Hurry and the Willingness to Be Creatures

Kelly Johnson diagnoses our busy scurrying as anxiety about time. But time is not a scarce resource slipping away, she counsels; it is God’s terrible, mysterious patience, in which we meet what is beyond us and come to know ourselves as beloved creatures

A review of the characteristics and treatment progress of 45 pregnant opiate addicts attending the Irish National Drug Advisory and Treatment Centre over a two year period.

The increase in the number of patients presenting to the National Drug Advisory and Treatment Centre addicted to opiates has been accompanied by an increase in the number of pregnant opiate addicts attending for treatment. Studies published in January 1982 referred to the emergence of maternal addiction as a serious problem in Ireland. Since then the escalation of this specific problem has continued and a programme designed to meet the needs of the pregnant addict was initiated at the clinic. This paper reviews the characteristics and treatment progress of 45 opiate addicts who were referred to the clinic over a two year period

What’s A Quail Worth? A Longitudinal Assessment of Quail Hunter Demographics, Attitudes, and Spending Habits In Texas

Funds generated and spent on the pursuit of quail (Colinus virginianus, Callipepla squamata) hunting in Texas are sizable. We surveyed a population of quail hunters in Texas in 2000 and 2011 to assess hunter demographics and spending habits. The population of hunters for the 2000 survey consisted of members of Quail Unlimited who lived in Texas while the 2011 population consisted of the former group’s successor in Texas—Quail Coalition. The initial (2000) survey was a mail questionnaire while the 2011 survey instrument was delivered electronically. We achieved response rates of 47% in 2000 but only 9% in 2011. The number of resident quail hunters in Texas decreased 72% from 1981 to 2010. Quail hunters in Texas can be characterized as white males (97%) and affluent (65% reported annual household incomes above $125,000 in 2010). Survey respondents documented an average expenditure of$8,606 in pursuit of quail during an average of 8.8 days of hunting during the 2010–2011 season. This resulted in a cost of $254 per quail bagged when combined with harvest estimates provided by respondents; an estimated increase of 23% over the last 10 years

Fire finder.

Environmental Writing and Great Lakes LiteratureLater that day, Mark led us to his house in the small town of Pinos Altos. While dinner cooked, we sat outside and stared out at the same forest we had been overlooking just a few hours earlier. Now we could hear the birds singing and the bees buzzing. The pine trees loomed over our heads, and mountains rose up in the distance out of the darkening blue sky. I rocked back and forth in my chair and let my thoughts wander. For the past two years I had been stuck inside myself. I wasn’t happy. I had become dull and inert, and because of that, I had lost my creativity and passion for learning. Reflecting on the trip though, I came to realize that there is so much to be inspired by in nature. I saw the vastness of the forest, which contained animals of all habits and sizes. I saw the sun melt into the sky, blending its colors flawlessly. I felt the rhythm of the pouring rain and heard the beat of the thunder. I realized that I had a choice; I could isolate myself from nature’s marvels, and continue on in the lull that I was in, or I could immerse myself in them, finding joy and wonder in each new discovery.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64856/1/Johnson_Kelly_2009.pd

Relationships Between Injury-Related Fear, Balance Self-Efficacy, and Dynamic Balance Performance in Those With Chronic Ankle Instability

Interactions between sensory-perceptual and motor-behavioral impairments in individuals with chronic ankle instability (CAI) are important for successful assessment and treatment of CAI. One of the most consistently reported motor-behavioral impairments is poor reach performance in a dynamic balance task. Injury-related fear is recognized as an important sensory-perceptual impairment, and those with injury-related fears may engage in protective movement strategies found to be associated with reach deficits. Injury-related fear may also impact one’s perception of ability, or self-efficacy, which has demonstrated positive associations with balance performance in other populations, but these relationships have yet to be investigated in the CAI population. Objective: To examine the relationships between injury-related fear, self-efficacy, and dynamic balance performance in those with CAI. Methods: 33 individuals with CAI (F:18, M:15, 22.8±3.3yrs, 170.2±8.5cm, 78.0±13.6kg) reported their level of injury-related fear via the Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia (TSK-11). The Self-Efficacy of Balance Scale (SEBS) was utilized to capture participants’ level of balance self-efficacy. Dynamic balance performance was assessed on the involved limb with the Star-Excursion Balance Test in the anterior, posteromedial (SEBT-PM), and posterolateral (SEBT-PL) directions and a composite (SEBT-COMP) score was calculated for overall performance. Pearson correlations were used to analyze associations between these outcomes with significance set at P PResults: Significant negative correlations were identified between TSK-11 and SEBS scores (r=-0.34, P=0.050), indicating those with higher levels of kinesiophobia demonstrated lower levels of balance self-efficacy. Significant positive correlations were identified between SEBS scores and SEBT-COMP (r=0.48, P=0.005), SEBT-PM (r=0.42, P=0.016), and SEBT-PL (r=0.48, P=0.005), indicating that individuals who perceived themselves as more confident in their balance ability demonstrated better balance performance. Conclusions: Injury-related fear did not have a direct relationship with dynamic reach performance in individuals with CAI, but may have an indirect relationship with dynamic balance performance by impacting one’s balance self-efficacy.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/gradposters2020_healthsciences/1004/thumbnail.jp

