There’s an App for That: Information Resources for Disaster Preparedness and Response

Background: Quick and easy access to disaster health information is needed during all four phases of the emergency management cycle: Preparedness, Response, Recovery, and Mitigation.1 Health professionals and responders need to be fully aware of the best disaster health information resources and tools. Several organizations, including the National Library of Medicine (NLM), develop and provide authoritative, high-quality health information and tools for disaster preparation and response.2 Purpose: To develop and provide access to health information resources and technology for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. Description: The Texas A&M University’s Medical Sciences Library and the College of Nursing developed a web page (http://tamu.libguides.com/redirect) that categorizes high-quality health information resources and disaster preparedness/response tools according to disaster response roles. Categories include: First Responders/EMS; Healthcare Providers; Public Health/Planner; and General Public. The page is formatted to fit screen sizes of various devices, including phones and tablets. Impact or Results: Disaster responders and preparedness teams can easily access a focused set of apps and other resources with multiple functions. For example, WISER advises on hazardous substances, including substance identification, containment and suppression advice, radiological tools, and medical treatment information. The public can download preparedness tools to their devices and develop their digital “go-kits”. Apps are mapped to their corresponding emergency management cycle phase(s). Health professionals, responders, policymakers, and the public can access the right information at the right time to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. References 1. Grand Traverse County Emergency Management. (2019). What is emergency management? Retrieved from https://www.grandtraverse.org/379/What-is-Emergency-Management 2. Love C, Arnesen S, Phillips S, Windom R. National Library of Medicine Disaster Information Management Research Center: Achieving the vision, 2010–2013. Inf Serv Use. 2014;34(1-2):149-170. doi:10.3233/isu-140731ReDiReCT: Integrating NLM Resources into Disaster Preparedness and Response Cross-Disciplinary Training, has been supported in part or in full by Federal funds through the National Library of Medicine of the National Institute of Health under award number UG4LM012345 with the University of North Texas Health Science Center. The content is the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH

Differences in the Performance of Knowledge Transfer Across Projects: A Study of Gender and Role of Key Project Stakeholders

This investigation contributes empirical results of differences identified in key project stakeholders with respect to their use of knowledge transferred across projects. Gender and role were the two individual characteristics investigated. Project managers and members of project teams were the key stakeholders analyzed. Data was collected from 71 closed projects using a survey composed of closed-ended questions. The data collected was cross tabulated and statistically analyzed using Friedman\u27s test and Spearman\u27s correlation. The results provide evidence of the association of the performance of knowledge transfer across projects with (a) the individual factors of gender and role of key project stakeholders in projects, and (b) the project factor of importance of the project deliverables to the project-based organization. These results are important to engineering management researchers and practitioners because they provide evidence of the importance of considering individual and project factors in the enhancement, design, and operation of knowledge management systems in project-based organizations

Nanoscale remodeling of functional synaptic vesicle pools in Hebbian plasticity

Vesicle pool properties are known determinants of synaptic efficacy, but their potential role as modifiable substrates in forms of Hebbian plasticity is still unclear. Here, we investigate this using a nanoscale readout of functionally recycled vesicles in natively wired hippocampal CA3→CA1 circuits undergoing long-term potentiation (LTP). We show that the total recycled vesicle pool is larger after plasticity induction, with the smallest terminals exhibiting the greatest relative expansion. Changes in the spatial organization of vesicles accompany potentiation including a specific increase in the number of recycled vesicles at the active zone, consistent with an ultrastructural remodeling component of synaptic strengthening. The cAMP-PKA pathway activator, forskolin, selectively mimics some features of LTP-driven changes, suggesting that distinct and independent modules of regulation accompany plasticity expression. Our findings provide evidence for a presynaptic locus of LTP encoded in the number and arrangement of functionally recycled vesicles, with relevance for models of long-term plasticity storage

Comunidad de metazoos parásitos del “pejegallo”, callorhinchus callorynchus linnaeus 1758 (chimaeriformes: callorhinchidae) procedentes de la pesca artesanal de San Andrés, Pisco, Ica, Perú

