The Psychiatry Access Center: A New Opportunity for Innovative Residency Training

A recently introduced PGY-1 rotation in an innovative, managed care oriented program offers many training advantages for residents. The rotation offers first-year residents intensive interviewing-skills training, experience with obtaining and documenting the psychiatric history and physical examination, and in the process, offers early exposure to a managed care environment. The Psychiatry Access Center employs non-resident clinicians to perform urgent evaluations and all admissions to the main psychiatric hospital. The service has been tested successfully without requiring resident work, and therefore allows the integration of residents into the system via a new rotation designed to focus exclusively on educational needs

The MAL Interactors Animator: Supporting model validation through animation

The IVY workbench is a model checking based tool for the analysis of interactive system designs. Experience shows that there is a need to complement the analytic power of model checking with support for model validation and analysis of verification results. Animation of the model provides this support by allowing iterative exploration of its behaviour. This paper introduces a new model animation plugin for the IVY workbench. The plugin (AniMAL) complements the modelling and verification capabilities of IVY by providing users with the possibility to interact directly with the model.The authors wish to thank Michael D. Harrison for comments on an earlier version of this paper. Jose C. Campos acknowledges support from project NanoSTIMA (reference NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000016) financed by the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, and through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

Morphological and molecular characterisation of a mixed Cryptosporidium muris/Cryptosporidium felis infection in a cat

To date Cryptosporidium muris has been identified by microscopy and genotyping in cats in two studies. We report morphological and genetic evidence of a mixed C. muris and C. felis infection in a cat and provide the first histological, immunohistochemical, in situ hybridisation and genetic confirmation of a C. muris infection in the stomach of a cat. The cat suffered persistent diarrhoea after the initial consultation, which remained unresolved, despite several medical interventions. Further studies are required to determine the range, prevalence and clinical impact of Cryptosporidium species infecting cats

Genetic characterization of flea-derived Bartonella species from native animals in Australia suggests host-parasite co-evolution

Fleas are important arthropod vectors for a variety of diseases in veterinary and human medicine, and bacteria belonging to the genus Bartonella are among the organisms most commonly transmitted by these ectoparasites. Recently, a number of novel Bartonella species and novel species candidates have been reported in marsupial fleas in Australia. In the present study the genetic diversity of marsupial fleas was investigated; 10 species of fleas were collected from seven different marsupial and placental mammal hosts in Western Australia including woylies (Bettongia penicillata), western barred bandicoots (Perameles bougainville), mardos (Antechinus flavipes), bush rats (Rattus fuscipes), red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), feral cats (Felis catus) and rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus). PCR and sequence analysis of the cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) and the 18S rRNA genes from these fleas was performed. Concatenated phylogenetic analysis of the COI and 18S rRNA genes revealed a close genetic relationship between marsupial fleas, with Pygiopsylla hilli from woylies, Pygiopsylla tunneyi from western barred bandicoots and Acanthopsylla jordani from mardos, forming a separate cluster from fleas collected from the placental mammals in the same geographical area. The clustering of Bartonella species with their marsupial flea hosts suggests co-evolution of marsupial hosts, marsupial fleas and Bartonella species in Australia

Mass-fraction of oxygen as a predictor of HHV of gaseous, liquid and solid fuels

The higher heating value (HHV) of gaseous, liquid and solid fuels is demonstrated to be a strong function of the mass fraction of oxygen required for combustion, and suitable correlations are proposed to describe this relationship accurately. A 4th order correlation was found to be the best for estimating HHV as an all-purpose correlation with a root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 1.2 MJ/kg, coefficient of determination (R2) value of 0.9900 and mean bias error (MBE) of 0.40 %. A 3rd order correlation was as accurate with an RMSE of 1.2 MJ/kg, R2 value of 0.9898 and an MBE of – 0.16 %. In addition, the linear relationship between the HHV and oxygen required for combustion on a mole basis is demonstrated and an alternative mole-based correlation is proposed. A total of 311 HHV data from various sources are used to validate these correlations and 13 other correlations available in the literature are used for further comparison.The Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa (PAMSA), as well as the guidance and resources provided by the Future Energy Cluster at the Mäladalens Högskola, Sweden.http://www.elsevier.com/locate/procediaam2018Chemical Engineerin

