Review of Free Logic by Rachael Briggs

Review of Free Logic by Rachael Brigg

Community Supervision and Mental Health: The Psychological Well-Being and Expectations of Officers Supervising People with Serious Mental Illness

People with serious mental illness (SMI) are significantly overrepresented in the criminal justice system and often experience worse outcomes in the form of being rearrested for new offenses and probation/parole violations. Addressing the needs of supervisees with SMI can create unique challenges for probation and parole officers (PPOs), which in turn, may increase job related stress and impact PPOs’ mental health. However, few studies examine the stress and mental health consequences of supervising people with SMI, and how these consequences influence officers’ attitudes toward clients. Using survey and administrative data from 793 PPOs, this study assesses whether the number of supervisees with SMI on PPOs’ caseloads is associated with increased depressive symptomatology and if work stress explains this relationship. This investigation also assesses whether role conflict and role overload contribute to work stress among PPOs supervising people with SMI. Finally, this study examines the influence of PPOs’ well-being on their expectations for the success of supervisees, based on officers’ perceptions on the likelihood of supervisees with SMI committing new offenses or technical violations. This research draws from Stress Process research to better understand how supervising people with SMI relates to work stress, role conflict and overload, and mental health. Drawing from research on the Cognitive Model of Depression, this study also examines whether the relationship between supervising people with SMI and officers’ expectations of supervisee success is conditioned by officers’ mental health

\u3ci\u3eCimmerian River\u3c/i\u3e: A Concerto for Cello and Orchestra

Cimmerian River is a four-movement concerto for solo cello and symphony orchestra. The work was composed by Nicholas D. Powell. The initial version (for piano and cello) was written in 2012 and orchestrated in 2013. The movements are titled “Dark Cascades,” “Shaded Current,” “Past Shadow Things,” and “Deluge.” This document will compare and contrast Cimmerian River with other works containing comparable parameters, such as similarity in melodic construction or harmonic language. The concerto will also be set in the context of other cello concertos, ranging from historic (as early as Dvořák and Elgar) to recent (as late as Williams and Jacobs). Some terminology from music theory will be applied in the following manner: Scale degrees will be indicated by carets above numbers, such as 1 [scale degree one] or 5 [scale degree five]. Set theory functions are indicated in two ways: chevrons (angled brackets) for normal order, such as \u3c2378\u3e, or parentheses for prime form, such as (0156)

Timing of Regional Metamorphism in the Inner Piedmont and Blue Ridge of North Carolina: Evidence From Monazite U-Pb Geochronology

Channel and escape flow, or lower crustal ductile flow and redirection from orogen-normal to orogen-parallel flow, are among the most impactful concepts introduced to explain shortening accommodation in large, hot orogens. In the Inner Piedmont (IP), southern Appalachians, channel and escape flow were proposed to have occurred during the Neo-Acadian (376–340 Ma) orogeny. However, the polymetamorphic history of the southern Appalachians makes it difficult to isolate thermal and deformational events for process-focused studies necessary to test these ideas in the IP. To address this, we used in situ laser ablation split stream (LASS) monazite U-Pb geochronology alongside new garnet chemical data and existing P-T-t data to define the footprints of Paleozoic metamorphism in the southern Appalachians. Eastern Blue Ridge (BR) data indicate primarily Taconic (~458 Ma) with secondary Neo-Acadian metamorphism (373–335 Ma) whereas the western IP shows only Neo-Acadian metamorphism (~356 Ma). This indicates that the Brevard fault zone (BFZ) was a thermal and potentially rheological boundary during Neo-Acadian metamorphism, supporting earlier interpretations that the BFZ acted as a buttress to channel flow. Additionally, the southeastern IP records mostly Neo-Acadian (380–350 Ma) and secondary Alleghanian (339–325 Ma) metamorphism, allowing each orogenic event to be spatially separated

Exploring novel auditory displays for supporting accelerated skills acquisition and enhanced performance in motorsport

This paper explores the design, development and evaluation of a novel real-time auditory display system for accelerated racing driver skills acquisition. The auditory feedback provides concurrent sensory augmentation and performance feedback using a novel target matching design. Real-time, dynamic, tonal audio feedback representing lateral G-force (a proxy for tire slip) is delivered to one ear whilst a target lateral G-force value representing the ‘limit’ of the car, to which the driver aims to drive, is panned to the driver’s other ear; tonal match across both ears signifies that the ‘limit’ has been reached. An evaluation approach was established to measure the efficacy of the audio feedback in terms of performance, workload and drivers’ assessment of self-efficacy. A preliminary human subject study was conducted in a driving simulator environment. Initial results are encouraging, indicating that there is potential for performance gain and driver confidence enhancement based on the audio feedback

Separability of Tilings

A tiling by triangles of an orientable surfaces is called kaleidoscopic if the local reflection in any edge of a triangle extends to a global isometry of the surface. Given such a global reflection the fixed point subset of the reflection consists of embedded circles (ovals) whose union is called the mirror of the reflection. The reflection is called separating if removal of the mirror disconnects the surface into two components. We consider surfaces such that the orientation preserving subgroup of the tiling group generated by the reflection is cyclic or abelian. A complete classification of those surfaces with separating reflection is obtained in the cyclic case as well as partial results for abelian, non-cyclic groups

Pertussis Toxin Stimulates IL-17 Production in Response to Bordetella pertussis Infection in Mice

In a mouse model of respiratory tract infection by Bordetella pertussis, bacteria multiply in the airways over the first week and are then cleared over the next 3–4 weeks by the host immune response. Pertussis toxin (PT), a virulence factor secreted exclusively by B. pertussis, promotes bacterial growth in the airways by suppression and modulation of host immune responses. By comparison of wild type and PT-deficient strains, we examined the role of PT in modulating airway cytokine and chemokine responses affecting neutrophil recruitment during B. pertussis infection in mice. We found that, despite early inhibition of neutrophil recruitment by PT, high numbers of neutrophils were recruited to the airways by 4 days post-infection with the wild type strain, but not with the PT-deficient strain, and that this correlated with upregulation of neutrophil-attracting chemokine gene expression. In addition, there was similar upregulation of genes expressing the cytokines IL-17A (IL-17), TNF-α and IFN-γ, indicating a mixed Th1/Th17 response. Expression of IL-6, a cytokine involved in Th17 induction, was upregulated earlier than the IL-17 response. We showed that PT, rather than bacterial numbers, was important for induction of these responses. Flow cytometric analysis revealed that the IL-17-producing cells were macrophages and neutrophils as well as T cells, and were present predominantly in the airways rather than the lung tissue. Antibody neutralization of IL-17 significantly reduced chemokine gene expression and neutrophil recruitment to the airways, but only modestly increased peak bacterial loads. These data indicate that PT stimulates inflammatory responses by induction of Th1- and Th17-associated cytokines, including IL-17, during B. pertussis infection in mice, but a role for IL-17 in protection against the infection remains to be established

Seizing the Moment: Realizing the Promise of Student-Centered Learning

This brief outlines policy recommendations for supporting student-centered learning at the local, state, and federal level