Equine assisted therapy: supporting treatment in Alaska

Master's Project (M.Ed.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2017The State of Alaska demonstrates exceedingly high rates of interpersonal violence, child neglect, depression, and drug related arrests when compared with national rates. Substance use disorder is often linked with instances of interpersonal violence, child neglect, depression and judicial consequences. An equine assisted therapy program could provide support for the treatment of substance use disorders in Alaska. This project asks one basic question, "What benefits could an equine assisted therapy program provide for individuals in a level II, Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) in interior Alaska?" Currently, no residential or level II treatment programs for substance use disorder in Alaska offer equine assisted therapy. Examples of successful equine assisted therapy programs in the contiguous United States are presented as models for an equine assisted therapy program in Alaska. Resiliency theory is introduced as a theoretical framework that balances goals and objectives of both level II substance use treatment and equine assisted therapy. Participants might experience benefits from an equine assisted therapy group related to immediate feedback, opportunities for learning, opportunities for trust-building, healthy relationships, learning new ways of dealing with trauma, relationships, confronting fears, and effectively working through new challenges

Homotopy equivalences between p-subgroup categories

Let p be a prime number and G a finite group of order divisible by p. Quillen showed that the Brown poset of nonidentity p-subgroups of G is homotopy equivalent to its subposet of nonidentity elementary abelian subgroups. We show here that a similar statement holds for the fusion category of nonidentity p-subgroups of G. Other categories of p-subgroups of G are also considered.Comment: 19 pages. Second versio

Plant DNA Repair and Agrobacterium T−DNA Integration

Agrobacterium species transfer DNA (T−DNA) to plant cells where it may integrate into plant chromosomes. The process of integration is thought to involve invasion and ligation of T-DNA, or its copying, into nicks or breaks in the host genome. Integrated T−DNA often contains, at its junctions with plant DNA, deletions of T−DNA or plant DNA, filler DNA, and/or microhomology between T-DNA and plant DNA pre-integration sites. T−DNA integration is also often associated with major plant genome rearrangements, including inversions and translocations. These characteristics are similar to those often found after repair of DNA breaks, and thus DNA repair mechanisms have frequently been invoked to explain the mechanism of T−DNA integration. However, the involvement of specific plant DNA repair proteins and Agrobacterium proteins in integration remains controversial, with numerous contradictory results reported in the literature. In this review I discuss this literature and comment on many of these studies. I conclude that either multiple known DNA repair pathways can be used for integration, or that some yet unknown pathway must exist to facilitate T−DNA integration into the plant genome

Traversing the Cell: Agrobacterium T-DNA’s Journey to the Host Genome

The genus Agrobacterium is unique in its ability to conduct interkingdom genetic exchange. Virulent Agrobacterium strains transfer single-strand forms of T-DNA (T-strands) and several Virulence effector proteins through a bacterial type IV secretion system into plant host cells. T-strands must traverse the plant wall and plasma membrane, traffic through the cytoplasm, enter the nucleus, and ultimately target host chromatin for stable integration. Because any DNA sequence placed between T-DNA “borders” can be transferred to plants and integrated into the plant genome, the transfer and intracellular trafficking processes must be mediated by bacterial and host proteins that form complexes with T-strands. This review summarizes current knowledge of proteins that interact with T-strands in the plant cell, and discusses several models of T-complex (T-strand and associated proteins) trafficking. A detailed understanding of how these macromolecular complexes enter the host cell and traverse the plant cytoplasm will require development of novel technologies to follow molecules from their bacterial site of synthesis into the plant cell, and how these transferred molecules interact with host proteins and sub-cellular structures within the host cytoplasm and nucleus

KARAKTERISTIK GAMBUT KAWASAN HIDROLOGIS KAHAYAN SEBANGAU PADA SIFAT BIOLOGI DAN GUGUS FUNGSIONALNYA

The purpose of the study was to determine the differences in several soil biological properties and peat functional groups based on the location of soil formation (tidal peat, transitional peat, and inland peat). The study was conducted on peat soils in the Kahayan Sebangau Hydrological area, Central Kalimantan, from June to August 2018. The research method is laboratory observation to determine the biological and chemical properties of soil from each soil sample from each location, soil chemical analysis using the FTIR method and biological properties analysis using the Count Cup method. The variables observed were Total Microbiology, Total Fungi, Total Bacteria, Total Respiration and functional groups at Tidal (PS), Transitional (PR) and Inland (PD) peat locations at depths of 0-25 cm and 25-50 cm. The results showed that based on the location of soil formation (tidal peat, transitional peat, and inland peat) the total population of microorganisms, fungi, bacteria and total respiration was most found in tidal peat, based on the sampling depth that the total population of microorganisms, fungi, bacteria and total respiration was most found at a depth of 0 - 25 cm from its surface, from the results of FTIR analysis of the main functional groups On peat soils that of the three tidal, transitional and inland peat areas that the largest area in the three tidal, transitional and inland areas is dominated by fatty acid and wax functional groups with wavelengths of 3400 – 3000 cm-1. From the results of FTIR analysis at sample depths of 0-25 cm and 25-50, the highest values are wavelengths of 3400-3000 and 3000-2800 cm-1, where in this layer the main characteristics are fatty acids and waxes