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Lwv Bulletin, November, 2019, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area

League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area Bulletin 2010-2019

The Bulletin is published by the League, which is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

The Impact Of Shorter, More Frequent Outdoor Play Periods On Preschoolers’ Physical Activity During Childcare: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial, Molly Driediger, Stephanie Truelove, Andrew M. Johnson, Leigh M. Vanderloo, Brian W. Timmons, Shauna M. Burke, Jennifer D. Irwin, Patricia Tucker

Paediatrics Publications

Children’s physical activity levels are higher at the start of outdoor playtime, which suggests that shorter, more frequent play periods might result in greater amounts of daily physical activity. In this extension of the Supporting Physical Activity in the Childcare Environment (SPACE) cluster randomized controlled trial, we explored the impact of four 30-min daily outdoor unstructured play periods on preschoolers’ moderate-to-vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA). Experimental childcare centres (n = 6) implemented four 30-min daily outdoor playtimes for 8 weeks, while control centres (n = 6) maintained their two 60-min outdoor sessions. Actical™ accelerometers were used to measure preschoolers’ physical activity …

Development Of A Teen-Informed Coding Tool To Measure The Power Of Food Advertisements, Drew D. Bowman, Leia M. Minaker, Bonnie J.K. Simpson, Jason A. Gilliland

Paediatrics Publications

The food-related information environment, comprised of food and beverage advertising within one’s surroundings, is a growing concern for adolescent health given that food marketing disproportionately targets adolescents. Despite strong public interest concerning the effects of food marketing on child health, there is limited evidence focused on outdoor food advertising in relation to teenage diets, food purchasing, and perceptions. Further, limited research has considered both the exposure to and influence of such advertisements. This study used a novel multi-method approach to identify and quantify the features of outdoor food and beverage advertisements that are most effective at drawing teenagers into retail …

Health Care For Mitochondrial Disorders In Canada: A Survey Of Physicians, Karen Paik, Matthew A. Lines, Pranesh Chakraborty, Sara D. Khangura, Maureen Latocki, Walla Al-Hertani, Catherine Brunel-Guitton, Aneal Khan, Blaine Penny, Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg, C. Anthony Rupar, Neal Sondheimer, Mark Tarnopolsky, Kylie Tingley, Doug Coyle, Sarah Dyack, Annette Feigenbaum, Michael T. Geraghty, Jane Gillis, Clara D.M. Van Karnebeek, Jonathan B. Kronick, Julian Little, Murray Potter, Komudi Siriwardena, Rebecca Sparkes, Lesley A. Turner

Paediatrics Publications

Background: An improved understanding of diagnostic and treatment practices for patients with rare primary mitochondrial disorders can support benchmarking against guidelines and establish priorities for evaluative research. We aimed to describe physician care for patients with mitochondrial diseases in Canada, including variation in care. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of Canadian physicians involved in the diagnosis and/or ongoing care of patients with mitochondrial diseases. We used snowball sampling to identify potentially eligible participants, who were contacted by mail up to five times and invited to complete a questionnaire by mail or internet. The questionnaire addressed: personal experience in providing …

Peer Coaching For Leadership Development In The Public Sector: A Case Study From Local Public Health, Tammy Mackinnon

MPA Major Research Papers

Leadership development is critical for the future of public sector organizations. Its impact on employee satisfaction, collaboration and organizational performance has been well documented. But how do we best develop leadership in the public sector? Trends in the literature call for a shift to more shared, distributed approaches which argue that leadership capacity is necessary at all organizational levels, regardless of positional authority. This study will examine the efficacy of a peer coaching model at imbedding leadership capacity throughout the layers of an organizational structure. Using a case study of leadership development in local public health, this study contributes to …

A Participatory Filmmaking Process With Children With Disabilities In Rural India: Working Towards Inclusive Research, Colleen E. Mcgrath

Occupational Therapy Publications

Children with disabilities often experience exclusion within their communities, and this exclusion can extend into research processes. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, however, emphasizes that children of all abilities need to be involved as decision makers in matters affecting them. This article provides an in-depth description of the process of a participatory action research project carried out with children with disabilities from a rural village in India. It argues for the utility of participatory filmmaking as a research methodology that supports inclusion of children with disabilities as co-researchers in research and action processes. The …

