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Teens who feel empowered are less likely to bully, harass, commit sexual violence
The findings suggest that bullying, harassment and sexual violence can be reduced when adolescents learn to cope with stress, build community connections, engage with individuals from diverse backgrounds and feel empowered and able to build a positive future.
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Teens who feel personally empowered are less likely to bully, harass or commit acts of sexual violence, according to a study by Rutgers University, the University of Nebraska, and the University of New Hampshire.
The study, published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, also found that teens who think their friends support violence prevention and healthy relationships are less likely to mistreat their peers.
"Coping mechanisms that help adolescents thrive and do well, even in the face of stress and adversity, are important to preventing interpersonal violence. This is an important finding, as studies of bullying typically examine risk factors rather than protective factors," said lead author Victoria Banyard, professor and associate director of the Center on Violence Against Women and Children at the Rutgers School of Social Work.
Adults can help young people develop these strengths, said Banyard. "Positive conversations with teens about healthy relationships support the positive social norms we know are important."
Adolescence is a high-risk age for perpetration of different forms of peer-based violence including in-person and online bullying, harassment, racial bullying, and unwanted sexual contact, the researchers explained.
The researchers surveyed a set of 2,232 middle and high school students online during the school year by seeking their level of agreement or disagreement with statements including "If I am feeling sad, I can cheer myself up," "My opinion is important because it could someday make a difference in my community," "I work hard now to make a good future for myself," "I am comfortable being with people who are of a different race than I am," and others. They were asked about bullying and harassment, alcohol use, positive social norms related to violence prevention, and a combination of interpersonal strengths.
The teens were surveyed again six months later.
The findings are part of a larger study on involving youth as leaders in order to help prevent sexual violence among middle and high school students.
Banyard partnered with the University of Nebraska Lincoln Center on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools and the University of New Hampshire.
Bullying affects many in the LGBTQIA community.
For instance, in July 2019, a study found that bullying is more prevalent in birth-assigned females and in out individuals, commonly consisting of homophobic/transphobic (particularly in socially transitioned individuals) or appearance-related (particularly in out individuals) name calling.
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A November 2018 study also found that 35.2% of gay/bisexual men who had experienced frequent school-age bullying experience frequent workplace bullying. Among lesbian women, the figure was 29%.
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Interventions aimed at increasing sexual orientation acceptance from supportive adults and peers have strong potential to address the public health burden of LGBTQ youth suicide.
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This is according to a study – titled: "Association of Sexual Orientation Acceptance with Reduced Suicide Attempts Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning Youth" – by Amy E. Green, Myeshia Price-Feeney and Samuel H. Dorison and published in LGBT Health.
The researchers noted the relationship between sexual orientation acceptance from others and suicide attempts among LGBTQ youth. So to look into this closely, they analyzed data from a 2018 cross-sectional survey of LGBTQ youth between the ages of 13 and 24 years across the US. Youth reported sexual orientation acceptance levels from parents, other relatives, school professionals, health care professionals, friends, and classmates to whom who they were "out." Adjusted logistic regression analyses were used to examine the association between sexual orientation acceptance and a past-year suicide attempt.
They found that all forms of peer and adult acceptance were associated with reduced reports of a past-year suicide attempt, with the strongest associations found for acceptance from parents (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 0.52) and straight/heterosexual friends (aOR = 0.54).
Youth who reported high levels of acceptance from any adult had nearly 40% (aOR = 0.61) lower odds of a past-year suicide attempt compared with LGBTQ peers with little to no acceptance. Youth with high levels of acceptance from any peer also had significantly lower odds of reporting a past-year suicide attempt (aOR = 0.55). These relationships remained significant even after controlling for the impact of each form of acceptance, suggesting unique associations with suicide risk for both peer and adult acceptance.
For the researchers, therefore, interventions aimed at increasing sexual orientation acceptance from supportive adults and peers should be considered as these have strong potential to address the public health burden of LGBTQ youth suicide.
One in three women will experience intimate partner violence (IPV) in her lifetime, and studies suggest that anywhere between 30% to 90% of women who experience physical abuse at the hands of an intimate partner experience head trauma.
