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Mapping Occupational Therapy Practice with Postsecondary Students: A Scoping Review
Background: Legislation supports a role for occupational therapy in postsecondary settings, but this area is not a common practice area and the practice area is not well understood. This scoping review maps current literature of occupational therapists working with students in postsecondary settings in order to inform future research and practice.
Method: After identifying included articles, a narrative description of the quantitative studies along with a concept map were completed. A qualitative thematic analysis of the articles was also conducted.
Results: Twenty-five articles met the inclusion criteria. Quantitative results describe occupational therapy services as both a direct and indirect service provided through offices of disability services, assistive technology, and supported education programs, among others. The primary population with whom occupational therapists engage with are students with mental illness. Three qualitative themes emerged from the scoping review, including the focus on occupation and skills needed for success, using the campus environment, and campus collaboration.
Conclusion: The structure of occupational therapy services varies from location to location and occupational therapists work with various populations of students. Future research needs to support the distinct value of occupational therapy in this practice area, including the scope and outcomes of occupational therapy services with different populations of students
The sexual experiences and sexual abuse of women with learning disabilities in institutional and community settings.
Using in-depth interviews with seventeen women with leaming disabilities this research focuses on how the women experienced their sexuality. Attention is paid both to their consented sexual experiences and sexual abuse, as well as to other related matters such as contraception and sexual health.
The main findings of this research are that only a small minority of the women were very positive about their sexual lives. The majority lacked control in terms of deciding for themselves what they wanted to do, with whom, when and how. Most of the women experienced exclusively or predominantly penetrative sex. A lack of sexual pleasure generally, and orgasm specifically was reported by all the women. In addition very high levels of sexual abuse were reported. The findings of this research are discussed in the context of other related work in the learning disability field, and other research on the sexuality and sexual abuse of non-disabled women.
One of the most important findings is that, with a few exceptions, there were very few differences in the experiences of women who lived, or had lived in hospitals compared to women who lived in community settings. The quality of the womens experiences were more directly determined by the nature of the relationships they had with men whether men were abusive or aggressive towards them; the womenâs levels of self-esteem and assertiveness then availability of sex education and support.
Policy and practice recommendations are made which relate to increasing womenâs sexual safety in learning disability services achieving justice if they have been abused changing the content of sex education to include much more of an emphasis on womenâs sexual pleasure, choices and consent. Recommendations are also made for supporting men in their sexual relationships with women
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Investigating postharvest chilling injury in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) fruit using magnetic resonance imaging and 5-azacytidine, a hypomethylation agent
Tomato, like most species from tropical and subtropical regions, exhibits postharvest chilling injury (PCI) when stored at low temperatures. Because of its economic importance and the functional genomics tools available, we used tomato to investigate aspects of fruit PCI development. We asked two questions: First, are there spatial-temporal differences in the development of PCI that can be detected by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)? Here, the aim was to use a non-invasive method to study PCI progression in vivo. At mature green and breaker, the pericarp, locular tissue and columella produced distinct D-values while in contrast, there was no such differentiation in riper fruit. Although the pericarp is where most PCI symptoms are visible, this tissue showed less dynamism upon cold exposure, compared to the inner tissues as detected by MRI. This suggests the occurrence of distinct, independently modulated mechanisms contributing to the development of PCI-symptomatology. Collectively our data showed that the MRI could detect fruit ripening, its attenuation by cold, and fruit tissue-specific responses to chilling stress. The second question we asked was if epigenetic modification of the tomato genome or transcriptome influences PCI response. We examined PCI severity in fruit injected with a demethylating agent, 5- azacytidine (AZA). Two tomato genotypes exposed to varying severities of cold-stress were studied. Results suggested that AZA was able to moderate PCI in 'Micro-Tom' after 3 weeks at 2.5°C, while different patterns were observed in 'Sun Cherry' across various cold treatments. The effects of AZA on PCI were complex, multilayered and highly context-dependent
Supersymmetry and gauge theory on Calabi-Yau 3-folds
We consider the dimensional reduction of supersymmetric Yang-Mills on a
Calabi-Yau 3-fold. We show by construction how the resulting cohomological
theory is related to the balanced field theory of the Kaehler Yang-Mills
equations introduced by Donaldson and Uhlenbeck-Yau.Comment: 11 page
Evocative computing â creating meaningful lasting experiences in connecting with the past
We present an approach â evocative computing â that demonstrates how âat handâ technologies can be âpicked upâ and used by people to create meaningful and lasting experiences, through connecting and interacting with the past. The approach is instantiated here through a suite of interactive technologies configured for an indoor-outdoor setting that enables groups to explore, discover and research the history and background of a public cemetery. We report on a two-part study where different groups visited the cemetery and interacted with the digital tools and resources. During their activities serendipitous uses of the technology led to connections being made between personal memo-ries and ongoing activities. Furthermore, these experiences were found to be long-lasting; a follow-up study, one year later, showed them to be highly memorable, and in some cases leading participants to take up new directions in their work. We discuss the value of evocative computing for enriching user experiences and engagement with heritage practices
Development and evaluation of lessons for class and group situations in grade I. Volume I.
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
For volume II, please see: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1415
On the Intracluster Medium in Cooling Flow & Non-Cooling Flow Clusters
Recent X-ray observations have highlighted clusters that lack entropy cores.
At first glance, these results appear to invalidate the preheated ICM models.
We show that a self-consistent preheating model, which factors in the effects
of radiative cooling, is in excellent agreement with the observations.
Moreover, the model naturally explains the intrinsic scatter in the L-T
relation, with ``cooling flow'' and ``non-cooling flow'' systems corresponding
to mildly and strongly preheated systems, respectively. We discuss why
preheating ought to be favoured over merging as a mechanism for the origin of
``non-cooling flow'' clusters.Comment: 4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the "Multiwavelength
Cosmology" Conference held in Mykonos, Greece, June 2003, ed. M. Plionis
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