Using Participant Observation To Enable Critical Understandings Of Disability In Later Life: An Illustration Conducted With Older Adults With Low Vision, Colleen E. Mcgrath

Occupational Therapy Publications

Research with older adults aging with vision loss has typically been informed by a biomedical theoretical framework. With a growing focus, however, on critical disability perspectives, which locates disability within the environment, new methods of data collection, such as participant observation, are needed. This article, which reports on the findings from a critical ethnographic study conducted with older adults with age-related vision loss (ARVL), aims to share those insights gained through participant observation and to demonstrate the utility of this method. Three insights were gained including the adaptive strategies tacitly employed to navigate the physical environment, a grounded understanding of …

Normalisation Of Mri Ventilation Heterogeneity In Severe Asthma By Dupilumab, Sarah Svenningsen, Ehsan Ahmed Haider, Rachel L Eddy, Grace Parraga, Parameswaran Nair

Medical Biophysics Publications

Ventilation heterogeneity in asthma could be due to many reasons. Luminal obstruction due to inflammatory cells or mucus, smooth muscle constriction and airway wall thickness could all contribute individually or collectively to ventilation heterogeneity. Interleukin-4 and interleukin-13, acting through the common interleukin-4 receptor, have the potential to modulate all of these features of asthma.1 Inhaled hyperpolarised gas MRI provides a way to regionally visualise and quantify the functional consequence of these features.2 Dupilumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody directed against the alpha-subunit of the interleukin-4 receptor.3 Here, we report a severe asthmatic who showed significant improvement and normalisation of …

Material Mapping Of Qct-Derived Scapular Models: A Comparison With Micro-Ct Loaded Specimens Using Digital Volume Correlation, Nikolas K. Knowles, Jonathan Kusins, Mohammadreza Faieghi, Melissa Ryan, Enrico Dall’Ara, Louis M. Ferreira

Bone and Joint Institute

© 2019, The Author(s). Subject- and site-specific modeling techniques greatly improve finite element models (FEMs) derived from clinical-resolution CT data. A variety of density-modulus relationships are used in scapula FEMs, but the sensitivity to selection of relationships has yet to be experimentally evaluated. The objectives of this study were to compare quantitative-CT (QCT) derived FEMs mapped with different density-modulus relationships and material mapping strategies to experimentally loaded cadaveric scapular specimens. Six specimens were loaded within a micro-CT (33.5 μm isotropic voxels) using a custom-hexapod loading device. Digital volume correlation (DVC) was used to estimate full-field displacements by registering images in …

Patients Undergoing Surgery For Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Experience Unique Courses Of Pain And Disability: A Group-Based Trajectory Analysis, Jeffrey J. Hebert, Edward Abraham, Niels Wedderkopp, Erin Bigney, Eden Richardson, Mariah Darling, Hamilton Hall, Charles G. Fisher, Y. Raja Rampersaud, Kenneth C. Thomas, Bradley Jacobs, Michael Johnson, Jerome Paquet, Najmedden Attabib, Peter Jarzem, Eugene K. Wai, Parham Rasoulinejad, Henry Ahn, Andrew Nataraj, Alexandra Stratton, Neil Manson

Bone and Joint Institute

© 2019 Hebert et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Objective Identify patient subgroups defined by trajectories of pain and disability following surgery for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis, and investigate the construct validity of the subgroups by evaluating for meaningful differences in clinical outcomes. Methods We recruited patients with degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis from 13 surgical spine centers who were deemed to be surgical candidates. Study outcomes (leg and back pain …

Psychometric Properties Of The Global Rating Of Change Scales In Patients With Neck Disorders: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis And Meta-Regression, Pavlos Bobos, Joy Macdermid, Goris Nazari, Rochelle Furtado

