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Pause. Reset. Return. Mental Hygiene And Mindfulness In Daily Routines For The Mental Wellbeing Of Mental Health Professionals, Jamie Tolson

Mindfulness Studies Theses

Children and adolescents in the United States are experiencing a mental health crisis which also impacts families, caregivers, including the mental health professionals providing support. This rationale paper expands on the history and limited current research to reintroduce the term “mental hygiene” as a lens to address the ongoing stress, the need for self-care and respite, and the value of incorporating mindfulness in the daily routines of mental health professionals. Intentional use of the term “mental hygiene" seeks to highlight an active and engaged process including mindfulness practices to decrease stress and burnout. The literature supports the inclusion of mindfulness …

Pediatric Stroke: A Review, Tipu Sultan

Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS)

Background and objectives: Pediatric Stroke is a neurological disorder in which the patient suffers with two or more Pediatric stroke is a focal neurological deficit lasting more than 24 hours because of stenosis, occlusion or rupture of cerebral blood vessels. Variable etiological factors are involved ranging from cardiac, haematological, infectious, immune mediated to arteriopathies which is emerging as most important cause of arterial ischemic stroke in children. In this review article we will discuss paediatric stroke with its epidemiology, etiological factors in particular arteriopathies, diagnostic modalities, management protocols and outcome.

Methods: We searched stroke in Pubmed and found 15315 articles, …

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy With Hippocampus Sclerosis: Prevalence, Etiology, And Treatment Options With Herbal Medicines, Muhammad Wasim, Mehr Musani, Hasan Salman Siddiqi, Saara Muddasir, Bushra Amin, Fazal Manzoor Arain

Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS)

Background and objectives: Epilepsy is a neurological disorder in which the patient suffers with two or more unprovoked seizures. It is one of the most common neurological disorders worldwide, affecting more than 70 million people. Currently various modes of effective treatments are available, but still there are many cases that remain drug resistant. Hence, there is a need to explore herbal medications for the treatment of drug resistant epilepsy.

Methods: Recent reviews and research articles (2000-2022) from PubMed and Google Scholar have been explored.

Review: Based on etiology, there are six categories of epilepsy: Genetic, Structural, Metabolic, Immune, Infectious, and …

Predictors Of Early Seizures After First Acute Stroke, Malik Muhammad Adil, Sumaira Nabi, Maryam Khalil, Zeeshan Munawar, Nayab Aslam, Zaid Waqar

Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS)

Background and objective: There is a lack of local data regarding the frequency and predictors of early seizures after stroke. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of early seizures after stroke and identify the predictors which lead to them after first acute stroke.

Methods: This cross-sectional observational study was conducted in the Department of Neurology, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad from October 2021 to June 2022. A total of 310 consecutive eligible patients of acute stroke were recruited. Key inclusion criteria included any patient of >20 years of age with confirmed diagnosis of stroke on …

The Psychology Of Fascism: Wilhelm Reich Et Al, Kenneth Feigenbaum

Comparative Civilizations Review

There are innumerable definitions and explanations of fascism in the literature of the social and behavioral sciences. This paper only explicates one: the concept of a fascist personality. It focuses on the early work by scholars in this area, beginning with the writings of the 20th century psychiatrist and student of Sigmund Freud, Austrian and American intellectual, Dr. Wilhelm Reich.

In the short story/essay that follows this article, allusion is made by the author — the late writer and United Nations staff member Shawna V. Tropp — to the circle which grew up around Wilhelm Reich. This was a significant …

Small Claims, Shawna V. Tropp

Comparative Civilizations Review

Had Laura Davidov not been a heavy woman in her late fifties, she would have thought that she had made a conquest. A golden young man appeared to have been following her through the Musée Rodin for over an hour; his eyes were turquoise, and he was quite old enough to be her son. There was also something disturbingly familiar about him. She therefore beamed her most maternal smile upon him and took a hesitant step in his direction.

