Healing Through Bibliotherapy

Emotions that adolescents face while experiencing their parents’ divorce can be traumatic. They often feel as though they have no one else to turn to, and feel alone. There are different types of therapy that can help individuals cope with their emotions and bibliotherapy can be used as a self-coping technique. Bibliotherapy is a method used to cope with certain feelings from different experiences. It is a reading program that includes a variety of literature to offer emotional therapy. It is effective by aiding the individual who is struggling with his or her feelings to identify with a particular character, allowing them to realize that they are not alone in the experience of what they are feeling. This is extremely important when it comes to adolescents coping with their parents’ divorce because they may feel abandonment by the people they love. I have worked to create a reading program that can be used for adolescents who are coping with their parents’ divorce. The program is broken down into five stages, to coincide with the five stages of emotions that adolescents experience when their parents get divorced. The program includes a variety of literature to help the adolescent move forward to the next stage, with the goal of a successful revival from the divorce experience

Optical emission investigation of laser-produced MgB2 plume expanding in an Ar buffer gas

Optical emission spectroscopy is used to study the dynamics of the plasma generated by pulsed-laser irradiation of a MgB2 target, both in vacuum and at different Ar buffer gas pressures. The analysis of the time-resolved emission of selected species shows that the Ar background gas strongly influences the plasma dynamics. Above a fixed pressure, plasma propagation into Ar leads to the formation of blast waves causing both a considerable increase of the fraction of excited Mg atoms and a simultaneous reduction of their kinetic flux energy. These results can be particularly useful for optimizing MgB2 thin film deposition processes.Comment: 11 pages,4 figures, Applied Physics Letters in pres

Teaching Video NeuroImages: Atypical childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes: Seizures often discussed, rarely seen

A 7-year-old right-handed boy with poorly controlled epilepsy presented to the epilepsy monitoring unit for further clarification of his diagnosis. Seizure onset was at 3 years with focal motor seizures of left face and arm followed by confusion and aphasia. Prominent behavioral and school difficulties were also reported. Valproic acid monotherapy (23 mg/kg/d) was weaned by day 2 and a habitual event captured on day 5 (figure, video 1). Brain MRI and an epilepsy gene panel (including GRIN2A) were nonrevealing. The diagnosis was therefore consistent with atypical childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes. This differs from benign rolandic epilepsy because of earlier seizure onset, increased seizure burden, EEG with background slowing (figure) with stereotyped discharges, seizure semiology, and more prominent comorbidities.1,

CASE STUDY OF 3-PLY COMMERCIAL SOUTHERN PINE CLT MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND DESIGN VALUES

This work elucidates on a case study of industrially manufactured cross-laminated timber (CLT). Two methods are used to calculate specimens section modulus: Sgross and Seffective. The first assumes that specimens behave as a continuous material, whereas the second considers the cross laminations (shear analogy method). Although the shear analogy method is indicated for construction purposes, applications, such as trench shoring, matting, and work platforms, could benefit from a simpler calculation method. There- fore, theobjective of this work was to conduct a case study of Modulus of Rupture (MOR) and Modulus of Elasticity (MOE) of southern pine CLT to compare the previously mentioned calculation methods. Both parametric and nonparametric fifth percentiles and associated Fb values are reported and were substantially higher than those of the constituent lumber. For MOE, empirical testing and calculation based on gross moment of inertia provided lower values as compared with the constituent lumber

Cellular-to-dendritic and dendritic-to-cellular morphological transitions in a ternary al-mg-si alloy

The study is focused on the influence of solidification thermal parameters upon the evolution of the microstructure (either cells or dendrites) of an Al-3wt%Mg-1wt%Si ternary alloy. It is well known that the application properties of metallic alloys will greatly depend on the final morphology of the microstructure. As a consequence, various studies have been carried out in order to determine the ranges of cooling rates associated with dendritic-cellular transitions in multicomponent alloys. In the present research work, directional solidification experiments were conducted using either a Bridgman (steady-state) device or another device that allows the solidification under transient conditions (unsteady-state). Thus, a broad range of cooling rates (dot T), varying from 0.003K/s to 40K/s could be achieved. This led to the identification of a complete series of cellular/dendritic/cellular transitions. For low cooling rate experiments, low cooling rate cells to dendrites transition happens. Moreover, at a high cooling rate, a novel transition from dendrites to high cooling rate cells could be observed for the Al-3wt%Mg-1wt%Si alloy. Additionally, cell spacing λC and primary dendritic spacing λ1 are related to the cooling rate by power function growth laws characterized by the same exponent (-0.55) for both steady-state and unsteady-state solidification conditions529CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO - CNPQCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DE PESSOAL DE NÍVEL SUPERIOR - CAPESFUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO - FAPESP23038.000069/2015-042012/08494-0; 2012/16328-2; 2013/23396-7; 2014/25809-

Renal sympathetic nerve ablation for the treatment of difficult-to-control or refractory hypertension in a haemodialysis patient.

