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Commentary: Applying Positive Development Principles To Group Interventions For The Promotion Of Family Resilience In Pediatric Psychology, Jessica C. Kichler, Astrida S. Kaugars

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

As described in the call for this special issue, resilience is often defined as “achieving one or more positive outcomes despite exposure to significant risk or adversity” (Hilliard, Harris, & Weissberg-Benchell, 2012, p. 739). Resilience is particularly relevant to pediatric psychology, as youth and their families are tasked with overcoming risk factors simply by the nature of a child’s diagnosis of a disease/chronic illness and subsequent medical management demands. In addition to identifying key resilience factors within this population, it is critical to develop empirically supported clinical interventions to promote healthy biological, psychological, and social development; reduce youth psychopathology; and …

Discrepancy Between Parents And Children In Reporting Of Distress And Impairment: Association With Critical Symptoms, Laura Bein, Megan Lynn Petrik, Stephen M. Saunders, James V. Wojcik

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

Background: We examined discrepant parent–child reports of subjective distress and psychosocial impairment.

Method: Parent–child pairs (N = 112 pairs) completed the Health Dynamics Inventory at intake for outpatient therapy.

Results: Average parent scores were significantly higher than average child scores on distress, impairment, and externalizing symptoms, but not internalizing symptoms. There were significant associations between parent–child discrepancy (i.e. children who reported greater distress or impairment than parents or vice versa) and child endorsement of several notable symptoms (rapid mood swings, panic, nightmares, and suicidal ideation).

Conclusion: Parents tended to report more externalizing symptoms, distress, and impairment than children reported; …

The Neuromuscular Response To Spinal Manipulation: Quantifying The Effect Of Pain With Electromyography, Stuart James Currie

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Objective

To establish a methodology to quantify the neuromuscular response to spinal manipulation, develop a comprehensive date set including factors that affect the response, and compare the responses in both healthy participants and participants with acute and chronic low back pain.

Methods

Surface and indwelling electromyography at eight muscle locations were recorded during lumbar side-lying manipulations in 20 asymptomatic participants, 20 acute pain participants, and 20 chronic pain participants. Onset delay detection was optimized for signal detection failures and methodological comparisons were performed using a generalized linear model. The number of muscle responses and muscle activity onset delays in relation …

The Implementation Of The Food Safety Modernization Act And The Strength Of The Sustainable Agriculture Movement, Samuel R. Wiseman

Scholarly Publications

In the wake of growing public concerns over salmonella outbreaks and other highly publicized food safety issues, Congress passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act in 2011, which placed more stringent standards on food growing and packaging operations. In negotiations preceding the Act's passage, farmers of local, sustainable food argued that these rules would unduly burden local agricultural operations or, at the extreme, drive them out of business by creating overly burdensome rules. These objections culminated in the addition of the Tester-Hagan Amendment to the Food Safety Modernization Act, which created certain exemptions for small farms. Proposed Food and Drug …

Congress And Indians, Kirsten Matoy Carlson

University of Colorado Law Review

Contrary to popular narratives about courts protecting certain minority rights from majoritarian influences, Indian nations lose in the United States Supreme Court over 75 percent of the time. As a result, scholars, tribal leaders, and advocates have suggested that Congress, as opposed to the courts, may be more responsive to Indian interests and have turned to legislative strategies for pursuing and protecting tribal interests. Yet very little is known about the kinds of legislation Congress enacts relating to American Indians. This Article charts new territory in this understudied area and responds to recent calls for more empirical legal studies in …

Preventing Government Shutdowns: Designing Default Rules For Budgets, David Scott Louk, David Gamage

University of Colorado Law Review

In nearly every area of law and governance, default policies exist when lawmakers cannot pass new legislation-typically the status quo simply remains in effect. To its detriment, United States budget making at both the state and federal levels lacks effective defaults. If a new budget isn't passed by year end, there is no budget, and the government shuts down. The lack of defaults, coupled with a dysfunctional era of budgetary politics, has led to a number of recent high profile and costly government shutdowns at the state and federal levels. To date, legal scholarship has failed to address both the …

Getting Even Less Than What They Paid For: The Plight Of Generic Drug Consumers Under The Levine-Mensing Dichotomy, Vikrama Chandrashekar

University of Colorado Law Review

The Drug Price Competition and Patent Restoration Act of 1984, known as the Hatch-Waxman Amendments, allows manufacturers to begin developing generic versions of patented, brand-name pharmaceuticals while the patent terms are in force, and to bring those generic versions to market as soon as the patent terms expire. The generic versions are to mimic the brand-name drug in every respect; thus, they are produced at a significantly reduced cost, and those savings are passed on to generic drug consumers. Under federal regulations, a generic drug's label must also mimic that of the brand-name drug, and generic drug manufacturers may not …

