Associations Between Mindfulness Meditation, Health Status, and Activity Limitation Among United States Armed Forces

A ready military force is essential for the safekeeping of the United States and the well-being of United States Armed Forces personnel. Today, healthcare professionals report disproportionately high rates of chronic disease and substance abuse among United States Armed Forces personnel and disabling mental health disorders that often go untreated. This quantitative research aimed to determine if there was a relationship between United States Armed Forces personnel using mindfulness meditation and their health status. The study used Bandura\u27s social cognitive theory as its framework and theoretical foundation. Also, a quantitative experimental research design examined the causal relationships between the predictor, outcome, and control variables. The study utilized the 2017-2021 census and survey data from the IPUMS Health Surveys: NHIS and MEPS database and SPSS (version 28) to analyze data on the military population and their health status. The study employed ordinal logistic regression, Chi-square test, and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) as statistical analyses. The research questions and corresponding hypotheses were formulated to examine the associations between the variables of interest. The study found using mindfulness meditation in military settings was associated with reduced risks of chronic pain, stress, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder resulting from combat exposure among military members. Mindfulness meditation was linked to decreased activity limitation and shorter duration of depression, anxiety, and emotional problems in military personnel. Administrators may use findings for positive social change to better serve military members

Comparative Assessment of Critical Goals and Competencies Related to Teacher Preparation

90 leaves. Advisor: Dr. Richard BrooksPurpose. The purpose of the study was to determine the extent to which the relative importance of specific goals and objectives held for teacher preparation programs vary between master teachers, university teacher education department chairmen, and consortium representatives. Procedures. Comparisons of the rankings of goals and objectives held for teacher preparation programs were made between master teachers and teacher education department chairmen, between master teachers and consortium representatives, and between teacher education department chairmen and consortium representatives by using Spearman-Rho rank-order correlational techniques to determine the strength of the relationship between the respective groups. Findings. There is a significant negative relationship between the perceptions of master teachers and education department chairmen concerning the relative importance of specific goals and objectives held for teacher preparation programs. There is a significant negative relationship between the perceptions of education department chairmen and consortium representatives. There is a significant positive relationship between the perceptions of master teachers and consortium representatives. Conclusions. There is similarity in the relative importance assigned specific goals and objectives of teacher education programs by master teachers and consortium representatives. There is no identifiable relationship between teacher education department chairmen and consortium representatives. There is disagreement in the direction of importance of goals and objectives for teacher education programs between master teachers and university teacher education department chairmen. Recommendations. Colleges and universities should seek the advice and council of classroom teachers' representatives in order to determine those things that teachers view as being particularly important to their effectiveness. The U.S. Office of Education, along with state and local accreditation agencies, should address themselves to reviewing instructional needs of the classroom teacher as perceived by the classroom teacher. Similar research can be conducted examining factors such as age, sex, experience, training, etc. of respondents to determine if such demographic data relates to perceptions held as goals and objectives for programs

Deletion of the autoregulatory insert modulates intraprotein electron transfer in rat neuronal nitric oxide synthase

AbstractComparative CO photolysis kinetics studies on wild-type and autoregulatory (AR) insert-deletion mutant of rat nNOS holoenzyme were conducted to directly investigate the role of the unique AR insert in the catalytically significant FMN–heme intraprotein electron transfer (IET). Although the amplitude of the IET kinetic traces was decreased two- to three-fold, the AR deletion did not change the rate constant for the calmodulin-controlled IET. This suggests that the rate-limiting conversion of the electron-accepting state to a new electron-donating (output) state does not involve interactions with the AR insert, but that AR may stabilize the output state once it is formed

