Depression and Anxiety Amongst College D1 Athletes

College student-athletes are having an increasingly amount of mental health concerns recently at an alarming rate. Therefore, researchers should attempt to better understand how student-athletes can cope with their mental health problems to improve their mental and physical well-being. The researcher administered a questionnaire to 300 college students, 150 student-athletes and 150 non-athletes from the University of the Pacific using various modified scales examining emotional intelligence, depression, anxiety, coping strategies, intentions to seek help, self-stigma, public stigma, social network stigma, alcohol consumption, sleep deprivation, and communication competence. The data were analyzed to determine the severity of student-athletes’ mental health and the effect emotional intelligence, perceived stigmas, intention to seek help, and communication competence has on their depression and anxiety compared to their non-athlete counterparts. Emotional intelligence has a significant positive relationship with depression, anxiety, and intention to seek help. Therapy has a significant positive relationship in reducing anxiety and depression symptoms as well. Communication competence also has a significant positive relationship with intention to seek help. In addition, the correlation analysis found a significant positive relationship between low emotional intelligence and negative coping strategies such as substance abuse, self-blame, and denial. These results suggests that a student-athlete’s ability to engage in high levels of communication competence and openly share concerns about their depression and anxiety can contribute to important relationships between emotional intelligence, therapy, and intentions to seek help to reduce these mental health problems. This study also determines that open communication about depression and anxiety can decrease engaging in negative coping strategies and the perceived stigmas that surrounds mental health

Can altering the distribution of organic matter in wetlands soils change methane emissions?

Forested mineral soil wetlands, found throughout the southeastern United States, store large amounts of carbon as woody biomass. Their anaerobic soil environments also make them hotspots for methanogenesis, leading to emissions of methane during soil respiration. Recent studies have suggested that at fine spatial scales (7.069 cm2), clumping of a labile carbon source, in dry soils, can result in lower microbial activity when compared to a uniformly distributed source. However, they also found in wetter soils (65% maximum water holding capacity), initial patterning of the carbon source didn’t affect microbial activity, presumably because the substrate was able to diffuse throughout the soil matrix. We investigated whether these results would hold for an inundated mineral wetland soil, Mhoon silt loam, at a larger spatial scale (1500 cm2) and with a natural wetland carbon source, bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) needles. We created three treatments: uniformly distributed needles (n=3), clumped needles (n=3), and no needles (n=3). Microbial activity is currently being measured, weekly, as the net CH4 flux. Microbial community composition (16S ribosomal RNA) was also measured after 2 months of incubation. At the end of our study needle mass loss will also be quantified for net decomposition. Initial results (first three months) showed that clumped and uniform needles did not have significantly different mean CH4 emissions. However, preliminary analysis of our microbial data suggests that the composition of microbes varied between patches of needles and no needles within mesocosms for both uniform and clumped treatments. This indicates that resources may not be diffusing through the entire mesocosm uniformly in inundated conditions. In the coming weeks, we will be detailing these patch dynamics by identifying the relative abundances of specific microbial groups, methanogens and methanotrophs. We will also continue to measure weekly net CH4 gas fluxes, as we hypothesize that the effect of resource patterning on microbial activity may vary as a function of resource lability. This work has implications for restoration practices (e.g., plantings, soil conditions) in forested mineral soil wetlands, a class of wetlands that have been historically impacted by drain and fill activities

Understanding the distribution of A&E attendances and hospital admissions for the case managed population: A single case cross sectional study

Aim To describe the characteristics of case-managed patients presenting at accident and emergency (A & E) and to explore the distribution of their attendances and admissions. Background Recently, the UK Government announced extended-hours primary care provision in an effort to reduce the growing utilization of A & E. No evidence is available to understand the use of acute services by this high-risk patient group. Method A cross-sectional design utilising routinely collected anonymsed A & E attendance and hospital admission data from 2010 to 2015. Results The case-managed population is typically 70 years and older and most often arrive at A & E via emergency services and during the night (00:00–08:59). A large proportion are subsequently admitted having a statistically significant A & E conversion rate. No variables were predictive of admission. Conclusion The high level of A&E conversion could indicate case-managed patients are presenting appropriately with acute clinical need. However, inadequate provision in primary-care could drive decisions for admitting vulnerable patients

Biodegradation of the Alkaline Cellulose Degradation Products Generated during Radioactive Waste Disposal.

The anoxic, alkaline hydrolysis of cellulosic materials generates a range of cellulose degradation products (CDP) including α and β forms of isosaccharinic acid (ISA) and is expected to occur in radioactive waste disposal sites receiving intermediate level radioactive wastes. The generation of ISA's is of particular relevance to the disposal of these wastes since they are able to form complexes with radioelements such as Pu enhancing their migration. This study demonstrates that microbial communities present in near-surface anoxic sediments are able to degrade CDP including both forms of ISA via iron reduction, sulphate reduction and methanogenesis, without any prior exposure to these substrates. No significant difference (n = 6, p = 0.118) in α and β ISA degradation rates were seen under either iron reducing, sulphate reducing or methanogenic conditions, giving an overall mean degradation rate of 4.7×10−2 hr−1 (SE±2.9×10−3). These results suggest that a radioactive waste disposal site is likely to be colonised by organisms able to degrade CDP and associated ISA's during the construction and operational phase of the facility

Validation of a method to quantify microfibres present in aquatic surface microlayers