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Comparative Civilizations Review

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Impacts Of Fertility On Physiological Stress, Photosynthetic Activity, And Crop Development In Salanova Lettuce, Sarah I. Miller

Master of Science in Environmental Sciences and Management Projects

The agricultural industry is one of the main drivers of soil degradation due to conventional crop production methods and overuse of soil which results in accelerated erosion, loss of soil fertility, acidification, and salinization (Lal, 2015). Loss of soil fertility from degradation can be detrimental to crop production as plants grown under nutrient limited conditions show signs of physiological stress and reduced photosynthetic rates leading to reduced yields (Zangani et al., 2021). Organic crop production and fertilizers are viable alternatives to conventional methods as they improve soil fertility and the physiological and biological properties of soil (Ilahi et al., 2021). …

Minutes, September 2022, University Of Dayton. College Of Arts And Sciences

Documents of the College of Arts and Sciences Academic Affairs Committee

Minutes from organizational meeting for Academic Affairs Committee

Helical Remodeling Augments 5-Lipoxygenase Activity In The Synthesis Of Proinflammatory Mediators, Eden M. Gallegos, Tanner D. Reed, Forge A. Mathes, Nelson V. Guevara, David B. Neau, Wei Huang, Marcia E. Newcomer, Nathaniel C. Gilbert

School of Medicine Faculty Publications

The synthesis of proinflammatory leukotrienes implicated in asthma, allergic rhinitis, and atherosclerosis is initiated by the enzyme 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX). The crystal structure of human Stable-5-LOX revealed a conformation where the catalytic iron was inaccessible to bulk solvent as two aromatic residues on a conserved helix-α2 (Hα2) plugged the substrate access portal. Whether 5-LOX can also adopt a more open conformation has not been resolved. Here, we present a new conformation of 5-LOX where Hα2 adopts an elongated conformation equivalent to that described in other animal lipoxygenase structures. Our observation of the sigmoidal kinetic behavior of 5-LOX, which is indicative of …

Knee Joint Biomechanics During Gait Improve From 3 To 6 Months After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, Kelsey Neal, Jack R. Williams, Abdulmajeed Alfayyadh, Jacob J. Capin, Ashutosh Khandha, Kurt Manal, Lynn Snyder-Mackler, Thomas S. Buchanan

Physical Therapy Faculty Research and Publications

Gait alterations after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) are commonly reported and have been linked to posttraumatic osteoarthritis development. While knee gait alterations have been studied at several time points after ACLR, little is known about how these biomechanical variables change earlier than 6 months after surgery, nor is much known about how they differ over the entire stance phase of gait. The purpose of this study was to examine knee gait biomechanical variables over their entire movement pattern through stance at both 3 and 6 months after ACLR and to study the progression of interlimb asymmetry between the two …

Fritz Jahr's Bioethical Imperative, Asian Bioethics And The Three Aspects Of Integrative Bioethics, Michael Cheng-Tek Tai

Journal of Medical Education

Fritz Jahr, a German philosopher's bioethical thinking is new to most of Taiwanese bioethical circle. He was the first scholar in the human history who brought up the thought of a ＂bio-ethics＂ in 1926. This article, a personal view is to introduce his thought to the readers of the Journal of Medical Education. The medical ethics that we teach at the medical schools is somehow outdated as the biomedical technology has moved from merely medical science-oriented to a much wider spectrum of bioethical issues. This article will first discuss the theoretical foundation of Fritz Jahr's bioethics and then compare it …

Online Tbl Using The Zoom^(Tm) Application During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Jakrawadee Julamanee, Pongtep Viboonjuntra, Daolada Kongkabpan, Arnuparp Lekhakula

Journal of Medical Education

Introduction: Team-based learning (TBL) engages students to participate in sharing knowledge and applications through teamwork. However, onsite learning was not possible during COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of online TBL as well as the effect of the learning method on performance and satisfaction of the students. Materials and Methods: An online TBL course was designed for the Hematopoietic System and Biology of Neoplasia module for 187 third-year medical students using both whole class and 'breakout rooms' feature of the Zoom^(TM) application. The individual and team readiness assurance tests (iRAT and tRAT) were conducted along …

The Effectiveness Of Mixed Reality Design Applied In A General Education Course Of University Suicide Gatekeeper Training, Sheng-Wei Wang, Chia-Yi Wu, Ming-Been Lee, Michael Chun-Ta Lin, Ting-Kai Ho, Fu-Ming Lu, Hsin-Ting Wu