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Fact: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one in three women will experience intimate partner violence (IPV) in her lifetime, and studies suggest that anywhere between 30% to 90% of women who experience physical abuse at the hands of an intimate partner experience head trauma. Yet not enough data is being collected to understand how this head trauma affects cognitive and psychological functioning as well as the underlying neural effects.
This is why Carrie Esopenko, assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences in the Rutgers School of Health Professions, looked into this as part of an Intimate Partner Violence Working Group studying intimate partner violence-related head trauma as part of the Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium, an international, multidisciplinary group that seeks to provide a collaborative framework for large-scale analysis and neuroimaging and genetic studies in patient groups. The data was published in the journal Brain Imaging and Behavior.
What is the risk for traumatic brain injury in those who suffer abuse?
Although IPV occurs at any age, it is most prevalent in the 18- to 24-year-old age group, and older adults are also vulnerable. Males and females experience IPV, but violence against women tends to result in more severe and chronic injuries. Due to the high degree of physical aggression associated with this type of abuse, there is a significant risk for traumatic brain injury caused by blunt force trauma, being violently shaken or pushed.
Another significant concern is anoxic brain injury, which can occur due strangulation or attempts to impede normal breathing. The prevalence of head injuries in women who have sustained IPV is estimated to be between 30% and 92%, with a high proportion of these women reporting injuries as a result of strangulation. It is estimated that more than 50% of women exposed to IPV suffer multiple brain injuries due to abuse-related head trauma.
What are the consequences of such injuries?
Past research suggests that IPV can impact cognitive and psychological functioning as well as have neurological effects. These seem to be compounded in those who suffer a brain injury as a result of trauma to the head, face, neck or body due to physical and/or sexual violence. However, the understanding of the neurobehavioral and neurobiological effects of head trauma is limited.
Studies suggest that women who experience IPV report cognitive dysfunction, including impaired reaction time, response inhibition, working memory, attention and a range of other cognitive, behavioral and emotional difficulties. They often report a high degree of mental health disorders, such as depression, anxiety, substance use disorders, suicidal ideation and PTSD. There is evidence that IPV-related brain injury also alters brain function and structure.
What is unknown about traumatic brain injury in victims of domestic violence?
While research on traumatic brain injury in other populations, like athletes and the military, has dramatically increased over the past two decades, research on intimate partner-related brain injury is vastly understudied.
"We need to know more about the effect of sex, socioeconomic status, race and/or ethnicity, age at first exposure – including childhood trauma, duration and severity of IPV exposure, and psychiatric disorders on the neural, cognitive and psychological outcomes associated with IPV-related brain injuries. Knowing this can help us to predict outcomes and help personalize treatment and intervention strategies," Esopenko said.
IPV is an issue that also affects members of the LGBTQIA community.
In the Philippines in December 2020, Atty. Clara Rita Padilla, who helms EnGendeRights, Inc., recalled helping remove LGBTQIA people from the abusive situations. And so for her, LGBTQIA people in GBV/IPV/FV ought to know that their situation can be managed; they just need to – first – not fear seeking for help.
We know that young men often need job skills and opportunities to discuss healthy relationships and healthier manhood. Combining these two proven approaches seems particularly promising and necessary.
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Through small, neighborhood classes, sexual violence can be reduced among teenage boys living in areas of concentrated disadvantage.
This is according to a study published in JAMA; a culmination of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clinical trial spanning 20 racially segregated neighborhoods in the Pittsburgh area to evaluate two violence prevention programs. The proportion of youth reporting the use of sexual or partner violence in their relationships decreased in both groups by about 12%.
"To accomplish something like this requires nurturing community partnerships," said study senior author Elizabeth Miller, M.D., Ph.D., chief of adolescent and young adult medicine at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. "In each of these neighborhoods, we worked with community members to facilitate the programs with an eye toward sustainability."
Between 2015-2017, nearly 900 boys between the ages of 13-19 enrolled in these small group programs, which were run by community leaders from each neighborhood.