Many of the methods for microplastics quantification in the environment are criticised creating problems with data validity. Quantification of microplastics in the surface microlayer of aquatic environments using glass plate dipping holds promise as a simple field method, but its efficiency has yet to be validated. We tested a standard glass plate dipping method to assess recovery of four common polymer microfibres and two common natural fibres, under three different salinities (freshwater, brackish water, saltwater). Overall recovery rates were low (26.8 ± 1.54%) but higher recoveries were observed under saltwater treatments (36.5 ± 3.01%) than brackish water (24.5 ± 1.92%) or freshwater (19.3 ± 1.92%). The fibre types showed different recovery rates, with acrylic yielding significantly higher recovery rates (37.0 ± 2.71%) than other fibres across treatments. No clear relationship between the density of the fibres and the recovery efficiency was seen. We suggest that, where this method is used for monitoring microplastics, the results will typically underestimate the total amount present, but that recovery is sufficiently consistent to allow comparison of differences between sampling locations. When comparing data across river-estuarine or similar transects salinity should be monitored to account for salinity-induced differences in sampling recovery

General practice clinicians’ perspectives on involving and supporting children and adult perpetrators in families experiencing domestic violence and abuse

Background. Government and professional guidance encourages general practice clinicians to identify and refer children who experience domestic violence and abuse (DVA) but there is scant understanding of how general practice clinicians currently work with DVA in families. Objectives. The study explored general practice clinicians’ practice with children and their parents experiencing DVA and reflected on the findings in the light of current research and policy guidelines. Methods. Semi-structured interviews with 54 clinicians (42 GPs and 12 practice nurses/nurse practitioners) were conducted across six sites in England. Data were analysed using current literature and emerging themes. Data presented here concern clinicians’ perspectives on engaging with family members when a parent discloses that she is experiencing DVA. Results. When a parent disclosed DVA, clinicians were more likely to consider talking to abusive fathers than talking to children about the abuse. Perspectives varied according to: whether consultation opportunities arose, risks, consent and confidentiality. Perceptions of ‘patient-hood’, relationships and competence shaped clinicians’ engagement. Perpetrators were seen as competent informers and active service users, with potential for accepting advice and support. Clinicians were more hesitant in talking with children. Where this was considered, children tended to be seen as passive informants, only two GPs described direct and on-going consultations with children and providing them with access to support. Conclusion. Clinicians appear more inclined to engage directly with abusive fathers than children experiencing DVA. Clinician skills and confidence to talk directly with children experiencing DVA, in child sensitive ways, should be developed through appropriate training

Shipbuilding Docks as Experimental Systems for Realistic Assessments of Anthropogenic Stressors on Marine Organisms

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this record.Empirical investigations of the impacts of anthropogenic stressors on marine organisms are typically performed under controlled laboratory conditions, onshore mesocosms, or via offshore experiments with realistic (but uncontrolled) environmental variation. These approaches have merits, but onshore setups are generally small sized and fail to recreate natural stressor fields, whereas offshore studies are often compromised by confounding factors. We suggest the use of flooded shipbuilding docks to allow studying realistic exposure to stressors and their impacts on the intra- and interspecific responses of animals. Shipbuilding docks permit the careful study of groups of known animals, including the evaluation of their behavioral interactions, while enabling full control of the stressor and many environmental conditions. We propose that this approach could be used for assessing the impacts of prominent anthropogenic stressors, including chemicals, ocean warming, and sound. Results from shipbuilding-dock studies could allow improved parameterization of predictive models relating to the environmental risks and population consequences of anthropogenic stressors.Funding was provided by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, Marine Renewable Energy Knowledge Exchange Grant) and the GW4 Alliance (no. GW4-IF-040). RB was supported by a NERC-Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Grant (no. KTP 9254), FB by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Research Experience Placement Grant (no. BB/J014400/1), JL by a Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI) undergraduate summer internship grant, and SDS by a NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellowship (no. NE/J500616/2)

Brentuximab Vedotin with Chemotherapy for Stage III or IV Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Brentuximab vedotin is an anti-CD30 antibody-drug conjugate that has been approved for relapsed and refractory Hodgkin's lymphoma

P1‐349: Advancing Clinical And Biomarker Research In Ad: The Lead Study

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The heterogeneity of wooded-agricultural landscape mosaics influences woodland bird community assemblages

Context Landscape heterogeneity (the composition and configuration of different landcover types) plays a key role in shaping woodland bird assemblages in wooded-agricultural mosaics. Understanding how species respond to landscape factors could contribute to preventing further decline of woodland bird populations. Objective To investigate how woodland birds with different species traits respond to landscape heterogeneity, and to identify whether specific landcover types are important for maintaining diverse populations in wooded-agricultural environments. Methods Birds were sampled from woodlands in 58 2 x 2 km tetrads across southern Britain. Landscape heterogeneity was quantified for each tetrad. Bird assemblage response was determined using redundancy analysis combined with variation partitioning and response trait analyses. Results For woodland bird assemblages, the independent explanatory importance of landscape composition and landscape configuration variables were closely interrelated. When considered simultaneously during variation partitioning, the community response was better represented by compositional variables. Different species responded to different landscape features and this could be explained by traits relating to woodland association, foraging strata and nest location. Ubiquitous, generalist species, many of which were hole-nesters or ground foragers, correlated positively with urban landcover while specialists of broadleaved woodland avoided landscapes containing urban areas. Species typical of coniferous woodland correlated with large conifer plantations. Conclusions At the 2 x 2 km scale, there was evidence that the availability of resources provided by proximate landcover types was highly important for shaping woodland bird assemblages. Further research to disentangle the effects of composition and configuration at different spatial scales is advocated