The effects of socialization through the arts: Teaching life skills strategies to youth in West Las Vegas

There are at least 200 gangs in Southern Nevada with more than 7,700 identified members. Gang bangers do not anticipate a future or invest in dreams, most do not expect to live beyond their 20\u27s. Las Vegas is more the rule than the exception; the West Las Vegas community is the epicenter needing attention. The planning and development of this pilot program The Performing and Visual Arts Camp for Kids focused on teaching life skills and character development, such as getting along with others, respect for oneself and others, initiative, the ability to communicate, problem solving, perseverance, and goal setting through an integration of a multidisciplinary cultural and performing arts program. The arts were tools used to promote healthy living through the exercise of life skills interventions practiced daily in an interim of an eight-week study. The arts curriculum encouraged at-risk students 10 to 15 years of age to participate in five (5) artistic disciplines: Dance (African, Ballet, Tap, Modern, Hip-Hop); Music (African Conga/Steel Drums, Choir); Theatre Arts/Drama (Creative Writing); Film and Video Production; and Visual Arts. The camp participants presented a final musical theater production with all seventy students, executing performance and leadership skills developed in the camp\u27s workshops. Recent research correlates evidence that one positive outcome of high academic performance in students is directly linked to their good habits and good character; The purpose of this study was to conduct and report a formal evaluation of the Year 2001 Camp for Kids and study the development impact it had on youth living in West Las Vegas, making this program responsive to the needs of low/moderate income families during non school hours. The study investigated the Summer Camp for Kids Program to gain knowledge of what effect it had on students\u27 life skills, self esteem, persistence/responsibility, and decision-making via the arts

Why Children Still Need a Lawyer

Every day approximately 500,000 children across the United States wake up in foster care, most in foster family homes, though many others in group homes and institutions. These children entered the state foster care system as innocent victims of abuse or neglect occurring in their birth homes. As wards of the state, they depend completely on the government to provide for their essential safety and wellbeing and to reconnect them with a permanent family, hopefully their own. Though state child welfare agencies possess fundamental legal obligations under the United States Constitution and federal and state statutes to provide adequate care to all children in foster care, they are all too often failing in this vital mission. High caseloads, insufficient caseworker training and compensation, a combination of unstable and ineffective agency management, and a lack of resources plague foster care systems from coast to coast. As a result, children who were removed from their homes for basic protection actually suffer continuing harm in state care. The federal government has sought to improve the performance of state foster care systems through legislative reforms that have subjected these systems to the oversight of family court judges and federal auditors. Though well-intended, these federal reform efforts have not achieved the desired result. The same structural impediments that historically have prevented child welfare agencies from delivering quality services similarly have blunted the impact of federal reforms. Child advocates have utilized class action litigation to ignite and sustain systemic reform. These class actions suits, typically involving claims for violation of substantive due process and statutory rights, have resulted in court enforceable consent decrees that have resulted in improved care, services, and permanency outcomes for children by obligating state agencies to undertake essential structural improvements. This Essay will present the disappointing history of the federal reform efforts and the promise that structural reform class actions hold for children in foster care

Estudio de factibilidad de instalación de un centro de rehabilitación integral para discapacitados en la región del Maule

90 p.Esta memoria consiste en evaluar la factibilidad de la instalación de un CRI (Centro de Rehabilitación Integral) para atender las necesidades de los discapacitados de la Región del Maule. Es necesario de estudiar porque actualmente no existen establecimientos de rehabilitación integral de discapacitados en la Región. Además el número de discapacitados alcanza las 788.509 personas en el país según los resultados de la encuesta de caracterización socioeconómica nacional CASEN del año 2000 entregados por el Ministerio de Planificación MIDEPLAN, y para la región el número de discapacitados asciende a 73.716 de los 900.787 habitantes que ésta posee. Asimismo tiene como motivación, realizar una propuesta que permita a los discapacitados integrarse en la sociedad como personas útiles, para acceder e incorporarse a un ambiente laboral acorde a sus cualidades y limitaciones en igualdad de oportunidades que las personas normales. Por lo tanto el servicio entregado por esta institución abarca desde el diagnóstico hasta terapias de tipo ambulatorio y paralelamente se imparte educación diferenciada por tipo de discapacidad, las cuales pueden ser físicas, mentales, psíquicas, visual, auditiva y multidéficit. Para lo anterior se hizo un Análisis de Mercado, luego se Pronostico y Proyecto la Demanda, después se realizo un estudio de Localización del CRI, posteriormente se confecciono la Estructura Organizacional, y se Diseño la Estructura de las Instalaciones, además se ejecuto un Análisis de Costos, para concluir con el Estudio de Factibilidad. En síntesis los resultados globales de los estudios y análisis antes mencionados concluyen que el presente proyecto es factible Técnica y Económicamente para una inversión de 90 millones de pesos aproximadamente

