Self-Care Rates Among Undergraduate Human Services Students

For students enrolled in undergraduate human services programs, self-care can be a strategy for managing the stress and strains of academic life. However, few studies investigate the self-care practices of students enrolled in these educational programs. This study looks at the rate human services undergraduate students engage in self-care practices and considers how exploring these self-care practices can contribute to the knowledge base of future students related to this topic. Findings reveal the types of self-care behaviors most often engaged in and at what rate students practiced these behaviors. More studies are needed to examine the self-care practices of students enrolled in undergraduate human services programs

Sustainability of Reforms, Both School and University Based

Further Reform in Teacher Preparation: School and University Based Abstract This study grew out of a five-year grant whose purpose was reform of teacher preparation programs. A Professional Development School (PDS) model was designed to support this work thus a university partnered with five elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school. At a transitional phase near the end of the grant, this study was designed to discover what teachers involved in the PDS thought should be kept in the programs and activities, what should be changed, and what should be added. Anonymous data was then compiled and analyzed to uncover categories and themes. Three main categories emerged in two of prompts (Keep and Add), which were program-based - professional development and activities. The prompt, Change, had only one category, which was also program-based. As the partnership moves forward this information has been vitally important to PDS sustainability

Impact of Summer Residential Camps on the Tourism System

A study was conducted to understand the contributions of organized summer camps to the tourism system, as well as their contributions to the local economy. The sources of information families used for trip planning were also explored. Results revealed that summer residential camps in Western North Carolina can be a catalyst for the travel and tourism industry. In addition to the generation of considerable economic impact and substantial tax revenues, summer camps also draw the majority of camp families and staff to travel great distances to local areas, spend large amounts of money there, and actively participate in tourist opportunities

What Might Encourage the Male Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Victim to Speak Out to End the Abuse?

AbstractWhat Might Encourage the Male Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Victim to Speak Out to End the Abuse? by Madeline W. Kelley MA, Walden University, 2017 BS, Liberty University, 2016 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Criminal Justice (CRJS) – Leadership; Teaching Walden University May 2021 Abstract In over 55%-80% of intimate partner violence (IPV) cases, the victim is male. Nonetheless, the police arrest the male as the perpetrator in over 80% of IPV cases. Embarrassed at being regularly beaten by his female domestic partner, the male IPV victim commonly says nothing in his defense. He is likely to cover for his abuser, quietly taking the blame for the offenses she projects upon him. The Criminal Justice Systems (CJSs) of western states require police responding to IPV calls distinguish the victim from the perpetrator. Even so, police may not regularly use their evidence-based practices (EBP) training to gather evidence to make such a distinction. The purpose of this study using the lens of punctuated equilibrium theory was to explore what makes the male IPV victim reluctant to speak out to end the abuse, focusing specifically on police actions when arriving at an IPV site where the victim is male. The key research questions of the phenomenological, qualitative study then asked the seven participants what the silent male IPV victim perceived his experiences with the police to have been and what he perceived would be the effect if police and judges were consistently to apply their EBP training in IPV cases. The analyzed results indicated the participants wanted the police and judges to make use of evidence to distinguish perpetrator from victim to reform the victimizer and stop the violence by deterring the crime. The findings may be used by police and judges for positive social change to reduce IPV

The astrophysics of nanohertz gravitational waves

Pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations in North America, Australia, and Europe, have been exploiting the exquisite timing precision of millisecond pulsars over decades of observations to search for correlated timing deviations induced by gravitational waves (GWs). PTAs are sensitive to the frequency band ranging just below 1 nanohertz to a few tens of microhertz. The discovery space of this band is potentially rich with populations of inspiraling supermassive black hole binaries, decaying cosmic string networks, relic post-inflation GWs, and even non-GW imprints of axionic dark matter. This article aims to provide an understanding of the exciting open science questions in cosmology, galaxy evolution, and fundamental physics that will be addressed by the detection and study of GWs through PTAs. The focus of the article is on providing an understanding of the mechanisms by which PTAs can address specific questions in these fields, and to outline some of the subtleties and difficulties in each case. The material included is weighted most heavily toward the questions which we expect will be answered in the near-term with PTAs; however, we have made efforts to include most currently anticipated applications of nanohertz GWs

Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults.

New neurons continue to be generated in the subgranular zone of the dentate gyrus of the adult mammalian hippocampus. This process has been linked to learning and memory, stress and exercise, and is thought to be altered in neurological disease. In humans, some studies have suggested that hundreds of new neurons are added to the adult dentate gyrus every day, whereas other studies find many fewer putative new neurons. Despite these discrepancies, it is generally believed that the adult human hippocampus continues to generate new neurons. Here we show that a defined population of progenitor cells does not coalesce in the subgranular zone during human fetal or postnatal development. We also find that the number of proliferating progenitors and young neurons in the dentate gyrus declines sharply during the first year of life and only a few isolated young neurons are observed by 7 and 13 years of age. In adult patients with epilepsy and healthy adults (18-77 years; n = 17 post-mortem samples from controls; n = 12 surgical resection samples from patients with epilepsy), young neurons were not detected in the dentate gyrus. In the monkey (Macaca mulatta) hippocampus, proliferation of neurons in the subgranular zone was found in early postnatal life, but this diminished during juvenile development as neurogenesis decreased. We conclude that recruitment of young neurons to the primate hippocampus decreases rapidly during the first years of life, and that neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus does not continue, or is extremely rare, in adult humans. The early decline in hippocampal neurogenesis raises questions about how the function of the dentate gyrus differs between humans and other species in which adult hippocampal neurogenesis is preserved

Assessing Communities of Practice in health policy : A conceptual framework as a first step towards empirical research

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