Recall Me Maybe? The Corrosive Effect Of Recall Elections On State Legislative Politics, Zachary J. Siegel

University of Colorado Law Review

For the first time in Colorado's 137-year history, voters in two districts recalled their state senators from office in September 2013. Although the event prompted significant debate over the controversial gun legislation that sparked the grassroots efforts to trigger the recall elections, discussion generally overlooked the implications of using political recall altogether-implications that concern the very foundation of American democracy: the role of the legislator. This Comment aims to fill that gap, examining politically motivated recalls in the context of state legislatures. Using the recent Colorado examples as a case study, this Comment argues that increased use of the tactic …

Table Of Contents (Vol. 86, Issue 2)

University of Colorado Law Review

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From Access To Success: Affirmative Action Outcomes In A Class-Based System, Matthew N. Gaertner, Melissa Hart

University of Colorado Law Review

Scholarly discussion about affirmative action policy has been dominated in the past ten years by debates over "mismatch theory'"--the claim that race-conscious affirmative action harms those it is intended to help by placing students who receive preferences among academically superior peers in environments where they will be overmatched and unable to compete. Despite serious empirical and theoretical challenges to this claim in academic circles, mismatch has become widely accepted outside those circles, so much so that the theory played prominently in Justice Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in Fisher v. University of Texas. This Article explores whether mismatch occurs in the …

Privatization And Its Discontents: The Troubling Record Of Privatized Prison Health Care, Dan Weiss

University of Colorado Law Review

As part of a decades-long national trend towards privatization, local governments have turned to private contractors to provide health care in American prisons and jails. Ostensibly, the driving force behind this phenomenon is a desire to cut costs in an era of expanding prison health care expenditures and contracting governmental revenue streams. Local government officials build the cost-cutting incentive directly into their contracts via fixed-rate payment structures and cost-sharing provisions for off-site emergency treatment. While these contracts encourage cost-reduction, they simultaneously discourage proper oversight; their indemnification clauses render local governments largely immune from financial consequences when contractors deny emergency care …

Tribes As Innovative Environmental "Laboratories", Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner

University of Colorado Law Review

Tribes are not vestiges of the past, but laboratories of the future. - Vine Deloria, Jr1. Indian tribes, because of their distinctive regulatory authority and significant connection to the environment, possess unique capacities to innovate within the field of environmental law in the over fifty-six million acres that make up Indian country. This Article-the first scholarly work to address this aspect of tribal environmental law advocates for the idea of tribes as "laboratories" for examining environmental regulation. Tribes enact environmental regulation by two primary means-in their capacity as "tribes as states" (TAS) and in their capacity as inherent sovereigns-both of …

Intrastate Preemption In The Shifting Energy Sector, Uma Outka

University of Colorado Law Review

The United States energy sector is in a state of transition, at once moving toward cleaner energy resources, but also expanding the use of fossil fuels with new access to oil and gas plays. Although federalism concerns have dominated the literature, I argue here that the state-local relationship and intrastate preemption are shaping energy policy in important and under-examined ways. The energy transition to date has been marked by growth centered on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and commercial wind development, both of which are mostly regulated at the state level. Local governments have exerted authority over both forms of energy production, …

When Apps Pollute: Regulating Transportation Network Companies To Maximize Environmental Benefits, K. Casey Strong

University of Colorado Law Review

"Ridesharing"h as long been touted as a means to reduce the pollution and congestion caused by personal vehicles, but in practice has been relatively unpopular among Americans. That outlook may be changing, however, thanks to new "Transportation Network Companies" (TNCs) that toe the line between ridesharing and for-hire passenger transportation services, such as taxis and limousines. UberX, Lyft, Sidecar, and other similar services have rapidly spread to cities throughout the United States, attracting the attention of investors and ire of incumbent transportation providers. Legal commentary has thus far focused on proposed regulations' implications for liability, public safety, and fairness, but …

The Problems Inherent In Litigating Employer Free Exercise Rights, Henry L. Chambers Jr.

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.

Litigating Against The Civil Rights Movement, Christopher W. Schmidt

University of Colorado Law Review

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Identity Contests: Litigation And The Meaning Of Social- Movement Causes, Mary Ziegler

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.

