A man from San Juan: facial approximation within anthropology

Dentro de la antropología y la identificación forense, la aproximación facial (también conocida como "reconstrucción facial") se presenta frecuentemente como un hecho consumado, con evidencia mínima de las investigaciones y los métodos usados para alcanzar los resultados. Este trabajo presenta un panorama detallado de la investigación y los métodos usados para realizar una aproximación facial grafica en 2D de un hombre prehistórico del valle de Jachal, provincia de San Juan, Argentina. Se entiende que corresponde a un miembro del extinto grupo Huarpe. El cráneo del individuo muestra numerosos rasgos morfológicos que son consistentes con lo que se conoce acerca de este grupo de agricultores tempranos americanos. Debido a que muchos de los métodos utilizados en esta reconstrucción facial aun no han sido verificados y aquellos que han sido debidamente probados se basan en promedios estadísticos de la variación humana, los resultados presentados deben ser vistos como indicativos de la posible apariencia facial del individuo dado el nivel actual de conocimiento, más que como un resultado definitivo.Within both anthropology and forensic identification, a facial approximation (also known as "facial reconstruction") is often presented as an accomplished fact, with minimal, or no evidence of the research and methods used to achieve the result. This paper presents a detailed overview of the research and methods used for a 2D computer graphic facial approximation of a prehistoric man unearthed in the Jachal Valley, San Juan Province, Argentina. Understood to be a member of the extinct Huarpe, this individual's skull displays many of the morphological features that are consistent with what is known about this group of early Amerindian farmers. Because many of the recommended methods that inform this facial approximation have yet to be verified, and those that have been appropriately tested are based on statistical averages of human variation, the results need to be viewed as indicative of this individual's possible facial appearance using current levels of knowledge, rather than as a definitive result.Asociación de Antropología Biológica de la República Argentin

Hepatitis C Screening

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the most common blood-borne pathogen in the United States. The “Baby Boomer” population, adults born between the years 1945 and 1965, is considered a high-risk population as 75% of adults with HCV were born within this timeframe. The U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) made it a Grade B recommendation in 2013 for all adults born in this birth cohort to be screened for HCV even if asymptomatic. Hepatitis C virus is associated with many negative sequela including liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and death. With successful treatment regimens available that yield a 90-100% cure rate, it is prudent and recommended to screen this birth cohort. Eagle Ridge Medical located in Brighton, Colorado and its sister clinic located in Fort Lupton, Colorado do not currently have a standardized approach for HCV screening of this population. The researcher of this project has therefore implemented an approach for screening that includes an electronic health record (EHR) initiation of a screening alert (reminder) for the four physicians at these clinics. She also mailed an informative letter to this population that included information about the national recommendation and screening of this birth cohort in an attempt to increase screening rates at these organizations. This birth cohort includes adults born between the years 1945 and 1965. iv The researcher performed a chart audit of 5% of this population that included 1,906 patients in this birth cohort (N = 95) both before and after implementation of this project to compare screening rates. The researcher also performed a chart audit on patients who were seen in both of these clinics six weeks prior and six weeks after project implementation; 466 patients were seen in the six weeks prior to implementation and three of them had been screened for HCV (0.6%) and 421 patients were seen in the six weeks after the project implementation and 57 of them had been screened for HCV (13.5%). The researcher anticipated screening rates would increase after this project had been implemented--they did as they rose by 4.1% using the 5% systematic sampling method and 12.9% during the six-week study period in which one positive result was noted. Many of the individuals born within this population have many years left to live if successfully treated and ultimately deserve the opportunity to be screened for HCV and treated accordingly. The effects of this study are expected to have a positive impact for the future of this birth cohort. Identifying patients who are positive for HCV will allow them the opportunity for treatment and a high potential of HCV eradication as there is a 90-100% cure rate

A man from San Juan: facial approximation within anthropology

Dentro de la antropología y la identificación forense, la aproximación facial (también conocida como "reconstrucción facial") se presenta frecuentemente como un hecho consumado, con evidencia mínima de las investigaciones y los métodos usados para alcanzar los resultados. Este trabajo presenta un panorama detallado de la investigación y los métodos usados para realizar una aproximación facial grafica en 2D de un hombre prehistórico del valle de Jachal, provincia de San Juan, Argentina. Se entiende que corresponde a un miembro del extinto grupo Huarpe. El cráneo del individuo muestra numerosos rasgos morfológicos que son consistentes con lo que se conoce acerca de este grupo de agricultores tempranos americanos. Debido a que muchos de los métodos utilizados en esta reconstrucción facial aun no han sido verificados y aquellos que han sido debidamente probados se basan en promedios estadísticos de la variación humana, los resultados presentados deben ser vistos como indicativos de la posible apariencia facial del individuo dado el nivel actual de conocimiento, más que como un resultado definitivo.Within both anthropology and forensic identification, a facial approximation (also known as "facial reconstruction") is often presented as an accomplished fact, with minimal, or no evidence of the research and methods used to achieve the result. This paper presents a detailed overview of the research and methods used for a 2D computer graphic facial approximation of a prehistoric man unearthed in the Jachal Valley, San Juan Province, Argentina. Understood to be a member of the extinct Huarpe, this individual's skull displays many of the morphological features that are consistent with what is known about this group of early Amerindian farmers. Because many of the recommended methods that inform this facial approximation have yet to be verified, and those that have been appropriately tested are based on statistical averages of human variation, the results need to be viewed as indicative of this individual's possible facial appearance using current levels of knowledge, rather than as a definitive result.Asociación de Antropología Biológica de la República Argentin

