Re-integration: a new standard in first responder peer support

Since its inception, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) Re-integration Program has grown in its capacity, impact, and service to members within EPS. It has also attracted increasing attention among—and emulation by—other first responder communities in the province of Alberta. Most recently, the program was the subject of a featured segment during the joint Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) and Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) international conference, “The Mental Health of Police Personnel: What We Know & What We Need to Know and Do”, held in February 2017. Based on the strong reception and interest generated among conference delegates, the Journal of CSWB invited the program’s architects to develop the following Practice Guideline article, with a view to bringing wider awareness to this unique peer-supported program. The EPS program connects conventional counselling and support resources with aspects of recovery and re-integration that are more closely tied to the equipment and operational realities of first responders

D'Annunzio sulla scena lirica: libretto o "Poema"?

Australia Direct Action climate change policy relies on purchasing greenhouse gas abatement from projects undertaking approved abatement activities. Management of soil organic carbon (SOC) in agricultural soils is an approved activity, based on the expectation that land use change can deliver significant changes in SOC. However, there are concerns that climate, topography and soil texture will limit changes in SOC stocks. This work analyses data from 1482 sites surveyed across the major agricultural regions of Eastern Australia to determine the relative importance of land use vs. other drivers of SOC. Variation in land use explained only 1.4% of the total variation in SOC, with aridity and soil texture the main regulators of SOC stock under different land uses. Results suggest the greatest potential for increasing SOC stocks in Eastern Australian agricultural regions lies in converting from cropping to pasture on heavy textured soils in the humid regions

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

Modelling short term equilibrium and long term change in a natural way

Empirical thesis.Bibliography: pages 116-119.Chapter 1. Introductory remarks -- Chapter 2. Literature review -- Chapter 3. The Markov chain agent model -- Chapter 4. The dynamic model -- Chapter 5. Discussion of results -- Appendix -- References.Why would an agent produce and supply something if it got nothing in return? In order to investigate how complex systems, such as biological and economic systems, organize themselves, McLeod (2015) constructs a simple economic model for a biological system. In the context of a dimension model, it was shown that if exchange of resources between creatures is based on relative scarcity, we get a similar outcome to that produced by a market economy, even though such exchanges are not reciprocal. Specifically the ‘biological economy’ constructed in McLeod (2015) promotes the development of specialization and interdependence, and the number of creatures increases over time. These may be construed as large scale, or system, trends.The work presented in this thesis extends McLeod (2015). It develops a multi–sector general equilibrium model of an economy in which resource-based processes are modelled, in order to understand evolution from an economic perspective. The model is based on habitual behaviour represented by Markov chains. It applies particularly, but not exclusively, to biological systems and to pre–market human economies. Interestingly, the interplay between producers of scarce resources and consumers of those resources generates various kinds of agent number and system trajectories. These range from expanding to collapsing and oscillating to stable, depending on the ‘efficiency’ of the agents. Such dynamics occur even though we do not assume any explicit law of motion, objective function, or maximisation principle. The model demonstrates that: (̧‘–) mutation/learning will cause a progressive increase in the specialization, interdependence and size of the economy; and (̧‘–̧‘–) a path dependent outcome is possible. Overall, the work contributes to our economic understanding of systems by grounding the dynamics of those systems in the cut and thrust of evolutionary competition, rather than in the more aloof view of agent behaviour suggested by abstract optimization economics.Mode of access: World wide web1 online resource (119 pages) diagram

An Experimental Object-Based Sharing System for Networked Databases

.<F3.733e+05> An approach and mechanism for the transparent sharing of objects in an environment of interconnected (networked) , autonomous database systems is presented. An experimental prototype system has been designed and implemented, and an analysis of its performance conducted. Previous approaches to sharing in this environment typically rely on the use of a global, integrated conceptual database schema; users and applications must pose queries at this new level of abstraction to access remote information. By contrast, our approach provides a mechanism that allows users to import remote objects directly into their local database transparently; access to remote objects is virtually the same as access to local objects. The experimental prototype system that has been designed and implemented is based on the Iris and Omega object-based database management systems; this system supports the sharing of data and meta-data objects (information units) as well as units of behavior. The resu..