The Rights of Children and Families: Local Initiatives in the Miami Valley

Dayton’s Committee on the Place-Based Two-Generation Approach to Poverty completed a working paper titled “A Call for Community Long-Term Recovery Plan” in January of 2021, arguing for an approach to recovery that is strategic, efficient, equity-focused, and regional. Practitioners and theorists connected to this document will address challenges and opportunities for addressing the rights of children in this area, particularly addressing the ways a regional approach can help to dismantle the legacy of historical injustices as we try to build back better

Partnering with Faith Communities: Challenges of Religious and Secular Literacy

Partnering with Faith Communities: Challenges of Religious and Secular Literacy While many scholars have noted the necessity of a grasp of the complexity of religious belief for engagement in international relations, human rights, and humanitarian work, the topic of religious belief remains fraught and underdeveloped in human rights activism. Concerns include the conviction that religion must be treated as private in order to preserve an inclusive public life; evidence that religious communities may oppose the human rights\u27 groups commitments on LGBTQI and women\u27s rights; and anxieties that various religious groups will exclude or manipulate those who are not members and use their influence to proselytize. On the other hand, some faith communities interested in partnering with human rights activism struggle to express and maintain their own distinctive missions, resisting instrumentalization of their resources. This session will focus on the challenges of promoting religious literacy among international organizations and among partners. What is ‘religious literacy’? How is it related to a need for “secular literacy,” i.e. an understanding of the complexity of secularisms and the assumptions that undergird them, the biases that they entail? To what extent can various faiths and secularisms “translate” their beliefs, and how will faith actors and human rights activists cooperate around those aspects that cannot be translated? Rob Brodrick, one of the authors of the Harvard Religious Literacy Project’s paper, “Local Humanitarian Leadership and Religious Literacy: Engaging with Religion, Faith, and Faith Actors,” will provide an overview of the state of the question. Three responses will be offered, including representation from faith communities interested in collaboration on human rights, human rights activism working to include faith communities, and scholars examining questions of “translation” of faith traditions. Convener: Kelly Johnson Main Presenter: Rob Broderick, Ph.D. Respondents: Anwar Khan (Islamic Relief, USA), Edith Tapia (Hope Border Institute), Leocadie Lushombo (Boston College

Partnering with Faith Communities: Challenges of Religious and Secular Literacy

Partnering with Faith Communities: Challenges of Religious and Secular Literacy While many scholars have noted the necessity of a grasp of the complexity of religious belief for engagement in international relations, human rights, and humanitarian work, the topic of religious belief remains fraught and underdeveloped in human rights activism. Concerns include the conviction that religion must be treated as private in order to preserve an inclusive public life; evidence that religious communities may oppose the human rights\u27 groups commitments on LGBTQI and women\u27s rights; and anxieties that various religious groups will exclude or manipulate those who are not members and use their influence to proselytize. On the other hand, some faith communities interested in partnering with human rights activism struggle to express and maintain their own distinctive missions, resisting instrumentalization of their resources. This session will focus on the challenges of promoting religious literacy among international organizations and among partners. What is ‘religious literacy’? How is it related to a need for “secular literacy,” i.e. an understanding of the complexity of secularisms and the assumptions that undergird them, the biases that they entail? To what extent can various faiths and secularisms “translate” their beliefs, and how will faith actors and human rights activists cooperate around those aspects that cannot be translated? Rob Brodrick, one of the authors of the Harvard Religious Literacy Project’s paper, “Local Humanitarian Leadership and Religious Literacy: Engaging with Religion, Faith, and Faith Actors,” will provide an overview of the state of the question. Three responses will be offered, including representation from faith communities interested in collaboration on human rights, human rights activism working to include faith communities, and scholars examining questions of “translation” of faith traditions. Convener: Kelly Johnson Main Presenter: Rob Broderick, Ph.D. Respondents: Anwar Khan (Islamic Relief, USA), Edith Tapia (Hope Border Institute), Leocadie Lushombo (Boston College

Whole genome sequencing-based mapping and candidate identification of mutations from fixed zebrafish tissue

As forward genetic screens in zebrafish become more common, the number of mutants that cannot be identified by gross morphology or through transgenic approaches, such as many nervous system defects, has also increased. Screening for these difficult-to-visualize phenotypes demands techniques such as whole-mount in situ hybridization (WISH) or antibody staining, which require tissue fixation. To date, fixed tissue has not been amenable for generating libraries for whole genome sequencing (WGS). Here, we describe a method for using genomic DNA from fixed tissue and a bioinformatics suite for WGS-based mapping of zebrafish mutants. We tested our protocol using two known zebrafish mutant alleles, gpr126st49 and egr2bfh227, both of which cause myelin defects. As further proof of concept we mapped a novel mutation, stl64, identified in a zebrafish WISH screen for myelination defects. We linked stl64 to chromosome 1 and identified a candidate nonsense mutation in the F-box and WD repeat domain containing 7 (fbxw7) gene. Importantly, stl64 mutants phenocopy previously described fbxw7vu56 mutants, and knockdown of fbxw7 in wild-type animals produced similar defects, demonstrating that stl64 disrupts fbxw7. Together, these data show that our mapping protocol can map and identify causative lesions in mutant screens that require tissue fixation for phenotypic analysis