Screening and Brief Intervention for Alcohol Misuse in Older Adults: Training Outcomes Among Physicians and Other Healthcare Practitioners in Community-Based Settings

Screening and brief intervention (SBI) is increasingly available to older adults who engage in at-risk drinking. This study examined the extent to which SBI training influenced the willingness of healthcare providers in a community-based hospital and other clinical settings to promote the implementation of SBI. Ninety-three healthcare practitioners (primarily physicians, nurses, and social workers) who attended SBI training were asked about their intentions to apply the information in their professional practice, as well as their enthusiasm about recommending the training to others in their profession. Although there were no differences among the professions in terms of commitment to apply the information or level of comfort using the techniques, physicians were less interested in promoting SBI training among their colleagues. Although it may be more difficult to promote SBI in locations that don’t primarily provide mental health services, results suggest that primary care settings are precisely where training may be most useful

How well do diffusion indexes capture business cycles? A spectral analysis

Sampling (Statistics) ; Business cycles

Accommodating rising population in rural areas : the case of Loudoun County, Virginia

Population

Assessment of semicircular canal function. Part 1 - Measurements of subjective effects produced by triangular waveforms of angular velocity

Nystagmus and sensation of rotation from semicircular canal stimulation by triangular waveforms of angular velocit

EXPLORATION OF THIOPHENE-BASED DONOR-DONOR AND DONOR-ACCEPTOR CONJUGATED OLIGOMERS

Conjugated polymers are one of the leading technologies in electronic materials research. In this work we investigate thiophene-based donor-donor (D-D) and donor-acceptor (D-A) conjugated oligomers for future application towards polymer solar cells (PSCs). Beginning from computational studies, our group targets specific monomers that show promise in both bandgap and solar cell efficiency. For this research, we have found a novel alkyl-nitrothiophene (2-bromo-5-cyano-3-hexyl-4-nitrothiophene, NT) monomer as well as a unique D-D combination of propylenedioxythiophene (ProDOT) and isothianapthene (ITN). In both of these cases, we found that we can tune the tetramer bandgap (in both D-D and D-A systems) simply by changing the order of monomers (rather than changing the identity of the monomers). Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons (HWE) was chosen to provide the ability to individually couple monomers, allowing us to synthesize sequenced oligomers. The synthesis of the novel alkyl-NT monomer was successful and progress towards additional monomers necessary for HWE coupling was made. A test Stille coupling towards the synthesis of the ProDOT-ITN oligomer was also attempted