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Diplomacy in the Woods: Nature, Hunting, Masculinity, and Soviet Diplomacy under N.S. Khrushchev
Authors: Bakhmetyeva Tatyana
Published: September 2022

Analyzing several documentary films and other sources through the lens of gender and feminist theory, this article explores the role of hunting and nature in Soviet diplomatic relationships. The article views diplomacy as a masculine space in which diplomatic negotiations relied on successful displays of toughness and the exhibition of prowess and agility. These skills were best demonstrated not in the official corridors of power but in settings imbued with symbolic meanings associated with masculinity, such as nature. The latter often served as a homosocial space where power was displayed and reconstituted through ritualistic performances of heroic masculinity. Such rituals as hunting sought to accomplish several goals. They promoted the male bonding that formed the basis of a preferred personal style of diplomacy and allowed Soviet apparatchiks to display marksmanship skills and a level of physical prowess that would present them to their foreign counterparts as potent leaders and desired allies. More importantly, as with other performative rituals of masculinity, Soviet diplomatic hunts produced and reproduced masculinity – and with it, power – and served strategically to assert or challenge international hierarchies, shape new and reaffirm faltering alliances, and demonstrate the agility and potency of the Soviet system to visiting state leaders.
An Outline of Romanticism in the West
Authors: Isbell John Claiborne
Published: September 2022

Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey. Showcasing a breadth of theoretical and contextual approaches to the study of Romanticism, John Isbell provides an insightful contemporary overview of the field, paired with wide-ranging comparative reflections on the art and literature that helped shape it.

Discussing seminal Romantic texts such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or Germaine de Staël’s Corinne ou l’Italie, Isbell provides a foundation through which to investigate core concepts, such as the continuum of Romance, the Romantic hero, and Romantic literature’s characteristic repudiation of its own Romanticism. Unusually for a single-author monograph, the book includes both published and unpublished material covering Romantic creation across Europe and the two Americas.

Identifying Romanticism as an international movement, Isbell seeks to emphasise a theme frequently ignored by many academics: the roots of Romanticism, and its variations, as a national art. His arguments are supported by extensive interrogations of the political and historical contexts that moulded the outlooks of the writers and artists central to the period.

An Outline of Romanticism in the West underlines the interplay between nationalism, history, and artistic inspiration, and will therefore be of value to students and scholars of literature and history, as well as to general readers with an interest in Romanticism in the West.
A Comparison of Covid-19-Related Tweets Disseminated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization During the Initial Months of the Pandemic
Authors: Huddleston Lisa , Sajjad Mehroz
Published: September 2022

The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) that plagued the world in 2020 also brought with it the need to rapidly disseminate information to the public to encourage health-related behavior change. This study examines Covid-19-related Twitter messaging disseminated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization from February 29 to September 22, 2020. The research examined tweets from four constructed weeks, with the first 2 weeks representing days prior to President Donald Trump’s announcement of U.S. withdrawal from WHO, and the second 2-week period after the announcement. The Health Belief Model was used as the theoretical foundation for this study. Frequencies and chi-square analyses revealed less of an overall focus on barriers but no significant differences in messages for tweets related to consequences, benefits, and barriers. Significant differences ( p < .01) were found in engagement messaging for the second 2-week period.
The 2020 Counseling Psychology Conference and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned in Cultivating Change Through Liberation
Authors: Phillips Julia C. , Singh Anneliese A. , Cruz Carmen
Published: September 2022

Simultaneous to the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, the 2020 Counseling Psychology Conference was in the final stages of preparation. It was impossible to hold the conference in the midst of university restrictions on nonessential travel and government restrictions of large gatherings. We document the 2020 Counseling Psychology Conference as originally planned for historical purposes and describe the leadership challenges associated with cancellation. Further, we describe the virtual events arising from the 2020 Counseling Psychology Conference that were held to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of Counseling Psychology. Finally, we make recommendations for the field's constituent professional organizations and future leaders for planning future national conferences based on these experiences. Consistent with the theme of the conference, “Counseling Psychology at 75 Years: Reflections on Shared Identity, Cultivating Change, and Building a Counseling Psychology of Liberation,” our manuscript is framed from a liberation psychology perspective.
Punishing Neighborhood “Outsiders”: Neighborhood Punishment Rates and the Spatial Mis(match) Between Defendants’ Residence and Arrest Locations
Authors: Johnson Oshea D. , Petersen Nick , Martinez Brandon P.
Published: September 2022

This study examines how “outsider” arrests (i.e., arrests that happen in neighborhoods where defendants do not reside) and other covariates impact community-level punishment outcomes. Using census tract-level data on drug, violent, and property crime arrests occurring in Miami- Dade County (Florida) between 2012 and 2015, we estimate negative binomial regression models across three key punishment stages (pretrial detention, conviction, incarceration). Our findings suggest neighborhoods with higher levels of “outsider” cases, concentrated disadvantage, and Black defendants experience significantly higher rates of pretrial detention, conviction, and incarceration, net of controls. These findings vary across crime types, implying that such factors may also shape court actors’ focal concerns regarding neighborhood outsiders and other demographic factors. We discuss implications and directions for future research.
Legalize It, Criticize It, or Something Else? Americans’ Attitudes Toward Federal Recreational Marijuana Legislation (RML)
Authors: Mancini Christina , Budd Kristen M.
Published: September 2022

