Katie Hopkins, Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio

This document archives the senior art exhibition of Katie Hopkins ‘19. A reception for the 2019 Senior Art Exhibition occurred on Friday, April 12, 2019 in the Bush Art Center Galleries to celebrate the accomplishments of the graduating art class. Contained in the portfolio is Hopkins’ artist statement that accompanied her exhibition, a photo of her work in the context of the Baer Gallery taken on the night of the reception, and close ups of her three pieces: the oil painting Space Dog, four film stills and the tagline of the short film Withdrawn in lieu of the actual media, and the cover art, copyright information, and hero illustration of the published children’s book Gladys Pearl the Glad Camp Girl for which Hopkins did the illustrations.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/artportfolios/1027/thumbnail.jp

Self-care Practices of Baccalaureate Nursing Students and Nursing Faculty

Existing research describes that nursing students report having significant stress and feelings of burnout during their nursing education program related to the academic rigor of nursing education, classroom and clinical learning experiences, high expectations, fear of hurting patients, exhaustion, and being placed in the caregiver role. Research also indicates that nursing faculty report stress as being a primary concern and that it can be related to work, family, personal health, or financial concerns. Stress negatively impacts the ability of nursing students and faculty to engage in self-care practices. This study was conducted to learn more about the self-care practices that nursing students and nursing faculty currently engage in and the self-care practices that nursing students and nursing faculty would like to improve in order to adequately care for themselves and others in their clinical and academic practice. Nursing students and nursing faculty at a women’s university completed an anonymous online survey based on Dossey and Keegan’s Circle of Human Potential assessment (2009) to identify their current and desired engagement with self-care practices. Findings indicate that both nursing students and faculty are interested in increasing their self-care practices, specifically related to the area of choices. Based on study findings, recommendations are offered for education, practice, and further research. As patient care becomes more complex and registered nurses are expected to practice to their full scope of practice, nursing students, nursing faculty, and nurses are challenged to prioritize and integrate self-care practices as a professional and ethical responsibility to promote safe and competent patient care

Familial geopolitics and ontological security : intergenerational relations, migration and minority youth (in)securities in Scotland

This paper discusses the family as a site of geopolitics. Bridging scholarship in feminist geopolitics, political psychology and sociology, we explore the psycho-social dynamics of family life and theorise the family as a multi-scalar, relational site of security. Original data collected with ethnic and religious minority youth in Scotland are presented alongside an analysis of how family relations, at interconnected scales, mitigate against and/or re-inscribe broad geopolitical narratives of security. We employ the concept of ontological security (OS) to analyse the role of the family, and the relationships within it, on shaping youth securities. We discuss (1) how family histories and intergenerational experience shape young people’s sense of security; (2) how young people negotiate and resist family norms and values that reproduce securitizing geopolitical narratives; and (3) how young people find security when family is absent or indeterminate. In each case, we analyse how geopolitics operates through family life. The paper makes two key contributions: first, we use original empirical data to theorise ethnic and religious minority youth securities; second, we show the value of OS as a conceptual tool for understanding psycho-social dimensions of familial geopolitics.PostprintPeer reviewe

Pharmacokinetics of Anticoagulant Rodenticides in Target and Non-target Organisms

The concentration of a compound at the site of action is a determinant of its toxicity. This principle is affected by a variety of factors including the chemical properties of the compound (pKa, lipophilicity, molecular size), receptor binding affinity, route of exposure, and physiological properties of the organism. Many compounds have to undergo chemical changes, biotransformation, into more toxic or less toxic forms. Because of all of these variables, predicting toxic effects and performing risk assessments of compounds based solely on dose are less accurate than those that include data on absorption, distribution, metabolism (biotransformation), and excretion of the compound. These factors are commonly referred to as ADME. The quantitative study of these properties is called pharmacokinetics and often encompasses the determination of compound concentrations in tissues of interest including blood and the time course of absorption, metabolism, and excretion. A goal of pharmacokinetics is an understanding of the relationship between dose and the concentration of the active compound at the target site. Toxicokinetics is a “unique expansion of pharmacokinetics”, with doses being much greater than those in pharmacokinetic studies (Welling 1995). This is a complicated task, especially for anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs), as exposure (dose) frequently occurs over multiple days and can result from consumption of poisoned animals containing varying concentration of ARs and their metabolites, not simply a toxic bait