Bone and Joint Institute

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. Objective The purpose of this systematic review was to critically appraise and synthesise the psychometric properties of Global Rating of Change (GROC) scales for assessment of patients with neck pain. Design Systematic review. Data sources A search was performed in four databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, SCOPUS) until February 2019. Data extraction and synthesis Eligible articles were appraised using Consensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments checklist and the Quality Appraisal for Clinical Measurement Research Reports Evaluation Form. …

Systematic Review Of The Measurement Properties Of Performance-Based Functional Tests In Patients With Neck Disorders, Steven Mcgee, Taylor Sipos, Thomas Allin, Celia Chen, Alexandra Greco, Pavlos Bobos, Joy Macdermid

Bone and Joint Institute

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. Objectives The purpose of this systematic review is to identify and synthesise studies evaluating performance-based functional outcome measures designed to evaluate the functional abilities of patients with neck pain. Design Systematic review. Data sources A literature search using PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, EMBASE, COCHRANE, Google Scholar and a citation mapping strategy was conducted until July 2019. Eligibility criteria More than half of the study's patient population had neck pain or a musculoskeletal neck disorder and completed a functional-based test. Clinimetric …

Variational Representational Similarity Analysis, Karl J. Friston, Jörn Diedrichsen, Emma Holmes, Peter Zeidman

Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications

© 2019 The Authors This technical note describes a variational or Bayesian implementation of representational similarity analysis (RSA) and pattern component modelling (PCM). It considers RSA and PCM as Bayesian model comparison procedures that assess the evidence for stimulus or condition-specific patterns of responses distributed over voxels or channels. On this view, one can use standard variational inference procedures to quantify the contributions of particular patterns to the data, by evaluating second-order parameters or hyperparameters. Crucially, this allows one to use parametric empirical Bayes (PEB) to infer which patterns are consistent among subjects. At the between-subject level, one can then …

Using Spatial Release From Masking To Estimate The Magnitude Of The Familiar-Voice Intelligibility Benefit, Ysabel Domingo, Emma Holmes, Ewan Macpherson, Ingrid S. Johnsrude

Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications

© 2019 Acoustical Society of America. The ability to segregate simultaneous speech streams is crucial for successful communication. Recent studies have demonstrated that participants can report 10%-20% more words spoken by naturally familiar (e.g., friends or spouses) than unfamiliar talkers in two-voice mixtures. This benefit is commensurate with one of the largest benefits to speech intelligibility currently known - that which is gained by spatially separating two talkers. However, because of differences in the methods of these previous studies, the relative benefits of spatial separation and voice familiarity are unclear. Here, the familiar-voice benefit and spatial release from masking are …

Iba Newsletter [November 2019], Communications Department, Iba

IBA News

No abstract provided.

Molecular Game Theory For A Toxin-Dominant Food Chain Model, Bowen Li, Jonathan R Silva, Jianmin Cui, Et Al.

2010-2019 OA Pubs

Animal toxins that are used to subdue prey and deter predators act as the key drivers in natural food chains and ecosystems. However, the predators of venomous animals may exploit feeding adaptation strategies to overcome toxins their prey produce. Much remains unknown about the genetic and molecular game process in the toxin-dominant food chain model. Here, we show an evolutionary strategy in different trophic levels of scorpion-eating amphibians, scorpions and insects, representing each predation relationship in habitats dominated by the paralytic toxins of scorpions. For scorpions preying on insects, we found that the scorpion α-toxins irreversibly activate the skeletal muscle …

Can "Slacktivism" Work? Perceived Power Differences Moderate The Relationship Between Social Media Activism And Collective Action Intentions Through Positive Affect, Mindi D. Foster, Eden J.V. Hennessey, Benjamin T. Blankenship, Abigail Stewart

Psychology Faculty Publications

We argue that the often-used critique of social media activism as merely a ‘feel-good’ mechanism can be countered by conceptualizing social media activism as a necessary type of collective action (i.e., consensus mobilization), incorporating theory on the benefits of positive feelings for activism, and by examining how power may affect these relationships. Women from two different samples (MTurk and university) were randomly assigned to recall a high- versus low-power experience, view real-world events of sexism, and then complete questionnaires assessing endorsement of social media activism, positive affect, and collective action intentions. A dual moderated mediation analyses at the second stage …