Recreational marijuana legislation (RML) has been enacted at the state-level but not federally. Given the link between public opinion and RML, we examine 2021 national poll ( N = 995) data that assessed views about different types of proposed federal actions concerning cannabis. Less than half of Americans preferred full legalization, 21% approved of medical legalization only, 23% believed in states’ rights, and 11% supported the current prohibition. Using multinomial logistic regression modeling, respondents who associated legalized recreational marijuana with adverse/negative effects were less likely to favor full legalization. In contrast, respondents who associated legalized recreational marijuana with beneficial effects were most supportive of full legalization. Uncertainty surrounding cannabis shaped preferences but not as dramatically as having a clear opinion.
Investigation of magnetite concentrate utilization as reinforcement in aluminum matrix composites
Authors: Birol Burak , Süngü Misirlioğlu Banu , ÇAKIR Öznur
Published: September 2022

The utilization of harder particles with magnetic properties as reinforcement in aluminum matrix composites (AMCs) enhances the mechanical and magnetic properties of aluminum. Present study investigates the utilization of magnetite concentrate (MC), which is composed of mainly Fe3O4, as reinforcement in AMCs. To achieve this goal, commercially pure Al and MC powders were blended (0–40 wt.% of MC) and ground by high energy ball milling, pressed, and sintered at 600°C for 30 min under an argon atmosphere. The products were characterized by XRD, and SEM analyses. Also, the density and porosity of the samples were determined by Archimedes’ principle. According to the results, it was observed that with the increasing reinforcement amount, agglomeration of the MC particles inside the Al matrix, as well as the porosities of the samples, increased. 10–20 wt. % of MC containing samples, the porosity values were obtained around 12 vol. %, however higher reinforcement amounts, raised the porosity values to 17.33 vol. % linearly. With the increment in both nonconductive MC particles and pores, the electrical conductivity of the samples decreased linearly. On the other hand, hard reinforcement particles played a positive role in both hardness and wear properties and a 43.37 HB of hardness value and 0.197 m3/N.m × 10−12 specific wear rate was obtained for the sample containing 40 wt. %, MC. In addition, an increase in magnetic properties was observed in direct proportion to the amount of MC particles added, up to 31 Am2.kg−1 of saturation magnetization.
The Meddling American Voter? How Norms, Interests, and Great Power Rivalries Affect U.S. Public Support for Partisan Electoral Interventions Abroad
Authors: Levin Dov H. , Musgrave Paul
Published: September 2022

Foreign electoral interventions have attracted greater attention since the Russian intervention in the 2016 U.S. elections. Even though the United States has a long history of intervening in other countries’ elections, evidence about what drives public support for U.S. foreign electoral intervention is scarce. This paper uses a new set of surveys and experiments to test hypotheses about what drives the American public’s views of U.S. electoral interventions abroad. We find that there is no taboo against such U.S. interference in the American public. However, public support for U.S. election interference is not automatic. Respondents do not support interventions solely to advance U.S. interests or to protect democracy, although they prove more supportive of interventions on behalf of democratic parties that also favor U.S. interests or to protect longstanding democracies. Finally, support for an intervention rises when it is framed as responding to the actions of a great-power rival such as Russia.
The Search for Challenge: A Reflection
Authors: Feigenbaum Kenneth D.
Published: September 2022

This article presents reflections by Feigenbaum on David Riesman. David Riesman was Feigenbaum’s research assistant at the University of Chicago from 1956-1958. This article offers the context that led to the writing of “The Search for Challenge,” which is perceived as a leitmotif in the life of Riesman and is seen as a motivator for his writing of this article. Riesman’s wide-ranging intellectual perspective is presented in the article.
Immersion in Alien Worlds: Teaching Ethnographic Sensibilities through Dystopian and Science Fiction
Authors: Fox Katherine E.
Published: September 2022

The Alien Worlds project teaches ethnographic skills using the societies of dystopian, postapocalyptic, and science fiction texts as imagined field sites and targets for analysis. These exercises and assignments, which illustrate principles of qualitative fieldwork, were developed when COVID-19 precautions made it impossible to assign tasks that involved in-person social interaction. Preliminary findings from use in 2020–2021 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (n = 140) and Science Fiction and Society (n = 10) classes suggest that science fiction may have an ongoing place in beginning and intermediate social science courses, as it provides an entertaining, low-stakes way for students to practice observation and analysis. The original project is designed to span at least six weeks or the course of a semester, but variations for shorter and stand-alone assignments are provided in addition to ways that it can be adapted to suit the needs of different audiences. Though it will not replace all in-person field experience for advanced sociology and anthropology students, it provides a bridge between classroom content and hands-on interaction that encourages a growth mindset in learning.
“Everyone Is Supersmart Now”: Learning Higher-Level and Critical Sociological Thinking from the Dystopian Satire of M.T. Anderson’s Feed
Authors: Gallati Benjamin
Published: September 2022

