Neuroliberalism and Beyond

This paper evaluates the healthy lifestyle promotion corporation known as Blue Zones by focusing on their approach to behavioral modification. The analysis relies on popular theories of governmentality such as neoliberalism, libertarian paternalism, and neuroliberalism that seek to explain how personal forms of knowledge intersect with mechanisms of social control to influence the creation of policy. Through a content-analysis of the organization’s foundational text, I argue that Blue Zones is best understood as a form of neuroliberalism because it grants individuals the autonomy to be their own choice architects

Bonhoeffer and His Answer to the Enduring Problem

In light of the relatively recent critiques of Christ and Culture, I would like to examine another text by a rough contemporary of Niebuhr\u27s: Bonhoeffer\u27s Discipleship. In the book, Bonhoeffer is dealing with similar themes and problems as Niebuhr wrestled with years later, yet Bonhoeffer has an entirely different interpretation and outcome than Niebuhr. Why is this the case? What was occurring in Bonhoeffer\u27s social context and what influenced him that contributed to his argument? To help answer this question I will focus upon three areas that recent criticisms of Christ and Culture have highlighted: (1) the definition of culture, (2) the assessment of Christendom, and (3) the operating Christology. In all three of these areas, I hope to explore more deeply the themes of both how and why Bonhoeffer comes to the conclusions that he does in Discipleship. What makes his cultural critiques so unique? Does he offer a perspective that Niebuhr did not? Such an examination will not only give us a better understanding of Bonhoeffer in this period of his theological development but it will also give us the opportunity to look at another text besides Niebuhr\u27s that deals with the enduring problem” of Christ and culture

Informing Policy on Built Environments to Safeguard Children in Environmental Justice Communities: Case Study of Five AAP Climate Advocates

Climate change’s health effects are most strongly felt in Environmental Justice (EJ) communities which are predominantly people of color. This results in a disproportionate burden of climate change health effects on EJ communities. Climate change is a public health crisis, and more importantly to pediatricians – it is a pediatric public health crisis. We are five pediatricians who are part of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Climate Advocate Program representing four diverse regions; Colorado, California, Puerto Rico, and North Carolina. We are applied research practitioners, as we live in the world between academic research and clinical practice. We are natural advocates to ensure that the future world is rebuilt with children’s health, especially children of EJ communities, at the center. Each of us has seen the direct effects of climate change adversely impact EJ Communities. In this article, we will briefly review the literature on the dangers that children face in the air they breathe, the lack of natural green spaces, and the increasingly hostile built environments, especially to children in EJ communities. We will review opportunities in our local areas to change the built environment that will work toward reducing carbon emissions and increase overall pediatric health. We will illustrate the commonalities that helped us succeed as Climate Advocates including collaboration, working locally, and purposefully choosing to identify ourselves as climate advocates and child-advocates. The intersection between public health, policy, and medicine will now become increasingly important as we head into this new decade and approach the point of no return on climate change

Atypical Balance between Occipital and Fronto-Parietal Activation for Visual Shape Extraction in Dyslexia

Reading requires the extraction of letter shapes from a complex background of text, and an impairment in visual shape extraction would cause difficulty in reading. To investigate the neural mechanisms of visual shape extraction in dyslexia, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain activation while adults with or without dyslexia responded to the change of an arrow’s direction in a complex, relative to a simple, visual background. In comparison to adults with typical reading ability, adults with dyslexia exhibited opposite patterns of atypical activation: decreased activation in occipital visual areas associated with visual perception, and increased activation in frontal and parietal regions associated with visual attention. These findings indicate that dyslexia involves atypical brain organization for fundamental processes of visual shape extraction even when reading is not involved. Overengagement in higher-order association cortices, required to compensate for underengagment in lower-order visual cortices, may result in competition for top-down attentional resources helpful for fluent reading.Ellison Medical FoundationMartin Richmond Memorial FundNational Institutes of Health (U.S.). (Grant UL1RR025758)National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (Grant F32EY014750-01)MIT Class of 1976 (Funds for Dyslexia Research

The Cultural Project : Formal Chronological Modelling of the Early and Middle Neolithic Sequence in Lower Alsace

Starting from questions about the nature of cultural diversity, this paper examines the pace and tempo of change and the relative importance of continuity and discontinuity. To unravel the cultural project of the past, we apply chronological modelling of radiocarbon dates within a Bayesian statistical framework, to interrogate the Neolithic cultural sequence in Lower Alsace, in the upper Rhine valley, in broad terms from the later sixth to the end of the fifth millennium cal BC. Detailed formal estimates are provided for the long succession of cultural groups, from the early Neolithic Linear Pottery culture (LBK) to the Bischheim Occidental du Rhin Supérieur (BORS) groups at the end of the Middle Neolithic, using seriation and typology of pottery as the starting point in modelling. The rate of ceramic change, as well as frequent shifts in the nature, location and density of settlements, are documented in detail, down to lifetime and generational timescales. This reveals a Neolithic world in Lower Alsace busy with comings and goings, tinkerings and adjustments, and relocations and realignments. A significant hiatus is identified between the end of the LBK and the start of the Hinkelstein group, in the early part of the fifth millennium cal BC. On the basis of modelling of existing dates for other parts of the Rhineland, this appears to be a wider phenomenon, and possible explanations are discussed; full reoccupation of the landscape is only seen in the Grossgartach phase. Radical shifts are also proposed at the end of the Middle Neolithic

Virtue and Disease: Narrative Accounts of Orthorexia

This presentation is the product of preliminary research conducted in preparation for a larger ethnographic project on how the tensions and debates described above manifest both in clinical settings and in sites of professional dialogue, such as conferences. Future research aims to understand how this complexity is dealt with in the nitty-gritty of clinical encounters and DSM revision debates. This paper introduces debates about ON, first and briefly, within the medical literature that is attempting to develop diagnostic criteria and better understand the condition, and, second, through analysis of responses to orthorexia outside of formal medical scholarship, through popular and social media. The paper analyzes narrative accounts by individuals who identify themselves as recovering orthorexics to better understand the way in which ON is becoming a salient disease category without even yet being an entry in the DSM

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Educational diagnostician shortage: perceptions of educational diagnosticians and special education directors on recruitment and rentention

There has been a history of staff shortages in special education for over 25 years in the United States. It was reported in 2006 that the role of educational diagnostician was considered a “critical shortage” area in Texas. Given the shortage of educational diagnosticians, this quantitative study sought to examine the perceptions of educational diagnosticians and special education directors with regard to the factors influencing the recruitment and retention of educational diagnosticians. Furthermore, this study sought to determine if years of experience in education affect these perceptions. Results indicate that educational diagnosticians and special education directors did not have a significant difference on the perceptions of factors influencing recruitment and retention of educational diagnosticians. In addition, no statistically significant interactions were found between personnel type and years of experience in education

Neutralization of a Toluene Waste Stream Containing Thionyl Chloride

Neutralization of thionyl chloride in toluene was found to be ineffective with water. A solution is to use an excess of a soluble reagent to consume the thionyl chloride. Butanol was shown to convert thionyl chloride to <i>n</i>-butyl sulfite and hydrogen chloride. An aqueous workup removes any residual hydrogen chloride