Half of the sites were randomized to receive job readiness training and the other half were assigned a curriculum called "Manhood 2.0," which is based on Promundo's "Program H" in Brazil. The "H" stands for hombres.
"Manhood 2.0 engages young men in questioning harmful ideas about manhood," said Promundo-US Chief Executive Officer Gary Barker. "It calls men into being part of the solution to ending violence in intimate partner relationships and helps them see the benefits to healthier manhood in their own lives."
Manhood 2.0 was adapted for young men in US urban communities, but the core message remains the same: challenging gender norms that foster violence against women and unhealthy sexual relationships.
For young men enrolled in Manhood 2.0, the use of partner violence–including physical or verbal abuse, sexual harassment, sexual coercion and cyber abuse–dropped from 64% at baseline to 52% in the months following the program. For those who received job training, self-reported sexual violence dropped from 53% to 41%.
That was a surprise. Miller said she expected job training to have a positive impact in other areas of life, but not violence towards women.
"Job skills training is a structural intervention, grounded in economic justice," Miller said. "Perhaps this resonated and resulted in young men using less violence because they felt more hopeful about their future."
Next, the researchers hope to study whether combining Manhood 2.0 with job readiness training might have an even greater impact on intimate partner and sexual violence than either curriculum alone.
"We know that young men often need job skills and opportunities to discuss healthy relationships and healthier manhood," Barker said. "Combining these two proven approaches seems particularly promising and necessary."
Additional authors on the study include Kelley Jones, Ph.D., Alison Culyba, M.D., Ph.D., Taylor Paglisotti, M.P.H., Namita Dwarakanath, Michael Massof, M.P.A., and Zoe Feinstein of UPMC Children's Hospital; Katie Ports, Ph.D., at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dorothy Espelage, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Julie Pulerwitz, Sc.D., of the Population Council; Aapta Garg, M.A., and Jane Kato-Wallace, M.P.H., of Promundo-US; and Kaleab Z. Abebe, Ph.D., of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Nearly half of young gay men who play sports have been the target of bullying, assaults and slurs.
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Discrimination in sports.
Nearly half of young gay men who play sports have been the target of bullying, assaults and slurs, according to research coming out from New Zealand.
Authored by Erik Denison, Ruth Jeanes, Nick Faulkner and Kerry S. O'Brien, "The Relationship Between 'Coming Out' as Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual and Experiences of Homophobic Behaviour in Youth Team Sports" appeared in Sexuality Research and Social Policy.
Involving 1,173 participants aged from 15 to 21 years old (collected in 2014–2015) from six countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland), the study eyed to examine whether LGB youth who come out to teammates experience homophobic behavior.
It found that close to half of the sample (41.6%) reported having been the target of homophobic behavior. This included verbal slurs, bullying and assaults.
Multivariate logistic regression models adjusting for age, gender, country and contact sport participation found that participants who came out as being LGB to sports teammates were significantly more likely to report being a target of homophobic behavior. There appeared to be a dose response with coming out to more people associated with a greater likelihood of experiencing homophobic behavior.
"The study results suggest a relationship between coming out as LGB and encountering homophobic behavior in team sports. LGB experiences of homophobic behavior appear common overall in this sample, but are greater in those who have come out to teammates," the researchers noted.
They recommended the development of strategies aimed at reducing homophobic behavior in sport.
"Although there is some evidence that education may be effective in reducing homophobia… stronger regulatory principals and actions are needed to address prejudices around sexuality. In so doing, better regulations and policies can enhance the health and well-being of LGB youth through their increased and/or ongoing participation in team sport."
14% of heterosexual, 21.8% of gay/lesbian,18.5% of bisexual and 17.4% of "not sure" students reported carrying a weapon in the past 30 days.
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In the 1990s, Pablo – a high school student in a Roman Catholic school in Cotabato City in Mindanao – used to carry a bottle of muriatic acid when he went to school. The trigger for him was an earlier bullying that, even when allegedly reported to school authorities, left unresolved.