Long-Term Overall Survival From A Phase 1 Trial Using Intratumoral Plasmid Interleukin-12 With Electroporation In Patients With Melanoma, Adil Daud, Kathryn T. Takamura, Tu Diep, Richard Heller, Robert H. Pierce

Bioelectrics Publications

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Détection Moléculaire Des Bactéries Du Genre Légionella Dans L’Eau Des Tours De Refroidissement Et L’Eau De Consommation, Geneviève Marchand, Nancy Lacombe

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Les bactéries du genre Legionella sont répandues dans plusieurs environnements tant naturels qu’artificiels. Les concentrations rencontrées dans les environnements naturels sont très faibles. Les phénomènes de contamination se rencontrent principalement dans les réservoirs artificiels où les températures de l’eau sont maintenues entre 25 et 42 °C, et où existe une certaine stagnation ainsi que la présence de dépôts, de biofilms et d’amibes. Les bains à remous, les piscines, les condensateurs d’évaporation, les brumisateurs et les tours de refroidissement sont reconnus comme étant des sources responsables de l’éclosion de légionellose en raison de la croissance importante des bactéries du genre Legionella …

Étude Exploratoire Sur La Caractérisation De La Masse Apparente D’Un Système Couplé Corps Assis – Siège Élastique Soumis À Des Vibrations Dans L’Axe Vertical, Subhash Rakheja, Krishna Dewangan, Pierre Marcotte, Arman Shahmir, Suresh Patra

Rapports de recherche scientifique

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Cette étude explore un système de mesure à pellicule mince de la pression à l’interface corps-siège (Tekscan Inc.) pour caractériser les réponses biodynamiques de sujets humains assis sur des sièges élastiques et exposés à des vibrations dans l’axe vertical. L’étude porte sur un siège rigide et trois sièges élastiques : un siège constitué d’un bloc de mousse de polyuréthane (MPU) plat d’une épaisseur de 8 cm (siège A), un siège de véhicule automobile flexible et moulant (siège B) et un coussin gonflable à bulles d’air (siège C). La validité du système …

An Exploratory Study For Characterizing Seated Body Apparent Mass Coupled With Elastic Seats Under Vertical Vibration, Subhash Rakheja, Krishna Dewangan, Pierre Marcotte, Arman Shahmir, Suresh Patra

Rapports de recherche scientifique

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Cette étude explore un système de mesure à pellicule mince de la pression à l’interface corps-siège (Tekscan Inc.) pour caractériser les réponses biodynamiques de sujets humains assis sur des sièges élastiques et exposés à des vibrations dans l’axe vertical. L’étude porte sur un siège rigide et trois sièges élastiques : un siège constitué d’un bloc de mousse de polyuréthane (MPU) plat d’une épaisseur de 8 cm (siège A), un siège de véhicule automobile flexible et moulant (siège B) et un coussin gonflable à bulles d’air (siège C). La validité du système …

Étude En Soufflerie De L’Effet Des Bâtiments Adjacents Sur La Dispersion En Champ Proche Des Émissions Polluantes De Cheminées De Toit, Ted Stathopoulos, Bodhisatta Hajra, Mauricio Chavez, Ali Bahloul

Rapports de recherche scientifique

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La dispersion des polluants des émissions de cheminées de toit dans la couche limite est fortement influencée par la présence de bâtiments avoisinants et la topographie locale. Il est donc très difficile d’évaluer précisément les concentrations dans le panache sur différentes surfaces de bâtiments. Les polluants émis par une cheminée de toit peuvent présenter des risques pour la santé des occupants des bâtiments s’ils se réintroduisent dans le bâtiment duquel ils émanent ou s’ils pénètrent dans un bâtiment voisin par des ouvertures se trouvant sur différentes surfaces de bâtiments. La plupart …

L’Effet De Bâtiments En Amont Et En Aval Sur La Dispersion Des Effluents : Une Approche Axée Sur La Mécanique Des Fluides Numérique (Cfd), Ali Bahloul, Ted Stathopoulos, Bodhisatta Hajra, Mauricio Chavez

Rapports de recherche scientifique

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La prédiction de la dispersion des émissions polluantes de cheminées de toit en milieu urbain est extrêmement complexe, tout particulièrement en présence de bâtiments voisins. Le comportement du panache dépend des caractéristiques du vent, mais il est aussi lourdement influencé par l’environnement. Il se peut ainsi que les effluents émis par une cheminée de toit se réintroduisent dans le bâtiment émetteur ou dans un bâtiment adjacent, exposant du coup les occupants à d’éventuels problèmes de santé. La conception et l’implantation optimales de cheminées d’évacuation pour limiter une telle réingestion au niveau …

Risk Factors For Slip Accidents Among Police Officers And School Crossing Guards: An Exploratory Study, Chantal Gauvin, David Pearsall, Mohsen Damavandi, Yannick Michaud-Paquette, Bruno Farbos, Daniel Imbeau

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Entre 2005 et 2007, les accidents de type glissades, trébuchements et chutes de même niveau ont représenté 12,6 % de l’ensemble des lésions indemnisées par la Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail du Québec (CSST) et ont entraîné des débours de 90 millions de dollars. Deux secteurs professionnels, soit les policiers et les brigadiers scolaires, ont sollicité l’appui de l’Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST) pour les aider à réduire et/ou prévenir les glissades qui, globalement, représentent près de la moitié de ces accidents. Afin de mieux cibler les interventions …

