Ten Years of Community Profiles in New Hampshire

Through a program called Community Profiles, the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension has helped 57 New Hampshire communities develop a vision for their future and mobilize local residents to act on that vision. The Community Profile process is based on the premise that communities must engage members in identifying and documenting common and deeply held values from which to craft a vision for the future if they are to build and sustain community vitality. The process also helps communities find new and creative ways to pursue that vision by leveraging resources within and outside of the community. These resources include individual skills, local organizational capacity, and local, state, and regional institutional-support structures. Since creating and pursuing a vision is a challenge for communities that often rely on volunteers, the Community Profiles program was conceived to help them achieve these functions. Community Profiles is, in essence, a process that enables community residents to take stock of current conditions, build a collective set of goals for their future, and develop an action plan for realizing that vision. In the past 10 years, UNH Cooperative Extension has helped nearly a quarter of the state’s incorporated cities and towns conduct Community Profiles. This retrospective shares with our stakeholders the various successes that communities have had as a result of the process. This publication was inspired by stories emerging from Community Profiles conducted between 1996 and 2006 in 42 communities. The communities selected for this report were either particularly successful at carrying out the Community Profiles process, or they achieved positive outcomes as a result of the process. Through this report we will tell their stories and illustrate how these and other communities can work together to shape their future through persistence, creativity and teamwork

Reflections on Teaching Against White Supremacy During a Time of Social Rupture and Transformation

Social Justice and Social Work is a foundational course required for all social work students in the master’s of social work program at Portland State University. Although the course has long focused on interrupting oppressions including White supremacy, teaching the course during the fall of 2020 required a nimble dance between our familiar modes of teaching and the need for spontaneous adaptation and creativity. The unique landscape for this course included teaching the course remotely (Zoom), inside a university embattled around the arming of its security force (that killed a Black man in 2018), in a city targeted by an armed federal response to the racial uprising led by Black Lives Matter, in a state with a long history of White supremacy and Black exclusion, and under a federal administration explicitly aligned with White supremacy. This paper offers a reflection of our teaching about and against White supremacy during this unique moment in time. We position our writing at the intersections of teaching and activism, of hope and uncertainty. It is from our shared commitment to the abolishment of White supremacy that the following tenets were derived, grounding our experimental teaching in complexity, complicity, and social transformation: (1) remembering for the future, (2) attending to collective grief and rage, (3) bringing the streets (racial uprising) into the classroom, and (4) repurposing the classroom for social transformation

Analysis of the Relationship Between Data Governance and Data-Drive Culture

As organizations increase their use of data, among scholars there is growing interest in data governance and data-driven culture, and studies suggest investigating the relationship between these two phenomena would provide a better understanding of data behavior in organizations. Thus, this exploratory research investigates the relationship between data governance and data-driven culture using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results show the relationship between data governance and data-driven culture is strong, and that it is mediated by data quality. Additionally, based on the Resource-Based View of the firm, our results indicate data governance and data- driven culture should be addressed jointly when evaluating their contribution as an organizational resource

Reactive media for phosphorus removal in wastewater treatment.

The implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) will impose new phosphorus (P) consents (<1 mg/L) for small sewage treatment works (STW) in the UK. This poses a challenge for water utilities, as while the conventional solution of chemical dosing and tertiary filtration would be able to meet those consents, it does not align with the low energy technology requirements of small STW. Constructed wetlands with Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) steel slag and apatite not only are passive systems with low maintenance requirements and low energy demand, but they can also effectively meet those new consents, therefore, providing a more sustainable alternative to the conventional solution. This technology has traditionally been tested in small-scale short-term column trials, which limits its full-scale extrapolation potential. This thesis provides field-scale and long-term direct comparison of both media for P removal, and determines key operational parameters for optimum performance, such as hydraulic retention time and media size, as well as identifying operational challenges. The suitability of the commonly employed column experiments to test reactive media is also assessed and recommendations are provided for extrapolation to other STW. Performance comparison to other two trials with BOF steel slag in the UK allows to determine the potential for full-scale application of this technology in the country. Circumstances under which this technology can be economically viable compared to the conventional solution are then assessed.PhD in Wate

Identifying the Structure of Non-Linear Dynamic Systems Using Multiobjective Genetic Programming