Aspects of the Biology and Control of Pestalotiopsis on Hardy Ornamental Nursery Stock

Aspects of the biology and control of Pestalotiopsis on hardy ornamental nursery stock (HONS) were studied. The species of Pestalotiopsis most commonly found on samples of diseased HONS collected from nurseries throughout the UK was identified as Pestalotiopsis sydowiana (Bresad.) B. Sutton. The colony morphologies, spore measurements and hyphal extension rates of all isolates of P. sydowiana collected were similar. Different isolates of P. sydowiana were able to grow well on commonly used agar culture media, including SDA, V8, MEA, CDA and PDA. Optimum temperatures for growth of several isolates were in the range of 15 to 2

Garden Equipment and Items to Make for the Maine Garden

Do-It-Yourself directions for making garden equipment and other items including newspaper pots, PVC light stands for seedlings, two-tier seedling stand, cold frame, raised bed, plant in a bag, celery blancher, and planting holes in plastic.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/extension_garden_yard/1002/thumbnail.jp

The molecular basis for recognition of bacterial ligands at equine TLR2, TLR1 and TLR6.

TLR2 recognises bacterial lipopeptides and lipoteichoic acid, and forms heterodimers with TLR1 or TLR6. TLR2 is relatively well characterised in mice and humans, with published crystal structures of human TLR2/1/Pam3CSK4 and murine TLR2/6/Pam2CSK4. Equine TLR4 is activated by a different panel of ligands to human and murine TLR4, but less is known about species differences at TLR2. We therefore cloned equine TLR2, TLR1 and TLR6, which showed over 80% sequence identity with these receptors from other mammals, and performed a structure-function analysis. TLR2/1 and TLR2/6 from both horses and humans dose-dependently responded to lipoteichoic acid from Staphylococcus aureus, with no significant species difference in EC50 at either receptor pair. The EC50 of Pam2CSK4 was the same for equine and human TLR2/6, indicating amino acid differences between the two species' TLRs do not significantly affect ligand recognition. Species differences were seen between the responses to Pam2CSK4 and Pam3CSK4 at TLR2/1. Human TLR2/1, as expected, responded to Pam3CSK4 with greater potency and efficacy than Pam2CSK4. At equine TLR2/1, however, Pam3CSK4 was less potent than Pam2CSK4, with both ligands having similar efficacies. Molecular modelling indicates that the majority of non-conserved ligand-interacting residues are at the periphery of the TLR2 binding pocket and in the ligand peptide-interacting regions, which may cause subtle effects on ligand positioning. These results suggest that there are potentially important species differences in recognition of lipopeptides by TLR2/1, which may affect how the horse deals with bacterial infections.RIGHTS : This article is licensed under the BioMed Central licence at http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/license which is similar to the 'Creative Commons Attribution Licence'. In brief you may : copy, distribute, and display the work; make derivative works; or make commercial use of the work - under the following conditions: the original author must be given credit; for any reuse or distribution, it must be made clear to others what the license terms of this work are

Food Bag Program to Address the Immediate Food Needs of Patients During the COVID-19 Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened food insecurity across the country. In this report we describe creation of a novel emergency department (ED) food bag program in New York City. The food bag program was designed to help meet immediate food needs of patients being discharged from the ED. Each bag contained shelf-stable food as well as a handout describing other community food resources. The program leveraged community-hospital partnerships, was met with enthusiasm from patients and staff alike, and would be highly replicable to other settings.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/156010/1/FINAL_Food bag program article_complete_7.2.20.pdfDescription of FINAL_Food bag program article_complete_7.2.20.pdf : Main Articl

Minority ethnic young people: Confident negotiators

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