Anxiety in Individuals Affected by Long QT Syndrome as Experienced by Members of an Online User Group

Long QT Syndrome (LQTS) is a cardiac condition that affects approximately 1 in 2,500 persons. This condition has been vastly understudied with regard to psychosocial aspects. LQTS patients have the potential for experiencing life threatening cardiac events and prevention requires significant lifestyle modifications. Although there has not been a significant amount of research on this specific syndrome, other research on chronic illnesses suggests that many individuals experience significant psychosocial aspects after diagnosis. This study specifically examined anxiety within the LQTS population through a qualitative research design. An archived database from a LQTS user group involving approximately 780 members was used to ascertain anxiety related themes. Results of the research provided two distinct periods in which participants expressed anxiety related to the diagnosis. These results are discussed within a cognitive behavioral context to elaborate upon identified themes within this population, including ways in which these responses could become maladaptive. Although the primary goal of this research was to identify specific themes related to anxiety, it also serves as a stepping-stone for future research within the LQTS population

Not in My Backyard: Zoning, Smut, Citizen Participation, and Social Control

In the 1970s, cities began to regulate adult businesses through zoning and land-use regulation instead of obscenity-based regulations to great efficacy. These governmental efforts were supported by ordinary citizens using arguments about property value to keep adult businesses ‘out of their backyards.’ Today, former ‘smut districts’ in Detroit, Boston, and New York City are often the sight of high-value real estate and look very different from their seedy pasts. By using zoning and top-down planning tools like urban renewal to deal with adult businesses, cities succeeded in dispersing their porn districts. The regulations came at a cost, pushing out spaces that acted as sites for interaction across class and racial boundaries; areas with affordable shopping, dining, entertainment, and living options; and places where members of the LGBTQ community could be ‘out’ in public. When these areas are replaced with tourist traps and high-value real estate ventures, little thought is given to the social costs of losing these spaces. As planners making decisions about what land uses are valuable and which are ‘nuisances,’ it is important to understand that we may not know the true value of a controversial space until it is gone.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154836/1/Lockman_NotinmyBackyard.pd

Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia

A New View into Confederate Veteran Families In 1895, Confederate veteran W.H. Power submitted a pension application to the Commonwealth of Virginia. “There are many things I can’t do now, he explained. Wartime wounds to his right arm and leg had rendered him lame and prevented him fro...

Evaluation of a fall stocking of adult and intermediate largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) into two Ohio River embayments

On October 20, 1998 the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources stocked adult and intermediate size hatchery reared largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) into two Ohio River embayments in an attempt to supplement existing populations. Prior to stocking each fish was fitted with an anchor tag and a visible implant elastomer mark to help ensure recognition as a hatchery-origin fish. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of this stocking event for enhancing largemouth bass populations and improving angling opportunities in Ohio River embayment areas. A multifaceted sampling approach was incorporated to: (1) evaluate the persistence and return of stocked bass to anglers\u27 creel relative to that of wild largemouth bass, (2) estimate fidelity of stocked largemouth bass to embayment release sites, and (3) compare return rates and cost effectiveness of the two size classes used for stocking.;Data suggest that fall stocking of largemouth bass into Ohio River embayments in this manner only provided limited, short-term benefit to the Ohio River largemouth bass fishery. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters

Another Look at Robert E. Lee In her latest biography, Elizabeth Brown Pryor invites us to read the man, that is, to understand Robert E. Lee through his own words. In his private writings, argues Pryor, Lee revealed himself to be a far more complex and contradictory man than the one who c...

GR-196 - Automatically Improve Writing for Research Papers Using Transformer Based Deep Learning

Research papers are generally required to be written in English. It is quite a challenge for non-English speaking researchers to write high quality research papers. Our research focuses on designing, implementing and experimenting with novel transformer based deep learning strategies that can automatically improve the quality of writing for research papers in different domains