Exploring Design Options for Modern Streetcar along West 7th Street

Reports completed by students enrolled in ARCH 3250 and LA 3002, taught by James Wheeler and Dr. Kristine Miller in Spring 2019.This project was completed as part of the 2018-2019 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with Ramsey County. The Riverview Corridor is a proposed modern streetcar line along a 12-mile route that will connect the Union Depot in downtown Saint Paul and the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport and the Mall of America, as well as the neighborhoods in between. Concerns have been raised about the streetcar’s impact on on-street parking, disruption to businesses during construction, pedestrian/bike safety, aesthetics, noise, and long-term impacts on the affordability of housing and commercial-retail space along the corridor. Ramsey County project lead Frank Alarcon worked with students in James Wheeler and Kristine Miller’s ARCH 3250/LA 3002: Community Design Studio to examine these and other stakeholder concerns, as well as opportunities made possible by the introduction of modern streetcar along West 7th Street, and identify potential design options or solutions. The student's final report is available.This project was supported by the Resilient Communities Project (RCP), a program at the University of Minnesota whose mission is to connect communities in Minnesota with U of MN faculty and students to advance community resilience through collaborative, course-based projects. RCP is a program of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA). More information at http://www.rcp.umn.edu

Erratum to: 36th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

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How does mindfulness modulate self-regulation in pre-adolescent children? : An integrative neurocognitive review

Pre-adolescence is a key developmental period in which complex intrinsic volitional methods of self-regulation are acquired as a result of rapid maturation within the brain networks underlying the self-regulatory processes of attention control and emotion regulation. Fostering adaptive self-regulation skills during this stage of development has strong implications for physical health, emotional and socio-economic outcomes during adulthood. There is a growing interest in mindfulness-based programmes for pre-adolescents with initial findings suggesting self-regulation improvements, however, neurodevelopmental studies on mindfulness with pre-adolescents are scarce. This analytical review outlines an integrative neuro-developmental approach, which combines self-report and behavioural assessments with event related brain potentials (ERPs) to provide a systemic multilevel understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms of mindfulness in pre-adolescence. We specifically focus on the N2, error related negativity (ERN), error positivity (Pe), P3a, P3b and late positive potential (LPP) ERP components as indexes of mindfulness related modulations in non-volitional bottom-up self-regulatory processes (salience detection, stimulus driven orienting and mind wandering) and volitional top-down self-regulatory processes (endogenous orienting and executive attention)

footprintを用いた児童の足アーチ形成時期の検証

Footprints were obtained from 79 elementary school children aged 7 to 10 years to study about foot arch development period in children. By an analysis of plantar measurements and arch classification on the footprints, results were as follows. 1) The highest rate of foot arch was observed in 7-year-olds with 50% possessing normal- or high-arch type. Incidence of walking with all toes in contact with the ground was lowest in this age group (25%).2) Rate of foot arch was low in 8- and 9-year-olds, and flat feet were present in 25% of both boys and girls. 3) In 10-year-olds, rate of foot arch was high and high arch types were appeared. 4) In 9- and 10-year-olds, a gender difference was observed in number of toes contacting the ground and high arch incidence, with greater prevalence of high arches and floating toes among boys. These findings suggest that 8 to 9 years old is the period in which the foot arch develops and that the development is complete by about 10 years of age. It was also suggested that the foot arch development is greatly affected by active use of the feet such as by playing outdoors and that an adverse effect of floating toes occur by wearing shoes