A survey of spinning test particle orbits in Kerr spacetime

We investigate the dynamics of the Papapetrou equations in Kerr spacetime. These equations provide a model for the motion of a relativistic spinning test particle orbiting a rotating (Kerr) black hole. We perform a thorough parameter space search for signs of chaotic dynamics by calculating the Lyapunov exponents for a large variety of initial conditions. We find that the Papapetrou equations admit many chaotic solutions, with the strongest chaos occurring in the case of eccentric orbits with pericenters close to the limit of stability against plunge into a maximally spinning Kerr black hole. Despite the presence of these chaotic solutions, we show that physically realistic solutions to the Papapetrou equations are not chaotic; in all cases, the chaotic solutions either do not correspond to realistic astrophysical systems, or involve a breakdown of the test-particle approximation leading to the Papapetrou equations (or both). As a result, the gravitational radiation from bodies spiraling into much more massive black holes (as detectable, for example, by LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) should not exhibit any signs of chaos.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev. D. Follow-up to gr-qc/0210042. Figures are low-resolution in order to satisfy archive size constraints; a high-resolution version is available at http://www.michaelhartl.com/papers

Pyrolysis oil composition and catalytic activity estimated by cumulative mass analysis using Py-GC/MS EGA-MS

Please read abstract in the article.The Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa (PAMSA)http://www.elsevier.com/locate/energy2021-11-28hj2021Chemical Engineerin

Obesity and dental caries in childhood: trends in prevalence and socio-economic inequalities: a multi-cohort population-wide data linkage study

Objectives: To quantify levels of coexisting obesity and caries experience in children in Scotland, and any associated socioeconomic inequalities over the years 2011/2012–2017/2018. Design: A multicohort population-wide data linkage study. Setting: Local authority primary schools in Scotland. Patients: 335 361 primary 1 (approximately 5 years old) schoolchildren in Scotland between 2011/2012 and 2017/2018. Main outcome measures: Prevalence and inequalities in coexisting caries and obesity. Results: The prevalence of coexisting obesity and caries experience was 3.4% (n=11 494 of 335 361) and did not change over the 7 years. Children living in the 20% most deprived areas had more than sixfold greater odds of coexisting obesity and caries experience than children from the 20% least deprived areas (adjusted OR=6.63 (95% CI=6.16 to 7.14; p<0.001)). There was a large persistent socioeconomic gradient across the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation groups, with the Slope and Relative Indices of Inequality remaining unchanged over the 7 cohort years. Conclusions: Despite improvements in oral health in children in Scotland, the prevalence of coexisting obesity and caries experience has remained static, with large persistent inequalities. These conditions are likely to signal increased risk of chronic conditions including multimorbidity in adulthood and therefore early identification of children most at risk and timely intervention tackling common risk factors should be developed and evaluated

Obesity and dental caries in childhood : trends in prevalence and socioeconomic inequalities - a multicohort population-wide data linkage study

Objectives To quantify levels of coexisting obesity and caries experience in children in Scotland, and any associated socioeconomic inequalities over the years 2011/2012–2017/2018. Design A multicohort population-wide data linkage study. Setting Local authority primary schools in Scotland. Patients 335 361 primary 1 (approximately 5 years old) schoolchildren in Scotland between 2011/2012 and 2017/2018. Main outcome measures Prevalence and inequalities in coexisting caries and obesity. Results The prevalence of coexisting obesity and caries experience was 3.4% (n=11 494 of 335 361) and did not change over the 7 years. Children living in the 20% most deprived areas had more than sixfold greater odds of coexisting obesity and caries experience than children from the 20% least deprived areas (adjusted OR=6.63 (95% CI=6.16 to 7.14; p<0.001)). There was a large persistent socioeconomic gradient across the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation groups, with the Slope and Relative Indices of Inequality remaining unchanged over the 7 cohort years. Conclusions Despite improvements in oral health in children in Scotland, the prevalence of coexisting obesity and caries experience has remained static, with large persistent inequalities. These conditions are likely to signal increased risk of chronic conditions including multimorbidity in adulthood and therefore early identification of children most at risk and timely intervention tackling common risk factors should be developed and evaluated

Oxygen consumption as the definitive factor in predicting heat of combustion

Please read abstract in the article.The Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa (PAMSA), as well as the guidance and resources provided by the Future Energy Cluster at the Mäladalens Högskola, Sweden.http://www.elsevier.com/locate/apenergy2020-02-01hj2018Chemical Engineerin