Helen Coleman, Ruby Joscelyn Dunn and Geoffrey Dunn to James H. Meredith (5 October 1962)

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The Value of Art Therapy: An Intervention to Enhance Emotional Health of Children with Hearing Loss

Deafness is the invisible, unseen sensory anomaly that is difficult for hearing individuals to understand. Deaf and hard of hearing children look the same as other children and have the same cognitive abilities as hearing children; they ambulate, laugh, cry, and have the same basic needs. Research data supports the fact that when intelligence instruments are used that do not rely on verbal and language processing abilities the results show that there is no difference in performance between hearing and hearing impaired children (Moores 2001; Vemon 1990). There is the same range of intelligence for both groups. However there is one difference between the two groups, deaf and hard of hearing children do not have the same language skills to express themselves and most of them experience difficulty receiving and processing aural(spoken) communication (Reward 2003). As a result, many deaf and hard of hearing children develop feelings of isolation

Low pressure metamorphism in the Orrs Island -Harpswell Neck area, Maine

The Orrs Island-Harpswell Neck area on the southern Maine coast experienced one major low-pressure metamorphic event, which was synchronous wilh D2 deformation. Metamorphic grade increases from southwest to northeast toward plutons outside the area. Isograds in pelitic rocks divide the area into garnet, staurolite, staurolite-andalusite, staurolite-sillimanite, and sillimanite zones. At the sillimanite isograd, andalusite began to be replaced by coarse-grained muscovite to form prograde pseudomorphs, while sillimanite formed in the matrix. At slightly higher grade, staurolite was replaced by muscovite pseudomorphs. and additional sillimanite formed. Isograd reactions deduced from changes in AFM topology were located in pressure-temperature space on the basis of experimental and thermodynamic data. The resulting petrogenetic grid constrains the pressure during metamorphism to between 2.3 and 3.0 kbars (230 and 300 MPa). Estimated temperature ranges for each of the metamorphic zones are as follows: garnet zone, <500°C; staurolite zone, 500 to 530°C; stauroli te-andalusite zone, 530 to 570°C; staurolite-sillimanite zone, 570 to 590°C; and sillimanite zone, >590°C. Metamorphism in the Orrs Island-Harpswell Neck area is similar to M3 metamorphism in west-central Maine, because both events occurred at pressures where staurolite gave way to sillimanite at high grade, and both were related to plutons. Metamorphism in the study area differs from M3 in west-central Maine in diat it produced andalusite at intermediate grade. RÉSUMÉ Sur la cote méridionale du Maine, la région d'Orrs Island-Harpswell Neck subit un épisode majeur de métamorphisme à basse pression synchrone de la déformation D2. Le degré de métamorphisme augmente du sud-ouest au nord-est en direction des plutons hors de la région. Les isogrades des pélites définissent dans cette région des zones à grenat, staurotide, staurotide-andalousite, staurotide-sillimanite, et a sillimanite. A l'isograde de la sillimanite, l'andalousite commença, à être remplacée par une muscovite grossiere pour former des pseudomorphes pro grades, alors que lasillimanite se forma dans la malrice. A un degré un peu plus éleveé des pseudomorphes de muscovite remplacerent la staurotide et d'autre sillimanite apparût. On situa dans l'espace pression-température les réactions d'isogrades déduiles des changements dans la topologie AFM à partir de données expérimentales et thermodynamiques. Le champ pétrogénéique résultant ceme la pression durant le métamorphisme entre 2.3 et 3.0 kbars (230 et 300 MPa). Voici l’e'tendue estimée des températures pour chaque zone métamorphique: zone à grenat <500°C, zone a staurotide 500 à 530°C, zone a staurolide-andalousite 530 à 570°C, zone à staurt'tide-sillimanite 570 à 590°C et zone a sillimanite 590°C. Le métamorphisme dans la région d'Orrs Island-Harpswell Neck rappelle le métamorphisme M3 du centre et de l’ouest du Maine en ce que l'un el l'autre épisodes prirent place à des press ions auxquelles la sillimanite se substitua à la staurotide a un haut degré et que tous deux sont lies à des plutons. Le métamorphisme dans la région étudiée différede M3 du centre étde l'ouestdu Maine par la production d'andalousite à un degré intermédiate. [Traduit par le journal

Library Attitudes and Information Needs of Hispanic Parents in Siler City, Chatham County: The Potential of School Library Media Centers to Serve These Needs

