From Beyond the Stars: Innovation and Inspiration in Meiji Japanese Art, 1868-1912

Design by Tom Wagner. Photography by the Kruizenga Art Museum, Tom Wagner, and Curatorial Assistance/WorldBridge Art, Inc. Produced by Storming the Castle Pictures (StCP) for the Kruizenga Art Museum as a catalogue for the exhibition, From Beyond the Stars, August 29 - December 16, 2017. Photographs, text and design copyright 2017 Hope College and Tom Wagner, no reproduction or use of any material, in whole or in part, without the written permission of Hope College.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_catalogs/1001/thumbnail.jp

Re-viewing Adult Learning: A Collaborative Self-Directed Learning Model for Adult Educators

The CSDL model for adult education suggests the incorporation of autonomy and collaboration to traditional SDL. An exploratry model that addresses individual and group choice, control, resources and benefits is proposed

Association of Over-The-Counter Pharmaceutical Sales with Influenza-Like-Illnesses to Patient Volume in an Urgent Care Setting

We studied the association between OTC pharmaceutical sales and volume of patients with influenza-like-illnesses (ILI) at an urgent care center over one year. OTC pharmaceutical sales explain 36% of the variance in the patient volume, and each standard deviation increase is associated with 4.7 more patient visits to the urgent care center (p<0.0001). Cross-correlation function analysis demonstrated that OTC pharmaceutical sales are significantly associated with patient volume during non-flu season (p<0.0001), but only the sales of cough and cold (p<0.0001) and thermometer (p<0.0001) categories were significant during flu season with a lag of two and one days, respectively. Our study is the first study to demonstrate and measure the relationship between OTC pharmaceutical sales and urgent care center patient volume, and presents strong evidence that OTC sales predict urgent care center patient volume year round. © 2013 Liu et al

Interactions Between Transient and Sustained Neural Signals Support the Generation and Regulation of Anxious Emotion

Anxious emotion can manifest on brief (threat response) and/or persistent (chronic apprehension and arousal) timescales, and prior work has suggested that these signals are supported by separable neural circuitries. This fMRI study utilized a mixed block-event–related emotional provocation paradigm in 55 healthy participants to simultaneously measure brief and persistent anxious emotional responses, testing the specificity of, and interactions between, these potentially distinct systems. Results indicated that components of emotional processing networks were uniquely sensitive to transient and sustained anxious emotion. Whereas the amygdala and midbrain showed only transient responses, the ventral basal forebrain and anterior insula showed sustained activity during extended emotional contexts that tracked positively with task-evoked anxiety. States of lesser anxiety were associated with greater sustained activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Furthermore, ventromedial prefrontal recruitment was lower in individuals with higher scores on intolerance of uncertainty measures, and this hyporecruitment predicted greater transient amygdala responding to potential threat cues. This work demonstrates how brain circuitries interact across temporal scales to support brief and persistent anxious emotion and suggests potentially divergent mechanisms of dysregulation in clinical syndromes marked by brief versus persistent symptoms of anxiety.Psycholog

Sea-ice information and forecast needs for industry maritime stakeholders

Profound changes in Arctic sea-ice, a growing desire to utilize the Arctic’s abundant natural resources, and the potential competitiveness of Arctic shipping routes, all provide for increased industry marine activity throughout the Arctic Ocean. This is anticipated to result in further challenges for maritime safety. Those operating in ice-infested waters require various types of information for sea-ice and iceberg hazards. Ice information requirements depend on regional needs and whether the stakeholder wants to avoid ice all together, operate near or in the Marginal Ice Zone, or areas within the ice pack. An insight into user needs demonstrates how multiple spatial and temporal resolutions for sea-ice information and forecasts are necessary to provide information to the marine operating community for safety, planning, and situational awareness. Although ship-operators depend on sea-ice information for tactical navigation, stakeholders working in route and capacity planning can benefit from climatological and long-range forecast information at lower spatial and temporal resolutions where the interest is focused on open-water season. The advent of the Polar Code has brought with it additional information requirements, and exposed gaps in capacity and knowledge. Thus, future satellite data sources should be at resolutions that support both tactical and planning activities

PenQuest Volume 3, Number 1

The Table of Contents for this Volume: Untitled by R. Bruce Warner Seeing the Unseen by Sharon Gresham Untitled by Helen Hagadorn Untitled by Steve Balunan Happy Holidays by Donna Kaluzniak River-walking, Night-talking by William Slaughter Ribbon of Light by Judith Mizrahi Love in Parentheses by Sharon Gresham Untitled by Steve Balunan Protohistory by Patricia Kraft Untitled by Bruce Abbey Untitled by Rick Wagner Thanatopsis by Pat Kraft Untitled by Sue Hightower Untitled by Rick Wagner Conversations of a Woman by Sharon Gresham Thur, Fri, Sat, at Mr. B\u27s by Patricia Kraft Untitled by Rick Wagner Untitled by Cindy Carlisle Untitled by Win Lyons Untitled by Cindy Carlisle Untitled by Modesta Matthews Untitled by James Tutten A Light at Mill Pond Crossing by Joe Palmer Untitled by Rick Wagner Two People by Kathleen Gay Untitled by Rick Wagner American Dream (Russian Version) by William Slaughter Untitled by Judith Mizrahi Untitled by Linda Willco