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Record Recovery Work and Competency Development
Published in Sandra Rasmussen, Developing Competencies for Recovery, 2023
An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a digital version of health information, a comprehensive report of an individual’s overall health. EHRs contain information from all providers involved in a person’s care. EHRs may include a range of data, such as demographics, personal statistics like age and weight, billing information medical history, medication and allergies, immunization status, laboratory test results, radiology images, and vital signs, EHRs are designed and managed to facilitate sharing of information among health care providers and organizations. Sharing health information fosters communication and promotes collaboration among a health care team. Mega data from many sources enhances research and greatly enhances research using this mega data. While the benefits of sharing health information are legion, health practitioners and consumers need to be fully aware of the policies, procedures, and practices that govern the security and use of PHI.
Rewilding and Invasion
Published in Kezia Barker, Robert A. Francis, Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species, 2021
Timothy Hodgetts, Jamie Lorimer
Ideas about rewilding have proliferated in recent years, as have conservation projects that claim to follow a rewilding approach. As well as the introduction of locally extirpated apex predators or proxy non-native species, rewilding has come to encompass a range of strategies for restoring ecological processes in contemporary ecosystems and is sometimes even used as a promotional label for more traditional ecological restoration activities. The term has become, as the environmental historian Dolly Jørgensen puts it, somewhat ‘plastic’: so diffuse as to be increasingly imprecise, sometimes contradictory and perhaps therefore unhelpful (Jørgensen, 2015). Yet these variant strategies for rewilding tend to be linked by certain shared commonalities: i) a focus on ecological processes, ii) the use of fauna (often megafauna) to instigate or restore such processes and iii) a hands-off management approach. The first shared aim, as discussed prior, is to restore ecological processes as an alternative way to protect biodiversity compared to the usual focus on particular species. The second commonality is a tendency to utilise (mega)fauna to this end – often having first identified which keystone species are ‘missing’ through historical research. Missing megafauna are reintroduced to instigate trophic cascades, with these cascades understood as occurring ‘where apex consumers shape ecosystems via effects on prey and other resources, as well as competitors, and their multidirectional propagation through food webs’ (Svenning et al., 2016, 899).
The Cardiovascular System and its Disorders
Published in Walter F. Stanaszek, Mary J. Stanaszek, Robert J. Holt, Steven Strauss, Understanding Medical Terms, 2020
Walter F. Stanaszek, Mary J. Stanaszek, Robert J. Holt, Steven Strauss
Cardiovascular (CV) refers to the system that includes the heart and blood vessels and is associated with the spleen, liver, and bone marrow in the formation and replacement of blood cells. The system is functionally centered around the heart, the muscular organ that pumps blood through the rest of the system. The Greek word kardia is the source of the most common root referring to the heart. This root is usually anglicized to cardi- (or cardio- in its combining form) and is found in such terms as cardiomyopathy (disease [-pathy] of the muscle [myo-] of the heart [cardio-]),cardiomegaly (enlargement of the heart; mega- indicating large and the-/y suffix denoting a condition or disease), and endocarditis (inflammation [-itis] of both the heart's inner [endo-] layer and valves caused by a bacterial or fungal infection).