Sociology instructors have long used nontraditional texts such as literary fiction to demonstrate core course concepts, increase student engagement, and develop students’ critical thinking in the classroom. In this article, I explore how written assignments structured around identifying core course concepts in a dystopian novel that connects to student interests can help develop higher-level and critical sociological thinking skills. Using data from an upper-level Sociology of Media course at a large, Midwestern university, I detail a final paper assignment centered around M. T. Anderson’s dystopian satire novel Feed. I present qualitative and quantitative findings that demonstrate students’ successful use of higher-level and critical sociological thinking to identify, analyze, and support original arguments regarding core course concepts within the dystopian world and our own.
Acute Variceal Hemorrhage and Airway Obstruction in a Patient With Reinke’s Edema
Authors: Raskin Jonathan , Nasrollahi Tasha , Borrelli Michela , Nasseri Shawn
Published: September 2022

Reinke’s edema and variceal hemorrhage are complex structural pathologies that affect the vocal cord mucosa. The vocal cords are highly susceptible to environmental stressors, such as smoking and vocal cord usage, thus, treatment involves their corresponding cessation.1 Here, we report a case of a patient with severe Reinke’s edema and bilateral chronic vocal cord varices. The patient had a 30-pack-year history of cigarette smoking and was obstructed with intubation due to acute variceal hemorrhage and severe swelling of Reinke’s edema. Moreover, a review of the literature regarding Reinke’s edema and variceal hemorrhage treatment and their complications was performed.
Social-Judgment Comparisons in Daily Life
Authors: Thai Sabrina , Lockwood Penelope
Published: September 2022

Comparison processes are critical to social judgments, yet little is known about how individuals compare people other than themselves in daily life (social-judgment comparisons). The present research employed a 7-day experience-sampling design ( Nparticipants = 93; Nsurveys = 3,960) with end-of-week and 6-month follow-ups, to examine how individuals make social-judgment comparisons in daily life as well as the cumulative impact of these comparisons over time. Participants compared close (vs. distant) contacts more frequently and made more downward than upward comparisons. Furthermore, downward, relative to upward, comparisons predicted more positive perceptions of the contact, greater closeness to the contact, and greater relationship satisfaction. More frequent downward comparisons involving a particular contact also predicted greater closeness 1 week and 6 months later. When participants made upward comparisons, they were motivated to protect close, but not distant, contacts by downplaying domain importance, and engaging in this protective strategy predicted greater closeness to the contact 1 week later.
Differentiating Patterns of Vaping, Alcohol, and Cannabis Use Among Early Adolescents
Authors: Shahid Hamnah , Heffer Taylor , Borg Meghan E. , Buma-Wiens Annelise , Willoughby Teena
Published: September 2022

The current study assessed whether risk factors associated with vaping were distinct from risk factors associated with other substance use (e.g., alcohol, cannabis) during adolescence. Participants ( N = 848, ages 10–16 years) completed a self-report survey to assess frequency and age of onset of substance use, risk perceptions of use, risk factors (depressive symptoms, sensation seeking, and parent-reported factors), and vape nicotine content. Groups were created to differentiate types of substance use, and frequency of substance use. Overall, adolescents who only vaped had lower depressive symptoms and indicated less nicotine vape use than adolescents who vaped and used other substances. Experimental vapers perceived other substances (but not vaping) as risky and endorsed vaping nicotine less often than regular vapers. Early initiation of vaping was not associated with polysubstance use. Taken together, our findings offer important implications for how vaping can be differentiated from other substance use during adolescence.
Radiomics of CTA is feasible in identifying muscle ischemia
Authors: Ling Zhiyu , Li Xiaoming , Wu Gang , Fadoul Hissein
Published: September 2022

Background

Advanced models based on computed tomography angiography (CTA) radiomics features in discriminating muscle ischemia from normal condition are lacking.

Purpose

To investigate the feasibility of radiomics of CTA in discriminating ischemic muscle from normal muscle.

Material and Methods

A total of 102 patients (51 ischemia and 51 non-ischemia) were analyzed using a CTA radiomics method. The radiomics features of muscle were compared between ischemic and normal cases. The maximum relevance minimum redundancy (mRMR) algorithm and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) logistic regression model were used. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to determine the performance of radiomics signature.

Results

Thirty-nine CTA radiomics features were significantly different between the two groups ( P < 0.05). By LASSO, six features were used to construct a model. The signature area under the curve was 0.92 and 0.91 in the training and validation cohorts, respectively. The sensitivity and specificity of the signature were 92% and 86% for the training cohort, and 80% and 94% for the validation cohort, respectively.

