Policy and Practice Brief: Conducting Outreach to Transition-Aged Youth; Strategies for Reaching Out to Youth with Disabilities, Their Families, and Agencies that Serve Them

This brief focuses on strategies for assisting Benefits Planning, Assistance and Outreach Programs and Protection and Advocacy Projects in conducting outreach to transition-aged youth. Practical applications are identified and resources are provided to assist projects in reaching this untapped population

Policy and Practice Brief: The Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program; The Changing Landscape of Vocational Rehabilitation for Beneficiaries of Social Security Administration Disability Benefit Programs

This brief provides an indepth overview of the Ticket to Work Program. Discussed are eligibility requirements from both the beneficiary and Employment Network perspective; specific roles and functions; the Ticket to Work process; payment schedules; and dispute resolution strategies

Contourograph display system for monitoring electrocardiograms

Electrocardiogram is displayed as a contourogram on the cathode ray tube of a variable-persistence oscilloscope. Each cycle is stacked below its predecessors giving a three dimensional effect. A major change in the signal is apparent as a change in the contourogram pattern

Apparatus and method for processing Korotkov sounds

A Korotkov sound processor, used in a noninvasive automatic blood measuring system where the brachial artery is occluded by an inflatable cuff, is disclosed. The Korotkoff sound associated with the systolic event is determined when the ratio of the absolute value of a voltage signal, representing Korotkov sounds in the range of 18 to 26 Hz to a maximum absolute peak value of the unfiltered signals, first equals or exceeds a value of 0.45. Korotkov sound associated with the diastolic event is determined when a ratio of the voltage signal of the Korotkov sounds in the range of 40 to 60 Hz to the absolute peak value of such signals within a single measurement cycle first falls below a value of 0.17. The processor signals the occurrence of the systolic and diastolic events and these signals can be used to control a recorder to record pressure values for these events

Graduate Recital: David S. Golden, Jr., Trumpet; Beverly Pauli, Piano; April 29, 1975

Hayden AuditoriumTuesday EveningApril 29, 19758:30 p.m

The Effects of Climate Change on Mental Health

This research was conducted with the help of online Public Health Research Guide developed by Ms. Nedelina Tchangalova, the Physical Sciences & Public Health Librarian and with the support of Dr. Payne-Sturges.This Persuasive Research Essay focuses on the detrimental effects that climate change will have on college student's mental health, specifically here at UMD. College students already experience mental health conditions during their time, however the added environmental impacts caused by climate change such as increasing a person's exposure to extreme weather patterns can increase the prevalence of mental health conditions among college students. This paper addresses environmental health disparities among minority groups and the limitations that many college campuses have, including the Counseling Center at the University of Maryland. This paper proposes a benefit of a freshman environmental group to advocate for climate change awareness and policy change for mental health services. Furthermore, the paper focuses on how to utilize the sustainable precautionary principle in order to destigmatize mental health and increase availability to services and resources. In order to avoid unforeseen and uncontrollable mental health outcomes, this persuasive essay views the environmental crisis through a mental health lens in order to asses the impacts climate change will have on a social, communal, and individual level

Terrestrial impact melts as analogues for the hematization of Martian surface materials

Visible and near-IR reflectivity and Mossbauer data were obtained on powders of hydrothermally-altered impact melt sheets from West Clearwater Lake, Manicouagan, and Ries (Polsingen) impact structures. The data support previous interpretations that Martian bright regions spectra can be interpreted by a ferric-bearing phase that has a relatively featureless absorption edge together with some well-crystalline (bulk) hematite to account for the 860 nm hematite band. The data also show that bands at wavelengths longer than 900 nm, which are characteristic of Martian dark regions, occur when both hematite and pyroxene are present. It thus follows that hematization of Mars can be attributed, at least in part, to hydrothermal alterations of impact melt sheets. Impact heating could also form bulk-Hm from nanophase ferric oxides