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A Personal Experience of Unfolding Self Through Singing
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is linked to the Unconscious, a relationship which has been therapeutically addressed with autogenic training, sometimes leading to transcendent experiences. The ANS is also involved in stored traumatic experiences and must be addressed for the release of stored trauma. Bodily storage of trauma can also involve the vocal apparatus. This report briefly describes a pedagogy of singing that involves the ANS and that lead this writer into an unexpected transcendent experience of self.KEYWORDS: Autonomic, nervous system, vocal, singin
A Personal Experience of Unfolding Self Through Singing
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is linked to the Unconscious, a relationship which has been therapeutically addressed with autogenic training, sometimes leading to transcendent experiences. The ANS is also involved in stored traumatic experiences and must be addressed for the release of stored trauma. Bodily storage of trauma can also involve the vocal apparatus. This report briefly describes a pedagogy of singing that involves the ANS and that lead this writer into an unexpected transcendent experience of self.KEYWORDS: Autonomic, nervous system, vocal, singin
Understanding the Support Needs of Minority Women with Heart Disease
Background. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) affects minority women disproportionately. WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease sought to determine effective ways to support non-Caucasian women with CVD. We surveyed women of color living with CVD to understand their unique CVD-related support needs.
Methods. 514 non-white women (100 Hispanic, 180 African American, 104 Asian, 107 Indigenous, 23 multiracial) with CVD from 46 states responded to a 55-question survey (online/telephone, English/Spanish) 8/28/15 through 9/11/15.
Results. Among respondents not currently attending support groups, 80% were interested in attending support groups. Of WomenHeart services, respondents were most interested in online message boards. Among new services, respondents were most interested in a support group with a medical expert facilitator. Women with tachycardia wanted a support group with others with the same condition. Those with cardiomyopathy preferred to meet most frequently. Respondents most preferred a monthly support group with flexible membership. Community venues were the most popular location for support groups. Indigenous populations had the lowest CVD knowledge and self-efficacy levels, were most likely to prefer a support group with women of their own race, and wished to meet with their groups most frequently. Multiracial women were most likely to have never been told about clinical trials and were least interested in support groups. Hispanics had the least social support.
Conclusions. Minority women with CVD indicated interest in support groups. They may benefit from referrals to tailored support group types, including online platforms facilitated by medical experts, and to cardiac rehabilitation and clinical trials
Momentum flux density, kinetic energy density and their fluctuations for one-dimensional confined gases of non-interacting fermions
We present a Green's function method for the evaluation of the particle
density profile and of the higher moments of the one-body density matrix in a
mesoscopic system of N Fermi particles moving independently in a linear
potential. The usefulness of the method is illustrated by applications to a
Fermi gas confined in a harmonic potential well, for which we evaluate the
momentum flux and kinetic energy densities as well as their quantal mean-square
fluctuations. We also study some properties of the kinetic energy functional
E_{kin}[n(x)] in the same system. Whereas a local approximation to the kinetic
energy density yields a multi-valued function, an exact single-valued
relationship between the density derivative of E_{kin}[n(x)] and the particle
density n(x) is demonstrated and evaluated for various values of the number of
particles in the system.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Temperature dependence of density profiles for a cloud of non-interacting fermions moving inside a harmonic trap in one dimension
We extend to finite temperature a Green's function method that was previously
proposed to evaluate ground-state properties of mesoscopic clouds of
non-interacting fermions moving under harmonic confinement in one dimension. By
calculations of the particle and kinetic energy density profiles we illustrate
the role of thermal excitations in smoothing out the quantum shell structure of
the cloud and in spreading the particle spill-out from quantum tunnel at the
edges. We also discuss the approach of the exact density profiles to the
predictions of a semiclassical model often used in the theory of confined
atomic gases at finite temperature.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Project Reach: Implementation of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Within Integrated Healthcare for Hurricane Harvey Affected Individuals
Project Reach was established to deliver evidence-based mental healthcare services to children and adults affected by Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath. Through Project Reach, an innovative multi-component assessment and treatment service is utilized to identify and treat in integrated healthcare settings both children and adults exhibiting significant behavioral health concerns in Houston. The aim is to provide sustainable, integrated mental health services through primary care and school-based settings to post-Harvey affected individuals whose emotional needs remain unmet. This paper describes the design and implementation of Project Reach as well as special considerations for implementation. The overall goal of Project Reach is to form a platform for expanding integrated services for those affected by Harvey that will maximize behavioral health outcomes while reducing cost and improving access
Highly anisotropic Bose-Einstein condensates: crossover to lower dimensionality
We develop a simple analytical model based on a variational method to explain
the properties of trapped cylindrically symmetric Bose-Einstein condensates
(BEC) of varying degrees of anisotropy well into regimes of effective one
dimension (1D) and effective two dimension (2D). Our results are accurate in
regimes where the Thomas-Fermi approximation breaks down and they are shown to
be in agreement with recent experimental data.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures; significantly more new material added; title and
author-list changed due to changes in conten
Precision spectroscopy with two correlated atoms
We discuss techniques that allow for long coherence times in laser
spectroscopy experiments with two trapped ions. We show that for this purpose
not only entangled ions prepared in decoherence-free subspaces can be used but
also a pair of ions that are not entangled but subject to the same kind of
phase noise. We apply this technique to a measurement of the electric
quadrupole moment of the 3d D5/2 state of 40Ca+ and to a measurement of the
linewidth of an ultrastable laser exciting a pair of 40Ca+ ions
The stellar mass ratio of GK Persei
We study the absorption lines present in the spectra of the long-period
cataclysmic variable GK Per during its quiescent state, which are associated
with the secondary star. By comparing quiescent data with outburst spectra we
infer that the donor star appears identical during the two states and the inner
face of the secondary star is not noticeably irradiated by flux from the
accreting regions. We obtain new values for the radial velocity semi-amplitude
of the secondary star, Kk = 120.5 +- 0.7 km/s, a projected rotational velocity,
Vksin i = 61.5 +- 11.8 km/s and consequently a measurement of the stellar mass
ratio of GK Per, q = Mk/Mwd = 0.55 +- 0.21. The inferred white dwarf radial
velocities are greater than those measured traditionally using the wings of
Doppler-broadened emission lines suspected to originate in an accretion disk,
highlighting the unsuitability of emission lines for mass determinations in
cataclysmic variables. We determine mass limits for both components in the
binary, Mk >= 0.48 +- 0.32 Msolar and Mwd >= 0.87 +- 0.24 Msolar.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted by MNRA
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