Relocation Is Not Enough: Employment Barriers Among HOPE VI Families

Examines whether the federal HOPE VI housing program has affected employment rates among residents, and identifies barriers to workforce participation. Based on surveys of residents at five Hope VI public housing sites

Multiple Team Membership: A Theoretical Model of its Effects on Productivity and Learning for Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

While organizations strive to manage the time and attention of workers effectively, the practice of asking workers to contribute to multiple teams simultaneously can result in the opposite. We present a model of the effects of multiple team membership (MTM) on learning and productivity via the mediating processes of individual context switching, team temporal misalignment, and intra-organizational connectivity. These effects are curvilinear, with learning and productivity peaking at moderate levels of these mediating processes

Declaration of medical writing assistance in international peer-reviewed publications

Medical researchers have an ethical and scientific obligation to publish, but between one third and two thirds of research may remain unpublished. A major reason for nonpublication is lack of time, which may lead researchers to seek medical writing assistance. Guidelines from journal editors and medical writers encourage authors to acknowledge medical writers. We quantified the proportion of articles from international, peer-reviewed, high-ranking journals that reported medical writing assistance

Distribution of cells responsive to 5-HT6 receptor antagonist-induced hypophagia

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2006 Housing in the Nation's Capital

Explores the interdependent relationship between public school systems and housing markets, and examines the ability of coordinated investment in affordable housing and quality education to revitalize Washington, D.C., metropolitan area neighborhoods

The Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus and Panton-Valentine Leucocidin (pvl) in Central Australia, 2006-2010

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.Background: The Central Australian Indigenous population has a high incidence of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) but little is known about the local molecular epidemiology. Methods: Prospective observational study of bacteremic and nasal colonizing S.aureus isolates between June 2006 to June 2010. All isolates underwent single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping and testing for the presence of the Panton-Valentine Leucocidin (pvl) gene. Results: Invasive isolates (n = 97) were predominantly ST93 (26.6 %) and pvl positive (54.3 %), which was associated with skin and soft tissue infections (OR 4.35, 95 % CI 1.16, 16.31). Non-multiresistant MRSA accounted for 31.9 % of bacteremic samples and showed a trend to being healthcare associated (OR 2.16, 95 % CI 0.86, 5.40). Non-invasive isolates (n = 54) were rarely ST93 (1.9 %) or pvl positive (7.4 %). Conclusions: In Central Australia, ST93 was the dominant S.aureus clone, and was frequently pvl positive and associated with an aggressive clinical phenotype. Whether non-nasal carriage is more important with invasive clones or whether colonization occurs only transiently remains to be elucidated

Patients, performance and parlours : the perception and socially constructed practises of dental sedation clinics

Conscious Sedation is a pharmacological intervention which enables anxious patients to have dental treatment. Although there is a strong research tradition into the efficacy of sedation modalities, there is a weak evidence base for the experience of sedation by those who use it. The aim of this thesis was to explore patients’, referrers’ and providers’understandings and experiences of conscious sedation and the Secondary Care Sedation Clinics which use it. A qualitative study was undertaken of stakeholders’ experiences of conscious sedation provided by five Secondary Care Sedation Clinics within the United Kingdom. Data were collected through thirty one semi-structured interviews, which were transcribed verbatim and subsequently analysed using a constant comparative method. The data show that sedation and secondary care sedation clinics are imbued with a variety of interpretations by differing participants. Patients primarily perceive sedation clinics as access points for addressing dental needs, whilst clinicians also anticipate an influential role in rehabilitating patients to primary care and recognise the importance of such settings for training future dentists. Successful sedation provision requires a variety of work, and sedation clinics play a hosting role to visiting patients as hinterlands to the dental world. The outcome of patients’engagement with sedation clinics varies from breaking avoidant patterns to creating a cycle of sedation dependency, whilst the process of sedation performance has a potential negative impact for providers. 2 The purposes and processes reported by participants mirror those of Victorian domestic parlours. This thesis suggests a novel theoretical construct of clinical ‘Parlours’. Such frontier social structures provide safe interaction for patients in a temporarily hosting environment. They require front-stage performance augmented by back-stage work, and seek to influence patients in the long-term whilst providing short-term clinical services. Further research is required to explore the transferability of such a concept to other clinical settings.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

Remote sensing and the Mississippi high accuracy reference network

Since 1986, NASA's Commercial Remote Sensing Program (CRSP) at Stennis Space Center has supported commercial remote sensing partnerships with industry. CRSP's mission is to maximize U.S. market exploitation of remote sensing and related space-based technologies and to develop advanced technical solutions for spatial information requirements. Observation, geolocation, and communications technologies are converging and their integration is critical to realize the economic potential for spatial informational needs. Global positioning system (GPS) technology enables a virtual revolution in geopositionally accurate remote sensing of the earth. A majority of states are creating GPS-based reference networks, or high accuracy reference networks (HARN). A HARN can be defined for a variety of local applications and tied to aerial or satellite observations to provide an important contribution to geographic information systems (GIS). This paper details CRSP's experience in the design and implementation of a HARN in Mississippi and the design and support of future applications of integrated earth observations, geolocation, and communications technology

Surveillance of a Vomiting Outbreak In Dogs in the UK Using Owner-Derived And Internet Search Data

BackgroundIn early 2020, the Small Animal Veterinary Surveillance Networkreported evidence of an outbreak of acute prolific vomiting in dogs in theUK. The aims of this study were to investigate whether there wasevidence for a vomiting outbreak in Dogslife and Google Trends data andto describe its characteristics.MethodsIncidence of Dogslife vomiting reports and the Google search index for‘dog vomiting’ and ‘puppy vomiting’ between December 2019 to March2020 was compared to the respective data from the same months inprevious years. Risks for dogs vomiting and factors influencingveterinary attendance in Dogslife were identified using multivariablelogistic regression.ResultsThis study confirmed a vomiting outbreak was evident in UK dogsbetween December 2019 and March 2020 using data from Dogslife andGoogle Trends. The odds of a vomiting incident being reported toDogslife was 1.51 (95% CI: 1.24 – 1.84) in comparison to previousyears. Dogslife data identified differences in owner-decision makingwhen seeking veterinary attention and identified factors associated withdogs at higher odds of experiencing a vomiting episode.ConclusionOwner-derived data including questionnaires and internet search queriesshould be considered a valid, valuable source of information forveterinary population health surveillance