Zephyr: The Sixth Issue

This is the sixth issue of Zephyr, the University of New England\u27s journal of creative expression. Since 2000, Zephyr has published original drawings, paintings, photography, prose, and verse created by current and former members of the University community. Zephyr\u27s Editorial Board is made up exclusively of matriculating students.https://dune.une.edu/zephyr/1005/thumbnail.jp

Taking Care: the Art of Kindness

Taking Care is the third report in People United’s trilogy of arts and kindness publications. It aims to show their participatory arts methodology and capture our working processes from a range of perspectives. It contains the following sections: Looking out: our methodology in context Wider research on taking care in participatory arts Listening in: our methodology in action What the artists said – matching values with practic

Creative Heath in Communities:Supporting People to Live Well in West Yorkshire

Creating Change involves using a collaborative action inquiry approach working with stakeholder organisations and people with lived experience to explore how to evolve effective and meaningful creative health approaches across West Yorkshire. Rooted in stories from people with lived experience of community-based creative health approaches and the challenges encountered in practice by partner organisations, the project has co-generated in-depth learning about challenges and potential of sustaining creative health provision. Research team: Barry Percy-Smith, Rowan Bailey, Nic Stenberg, Claire Booth-Kurpnieks, Deborah Munt, David McQuillan, Liz Towns-Andrews. Contact Creating Change for further information: https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/cacs/projects/creatingchang

"The last thing you feel is the self-disgust”. the role of self-directed disgust in men who have attempted suicide: a grounded theory study

Objective Globally, suicide affects more men than women. Emotional pain underpins many theoretical accounts of suicidality, yet little is known about the role of disgust in suicide. Self-directed disgust, whereby aspects of the self-serve as an object of disgust, has been hypothesised to factor in suicide. This research aimed to explore the processes which link self-disgust to attempted suicide in males. Method Nine men who had attempted suicide completed semi-structured interviews. The interview data were analysed using a constructivist grounded theory methodology. Results Three concepts emerged out of the analysis: (1) self-disgust; (2) worthlessness; and (3) the endured emotional distress of ‘the abyss’” – these concepts interweaved, leading the men to experience hopelessness, disconnection and an inability to cope, leading ultimately to their suicide attempt. Throughout this journey, various disgust-related processes worsened men's distress and increased their suicidal risk. Historic adversities prevailed across the data, as did the men's difficulties in understanding their emotions. Conclusion Self-disgust was an important emotion in the men's experiences of suicide and shaped their views of themselves and their lives. The distancing and repellent properties of self-disgust, in addition to the fear of having their ‘disgustingness’ exposed, increased suicidal risk. Self-disgust appeared more pervasive in the suicidality of men with a history of multiple childhood adversities. The limitations of this research are discussed as implications for clinical practice and directions for future research

LMDA Review, volume 11, issue 1

Contents include: Advocacy Guidelines,LMDA Members Meet with the NEA, Update The Elliot Hayes Award,Update Script Exchange, Presentation Of Elliott Hayes Award to Rebecca Rugg, To Lynn Thomson, Conference Panels and Sessions, Conversations About Digital Dramaturgy, Key Note, Dramaturg As Generator, Multi-Authorship: Too Many Cooks?, Desperately Seeking Research, On Copyright, The Dramaturg As Advocate For The Arts On City, State/Provincial, And National Levels, Entrances And Exits, The (New Play) Workshop\u27s The Thing, Anne Cattaneo On Commissioning New Work, LMDA Regions And VPs, News From Canada, News from Baltimore, News from Chicago, The Past Two Years, and On, Notes to Fellow LMDA Members, Spotlight on Early Career Dramturgs, Dramaturgy Opening Arena Stage, Internship at the Women\u27s Project, Literary Residency in New York, Dramaturgy/Literary Management Internship at Arena Stage, Job Opening at UCSD, A Note to LMDA Members, Unity Fest 2001 Call for Scripts, Call for Directors, Actors, Dramaturgs, and Call for Updates to the LMDA Guide to Programs in Dramaturgy.https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1022/thumbnail.jp

An age-old problem or an old-age problem? A UK survey of attitudes, historical use and recommendations by healthcare professionals to use healthcare apps

Background: The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated barriers to accessing face-to-face care. Consequently, the potential for digital health technologies (DHTs) to address unmet needs has gained traction. DHTs may circumvent several barriers to healthy independent living, resulting in both socioeconomic and clinical benefits. However, previous studies have demonstrated these benefits may be disproportionately realised among younger populations while excluding older people. Methods: We performed a prospective survey using the One Poll market research platform among 2000 adults from the United Kingdom. To mitigate against self-selection bias, participants were not informed of the topic of the survey until they had completed recruitment. We compared willingness to use and historical use of health-apps, in addition to recommendations to use health-apps from healthcare professionals; comparing outcomes across all age groups, including a reference group (n = 222) of those aged 18-24. Outcomes were analysed using multivariate logistic regression and reported as odds ratios (OR) with respondent age, ethnicity, gender, and location as covariates. Results: Willingness to use health-apps decreased significantly with age, reaching a minimum (OR = 0.39) among those aged 65 and over compared to the reference group of 18-24 year olds. Despite this, more than 52% of those aged 65 and over were willing to use health-apps. Functions and features most cited as useful by older populations included symptom self-monitoring and surgery recovery assistance. The likelihood of never having used a health-app also increased consistently with age, reaching a maximum among those aged 65 and over (OR = 18.3). Finally, the likelihood of being recommended health-apps by a healthcare professional decreased significantly with age, (OR = 0.09) for those aged 65 and over. In absolute terms, 33.8% of those aged 18-24, and 3.9% of those aged 65 and over were recommended health-apps by their healthcare professionals. Conclusion: Although absolute utilisation of health-apps decreases with age, the findings of this study suggest that the gap between those willing to use health-apps, and those being recommended health-apps by healthcare professionals increases with age. Given the increasing availability of evidence-based health-apps designed for older populations, this may result in entirely avoidable unmet needs, suggesting that more should be done by healthcare professionals to recommend health-apps to older persons who are generally positive about their use. This may result in considerable improvements in healthy and independent ageing

