Using Appreciative Inquiry to Identify Strengths in Refugee and Immigrant Families: Implication for Family and Community Assessment

Houston is a diverse and international city. According to the U.S. Census (2000) the racial makeup of the city was 49.3% Caucasian, 25.3% African American, 5.3% Asian, Native American 5.3%, 16.5 % other and 37% Hispanic. In an effort to improve upon existing strengths within the refugee and immigrant families living in Houston communities the Office of International Communities along with the Mayor’s advisory Committee of Immigrant and refugee affairs (Advisory Committee Office of International Communities) tasked an engagement working group to explore the aspirations of the families utilizing an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) methodology with the goal of informing service providers and city policy. Appreciative inquiry is a methodology that focuses on strengths based research

Edward Albee: 02-04-1981

Edward Albee was an American playwright, best known for plays such as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, and Seascape. The interview begins with a discussion about creative art and its usefulness in sending messages to an audience. Albee then discusses the different types of theater and how they appeal to different audiences. He continues by talking about the plays he has adapted from books, the criticism he’s received for those adaptions, and a general discussion of why his critics critique him so harshly. The interview concludes with a discourse on film as a medium, the future of playwriting, and a discussion about Albee’s own plays and his writing process.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/writers_videos/1014/thumbnail.jp

Clinical evaluation of the Life Support for Trauma and Transport (LSTAT) platform

INTRODUCTION: The Life Support for Trauma and Transport (LSTAT™) is a self-contained, stretcher-based miniature intensive care unit designed by the United States Army to provide care for critically injured patients during transport and in remote settings where resources are limited. The LSTAT contains conventional medical equipment that has been integrated into one platform and reduced in size to fit within the dimensional envelope of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) stretcher. This study evaluated the clinical utility of the LSTAT in simulated and real clinical environments. Our hypothesis was that the LSTAT would be equivalent to conventional equipment in detecting and treating life-threatening problems. METHODS: Thirty-one anesthesiologists and recovery room nurses compared the LSTAT with conventional monitors while managing four simulated critical events. The time required to reach a diagnosis and treatment was recorded for each simulation. Subsequently, 10 consenting adult patients were placed on the LSTAT after surgery for postoperative care in the recovery room. Questionnaires about aspects of LSTAT functionality were completed by nine nurses who cared for the patients placed on the LSTAT. RESULTS: In all of the simulations, there was no clinically significant difference in the time to diagnosis or treatment between the LSTAT and conventional equipment. All clinicians reported that they were able to manage the simulated patients properly with the LSTAT. Nursing staff reported that the LSTAT provided adequate equipment to care for the patients monitored during recovery from surgery and were able to detect critical changes in vital signs in a timely manner. DISCUSSION: Preliminary evaluation of the LSTAT in simulated and postoperative environments demonstrated that the LSTAT provided appropriate equipment to detect and manage critical events in patient care. Further work in assessing LSTAT functionality in a higher-acuity environment is warranted

Viscosimétrie sous hautes pressions

Dans cet article sont exposées les principales méthodes de mesure de viscosité utilisées sous hautes pressions hydrostatiques. Les principes et les appareils sont décrits, ainsi que les principaux résultats (pressions et températures atteintes)

Passages de courant utilisés jusqu'à des pressions de 4000 kg/cm 2

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Modélisation 3D de l'interface socle varisque-couverture alpine dans le Massif du Pelvoux (Hautes Alpes, France)- Tectonique des socles et bassins à la limite secondaire-tertiaire.

The Pelvoux massif (External Crystalline Massif, western Alps) belongs to the palaeopassive margin of the Tethys. It is a relevant area for the study of superimposed structures: evidences of the Tethyan rifting and the Alpine shortening can be observed. The Aiguille de Morges, Puy des Pourroys and Vallon massifs are pinches of mesozoic cover sediments on the crystalline basement. The basement - cover contact is, therefore, clearly visible in these massifs. This contact can be used as a marker of the finite deformation at an orogenie scale. Two stages of deformation have been recognized in the alpine cycle by geometric and kinematic studies. A first NE-SW shortening stage is followed by a E-W shortening deformation. By comparison with neighbouring areas led to propose that the first stage Dl is of late Cretaceous - early Eocene age, related to the "pyreneo-provencal" event. The D2 stage is late Oligocene. The characterization of these two episodes gives additional constraints on the geodynamic models. The crystalline basement was reactivated along pre-existing faults and developped kilometric-scale folds in respons to the Dl shortening whereas the mesozoic sediments were folded at all scales. This mechanical division is partly related to the distribution of fluids: these were diffuse in the sediments cover, but concentrated along big mylonitics fauIts of the basement, along wich the deformation concentrated. This deformation is contemporaneous with temperature conditions about 300 to 400 °C, and pressions ranging from 2 to 4 kbars, according to the mineralogic association of chlorite - muscovite - albite - pumpellyite on the SI plane in the basement. The Dl shortening is mainly responaible for the actual structure of the Morges massif. This hypothesis about the 3D geometry of the Morges massif is illustrated by a 3D surfacic model which was built using STRIM software. The model was restored using a 3D surfacic unfolding method (Unfold). The results of unfolding are in agreement with the main NE-SW compression Dl. This study shows that in the South-Pelvoux, the cover - basement contact becomes subvertical at depth. This geometry is consistent with that inferred from the ECORS seismic profile in the extemal part of the AlpsLe massif du Pelvoux (MCE, Alpes occidentales) fait partie de la paléo-marge passive téthysienne. C'est un site privilégié d'étude de structures superposées. On y trouve trace d'événements extensifs téthysiens, puis compressifs alpins. Les massifs de Morges, des Pourroys et du Vallon sont des pincées de couverture mésozoïque dans le socle cristallin. Ils permettent une étude des relations entre le socle et sa couverture. Cet interface est un marqueur de la déformation finie à l'échelle orogénique. Géométrie et cinématique montrent l'existence de deux phases de déformation dans l'histoire alpine. Un calage dans le temps est proposé par comparaison avec les régions environnantes: la phase DI serait du Crétacé supérieur - Eocène inférieur (pyrénéo-provencale). La D2 est au plus vieux oligocène supérieur. Elle s'intègre au modèle géodynamique par rotation-expulsion si l'on abaisse la pointe de l'indenteur d'environ 10 km vers le Sud. Le socle accommode le raccourcissement DI vers le SW par des plis kilométriques, alors que la couverture développe des plis PI de toute échelle. Ce découplage mécanique est en partie contrôlé par la distribution des fluides. ils sont diffus dans la couverture, mais chenalisés dans le socle dans les grands accidents mylonitiques. La déformation est alors concentrée le long de ces zones de faiblesse. Cette tectonique est contemporaine de conditions de température de 300 à 400°C et de profondeur de 5 à 12 km. Le raccourcissement Dl structure le massif. Cette hypothèse sur la géométrie 3D du massif de Morges a été illustrée par un modèle surfacique construit avec le modeleur STRIM. Il a été ensuite exploité pour un dépliage. Une autre méthode de reconstruction des surfaces a fourni des résultats corroborant ceux obtenus avec STRIM. Un apport de cette étude est de montrer dans le Sud-Pelvoux une absence de cisaillement plat au profit d'accidents verticaux. Cette géométrie s'intègre à celle déduite du profIl sismique ECORS pour la zone externe des Alpes

