Summary Report for the 2005-2006 STATEMAP Project: Geologic Mapping to Support Improved Database Development and Understanding of Urban Corridors, Critical Acquifers. And Special Areas of Environmental Concern in Texas

Eleven geologic maps, 1:24,000 scale, have been constructed for Galveston and Mustang Barrier Islands and for part of the Brazos River Valley and its aquifers. The maps are intended to be used by professionals and laypersons as a source of general geologic information that relates to land and resource use and management. The geologic maps of the barrier islands include (a) Northern Mustang Island (Port Aransas quadrangle), (b) Southern Mustang Island (Crane Islands NW quadrangle), (c) Northeastern Galveston Island (Galveston quadrangle), (d) Central Galveston Island (Lake Como quadrangle), and (e) Southeastern Galveston Island (Sea Isle and San Luis Pass quadrangles). These maps display island wetland and upland geologic environments. Geologic maps of the Brazos River Valley study area include six quadrangles: Baileyville, Hammond, Maysfield, Calvert, Gause, and Hearne South. These maps and cross sections show the geologic framework of the Brazos alluvial aquifer in an area where it intersects three other Texas aquifers: the Carrizo-Wilcox, Queen City, and Sparta.Bureau of Economic Geolog

Development of a Patient-Report Measure of Psychotherapy for Depression

Despite clear indications of need to improve depression treatment, practical tools that efficiently measure psychotherapy are not available. We developed a patient-report measure of psychotherapy for depression that assesses Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Interpersonal (IPT), and Psychodynamic therapies. 420 patients with depression from a large managed behavioral health care organization completed the measure. The three subscales measuring CBT, IPT, and Psychodynamic Therapy showed good internal consistency, appropriate item-total correlations, and were supported by a 3-factor structure. Our results suggest that a patient questionnaire is a promising approach for assessing psychotherapy in quality improvement interventions

Has Behavioral Science Tumbled Through the Biological Looking Glass? Will Brief, Evidence-Based Training Return It From the Rabbit Hole?

Time constraints and professional demands leave practicing professionals unlikely to enroll in extended training such as a semester-long graduate course. Thus, the three-hour continuing education format has become a standard for those in practice. One may ask what sorts of training strategies optimize that format. To explore that, a three hour training program for seventy-six practicing mental health professionals, most of whom self-identified as psychologists, was devised. It made use of primarily antecedent techniques that have been shown to bring about changed perceptions on a number of topics. Content focused on two areas of importance to behavior analysts, the culture’s increasing acceptance of the biological causation model of disorders such as attentiondeficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), unipolar depression, anxiety disorders, and schizophrenia, and the field’s increasing reliance on medications, often to the exclusion of behavioral methods. Pre-post assessment showed that participants had changed their thinking regarding the two content areas. The authors caution that participants’ changed opinions may serve as setting events to changes in practice, but those changes are verbal. One must not assume changes in practice techniques will automatically occur

Proceedings of the 13th annual conference of INEBRIA

CITATION: Watson, R., et al. 2016. Proceedings of the 13th annual conference of INEBRIA. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 11:13, doi:10.1186/s13722-016-0062-9.The original publication is available at https://ascpjournal.biomedcentral.comENGLISH SUMMARY : Meeting abstracts.https://ascpjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13722-016-0062-9Publisher's versio

Overview of Active Flow Control Actuator Development at NASA Langley Research Center

The paper provides an overview of the actuator development work that is currently underway at NASA Langley Research Center in the context of some of the Active Flow Control research being conducted at NASA Langley. The actuator development effort has provided a focused, centralized location for this work within NASA Langley. The multidisciplinary team approach utilized in this effort has allowed input from multiple disciplines on how various actuator challenges can be addressed and has lead to some unique approaches in actuation