An ounce of prevention : helping the elderly with daily money management

In 1991, 30 Massachusetts nonprofits approached AARP and the Office of Elder Affairs about providing money-management assistance to seniors. The resulting program helps roughly 1,200 clients per month to handle their finances with less anxiety.Finance, Personal - Massachusetts ; Older people - Finance, Personal

Flint, Michigan Water Crisis

The environmental justice artifact is about the environmental injustices created in different kinds of communities across the country and across the world. Flint, Michigan is one of the most well known instances of an economic crisis becoming an environmental crisis. Flint is nicknamed, “Vehicle City,” as it is one of the biggest car factory hubs in the country, but manufacturing jobs slowly faded away, leading to a collapsing economy. The municipal government decided to attempt to combat the problem by switching its water supplier to Flint River, which was contaminated with high levels of lead, a dangerous element. The next example relates to the artifact on class as well as the topic of race. Black and brown communities are often targeted for industry, and that applied to the city of Saint James Parish, Louisiana. There was a promise for industries to bring many jobs to the community, but that promise hasn’t quite been fulfilled. Additionally, due to industry, St James and its neighboring towns have some of the highest cancer rates in the country. What makes it worse is that the families who live there generally have lived there all their lives and have trouble relocating due to financial challenges

In utero and in vitro sex ratio of bovine embryos and calves originating from the left and right ovaries

An asymmetric distribution of the sexes within the left and right uterine horns has been described in multiple polytocous, laboratory species. A series of experiments were conducted to evaluate the sex ratio (% male) of calves gestated in the left and right uterine horns, as well as the sex ratio of embryos originating from the left and right ovaries of cattle. In Experiment 1, the sex ratio of calves and fetuses gestated in the left and right uterine horns was investigated. The sex ratio of calves and fetuses gestated in the right uterine horn was significantly higher compared with the sex ratio of calves and fetuses gestated in the left uterine horn. In addition, the sex ratio of the left and right uterine horns differed significantly from parity. In Experiment 2, embryo transfer data were analyzed in an effort to determine if sex-specific selection pressures were applied to embryos in the uterine horn of transfer. The sex ratio of ET calves born following transfer to the left and right uterine horns was not significantly different. Similarly, the overall sex ratio of calves born in this experiment did not differ significantly from parity. The sex ratio of embryos recovered from the left and right uterine horns of superovulated beef cows was evaluated in Experiment 3. The proportion of male embryos collected from the right uterine horns was significantly greater than from the left uterine horns. The sex ratio of embryos recovered from the uterine horns in this experiment was not different from parity. In an effort to determine the role of interovarian communications in the sex selection process, the sex ratio of embryos recovered from unilaterally ovariectomized superovulated beef heifers was investigated in Experiment 4. The sex ratios of embryos recovered from left- and right-ovary intact heifers were not significantly different. In Experiment 5, the sex ratio of IVP embryos was evaluated. The sex ratio of the IVP embryos was significantly lower than parity and was not different between ovary of origin. In addition, length of time in maturation was determined not to influence the sex ratio

The Road to Partnership: a Stepwise, Iterative Approach to Organisational Collaboration in RDM, Archives and Records Management

Research data management (RDM) sits at the confluence of a number of related roles. The shape an RDM confluence takes depends on several factors including the nature of an organisation and the research that it undertakes. At St George’s, University of London, the UK’s only university dedicated to medical and health sciences education, training and research, RDM has been intricately interwoven with organisational information governance roles since its inception. RDM is represented on our institutional Information Governance Steering Group and our Information Management Team consisting of information governance, data protection, freedom of information, archives, records management and RDM. This paper reports on how RDM, archives and records management have collaborated using a step-wise, iterative process to streamline and harmonise our guidance and workflows in relation to the stewardship, curation and preservation of research data. As part of this we consistently develop, conduct and evaluate small projects on managing, curating and preserving data. We present three projects that we collaborated on to transform research data services across each of our departments: planning for, conducting and reporting on interviews with wet laboratory researchers advocating, building a case for and delivering a university-wide digital preservation system ongoing work to recover, preserve and facilitate access to a unique national health database Learnings from these projects are used to develop our guidance, improve our activities and integrate our workflows, the outcomes of which may be further evaluated. Learnings are also used to improve our ways of working together. Through deeper integration of our activities and workflows, rather than simply aligning aspects of our work, we are increasingly becoming partners on research data stewardship, curation and preservation. This approach offers several benefits to the organisation as it allows us to build on our related knowledge and skills and deliver outcomes that demonstrate greater value to the organisation and the researchers we support

