When Black and White Medicine Turns Gray: Exploring the Interplay and Meaning of Discoursing about Parenting a Child with a Complex Chronic Condition

Parents of children diagnosed with complex chronic conditions (CCCs) face many challenges with managing their child\u27s health. As parents are tasked with competing demands and the constant changes required to provide the best care possible for their child, talk about contradictions regarding their dual, and oftentimes competing, roles and responsibilities as both parent and caregiver is likely to occur. Using relational dialectics theory (Baxter, 2011) as a framework, we conducted a contrapuntal analysis to analyze 35 White, mostly Christian parents’ narratives about their experiences managing their child’s healthcare. Two primary discourses emerged: the centripetal discourse of normal health and the centrifugal discourse of difference. The interplay between these two primary discourses led to a hybrid discourse: difference is our new normal. Within this discourse, parents discussed previous speech encounters where they relied upon the co-construction of a new normal with others who were living or willing to live in their new reality. Our findings emphasize how an assessment of parents’ talk conveys their discourse-dependence with navigating the inevitable uncertainties associated with managing their child’s CCC. In addition, we discuss how parents co-construct their new normal in the face of unique family functioning that is structurally different from societal expectations and social norms about parenting and pediatric health care management

Growing Research Funding In Emerging And Developed Research Universities

This thesis investigates the research funding patterns at ten doctoral universities across the country, classified by Carnegie as R2: Higher Research Activity institutions. Findings detail patterns in funding and research growth and the relationship between research administrators and funded projects. This mixed methods study uses quantitative and qualitative data to examine each of these universities’ total award dollars received in the FY2017 and compares the top three departments funded and how funding may relate to the research administration missions of each research office. I also analyze the source of research dollars, including federal and other external sponsors, and the percentage of proposals submitted versus those awarded. Overall, this paper encompasses and conceptualizes the complicated, competitive grant process at the university level and argues that in order for administrators to increase access to research dollars, they should: understand the funding climate, stay connected to their institutions’ community of scholars, and encourage scholars to conduct scholarship that drives opportunity, innovation, and change

The 3 December 1988 Pasadena, California earthquake: Evidence for strike-slip motion on the Raymond fault

The Pasadena earthquake (M_L = 4.9) occurred on 3 December 1988, at a depth of 16 km. The hypocenters of the earthquake and its aftershocks define a east-northeast striking, steeply northwest-dipping surface that projects up to the active surficial trace of the Raymond fault. One of the nodal planes of the focal mechanism of the earthquake parallels the Raymond fault with left-lateral strike-slip movement on that plane, and is consistent with geomorphic and paleoseismic evidence that the Raymond fault is dominantly a left-lateral strike-slip fault. The existence of a component of sinistral slip along the Raymond fault had been suspected prior to the earthquake, but the northward dip of the fault and the prominent scarp along the western portion of its trace had led most workers to conclude that slip along the fault was dominantly reverse

Determination of earthquake energy release and M_L using TERRAscope

We estimated the energy radiated by earthquakes in southern California using on-scale very broadband recordings from TERRAscope. The method we used involves time integration of the squared ground-motion velocity and empirical determination of the distance attenuation function and the station corrections. The time integral is typically taken over a duration of 2 min after the P-wave arrival. The attenuation curve for the energy integral we obtained is given by q(r) = cr^(−n)exp(−kr)(r^2 = Δ^2 + h_(ref)^2) with c = 0.49710, n = 1.0322, k = 0.0035 km^(−1), and h_(ref) = 8 km, where Δ is the epicentral distance. A similar method was used to determine M_L using TERRAscope data. The station corrections for M_L are determined such that the M_L values determined from TERRAscope agree with those from the traditional optical Wood-Anderson seismographs. For 1.5 6.5, M_L saturates. The ratio E_S/M_0 (M_0: seismic moment), a measure of the average stress drop, for six earthquakes, the 1989 Montebello earthquake (M_L = 4.6), the 1989 Pasadena earthquake (M_L = 4.9), the 1990 Upland earthquake (M_L = 5.2), the 1991 Sierra Madre earthquake (M_L = 5.8), the 1992 Joshua Tree earthquake (M_L = 6.1), and the 1992 Landers earthquake (M_w = 7.3), are about 10 times larger than those of the others that include the aftershocks of the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, the Sierra Madre earthquake, the Joshua Tree earthquake, and the two earthquakes on the San Jacinto fault. The difference in the stress drop between the mainshock and their large aftershocks may be similar to that between earthquakes on a fault with long and short repeat times. The aftershocks, which occurred on the fault plane where the mainshock slippage occurred, had a very short time to heal, hence a low stress drop. The repeat time of the major earthquakes on the frontal fault systems in the Transverse Ranges in southern California is believed to be very long, a few thousand years. Hence, the events in the Transverse Ranges may have higher stress drops than those of the events occurring on faults with shorter repeat times, such as the San Andreas fault and the San Jacinto fault. The observation that very high stress-drop events occur in the Transverse Ranges and the Los Angeles Basin has important implications for the regional seismic potential. The occurrence of these high stress-drop events near the bottom of the seismogenic zone strongly suggests that these fault systems are capable of supporting high stress that will eventually be released in major seismic events. Characterization of earthquakes in terms of the E_S/M_0 ratio using broadband data will help delineate the spatial distribution of seismogenic stresses in the Los Angeles basin and the Transverse Ranges