"I felt I had to have a way to protect myself," he said years later, when he was already working as a nurse overseas. And though he knew "throwing muriatic acid on people seemed extreme", but for a young gay boy at that time, he said he didn't really know what steps he could take. "No one seemed (eager to protect me); I had to take matters in my own hands."
Pablo never had to use the muriatic acid; in fact, that need to have a bottle in his bag eventually waned. But what he did (i.e. carrying a tool for self-protection) was – for a while – never really closely considered in studies; at least until a new study that appears in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Prior research has revealed sexual minority youth (lesbian, gay, bisexual) are more likely to carry weapons both outside of and within school, this study noted. However, no study has really examined the degree to which bullying and harassment is associated with weapon carrying among this group.
And – perhaps as expected – the study found youth who report carrying a weapon have higher odds of experiencing bullying and bullying-related victimization. Minoritized student populations, especially sexual minority youth disproportionately experience bullying and bullying victimization.
"Pediatricians should recognize that experiencing bullying and feeling unsafe are associated with weapon carrying, particularly among sexual minorities," said corresponding author Carl Streed, Jr., MD, MPH, FACP, assistant professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).
The researchers used the Youth Risk Behavior Survey to examine the prevalence and likelihood of carrying weapons by sexual identity, examining self-report of adverse experiences (being bullied, skipping school due to fear for personal safety) and performing analysis to estimate the odds of carrying a weapon. When surveyed by sexual identity, 14% of heterosexual, 21.8% of gay/lesbian,18.5% of bisexual and 17.4% of "not sure" students reported carrying a weapon in the past 30 days.
The odds of carrying a weapon were significantly increased for youth who skipped school due to feeling unsafe at school, had ever been threatened with a weapon in the past year and had ever been in a physical fight.
Compared to heterosexual female peers, sexual minority women had increased odds of carrying a weapon.
"Pediatricians and professionals who work with youth should recognize that reported experiences of bullying may not be the most salient indicator of risk for weapon carrying among all youth, and that other fears of or experiences with bullying are crucial to screen for among sexual minorities in particular," added Streed, who also is a primary care physician and research lead in the Center for Transgender Medicine & Surgery at Boston Medical Center.
According to the researchers, this work is critical in the current political climate that is witnessing an erosion of LGBTQIA acceptance and is leading to a potential increase in minority stress through the bullying of certain youth populations, particularly sexual minority youth.
Findings suggest the need to encourage and embrace a wider variety of terminology regarding consent and sexual violence in order to invite more people into the consent conversation.
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By teaching consent using this continuum style approach, rather than by the legal definition of 'consent' alone, young people are able to talk more openly and honestly in a way that relates to their own sexual and relationship experiences.
These latest results are published in the peer-reviewed journal, Sex Education.
Carried out in partnership with UK-based sexual health and wellbeing charity Brook, the findings follow an innovative two-year project which tested the teaching method out during workshops across seven educational institutes including a university, two youth clubs and an all-girls comprehensive school.
According to Dr. Elsie Whittington, who led the research, while young people were able to explain the legal definition of consent, they found this awkward and restrictive when applied to real-world scenarios. Therefore, this sometimes led to contradictory views and double standards based on gender.
"So, framing consent simply in this 'black and white' way does not match up with young people's sexual and relationship experiences," she said. "While a legal framework may feel simpler to teach, it does not give young people techniques or ideas for encouraging good communication and feeling informed and empowered."
To encourage the 103 young adults, aged between 13 and 25, who took part in the project, Whittington used various creative methods and activities, including cake decorating, interactive games and scenario-based discussions. These group activities generated various forms of data from which Whittington was able to draw out several common themes. The activities have since been used with hundreds of young people in university and school teaching.
She found that by using a continuum to explore consent, it offered young people a way of viewing sex and consent that is not rigid, and which mirrored their own experiences.
"We found that using continuums and diverse scenarios enabled the young people to think critically about different ways of doing and negotiating consent enabling wider conversations that promote positive sexual ethics," she said.
Scenarios allowed people to explore gendered double standards, societal expectations and the ways in which age can impact people's ability to negotiate consent.
