-ever isolate of AM1 and reveal ways in which our Modern stock has changed through laboratory domestication or other means. Results: Using whole-genome re-sequencing, we identified some 29 mutations – including single nucleotide polymorphisms, small indels, the insertion of mobile elements, and the loss of roughly 36 kb of DNA - that arose in the laboratory-maintained Modern lineage. Contrary to our expectations, Modern was both slower and less fit than Archival across a variety of growth substrates, and showed no improvement during long-term growth and storage. Modern did, however, outperform Archival during growth on nutrient broth, and in resistance to rifamycin, which was selected for by researchers in the 1980s. Recapitulating selection for rifamycin resistance in replicate Archival populations showed that mutations to RNA polymerase B (rpoB) substantially decrease growth in the absence of antibiotic, offering an explanation for slower growth in Modern stocks. Given the large number of genomic changes arising from domestication (28), it is somewhat surprising that the single other mutation attributed to purposeful laboratory selection accounts for much of the phenotypic divergence between strains. Conclusions: These results highlight the surprising degree to which AM1 has diverged through a combination of unintended laboratory domestication and purposeful selection for rifamycin resistance. Instances of strain divergence are important, not only to ensure consistency of experimental results, but also to explore how microbes in the lab diverge from one another and from their wild counterparts

High-school pupil participation in relation to socio-economic status.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University

Choosing Change: How to Assess Grant Proposals for Their Potential to Address Structural Inequality

The COVID-19 global pandemic exacerbated longstanding disparities by race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Individuals, communities, and countries that were already vulnerable were even more at risk. The Choosing Change toolkit can help individual donors and institutional grantmakers at all levels identify proposals and teams whose work addresses the structural inequalities that prevent people from surviving, let alone thriving

Vascular Flora of Hooper Branch Savanna Nature Preserve, Iroquois County, Illinois

INHS Technical Report prepared for Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Division of Natural Heritag