The red road meets the information superhighway : using telehealth technology for psychological services in a northern Aboriginal community

From September 2000 through May 2001, a team of two psychologists and two psychology graduate students (myself included) from the University of Saskatchewan delivered a variety of psychological services to a remote reserve community in northern Saskatchewan via telehealth from the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon. Using telehealth, we provided psychoeducational information, therapy, assessments, case consultations and support services to Aboriginal health workers in this community. The present study is an evaluation of the use of telehealth in the delivery of psychological services to remote reserve communities. A semi-structured interview was employed to gain knowledge about the experiences of people involved in this telehealth project as well as the insights, thoughts and beliefs of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal mental health workers regarding the use of telehealth with remote communities. In total, eight interviews were conducted for this study. Results indicate that although telehealth technology was seen as positive, psychology is often perceived in a negative manner by Aboriginal people. Due to this disconnection between Aboriginal people and Western psychology, psychological service provision with telehealth needs to be considered in conjunction with building relationships and trust in the community. Despite the difficulties, the results indicate that there is much that can be gained by providing psychological services to remote Aboriginal communities via telehealth

Sites of Cultural Production in Response to Mass Extinction

This conversation, mediated by Tara Nicholson, considers Stephanie Turner and EvaMarie Lindahl’s research in cultural representations of extinction and investigations of more-than-human forms of storytelling through an art historical lens. In response to Lori Gruen’s classification, extinction is a distinctive loss of ‘animal cultures’. It is more than biodiversity destruction or a static inventory of a species’ death. Nonhuman ways of building bonds, reproducing, teaching offspring, constructing homes and mourning the dead, are all systems of knowledge lost in extinction (Gruen et al. 2017). This conversation offers compassionate ways of bearing witness to species destruction and a space for empathy and kinship. The authors ask, how can dialogue between science and art lead to new understandings of the ‘wicked problem’ of mass extinction during climate crisis? Examining methodologies of cross-disciplinary storytelling and cultural production, this exchange connects museum practice, large-scale public artworks and artistic research as types of embodied knowledge to promote public awareness surrounding the acceleration of species extinction

Design, development and deployment of a software platform for real-time reporting in the west of Scotland demersal fleet : FIS032

Acknowledgements We thank the co-funders (FIS, SFO, Scottish White Fish Producers Association, Seafish and the University of Aberdeen), the participating POs and the participating fishers for being willing to take a chance on RTR. Critical early support was given by D. Anderson (Aberdeen Fish Producers Organisation) and M. Park (SWFPA). K. Haflinger (Sea State Inc., Seattle, USA) generously shared valuable insights about the use of RTR on the west coast. C. Asare is thanked for his concerted efforts trying to “catch” fishers to be interviewed in 2019. C. Needle (Marine Scotland Science) kick-started interest in mapping unwanted catch of juvenile cod in the North Sea.Publisher PD

Evolve therapeutic services: a 5-year outcome study of children and young people in out-of-home care with complex and extreme behavioural and mental health problems

Background: Little evaluation research has been conducted on the effectiveness of services and intervention provided to children in out-of-home care. This study evaluated an innovative Queensland, Australia program employing a collaborative wrap-round model of care in combination with a flexible intervention approach, individually tailored to children and young people in out-of-home care presenting with complex and extreme behavioural and mental health problems