TssI2-TsiI2 of Vibrio fluvialis VflT6SS2 delivers pesticin domain-containing periplasmic toxin and cognate immunity that modulates bacterial competitiveness
Published in Gut Microbes, 2022
Yuanming Huang, Yu Han, Zhenpeng Li, Xiaorui Li, Zhe Li, Ping Liu, Xiaoshu Liu, Qian Cheng, Fenxia Fan, Biao Kan, Weili Liang
The comparative analysis of VflT6SS2 locus in V. fluvialis 85003 and V. cholerae N16961 was performed using tBLASTn with an e-value of 1e,−2 and the alignments of >1 kilobase (kb) were kept. The result was displayed by BlastViewer (https://github.com/dupengcheng/BlastViewer). Motif searching for tssI2 and tsiI2 was performed using the Pfam and NCBI-CDD databases.45,69 An e-value of 0.01 was used. The tridimensional models were calculated by SWISS-MODEL servers and alphafold250 and validated using the SAVES server (https://saves.mbi.ucla.edu/), the highest score models were used in this study. The molecular docking of effector and immunity was analyzed through ZDOCK server v3.0.2 (http://zdock.umassmed.edu/). The multiple sequence alignments were constructed by Clustal Omega,70 and the web logos were created by WebLogo 3 (http://weblogo.threeplusone.com/).71 The structure figure of TssI2 and its homologs was prepared with IBS software.72 Evolutionary analyses were conducted in MEGA X73 from the amino acid sequences of TssI2 homologs, using the Maximum Likelihood method and Tamura-Nei model.74 The tree presented is the consensus of 100 bootstrap repetitions.75 GC content of the region from tssM2-rbsD was generated by the DNA Features Viewer 3.0.1 package in Python v.3.7.76 The alignment of multiple amino acid sequences was displayed using ESPript 3.0 server.77
Development of a Mobile Application for Detection of Adolescent Mental Health Problems and Feasibility Assessment with Primary Health Care Workers
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2022
Gunter Groen, Astrid Jörns-Presentati, Anja Dessauvagie, Soraya Seedat, Leigh L. van den Heuvel, Sharain Suliman, Gerhard Grobler, Ronelle Jansen, Lonia Mwape, Patricia Mukwato, Fabian Chapima, Joonas Korhonen, Dan J. Stein, Deborah Jonker, John Mudenda, Timo Turunen, Kārlis Valtiņš, Anete Beinaroviča, Leva Grada, Mari Lahti
The MEGA project set out to develop a tool in the form of a mobile application (“app”), which allows HCW in PHC care to use their limited resources as efficiently as possible and to support access appropriate mental health care for adolescents. Our aim was to familiarize HCW in PHC with the MEGA app as part of a mental health training course, which focuses on basic clinical knowledge and educational anti-stigma interventions. The application and training were developed by the MEGA consortium, which consisted of project partners associated with three South African, two Zambian, and Finish, Latvian, and German higher education institutions. The project was a collaboration between an app development team and psychiatrists, psychologists, researchers, and mental health nurses. To ensure cultural relevance of the application and training, roundtable discussions and interviews with HCW in PHC clinics and local policymakers were conducted in Zambia and South Africa. The preliminary version of the application and the corresponding user manual underwent multiple rounds of review within the consortium and with HCW in PHC associated with the African universities, with suggestions for improvement informing the final version of the application. The MEGA app is now available for free download in several countries (‘MEGA App Available on Google Play’, 2022).
The Congregational Structure of Homonegativity: Why Place of Worship May Matter More than Frequency of Worship
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2022
G. Tyler Lefevor, Nathalie A. Tamez Guerrero, Jacqueline Y. Paiz, Paige E. Sheffield, Hannah E. Milburn
Because it is possible that the lack of significant interaction effects in the first analysis could be attributed to a lack of statistical power, we conducted a mega-analysis combining data from the present study and that found in Lefevor, Sorrell et al. (2020). Both samples were drawn from the same metropolitan area, and participants were largely similar across the samples as to race/ethnicity, age, and gender. Using these data, we constructed a model that included service attendance on both individual and congregational levels, congregational affirmativeness, and the interaction between congregational affirmativeness and service attendance at both individual and congregational levels. We found that neither individual level service attendance (γ = 0.05, SE = .06, t(468) = 0.89, p = .371) nor congregation level service attendance (γ = 0.18, SE = .12, t(468) = 1.50, p = .134) were related to homonegativity. Although congregational affirmativeness negatively predicted homonegativity (γ = −.60, SE = .28, t(468) = −2.17, p = .031), neither the interaction between individual level service attendance and affirmativeness (γ = 0.14, SE = .11, t(468) = 1.29, p = .199) nor the interaction between congregation level service attendance and affirmativeness (γ = −.09, SE = .20, t(468) = −.46, p = .641) were related to homonegativity.