Conclusion

CTA radiomics signature is useful in identifying ischemic muscle in selected patients.
Intraepithelial cytotoxic lymphocytes are associated with a poor prognosis in feline intestinal T-cell lymphoma
Authors: Ii Tatshuhito , Chambers James K. , Nakashima Ko , Goto-Koshino Yuko , Mizuno Takuya , Uchida Kazuyuki
Published: September 2022

The expression of cytotoxic molecules in feline intestinal T-cell lymphoma cells was examined immunohistochemically using endoscopic samples of 50 cases. Cases included 14 large-cell lymphomas (LCLs) and 36 small-cell lymphomas (SCLs). Most LCL and some SCL exhibited marked erosion and villous atrophy. Clonal T-cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangement was detected in 10/14 (71%) LCL cases and 33/36 (92%) SCL cases. No clonal immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene rearrangement was detected. Immunohistochemically, all cases were positive for CD3 and negative for CD79α, CD30, CD56, and Foxp3. LCLs were positive for CD8 in 13/14 cases (93%), T-cell intracellular antigen 1 (TIA1) in 14/14 cases (100%), and granzyme B in 6/14 cases (43%). SCLs were positive for CD8 in 28/36 cases (78%), TIA1 in 33/36 cases (92%), and granzyme B in 2/36 cases (6%). TIA1- and granzyme B-positive neoplastic lymphocytes were predominantly observed in the mucosal epithelium of 10/50 cases (20%) and 6/50 cases (12%), respectively. No significant differences in survival time were found based on cell size or epitheliotropism. However, cases with TIA1+ and/or granzyme B+ neoplastic lymphocytes predominantly in the mucosal epithelium had significantly shorter survival times ( P < .05), suggesting that mucosal epithelium infiltration of neoplastic cells with a cytotoxic immunophenotype is a negative prognostic factor. Therefore, intraepithelial cytotoxic lymphocytes may be associated with mucosal injury and impaired intestinal function, leading to a poor prognosis in cats with intestinal T-cell lymphoma.
Arthroscopic Latarjet With Cortical Buttons Versus Open Latarjet With Screws: A Short-Term Comparative Study
Authors: Girard Mathieu , Dalmas Yoann , Martinel Vincent , Mansat Pierre , Bonnevialle Nicolas
Published: September 2022

Background:

The arthroscopic bone block procedure according to Latarjet remains a controversial subject, and few comparative studies have demonstrated the benefit of arthroscopy over open surgery.

Purpose/Hypothesis:

The objective of this study was to compare both procedures by analyzing the short-term clinical results. The hypothesis was that the arthroscopic procedure is superior to the standard open procedure.

Study Design:

Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3.

Method:

This was a retrospective comparative study. Patients treated for chronic anterior instability by arthroscopic Latarjet with double cortical buttons (group A) or open Latarjet with screws (group O) with a minimum follow-up of 12 months were included. Intraoperative (duration, complications) and postoperative (complications, pain, mobility, functional scores, resumption of sport, Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale scar aesthetics, satisfaction) data were compared.

Results:

In total, 50 patients were included (n = 24 in group A, n = 26 in group O). Operating time was longer in group A (103 vs 61 min; P = .001). The average number of days on analgesics was higher in group A (8.9 vs 5.3 days; P = .04). The complication rate was similar for the 2 groups (12.5% vs 27%; P = .46). At 3 months, the loss of external rotation was greater in group A (–33° vs −18°; P = .01), and resumption of sports was less frequent (11% vs 48%; P = .01). At 12 months, the average scores were excellent, with no significants differences between the 2 groups: Walch-Duplay average, 90 points; Rowe, 94 points; Subjective Shoulder Value (SSV), 92.5%; sport SSV, 85%; and Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale score, 17.2 points.

Conclusion:

Over the short term, this comparative study did not prove the superiority of the cortical-button arthroscopic Latarjet procedure over the open Latarjet procedure. A delay in the resumption of sports, longer time to recover range of motion, and no benefit regarding postoperative pain or the aesthetic aspect of the scar were observed in this study with the arthroscopic procedure.
Financialization and Debt: Much Worse Than Parasites
Authors: Campbell Al , Bakir Erdogan
Published: September 2022

Starting from the two correct positions that, compared to the form of capitalism that preceded it, neoliberal capitalism has generally been more harmful to working people, and that in it finance plays a greater role in both scale and scope, some political economists argue that in neoliberalism financial capital is parasitic on nonfinancial (or “productive,” or “industrial”) capital. The central argument of this article is that, to the contrary, financial capital serves all capital through the various ways that it allows for neoliberalism to increase its appropriation of surplus value. To concretely support this position, the article considers a particular financial relation, debt, and indicates seven specific ways debt expansion facilitates neoliberalism’s pursuit of increased appropriation of surplus value. Secondarily, this article rejects any stated or implied policy implications from the parasitic financial capital thesis that present “productive capitalism” as the desirable alternative to the deleterious effects of financialized capitalism.