This study describes a questionnaire survey of Hispanic parents in the Siler City School District in Chatham County, North Carolina. The survey was conducted to determine the school and library related attitudes and activities of these parents, as well as to assess their information needs. Parents of students enrolled in Siler City School District's Limited English Proficiency (LEP) program and whose primary language at home is Spanish have high opinions of schools and libraries, because they believe these institutions can help their children excel in school, as well as provide important information to their families. While these parents do not regularly visit libraries, they agree that they would use library resources if services that they needed were provided. Parents also agreed that it would be convenient for them to use the libraries in their children's schools

Effects of cognitive behaviour therapy for worry on persecutory delusions in patients with psychosis (WIT): a parallel, single-blind, randomised controlled trial with a mediation analysis

BACKGROUND: Worry might be a contributory causal factor in the occurrence of persecutory delusions in patients with psychotic disorders. Therefore we postulated that reducing worry with cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) would reduce persecutory delusions.METHODS: For our two-arm, assessor-blinded, randomised controlled trial (Worry Intervention Trial [WIT]), we recruited patients aged 18-65 years with persistent persecutory delusions but non-affective psychosis from two centres: the Oxford Health National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust (Oxford, UK) and the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust (Southampton, UK). The key inclusion criteria for participants were a score of at least 3 on the Psychotic Symptoms Rating Scale (PSYRATS) denoting a current persecutory delusion; that the delusion had persisted for at least 3 months; a clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or delusional disorder; and a clinically significant level of worry. We randomly assigned (1:1) eligible patients, using a randomly permuted block procedure with variable block sizes and division by four strata, to either six sessions of worry-reduction CBT intervention done over 8 weeks added to standard care (the CBT-intervention group), or to standard care alone (the control group). The assessors were masked to patient allocations and did their assessments at week 0 (baseline), 8 weeks (end of treatment), and 24 weeks, follow-up. The primary outcomes were worry measured by the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) and delusions measured by the PSYRATS-delusion scale; we did the analyses in the intention-to-treat population, and also did a planned mediation analysis. This trial is registered with the ISRCTN Registry (number ISRCTN23197625) and is closed to new participants.FINDINGS: From Nov 1, 2011, to Sept 9, 2013, we recruited 150 eligible participants and randomly assigned 73 to the CBT intervention group, and 77 to the control group. 143 patients (95%) provided primary outcome follow-up data. Compared with standard care alone, at 8 weeks the CBT intervention significantly reduced worry (mean difference 6·35 [SE 1·56] PSWQ units, 95% CI 3·30-9·40; p&lt;0·001) and persecutory delusions (2·08 [SE 0·73] PSYRATS units, 95% CI 0·64-3·51; p=0·005). The reductions were maintained to 24 weeks follow-up. The mediation analysis suggested that the change in worry accounted for 66% of the change in delusion. No patients died or were admitted to secure units during our study. Six suicide attempts (two in the CBT intervention group, and four in the control group) and two serious violent incidents (one in each group) were noted, but no adverse events were deemed related to the treatments or the assessments.INTERPRETATION: To our knowledge, this is the first large trial focused on persecutory delusions. We have shown that long-standing delusions were significantly reduced by a brief intervention targeted on worry, although the limitations for our study include no determination of the key elements within the intervention. Our results suggest that worry might cause paranoia, and that worry intervention techniques might be a beneficial addition to the standard treatment of psychosis.FUNDING: Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programme, which is a UK Medical Research Council and National Institute of Health Research partnership.</p

Price, Nutrition, Time, and Other Trade-Offs: A Web-Based Food Value Analysis Application to Compare Foods at Different Levels of Preparation and Processing

Consumers choose to eat different forms of foods based on a wide variety of factors such as price, taste, nutrition, and convenience and, in doing so, make trade-offs among them. A Web-based application for use by nutrition educators was developed to help individuals compare foods prepared from home recipes with those for other forms of food (eg, frozen, canned, dry mix). Foods with a home-recipe form in US Department of Agriculture databases were selected to represent a range of commonly consumed entrées, baked goods, side dishes, fruits, vegetables, desserts, and beverages. Multiple US Department of Agriculture and commercial databases along with other public data sources were used to construct prices, nutrient values, food groups and components, preparation and cooking times, shelf life, and food safety concerns for foods in the database. Per-serving and per-100-g values were constructed for 100 individual foods with a home recipe and 1 or more other forms. The data are available in a Web-based application, located at http://www.foodvalueanalysis.org, allowing comparisons of individual foods or a daily diet constructed from foods in the database. Nutrition educators can use the application to advise individuals in selecting foods to consume to meet dietary guidelines while taking into consideration cost, preparation time, food preparation skills, and individual preferences. For example, the application can be used to evaluate differences in prices of fresh or processed foods, whether home recipe or processed foods are less costly when taking into consideration the value of preparation time, and the differences in nutrients across different forms of foods