Factors Associated With Family Violence By Persons With Serious Mental Illness: A National Online Survey

Background & Significance: Despite estimates that persons with serious mental illness (SMI) are between 2 and 8 times more likely to commit acts of violence than are members of the general population and that approximately 50% of all acts of violence by persons with SMI are against family members, the subject of family violence by persons with SMI has received little research attention. Hypothesis: After reviewing the literatures on community and family violence by persons with SMI, it was hypothesized that family violence by this population is associated with factors in four domains: 1) Perpetrator, 2) Victim, 3) Interaction, and 4) Community. Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was used. Between December 29, 2015 and April 1, 2017, 523 persons with SMI living in the U.S. completed an online survey. Respondents were recruited from a range of mental health organizations across the U.S. Respondents provided information regarding themselves, a reference relative, and the interactions they and reference relatives had with each other in the past 6 months, including possible acts of violence. The association of factors with the occurrence of violence by persons with SMI towards reference relatives was estimated with multivariate logistic regression. Results: Twelve percent (n = 13) of persons with SMI reported having committed violence towards their reference relative in the past 6 months. In the final multivariate logistic regression model, the following factors were significantly associated with violence by persons with SMI towards reference: Perpetrator—history of ever committing serious violence; Victim—age; Interaction— use of limit-setting practices by relatives, psychological abuse by persons with SMI and relatives, and violence by relatives. Conclusions: Mutual violence appears to play a considerable role in family violence by this population. Practitioners may better serve clients with SMI by offering to involve family members in their treatment and by assessing and intervening in family conflict. Interventions aimed at decreasing psychological abuse may help deescalate conflict and prevent physical violence. Interventions intended to decrease or modify limit-setting practices used by relatives towards persons with SMI may decrease the risk of family violence by this population

The Surveyor 5, 6, and 7 Flight Paths and Their Determination from Tracking Data

Surveyor 5, 6, and 7 flight paths and tracking data for space station location

The Surveyor 3 and Surveyor 4 flight paths and their determination from tracking data

Surveyor 3 and 4 spacecraft flight path

'Not On Our Street': New Urban Spaces of Interracial Intimacy in 1950s and 1960s New Zealand

In the latter part of 1960, Mrs Fitchett, from the suburb of Henderson in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, complained to the Department of Maori Affairs (DMA) about a Maori family in her neighbourhood. She stated that she disliked the behaviour of the children when playing with rugby balls in the street and she alluded to other nuisances. The Department's district welfare officer personally investigated her complaint

Transduction of E2F-1 TAT fusion proteins represses expression of hTERT in primary ductal breast carcinoma cell lines

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Telomerase expression is detectable in 81–95% of breast carcinomas and may serve as a therapeutic target. The objective of this study was to investigate repression of telomerase activity in primary ductal breast cancer cells through transcriptional regulation of the catalytic subunit hTERT. We hypothesized that inhibition of telomerase expression could be achieved via Tat mediated protein transduction of the repressor protein E2F-1.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Protein purification techniques were refined to yield biologically active Tat fusion proteins (TFPs) capable of transducing the breast cancer cell lines HCC1937 and HCC1599. Cell lines were treated with wildtype E2F-1 (E2F-1/TatHA), mutant E2F-1 (E132/TatHA) and a control Tat peptide (TatHA) for 24 hours. Total RNA was isolated from treated cells, reverse transcribed and fold changes in gene expression for hTERT determined via real-time RT-qPCR.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Significant repression of the catalytic subunit of telomerase (hTERT) was present in both HCC1937 and HCC1599 cells following treatment with E2F-1/TatHA. In HCC1937 cells, hTERT was repressed 3.5-fold by E2F-1/TatHA in comparison to E132/TatHA (p < 0.0012) and the TatHA peptide controls (p < 0.0024). In HCC1599 cells, hTERT was also repressed with E2F-1/TatHA treatment by 4.0-fold when compared to the E132/TatHA control (p < 0.0001). A slightly lower hTERT repression of 3.3-fold was observed with E2F-1/TatHA in the HCC1599 cells when compared to the TatHA control (p < 0.0001).</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>These results suggest that transduction of E2F-1/TatHA fusion proteins in vitro is an effective repressor of hTERT expression in the primary ductal breast cancer cell lines HCC1937 and HCC1599.</p

Learn, Apply, Share: Combining Student Learning and Community Engagement

This paper describes how an upper division Family Life Education course was redesigned using the personal teaching philosophy of Learn, Apply, Share. This philosophy provides the framework for meaningful learning to occur at three levels. The Learn portion of the philosophy focuses on an experiential learning project based on andragogy principles that prepare students enrolled in the course to be family life educators. The Apply portion describes how student research assistants have used their research experiences to prepare them for professional positions in academia or other helping professions. This paper concludes by describing how students and the research assistants Share and evaluate what they have learned by offering a marriage enrichment workshop to couples from the community who are seeking to improve or strengthen their own relationship

Las palmeras salvajes en traducción de Jorge Luis Borges: crítica y evaluación

En 1940, el escritor argentino Jorge Luis Borges publicó su traducción de la novela de William Faulkner The Wild Palms, bajo el título de Las palmeras salvajes. Hasta la fecha, esta es la única traducción al español de dicha novela. De acuerdo con varios críticos literarios, la traducción de Borges hizo posible que un gran número de aspirantes a escritores en lengua española conocieran a Faulkner y su obra de esta manera. Lo que es más, algunos hasta han llegado a decir que la traducción de Borges permitió que muchos escritores latinoamericanos comenzaran a escribir de manera simila

Predicting Math Success in an Online Tutoring System Using Language Data and Click-Stream Variables: A Longitudinal Analysis

Previous studies have demonstrated strong links between students\u27 linguistic knowledge, their affective language patterns and their success in math. Other studies have shown that demographic and click-stream variables in online learning environments are important predictors of math success. This study builds on this research in two ways. First, it combines linguistics and click-stream variables along with demographic information to increase prediction rates for math success. Second, it examines how random variance, as found in repeated participant data, can explain math success beyond linguistic, demographic, and click-stream variables. The findings indicate that linguistic, demographic, and click-stream factors explained about 14% of the variance in math scores. These variables mixed with random factors explained about 44% of the variance