"The device of the continuum offered a way of speaking about and viewing sex, consent and violation that is not absolute – which mirrored the ways young people spoke about the topic," she said.
Based on a feminist concept to consider the educational possibilities of teaching and talking about sexual consent as a continuum rather than a simple binary between active consent and rape, the sexual consent continuum developed by Whittington, and colleagues at Brook, comprises four sections as defined by young people varying from rape to where consent is explicitly negotiated.
In the end, the findings suggest the need to encourage and embrace a wider variety of terminology regarding consent and sexual violence in order to invite more people into the consent conversation.
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"(sub)text : coded and deconstructed language"
The artists represented in this show utilize their aesthetic perceptions to create their own unique 'languages'. What's on view is the visual processing of how each non-verbally communicates both message and meaning--the deconstructed words and phrases of Eric Bohr, the coded messages of Maggie Malloy and the cryptic cyphers of Judith Miller.
Eric Bohr expands comprehension of words and phrases by exploring phonetics and the visual aspect of the written word. The canvas becomes Eric's playground for playing with consonant and vowel sounds, phrases and letters. The isolation of a word or phrase adds a subconscious 'weight' to its meaning which Eric uses to challenge the viewer's association with its accepted interpretation. In the painting "Erect", for example, the words are the primary visual image, and the interplay between the words 'erect', 'reckon' and 'wreck' also are essential to the overall piece. "There is usually a link between color choice and word," says Eric. "In this case what other color but red would be appropriate?" Red meaning "seeing red" as well as "stop", also meaning pay attention and a warning of danger. Eric chose a pair of unusual looking 'x's to bookend the words, the interpretation of which is purposefully left somewhat ambiguous � 'x' can mean a warning or something that has been dealt with and crossed out.
Maggie Malloy's imagery 'advocates' for her subject matter in an intellectual, storytelling way. If the background in her work represents the totality of her memory or thoughts about a subject, then the recognizable imagery extracted out of the background represents the prescient ideas that she wants to communicate. Most of Maggie's "coded" works speak to abuse/loss of human values by directing attention to global humanitarian concerns: "Evidence Exposed", is a statement about the Rwanda genocide and "Half/empty/Half Full", a painting of an almost dead cow with legs that extend down onto another piece of canvas, addresses the drought and loss of plant life in Africa.
Most of the paintings in Judith Miller's "Encryption Series" have a hint in the titles. Some are social/political messages, some personal (Center of the Earth), some about looking at art (Cultivate). The coding was done to obscure reality. "In a world divided by religion, poverty and revolting wealth, race, nationalism, ideology, etc. what happened to trying to understand the others point of view? What happened to being open to different people and different experiences?" Judith asks. Judith's cryptic works are meant to stimulate thought and engage the imagination in order to help people "see a new world" if they open themselves up to the experience of viewing the work.


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With millions of people travelling across county and state lines for the holidays, my mom probably isn't the only one who could use a quick tutorial on how to get simple, easy to understand, and accurate turn-by-turn directions.
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Animal Assisted Activities (AAA) are simply social sessions, where you and your dog meet people, sometimes in groups, sometimes one-on-one, typically in a health care setting, but also at schools, colleges, libraries and other public settings. Your dog may simply be present while people pet him or talk to him or to you. He may do some tricks, rest on a lap or cuddle on a bed.
Rescue dogs need to have lived with you for at least six months.
2 sessions each year, usually starting in February and August.
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Our Spring 2018 class will meet Saturday mornings at the beautiful new Humane Society of Missouri facility in Maryland Heights.
$25 non-refundable fee to reserve your spot on the skills and temperament evaluation schedule. This will be applied towards the class fee if your dog passes the evaluation.
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Our basic AAA therapy dog class prepares you and your dog to make social visits to places such as hospitals, hospices, library and school reading programs, nursing homes, and adult day care programs.
Our staff tries hard to find the right fit for you and your dog among our facilities. We consider your interests, your dog's comfort, your location, your schedule and the openings we have.