The Vehicle, Spring 1972

Vol. 14, No. 3 Table of Contents HarvestAnne Bradypage 3 poemJann Briesacherpage 5 Monday MorningJohn Harthpage 6 cartoon montageV. Gene Myerspage 8 From Winter to Spring is 3 Years LongCathie Kayserpage 10 FascinationBettie Jane Williamspage 12 The Arithmetic ProblemJanice Forbuspage 12 The Three A.M. Summer Nightpage 13 AccidentMaude Dailypage 13 The DisciplinarianGeorge J. Bueningpage 14 Photography Credits Jim Diaspage 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14 CoverV. Gene Myershttps://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1027/thumbnail.jp

Young girls embodied experiences of femininity and social class

Based on research with middle-upper class 12-13 year old school girls, we discuss how femininities were embodied and discursively reconstructed in class-based ways. The data suggests the girls understood class antagonisms within the boundaries of neoliberal discourses of responsibilisation, self-discipline, self-worth, and ‘proper’ conduct and choices. With class stripped of any structural or structuring properties, instead imparted to the fleshy sinews of the (excessive) body, the data reveals how social class was made visible and manifest in various mechanisms of, and meanings about, inclusion, exclusion, pathology and ‘normalisation.’ Thus, in explicating the ways in which the school girls embodied middle-class femininity (as the epitome of localised and everyday neoliberalism) we highlight how, in turn, ‘others’ (‘chavs’) were pathologised and deemed in need of regulation, management and governance

Case of seasonal reassortant a(H1N2) influenza virus infection, the Netherlands, March 2018

A seasonal reassortant A(H1N2) influenza virus harbouring genome segments from seasonal influenza viruses A(H1N1)pdm09 (HA and NS) and A(H3N2) (PB2, PB1, PA, NP, NA and M) was identified in March 2018 in a 19-months-old patient with influenza-like illness (ILI) who presented to a general practitioner participating in the routine sentinel surveillance of ILI in the Netherlands. The patient recovered fully. Further epidemiological and virological investigation did not reveal additional cases

Role of CD8+ T cells in endogenous interleukin-10 secretion associated with visceral leishmaniasis

This study examined the role and source of endogenous interleukin-10 (IL) secretion in visceral leishmaniasis (VL). The amounts of endogenous and Leishmania specific IL-10 and interferon-g (IFN) secreted by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from VL patients were compared. The correlation coefficient between endogenous IL-10 secretion and Leishmania specific IFN-g was -0.77, suggesting a major role for endogenous IL-10 secretion in VL. The effects of CD4+ and CD8+ T cell clones, isolated from a treated VL patient, on IL-10 secretion were assayed by mixing the clones with autologous, inactivated PBMC. The CD8+ clones mediated increased levels of IL-10 secretion in the presence of PBMC alone suggesting that CD8+ T cells may mediate endogenous IL-10 secretion

Immunotherapy for visceral leishmaniasis: Ability of factors produced during anti-leishmania responses of skin test positive adults to inhibit peripheral blood mononuclear cell activities associated with visceral leishmaniasis

The course of human Leishmania chagasi infections appears to be determined by the balance between type 1 (T1) CD4+ and CD8+ T suppressor (Ts) cell activities. Skin test positive adults living in hyperendemic areas who have no history of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) have T1 CD4+ T cell immunodominant responses against L. chagasi. The cytokines they secrete during anti-leishmania responses are a probable source of cytokines which inhibit the CD8+ Ts cells associated with VL. The ability of supernatants generated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells derived from skin test positive adults to reverse immune responses which appear to be mediated by CD8+ Ts cells was assessed in three sets of screening assays. The supernatants displayed three candidate factors. One, which could be explained by Leishmania antigens in the supernatant, decreased high endogenous IL-10 secretion characteristic of one class of VL patients. A second activity decreased high endogenous proliferation characteristic of the same class of patients without decreasing antigen specific proliferation. The third activity inhibited or killed CD8+ T cells but not CD4+ T cells. These activities might be useful in treating VL

Charles B. Moore Family papers, 1832-1917

Letter from Bettie J. Moore to Charles B. Moore and Sabina Rucker discussing men they know who have recently joined volunteer units for the war