JEL Classification: G00, G51, H63
From Methodology to Method in Genre-Based Ethnographies
Authors: Russell Alisa
Published: September 2022

Genre has long been used by Writing Studies ethnographers as a theoretical orientation and analytical tool to bridge text and context. This article describes how genre-based ethnographies as methodology might get taken up at the level of method. Drawing on a genre-based ethnographic study as an example and guide, this article presents a process of data collection that builds ethnographic sites from genre by emergently identifying chains of data sources and collection techniques emanating from starting genres. Applying a genre orientation at the level of method centers inquiry on writing and mitigates the need to define site boundaries. By articulating how a genre orientation might shape ethnography at the level of method, this article encourages a stronger articulation between research methodologies and methods across the field of Writing Studies. Further, this article can be used as a guide for researchers conducting genre-based ethnographies.
Memory Politics on a Neighborhood Scale: Uses of the Past in the Historic Center and the Periphery of Valencia (Spain)
Authors: Fioravanti Hernán , Moncusí-Ferré Albert
Published: September 2022

This article analyzes the production of memory on a neighborhood scale, comparing the different logics that shape narratives about the past in the historic center and a peripheral area of the city of Valencia (Spain). We analyze the uses of the past developed by three kinds of actors: local institutions, social movements, and residents. This line of research shows that administrators boost aestheticized memories oriented towards commodification and tourist promotion in the historic center and towards an unconflicted representation of interculturality in the periphery. These hegemonic narratives are being reproduced, appropriated, and negotiated by social movements and local residents, who replicate some elements of the official narratives while, at the same time, resignifying other parts and claiming neglected and erased memories. Urban memories function, therefore, as a political arena for the imposition and negotiation of different dynamics and transformations experienced at the local level.
An Effectiveness Study of a Primary Care-embedded Clinical Pharmacist-Led Intervention Among Patients With Diabetes and Medicaid Coverage
Authors: Narain Kimberly Danae Cauley , Tseng Chi-Hong , Bell Douglas , Do Amanda , Follett Rob , Duru O. Kenrik , Moreno Gerardo , Mangione Carol
Published: September 2022

Objective: Examine the impact of a primary care-embedded clinical pharmacist-led intervention (UCMyRx) on hemoglobin A1C and blood pressure control, relative to usual care, among patients with Type 2 diabetes (TD2) and Medicaid, in a large healthcare system. Methods: We used data extracted from the Electronic Health Records system and a Difference-In-Differences study design with a 2:1 propensity-matched comparison group to evaluate the impact of UCMyRx on HbA1c and systolic blood pressure among patients with TD2 and Medicaid, relative to usual care. Results: Having at least one UCMyRx clinical pharmacist visit was associated with a significant reduction in HbA1c; (−.27%, P-value= .03) but no impact on SBP. We do not find differential UCMyRx effects on HbA1c or SBP among the subpopulations with baseline HbA1C ≥9% or SBP ≥150 mmHg, respectively. In Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI)-stratified analyses we found stronger UCMyRx effects on HbA1C (−.47%, P-value< .02) among the CCI tercile with the lowest comorbidity score (CC1 ≤ 5). Significant UCMyRx effects are only observed among the subpopulation of Medicaid beneficiaries without Medicare (−.35%, P-value= .02). Conclusions: The UCMyRx intervention is a useful strategy for improving HbA1c control among patients with TD2 and Medicaid.
Impact of SMART Goals on Diabetes Management in a Pharmacist-Led Telehealth Clinic
Authors: Cook Hannah E. , Garris Lindsay A. , Gulum Alev H. , Steber Carolyn J.
Published: September 2022

Background: Although there is evidence demonstrating successful implementation of SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound) goals in clinical settings, their impact on improving diabetes control has not been well-established. Objective: The primary objective was to determine the association between setting SMART goals and change in A1c among a Veteran population. Methods: This was an IRB-approved retrospective, case-control study. Patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) managed virtually by a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at a VA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic were eligible for inclusion. The electronic medical record was used to identify patients that set a SMART goal for DM management during the study timeframe. These patients were matched to a similar cohort of patients that did not set a SMART goal. Results: There were 100 patients included in the study. Goal A1c was achieved in 30% of patients in the SMART goal group compared with 24% of patients in the control group. There was a 1.2% reduction in A1c from baseline to 3 months in the SMART goal group vs .85% in the control group ( P = .287). The mean number of medication changes per patient was 1.7 in the SMART goal group vs 2.1 in the control group ( P = .174). Patients in the SMART goal group set an average of 1.5 SMART goals during the study period. Conclusion: Overall, patients that set SMART goals had clinically meaningful A1c lowering. Setting SMART goals for DM management in agreeable patients during diabetes telehealth visits may lead to fewer medication changes and improved diabetes control.
A recent state of art review on heat transfer enhanced characteristics and material selection of SCTHX
Authors: Debnath Pinku , Pradhan Mrinal
Published: September 2022

