CDI Scores in Pediatric Psychiatric Inpatients: A Brief Retrospective Static Group Comparison

The Children's Depression Inventory is a widely researched and clinically useful measurement tool. However, research on the CDI is limited by an overreliance on outpatient samples. This is unfortunate because the CDI holds potential for use in inpatient settings. Method. This retrospective static group comparison examined the CDI total scores contained in 69 pediatric psychiatric inpatients treated at a large academic medical center. Patients were sorted into static groups (depressive spectrum, nondepressive spectrum) based on their diagnoses at admission. Results. Independent t-tests revealed that the CDI total scores discriminated between patients presenting with depressive spectrum disorders and youngsters admitted with non-depressive disorders. Conclusion. The results suggested that the CDI is a rather dimensional measure, which reflects broad negative affectivity as well as particular depressive symptoms in pediatric psychiatric inpatients

WWU IWS Internship

The IWS performs several roles, both within the university and with external government and non-government organizations. Among these are assistance with student projects, program development, sponsorship of watershed-related seminars, and provision of equipment and knowledge for water quality monitoring and research. One of the main projects of the IWS is the Lake Whatcom monitoring program, a large-scale watershed study that has been collecting data since 1988. During my time with the Institute, I assisted primarily in this project, specifically with the tributary stormwater and lake water quality aspects. I additionally got a chance to help with the start of a new monitoring program for Wiser Lake spearheaded by the Whatcom County Health Department, which is utilizing the IWS lab for analysis of field samples. I have enjoyed no shortage of diversity in my duties, being involved in lab work (dissolved oxygen measurements, chlorophyll filtering and measurements, conductivity and pH measurement

He who dares only wins sometimes: physiological stress and contest behaviour in Xiphophorus helleri

While many factors influence contest outcome and social dominance in animals, there is increasing interest in behavioural-physiological stress-coping styles. Causality, however, is often ambiguous; is physiological state determined by contest outcome orvice versa? Furthermore, experimental protocols may themselves induce stress responses that impact individual behaviour and, thus, potentially contest outcome. Here we test whether latency to recover from acute stress, measured both physiologically and behaviourally, predicts who initiates and who wins dyadic contests between pairs of male green swordtails (Xiphophorous helleri). In line with our predictions, animals that recovered faster (behaviourally) from disturbance created by the experimental protocol prior to meeting an opponent were more likely to initiate contests; however, they were not more likely to win and, contrary to expectations, had higher pre-contest cortisol levels than their opponents. They also showed greater physiological stress responses to the experiment as determined from the difference between pre- and post-contest cortisol levels. Moreover, stress response was independent of whether a contest escalated. In contradiction to evidence found in other taxa and fish systems, the suite of traits that we measured were not correlated in a manner that allowed classification of the animals into the usual reactive and proactive stress-coping styles. Our results suggest that coping style may play a key role in determining which individual initiates a contest, but that other factors govern contest outcome.</jats:p

Abordaje innovador en la integración de actividades curriculares del área digital de la carrera de Ingeniería Electrónica

About fifteen years ago, the Electronic Engineering Department of the National Technological University of Buenos Aires was structured grouping the curricula in Knowledge Areas. One of them was the Digital Area. It was assumed that its contents should be changing continuously with the evolution of the technology so a particular coordination effort should be taken in order to provide to the students a complete understanding base to facilitate their performance in the first professional job or in the access to an investigator career. It was accepted that a real project (including circuit design, simulation, firmware, software design, prototype construction, testing and optimization) should be recommended as mandatory to promote the assignatures. A common functional test should be applied to all the area students to simulate (as near as possible) the evaluation of their projects in a real world job or laboratory.Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

Abordaje innovador en la integración de actividades curriculares del área digital de la carrera de Ingeniería Electrónica

About fifteen years ago, the Electronic Engineering Department of the National Technological University of Buenos Aires was structured grouping the curricula in Knowledge Areas. One of them was the Digital Area. It was assumed that its contents should be changing continuously with the evolution of the technology so a particular coordination effort should be taken in order to provide to the students a complete understanding base to facilitate their performance in the first professional job or in the access to an investigator career. It was accepted that a real project (including circuit design, simulation, firmware, software design, prototype construction, testing and optimization) should be recommended as mandatory to promote the assignatures. A common functional test should be applied to all the area students to simulate (as near as possible) the evaluation of their projects in a real world job or laboratory.Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

Clinical Study CDI Scores in Pediatric Psychiatric Inpatients: A Brief Retrospective Static Group Comparison

The Children&apos;s Depression Inventory is a widely researched and clinically useful measurement tool. However, research on the CDI is limited by an overreliance on outpatient samples. This is unfortunate because the CDI holds potential for use in inpatient settings. Method. This retrospective static group comparison examined the CDI total scores contained in 69 pediatric psychiatric inpatients treated at a large academic medical center. Patients were sorted into static groups (depressive spectrum, nondepressive spectrum) based on their diagnoses at admission. Results. Independent t-tests revealed that the CDI total scores discriminated between patients presenting with depressive spectrum disorders and youngsters admitted with non-depressive disorders. Conclusion. The results suggested that the CDI is a rather dimensional measure, which reflects broad negative affectivity as well as particular depressive symptoms in pediatric psychiatric inpatients

Preserving natural areas in Michigan

Master of ScienceNatural Resources and EnvironmentUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/106270/1/39015043205817.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/106270/2/39015043205817.pdfDescription of 39015043205817.pdf : Restricted to UM users only