Examining the Lionfish Invasion: How Growth and Recruitment Relates to Connectivity and Controls

The global nature of travel and trade has increased the potential for the spread of invasive species around the world. These invasive alien species (IAS) have the potential to negatively influence the ecosystems they invade by preying upon, infecting or out-competing native species or altering their new habitat. The invasion of two Indo-Pacific lionfishes, Pterois volitans and Pterois miles, is having far reaching impacts on reef fish biodiversity and abundance throughout the Tropical Western Atlantic Ocean. The body of lionfish research from their native range is composed of studies related to their biology or behaviors in aquarium settings. These deficiencies have left researchers with knowledge gaps related to why lionfish spread so rapidly and the best methods to control lionfish abundance in the diverse habitats they occupy. Analysis of juvenile otolith birthdates verified that lionfish successfully spawn throughout the calendar year. This information was coupled with known early life history traits of lionfish to simulate dispersal of “lionfish” particles in the Caribbean. This dispersal identified Florida, the Bahamas and Cuba as major sinks for lionfish larvae throughout the region, and Jamaica as an important link between the Greater Antilles and southern portions of the Caribbean. Additionally, lionfish reproductive strategy facilitated their spread across a known geographic barrier between Florida and the Caribbean that creates a genetic break between native reef fishes. Highly connected dispersal pathways, continuous spawning of lionfish, and the lack of natural predators help to make lionfish more successful in the invaded range, and prompt the development of management plans to counteract this growth. Lionfish are present in a host of diverse habitats, but monitoring and culling is restricted to shallow, diveable waters. A two-year observer study in the deeper water spiny lobster trap fishery (\u3e20 m) was used to investigate the distribution of lionfish in an understudied environment. Lionfish have become a major component of the fishery’s bycatch, and the trap fishery provides an additional mechanism for lionfish removals. This method can eliminate a larger number of individuals than the traditional methods used in shallower water culling derbies. The lack of lionfish caught in the shallower fishing areas precipitated a series of tank experiments to investigate the preference for benthic structures found in the different depth regimes within the fishery. Lionfish spent more time associating with coralline habitat structures than any other, but they were displaced from this habitat in the presence of lobster. The exclusionary behaviors of lobster indicate their potential to alter lionfish habitat choices. These insights provide marine managers with information to understand invasive species ecological dynamics, to better manage for future invasions, and to mitigate the impacts of lionfishes

Beating sea and changeless bar,

"Wave and spar."--"Once in some memorable before."--"On some fortunate yet thrice blasted shore."--"So hesitate and turn and cling, - yet go."Mode of access: Internet

A review of shark satellite tagging studies

Recent advances in satellite tagging technologies have provided scientists growing opportunities to resolve previously unknown spatial ecology of marine predators, including sharks. Such an understanding is particularly important at this time given recent declines in shark populations worldwide. Here we reviewed 48 studies published in the primary literature between 1984 and 2010, addressing the most basic questions regarding the use of satellite tagging for studying shark behavior and ecology. For each study, the following aspects were analyzed: tagging location; species tagged; study focus; technology employed; sample size; tag attachment and deployment technique; duration of tracking; tag failure rate; and study limitation. The potential impacts of tagging on shark behavior and physiology are considered. Finally, we discuss how satellite tagging has furthered our current knowledge of shark behavior and consider the possibility of new tag developments that can improve our ability to resolve the mechanisms underlying shark habitat use. ► In this article we review 48 studies that used satellite-tags to study sharks. ► We summarize aspects from each study to examine trends and identify knowledge gaps. ► Negative impacts of tagging on shark behavior and physiology are considered. ► Advances in tagging technology and its usage for conservation are discussed. ► Future tag developments are considered to determine mechanism underlying shark behavior