Physician Attitudes Toward Homosexuality and HIV: The PATHH-III Survey.

PurposeThe aims of this study were (1) to evaluate current physician attitudes toward homosexuality and homosexual, transgender, and HIV-positive individuals and (2) to compare current attitudes of those from prior surveys of the same population, the San Diego County medical community.MethodsAn online survey was conducted during November-December 2017 to assess general attitudes toward homosexuality and medically focused items that addressed homosexual orientation, transgender identity, and HIV. Responses were weighted for nonresponse. Predictors of stigma were assessed using generalized linear models. Trends across three surveys of the same population in 1982, 1999, and 2017 using common items were assessed using unweighted responses.ResultsOf 4418 eligible physicians, 491 (11.1%) responded (median age 55 years, 38% female and 8.7% gay or bisexual). Regarding admission to medical school, 1% opposed admitting a homosexual applicant, 2% a transgender applicant, and 5% an HIV-positive applicant. Regarding consultative referral to a pediatrician, 3% would discontinue referral to a homosexual pediatrician, 5% to a transgender pediatrician, and 10% to an HIV-positive pediatrician. Regarding discomfort treating patients, 7% reported discomfort treating homosexual patients, 22% transgender patients, and 13% HIV-positive patients. Earlier year of graduation from medical school, male gender, and heterosexual orientation were significant predictors of stigma-associated responses. Compared with the results from surveys in 1982 and 1999, the current results suggest substantively less stigma associated with homosexuality and HIV.ConclusionThere have been substantive declines over a 35-year period in the prevalence of stigmatizing attitudes toward sexual minorities and HIV-positive people among physician respondents in three survey waves of the San Diego County medical community

The measurement of oil film thickness versus time under impact loading conditions.

The thickness of lubricant films under impact loading conditions has been measured as a function of time by passing a collimated beam of light through the film, detecting the emerging rays with a photomultiplier tube, and displaying the transient waveform on a cathode ray oscilloscope. It is shown that rotative speed is the dominant variable in the determination of film thickness in the contact area of rolling cylinders. Plateau Time is defined as the time period during which minimum film thickness is maintained at the contact area and is interpreted as a measure of the "oiliness" of a lubricant.Commander Naval Ship Systems Commandhttp://www.archive.org/details/measurementofoil00hydiU.S. Navy (U.S.N.) author.Lieutenant, United States NavyApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Mud to Parks

The "Mud to Parks" Project highlights a rare opportunity to simultaneously generate environmental, recreational, and economic benefits in two distinct areas of the state of Illinois. This poster details the background of the project, as well as efforts to date.Ope

Beneficial Use of Illinois River Sediment for Agricultural and Landscaping Applications

This report is a review of the sediment beneficial use project coordinated by the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC), which became known as the "Mud to Parks" project. This document focuses on published and unpublished results and insights that researchers developed between the late 1990s and 2017. It is not intended to be a comprehensive technical review of sediment beneficial use, and therefore, includes references to a limited number of publications by other researchers. Although it mainly involves Illinois watersheds, potential applications of results and insights will likely be useful in other areas. Although much of the effort was centered on fine-grained sediment, a large part of the project involved placing sediment on sandy agricultural soil. The Sand Farm Project is reviewed in detail in Appendix B. ISTC was previously housed in the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), and is now a division of the Prairie Research Institute (PRI) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (U of I). The name Mud to Parks originated when the first large project took fine-grained dredged material from Lower Peoria Lake to Chicago to provide soil for a lake-front park. In reality, the project dealt with many aspects of potential beneficial uses of dredged materials from a number of sources. This document is organized into sections dealing with various aspects of the project. The motivation for the project is covered first, followed by a description of early work to determine the ability of the dredged material to be readily transported, and whether it would develop an acceptable soil structure. This section also describes equipment demonstrations. Specific beneficial use projects are covered in the next section. Soil fertility and physical characteristics are then covered along with a discussion of greenhouse and field studies of sediment from the Peoria Lakes and Illinois water supply reservoirs. Information and data from the soil studies are provided in the appendices, which are largely excerpted from published material. The final section contains some of the authors’ thoughts and speculations on potential uses of material dredged to restore depth in navigation channels, wildlife habitats, and reservoirs.This report was supported by contract W912HZ-17-2-0016 from the U. S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center under the terms of the Great Rivers Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU).Ope

