The Impact of the Justice & Treatment Industry upon my Father—A Researched Auto-Ethnography

In this researched memoir, I will be writing about my childhood growing up with my father being incarcerated and a drug addict. I’m writing about my story to let everyone know it isn’t easy but you can get through it and there are a lot more children and families that go through this too. I’m also going to bring in my dad’s perspective a little bit while throwing in research on the recovery process and the stages, the brain, and the justice system. I chose to write about my experience and emotional struggles to show readers that addiction and the subsequent consequences are much more common than people think. As a means of demonstrating the reality of addiction, I go in depth about my father’s addiction and how it affected my life and what I experienced with certain experiences. Some things I will be writing about are the differences between visiting my dad in jail, in prison, or in a rehabilitation center and how I feel within all of them and any differences between these systems. As I write about these experiences I will bring in statistics about certain experiences in my story and also research on certain things like the steps needed for the recovery process for an addict. I also describe how my dad has a cycle of abstinence and relapse he tends to follow every time he gets out from being incarcerated and I found research that writes about what kind of signs to look out for when a recovering addict is close to relapsing or already relapsed. I start from the very beginning when I was born to present day experiences and things I was told by my grandparents when I was too young to remember. Therefore, my researched auto-ethnography is written in a way that tells my story and I input research to either back up my story or to give more knowledge on certain things that I don’t know a lot on. As far as my research nothing was really different from my own experiences there were some parts where I strongly agree or disagree with authors and you will see what it is in my paper. All my sources are peer reviewed or otherwise reliable due to editorial oversight or industry review

The Effect of Letter Transposition on Reading Comprehension

Richard HarrisThis study examined the effect of letter transposition on reading comprehension. Since reading comprehension depends heavily on word recognition, by measuring the efficiency of reading comprehension, insight can be gained as to whether consonants or vowels are used as more important landmarks when distinguishing words. Previous research has shown that transposed letter (TL) non-words are processed quicker than replacement letter (RL) non-words. The results of this study indicate that there is no significant difference overall between the processing speed of sentences with transposed consonants and sentences with transposed vowels, though the data do indicate a trend toward processing occurring faster when vowels were transposed. However, though processing speed was faster, accuracy of remembering the sentence was lower. This is commonly referred to as the speed/accuracy tradeoff

In Vitro Analysis of the Thyroid Hormone Receptor in Mitochondrial Transcription

The central dogma theory relates how DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNAs) and then translated into proteins. Since the nucleus contains the majority of the DNA in cells, research related to transcription and translation focuses on these processes within the nucleus and cytosol; however, these processes are also taking place within the mitochondrial organelle. Mitochondria are most widely known for their essential role in producing energy for the cell, but the organelle also contains its own small, circular genome. Transcription of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) follows similar mechanisms as does transcription of nuclear DNA. During this essential process, specific mitochondrial transcription factors, such as TFAM and TFB2M, regulate the attachment of the mitochondrial RNA polymerase (POLRMT) to the promoter and initiation of transcription. With a fully functioning mitochondrial RNA polymerase, transcription is properly conducted, and transcripts can be translated to protein by the mitochondrial ribosome. Mitochondrial transcription is a major regulatory process within the organelle, and determining transcription factors involved in this control point is important for understanding mitochondrial function and many diseases relating to mitochondrial dysfunction. Numerous transcription factors are found both in the nucleus as well as in the mitochondria where their function is not well understood. One such transcription factor is the thyroid hormone receptor. Previous research suggests that when the hormone triiodothyronine (T3) is present and taken up in cells, mitochondrial transcription increases. The mechanism behind the T3 stimulation of transcription is thought to be a coordinated effect by interacting with both the mitochondrial and nuclear thyroid hormone receptor. Our aim is to analyze the level of interaction that the mitochondrial thyroid hormone receptor (mt-TRalpha1) has with the mitochondrial DNA and other core mitochondrial transcription factors in the presence and absence of the T3 hormone. With this information, we further understand another component of mitochondrial transcription that could have implications in mitochondrial dysfunction and disease

Volunteers\u27 Perceptions of the Volunteer Management Practices of County Extension 4-H Educators

A quantitative study was conducted to collect preliminary information on volunteers\u27 perceptions of the volunteer management skills and practices of Cooperative Extension educators. Findings included that volunteers were able to articulate that Extension educators: use a contingent reward style of management, enable volunteers to take the lead on projects and in committee work, and recognize and reward their volunteers in a way that celebrates the volunteer\u27s unique characteristics and contributions. Recommendations include professional development for educators and volunteers to develop a variety of strong administrative skills

Modeling Common Cause Failures of Thrusters on ISS Visiting Vehicles

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Book Review: Financial Therapy: 5 Steps Toward Financial Freedom

Financial Therapy: 5 Steps Toward Financial Freedom and its accompanying workbook, Guide to Financial Therapy Forms and Handouts: 5 Steps Toward Financial Freedom, was created to provide an intervention model to help clients become more financially literate and protect them from financial predators

Can I have a word please: Strategies to enhance understanding of subject specific language in chemistry by international and non-traditional students

In this paper we discuss the outcomes of our research into effective teaching strategies to enhance understanding of subject specific language by international and non-traditional students. Teaching strategies with an emphasis on improving scientific literacy were trialled over the course of the academic year 2010/11 in foundation level chemistry. The outcomes from this research led to the development of an E-glossary to support the development of subject language understanding. The E-glossary was trialled over the academic year 2011/12. It consists of student generated content (with over 100 contributions) explaining scientific terms and concepts in a variety of ways at an appropriate level for foundation students. The outcomes of this research are considered in relation to the development of scientific literacy and conceptual understanding

Multiple small monthly doses of dicyandiamide (DCD) did not reduce denitrification in Waikato dairy pasture

The effectiveness of multiple small doses of the nitrification inhibitor dicyandiamide (DCD) to decrease denitrification under warm moist conditions was tested in a 1-year field trial on a grazed dairy pasture. DCD was applied approximately every 4 weeks as an aqueous spray onto ten replicate plots 3 days after rotational grazing by dairy cows. Each application was at the rate of 3 kg DCD ha⁻¹, with a total annual application of 33 kg ha⁻¹. Denitrification was assessed 5 days after each DCD application using the acetylene block method. At the end of the trial, the rate of degradation of DCD under summer conditions was measured. DCD significantly decreased the mean annual nitrate concentration by about 17%. Denitrification and denitrification enzyme activity were highly variable and no significant effect of DCD in decreasing denitrification was detected. In the summer month of December, DCD degraded rapidly with an estimated half-life of 5 ± 3 days (mean and standard deviation)

The HI Chronicles of LITTLE THINGS BCDs II: The Origin of IC 10's HI Structure

In this paper we analyze Very Large Array (VLA) telescope and Green Bank Telescope (GBT) atomic hydrogen (HI) data for the LITTLE THINGS(1) blue compact dwarf galaxy IC 10. The VLA data allow us to study the detailed HI kinematics and morphology of IC 10 at high resolution while the GBT data allow us to search the surrounding area at high sensitivity for tenuous HI. IC 10's HI appears highly disturbed in both the VLA and GBT HI maps with a kinematically distinct northern HI extension, a kinematically distinct southern plume, and several spurs in the VLA data that do not follow the general kinematics of the main disk. We discuss three possible origins of its HI structure and kinematics in detail: a current interaction with a nearby companion, an advanced merger, and accretion of intergalactic medium. We find that IC 10 is most likely an advanced merger or a galaxy undergoing accretion. 1:Local Irregulars That Trace Luminosity Extremes, The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey; https://science.nrao.edu/science/surveys/littlethingsComment: 36 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journa