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Institut für Biomedizinische Technik und Informatik
Prof. Dr. Jens Haueisen
BMTI
BME School 2018
Konferenzen & Symposien
1st ANDREA Training Course
8th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering (2018)
1st – 12th October 2018, Chengdu, China
We thank all speakers, participants, organizers and sponsors for their valuable contribution to the success of the Summer School 2018!
Participants, speakers and organizers of the 8th International Summer School on Biomedical Engineering in Chengdu, China
The 8th international Summer School in Biomedical Engineering succeeds a series of summer schools in the past, addressing diverse aspects of bioelectromagnetic signals in the brain, such as clinical and state of the art techniques for measurement, data processing, source reconstruc-tion, brain stimulation, multimodal data integration, and generative modeling.
Often, measured signal merely represent a reduced or distorted mapping of the hidden original sources. Noninvasive techniques that measure brain activity are confronted with this problem that impedes clinical diagnostics and neurocognitive research. The objective of the 8th Interna-tional Summer School in Biomedical Engineering is to provide in depth education and practical exercises on EEG/MEG source reconstruction techniques, covering both theoretical foundations and practical applications. This will include methodological approaches and challenges, meas-urement devices and characteristics, types of underlying theoretic modeling, specifics of data analysis, ability to derive conclusions about neuroscientific meaning. The program contains thematic lectures on data and signals, modeling of the human head – the forward problem, dis-tributed source reconstruction, spatio-temporal and dynamic source models, scanning methods like Beamformers and MUSIC, and connectivity in the source space.
The main objective of the International Summer School is to provide in depth education and advanced training on state of the art techniques of bioelectromagnetic source localization by international experts in biomedical engineering. It aims at a thorough understanding of the un-derlying mechanisms and thus will develop a critical view on current applications and possible future developments.
The second important aim of the International Summer School consist in providing contact with both leading experts in the field and other students with similar interests. This way, the meeting will facilitate the exchange of ideas on latest developments and help to build professional net-works.
By completing a scientific project, the students will obtain more detailed knowledge on the topic, learn about unsolved and controversial issues and improve their abilities in the fields of scientific writing and oral presentation.
Thematic Structure:
The following aspects of bioelectromagnetic source reconstruction will be covered in the single symposia:
Data and Signals:
Introduction to the measurement of brain activity
Modeling the human head – the forward problem:
covers the distortion of physiological signals due to diverse head tissues that separate the source and the sensorspace and methods to model the signal flow
Distributed source reconstruction:
introduction of established inverse techniques to estimate signals in the source space based on measurements
Spatio-temporal and dynamic source models:
covers generative models that emulate brain activity and their use in neurocogni-tive brain research
Scanning methods: Beamformers and MUSIC:
reviews and evaluates alternative methods for source reconstruction
Connectivity in the source space:
reviews and discusses methods to include functional and anatomical brain con-nectivity to improve source reconstruction
Confirmed speakers:
Professor Dezhong Yao
Professor Pedro Valdes-Sosa
Professor Jens Haueisen
PD Thomas Knösche
Professor Carsten Wolters
Dr. Guido Nolte
Dr. Olaf Hauk
Dr. Andreas Spiegler
Didactic Structure:
The main ingredients of the didactic concept are:
oral presentations by renowned experts in the respective field of research,
self-study time for elaborating and discussing the presented topics,
panel discussions for discussion issues that have come up during the talks and the self-study time, and
project work by the participants in small groups,
presentation and evaluation of the work of the students, and
social program.
Target group: (up to 40 participants)
Advances Master students
Researchers entering the field computational neuroscience, neuroscience methodology and experimental neuroscience
Final schedule:
Schedule_02_10_2018.pdf
4 ECTS
For registration please send an e-mail with the following contact data: first name, last name, position (e.g. PhD student), Institution with address, telephone, fax, and e-mail to Gabriela Hey.
gabi.hey(at)tu-ilmenau.de
In response, you will receive a registration number and the payment details. The preliminary registration secures you a place on the list for three weeks, within which you should transfer the money. Registration becomes valid upon reception of the fee. Refund of the registration fee will be given upon cancellation before July 31st, 2018.