Adaptation of a Filter Assembly to Assess Microbial Bioburden of Pressurant Within a Propulsion System

A report describes an adaptation of a filter assembly to enable it to be used to filter out microorganisms from a propulsion system. The filter assembly has previously been used for particulates greater than 2 micrometers. Projects that utilize large volumes of nonmetallic materials of planetary protection concern pose a challenge to their bioburden budget, as a conservative specification value of 30 spores per cubic centimeter is typically used. Helium was collected utilizing an adapted filtration approach employing an existing Millipore filter assembly apparatus used by the propulsion team for particulate analysis. The filter holder on the assembly has a 47-mm diameter, and typically a 1.2-5 micrometer pore-size filter is used for particulate analysis making it compatible with commercially available sterilization filters (0.22 micrometers) that are necessary for biological sampling. This adaptation to an existing technology provides a proof-of-concept and a demonstration of successful use in a ground equipment system. This adaptation has demonstrated that the Millipore filter assembly can be utilized to filter out microorganisms from a propulsion system, whereas in previous uses the filter assembly was utilized for particulates greater than 2 micrometers

Incidencia del nivel freático en la capacidad portante del suelo del Pueblo Joven 3 de Octubre manzanas U1, U2, U3 y U4 Nuevo Chimbote - 2019

La siguiente investigación se llevó al cabo en las manzanas u1, u2, u3 y u4 del Pueblo Joven 3 de Octubre, teniendo como principal objetivo Determinar la incidencia del nivel freático en la capacidad portante del suelo del pueblo joven 3 de octubre manzanas u1, u2, u3 y u4. A su vez teniendo como planteamiento de problema ¿Cuál es la Incidencia del Nivel Freático en la Capacidad Portante del Suelo del Pueblo Joven 3 de octubre Manzanas u1, u2, u3 y u4?. Del mismo modo fue primordial determinar las características físicas del suelo, según la clasificación SUCS, así como también el porcentaje de humedad que contenía, obteniendo como resultado que el terreno es arena mal graduada con una densidad semi compactada, saturada y de color beige claro, además se determinó las profundidades del nivel freático mediante la estratigrafía, obteniendo que estas varían levemente y miden entre 1.5m y 1.45m de profundidad, también se determinó la capacidad portante del suelo mediante el uso del DPL, las cuales presentan una capacidad portante natural que varían según las calicatas y según la profundidad del nivel freático, la capacidad portante sin incidencia del nivel freático se obtuvo una capacidad promedio de 2.21kg/cm2, con un ángulo de fricción de 31.75° y la capacidad portante con incidencia del nivel freático se obtuvo una capacidad promedio de 1.86kg/cm2, con un ángulo de fricción de 30.6°. Después de conocer las características físicas del suelo, determinar las profundidades del nivel freático y la capacidad portante del suelo de los 7 puntos de investigación den las manzanas u1, u2, u3 y u4 del Pueblo Joven 3 de Octubre, se determinó que el nivel freático incide de manera negativa y perjudicial en los suelos del Pueblo Joven 3 de octubre mz. u1, u2, u3 y u4, disminuyendo la capacidad portante del dicho suelo, dado que la posición del nivel freático se encuentra a una baja profundidad

A problem solving approach to visceral learning

Abstract only. Permission to include in repository granted by Sally Byers, Permissions Assistant, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.An earlier paper in this series depicted visceral learning as a problem in concept identification in which subjects seek information about the visceral target (Roberts, Williams, Farrell, & Marlin. 1979). Concepts pertaining to this target are based initially upon procedural details of training and are modified as feedback identifies instances of the desired response. Evidence for this view was sought by examining verbal reports for the information about target responding that is presumably the product of a concept identification process. Accurate self-report was observed when subjects were successfully trained to produce either: 1) an increase and decrease in heart rate, or 2) lateralized changes (L > R and R> L) in skin conductance. Control of the response in the absence of accurate self-report was not observed in either training condition. The present paper describes an extended framework for the study of learning mechanisms. In this approach, a task statement is assumed to establish a problem space within which visceral learning proceeds. Major components of this space include: 1) a representation of task objectives. 2) initial concepts concerning effective strategies derived from the task statement and the subject's personal history, and 3) a processing system which is organized to acquire information about the response from feedback events. The processing system is seen as a construction which is determined uniquely for each learning procedure by processing requirements that are implicit in problem structure. The system organizes memory to receive information about the response and codes this information in a manner appropriate for production of the target in accordance with performance requirements of the task. This analysis suggested that within-subject training for two visceral targets with a transfer requirement (as in Roberts et al., 1979) might have favored identification of differences rather than similarities between the targets and encoding in a manner appropriate for recall without feedback as a retrieval cue. Consequently accurate self-report was assessed as a function of forewarning of transfer when subjects were trained to produce a single target alone. The purpose was to determine whether a problem-solving approach might identify processing conditions that favor veridical self-report following training on a feedback task. (Supported by A0132 from NSERC of Canada)Ye

