Family Experiences of Ambiguous Loss in Response to Serious Childhood Illness: Parental Perspectives

The diagnosis and treatment of a serious childhood illness impacts the entire family system and causes a wide range of changes and losses. This research explored the experience of eight families faced with the extended hospitalization of a child and investigated how their experiences could be understood from an ambiguous loss framework. Qualitative interviews were conducted with eight mothers to explore their perception of the changes within the family unit during extended hospitalization. Results indicated families do experience ambiguous loss during extended hospitalization, particularly family boundary ambiguity and the loss of a normative family experience. Participants indicated these losses were related to the ambiguous absence of the patient and caregiver. Social workers should be aware of these unrecognized or uncertain losses and how they impact the entire family system when working with children with a serious medical illness

Report on Current Data and uses of Interstellar Molecules

The problem presented by polyatomic molecules in interstellar space were first suggested by the detection of CN, CH, and CH+ just before 1940; but it was not until the discovery of radio emission from NH3 in 1968 that radio observatories began to devote considerable time to searches for such molecules. The quest has been an extremely successful one, with well over thirty molecules listed to date and more being added to the collection every month. (The list in the appendix gives some idea of the discoveries, but makes no boast as to its completeness.

Family Experiences of Ambiguous Loss in Response to Serious Childhood Illness: Parental Perspectives

The diagnosis and treatment of a serious childhood illness impacts the entire family system and causes a wide range of changes and losses. This research explored the experience of eight families faced with the extended hospitalization of a child and investigated how their experiences could be understood from an ambiguous loss framework. Qualitative interviews were conducted with eight mothers to explore their perception of the changes within the family unit during extended hospitalization. Results indicated families do experience ambiguous loss during extended hospitalization, particularly family boundary ambiguity and the loss of a normative family experience. Participants indicated these losses were related to the ambiguous absence of the patient and caregiver. Social workers should be aware of these unrecognized or uncertain losses and how they impact the entire family system when working with children with a serious medical illness

A Peculiar Presentation of Cardiac Sarcoidosis As Third-Degree Atrioventricular Heart Block Complicated By Right Ventricle Perforation

• Cardiac sarcoidosis is a rare, inflammatory multisystem disorder that manifests as noncaseating granulomas of multiple organs. • The clinical presentation of sarcoidosis is variable and may be underrecognized by clinicians. • Individuals may be asymptomatic during their lifetimes and may be incidentally diagnosed with the disease for the first-time during autopsy. • Patients with cardiac involvement of sarcoidosis may initially present with complications including arrhythmias, heart block, bundle branch block, congestive heart failure, pericardial effusion, pulmonary hypertension, and/or sudden cardiac death

Opening the Door to Breakthroughs that Address Strategic Organizational Needs: Applying Technology Roadmapping Tools and Techniques at an Electric Utility

Over the course of a decade, the Bonneville Power Administration\u27s Technology Innovation Office has developed a roadmapping approach that captures business challenges and opportunities critical to the agency, links these with barriers to success, and connects these with technical solutions and research questions. Senior leaders from across the agency establish strategic goals and objectives, and international technical subject matter experts are convened to articulate technology-associated paths to achieve these. Each roadmap captures insights from diverse experts in highly collaborative environments and focuses them on critically important topics. These roadmaps are an important element in the Bonneville Power Administration\u27s strategic approach to technology research and development

Supporting the Academic Research Needs of Incarcerated Students: Building JSTOR's Offline Solution for Prison Education

Incarcerated students often lack access to the resources and conditions, both physical and digital, that make self-directed research and research skill-building possible. Due to technical constraints – most notably the lack of internet access in most prison environments – few incarcerated students have access to research databases commonly used by students to discover scholarly content that is relevant to their coursework, research projects, and broader learning pursuits. Not only does lack of research experience have an impact on students’ ability to engage with academic work, but it also leaves students without the fundamental information and digital literacy skills that are increasingly essential for future work and continued learning. Since 2007, JSTOR, a digital library of scholarly resources, has been making strides to amend this gap in available scholarly resources and research tools by providing JSTOR access to incarcerated learners. This paper describes the work undertaken by JSTOR Labs, an experimental product development team at JSTOR, to develop an offline index of scholarly resources designed to serve the research needs of incarcerated students. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, this project yielded lessons regarding how to scale access to digital scholarly resources given the changing landscape of technology in prison, and continues to shape JSTOR’s work to help improve higher education in prison and reduce barriers for student research

The effect of substrate on the production of infectious virus by cells in culture

Herpes simplex virus type I (HSV-1), infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus (IBR) and turkey herpesvirus were examined for growth in cells cultured on three different substrates. The substrates were glass, DEAE-dextran and collagen gel. With two of the viruses, HSV-1 and IBR, there were no apparent differences in production as a function of substrate. In contrast, the amount of the turkey herpesvirus which was recovered varied greatly with the substrate. Titers were highest on glass, followed by DEAE-dextran and then collagen gel. Our previous studies have indicated that the substrate on which anchorage-dependent cells are grown in vitro has an affect on a number of biological and biochemical properties. The present study indicates that the production of commercially important biologicals can be affected by the substrate.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/27538/1/0000582.pd

Solid-state processes to produce hemispherical components for inertial fusion targets

The designs proposed for next-generation targets and components for inertial fusion (IF) involve complex multilayer, multishell configurations. Solid-state process technology offers a wide assortment of fabrication techniques useful in the realization of such structures. This paper presents several such processes which are capable of producing freestanding hemishells of a variety of materials