Relating on psychiatric inpatient units

Research has shown interpersonal relationships to influence experiences of inpatient psychiatric services. This study explored staff and service-users’ talk about relating, and consequences of available/limited social actions. A Foucauldian discourse analysis was used to analyse transcripts from semi-structured interviews and focus groups with current inpatient staff members and service-users with prior experience of being a psychiatric inpatient. Two focus groups (service-users n=10; staff n=6) and five interviews (service-users n=2; staff n=3) were held, with participants responding to questions regarding the discursive object of ‘experiences of relating on inpatient wards’. A dominant ‘medical-technical-legal discourse’ was seen, with two counter-discourses of ‘ordinary humane relating’, and ‘person-centred’. A ‘civil rights’ discourse was drawn on by service-users in the tensions between discourses. The study concluded that the medical-technical-legal discourse perpetuates notions of mental illness as impenetrable to relating. Fearing of causing harm and staff positions of legal accountability generates mistrust, obstructing relating. Ordinary humane relating was vital for service-users in regaining a sense of self. Through ordinary humane relating, a therapeutic relationship could develop, as constructed through a person-centred discourse

HORIZONTAL BAR GIANT SWING CENTER OF GRAVITY MOTION COMPARISONS

The purpose of this study was to compare the trajectory and angular velocity of the gymnast's center of gravity (CG) in three types of overgrip giant swings on the horizontal bar. This was a preliminary study carried out at the Olympic Committee's Biomechanics Laboratory in Colorado Springs. The primary goal of research done at the USOC Biomechanics Laboratory is to help improve the performance of our potential Olympic athletes. Hence, the aim of this study was, from the comparison of the three types of giant swings, to identify some simple, quantitative indicators of good or bad technique during these swings

The Baroque Concertato in England, 1625–c.1660 Volume I & II

English concertato music of the seventeenth century has remained a relatively neglected area of musicological scholarship and has yet to receive the attention it deserves. More specifically, the period between the death of William Byrd (1540–1623) and the rise of Henry Purcell (1659–1695) remains something of a historiographical lacuna and is often disparaged for the decline in English musical standards. It is demonstrated in this dissertation, however, that in certain Royalist and court-related circles English composers were conversant in the stile nuovo and remained absolutely up-to-date with the latest Italian methods of composition. An attempt is made to construct a paradigm of influence that can be used profitably when considering the appropriation and assimilation of the techniques of the stile nuovo by English composers. The first composer to be examined in this dissertation is Richard Dering (1580–1620), who should be considered the progenitor of small-scale concertato music in England. The chief pioneer of Italianate sacred music in mid-seventeenth-century England, however, was George Jeffreys (1610–1685), who has been marginalised by traditional constructions of English music history. It is hoped that this dissertation is, in part, remedial, drawing attention to the significant achievements made by Jeffreys, while simultaneously promoting English concertato music. In the latter part of this dissertation the music of William Child (1606/7–1697), Henry Lawes (1596–1662) and William Lawes (1602–1645), Walter Porter (c.1587/c.1595–1659), and John Wilson (1597–1674) is considered in a series of case studies, all of whom demonstrate Royalist allegiances and a commitment to the stile nuovo. The complexities of the political and religious concerns of the period are also highlighted and detailed alongside the music of these composers

Towards Work-Efficient Parallel Parameterized Algorithms

Parallel parameterized complexity theory studies how fixed-parameter tractable (fpt) problems can be solved in parallel. Previous theoretical work focused on parallel algorithms that are very fast in principle, but did not take into account that when we only have a small number of processors (between 2 and, say, 1024), it is more important that the parallel algorithms are work-efficient. In the present paper we investigate how work-efficient fpt algorithms can be designed. We review standard methods from fpt theory, like kernelization, search trees, and interleaving, and prove trade-offs for them between work efficiency and runtime improvements. This results in a toolbox for developing work-efficient parallel fpt algorithms.Comment: Prior full version of the paper that will appear in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference and Workshops on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM 2019), February 27 - March 02, 2019, Guwahati, India. The final authenticated version is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10564-8_2

Effect of Feedlots on Water Quality

The effect of feedlot runoff on water quality was examined. Samples were collected from river feedlots and offshore from lake feedlots and compared with samples from appropriate control sites. Bacterial contamination, as measured by the total coliform test over two successive summers, exhibited significant variation between feedlot and control sites. Coliform levels at lake sites adjacent to feedlots were double the levels at control sites; while in river systems average coliform levels downstream from feedlots were approximately 17 times the upstream controls