The shell and coil tube heat exchangers (SCTHX) are widely used to transfer heat energy from one medium to another effecting medium, such as refrigeration and air conditioning system, chemical reactor, solar heater and steam power plant. The helical tubes are one of the passive heat transfer enhancement technique in heat exchanger, which are adopted in industries due to higher rate of heat transfer and simplicity in manufacturing. It has been widely employed that heat transfer coefficient in helical coils are higher compare to straight pipe by several researchers. The reason is behind that the formation of secondary flow of nano fluid. It is leading by dean vortex which is imposed to primary flow. Furthermore research on segmental and helical baffle geometry can improve the heat transfer rate in helical coil tube heat exchanger. This study is concerned with the enhancement of convective heat transfer interaction between fluid and solid surface of helical coil. The detailed descriptions of material selection, nano fluid flow physics and heat transfer enhancement inside helical coil tube are very less in open literature. A state of art review indicates that further research work can be carried out by modifying the geometry of SCTHX and enhance factors of fluid property. The heat transfer can also be enhanced by polymer additives added in nano fluids, effect of super hydrophobic surfaces and fluid bubbles generation from roughened heating surface. Finally new ideas are presented in this paper to improve the heat transfer rate and material selection for low cost manufacturing with minimum size.
The corrugation of railway rails: 2. Monitoring and conclusions
Authors: Grassie Stuart L
Published: September 2022

Monitoring of test sites has been undertaken on a new metro system for 2 years after the start of service traffic to examine whether rail corrugation would occur. The track specification required that all known corrugation formation mechanisms be considered, and mitigation measures taken for design of the trackwork. The metro includes demanding conditions for corrugation formation. Monitoring was undertaken twice annually for the first 2 years of operation at nine test sites. After this time, irregularities at all sites and in all wavelength ranges were within the limits for Class 1 reprofiling in the 2006 version of the European Standard for reprofiling, in which limits on irregularities are similar to those of the acoustic standard EN ISO3095:2005. A method of undertaking a corrugation survey is presented from which it was deduced that at most 2.5% of the overall length of the railway was corrugated to an extent that could be detected by this means.
Couple-Based Behavioral HIV Interventions by the Social Intervention Group: Progress, Gaps, and Future Directions
Authors: El-Bassel Nabila , Hunt Tim , Goddard-Eckrich Dawn A. , Chang Mingway , McCrimmon Tara R. , Mukherjee Trena , Remien Robert H. , Terlikbayeva Assel , Primbetova Sholpan , Davis Alissa , Jiwatram-Negrón Tina , Benjamin Shoshana N. , Witte Susan S. , Wu Elwin , Gilbert Louisa
Published: September 2022

Purpose: This paper reports a review of couple-based behavioral HIV interventions conducted by the Social Intervention Group (SIG); and addresses gaps, future directions, and implications for couple-based HIV interventions. Method: We performed a literature review for SIG research on intervention and prevention studies involving couples/partners. Results: We identified nine couple-based interventions. Outcomes included reduced sexual and substance use-related risk behaviors and improved use of anti-retroviral treatment. We conducted these studies in diverse venues, including needle/syringe exchange programs, primary care clinics, and criminal justice settings. Conclusions: The findings of this review provide strong evidence for the efficacy of couple-based HIV interventions in reducing sexual HIV risks and linkage to HIV and substance-use treatment. SIG has advanced couple-based HIV intervention research science by improving study design, intervention core components, conceptual models, and implementation strategies; which have informed scientific directions and transformed couple-based HIV prevention research.
Redefining Fatherhood: The Lived Experiences of Stay-at-Home Fathers in a Filipino Transnational Family
Authors: Ballaret Jeffrey R. , Lanada Jonel P.
Published: September 2022

The Filipino family dynamics have evolved because of globalization and migration. This has changed the traditional family norms in the Philippines. As a result, the number of Stay-At-Home-Fathers (SAHFs) has increased, with fathers becoming primary givers and mothers becoming breadwinners. A phenomenological qualitative study was utilized in this study to understand the lived experiences of SAHFs focused on their life history, present experiences, and their reflections on hopes and aspirations. Reasons for becoming a SAHF are largely based on the socioeconomic status of the family and the readiness to end the cycle of poverty. Though there is an increased number of SAHFs, they continue to face isolation, stereotypes, and stigma. They expressed a desire for greater appreciation and understanding of their parental and emotional lives as fathers while finding balance in their new role and contribution to the family.
The Cerebellum as an Embodying Machine
Authors: Petrosini Laura , Picerni Eleonora , Termine Andrea , Fabrizio Carlo , Laricchiuta Daniela , Cutuli Debora
Published: September 2022