Journal of Medical Education

Objective: To understand the feedback of college students on the application of mixed reality (MR) to the suicide prevention gatekeeper course. Methods: The course was an elective course with 16-week discussion courses (N = 95). The study analyzed the MR experience feedback of students in the general course of mental health promotion and suicide prevention in the second half semester in 2021 of a university in Northern Taiwan. A structured questionnaire survey with one short open question was filled in by students anonymously. Results: A total of 62 students completing the surveyed questions were recruited for the study. The response …

Well-Being Science For Teaching And The General Public, William Tov, Derrick Wirtz, Kostadin Kushlev, Robert Biswas-Diener, Ed Diener

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Research on well-being has exploded in recent years to more than 55,000 relevant publications annually, making it difficult for psychologists—including key communicators such as textbook authors—to stay current with this field. Moreover, well-being is a daily concern among policymakers and members of the general public. Well-being science is relevant to the lives of students—illustrating the diverse methods used in the behavioral sciences, presenting highly replicated findings, and demonstrating the diversity of individuals and cultures. Therefore, in this article, we present eight major findings that teachers and authors should seriously consider in their coverage of this field. These topics include processes …

Consensus-Based Recommendations On Priority Activities To Address Acute Kidney Injury In Children: A Modified Delphi Consensus Statement., Stuart L. Goldstein, Ayse Akcan-Arikan, Rashid Alobaidi, David J. Askenazi, Sean M. Bagshaw, Matthew Barhight, Erin Barreto, Benan Bayrakci, Orville N R Bignall, Erica Bjornstad, Patrick D. Brophy, Rahul Chanchlani, Jennifer R. Charlton, Andrea L. Conroy, Akash Deep, Prasad Devarajan, Kristin Dolan, Dana Y. Fuhrman, Katja M. Gist, Stephen M. Gorga, Jason H. Greenberg, Denise Hasson, Emma Heydari Ulrich, Arpana Iyengar, Jennifer G. Jetton, Catherine Krawczeski, Leslie Meigs, Shina Menon, Jolyn Morgan, Catherine J. Morgan, Theresa Mottes, Tara M. Neumayr, Zaccaria Ricci, David Selewski, Danielle E. Soranno, Michelle Starr, Natalja L. Stanski, Scott M. Sutherland, Jordan Symons, Marcelo S. Tavares, Molly Wong Vega, Michael Zappitelli, Claudio Ronco, Ravindra L. Mehta, John Kellum, Marlies Ostermann, Rajit K. Basu, Pediatric Adqi Collaborative

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Importance: Increasing evidence indicates that acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs frequently in children and young adults and is associated with poor short-term and long-term outcomes. Guidance is required to focus efforts related to expansion of pediatric AKI knowledge.

Objective: To develop expert-driven pediatric specific recommendations on needed AKI research, education, practice, and advocacy.

Evidence Review: At the 26th Acute Disease Quality Initiative meeting conducted in November 2021 by 47 multiprofessional international experts in general pediatrics, nephrology, and critical care, the panel focused on 6 areas: (1) epidemiology; (2) diagnostics; (3) fluid overload; (4) kidney support therapies; (5) biology, pharmacology, and …

Inconceivable Families, Malinda L. Seymore

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Booster Vaccination And Ongoing Viral Evolution In Seasonal Circulation Of Sars-Cov-2, A.N.M. Kraay, M.E. Gallagher, Y. Ge, P. Han, J.M. Baker, K. Koelle, A. Handel, B.A. Lopman

Faculty Publications

Periodic resurgences of COVID-19 in the coming years can be expected, while public health interventions may be able to reduce their intensity. We used a transmission model to assess how the use of booster doses and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) amid ongoing pathogen evolution might influence future transmission waves. We find that incidence is likely to increase as NPIs relax, with a second seasonally driven surge expected in autumn 2022. However, booster doses can greatly reduce the intensity of both waves and reduce cumulative deaths by 20% between 7 January 2022 and 7 January 2023. Reintroducing NPIs during the autumn as …