Haemodialysis patients show sympathetic hyperactivity. Hyperactivation of the sympathetic nervous system aggravates hypertension and it is related to left ventricular hypertrophy, heart failure, arrhythmias and atherogenesis. We report the first use of renal sympathetic nerve ablation for correction of uncontrolled hypertension in an end-stage renal disease patient on maintenance dialysis. We observed a progressive and sustained reduction of systemic blood pressure. Our case demonstrates the safety, the feasibility and the efficacy of this procedure. These findings suggest, however, that further clinical trials are needed into renal nerve radiofrequency ablation therapy for the treatment of hypertension and for the improvement of cardiovascular prognosis in this high-risk patient group

The role of User-Centred Design (UCD) in support of Ageing in place: assistive devices, social platforms, service UCD and robotics to enhance wellbeing for older adults

Within the UK and all developed countries, our ageing populations represent an unprecedented, though predicted, demographic change. Our success in extending life expectancy presents us with increased demands for health and social care, within the context of severe financial constraints – a so called ‘wicked problem’. UCD offers an intrinsic people-centred approach and the ability to bring together multidisciplinary perspectives necessary to frame and develop potential solutions to this type of difficult and complex problem. UCD methodology enables stakeholders’ alignment, requirements elicitation, inclusive participation and creative thinking. The symposium will focus on discussing how a UCD approach to social and technological innovation may offer real life solutions to improve the quality of life of older adults in their home, for mobility, for social connection and friendships. This symposium aims to bring to the fore UCD interventions made to improve the wellbeing of those who are ageing, with the intent to highlight research methodologies that would benefit other non-UCD researchers. In addition, the participation of older adults in the design research will demonstrate how ageing could become an asset when considering services, systems and products’ improvement. The symposium brings together a number of contributions that range from product, to system and technology development; the common thread being the involvement of the older adults as participants or co-designers.Innovate UK (Give and Take Care)https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/public/674/program?session=4046&s=1660https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/public/674/submission/17

Production de biomasse à usage énergétique par la gestion des pineraies du Frioul

Dans la région montagneuse du Frioul, au nord-est de l'Italie, les pineraies à dominante de pin noir et pin sylvestre couvrent quelques 36 000 hectares. Le Centre national de recherche italien a mené trois essais de récolte dans ces peuplements, pour vérifier si la récupération de la biomasse à usage énergétique était intéressante. Bien que décrivant une technique non pratiquée, pour l'instant, en France, la valorisation énergétique de la biomasse est un sujet qui attire l'attention de beaucoup de propriétaires forestiers, à la recherche de nouveaux marchés pour le bois, en région méditerranéenne aussi

Prevalence, Incidence and Impact of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Areas of Humanitarian Conflict: A Systematic Review

Background: Women and children are disproportionately targeted for violence in conflict and require higher levels of protection (Ward & Marsh, 2006). The United Nations estimates that 35% of women and girls experience sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in their lifetime (World Health Organization, 2013). Methods: PubMed/Medline, CINHAL, Google Scholar and Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews journals and grey literature was searched looking for incidence, prevalence and impacts of SGBV in conflict-affected countries. Results: Out of the 3,551 returned studies, 89 studies were assessed for eligibility. Of the 10 studies that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, one was a randomized cohort study, four were non-randomized cohort studies, three were retrospective cohort analyses and two were cross-sectional surveys. Studies occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), East Timor, Uganda and mixed (Burundi, DRC, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, southern Sudan, Uganda). All focused on examining incidence, prevalence and impacts of SGBV in conflict. Conclusions: Although limited, these studies demonstrate the increased incidence and prevalence of SGBV in conflict. Girls are disproportionality, more intensely impacted. Impacts for women and girls affected by SGBV range from intense psychosocial impacts and physical symptoms ranging from traumatic fistulas, pregnancy, abdominal pain, chronic pain, urinary incontinence, generalized malaise and symptoms of sexually transmitted infections.Bachelor of Scienc