Estudio de innovacion en empresas fruticolas curicanas asociadas a Fruseptima

195 p.El Manual de Oslo (OECD 2005) define a la Innovación como la introducción de un nuevo o mejorado producto, de un nuevo o mejorado proceso, de un nuevo método organizativo o de una nueva tecnica de mercadotecnia en las actividades de la empresa.Para que sea reconocida como tal, el requisito mínimo que debe cumplir es que la innovación sea nueva para la empresa. Es decir, algo que por primera vez se experimenta en las prácticas de un establecimiento en pos mejorar o implementar un nuevo producto o proceso o nuevos métodos de trabajo o nuevas formas de diseño y comercialización que deriven en la puesta en el mercado de un bien o servicio. En la economía de la Región del Maule, el rubro frutícola es uno de los que hace el mayor aporte al Producto Interno Bruto Regional, es una de las plazas que genera mayor cantidad de puestos de trabajo en el año y es un rubro que todavía está en crecimiento. El Consejo Nacional de la Innovación para la Competitividad (CNIC), publicó en el año 2007 el primer volumen de su Estrategia Nacional de Innovación para la Competitividad. En ella se expuso que Chile contaba con 11 potenciales focos de desarrollo, que sirven para la generación de conocimiento, puestos de trabajo y un mejor nivel de vida para las personas. Uno de estos sectores o posibles clusters de desarrollo es el que tiene relación con el área frutícola, ratificándose por parte del CNIC como sector económico fundamental en la publicación de su segundo volumen de la Estrategia de Innovación. En ella, propone una serie de pasos a seguir para lograr un desarrollo gradual del sector de aquí al año 2020. Viendo que la región es una zona frutícola por excelencia, sobre todo en la zona de Curicó, se llevó a cabo un estudio de innovación en empresas frutícolas curicanas pertenecientes a la Asociación de Productores Frutícolas de la Séptima Región FRUSÉPTIMA, que forma parte del Nodo Tecnológico Frutícola del Maule junto con la Asociación de Exportadores de Chile (ASOEX) y el Centro de Pomáceas de la Universidad de Talca. Este estudio se aplicó a 23 empresas de la ciudad de Curicó con el fin de identificar las actividades de innovación realizadas por éstas y evaluar el impacto que ha tenido para las empresas en los últimos tres años. La herramienta que se diseñó para el estudio fue un cuestionario de 20 preguntas separadas en 8 temas relacionados con la innovación. El análisis se hizo para la pequeña, mediana y gran empresa Se desprenden hechos generales como el que la mayor actividad innovadora que hacen las empresas es la capacitación para poder innovar, o también que en los últimos años las innovaciones que más se han introducido en las empresas han sido las relacionadas con la mejora de los procesos productivos, o que el departamento de control de calidad es el que más presencia tiene dentro de las empresas, o que pocas empresas practican I+D dentro de sus establecimientos lo que concuerda con el análisis FODA hecho por el Consejo Nacional de Innovación sobre el sistema de innovación en Chile, o que la modernización y gestión de la producción es una de las actividades organizativas importantes en los tres tipos de empresas, o que gran parte de las empresas que participaron en este estudio tiene sus procesos certificados, etc

The holistic phase model of early adult crisis

The objective of the current study was to explore the structural, temporal and experiential manifestations of crisis episodes in early adulthood, using a holistic-systemic theoretical framework. Based on an analysis of 50 interviews with individuals about a crisis episode between the ages of 25 and 35, a holistic model was developed. The model comprises four phases: (1) Locked-in, (2) Separation/Time-out, (3) Exploration and (4) Rebuilding, which in turn have characteristic features at four levels—person-in-environment, identity, motivation and affect-cognition. A crisis starts out with a commitment at work or home that has been made but is no longer desired, and this is followed by an emotionally volatile period of change as that commitment is terminated. The positive trajectory of crisis involves movement through an exploratory period towards active rebuilding of a new commitment, but ‘fast-forward’ and ‘relapse’ loops can interrupt Phases 3 and 4 and make a positive resolution of the episode less likely. The model shows conceptual links with life stage theories of emerging adulthood and early adulthood, and it extends current understandings of the transitional developmental challenges that young adults encounter