Safe And Effective Use Of A Hands-Free Intracorporeal Retractor For Suture-Based Liver Retraction During Minimally Invasive Bariatric Procedures: Results Of A Large Case Series, Roger De La Torre, Matthew Sappington, Tom Smith, Jeremy Bryner, David Mantilla, J Stephen Scott

General Surgery

Background

Laparoscopic bariatric surgery requires retraction of the left lobe of the liver to provide adequate operative view and working space. Conventional approaches utilize a mechanical retractor that requires a dedicated incision, may cause liver damage, and often requires an assistant. This study evaluated the safety and efficacy of hands-free intracorporeal retractors in a large series of subjects undergoing laparoscopic bariatric surgery. This method eliminates the need for a subxiphoid incision, enables full surgeon autonomy, and allows for adjustments throughout the procedure.

Methods

Retrospective chart review identified all subjects at a single hospital undergoing bariatric surgery between September 2017-March 2019 …

Anatomy Of Gray, Lynn University

Drama Programs

By: Jim Leonard Jr.

When June’s father dies in Indiana during the late 1800s, she prays for a healer to come to the small town of Gray so that no one will ever suffer again. Next thing she knows, there’s a tornado and a man in a balloon blows into town claiming to be a doctor. At first, the new doctor cures anything and everything, but soon the town’s preacher takes ill with a mysterious plague.

Psychology Colloquium | From Psychotherapy Process Coding Measures To Clinical Training Practice Guidelines, Nov. 22, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Nebline, November/December 2019

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

4-H Horse Program Grows Youth for Life

Thanksgiving Food Safety

Recipe of the Month

Successful Farmer Series Starts Jan. 10

Produce Safety Workshop, Nov. 19

Pesticide Applicator Trainings

Upcoming Green Industry Conferences

A New Can of Worms: Asian Jumping Worms

Use Caution to Avoid Deer-Vehicle Collisions

Reuse Your Fresh Cut Christmas Tree for Wildlife

Gifts For The Gardener

Garden Guide: Things to Do This Month

High-Quality Child Care Depends on Effective Family Engagement

Heart of 4-H Volunteer Award: Beverlee Keller

Heart of 4-H Volunteer Award: Dave Hattan

4-H Video Companion Animal Showmanship Contest Results

Outgoing 4-H Council Members

2019 4-H …

Even Marijuana Needs A Zone: Utah’S H.B. 3001 As The Next Battleground For Zoning Ordinances And State Medical Marijuana Laws, Kyle A. Harvey

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

Federal Environmental Exemptions For Natural Disasters And The Case For Ecosystem Resilience, Morgan Drake

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

Unfit To Be Seen: Customer Preferences And The Americans With Disabilities Act, Craig Westergard

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

Smile, You’Re On Camera: A Discussion Of The Privacy Rights Of Teachers In The Modern Day Classroom, Dakota Brewer

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Nonprofit College Crash: Enforcing Board Fiduciaries Through Increased Accountability And Transparency In The Irs Form 990 Procedure, Patrick R. Baker, Paula Hearn Moore, Kaleb Paul Byars

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.

“More Than A Chronological Fact”: Roper V. Simmons As An Argument For Moving Away From Zero-Tolerance Discipline And Toward Restorative Justice, Elisse Newey

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Educator Stress: Finding Solutions To Combat Negativity, Exhaustion, And Burnout, Kevin Kusy, Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll

Faculty Publications & Research

What are habits of mind necessary for effective teaching?

• high levels of uncertainty
• attention to others
• mental flexibility
• emotion regulation
• relationship management skills
• working with conflict creatively
• being resilient after conflicts
• practicing forgiveness and relationship reengagement after conflict.

Tuberculosis, Jodie Meng '20, Shouri Bochetty '21, Elizabeth Murphy '20, Rachel Mason '20

Human Diseases Graphic Novels

No abstract provided.

Bell's Palsy Disease, Frances Balto, Grace Federici, Bala Ramaraju, Saisu Talasu

Human Diseases Graphic Novels

No abstract provided.