Trade-Offs Between Risks Of Predation And Starvation In Larvae Make The Shelf Break An Optimal Spawning Location For Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Taylor A. Shropshire, Steven L. Morey, Eric P. Chassignet, Mandy Karnauskas, Victoria J. Coles, Estrella Malca, Raúl Laiz-Carrión, Øyvind Fiksen, Patricia Reglero, Akihiro Shiroza, José M. Quintanilla Hervas, Trika Gerard, John T. Lamkin, Michael R. Stukel

Faculty Publications

Atlantic bluefin tuna (ABT) (Thunnus thynnus) travel long distances to spawn in oligotrophic regions of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) which suggests these regions offer some unique benefit to offspring survival. To better understand how larval survival varies within the GoM a spatially explicit, Lagrangian, individual-based model was developed that simulates dispersal and mortality of ABT early life stages within realistic predator and prey fields during the spawning periods from 1993 to 2012. The model estimates that starvation is the largest cumulative source of mortality associated with an early critical period. However, elevated predation on older larvae is …

Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Dylan Girodat, Lutishoor Salisbury, Fardy Faustin, Jeremy Smith

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster was compiled to highlight Dr. Girodat’s research as a new faculty in the Department of the Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas. It provides a summary of his research achievements and his scholarly impact.

Biosecurity Council Of Western Australia Annual Report 2021/2022, Biosecurity Council Of Western Australia

Biosecurity published reports

Understanding the needs and challenges of industry, community and government is key to providing relevant and constructive advice to government. During 2021/22, the Council continued to monitor biosecurity-related developments at national and State levels and proactively engaged with industry, community and government on biosecurity matters.

The key areas of advice that were progressed during the year were:

• The use of biological control agents to manage pests;
• Mechanisms for funding biosecurity and pest management; and
• Other matters as requested by the Minister.

Genetic Structure Correlates With Ethnolinguistic Diversity In Eastern And Southern Africa, Elizabeth G. Atkinson, Shareefa Dalvie, Yakov Pichkar, Allan Kalungi, Lerato Majara, Anne Stevenson, Tamrat Abebe, Dickens Akena, Melkam Alemayehu, Lukoye Atwoli

Brain and Mind Institute

African populations are the most diverse in the world yet are sorely underrepresented in medical genetics research. Here, we examine the structure of African populations using genetic and comprehensive multi-generational ethnolinguistic data from the Neuropsychiatric Genetics of African Populations-Psychosis study (NeuroGAP-Psychosis) consisting of 900 individuals from Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda. We find that self-reported language classifications meaningfully tag underlying genetic variation that would be missed with consideration of geography alone, highlighting the importance of culture in shaping genetic diversity. Leveraging our uniquely rich multi-generational ethnolinguistic metadata, we track language transmission through the pedigree, observing the disappearance of several …

Independent Phenotypic Plasticity Axes Define Distinct Obesity Sub-Types., Chih-Hsiang Yang, Luca Fagnocchi, Stefanos Apostle, Vanessa Wegert, Salvador Casaní-Galdón, Kathrin Landgraf, Ilaria Panzeri, Erez Dror, Steffen Heyne, Till Wörpel, Darrell P. Chandler, Di Lu, Tao Yang, Elizabeth Gibbons, Rita Guerreiro, Jose Bras, Martin Thomasen, Louise G. Grunnet, Allan A. Vaag, Linn Gillberg, Elin Grundberg, Ana Conesa, Antje Körner, Permute, J Andrew Pospisilik

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Studies in genetically 'identical' individuals indicate that as much as 50% of complex trait variation cannot be traced to genetics or to the environment. The mechanisms that generate this 'unexplained' phenotypic variation (UPV) remain largely unknown. Here, we identify neuronatin (NNAT) as a conserved factor that buffers against UPV. We find that Nnat deficiency in isogenic mice triggers the emergence of a bi-stable polyphenism, where littermates emerge into adulthood either 'normal' or 'overgrown'. Mechanistically, this is mediated by an insulin-dependent overgrowth that arises from histone deacetylase (HDAC)-dependent β-cell hyperproliferation. A multi-dimensional analysis of monozygotic twin discordance reveals the existence of …

High Power Microwave Operational Exposure Detection Using Thermoacoustic Wave Generation In Lossy Dielectric Polymers, James J. Frey