Spatial Transformations and Impacts on the Land-Surface Temperature in the Rio de Janeiro Petrochemical Complex (COMPERJ) Area

The present work studies the land-surface temperature (LST) variation associated with the land cover change, supported by normalized difference vegetation (NDVI) and based built-up (IBI) indices for the COMPERJ installation region. This study is based on remote sensing data, namely image time series from the Landsat-5, 7 and 8 satellites, for the years 2002 to 2013, which as divided into two groups: pre-construction (2002 to 2007) and post-construction (2008 to 2013) period, totalizing 12 years with 58 images available. Two images were selected as the basis for making two land cover maps, one for each period, taking into account urban, soil, vegetation, and water land cover classes. Subsequently, LST was correlated with each index, exhibiting an inverse (direct) relation with NDVI (IBI). The highest correlation for the post-period (R = 0.85) was found with IBI, suggesting that this index could work as an additional metric to analyze the urban thermal patterns. An LST, NDVI, and IBI characterization (average and standard deviation) was performed in accordance with each class for both pre and post-period. The LST difference between COMPERJ (urban class) and vegetated areas was 1.9°C (3.2°C) for the pre-period (post). The comparison between these two values shows an intensification of 1.3°C for the postperiod. The IBI (NDVI) has increased (decreased) from -0.16 to 0.05 (0.49 to 0.15). In addition, the separability index M was used to analyze the parameters distinction between the classes. All parameters have shown M < 1 for the pre-construction period whereas all parameters have M values near to 1 for the post-construction period

Control of metallo-supramolecular assemblies via steric, hydrogen bonding and argentophilic interactions; formation of a 3-dimensional polymer of circular helicates

This work shows how multiple non-covalent interactions are employed to control metallosupramolecular architectures and we demonstrate that a ligand, which contains two bidentate domains separated by a ArOH spacer, forms a mesocate when complexed with Ag(I). However, changing this to an ArOCH2CH2Ph spacer unit results in a 1-dimensional helical polymer upon reaction with the same cation. Reaction of Ag(I) with the ArOMe derivative gives a hexanuclear circular helicate which forms inter-assembly Ag⋯Ag interactions resulting in a 3-dimensional honeycomb-like polymer of hexanuclear circular helicates

Single infrastructure utility provision to households: Technological feasibility study

This paper contemplates the future of utility infrastructure, and considers whether an “All-in-One” approach could supply all necessary utility services to tomorrow's households. The intention is not to propose infrastructure solutions that are currently technically feasible or justifiable, however; the objective is to present visions of future infrastructure that would only be possible with new advances in science and technology, or significant improvements and adaptations of existing knowledge and techniques. The All-in-One vision is explored using several vignettes, each of which envisions a novel, multi-functional infrastructure for serving future communities. The vignettes were conceived using imaginative exercises and brain-storming activities; each was then rooted in technological and scientific feasibility, as informed by extensive literature searches and the input of domain leaders. The vignettes tell their own stories, and we identify the challenges that would need to be overcome to make these visions into reality. The main aim of this work is to encourage radical approaches to thinking about future infrastructure provision, with a focus on rationalisation, efficiency, sustainability and resilience in preparation for the challenging times ahead. The All-in-One concept introduces the possibility of a unified and singular system for infrastructure service provision; this work seeks to explore the possibility space opened thereby

The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment: Exploring Fundamental Symmetries of the Universe

The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early Universe, the dynamics of the supernova bursts that produced the heavy elements necessary for life and whether protons eventually decay --- these mysteries at the forefront of particle physics and astrophysics are key to understanding the early evolution of our Universe, its current state and its eventual fate. The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) represents an extensively developed plan for a world-class experiment dedicated to addressing these questions. LBNE is conceived around three central components: (1) a new, high-intensity neutrino source generated from a megawatt-class proton accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, (2) a near neutrino detector just downstream of the source, and (3) a massive liquid argon time-projection chamber deployed as a far detector deep underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. This facility, located at the site of the former Homestake Mine in Lead, South Dakota, is approximately 1,300 km from the neutrino source at Fermilab -- a distance (baseline) that delivers optimal sensitivity to neutrino charge-parity symmetry violation and mass ordering effects. This ambitious yet cost-effective design incorporates scalability and flexibility and can accommodate a variety of upgrades and contributions. With its exceptional combination of experimental configuration, technical capabilities, and potential for transformative discoveries, LBNE promises to be a vital facility for the field of particle physics worldwide, providing physicists from around the globe with opportunities to collaborate in a twenty to thirty year program of exciting science. In this document we provide a comprehensive overview of LBNE's scientific objectives, its place in the landscape of neutrino physics worldwide, the technologies it will incorporate and the capabilities it will possess.Comment: Major update of previous version. This is the reference document for LBNE science program and current status. Chapters 1, 3, and 9 provide a comprehensive overview of LBNE's scientific objectives, its place in the landscape of neutrino physics worldwide, the technologies it will incorporate and the capabilities it will possess. 288 pages, 116 figure