Please make sure to state your registration number as reason of payment!
600 Euro including tuition, 12 overnight stays, breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks and social program. 350 Euro for Chinese participants excluding accommodation.
Qingshuihe Campus: No.2006, Xiyuan Ave, West Hi-Tech Zone, 611731 | Chengdu, Sichuan, P.R.China
IU Hotel
Address: high tech Zone cooperation road No. 89, high-tech west Zone, Chengdu, Sichuan
Prof. Dr. Jens Haueisen Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany
Prof. Dr. Thomas R. Knösche Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Dr. Pedro A. Valdés-Sosa
Cuban Neuroscience Center, Havana, Cuba
Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China
Prof. Dr. Dezhong Yao Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China
Dr. Olaf Hauk MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Dr. Guido Nolte Institute of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany
Dr. Andreas Spiegler Department of Neurology, Charité University Medicine Berlin & Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Axel Thielscher
Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Prof. Dr. Carsten Wolters Institute of Biomagnetism and Biosignal Analysis, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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Rights group condemns attack on Eye Radio journalist
May 22, 2020 (Thessherald)–The Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA), a human rights defender, has expressed its dismay at an incident in which a local journalist working for Eye Radio was attacked and severely beaten earlier this week, leaving him with bruises.
"The Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) learns with utter dismay and regrets the attack on Eye Radio journalist, Obaj Okuj, leaving his brother wounded on 19th, May 2020," the statement said.
The rights defender denounced all forms of violence against journalists and urged the government to fulfill its obligations by protecting human rights in the country.
"We strongly condemn this display of anarchy and appeal to the government of to ensure the citizens' safety because it is its prerogative and responsibility."
"Journalists should not be targeted for their work of keeping the public informed because by doing so, they are promoting the people's rights and access to information which is a crucial any prosperous and successful society."
South Sudan activists called on the government to ensure that journalists are protected from harassment because it is a vital part of the government's responsibility.
"Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) therefore remind the government of South Sudan of its duty and responsibility of protecting the journalists, not only journalists but all anyone within its territory by creating a safe environment for the enjoyment of the rights."
The group stated that any direct repression of the media is a clear indication of the government's failure to protect its citizens.
"Attacks on journalists or anyone else is a pointer of dysfunctionality of a governing authority."
"for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) therefore calls on the government of the Republic of to investigate and hold accountable the perpetrators of these crimes. The citizens never be safe in a state where chaos and anarchy are the order of the day. The constitutional mandate and the priority of any government is the protection of its South Sudan is no different to this obligation, hence, it MUST live to that standard to book these criminals so that justice is done."


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Tameside Council at fault for failing to carry out a carer's assessment, and for an inadequate investigation leading to inadequate care
Decision Date: 22nd November 2019
Mr C was in his seventies, living at home, with his son as his primary carer.
The Council commissioned the company Careline to provide Mr C with thirty-minute visits daily.
In May 2018 female carers complained to Careline that Mr C made noises when they were carrying out their caring duties which made them feel uncomfortable. Mr C stated that the noises were due to his pain and discomfort.
An internal investigation was conducted and a report compiled, which concluded that only male carers should meet Mr C's care needs in the future from then onwards.
In July 2018 Mr C wrote to Careline to complain about its allegation and decision to use only male carers.
Also in July, there was an incident between Mr C and one of his carers (carer A). Mr C said that he told Carer A not to open a window, but carer A did, anyway, and then refused to provide Mr C care that day. The carer denied this, and said that Mr C would not let him onto his property to provide care that day.
Mr C subsequently contacted the Council and told it that he did not want carer A to attend his property. The Council told Mr C that with only one other male carer (B), the company would only be able to attend to his needs 2 or 3 times a week.
The Council changed Mr C's care plan, seemingly without review, stating that only 2 calls would be made a week and that only male carers would be used.
Mr C was also unhappy with carer B, (there were similar issues as had arisen with carer A – windows being opened contrary to his wishes), which led him to request alternative care providers. The Council said there were no other providers who could provide male carers at that time.