En el Perú, en los últimos años se han incrementado las evaluaciones de los aspectos ecológicos de la fauna parasitaria en peces óseos marinos. Sin embargo, no se tiene una extensa lista de investigaciones en ecología parasitaria de peces cartilaginosos. El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo determinar la comunidad de metazoos parásitos del pejegallo Callorhinchus callorynchus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Chimaeriformes: Callorhinchidae) procedentes de la pesca artesanal de San Andrés, Pisco, Ica, Perú. Se colectaron 31 especímenes de C. callorynchus entre junio del 2018 y octubre del 2019. Tras realizar la necropsia convencional se obtuvieron seis especies de parásitos: Gyrocotyle rugosa Diesing, 1850 (Cestoda), Callorhynchocotyle callorhynchi Manter, 1955 (Monogenea), Callorhynchicola branchialis Brinkmann, 1952 (Monogenea), Branchellion lobata Moore, 1952 (Hirudinea), Prokroyeria meridionalis Ramírez, 1975 (Copepoda) y Anisakidae gen. sp. no identificado (Nematoda). El céstodo G. rugosa, fue el de mayor prevalencia (77,42%), seguido por el monogeneo C. callorhynchi (54,84%) y finalmente el copépodo P. meridionalis (16,13%). Se determinaron los índices de dispersión de metazoos parásitos más prevalentes, presentando el C. callorhynchi y P. meridionalis una distribución agregada. Así mismo, se evaluó la correlación entre la longitud total y el sexo de C. callorynchus respecto a los índices parasitológicos y no se encontró ninguna asociación. Se observó infección parasitaria desde los ejemplares más pequeños (33,1 cm) hasta los de mayor tamaño (84 cm), lo cual mostró que probablemente esta afección ocurre desde etapas tempranas de vida del pez. El presente estudio constituye el primer registro geográfico en Perú de G. rugosa, C. callorhynchi, B. lobata, P. meridionalis y Anisakidae gen. sp. no identificada en el pejegallo.Tesi

Highly neurotic never-depressed students have negative biases in information processing

BACKGROUND: Cognitive theories associate depression with negative biases in information processing. Although negatively biased cognitions are well documented in depressed patients and to some extent in recovered patients, it remains unclear whether these abnormalities are present before the first depressive episode. METHOD: High neuroticism (N) is a well-recognized risk factor for depression. The current study therefore compared different aspects of emotional processing in 33 high-N never-depressed and 32 low-N matched volunteers. Awakening salivary cortisol, which is often elevated in severely depressed patients, was measured to explore the neurobiological substrate of neuroticism. RESULTS: High-N volunteers showed increased processing of negative and/or decreased processing of positive information in emotional categorization and memory, facial expression recognition and emotion-potentiated startle (EPS), in the absence of global memory or executive deficits. By contrast, there was no evidence for effects of neuroticism on attentional bias (as measured with the dot-probe task), over-general autobiographical memory, or awakening cortisol levels. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that certain negative processing biases precede depression rather than arising as a result of depressive experience per se and as such could in part mediate the vulnerability of high-N subjects to depression. Longitudinal studies are required to confirm that such cognitive vulnerabilities predict subsequent depression in individual subjects

Mapping the Recent Star Formation History of the Disk of M51

Using data acquired as part of a unique Hubble Heritage imaging program of broadband colors of the interacting spiral system M51/NGC 5195, we have conducted a photometric study of the stellar associations across the entire disk of the galaxy in order to assess trends in size, luminosity, and local environment associated with recent star formation activity in the system. Starting with a sample of over 900 potential associations, we have produced color-magnitude and color-color diagrams for the 120 associations that were deemed to be single-aged. It has been found that main sequence turnoffs are not evident for the vast majority of the stellar associations in our set, potentially due to the overlap of isochronal tracks at the high mass end of the main sequence, and the limited depth of our images at the distance of M51. In order to obtain ages for more of our sample, we produced model spectral energy distributions (SEDs) to fit to the data from the GALEXEV simple stellar population (SSP) models of Bruzual and Charlot (2003). These SEDs can be used to determine age, size, mass, metallicity, and dust content of each association via a simple chi-squared minimization to each association's B, V, and I-band fluxes. The derived association properties are mapped as a function of location, and recent trends in star formation history of the galaxy are explored in light of these results. This work is the first phase in a program that will compare these stellar systems with their environments using ultraviolet data from GALEX and infrared data from Spitzer, and ultimately we plan to apply the same stellar population mapping methodology to other nearby face-on spiral galaxies.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Accepted to The Astronomical Journa

Les relations professionnelles au prisme de l'innovation : enjeux pratiques et théoriques

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Caracterización química y evaluación de actividad antifúngica de extractos de Amanita muscaria

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