Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC) 2015: advancing efficient methodologies through community partnerships and team science

It is well documented that the majority of adults, children and families in need of evidence-based behavioral health interventionsi do not receive them [1, 2] and that few robust empirically supported methods for implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs) exist. The Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC) represents a burgeoning effort to advance the innovation and rigor of implementation research and is uniquely focused on bringing together researchers and stakeholders committed to evaluating the implementation of complex evidence-based behavioral health interventions. Through its diverse activities and membership, SIRC aims to foster the promise of implementation research to better serve the behavioral health needs of the population by identifying rigorous, relevant, and efficient strategies that successfully transfer scientific evidence to clinical knowledge for use in real world settings [3]. SIRC began as a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded conference series in 2010 (previously titled the “Seattle Implementation Research Conference”; $150,000 USD for 3 conferences in 2011, 2013, and 2015) with the recognition that there were multiple researchers and stakeholdersi working in parallel on innovative implementation science projects in behavioral health, but that formal channels for communicating and collaborating with one another were relatively unavailable. There was a significant need for a forum within which implementation researchers and stakeholders could learn from one another, refine approaches to science and practice, and develop an implementation research agenda using common measures, methods, and research principles to improve both the frequency and quality with which behavioral health treatment implementation is evaluated. SIRC’s membership growth is a testament to this identified need with more than 1000 members from 2011 to the present.ii SIRC’s primary objectives are to: (1) foster communication and collaboration across diverse groups, including implementation researchers, intermediariesi, as well as community stakeholders (SIRC uses the term “EBP champions” for these groups) – and to do so across multiple career levels (e.g., students, early career faculty, established investigators); and (2) enhance and disseminate rigorous measures and methodologies for implementing EBPs and evaluating EBP implementation efforts. These objectives are well aligned with Glasgow and colleagues’ [4] five core tenets deemed critical for advancing implementation science: collaboration, efficiency and speed, rigor and relevance, improved capacity, and cumulative knowledge. SIRC advances these objectives and tenets through in-person conferences, which bring together multidisciplinary implementation researchers and those implementing evidence-based behavioral health interventions in the community to share their work and create professional connections and collaborations

Energy transfer processes in monochromatically excited iodine

Measurements of energy transfer rates in monochromatically excited iodine are used to test various theories of vibrational relaxation. The efficiency of vibrational energy transfer is observed to be greatest when the mean duration of the collision is equal to the period of vibration. An explanation for this is given in terms of a time-dependent perturbation theory due to SCHWINGER. Most of the energy transfer models developed for ultrasonic data (viz. : complete LANDAU-TELLER, COTTRELLREAM, SCHWARTZ-SLAWSKY-HERZFELD, RAPP et al.) reproduce this behavior, but the simple LANDAU-TELLER and MILLIKAN-WHITE theories do not.The magnitude of the transition probabilities derived from these models is in only fair agreement with experiment. The problem lies in that calculated values of P01 approach unity as ΔΕ approaches кT, and P(n, n ± 1) is customarily taken as (n + 1 /2 ± 1 /2) P01. In order to conserve probability, a strong-coupling model will be required, such as has been proposed by RAPP and SHARP or SHULER and ZWANZIG.Inclusion of an attractive term in the intermolecular potential contributes a factor of two to three in collision efficiency, but does not alter the dependence on collision times. Three methods of carrying out the BOLTZMANN averaging are compared, namely, steepest-descents approximation, numerical averaging of transition probabilities, and numerical averaging of the rale expressions. These three methods yield essentially consistent results. The observed ratio of Δn = 1 to Δn = 2 efficiencies is given to good accuracy by the square of the exact matrix elements of the intermolecular potential.Several calculations of pure rotational and rotation-vibration energy transfer are also reported

Physical Chemistry II

Elementary statistical mechanics; transport properties; kinetic theory; solid state; reaction rate theory; and chemical reaction dynamics

Convolution and deconvolution of focused beam data in multiphoton decomposition experiments

A method is presented for convoluting and deconvoluting data such as fractional decomposition from laser-driven multi-photon decomposition experiments with focused beams. This method enables one to interconvert analytically, without recourse to numerical integration or the concept of reaction volume, between functions of fluence (for collimated beams) and functions of total pulse energy (for focused beams)