December 2016 Newsletter

Letter from the Executive Director -- Distinguished Lectures & Conferences -- Research & Publications -- Faculty & Student News.Newsletter of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law & Business, an interdisciplinary joint venture of the UT School of Law & the McCombs School of Business.The Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law, and Busines

Using a smartphone app to identify signs of pre-eclampsia and/or worsening blood pressure

Background Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy complicate 10% of pregnancies and can have serious consequences. Aims To explore the experiences of pregnant women with a history of hypertension using an innovative home blood pressure monitoring device. Methods A qualitative study using a grounded theory approach was undertaken. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. Women were given a blood pressure machine to monitor their blood pressure daily. They inserted their blood pressure results on a smartphone app and answered questions for signs of pre-eclampsia. Participants were followed up every 2 weeks. Findings The results suggested that women wanted a holistic care pathway for the management of hypertension in pregnancy. Three subcategories (‘empowerment’, ‘comparison of care pathways’ and ‘continuity of care’) were also identified. Conclusions The traditional management of hypertension in pregnancy is not holistic. The home blood pressure service was accepted by women and incorporated elements of holistic care but more is required to meet the standard of care that women need

'dis ɔhord' : one woman’s experience of confronting and understanding the lived experience of birth.

This paper is a collaborative piece written by a midwifery academic and an artist. It presents and interprets a number of mixed media art works created by Caroline Calonder in response to the traumatic birth of her son, and utilises findings derived from Lesley Kay’s doctoral study about birth and birth stories as a means of contextualising, understanding and interpreting the work (Kay et al 2017). In sharing elements of Caroline’s experience, the psychological harm it caused her, and the means she used (and continues to use) to understand, and come to terms with the experience, the paper highlights some of the distressing and harmful sequelae which can arise when a woman’s disembodied experience of birth is accepted as normal and mainstream. Furthermore, it emphasises the need for health care professionals to actively work towards safeguarding women’s emotional health, and the value of art as a means of confronting and recovering from birth trauma

Testing the Space-Time Structure of Event Generators

We report on work done in collaboration with Klaus Kinder-Geiger and John Ellis which aims at connecting the space-time structure of event generator simulations with observable output.Comment: 16 pages LaTeX, including 5 postscript figures. To appear in the Proceedings of ``RHIC Physics and Beyond - Kay Kay Gee Day'' (Brookhaven National Laboratory, 23 Oct 1998), ed. by B. Muller and R.D. Pisarski, AIP Conference Proceeding

Electricity Markets $64,000 Question

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Weathering the Price Storm: The Importance of Reducing Oil and Gas Production Costs in Texas

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MMMMM! It Smells Like Fall

Non-fiction by Kay Moor

House Bills 3620 and 3621, by Representative Isaac, Erode Water Quality and Open Space Protections in the Hill Country

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An Unlikely Partnership: Bringing Together Agricultural Producers and Energy Developers to Solve the Nation’s Looming Water Crisis

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