Experiences of service user involvement and their influence on identity

Identity can be considered to be socially constructed and developed through narratives about ourselves and our experiences. Having socially valued roles may thus facilitate a positive identity. This study aimed to explore how the experiences of service user involvement (SUI) in health and social care services (specifically, being involved in staff recruitment) influenced the narrative identities of people with learning disabilities. Interviews were conducted with seven people with learning disabilities who had been service user representatives on NHS interview panels. These were analysed using thematic narrative analysis as a framework. All described positive narrative identities, but the degree to which SUI featured in the construction of narrative identities varied. Whilst some found the experience transformative, for others it was not an important part of their narratives. The findings suggest that such experiences formed just one of many narratives that participants drew from to construct their narrative identity

Stripe phases in high-temperature superconductors

Stripe phases are predicted and observed to occur in a class of strongly-correlated materials describable as doped antiferromagnets, of which the copper-oxide superconductors are the most prominent representative. The existence of stripe correlations necessitates the development of new principles for describing charge transport, and especially superconductivity, in these materials.Comment: 5 pp, 1 color eps fig., to appear as a Perspective in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. US

Avoided Critical Behavior in a Uniformly Frustrated System

We study the effects of weak long-ranged antiferromagnetic interactions of strength $Q$ on a spin model with predominant short-ranged ferromagnetic interactions. In three dimensions, this model exhibits an avoided critical point in the sense that the critical temperature $T_c(Q=0)$ is strictly greater than $\lim_{Q\to 0} T_c(Q)$. The behavior of this system at temperatures less than $T_c(Q=0)$ is controlled by the proximity to the avoided critical point. We also quantize the model in a novel way to study the interplay between charge-density wave and superconducting order.Comment: 32 page Latex file, figures available from authors by reques

Valse Lyrique

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Bulletin No. 16: A Guided Tour of the Connecticut Arboretum

Reprinted 1974. Illustrated guide to the woody plant collections and dynamics of plant communities. 32 pp

Alien Registration- Emery, Daisy L. (Holden, Penobscot County)

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Supercritical Water Gasification and Pyrolysis – Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

This research paper is a comparative meta-analysis of gasification of hydrocarbons in supercritical water, specifically concerning the great pacific garbage patch (GPGP). The research explores two ways to clean up the GPGP while also harnessing the waste as biofuel. This research compares the environmental and economic outcomes between supercritical water gasification and pyrolysis. I will be comparing which thermochemical process of converting hydro-pollution into usable, methane-rich gas is most economically beneficial and environmentally sustainable. The relevance of this use of plastic refuse is that it would not just be diverted to a different landfill or back right where it started in the first place, but rather serve a new purpose: A source of energy that will not run out quickly. The application of this to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is that this process can be used to clean up the material and give an economic incentive to do so by harnessing energy from the broken-down materials. (Bai, 2019) This is relevant to the GPGP because the materials are not all solids. The GPGP is not a giant solid object floating through the pacific gyre. The Patch is primarily supercritical water and a mixture of water-soluble/broken-down microplastics floating in the east, west, and the subtropical convergence zone of the Pacific Ocean. This breakdown of chemicals makes a thick gelatinous-like material. Because the material is viscous in nature, it is much easier for fish to get caught in the matrix of the supercritical water, consume the material as if it were food, or simply ingest it into their diet – affecting their offspring and the food we eat. Both of these ways of harnessing the energy from the waste tie back to the main problem of cleaning up the GPGP without causing further harm to the environment and solving a growing issue. (Gilsam, 2021) The benefits of cleaning up the GPGP outweigh the negatives. Human health, migration patterns in marine life, economic opportunity, and sustainable energy consumption are just a few of the many ways that this topic can affect everyone, whether they live in a land-locked state like Nebraska, or they are over 50% of the population of the world that lives by a coast