Z-Pinch Pulsed Plasma Propulsion Technology Development

Fusion-based propulsion can enable fast interplanetary transportation. Magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) is an approach which has been shown to potentially lead to a low cost, small reactor for fusion break even. The Z-Pinch/dense plasma focus method is an MIF concept in which a column of gas is compressed to thermonuclear conditions by an axial current (I approximates 100 MA). Recent advancements in experiments and the theoretical understanding of this concept suggest favorable scaling of fusion power output yield as I(sup 4). This document presents a conceptual design of a Z-Pinch fusion propulsion system and a vehicle for human exploration. The purpose of this study is to apply Z-Pinch fusion principles to the design of a propulsion system for an interplanetary spacecraft. This study took four steps in service of that objective; these steps are identified below. 1. Z-Pinch Modeling and Analysis: There is a wealth of literature characterizing Z-Pinch physics and existing Z-Pinch physics models. In order to be useful in engineering analysis, simplified Z-Pinch fusion thermodynamic models are required to give propulsion engineers the quantity of plasma, plasma temperature, rate of expansion, etc. The study team developed these models in this study. 2. Propulsion Modeling and Analysis: While the Z-Pinch models characterize the fusion process itself, propulsion models calculate the parameters that characterize the propulsion system (thrust, specific impulse, etc.) The study team developed a Z-Pinch propulsion model and used it to determine the best values for pulse rate, amount of propellant per pulse, and mixture ratio of the D-T and liner materials as well as the resulting thrust and specific impulse of the system. 3. Mission Analysis: Several potential missions were studied. Trajectory analysis using data from the propulsion model was used to determine the duration of the propulsion burns, the amount of propellant expended to complete each mission considered. 4. Vehicle Design: To understand the applicability of Z-Pinch propulsion to interplanetary travel, it is necessary to design a concept vehicle that uses it -- the propulsion system significantly impacts the design of the electrical, thermal control, avionics and structural subsystems of a vehicle. The study team developed a conceptual design of an interplanetary vehicle that transports crew and cargo to Mars and back and can be reused for other missions. Several aspects of this vehicle are based on a previous crewed fusion vehicle study -- the Human Outer Planet Exploration (HOPE) Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) vehicle. Portions of the vehicle design were used outright and others were modified from the MTF design in order to maintain comparability

Design of Z-Pinch and Dense Plasma Focus Powered Vehicles

Z-pinch and Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) are two promising techniques for bringing fusion power to the field of in-space propulsion. A design team comprising of engineers and scientists from UAHuntsville, NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of Wisconsin developed concept vehicles for a crewed round trip mission to Mars and an interstellar precursor mission. Outlined in this paper are vehicle concepts, complete with conceptual analysis of the mission profile, operations, structural and thermal analysis and power/avionics design. Additionally engineering design of the thruster itself is included. The design efforts adds greatly to the fidelity of estimates for power density (alpha) and overall performance for these thruster concept

Traumatic brain injuries and problem gambling in youth: Evidence from a population-based study of secondary students in Ontario, Canada

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is characterized by a change in brain function after an external force or sudden movement to the head. TBI is associated with risk-taking, impulsivity, psychological distress, substance abuse, and violent crime. Previous studies have also linked problem gambling to TBI, but these studies have not controlled for possible confounding variables such as mental health problems and hazardous drinking which are also linked to TBI. This study examines the relationship between problem gambling and TBI among adolescents. Data were obtained from the 2011, 2013 and 2015 cycles of the OSDUHS, a biennial cross-sectional school-based study of children in grades 7 to 12 (N = 9,198). Logistic regression was used to estimate adjusted odds ratios (AOR) in controlled and uncontrolled analyses. Adjusting for sex and grade only, problem gambling was associated with a history of TBI (AOR = 2.8). This association remained significant after adjusting for hazardous drinking and suicidality (AOR = 2.0). In addition, problem gambling had a statistically significant relationship with being male (AOR = 4.7), hazardous drinking (AOR = 4.5), and suicidality (AOR = 3.1). This study provides further data to suggest a link between TBI and problem gambling. However, research is needed on the causal relationship between these variables and the potential implications for treatment and prevention

Mass Determination Method for the Right and Left Selectron Above Production Threshold

The determination of the masses of Supersymmetric particles such as the Selectron for energies above threshold using the energy end-points method is subject to signal deconvolution difficulties and to Standard Model and Supersymmetric backgrounds. The important features of Right and Left Selectron production are used to design an experimentally robust method both for determining the Left and Right Selectron masses, the Neutralino mass and for suppresing backgrounds. The mass resolution is an order of magnitude better than in previous methods. Additional features, such as the determination of the relative leptonic branching ratios of the selectron decay are present in the method.Comment: 4 pages in RevTex (Latex) format and 4 figures in eps forma