Electrophysiological correlates of presynaptic opiate receptor activation: reduction in norepinephrine-mediated inhibition from the locus coeruleus

Inhibitory responses of rat cerebellar Purkinje cells to locus coeruleus (LC) stimulation and iontophoresis of norepinephrine (NE) were examined before and after administration of morphine to determine whether the inhibitory modulation of NE release by opiates results in a functional impairment in noradrenergic synaptic action. Administration of morphine systematically (0.2-1.2 mg/kg, i.v.) or by iontophoresis reduced inhibitions in Purkinje firing elicited by LC stimulation without affecting depressions in activity induced by postsynaptic applications of NE. This antagonistic effect of morphine on LC-induced inhibition was reversed or prevented by naloxone and mimicked by administration of levorphanol but not dextrorphan. Morphine increased the excitatory response of Purkinje cells to monosynaptic input from the parallel fibers, whereas it blocked [gamma]-aminobutyric acid-induced inhibitions in firing via a non-opiate receptor-mediated mechanism. These results demonstrate that morphine interferes with synaptic inhibition derived from the LC and suggest that this may occur via activation of presynaptic opiate receptors residing on noradrenergic nerve terminals.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/26539/1/0000078.pd

Cooling device featuring thermoelectric and diamond materials for temperature control of heat-dissipating devices

A cooling device for lowering the temperature of a heat-dissipating device. The cooling device includes a heat-conducting substrate (composed, e.g., of diamond or another high thermal conductivity material) disposed in thermal contact with the heat-dissipating device. During operation, heat flows from the heat-dissipating device into the heat-conducting substrate, where it is spread out over a relatively large area. A thermoelectric cooling material (e.g., a Bi.sub.2 Te.sub.3 -based film or other thermoelectric material) is placed in thermal contact with the heat-conducting substrate. Application of electrical power to the thermoelectric material drives the thermoelectric material to pump heat into a second heat-conducting substrate which, in turn, is attached to a heat sink

Integration of the FGS ETU to the ISIM Structure

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The Large UV/Optical/Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR): Decadal Mission Concept Study Update

In preparation for the 2020 Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics, NASA commissioned the study of four large mission concepts: the Large UV/Optical/Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR), the Habitable Exoplanet Imager (HabEx), the far-infrared surveyor Origins Space Telescope (OST), and the X-ray surveyor Lynx. The LUVOIR Science and Technology Definition Team (STDT) has identified a broad range of science objectives for LUVOIR that include the direct imaging and spectral characterization of habitable exoplanets around sun-like stars, the study of galaxy formation and evolution, the exchange of matter between galaxies, star and planet formation, and the remote sensing of Solar System objects. The LUVOIR Study Office, located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), is developing two mission concepts to achieve the science objectives. LUVOIR-A is a 15-meter segmented-aperture observatory that would be launched in an 8.4-meter extended fairing on the Space Launch System (SLS) Block 2 configuration. LUVOIR-B is an 8-meter unobscured segmented aperture telescope that fits in a smaller, conventional 5-meter fairing, but still requires the lift capacity of the SLS Block 1B Cargo vehicle. Both concepts include a suite of serviceable instruments: the Extreme Coronagraph for Living Planetary Systems (ECLIPS), an optical/near-infrared coronagraph capable of delivering 10 (sup minus 10) contrast at inner working angles as small as 2 lambda divided by D; the LUVOIR UV Multi-object Spectrograph (LUMOS), which will provide low- and medium-resolution UV (100-400 nanometer) multi-object imaging spectroscopy in addition to far-UV imaging; the High Definition Imager (HDI), a high-resolution wide-field-of-view NUV-Optical-NIR imager. LUVOIR-A also has a fourth instrument, Pollux, a high-resolution UV spectro-polarimeter being contributed by Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES). This paper provides an overview of the LUVIOR science objectives, design drivers, and mission concepts