The Professional Quality of Life and Resiliency in Mental Health Professionals Working with Suicide in Crisis Care

This study examined the professional quality of life (ProQOL) and resiliency among a sample of 85 active and licensed mental health professionals working in acute/crisis settings in the United States. Within the ProQOL construct exists the constructs of burnout, secondary-traumatic stress, and compassion satisfaction. It was hypothesized that impaired levels of resiliency, higher frequencies of contact (FOC) with clients admitted to care due to suicide, female gender, and fewer years of experience would be associated with increased burnout and secondary traumatic stress scores and decreased compassion satisfaction scores as measured by the Professional Quality of Life Scale Version 5. Multiple regression analyses indicated that FOC was not associated with burnout, secondary-traumatic stress, or compassion satisfaction. Contrary to previous findings, female gender and years of post-masters experience did not predict burnout, secondary traumatic stress, or compassion satisfaction within this sample. However, impaired resiliency level was found to be significantly associated with the onset of burnout, accounting for 27% of the variance. Furthermore, it was found that intact and healthy resiliency scores predicted the onset of compassion satisfaction, accounting for 24% of the variance. The results provided important empirical support of the relationship between resiliency, burnout, and compassion satisfaction. Limitations, strengths, conclusions, and future directions are discussed

Efficiency in the further education sector in England

Further education in England is a diverse sector which typically provides education for the 16 - 19 age group. This study investigates efficiency levels by subject of study within further education (FE) colleges. Mean overall technical efficiency is found to vary from 75% to 86% in the worst- and best-performing subject areas, respectively. Statistical analysis of efficiency reveals that, while student and teacher composition and regional characteristics affect efficiency in each subject, the strength of these effects can vary by subject. This has the clear policy implication that strategies to improve efficiency in English FE must be devised and operated at subject rather than provider level

Paper Session III-D - The Advanced Lift Support Automated Robotic Manipulator (ALSARM) Project

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Biomedical Program Office (JJ-G), Design Engineering Advanced Systems and Analysis Division (DM-ASD), and the University of Central Florida (UCF) Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) are currently working together on the design, fabrication, and implementation of the Advanced Life Support Automated Remote Manipulator (ALSARM). Once completed, the ALSARM robotic arm will be integrated into the Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS) Breadboard Project Biomass Production Chamber (BPC), located at the Life Sciences Support Facility (LSSF) at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The goal of this collaborative effort between NASA and UCF is twofold: first, it provides undergraduate engineering students with the opportunity to gain vital experience in the “real world” of engineering design. Second, it introduces KSC’s next step in the development of a life support system to be used on a future human-tended mission wherein regular resupply from Earth would be impractical if not impossible

Advanced turboprop testbed systems study. Volume 1: Testbed program objectives and priorities, drive system and aircraft design studies, evaluation and recommendations and wind tunnel test plans

The establishment of propfan technology readiness was determined and candidate drive systems for propfan application were identified. Candidate testbed aircraft were investigated for testbed aircraft suitability and four aircraft selected as possible propfan testbed vehicles. An evaluation of the four candidates was performed and the Boeing KC-135A and the Gulfstream American Gulfstream II recommended as the most suitable aircraft for test application. Conceptual designs of the two recommended aircraft were performed and cost and schedule data for the entire testbed program were generated. The program total cost was estimated and a wind tunnel program cost and schedule is generated in support of the testbed program

Hail to the Chief: Former Law Clerks for William Rehnquist Recall What They Learned and How He Touched Their Lives

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died Sept. 3, is remembered for his disarming warmth and humor, breadth of knowledge about the law, and insistence that there is life outside the office. Few knew him better than the legions of clerks who tolled with and learned from him. Indeed, the sheer number who attended his funeral testifies to how highly he was regarded. Here, four former clerks from the decades of the 1970s, \u2780s and \u2790s write about their own particular memories of the late chief justice

Hail to the Chief: Former Law Clerks for William Rehnquist Recall What They Learned and How He Touched Their Lives