Detection of Cocaine Use with Wireless Electrocardiogram Sensors

In recent years, the ability to continuously monitor activities, health, and lifestyles of individuals using sensor technologies has reached unprecedented levels. Such ubiquitous physiological sensing has the potential to profoundly improve our understanding of human behavior, leading to more targeted treatments for a variety of disorders. The long terms goal of this work is development of novel computational tools to support the study of addiction in the context of cocaine use. The current paper takes the first step in this important direction by posing a simple, but crucial question: Can cocaine use be reliably detected using wearable on-body sensors and current machine learning algorithms? We select wireless ECG as the most promising sensing modality for cocaine use detection. The main contributions in this paper include the presentation of a novel clinical study of cocaine use in which a unique set of wireless ECG data were collected, the description of a computational pipeline for inferring morphological features from noisy wireless ECG waveforms, and the evaluation of cocaine use detection algorithms based on data-driven and knowledge-based feature representations. Our results show that cocaine use can be detected with AUC levels above 0.9 in both the within-subjects and between-subjects cases at the 32mg/70kg dosage level

Molecular structures of gas‐phase polyatomic molecules determined by spectroscopic methods

Spectroscopic data related to the structures of polyatomic molecules in the gas phase have been reviewed, critically evaluated, and compiled. All reported bond distances and angles have been classified as equilibrium (re), average (rz), substitution (rs), or effective (ro) parameters, and have been given a quality rating which is a measure of the parameter uncertainty. The surveyed literature includes work from all of the areas of gas‐phase spectroscopy from which precise quantitative structural information can be derived. Introductory material includes definitions of the various types of parameters and a description of the evaluation procedure.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/87746/2/619_1.pd

Pemanfaatan Aplikasi Mind Map Sebagai Media Inovatif Dalam Pembelajaran Mata Kuliah Pengembangan Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Sekolah Dasar

This study was conducted to develop an innovative medium in learning Elementary School-Civic Education (PKn SD) Development course in order to improve the lecturer competency in developing good learning media, improving learning quality, and producing a computer and internet-based media product. The development of innovative media in this study was carried out by utilizing mind map application available in internet. This study was taken place in Elementary School Teacher Education, Pedagogic Faculty, Semarang State University. The subject of research consisted of corresponding students and lecturers. This study was an educational research with research and development approach. The procedure of research included preliminary study with descriptive qualitative approach, media development design, design validation and design improvement, and followed with limited trial on media design by applying experimental method (before-after), and product revision, if any, and final product development. The result achieved in this study was that the author had conducted a preliminary study by mapping competency and indicator into PKn SD Development course and then designed the lecturing learning plan as needed by utilizing the mind map application as learning media. The author had designed an innovative media using mind map application and had the media design validated by the competent validators in their area. The mind map application-based learning media had been tried out in treatment class. The result of test with the data processed by the author showed the following result. 1) The result of pretest and posttest showed significant improvement; it could be seen from the number of correct answer minimally 5 (40%) and maximally 13 (63%) in pre-test result and minimally 16 (80%) and maximally 20 (100%) in posttest result. 2) The result of content quality and objective aspect questionnaire before and after using mind map application showed the ratio of 55%: 89%, with instructional quality aspect of 54% : 88%, and technical quality aspect of 51% : 90%, so that the overall ratio was 54% : 89%. Considering the result of data analysis, it could be found that the mind map application use can be developed further as an innovative learning media utilizing computer technology and informatics technology mastery support. The author organized the result of study into a scientific article to be published and organized a final report as accountability