The July 1986 North Palm Springs, California, Earthquake - The North Palm Springs, California, Earthquake Sequence of July 1986

An M_L = 5.9 earthquake occurred at 09:20 (UTC) on 8 July 1986 approximately 12 km northwest of the community of North Palm Springs, California. The epicenter of this earthquake was located between the Mission Creek and Banning strands of the San Andreas fault system at 34°0.0'N, 116°36.4'W. In this section of the San Andreas fault system, there is is a high level of diffuse microseismic activity, and it is not clear which of the many mapped fault traces is presently the most active strand (e.g., Allen, 1957; Matti et aI., 1985). The hypocentral distribution of the aftershocks as well as the focal mechanisms of the main shock and a few dozen aftershocks together suggest that the earthquake probably occurred on the Banning fault

The Southern California network bulletin, January - December, 1989

The California Institute of Technology together with the Pasadena Office of the U.S. Geological Survey operates a network of approximately 280 remote seismometers in southern California. Signals from these sites are telemetered to the central processing site at the Caltech Seismological Laboratory in Pasadena. These signals are continuously monitored by computers that detect and record thousands of earthquakes each year. Phase arrival times for these events are picked by human analysts and archived along with digital seismograms. All data aquisition, processing and archiving is achieved using the CUSP system. These data are used to compile the Southern California Catalog of Earthquakes; a list beginning in 1932 that currently contains more than 180,000 events. This data set is critical to the evaluation of earthquake hazard in California and to the advancement of geoscience as a whole. This and previous Network Bulletins are intended to serve several purposes. The most important goal is to make Network data more accessible to current and potential users. It is also important to document the details of Network operation, because only with a full understanding of the process by which the data are produced can researchers use the data responsibly

Hobson’s choice? Constraints on accessing spaces of creative production

Successful creative production is often documented to occur in urban areas that are more likely to be diverse, a source of human capital and the site of dense interactions. These accounts chart how, historically, creative industries have clustered in areas where space was once cheap in the city centre fringe and inner city areas, often leading to the development of a creative milieu, and thereby stimulating further creative production. Historical accounts of the development of creative areas demonstrate the crucial role of accessible low-cost business premises. This article reports on the findings of a case study that investigated the location decisions of firms in selected creative industry sectors in Greater Manchester. The study found that, while creative activity remains highly concentrated in the city centre, creative space there is being squeezed and some creative production is decentralizing in order to access cheaper premises. The article argues that the location choices of creative industry firms are being constrained by the extensive city centre regeneration, with the most vulnerable firms, notably the smallest and youngest, facing a Hobson’s choice of being able to access low-cost premises only in the periphery. This disrupts the delicate balance needed to sustain production and begs the broader question as to how the creative economy fits into the existing urban fabric, alongside the competing demands placed on space within a transforming industrial conurbation

Jack Voltaic 3.0 Cyber Research Report

The Jack Voltaic (JV) Cyber Research project is an innovative, bottom-up approach to critical infrastructure resilience that informs our understanding of existing cybersecurity capabilities and identifies gaps. JV 3.0 contributed to a repeatable framework cities and municipalities nationwide can use to prepare. This report on JV 3.0 provides findings and recommendations for the military, federal agencies, and policy makers

Paranoia in the Therapeutic Relationship in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis

Background and aims: This study explored therapists’ and clients’ experiences of paranoia about the therapist in cognitive behaviour therapy. Method: Ten therapists and eight clients engaged in cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis were interviewed using a semi-structured interview. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Results: Clients reported experiencing paranoia about their therapist, both within and between therapy sessions. Therapists’ accounts highlighted a number of dilemmas that can arise in responding to clients’ paranoia about them. Conclusions: The findings highlight helpful ways of working with clients when they become paranoid about their therapist, and emphasize the importance of developing a therapeutic relationship that is radically collaborative, supporting a person-based approach to distressing psychotic experience

Imbalance in the response of pre- and post-synaptic components to amyloidopathy

Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-associated synaptic dysfunction drives the progression of pathology from its earliest stages. Aβ species, both soluble and in plaque deposits, have been causally related to the progressive, structural and functional impairments observed in AD. It is, however, still unclear how Aβ plaques develop over time and how they progressively affect local synapse density and turnover. Here we observed, in a mouse model of AD, that Aβ plaques grow faster in the earlier stages of the disease and if their initial area is > 500 µm2; this may be due to deposition occurring in the cloud part of the plaque. In addition, synaptic turnover is higher in the presence of amyloid pathology and this is paralleled by a reduction in pre- but not post-synaptic densities. Plaque proximity does not appear to have an impact on synaptic dynamics. These observations indicate an imbalance in the response of the pre- and post-synaptic terminals and that therapeutics, alongside targeting the underlying pathology, need to address changes in synapse dynamics