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died Sept. 3, is remembered for his disarming warmth and humor, breadth of knowledge about the law, and insistence that there is life outside the office. Few knew him better than the legions of clerks who tolled with and learned from him. Indeed, the sheer number who attended his funeral testifies to how highly he was regarded. Here, four former clerks from the decades of the 1970s, \u2780s and \u2790s write about their own particular memories of the late chief justice

Telehealth by Certified Psychiatric Providers Compared to Emergency Department Healthcare Providers on Psychiatric Patient Outcomes: A Scoping Review

Background: Emergency department visits for mental health disorders have increased over the years due to insufficient mental health resources. The number of ED visits for mental health disorders rose from 1.4 to 2.5 million per year in the US. Therefore, mental health patients being seen by ED physicians are more likely to have longer lengths of stay, an increase in hospital admission, and high recidivism rates. Purpose: In this scoping review, we wanted to determine the role of telehealth on ED mental health patients. outcomes regarding how telehealth can reduce the number of admissions, length of stay in the ED, dispositions of patients with mental illness complaints, the cost-effectiveness of telehealth, and patient and staff satisfaction were reviewed. Method: We collected data using The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) online Library, and we obtained articles using CINAHL Complete, Medline, and PubMed. The eligibility criteria were studies conducted in English, subjects greater than 18 years of age, meet DSM criteria for mental health diagnosis, and no limit on gender, race, and ethnicity. Participants must be able to consent. Result: Data from 11 articles published from 2012 to 2020 was collected. Decreased length of stay, improved patient outcomes, decreased healthcare cost, and reduction in readmission/revisit rates were the most frequently reported findings. Implications for Nursing Practice: Results of this scoping review showed improved patient outcomes and decreased readmission/revisit rates when patients with psychiatric illness were seen by a psychiatric physician via telehealth in the Emergency Department. This practice can be standardized and utilized to yield similar results to the literature review. Additional research is necessary to assist in the development of healthcare resources that will provide patients who suffer from mental illness with the care they deserve

FieldML

FieldML is an open format for storing and exchanging models containing field information. It is able to represent a wide variety of field value types, including scalar, vector, tensor, logical, and strings. Fields are defined over domains explicitly in terms of functions. Domains may be nested to form embedding hierarchies

Multiply-connected Bose-Einstein condensed alkali gases: Current-carrying states and their decay

The ability to support metastable current-carrying states in multiply-connected settings is one of the prime signatures of superfluidity. Such states are investigated theoretically for the case of trapped Bose condensed alkali gases, particularly with regard to the rate at which they decay via thermal fluctuations. The lifetimes of metastable currents can be either longer or shorter than experimental time-scales. A scheme for the experimental detection of metastable states is sketched.Comment: 4 pages, including 1 figure (REVTEX

High Power Density from a Miniature Microbial Fuel Cell Using \u3ci\u3eShewanella oneidensis\u3c/i\u3e DSP10

A miniature microbial fuel cell (mini-MFC) is described that demonstrates high output power per device crosssection (2.0 cm2) and volume (1.2 cm3). Shewanella oneidensis DSP10 in growth medium with lactate and buffered ferricyanide solutions were used as the anolyte and catholyte, respectively. Maximum power densities of 24 and 10 mW/m2 were measured using the true surface areas of reticulated vitreous carbon (RVC) and graphite felt (GF) electrodes without the addition of exogenous mediators in the anolyte. Current densities at maximum power were measured as 44 and 20 mA/m2 for RVC and GF, while short circuit current densities reached 32 mA/m2 for GF anodes and 100 mA/m2 for RVC. When the power density for GF was calculated using the cross sectional area of the device or the volume of the anode chamber, we found values (3 W/m2, 500 W/m3) similar to the maxima reported in the literature. The addition of electron mediators resulted in current and power increases of 30-100%. These power densities were surprisingly high considering a pure S. oneidensis culture was used. We found that the short diffusion lengths and high surface-area-to-chamber volume ratio utilized in the mini-MFC enhanced power density when compared to output from similar macroscopic MFCs