Tactile Hallucinations: Presenting Symptom of Schizophrenia

Although previous reports about tactile hallucinations of sexual content suggesting Schizophrenia are known2, this disorder has been characterized mostly by hallucinations of visual/auditory content. At Schizophrenia presentation these two types of hallucinations are the prominent features. This report describes a patient who had no previous psychiatric symptoms and for whom tactile hallucinations were the presenting symptom of Schizophrenia

Taking the Pulse: A Case Study of Racial Disparities in Nursing Education

This qualitative study, using a case study methodology, explores the experiences of students of color in a nursing program. In particular, I sought to uncover how students of color conceptualize their experience and racial identity in a nursing program in the northern suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The purpose of this study is to document the experiences of students of color in a nursing program to advance educational opportunities in nursing education and develop meaningful practices in the classroom. This case study identifies the need to graduate nurses of color and prepare them to work alongside communities of color with an intent to combat social determinants of health and health inequities throughout the health care system. The use of interviews data from nursing program graduates as well as non-graduates, make the case for the need to address the issues that lie within our systems, pedagogy, and pervasive implicit bias in higher education, specifically, in nursing education. This case study details the strength and sacrifices students of color had to endure in a nursing program and how each student navigated the difficulties of being racially marginalized and targeted. This study explores the personal stories of non-white students and how they recognized the unsaid rules and implications within higher education and the imbalance of power that affects their performance, cultural emotional health, and academic experience in nursing school. Using student development and critical race theories to unpack negative peak experiences or “racial disparities,” this study recommends additional training for administrators, faculty and staff

The impact of daily emotional demands, job resources and emotional effort on intensive internet use during and after work

Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become a popular leisure platform. Psychological recovery during leisure time is vital to replenish resources spent at work. The present diary study comprised a sample of employees with high exposure to emotional demands and integrates the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) and addiction literature to examine whether engaging intensively on the internet may be conductive or inhibitor to psychological recovery. A total of 84 employees completed four consecutive daily diary survey three times a day comprising 880 data points. Multilevel analysis was used and results confirmed that intensive internet use was higher on days of high demands and low resources for those with higher baseline levels of compulsive use, and intensive use was weaker on days of high resources. Additionally, intensive use increased recovery experience before bed and the morning after only low compulsive users. The opposite was true for more compulsive users. These findings contribute to both JD-R and addiction theory by showing how the unfavourable effects of daily intensive use on recovery can be ameliorated by daily work resources. It also contributes to the recovery literature demonstrating how intensive internet use can trigger recovery and the circumstances under which this happens

Aqua_Culture: Recognizing New Institutional Models for the Reactivation of Inherent Values in the Urban and Cultural Landscape of Arecibo

Natural resources have dictated the sucessful development of the city of Arecibo until the dissolution of the city\u27s industrial models. This thesis aims to create a Marine Research and Educational Center that promotes the engagement between the city\u27s urban dwellers and its waterfront in a desire to recover the city\u27s valuable historical landscape while promoting new forms of social revitalization through the means of education.\u2

Preliminary design of eddy current brake to improve sustainable mobility

In recent years, the need to reduce CO2 emissions has developed a change in the transport sector. E-mobility is emerging as a zero-emissions way of travel, but not only the combustion engine produces emission. In fact, a significant part of the vehicle's total pollution is produced by tires and conventional brakes. The eddy current brake is a possible alternative to the well-known mechanical brake to obtain zero-emissions braking with low maintenance. This type of brake converts the vehicle's kinetic energy into thermal energy through the magnetic generation of the eddy currents, which generate Lorentz braking forces. This paper proposes a preliminary design of a zero-emission eddy current brake with a first geometry variation to increase the brake performance, that has been evaluated with an analytical approach and EMS by EMWorks, a 3D finite element method magnetic software able to calculate brake torque and electromagnetic effects

Construction of Exact Solutions to Nahm's Equations for the Multimonopole

We construct high rank solutions to Nahm's equations for boundary conditions that correspond to the Dirac multimonopole. Here, the spectral curve is explicitly known and we achieve the integration by constructing a basis of polynomial tuples that forms a frame for the flow of the eigenline bundle over the curve