Differing instructional needs for children of similar reading achievement grades two, four, and six

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Dynamic Anomalies of Fluids with Isotropic Doubled-Ranged Potential

Using molecular dynamics simulations we investigate the ability of an analytical three-dimensional double well in reproducing static and dynamic anomalies found experimentally in liquid water. We find anomalous behavior in the stable region of the phase diagram if the outer minimum is deeper than the inner minimum. In the case of a deeper inner minimum, anomalous behavior is also present but inside the unstable region.Comment: 10 pages, two figure

Cabozantinib for previously treated radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer: Updated results from the phase 3 COSMIC-311 trial

Cabozantinib; Differentiated thyroid cancer; Tyrosine kinase inhibitorCabozantinib; Cáncer de tiroides diferenciado; Inhibidor de la tirosina quinasaCabozantinib; Càncer de tiroides diferenciat; Inhibidor de la tirosina quinasaBackground At an interim analysis (median follow-up, 6.2 months; n = 187), the phase 3 COSMIC-311 trial met the primary end point of progression-free survival (PFS): cabozantinib improved PFS versus a placebo (median, not reached vs. 1.9 months; p < .0001) in patients with previously treated radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (RAIR-DTC). The results from an exploratory analysis using an extended datacut are presented. Methods Patients 16 years old or older with RAIR-DTC who progressed on prior lenvatinib and/or sorafenib were randomized 2:1 to oral cabozantinib tablets (60 mg/day) or a placebo. Placebo patients could cross over to open-label cabozantinib upon radiographic disease progression. The objective response rate (ORR) in the first 100 randomized patients and the PFS in the intent-to-treat population, both according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1 by blinded, independent review, were the primary end points. Results At the data cutoff (February 8, 2021), 258 patients had been randomized (cabozantinib, n = 170; placebo, n = 88); the median follow-up was 10.1 months. The median PFS was 11.0 months (96% confidence interval [CI], 7.4–13.8 months) for cabozantinib and 1.9 months (96% CI, 1.9–3.7 months) for the placebo (hazard ratio, 0.22; 96% CI, 0.15–0.32; p < .0001). The ORR was 11.0% (95% CI, 6.9%–16.9%) versus 0% (95% CI, 0.0%–4.1%) (p = .0003) with one complete response with cabozantinib. Forty placebo patients crossed over to open-label cabozantinib. Grade 3/4 treatment-emergent adverse events occurred in 62% and 28% of the cabozantinib- and placebo-treated patients, respectively; the most common were hypertension (12% vs. 2%), palmar–plantar erythrodysesthesia (10% vs. 0%), and fatigue (9% vs. 0%). There were no grade 5 treatment-related events. Conclusions At extended follow-up, cabozantinib maintained superior efficacy over a placebo in patients with previously treated RAIR-DTC with no new safety signals.This study was sponsored by Exelixis, Inc., (Alameda, California). We thank the patients and their families, the investigators, and the site staff. Writing and editorial assistance was provided by Alexus Rivas, PharmD, and Michael Raffin (Fishawack Communications, a part of Fishawack Health, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) and was funded by Exelixis

Best Practices for Cataloging Video Games Using RDA and MARC21

While a cataloger with experience handling different formats will find that many concepts extend to video games, there are a few ‘quirks’ to the format that those unfamiliar with video games should know about

Low Birth Weight and Risk of Later-Life Physical Disability in Women

Background: There is strong evidence that low and high birth weight due to in-utero programming results in elevated risk for adult diseases, though less research has been performed examining the influence of birth weight and physical disability later in life. Methods: Baseline data from 76,055 postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative, a large multi-ethnic cohort, were used to examine the association between self-reported birth weight category (<6 lbs, 6-7 lbs 15 oz, 8-9 lbs 15 oz, and ≥10 lbs) and the self-reported physical functioning score on the RAND 36-item Health Survey. Linear regression models were adjusted for age, education, race/ethnicity, body mass index, and a comorbidity score. Results: Unadjusted models indicate that women born in the lowest and highest birth weight categories have significantly lower physical functioning scores as compared to women born in the normal weight category (β = -2.22, p < .0001 and β = -3.56, p < .0001, respectively). After adjustments, the relationship between the lowest birth weight category and physical functioning score remained significant (β = -1.52, p < .0001); however, the association with the highest birth weight category dissipated. Conclusions: Preconception and prenatal interventions aimed at reducing the incidence of low birth weight infants may subsequently reduce the burden of later-life physical disability