Theses and Dissertations

A feasibility analysis for the use of microwave-induced thermoacoustic (TA) wave generation in lossy dielectric media to detect pulsed high power microwave directed energy weapons in force health protection applications was conducted based on a series of empirical and computational investigations. A potential target volume material, carbon-loaded polytetrafluoroethylene, was identified for further study based on anticipated complex dielectric properties, with laboratory measurements of select electromagnetic (EM), thermal, and elastic material properties of relevance to the TA effect conducted to determine parameter values. A planar geometry TA-based signal chain model using thin film piezoelectric sensors was developed for both finite element …

Diversity Of Reptile Sex Chromosome Evolution Revealed By Cytogenetic And Linked-Read Sequencing, Ze-Xian Zhu, Kazumi Matsubara, Foyez Shams, Jason Dobry, Erik Wapstra, Tony Gamble, Stephen D. Sarre, Arthur Georges, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Qi Zhou, Tariq Ezaz

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Reptile sex determination is attracting much attention because the great diversity of sex-determination and dosage compensation mechanisms permits us to approach fundamental questions about mechanisms of sex chromosome turnover. Recent studies have made significant progress in better understanding diversity and conservation of reptile sex chromosomes, with however no reptile master sex determination genes identified. Here we describe an integrated genomics and cytogenetics pipeline, combining probes generated from the microdissected sex chromosomes with transcriptome and genome sequencing to explore the sex chromosome diversity in non-model Australian reptiles. We tested our pipeline on a turtle, two species of geckos, and a monitor …

Association Of Immunotherapy And Immunosuppression With Severe Covid-19 Disease In Patients With Cancer, Z. Bakouny, P. Grover, C. Labaki, J. Awosika, S. Gulati, C. Y. Hsu, M. A. Bilen, O. Eton, L. Fecher, Clara Hwang, H. Khan, R. R. Mckay, E. Ruiz, L. Weissmann, M. A. Thompson, D. Shah, J. Warner, Y. Shyr, T. K. Choueiri, T. Wise-Draper

Hematology/Oncology Meeting Abstracts

Background: Cytokine storm due to COVID-19 can cause high morbidity and mortality. Patients with cancer treated with immunotherapy (IO) and those with immunosuppression may have higher rates of cytokine storm due to immune dysregulation. We sought to evaluate the association of IO and immunosuppression with COVID-19 outcomes and cytokine storm occurrence among patients with cancer and COVID-19, based on data from the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19).

Methods: A registry-based retrospective cohort study was conducted on patients reported to the CCC19 registry from March 2020 to September 2021. The primary outcome was defined as an ordinal scale of COVID-19 severity. …

A Prognostic Model Of All-Cause Mortality At 30 Days In Patients With Cancer And Covid-19, S. Halabi, B. Luo, H. Dzimitrowicz, Clara Hwang, T. M. Wise-Draper, C. Labaki, R. R. Mckay, E. Ruiz, C. Rangel-Escareño, D. Farmakiotis, E. A. Griffiths, C. T. Jani, M. Accordino, C. Friese, E. Wulff-Burchfield, M. Puc, P. Yu, U. Topaloglu, S. Mishra, J. Warner

Hematology/Oncology Meeting Abstracts

Background: Patients with cancer are at higher risk of dying of COVID-19. Known risk factors for 30-day all-cause mortality (ACM-30) in patients with cancer are older age, sex, smoking status, performance status, obesity, and co-morbidities. We hypothesized that common clinical and laboratory parameters would be predictive of a higher risk of 30-day ACM, and that a machine learning approach (random forest) could produce high accuracy.

Methods: In this multi-institutional COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19) registry study, 12,661 patients enrolled between March 17, 2020 and December 31, 2021 were utilized to develop and validate a model of ACM-30. ACM-30 was defined …

Montanan, Fall 2022, University Of Montana--Missoula

Montanan Magazine, 1969-2024

This is the magazine of the University of Montana with news about the University for UM alumni as well as current faculty, students, staff, and administrators. This is volume 39.

Psyx 330.50: Child Development, Edgar Orozco

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Bioo 340.00: Biology And Management Of Fishes, Lisa A. Eby

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.