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Oral History Interview: Lilian M. Dye
This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. In this interview, Lilian Dye discusses: detailed information about her family; a family business; playing basketball; her education; sexism; individuals such as Daryl Rector, Saint Dennis Mill, Dottie Cox, Nasile Cox, Bob Knots, Rosco Carter, & Dee Rymer; her education; Morris Harvey College (now the University of Charleston); other schools; women\u27s rights; her experiences teaching; a brief section on moonshine; and other topics.https://mds.marshall.edu/oral_history/1433/thumbnail.jp
Patient Education Using the Cognitive Apprenticeship Model: A Study for Rehabilitation Specialists
Quality patient education has long been a concern for both patients and health care providers. While many clinicians support the importance of patient education, it is not known which theoretical education model supports best practice. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the Cognitive Apprenticeship Model (CA) when compared to traditional patient education. There were 34 individuals receiving therapy who volunteered to be in a treatment group that received patient education using the CA model. There were 24 individuals who were assigned to a control group who received traditional patient education.
While not all of the outcomes measured in this study showed significance as anticipated, several key outcomes showed statistical significances between the treatment group and the control group. Thus, supporting the hypotheses that the use of CA in patient education would improve patient outcomes, specifically in 1) Patient Specific function analysis outcomes questionnaire. 2) Pre-test vs post-test scores on patient’s knowledge about their condition and how to manage it. 3) Patient continued use of a home exercise program post discharge.
This is important in that the use of CA as a theoretical educational model for patient education resulted in better patient compliance with home exercises four weeks after discharge from skilled therapy. Greater differences in pre-test vs post-test knowledge scores, indicating patient empowerment and greater understanding of the importance of their continued follow-up to care for themselves. This supports the concept that the teaching methods used in how patients are taught is relevant and equally important to what they are taught. As healthcare providers learn to become better teachers of their patients, engaging in the use of theoretically grounded teaching methods, patient outcomes are likely to improve. This results in best practice methods for the delivery of healthcare and improvements in patient outcomes
Tissue Cytokine Responses in Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis
To elucidate the local tissue cytokine response of dogs infected with Leishmania chagasi, cytokine mRNA levels were measured in bone marrow aspirates from 27 naturally infected dogs from Brazil and were compared with those from 5 uninfected control animals. Interferon-γ mRNA accumulation was enhanced in infected dogs and was positively correlated with humoral (IgG1) but not with lymphoproliferative responses to Leishmania antigen in infected dogs. Increased accumulation of mRNA for interleukin (IL)4, IL-10, and IL-18 was not observed in infected dogs, and mRNA for these cytokines did not correlate with antibody or proliferative responses. However, infected dogs with detectable IL-4 mRNA had significantly more severe symptoms. IL-13 mRNA was not detectable in either control or infected dogs. These data suggest that clinical symptoms are not due to a deficiency in interferon-γ production. However, in contrast to its role in human visceral leishmaniasis, IL-10 may not play a key immunosuppressive role in dogs
Gravitational lens magnification by Abell 1689: Distortion of the background galaxy luminosity function
Gravitational lensing magnifies the luminosity of galaxies behind the lens.
We use this effect to constrain the total mass in the cluster Abell 1689 by
comparing the lensed luminosities of background galaxies with the luminosity
function of an undistorted field. Since galaxies are assumed to be a random
sampling of luminosity space, this method is not limited by clustering noise.
We use photometric redshift information to estimate galaxy distance and
intrinsic luminosity. Knowing the redshift distribution of the background
population allows us to lift the mass/background degeneracy common to lensing
analysis. In this paper we use 9 filters observed over 12 hours with the Calar
Alto 3.5m telescope to determine the redshifts of 1000 galaxies in the field of
Abell 1689. Using a complete sample of 151 background galaxies we measure the
cluster mass profile. We find that the total projected mass interior to
0.25h^(-1)Mpc is (0.48 +/- 0.16) * 10^(15)h^(-1) solar masses, where our error
budget includes uncertainties from the photometric redshift determination, the
uncertainty in the off-set calibration and finite sampling. This result is in
good agreement with that found by number count and shear-based methods and
provides a new and independent method to determine cluster masses.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to MNRAS (10/99); Replacement with 1
page extra text inc. new section, accepted by MNRA
Orbit equivalence rigidity for ergodic actions of the mapping class group
We establish orbit equivalence rigidity for any ergodic, essentially free and
measure-preserving action on a standard Borel space with a finite positive
measure of the mapping class group for a compact orientable surface with higher
complexity. We prove similar rigidity results for a finite direct product of
mapping class groups as well.Comment: 11 pages, title changed, a part of contents remove
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys Repair (ACS-R): Integrating Commercial Products in the Flight Software Environment
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Coalescing at 8 GeV in the Fermilab Main Injector
For Project X, it is planned to inject a beam of 3 10**11 particles per bunch
into the Main Injector. To prepare for this by studying the effects of higher
intensity bunches in the Main Injector it is necessary to perform coalescing at
8 GeV. The results of a series of experiments and simulations of 8 GeV
coalescing are presented. To increase the coalescing efficiency adiabatic
reduction of the 53 MHz RF is required, resulting in ~70% coalescing efficiency
of 5 initial bunches. Data using wall current monitors has been taken to
compare previous work and new simulations for 53 MHz RF reduction, bunch
rotations and coalescing, good agreement between experiment and simulation was
found. Possible schemes to increase the coalescing efficiency and generate even
higher intensity bunches are discussed. These require improving the timing
resolution of the low level RF and/or tuning the adiabatic voltage reduction of
the 53 MHz.Comment: 3 pp. 3rd International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2012)
20-25 May 2012, New Orleans, Louisian
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