A Mixed Methods Perspective: How Integral Leaders Can Contribute to the Growth of Emerging Leaders

Given that organizational complexity continues to increase, leaders are looking for credible information, and a process that helps them become a better leader. Emerging leaders are faced with trying to be the best leader they can be while leading teams of people who think and act differently from them. To assist emerging leaders with their leadership, this study explores the literature and looks to highly respected and admired leaders for how they became the leader they are today. The purpose of this study was fourfold: first, to identify and describe first and second tier integral theory leaders from a sample of leader respondents from a U.S. Midwestern city; second, to describe how first and second tier integral theory leaders define leadership; third, to determine what second tier integral leaders see as leading to their becoming the leader they are today; and fourth, to identify the integral leader’s perspectives and advice that can be shared with emerging leaders. This study focused on the convergent space of three theories. The first theory is the field of adult development theory with transformational leadership, the constructive-developmental theories, and meaning making; the second is the field of integral theory with Wilber’s all quadrants, all levels (AQAL) theory, and first and second tier consciousness; and the last is the hero’s journey as described by Joseph Campbell, and the quest for truth. The (AQAL) framework was used in a mixed methods perspective to explore how people assessed as integral leaders defined leadership, developed into integral leaders, and how they can contribute to the growth of emerging leaders. This study was dual-phased: Phase 1 was a quantitative and qualitative survey completed by 624 leaders, and Phase 2 was a telephone interview with eight integral leaders. From the thematic analysis of all the data, four themes emerged: looking inward, looking outward, being a good leader and paying it forward by mentoring others. Implications for emerging leaders, leadership and change, and future research are discussed. This ETD is available in open access in OhioLink ETD, http://ohiolink.edu/Center and AURA http://aura.antioch.edu

Faces of the Teouma Lapita People: Art, Accuracy and Facial Approximation

In 2008 we completed facial approximations of four individuals from the early Lapita Culture, a seafaring people who were the first to settle the islands of the Western Pacific circa 3000 years ago. Typically an approximation is performed as a 3D sculpture or using computer graphics. We chose to sketch what we have been able to determine from the remains because the artistic conventions of drawing work with visual perception in ways that are more complementary to the knowledge, theories and methods that make up the facial approximation of human remains

Prevalence of Cyberbullying among Traditional Undergraduate Students Attending Faith-Based Universities: A Causal-Comparative Study

Cyberbullying among traditional undergraduate students is a relatively new issue that involves the safety of postsecondary students. The purpose of this study was to provide statistical data to faith-based universities that relate the prevalence of cyberbullying victimization experiences and the prevalence of cyberbullying offending experiences of traditional undergraduate students to biological gender (female/male) and level of religiosity (higher/lower), and to add to the small body of research conducted among this demographic. In this quantitative, causal-comparative study, traditional undergraduate students were recruited from two faith-based universities in the southern United States. Level of religiosity and cyberbullying prevalence were determined through responses to an anonymous, online survey using the Duke University Religion Index (DUREL) and the Cyberbullying and Online Aggression Survey (COAS), respectively. The researcher utilized two separate two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) to analyze the data. The study had 284 participants that included 180 female students and 104 male students. Findings indicated that gender and level of religiosity did not have a significant effect on the prevalence of cyberbullying experiences scores among traditional undergraduate students attending faith-based universities. The results contribute to the growing body of knowledge on the prevalence of cyberbullying experiences among university students. Future research on the prevalence of cyberbullying experiences among university students could include comparing secular and faith-based universities and investigating cyberbullying prevalence at faith-based universities in different parts of the United States

Police witness identification images: a geometric morphometric analysis

Research into witness identification images typically occurs within the laboratory and involves subjective likeness and recognizability judgments. This study analyzed whether actual witness identification images systematically alter the facial shapes of the suspects described. The shape analysis tool, geometric morphometrics, was applied to 46 homologous facial landmarks displayed on 50 witness identification images and their corresponding arrest photographs, using principal component analysis and multivariate regressions. The results indicate that compared with arrest photographs, witness identification images systematically depict suspects with lowered and medially located eyebrows (p