Whereas emotion theorists often keep their distance from the embodied approach, theorists of embodiment tend to treat emotion as a mainly physiologic process. However, intimate links between emotions and the body suggest that emotions are privileged phenomena to attempt to reintegrate mind and body and that the body helps the mind in shaping emotional responses. To date, research has favored the cerebrum over other parts of the brain as a substrate of embodied emotions. However, given the widely demonstrated contribution of the cerebellum to emotional processing, research in affective neuroscience should consider embodiment theory as a useful approach for evaluating the cerebellar role in emotion and affect. The aim of this review is to insert the cerebellum among the structures needed to embody emotions, providing illustrative examples of cerebellar involvement in embodied emotions (as occurring in empathic abilities) and in impaired identification and expression of embodied emotions (as occurring in alexithymia).
Estimating Surveillance Bias in Child Maltreatment Reporting During Home Visiting Program Involvement
Authors: Holland Margaret L. , Esserman Denise , Taylor Rose M. , Flaherty Serena , Leventhal John M.
Published: September 2022

It is unclear if surveillance bias (increased reports to Child Protective Services [CPS] related to program involvement) has a substantial impact on evaluation of home visiting (HV) prevention programs. We estimated surveillance bias using data from Connecticut’s HV program, birth certificates, CPS, and hospitals. Using propensity score matching, we identified 15,870 families similar to 4015 HV families. The difference-in-differences approach was used to estimate surveillance bias as the change in investigated reports from the last 6 months of program involvement to the next 6 months. The median age of the children at program exit was 1.2 years (range: 60 days, 5 years). We estimated that 25.6% of investigated reports in the HV group resulted from surveillance bias. We reviewed CPS reports of 194 home-visited families to determine if a home visitor made the report and found that 10% were directly from home visitors. Program evaluations should account for surveillance bias.
Analysys and optimization of an end double-lap bonded joint for GFRP composite sandwich panels
Authors: Marannano Giuseppe , Zuccarello Bernardo
Published: September 2022

Although the best configuration of the joints used to connect a common GFRP sandwich panel with the main structures is the adhesively bonded one, that permit high static and fatigue performances as well as to avoid stress concentrations, mechanical or hybrid joints are still widely used in the industrial field. After a preliminary theoretical design, the optimal configuration of an end adhesively bonded double-lap joint constituted by a simple insert as internal adherent and the same face sheets as external adherent, has been researched. In detail, several experimental tests and successive numerical simulations under tensile and bending loading, performed by varying the main influence parameters as the overlap length and the material of the internal insert (aluminum, steel, CFRP), have been carried out. In brief, the experimental and numerical analyses have shown that, due to the limited effects of the stiffness unbalancing of the joints, as well as to the appreciable peel stress values associated with tensile and especially bending loading, the optimal joint configuration is obtained in practice by using an insert made by CFRP with an overlap length equal to about a double the theoretical overlap value. Also, due to the different damage tolerance of the epoxy adhesive to the shear and peel stresses, the accurate strength prediction of such joints has to be performed by assess the failure processes that occur at the two attach points of the double lap joint. In detail, the delamination growth that can occurs at the attach point of the face sheets, can be predicted by using a delamination criterion along with a point stress approach, whereas the unstable delamination growth that can occur at the opposite point of attach of the insert, can be evaluated by using a simple delamination criterion with the classical approach of the maximum stress.
Implementation of the VA Intensive Dysphagia Treatment Program: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation
Authors: Yee Joanne , Pulia Michael , Knobloch Mary Jo , Martinez Rachael , Daggett Sarah , Smith Bridget , Musson Nan , Rogus-Pulia Nicole
Published: September 2022

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Intensive Dysphagia Treatment program serves a critical role in facilitating improvements to quality of care, standardization of outcomes, and increased access to structured therapy for Veterans with dysphagia. It has been implemented at 26 sites nationally and continues expanding. An explanatory sequential mixed-methods design was utilized for program evaluation to identify barriers and facilitators to implementation as reported by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) participating in the program. All 23 IDT program SLPs were invited to participate in an online survey. SLPs were asked to describe etiologies referred for SLP evaluation, most and least clinically useful program aspects, and characteristics of patients recommended for therapy. Qualitative interviews/focus groups were then conducted with 9 SLPs at 3 facilities with varying levels of program experience. Transcripts underwent systems engineering framework informed deductive thematic analysis. Interview/focus groups revealed overall positive feedback. Barriers included data entry challenges and provider understanding of long-term program goals, while facilitators included program structure enabling increased patient follow-up, outcomes tracking, and training in new treatment modalities. Through this evaluation process, program leadership garnered actionable feedback to improve further implementation of the IDT program. Ongoing efforts will further improve data entry, site onboarding procedures, and program communication.
Does vaccination help to reduce financial stress on tourism subsectors?
Authors: Cepni Oguzhan
Published: September 2022

