A Provider\u27s Guide to Medical Cannabis: THC and CBD. Putting the Evidence to Work for Improved Patient Care

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Atmospheric fungal nanoparticle bursts.

Aerosol nanoparticles play an important role in the climate system by affecting cloud formation and properties, as well as in human health because of their deep reach into lungs and the circulatory system. Determining nanoparticle sources and composition is a major challenge in assessing their impacts in these areas. The sudden appearance of large numbers of atmospheric nanoparticles is commonly attributed to secondary formation from gas-phase precursors, but in many cases, the evidence for this is equivocal. We report the detection of a mode of fungal fragments with a mobility diameter of roughly 30 nm released in episodic bursts in ambient air over an agricultural area in northern Oklahoma. These events reached concentrations orders of magnitude higher than other reports of biological particles and show similarities to unclarified events reported previously in the Amazon. These particles potentially represent a large source of both cloud-forming ice nuclei and respirable allergens in a variety of ecosystems

A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ SENSE OF BELONGING AT A RURAL, MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Each year, hundreds of thousands of international students seek academic opportunities in the United States (U.S.). For international students, studying abroad can provide opportunities to build or enhance their English language skills, experience new cultures, study under different education models, and create long lasting friendships. However, if institutions lack appropriate services and resources, these opportunities can quickly become barriers. If campuses do not take the necessary measures to create inclusive and supportive learning environments which enhance opportunities for a sense of belonging, they are at risk of losing these valuable student populations. Research around the experiences of international students is limited. This phenomenological qualitative study uncovered experiences of international students at a rural, Midwestern university to explore experiences that are beneficial to or detract from sense of belonging. Rural areas can pose unique challenges such as limited transportation, access to culturally diverse services and resources, and social events. Using semi-structured interviews, 11 participants were asked about their experiences of sense of belonging as international students. Data were analyzed using open and axial coding processes to identify themes

Physical fitness profile of primary schoolchildren from lower socio-economic communities in Port Elizabeth

The aim of this study was to measure the physical fitness status of primary schoolchildren from lower socio-economic areas in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. A total of 915 schoolchildren (n=462 boys and n=453 girls), aged 8-to-11-years from eight government schools participated in this study. These included four schools from the Northern Areas (previously reserved for Coloured individuals) and four schools from the Township Areas (previously reserved for Black African individuals). Measurements included weight, height, skinfolds, sit-and-reach, grip strength, standing broad jump and the 20 m shuttle run test. Results showed that girls had higher body fat percentage values than boys (p<.0005). Children of Black African ethnicity were taller and heavier (p<.0005), with higher body fat percentages and body mass index results (p<.0005) than Coloured children (excluding the 8-year-old age group). Children attending Northern Areas schools presented with higher frequencies of underweight, stunting and thinness (p<.0005), than children from Township Area schools who presented with a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity (p<.0005). In relation to physical fitness, boys presented with higher values (p<.0005) for all components, except for flexibility; in which girls performed better (p<.0005). The composite fitness score revealed that boys, Black African children and children from Township Area schools performed better (p<.0005) than Coloured children and children attending Northern Area schools, respectively. Furthermore, children categorised as overweight and obese presented with lower VO2max values than their thin and normal weight peers. Overall, findings revealed that the physical fitness status of children from these disadvantaged areas were not satisfactory. In addition, distinct geographical and ethnic differences were identified

A Resident Advisor’s Guide to Students with Perceived Eating Disorders

Abstract According to an extensive 2013 survey conducted by the National Eating Disorder Association which examined 165 different college campuses to see what was being done on campuses nation wide to spread awareness about disorders as well as treat them. There is still a significant gap in perceived need and available counseling or nutritional services by staff specializing in eating disorders on college campuses throughout the country” (National Eating Disorder Association). Therefore, the purpose of this honors project is to develop a comprehensive training guide for resident advisors on Bowling Green State University’s campus to utilize in order to support and help residents who may be struggling with eating disorders. The hope in doing this is so that anyone who is struggling will be offered the highest level of care and support while still thriving in a university setting. Included in this guide are warning signs to look for in individuals, a list of do’s and don’ts, as well as a list of resources for residents to be referred to. The information in the guide was backed by research and review of current literature on the topic. This project is a combination of studies in the fields of social work and journalism and is targeted at a specific audience which is the Resident Advisors at Bowling Green State University. In planning the project, a few research questions came to mind. First, what forms of training are already being offered for resident advisors concerning mental health topics? Another question that is the backbone of my project is, what are the most effective ways to handle a situation as delicate as this? Striving to answer these questions helped to guide the project in that it helped guide the choices of the most important topics to cover within the training manual

The integration of occlusion and disparity information for judging depth in autism spectrum disorder