Nanoparticle Measurement, Control And Characterization: Procedure Applied To Machining Processes And Mechanical Friction, Victor Songmene, Riad Khettabi, Martin Viens, Jules Kouam, Stéphane Hallé, François Morency, Jacques Masounave, Abdelhakim Djebara

Rapports de recherche scientifique

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Alors que les nanotechnologies émergentes ouvrent des voies prometteuses dans plusieurs secteurs d’activité, des études suggèrent que les nanoparticules (NP) qu’elles génèrent pourraient avoir des effets négatifs, notamment sur la santé et sur l’environnement. Celles-ci peuvent être générées lors de la fabrication, de la manutention et de l’assemblage de pièces métalliques ordinaires et de celles à base de nanomatériaux. D’autres activités quotidiennes, telles que le freinage des automobiles, peuvent aussi produire des NP. Il est donc urgent de trouver des moyens de contrôler ces risques. Cependant, les techniques et méthodes usuelles …

Transitioning To Retirement: Useful Topics For A Wellness Program With Retired Older Adults, Katie Spitzmueller, Amy Feller

Occupational Therapy Capstones

Retirement has evolved from traditional stereotypes to an individualized plan. Transitioning into retirement can be a stressful time and it is generally accepted that pre-retirement attitudes impact post-retirement success (Marshall, Clarke & Ballantyne, 2001). A wellness program can make the transition into retirement less difficult by incorporating different dimensions of wellness: social, intellectual, occupational, physical, emotional, and spiritual (Strout & Howard, 2012). Currently there is very little research indicating the effectiveness of a wellness program that addresses these dimensions. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to gain insight into useful topics for a wellness program based on perspectives of …

A School-Based Reintegration Program For Children With Limb Loss: The Role Of Occupational Therapy, Allison Sussman, Samantha Hoy

Occupational Therapy Capstones

Purpose: The purpose of this scholarly project was to assist in treatment planning for school-based occupational therapists providing services to children who have suffered a traumatic limb loss. The goal of this scholarly project was to promote successful reintegration into the school setting as children with traumatic limb loss have been found to encounter difficulties returning to full participation in valued occupations including being a student and a friend (Michelsen, Van Wijk, & Ketelaar, 2010). There has been limited research conducted focusing on the role of occupational therapists when working with children in the school setting who have experienced traumatic …

A Protocol For Animal Assisted Therapy In A Midwestern Hospital, Alexie J. Traiser, Katie J. Huot

Occupational Therapy Capstones

Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) has been shown to improve physiological, psychological, social, and physical aspects of clients (Miller & Ingram, 2000; Diefenbeck, Bouffard, Matukaitis, Hastings & Coble, 2010). AAT increases an individual’s strength, cognition, range of motion, and balance (Miller & Ingram, 2000). The use of animals within therapy also decreases anxiety, heart rate, blood pressure, and pain while also improving attention and social participation (Diefenbeck et al., 2010). The role of animals within AAT provides the therapist with a unique tool to utilize in various aspects of therapy. Depending on the treatment plan, the therapist can utilize the animal …

Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Prevent Pulmonary Endothelial Hyperpermeability And Acute Lung Injury By Regulating Heat Shock Protein 90 Function, Atul D. Joshi, Nektarios Barabutis, Charalampos Birmpas, Christiana Dimitropoulou, Gagan Thangjam, Mary Cherian-Shaw, John Dennison, John D. Catravas

Bioelectrics Publications

Transendothelial hyperpermeability caused by numerous agonists is dependent on heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) and leads to endothelial barrier dysfunction (EBD). Inhibition of Hsp90 protects and restores transendothelial permeability. Hyperacetylation of Hsp90, as by inhibitors of histone deacetylase (HDAC), suppresses its chaperone function and mimics the effects of Hsp90 inhibitors. In this study we assessed the role of HDAC in mediating lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced transendothelial hyperpermeability and acute lung injury (ALI). We demonstrate that HDAC inhibition protects against LPS-mediated EBD. Inhibition of multiple HDAC by the general inhibitors panobinostat or trichostatin provided protection against LPS-induced transendothelial hyperpermeability, acetylated and suppressed Hsp90 …

Influence Of Learner Factors On Soldier Attitude Toward Army Serious Gaming, Mitchell L. Bonnett

STEMPS Theses & Dissertations

This study determined the influence of the learner factors on Soldier attitudes toward the use of serious gaming for U.S. Army training and leader development. It extended Selwyn's work (Selwyn, 1997a, 1997b, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2013; Selwyn, Gorard, Furlong, & Madden, 2003) identifying or measuring attitude toward using a technology and Bonanno and Kommers (2008) work extending Selwyn's work to measure the influence of learner factors on those attitude components toward the use of Army serious gaming for instructional purposes. The population studied was 709 Active duty U.S. Army Soldiers.

This quantitative non-experimental descriptive research design methodology used a 21-item …