Commentary on Haberstick et al . (2011): Dizziness upon initial experimentation with cigarettes – implications for smoking persistence

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Epidemiology of hypertension and associated cardiovascular risk factors in a country in transition: a population based survey in Tirana City, Albania.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors on the adult population of Tirana City (Albania). DESIGN: Cross sectional survey. SETTING: Tirana City in mid-2001. PARTICIPANTS: 1120 adults aged 25 years and over (response rate=72.7%). MAIN RESULTS: Overall, hypertension prevalence (blood pressure =140 and/or 90 mm Hg, or known hypertensive receiving anti-hypertensive treatment) was 31.8% (36.6% and 27.4% in men and women respectively). Age standardised prevalence of hypertension (adjusted to the adult population of Tirana) was 30.2% (99% confidence intervals 29.8% to 30.6%) in men and 22.7% (22.3% to 23.1%) in women. Men were significantly more likely to be hypertensive than women (p value=0.001). Of those who had been diagnosed with hypertension, 87% were receiving anti-hypertensive therapy and more than half of them (52%) were adequately controlled. The prevalence of hypertension increased with increasing age and was more common in the obese in both sexes. While the prevalence of hypertension matched that in other industrialised and transition countries, the combination of hypertension with other cardiovascular risk factors was rather less common. CONCLUSION: These findings provide important new evidence on the prevalence of hypertension and its association with other cardiovascular risk factors in Albania. Albania is in a state of rapid transition, with evidence that risk factors for non-communicable diseases have already increased considerably over the past two decades. These finding provide a unique baseline against which future change can be compared

Mental Illness Awareness in the State of New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a small state with 1.36 million people reported in 2019. In New Hampshire, 4% of adults live with serious mental health conditions, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression (Resources to Recover, 2020). The National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) has a chapter in New Hampshire to help support, promote, and educate on the topic of mental illness. I would like to partner my effort with NAMI NH and also with the STAMP OUT STIGMA Campaign through the Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness (ABHW) to bring greater awareness of serious mental illness (SMI) and any mental illness (AMI) to New Hampshire

Missing Narratives: Racial Inequities in Social Studies Curriculum

Pomerleau, A. (2020) Missing Narratives: Racial Inequities in Social Studies Curriculum The education system in the United States, like the government, is built on inequitable systems, where those in charge of the narratives, policies, and institutions are overwhelmingly White. Traditional textbooks and instructional materials are also White-centric, telling the histories of White men and the systems they created. However, this White-centric education does not support the increasingly diverse set of students in schools today. With this in mind, the research was framed by this question: As a White educator, how can I provide learning opportunities for students to explore alternative narratives and address racial inequities that government systems create and perpetuate in order to strengthen their understanding of power and democracy? In order to tackle such a complex question, the research was broken into three sections. The first section focuses on historical narratives that are often absent from a traditional White-centric education. This will help provide necessary sociopolitical context for understanding topics and concepts within a civics course. The second section contains research on how to acknowledge, process, and discuss race and racism, as well as what it means to be anti-racist. The final section is an attempt to integrate the aforementioned topics (historical content and discussions on race) into a culturally responsive approach to teaching government. The research is focused on silenced Black narratives, since many government policies and racist systems were built on anti-Blackness. The research then informed the creation of a unit curriculum design focused on historical and modern voter suppression. The curriculum was created using Backward Design from Wiggins and McTighe, and conceptual learning and Hammond’s approach to culturally responsive teaching is used as a framework for instruction and assessments. The overarching goal for this course was: students will be able to identify systemic patterns, in government and society, using a diverse set of narratives, in order to inform their civic debate, discussion, and decisions. This writing includes rationale and research for the curriculum design project, as well as major learnings, limitations, and implications of the project. (330 words

Alien Registration- Pomerleau, Yvonne (Auburn, Androscoggin County)

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Lidar Measurement Bias Estimation via Return Waveform Modelling in a Context of 3D Mapping

In a context of 3D mapping, it is very important to get accurate measurements from sensors. In particular, Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) measurements are typically treated as a zero-mean Gaussian distribution. We show that this assumption leads to predictable localisation drifts, especially when a bias related to measuring obstacles with high incidence angles is not taken into consideration. Moreover, we present a way to physically understand and model this bias, which generalises to multiple sensors. Using an experimental setup, we measured the bias of the Sick LMS151, Velodyne HDL-32E, and Robosense RS-LiDAR-16 as a function of depth and incidence angle, and showed that the bias can go up to 20 cm for high incidence angles. We then used our modelisations to remove the bias from the measurements, leading to more accurate maps and a reduced localisation drift.Comment: IEEE Copyrights: 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes,creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other work