Being While Doing: An Inductive Model of Mindfulness at Work

Mindfulness at work has drawn growing interest as empirical evidence increasingly supports its positive workplace impacts. Yet theory also suggests that mindfulness is a cognitive mode of “Being” that may be incompatible with the cognitive mode of “Doing” that undergirds workplace functioning. Therefore, mindfulness at work has been theorized as “being while doing,” but little is known regarding how people experience these two modes in combination, nor the influences or outcomes of this interaction. Drawing on a sample of 39 semi-structured interviews, this study explores how professionals experience being mindful at work. The relationship between Being and Doing modes demonstrated changing compatibility across individuals and experience, with two basic types of experiences and three types of transitions. We labeled experiences when informants were unable to activate Being mode while engaging Doing mode as Entanglement, and those when informants reported simultaneous co-activation of Being and Doing modes as Disentanglement. This combination was a valuable resource for offsetting important limitations of the typical reliance on the Doing cognitive mode. Overall our results have yielded an inductive model of mindfulness at work, with the core experience, outcomes, and antecedent factors unified into one system that may inform future research and practice. We did a full hour … of [mindfulness] training… My pager went off like three times. … He\u27s telling us to meditate, and everyone\u27s pager was just beeping. It was not very conducive to meditating. –medical residen

Using BLAST to Detect Horizontal Gene Transfer in Pathogenic Fungi

Similarly to antibiotic resistance, antifungal resistance is a growing challenge for clinicians. Mechanistically, one method of antibiotic resistance acquisition is through horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Although associated more with prokaryotes, past studies show limited evidence of HGT in Candida yeast, warranting additional comparative, genomic and proteomic research on the evolutionary forces behind fungal virulence. This honors capstone project used the NCBI’s Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) to quickly and statistically compare existing biological sequence data in conjunction with EMBL Multiple Sequence Comparison by Log-Expectation (MUSCLE) alignment and Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) to visualize likely evolutionary relationships. Thus, the objective of this project was to use bioinformatics tools to identify potential instances of Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) between pathogenic yeast and viruses, specifically HGT as an evolutionary mechanism for antifungal resistance gene (ARG) acquisition. Of the subset of ARGs searched, BLAST showed more support for ERG3 (C-5 sterol desaturase) HGT between edafosvirus and C. glabrata and between orpheovirus and C. albicans and C. californica, respectively. However, the ML phylogeny contradicts these BLAST results and shows more support for ERG3 HGT between both viruses and Hypopichia burtonii. Thus, while BLAST showed limited evidence for ERG3 HGT between three Candida species and two viruses, the ML phylogeny fails to support these evolutionary events. For the purposes of HGT, BLAST might be better suited to certain organisms (i.e., prokaryotes) and its use should be reinforced as a non-definitive predictor of such evolutionary events. Furthermore, increased understanding of the numerous uncharacterized Candida genes could reveal new evidence of fungal HGT and guide treatment options. Word Count: 26

Student Perceptions of Resistance Tube Training in Chiropractic Technique Labs

Professor Christopher Good's poster on the training of students on the use of resistance tube usage in chiropractic labs

An Innovative Teaching Strategy Used to Address the Role of Chiropractors As Community Health Care Advocates

Dr. Good’s poster on Chiropractic curriculum addressing community health care advocacy

Review of Methods Used by Chiropractors to Determine the Site for Applying Manipulation

Dr. Good's poster review the methods used by chiropractors to determine the site for applying manipulation

Standardizing the Chiropractic Technique Curriculum: Consensus Results of Two Inter-Collegiate Workshops

Objective: A summary is presented of the consensus opinions of two inter-collegiate workshops that sought to develop a standardized chiropractic technique program. Methods: The authors of this study facilitated small groups of attendees tasked with answering seed statements at workshops held during Association of Chiropractic Colleges - Research Agenda Conferences in 2014 and 2016. Results: Attendees agreed that it was acceptable to rely on clinical experience and patient preference when providing patient care, even in the absence of rigorous research evidence, provided procedures are safe and biological plausible. Selection of curricular content should not be based on tradition or ritualistic dogma alone, which sometimes appears to be the case. Licensing bodies should not be involved in this process. Attendees also agreed that diagnostic procedures either do or should include: static and motion palpation, postural and gait analysis, joint springing palpation, ranges of motion testing and functional (orthopedic) muscle testing. There was no consensus with respect to teaching leg length analysis, x-ray film line marking analysis and spinal temperature instrumentation readings for subluxation determination

