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Rooms with a history : interiors and their inspirations
Ashley Hicks has created a mix of manifesto, souvenir album, and confession in this collection of noteworthy rooms featuring his own one-of-a-kind interiors along with rooms that have inspired him. The manifesto aspect is rather limited, since Hicks is not a great believer in aesthetic rules or the value of so-called good taste, but as a souvenir album, it charts Hicks's personal creative journey of the last few years, illustrated with photographs of some favorite historical interiors and objects that represent a mixture of source material and inspiration.
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Finite element modeling in obstetrics and gynecology: advances, applications, and challenges
Finite element modeling (FEM) is a critical tool in biomechanics and biomedical engineering, offering valuable insights where in vivo or ex vivo investigations are not possible. This review specifically highlights the diverse applications of FEM within obstetrics and gynecology through a comprehensive analysis of the literature. We explore the past use of FEM in analyzing complications affecting pelvic floor structures, urinary continence, and reproduction. The potential contributions of FEM in addressing these challenges are summarized and future directions for its application in obstetrics and gynecology are highlighted.
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The Influence of Race, Gender, and Institutional Type on the Experiences of Black Women Senior Student Affairs Administrators
This quantitative empirical study explored how Black women senior-level student affairs administrators experienced their work environments based on race, gender, and institutional type. Based on the Higher Education Publication, the institutions selected for this study were 31 colleges and universities which were categorized by predominately white institutions (PWIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and women’s colleges. The different variables explored in this study included educational level, work experience, hostile work environment, supervisor support, co-worker support, organizational support, spouse/partner support, burnout/work overload, mentorship, racism, sexism, professional development, and spirituality.
Dissertation
Poemhood, our black revival : history, folklore & the Black experience: a young adult poetry anthology
Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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School Psychologists' Training and Practice regarding Sexual and/or Gender Minority Students
As sexual and/or gender minority (SGM) youth are at-risk for discrimination and mental health problems, the purposes of this study were to document the state of SGM-related training and professional development for school psychologists, understand school psychologists’ engagement in SGM-related activities, and gain insight into barriers to engagement in those activities. Three data sources were analyzed: 145 syllabi from 35 school psychology graduate programs; 1,905 presentations from ten years of National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) annual conventions; and survey data from 205 school psychologists. SGM content was appropriately represented at NASP but not in graduate education. Most survey respondents reported that hypothesized barriers had limited impact upon their engagement in SGM-related activities; however, most also reported spending very little time engaged in SGM-related activities. Relationships between demographic variables, time in training, comfort with engaging in SGM-related activities, and time engaged in SGM-related activities were analyzed. Implications for researchers, trainers, and practitioners are discussed.
Dissertation
Polycaprolactone-based shape memory foams as self-fitting vaginal stents
There is an urgent critical need for a patient-forward vaginal stent that can prevent debilitating vaginal stenosis that occurs in up to 75% of patients who undergo pelvic radiation treatments and adolescent patients after vaginal reconstruction. To this end, we developed a self-fitting vaginal stent based on a shape-memory polymer (SMP) foam that can assume a secondary, compressed shape for ease of deployment. Upon insertion, the change in temperature and hydration initiates foam expansion to shape fit to the individual patient and restore the lumen of the stent to allow egress of vaginal secretions. To achieve rapid actuation at physiological temperature, we investigated the effect of architecture of two photocurable, polycaprolactone (PCL) macromers. Star-PCL-tetraacrylate displayed reduced melting temperature in the target range as compared to the linear- PCL-diacrylate. Emulsion-templating was then used to fabricate foams from 75:25 water-in-oil (W/O) emulsions that were subsequently annealed to yield high-porosity SMP foams. Upon axial shape memory testing, both foams displayed excellent shape fixity (90%); however, only the PCL star-foams displayed shape recovery (~84%) at 37C to its permanent shape. A custom mold and curing system was then used to fabricate PCL star- foams into hollow, cylindrical stents. The stent was crimped to its temporary insertion shape (50% reduction in diameter, OD ~ 11 mm) with a custom radial crimper and displayed excellent shape fixity for deployment (> 95%) and shape recovery (~ 100%). To screen vaginal stents, we developed a custom benchtop pelvic model that simulated vaginal anatomy, temperatures, and pressures with an associated computational model. A hysteroscope was used to visualize stent expansion and deformation via a scope port near the cervix of the benchtop model. A crimped SMP vaginal stent was deployed in the model and expanded to walls of the canal (~70% increase in cross-sectional area) in less than 5 minutes after irrigation with warm water. The vaginal stent demonstrated retention of vaginal caliber with less than 1% decrease in cross-sectional area under physiological pressure. Collectively, this work demonstrates the potential for SMP foams as self-fitting vaginal stents to prevent stenosis. Additionally, this work provides new open-source tools for the iterative design of other gynecological devices.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.
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Understanding correlates and comorbidities in the treatment and recovery of adolescent eating disorders
Eating disorders are a serious mental illness characterized primarily by disturbances in eating behaviors and body image. Eating disorders often emerge during adolescence, a period in the life course that is comprised of numerous biological, psychological, and social changes. As a result, adolescent eating disorders can significantly alter the trajectory of one’s life without proper intervention. Although studies examining adolescent eating disorders are abundant, some aspects of the nature of eating disorders in adolescence remain understudied. Despite the complex nature of eating disorders, studies often focus on specific biological, psychological, or social factors associated with eating disorders. The current study, therefore, uses a biopsychosocial approach to investigate correlates and comorbidities associated with eating disorder symptoms and recovery in a clinical sample of adolescents. Secondary administrative data from an urban pediatric hospital’s eating disorder clinic were used for this investigation. This dissertation is separated into three independent studies. In chapter 2, I examine the prevalence of trauma in a sample of adolescent patient receiving outpatient treatment for an eating disorder. I use bivariate statistics and binomial and multinomial logistic regression models to examine similarities and differences in eating disorder symptoms for those with and without significant trauma exposure. Results show that over one-third of the sample experienced at least one lifetime traumatic event and traumatic exposure was significantly related to bulimia nervosa and higher weight status ( body mass index ‘BMI” and percent expected body weight). In the following chapter, I examine the prognostic factors associated with early weight restoration in a clinical sample of adolescents receiving outpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa. Findings reveal comorbid anxiety as significant positive predictor of weight restoration at 3 month follow up. Given the importance of comorbid symptoms in the presentation of eating disorders, chapter 4 examines differences in youth and caregiver reports of anxiety and depression symptoms. I find that youth and caregiver reports of comorbid symptoms are significantly discrepant with caregivers reporting higher levels of anxiety and depression than youth. Families with younger adolescents and adolescents with subclinical threshold eating disorder symptoms reported significantly less congruence. I address limitations, future research directions, clinical implications, and implications for overall adolescent development in chapter 5.
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