In autism spectrum disorder (ASD), atypical integration of visual depth cues may be due to flattened perceptual priors or selective fusion. The current study attempts to disentangle these explanations by psychophysically assessing within-modality integration of ordinal (occlusion) and metric (disparity) depth cues while accounting for sensitivity to stereoscopic information. Participants included 22 individuals with ASD and 23 typically developing matched controls. Although adults with ASD were found to have significantly poorer stereoacuity, they were still able to automatically integrate conflicting depth cues, lending support to the idea that priors are intact in ASD. However, dissimilarities in response speed variability between the ASD and TD groups suggests that there may be differences in the perceptual decision-making aspect of the task

The Persistance of National Ideology and Myth: Attempting to Re-Define German National Identity in Post-War Europe

Germany emerged from post-war Europe economically, politically, and culturally devastated. The process of rebuilding the state meant severing German society from its pre-war roots, changing international and domestic acuity of the German people as violent and racially defined. These postwar leaders, however, were unable to convincingly portray and create a modern nation to shatter the myth of German origins, and accordingly shifted the blame for Germany\u27s situation on Nazi leaders. Absolution of the German people meant denying opportunities for popular self-critique, creating an atmosphere which unwittingly condoned the Romantic national myth. Earlier articulated by the Nazis, this original movement urged Germans to purify and worship the ethnie, granting the state the ability to provide cultural protection, sanctioning racism, prejudice, and bias. The persistence of this ideology in post-war Germany, coupled with economic concerns and the instrumental inability to redefine the German nation led to programs aimed at shattering perceptions of racial ideals and cultural hatreds of the other, rather than terminating the root cause of these biases. Tendencies to imagine the purity of a past Germany as extant, therefore, support Romantic popular images and feelings for a German nation that never actually existed. In contemporary Germany, the inability to re-define the national ideology and myth leads to a continuation of fear and violence towards minorities and others, an issue frequently magnified by popular action and political rhetoric

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 in southern africa: an epidemiological, molecular and cellular study

Includes bibliographical references.Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by a pathogenic expansion of a CAG repeat within the ataxin 7 gene, resulting in an expanded polyglutamine tract in the ATXN7 protein. SCA7 patients suffer from selective degeneration of cerebellar Purkinje neurons and retinal photoreceptors, which leads to the development of various neurological symptoms, and blindness. SCA7 is considered to be a relatively rare disease, but South Africa has an increased prevalence of the SCA7 due to a founder effect within the black African population. In this study, three distinct but complementary approaches were taken to investigate SCA7 in South Africa, with the aim of estimating the prevalence of the disease, developing improved approaches for molecular diagnostic testing, and establishing a model for in vitro studies of pathogenesis

Movement Lawyers: Henry L. Marsh\u27s Long Struggle for Educational Justice

Born in 1933 in Richmond, Virginia, Henry Marsh was a protégé of legendary Virginia civil rights attorney Oliver Hill, who was a member of a civil rights legal team with Spotswood Robinson and commissioned by Charles Hamilton Houston to investigate school inequalities and prepare a legal strategy for dismantling segregationist laws. Growing up in Virginia during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, Marsh was reared in the apartheid culture of Jim Crow society. Later, under Oliver Hill and Samuel W. Tucker’s mentorship, Marsh studied Virginia’s legal and educational systems and learned how to navigate Virginia’s seemingly tranquil Jim Crow politics called “the Virginia Way.” Marsh is an ideal figure for offering insight into how a movement lawyer and politician navigated the Virginia Way because his career intersected law, politics, and Black leadership in Virginia from the 1950s into the early years of the twenty-first century

Eukaryotic Microbes in the Deep Sea: Abundance, Diversity, and the Effect of Pressure

The dark ocean is vast, high in pressure, cold, and scarce in resources, but has been shown to support a diverse and active microbial community wherever it is studied. Such studies, however, are scarce due to the difficulty of sampling at such depths, and are difficult to interpret due to compounding effects of pressure and temperature on physiology. Protists, functionally defined as the microbial portion of the domain Eukarya, are particularly neglected in studies of deep-sea microbiology. Here, I present three studies on microbial eukaryotes in the deep sea: first, a study of the abundance of microbial eukaryotes in the deep sea, second, a quantitative approach to study broad-scale diversity in the deep sea; and last, a series of experiments to explore the effect of deep-sea conditions on surface-isolated flagellates. In the deep sea, I found that eukaryote abundances decrease much more sharply than prokaryote abundances with depth, though most of this decrease occurs in the upper 1000 m, below which eukaryote abundance is relatively constant. In water masses below 1000 m, 50-70% of total eukaryotes detected by CARD-FISH can be attributed to one of the seven groups (six taxonomic using CARD-FISH and one by morphology when stained with DAPI) . In the epipelagic 100 m samples, only 20% of total eukaryotes fall into one of these groups. This difference is driven largely by the morphotype I call the split nucleus , which does not decrease in absolute abundance with depth, instead increasing in its proportion of the eukaryotic population in deeper waters. Lastly, I found that eukaryotic microbes, typified by two heterotrophic flagellate species which appear to be ubiquitous in the world\u27s oceans, can survive and even grow despite long-term exposure to the cold, high-pressure conditions of the deep sea, indicating that protists transported to the deep sea by advection or on particles can seed populations there