Explaining how mindfulness consistently brings positive workplace outcomes

It gives us the ability to shift gears between 'being' and 'doing' to deal with different work challenges, write Darren J. Good and Christopher J. Lydd

UB Breakthroughs Fall 2012

The UB Breakthroughs newsletter for fall of 2012. This issue contains articles discussing Dr. Sobh's robotics research in the Robotics, Intelligence Sensing and Control (RISC) Laboratory, Dr. Elleithy's and UB's involvement in developing a camera system for a new small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), professor Noe's research in Cherokee healing practices and indigenous plant use for cancer and HIV treatment, professor Gary Munch's creation of fonts for the Cherokee Nation's written language, how UB's new transmission electron microscope (TEM) is helping UB collaborate with other research institutions, research projects in biomedical engineering, Dr. Queenan's research on the incorporation of science content and reading comprehension instruction, Dr. Kongar's research on the recycling and remanufacturing of electronic components, Dr. Engelmann's research into plant genetic variation in thermal tolerance, professor Funk's research examining the link between proprioception and pain, Dr. Benjamin's research into international corruption, Director Brett's study in an integrated team treating patients across health disciplines, Dr. Zhang's work in renewable energy and the creation of the Renewable Energy Research Laboratory at UB, Dr. Wu's research analyzing the differences between the US and Chinese financial markets, professor Risom's study in the use of video tutorials to supplement the instruction of instrument skills, and UB's CTech IncUBator program for incubating the creation of high-tech start-up companies

Digital frakobling - En kvalitativ studie av sosiale medier og produktivitet

I denne oppgaven undersøkte jeg hvilken rolle sosiale medier har i unge voksnes liv med tanke på opplevelse av produktivitet. Med utviklingen av sosiale medier har det stadig blitt en større del av hverdagen vår, enten det er til kommunikasjon, underholdning eller tidsfordriv. Sosiale medier oppfattes som invaderende og forstyrrende i den grad at det går utover livene våre. Det er spesielt sosiale medier med nyhetsstrømmer som er mest utfordrende. Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube har alle til felles at de bygger på algoritmer og personalisert innhold, samt varsler til å fange brukeren og gjøre det vanskelig å holde seg unna sosiale medier. Med stadig økende digitalisering i samfunnet legges det mer ansvar på brukeren til å regulere egen bruk. Det er spesielt unge voksne som konsumerer mest innhold fra sosiale medier. Forskningsdesignet består av kvalitativ tilnærming, hvor informantene skal gjennomføre et frakoblingseksperiment. Det ble i tillegg utført to intervjuer, et før og et etter frakoblingsuken. Frakoblingsuken er ment som et bidrag for å se på effekten frakoblingen har på informantene og deres liv, og i tillegg se på produktivitet, annen mediebruk og skjermtid. Informantene ble også bedt om fylle ut en mediedagbok underveis i frakoblingsuken for å notere seg erfaringer og refleksjoner. Funnene i denne forskningen viser hvilken rolle sosiale medier har i unge voksne liv. Informantene hadde flere utfordringer knyttet til kommunikasjon, planlegging og tilgjengelighet. I tillegg anses sosiale medier som en foretrukken kilde til underholdning og tidsfordriv. Frakobling fra sosiale medier med nyhetsstrømmer har heller ikke gjort at informantene nødvendigvis ble mer produktive. Mange ulike faktorer i informantens liv gjorde det vanskelig å se et skille på om frakobling fra sosiale medier med nyhetsstrømmer var nødvendig for å oppnå et mer produktivt liv, ettersom det også krever disiplin og motivasjon.Masteroppgave i medier og kommunikasjonMEVI350MASV-MEV