Adverse Childhood Experiences and Alcohol Use Trajectories in College Students

Heavy alcohol use during college can result in numerous negative outcomes (e.g., accidents, worse academics, risky sexual behaviors, etc.). Understanding the risk-factors associated with elevated alcohol use in college are needed so prevention and/or interventions can be implemented to inhibit such dangerous behavior. Adverse childhood experiences have been identified as one key factor in the initiation and escalation of alcohol use, but there is limited research on samples that are in emerging adulthood. Specifically, the transition to college is a time when many students escalate drinking and can form the basis for longer term drinking patterns. It is not yet clear how adversity impacts this critical transition in terms of alcohol use patterns. Thus, the goal of this study was to identify these alcohol use behaviors among college freshmen already at risk for higher levels of alcohol use. The current study utilized data from the College Student Transition Study at a large Mid-Atlantic university to examine alcohol use trajectories of college freshmen across their first year of university. Seven hundred and sixty-nine participants (Mage = 18.61 years, SD = 0.33, range = 18.09 – 20.11; 50.71% female; 90.25% White), mostly from the Appalachian region, completed an online Qualtrics survey assessing demographic information, their experience of childhood adversity, and average alcohol use, among other variables. Unconditional and conditional latent growth curve models were assessed in Mplus to examine change across four waves of data, and whether the experience of childhood adversity predicted elevated alcohol use at baseline and steeper increases in use over the first year of college. There was significant variability in intercept, slope, and curvature. The typical pattern was an increase in alcohol use during the immediate transition to college, but then there was a significant decline during the end of the spring semester. Results suggested that adversity significantly predicted variability in the quadratic effect (curvature), showing that those with higher adversity experienced a sharper decrease in alcohol use during the spring semester. Findings can be used to inform alcohol use awareness programs for those who have faced higher levels of childhood adversity

Community Agriculture: Concepts, Models, and Impacts

Community agriculture initiatives are often run by organizations (1) relying on volunteer structures; (2) growing produce sustainably; and (3) aiming to improve health and access to food in their communities. To clarify “growing produce sustainably,” the Utah Conservation Corps Urban Community Farm (UCC UCF) (a volunteer and AmeriCorps-driven community agriculture model based in Logan, Utah) engages in regenerative agriculture practices, which are reviewed in this fact sheet. Community agriculture benefits and challenges are explored

Measurement of the hyperfine coupling constants and absolute energies of the 8p 2P1/28p \ ^2P_{1/2} and 8p 2P3/28p \ ^2P_{3/2} levels in atomic cesium

We report measurements of the hyperfine coupling constant for the $8p \ ^2P_{1/2}$level of atomic cesium,$^{133}$Cs, with a relative uncertainty of$\sim$0.019\%. Our result is$A = 42.933 \: (8)$MHz, in good agreement with recent theoretical results. We also examine the hyperfine structure of the$8p \ ^2P_{3/2}$state, and derive new values for the state energies of the$8p \ ^2P_{1/2}$and$8p \ ^2P_{3/2}$ states of cesium.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, 5 table

Bilateral Accessory Breast Tissue of Vulva: a Case Report

BACKGROUND: Though extremely uncommon, vulvar breast tissue has been identified and reported in both adolescent patients and during pregnancy. Supernumerary breast tissue is attributed to the failure of regression of remnant milk line during embryogenesis, which subsequently is stimulated during puberty or pregnancy. Though benign, lack of regression in size of the stimulated breast tissue often necessitates a surgical intervention. While plastic surgeons are often consulted on the management of vulvo-vaginal disorders, little is described in the literature with respect to surgical approaches based on established neuroanatomical provisions of the vulvo-vaginal region

A (ONI)PRESENÇA DO PODER: A TOLERÂNCIA NA PRODUÇÃO DE SUBJETIVIDADES E NO IMAGINÁRIO SOCIAL NAS SOCIEDADES CONTEMPORÂNEAS POR ANÁLISE DA OBRA DE CASTOR RUIZ

Vive-se em uma sociedade plural, multicultural, complexa e contemporânea; de maneira que os sujeitos são a todo momento influenciados por símbolos que formam o imaginário social de sua comunidade contextualizado temporalmente. Onipresente a essa influência está o poder, que se exercita e legitima através de mecanismos que interferem na produção das subjetividades dos indivíduos, os tornando cooperantes com o sistema em todas as relações cotidianas. Nesse caminho, o objetivo do trabalho está em refletir quanto as questões relacionadas ao poder, concernentes à sua onipresença e ao diálogo com o Direito e o saber para entender criticamente os paradoxos daí decorrentes. Utiliza-se o método dedutivo e a técnica de pesquisa é a bibliográfica. Nesse estudo se desenvolve conceitos relativos ao patriarcalismo e às relações de poder e gênero

Dorsal clitoral nerve injury following transobturator midurethral sling

Transobturator slings can be successfully used to treat stress urinary incontinence and improve quality of life through a minimally invasive vaginal approach. Persistent postoperative pain can occur and pose diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas. Following a sling procedure, a patient complained of pinching clitoral and perineal pain. Her symptoms of localized clitoral pinching and pain became generalized over the ensuing years, eventually encompassing the entire left vulvovaginal region