85 research outputs found
Jelly Beans for Mental Health.
Abstract Not Available.Dept. of English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1995 .S92. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 34-06, page: 2170. Adviser: Eugene McNamara. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1995
Role of Social Support and Ego Network Characteristics on Quality of Life: Implications for Persons Involved with Mental Health Courts
Mental health courts offer alternatives to incarceration for persons with severe mental illness who are involved in the criminal justice system. These courts have the dual function of ensuring treatment for persons involved in the court as well as ensuring the safety of the public. Persons with severe mental illness who are involved in mental health courts rely on others for support, such as family members. Others may buttress the participant from engaging in criminal activities and provide for needs of the participant. The supportiveness as well as the composition of one’s network members may play a role in the success of mental health court participants, such as successfully completing the mental health court program and avoiding incarceration. Little research has explored how social support impacts mental health court participants. We explored how the composition and sense of support of network members were associated with mental health court participants’ quality of life. We regressed quality of life on social support and network characteristics of 80 participants in two mental health courts. Findings suggest that perceived support is positively associated with quality of life, and the proportion of family in one’s network was negatively related to quality of life. Findings suggest that persons involved in mental health courts need supportive others in their social networks in addition to family. More research is needed to explore the reasons having a higher proportion of family members in one’s network is associated with lower quality of life. Practitioners need to pay attention to and leverage mental health court participants’ social networks to help improve their quality of life
Exploring the Energetics of Intracluster Gas with a Simple and Accurate Model
The state of the hot gas in clusters of galaxies is investigated with a set
of model clusters, created by assuming a polytropic equation of state
(Gamma=1.2) and hydrostatic equilibrium inside gravitational potential wells
drawn from a dark matter simulation. Star formation, energy input, and
nonthermal pressure support are included. To match the gas fractions seen in
non-radiative hydrodynamical simulations, roughly 5% of the binding energy of
the dark matter must be transferred to the gas during cluster formation; the
presence of nonthermal pressure support increases this value. In order to match
X-ray observations, scale-free behavior must be broken. This can be due to
either variation of the efficiency of star formation with cluster mass M_500,
or the input of additional energy proportional to the formed stellar mass M_F.
These two processes have similar effects on X-ray scalings. If 9% of the gas is
converted into stars, independent of cluster mass, then feedback energy input
of 1.2e-5*M_Fc^2 (or ~1.0 keV per particle) is required to match observed
clusters. Alternatively, if the stellar mass fraction varies as M_500^-0.26
then a lower feedback of 4e-6*M_Fc^2 is needed, and if the stellar fraction
varies as steeply as M_500^-0.49 then no additional feedback is necessary. The
model clusters reproduce the observed trends of gas temperature and gas mass
fraction with cluster mass, as well as observed entropy and pressure profiles;
thus they provide a calibrated basis with which to interpret upcoming SZ
surveys. One consequence of the increased gas energy is that the baryon
fraction inside the virial radius is less than roughly 90% of the cosmic mean,
even for the most massive clusters.Comment: Accepted by ApJ; 28 pages, 12 figure
Volume 12
Introduction, Dr. Roger A. Byrne, Dean
From the Editor, Dr. Larissa Kat Tracy
From the Designers, Rachel English, Rachel Hanson
Immortality in the Mortal World: Otherworldly Intervention in Lanval and The Wife of Bath\u27s Tale by Haleigh James
Analysis of Phenolic Compounds in Moroccan Olive Oils by HPLC by Hannah Meyls
Art by Hope Irvin
The Effects of Cell Phone Use on Gameplay Enjoyment and Frustration by Megan E. Hlavaty, Samara L. Gall, and Austin J. Funk
Care, No Matter What: Planned Parenthood\u27s Use of Organizational Rhetoric to Expand its Reputation by Karyn Keane
Analysis of Petroleum Products for Forensic and Environmental Applications by Sarah Ghali, Antonio Harvey, and Katelynn McCrillis
Art by Andrew Jones
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire by Rachel Hazelwood
Art by Madison Schmitz
Ercilla y la imitacion: Araucanos al estilo europeo by Marija Venta
Design by Haley Tebo
Design by Jeremiah Gilmer
White Supremacist\u27s Appropriation of the Persuasion of Passivity in Marvel\u27s Captain America by Bridget Dunn
Design by Benjamin Sullivan
Art by McKenzie Johnso
What Will Happen If We Do Nothing To Control Trachoma: Health Expectancies for Blinding Trachoma in Southern Sudan
Summary measures of population health attempt to express disease burden in terms of a common “currency” and are useful in establishing public health priorities. Disability adjusted life years (DALYs), a health gap measure, have previously been used to estimate burden due to trachoma; however, their methods and results have limitations. This study demonstrates the application of the health expectancies to estimate burden due to trachoma. The study illustrates the future burden associated with doing nothing to control trachoma in Southern Sudan: a substantial proportion of remaining life expectancy spent with trichiasis and low vision or blindness for both men and women, with a disproportionate burden falling on women. The results presented are intuitively meaningful for policy makers and a non-technical audience and compare favourably with other indicators such as mortality and incidence rates or DALYs, which are not generally easily understood. Unless action is taken by further delivery of trachoma control interventions, then populations in Southern Sudan can expect to spend a substantial proportion of their life with low vision or blindness due to trachoma
Dark sectors 2016 Workshop: community report
This report, based on the Dark Sectors workshop at SLAC in April 2016,
summarizes the scientific importance of searches for dark sector dark matter
and forces at masses beneath the weak-scale, the status of this broad
international field, the important milestones motivating future exploration,
and promising experimental opportunities to reach these milestones over the
next 5-10 years
Direct Puncture of the Superficial Temporal Artery in Embolization of a Scalp Arteriovenous Fistula: A Case Report
We describe a minimally invasive endovascular approach to treat an arteriovenous fistula of the scalp. We performed a direct puncture of the lesion through the patient’s scalp for liquid embolic agent injection along with external compression of the superficial temporal artery to perform a “manual pressure-cooker technique.” The combination of these minimally invasive techniques resulted in an excellent clinical and radiographic outcome
Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans
Large-scale reference data sets of human genetic variation are critical for the medical and functional interpretation of DNA sequence changes. We describe the aggregation and analysis of high-quality exome (protein-coding region) sequence data for 60,706 individuals of diverse ethnicities generated as part of the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC). This catalogue of human genetic diversity contains an average of one variant every eight bases of the exome, and provides direct evidence for the presence of widespread mutational recurrence. We have used this catalogue to calculate objective metrics of pathogenicity for sequence variants, and to identify genes subject to strong selection against various classes of mutation; identifying 3,230 genes with near-complete depletion of truncating variants with 72% having no currently established human disease phenotype. Finally, we demonstrate that these data can be used for the efficient filtering of candidate disease-causing variants, and for the discovery of human “knockout” variants in protein-coding genes
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