A method for identifying the structure of non-linear polynomial dynamic models is presented. This approach uses an evolutionary algorithm, Genetic Programming, in a multiobjective fashion to generate global models which describe the dynamic behaviour of the non-linear system under investigation. The introduction of the validation stage of system identification into the multiobjective tool is also explored, in order to direct the identification process to a set of global models of the system

The global cancer genomics consortium\u27s third annual symposium: From oncogenomics to cancer care

The Global Cancer Genomics Consortium (GCGC) is a cohesive network of oncologists, cancer biologists and structural and genomics experts residing in six institutions from Lisbon, United Kingdom, Japan, India, and United States. The team is using its combined resources and infrastructures to address carefully selected, shared, burning questions in cancer medicine. The Third Annual Symposium was organized by the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Lisbon Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal, from September 18 to 20, 2013. To highlight the benefits and limitations of recent advances in cancer genomics, the meeting focused on how to better translate our gains in oncogenomics to cancer patients while engaging our younger colleagues in cancer medicine at-large. Over two hundreds participants actively discussed some of the most recent advances in the areas cancer genomics, transcriptomics and cancer system biology and how to best apply such knowledge to cancer therapeutics, biomarkers discovery and drug development, and an essential role played by bio-banking throughout the process. In brief, the GCGC symposium provided a platform for students and translational cancer researchers to share their excitement and worries as we are beginning to translate the gains in oncogenomics to a better cancer patient treatment

Relato de caso clínico – escarlatina

Este trabalho é o resultado de um estudo minucioso das complicações Pós – Infecções Estreptocócicas realizado a partir de um Relato de Caso Clínico de Escarlatina, uma das complicações pós–infecção estreptocócica mais frequentes, não somente por hipersensibilidade imediata a terapêutica antimicrobiana, mas sim por falha na adesão a esta e promoção de resistência antimicrobiana. Assim, descreve–se o caso clínico e em seguida apresenta–se uma discussão clínica sobre os principais aspectos clínicos, diagnósticos e terapêuticos acerca da Escarlatina, além de ressaltar a importância de uma escolha racional e baseada em evidências clínico–científicas da droga antimicrobiana mais eficiente, com menos efeitos adversos e pelo menor custo ao tratamento dessas Infecções Estreptocócicas mais resistentes

Combined 3D analysis of lower-limb morphology and function in children with idiopathic equinovarus clubfoot: A preliminary study

Introduction In children treated for idiopathic equinovarus clubfoot (EVCF), the relation between morphologic defects on clinical examination and standard X-ray on the one hand and functional abnormalities on the other is difficult to objectify. The aim of the present study was to demonstrate the feasibility of combined 3D analysis of the foot and lower limb based on biplanar EOS radiographs and gait analysis. The study hypothesis was that this provides better understanding of abnormalities in form and function. Methods Ten children with unilateral EVCF and “very good” clinical results were included. They underwent gait analysis on the Rizzoli Institute multisegment foot model. Kinematic data were collected for the hip, knee, ankle and foot (hindfoot/midfoot, midfoot/forefoot and hindfoot/forefoot). Biplanar EOS radiographs were taken to determine anatomic landmarks and radiological parameters. Results Complete acquisition time was around 2 hours per patient. No significant differences were found between EVCF and healthy feet except for calcaneal incidence, tibiocalcaneal angle and hindfoot/midfoot and hindfoot/forefoot inversion. Discussion The feasibility of the combined analysis was confirmed. There were no differences in range of motion, moment or power between EVCF and healthy feet in this series of patients with very good results. The functional results are related to radiological results within the normal range. The protocol provided anatomic and kinematic reference data. A larger-scale study could more objectively assess the contribution of EOS radiography using optoelectronic markers. Level of evidence II, low-power prospective study.The authors thank Chaire ParisTech BiomecAM (personalized musculoskeletal modeling) for financial help

Tourism policy making: the policymakers' perspectives

This research explores tourism policy making, from the perspectives of policy makers using grounded theory. It focuses on Leeds, a city in the North of England, which is characterized by its turbulent environment. The paper identifies themes around policy making, including low status, lack of clarity, uncertainty, lack of consensus and congruence and complexity. Its findings indicate policy making is essentially a social process, involving communication and negotiation between people in the context of wider change. It suggests a social conceptualization, and further research to investigate the communications involved in producing policy rather than the current research focus on the tangible outputs of the process such as a plan or a physical development