Mental Health Literacy and the Impact of Gender

Purpose of the study We examined associations between gender and components of Mental Health Literacy (MHL). The baseline assumption, based on prior literature, is that women will have a higher knowledge related to mental health compared to men.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/fsrs2021/1079/thumbnail.jp

Fiction and Other Fiction

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What makes Hume an External World Skeptic?

What would it take for Hume to be an external world skeptic? Is Hume\u27s position on knowledge sufficient to force him to deny that we can acquire knowledge of (non-logical) propositions about the external world? After all, Hume is extremely restrictive about what can be known because he requires knowledge to be immune to error. In this paper, I will argue that if Hume were a skeptic, then he must also deny a particular kind of view about what is immediately present to the mind. I will argue that direct realisms—views that maintain that mind-independent (i.e. ontologically distinct) things are immediately present to the mind—combine with Hume\u27s position on knowledge to entail the negation of skepticism. So, despite his position on knowledge, Hume could still consistently reject skepticism, if he were to endorse direct realism

Management Schemes and Resource Access in Multiple-Use Forests in the Congo Basin

With this master’s thesis, I attempt to hone in on the notion of resource governance across scales and through time. I use three complementary and interlinked frameworks in effort to address the complexity of multi-functional forests in an era of heightened global connectivity, recognizing that current interventions are intimately tied to myriad entities and socio-ecological processes as well as historical contexts of these processes. In detailing how processes of governance draw from and shape systems of forest and wildlife ecology, and how those systems in turn shape governance strategies, I aim to begin to depict the interrelationship between humans and the Congo Basin environment in the form of a natural history. Part I depicts the schematic of hybrid resource governance that is designed to implement regionwide ecosystem scale conservation. I focus on socio-ecological system of broadleaf evergreen moist forests in Southeastern Cameroon. There, an influx of transnational actors including timber companies, safari hunting operations, and conservationist NGOs has been shaping the landscape over the past twenty years with resource-use zones and management plans that delimit the terms of partnerships, especially user rights and responsibilities. Based on interviews with a range of actors and analysis of management plans, I examine how local knowledge and decision making power factors into forest management. Part II focuses on how resource access for local-level forest users are shaped by schemes of hybrid governance in multiple-use forests. It also identifies some potential drivers of agricultural transition and discusses the implications of the current forest zoning and management schemes on biodiversity. It begins with a literature review about land-use in the Congo Basin and drivers of agricultural conversion. Focus group and individual interviews with people in five villages The ecological outcomes of resource-use zoning are discussed in terms of landscape ecology, on which rests the tenets of the ecosystem-scale approach to conservation. This paper is thus an attempt to begin to connect spatial analysis with ethnographic methods. Part III focuses on the process of designing management plans, discussing the plans themselves as ‘boundary objects’—focal points where multiple agendas and cultural conceptions come together in order for people from multiple social worlds to attempt to cooperate. I discuss the plans and their ensuing spatial organizations and delimitations of tasks as intimate spaces where myriad knowledges converge. Using the case study of interactions between various actors at various scales I examine how forests are becoming spaces of increasingly intimate linkages that transform resource use patterns and governance strategies, which are themselves important factors shaping the socio-ecological landscape. Drawing largely on frameworks of critical political ecology, discourse analysis and science and technology studies, this paper attempts to engage with environmental and institutional/cultural change as deeply entangled processes. Although each of these papers is meant to stand on its own, with a discrete argument, the themes and contexts overlap extensively. Each paper presents a unique perspectiveMaster of ScienceNatural Resources and EnvironmentUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86072/1/Clay N masters thesis final.pd

A case study and a meta-analysis of seasonal variation in fish mercury concentrations

Mercury contamination in aquatic ecosystems is a concern due to health risks of consuming fish. Fish mercury concentrations are highly variable and influenced by a range of environmental factors. However, seasonal variation in mercury levels are typically overlooked when monitoring fish mercury concentrations, establishing consumption advisories, or creating accumulation models. Temporal variation in sampling could bias mercury concentration estimates of accumulation potential. Thus, the objectives of this study were to first evaluate seasonal variation of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) axial muscle mercury concentration from two Iowa, USA impoundments. Second, we conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate if seasonal variation in mercury concentration is dependent upon mean mercury concentration, waterbody type, or fish trophic level or mean length. Largemouth bass were collected four times between May and October (24–36 fish per month) from Twelve Mile (2013) and Red Haw (2014) lakes. Largemouth bass axial muscle mercury concentrations were variable within and between lakes, ranging from undetectable ( \u3c 0.05 mg/kg) to 0.54 mg/kg. Largemouth bass mercury concentrations were similar across months in Twelve Mile but varied temporally in Red Haw and were highest in July, intermediate in May and September, and lowest during October. Results of the meta-analysis suggest that seasonal variation in mercury concentrations is more likely to occur as mean mercury concentration of the population increases but is unrelated to waterbody type, trophic status, and fish size. Understanding seasonal variation in fish mercury concentrations will aid in the development of standardized sampling programs for long-term monitoring programs and fish consumption advisories

Wavenumber filtering by mechanical structures

Thesis. 1976. Sc.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.Microfiche copy available in Archives and Engineering.Vita.Includes bibliographical references.by Nathan Clay Martin II.Sc.D

Linking Quantitative Motor Assessments to the Underlying Brian Injury: A Preliminary Report

Using custom software and an inexpensive novel motion capture controller, we adapted and automated traditional subjective motor assessments in an integrated system to develop a quantitative motor assessment (QMA) that is low-cost, and highly sensitive. Twelve participants who have suffered a traumatic brain injury performed the QMA and had MRI scans of their brain. We compared the individual QMA results from the TBI group to normative standards (developed in an earlier work). We also compared the QMA results to measures of damage found in MRI results. Preliminary analysis of a subset of data are reported here