Although there is rapid vaccination progress in the US and improvement in broad service activity upon reopening, no meaningful recovery has been achieved in tourism-related sectors until now. Therefore, we take a deep dive into tourism-related sectors and investigate how the effect of COVID-19 vaccination progress differentiates on the financial distress of tourism subsectors. Using a time-varying parameter VAR model, we quantify the financial distress in each tourism subsector and relate these measures with a daily number of newly vaccinated people. Our empirical findings indicate that specific tourism subsectors respond more to vaccination progress, and accordingly, financial stress has started to decline in these sectors. However, the effects of vaccination on airlines and hotel sectors are insignificant, implying that the recovery process will take longer in these subsectors.
MusicTeamCare (MTC): Theory and practice of clinical intervention for music therapists offering remote support to clients during emergencies
Authors: Scarlata Elide , Baroni Mariagrazia , Giordano Filippo
Published: September 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic meant that people’s lives and work changed significantly across the world. Governments took measures such as social distancing, lockdowns and quarantine protocols to stem the spread of the pandemic. This had a significant impact on music therapy clinical practice, generating reflections and adaptations among the worldwide music therapy community, with several studies still underway. A number of professional music therapy organisations have explored methods for carrying out remote interventions. MusicTeamCare is an approach developed by three Italian Certified Music Therapists that could offer access to support in emergency and crisis situations. This approach is rooted in receptive music therapy theory, with particular reference to Guided Imagery and Music (GIM). MusicTeamCare was used for the first time in March to April 2020, with healthcare workers in Italy who were treating COVID-19 patients. This article outlines theoretical framework, development and evaluation phases of MusicTeamCare. Detailed explanations are given of the theoretical framework, methods of musical analysis, assessment and evaluation strategies, criteria for constructing the playlists and interactive triangulation between the Music Therapists in the research team.
‘Trapped in the trap’: Exploring Music Therapists’ clinical engagement with the current discourse around UK Drill
Authors: Smith-Sands Joe
Published: September 2022

This article investigates Music Therapists’ experience and understanding of UK Drill. As a recently emerged sub-genre of Rap, its graphic lyrics have been linked to increases in gang activity and violent crime in the United Kingdom, while simultaneously voicing the experiences of marginalised black, working-class people. This has fuelled wider debate around censorship and diversity, tensions within which are explored in this article in a review of the literature on Rap and music therapy. The review suggests that while the therapeutic use of UK Drill may be contraindicated, to exclude the genre from music therapy is problematic from a socio-political perspective. This debate is then explored through semi-structured interviews with two white Music Therapists with experience of working with young people who want to use UK Drill in their music therapy sessions. Data were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Three themes are discussed: research participants’ descriptions of their perception of the therapeutic components of UK Drill, their perspectives on the psychosocial context of UK Drill and their negotiating questions of identity when working with UK Drill. Findings suggested a complex role for UK Drill in music therapy. While the ethical and clinical necessity of not excluding UK Drill from sessions was established, so were a number of challenges posed for Music Therapists looking to integrate it into their practice. Research participants were also found to be emotionally desensitised to UK Drill’s graphic lyrics. This is argued to represent an underlying anxiety towards UK Drill’s intense emotional expression, which was further suggested by the absence of open consideration towards clients’ racial identities. The findings are considered in the context of wider diversity issues within the profession. They also signal the need for a more socially cognisant music therapy practice, with greater open consideration paid towards the client’s racial identity by white Music Therapists.
The affective, behavioural, and cognitive reactions to a diagnosis of Primary Progressive Aphasia: A qualitative descriptive study
Authors: Lo Kang-Chi , Bricker-Katz Geraldine , Ballard Kirrie , Piguet Olivier
Published: September 2022

Objectives

Receiving a diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorder is life changing. Primary progressive aphasia is one such disease. Understanding how receiving this diagnosis impacts on individuals may help plan support services. However, limited qualitative research from the perspectives of people with Primary Progressive Aphasia are available for suitable care planning. Current literature primarily focuses on experiences of family members. The present study aims to fill this gap by examining the affective, behavioural, and cognitive experiences of people with Primary Progressive Aphasia.

Methods

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six participants with PPA. A qualitative descriptive approach was used to describe responses from participants on: (i) what they experienced prior to receiving their diagnosis; (ii) their experience of receiving the diagnosis; and (iii) how they were living with their PPA. Verbatim transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis to identify main themes.

Results

Analysis revealed a superordinate theme of Multifaceted Grief with subthemes described in sequence of research questions posed, representing the three phases of Pre-Diagnosis, Time of Diagnosis, and Post-Diagnosis. Themes collectively revealed participants’ ongoing experience of loss in dealing with the evolving challenges of Primary Progressive Aphasia. Experiences of loss emerged with descriptions of feelings, thoughts, and limitations in relation to changes imposed by the illness, impacting daily activities and life roles central to participants’ pre-diagnosis sense of self.

Conclusion

Participants’ affective, behavioural and cognitive reactions to their Primary Progressive Aphasia diagnosis marks the onset of Multifaceted Grief borne of loss of communication and cognition. Participants expressed a need for information regarding a possible Primary Progressive Aphasia trajectory and support to enable a successful transition as their disease progressed. Collaborative engagement between speech pathologists and people with Primary Progressive Aphasia incorporates addressing all levels of the International Classification of Functioning and Health by considering neurological, psychological, and psychosocial experiences of the person with the diagnosis.