The same month, an OT assessed Mr C as needing two carers to visit daily, as he needed help to move from his wheelchair into his bed.
In October 2018, Mr C told the Council he was unwilling to compromise about Carer B opening the window. He asked the Council to stop providing care, said that he would seek private care instead, but that he needed support in finding a suitable care provider. In the meantime, his family would provide all of his care.
The Council made enquiries with other care agencies asking if they could meet Mr C's needs with male carers. However, they were told that this was just not feasible. His family provided his care in the meantime.
Mr C complained. He said that the allegations made about him by Careline's carers were untrue and should be retracted by Careline and removed from Careline and the Council's records, and that making this a feature of any other arrangement would prevent him from getting his needs met.
The Council responded to Mr C's complaint. It said that the allegations were difficult to prove or disprove as they could not be evidenced. It said that although it did hold the allegations on file, there was no recommendation from the Council that only male carers should be provided. The Council said it could not remove any entry on his file about the reports but assured him that his information would be handled confidentially.
In April 2019, Careline wrote to Mr C. It said that after careful consideration it concluded that the outcome of the investigation in June 2018 was incorrect because it was actually unable to establish if the noises he had made, were caused by his pain.
It seems from the report that after the complaint response from Careline, they resumed providing support.
What was found
The LGO found fault in how the Council and Careline responded to the allegations against Mr C, how it dealt with Mr C's complaints and how it subsequently failed to meet Mr C's care needs.
The LGO found that after reviewing the investigation report, it was unclear how Careline had considered Mr C's statement that the noises were caused by pain, when reaching its earlier decision to uphold the allegations and to only use male carers.
It also took Careline nine months to respond to Mr C, after he complained about the results of the investigation. Had Careline dealt Mr C's complaints within a reasonable timeframe, it was likely it would have come to its conclusion that the outcome of the original investigation was incorrect earlier, and disruption to Mr C's care needs could have been avoided.
There was also fault in how the Council dealt with the allegations and subsequent issues with carers. The Council accepted that it did not take an active role in determining if the allegations made against Mr C could be substantiated, and it should have carried out its own investigation into the separate issues Mr C had raised about carers A and B.
When the Council responded to Mr C's complaint, it said that there was no recommendation for only male carers in his file. However, when they looked for alternative care providers, they only requested for male carers. This was fault. The LGO considered that if the Council had not specified only male carers, they would have been able to find an alternative care provider much quicker, lessening the impact on Mr C's care.
The LGO did not investigate Mr C's complaint that the Council and Careline held inaccurate information about him and should delete any reference to the allegation from their records. The LGO stated that the Information Commissioners Office was best placed to investigate these matters and Mr C could raise these matters with them.
In Mr C's case, the fault was not acknowledged until 9 months after he complained, meaning he had a period of intermittent care followed by a period where none of his care needs were met. The LGO therefore considered that the distress caused to Mr C was severe and recommended a payment of £750.
The Council has a duty to assess a carer's needs. Despite the Council being aware that Mr C's son was his main carer, and would have been aware that the level of care increased when Careline stopped providing care, no carer's assessment was completed until May 2019. This was fault, even though there was no suggestion that Mr C's son was struggling or requested an assessment.The LGO recommended the Council pay £150.
When a council becomes aware that someone is caring for another adult and may need support, it is under a duty to assess their needs. It must consider the outcomes the carer wants to achieve, and how their needs might change in future. It must assess the carer in a timely manner, and, if it decides the carer has support needs, it must set out how it will meet those needs.
Points for the public, service users, families, carers and councils
This report touches upon two interesting aspects of the care world – the imbalance in gender representation, regarding people working in care services provision, such that it's never going to be possible to give people a free choice of their preferred gender; and the possibility that SOME people at least might need a worker of one gender or another, either for their own protection, dignity, bodily security and psychological well-being, for the care to be regarded as appropriate, or for the protection of the worker or workers if a person cannot stop themselves from behaving unacceptably – the staff being owed a duty of care by their own employer.
These issues involve equalities and employment law as well as social care law. Being an employer attracts the freedom under equalities law to recruit on a gender basis related to genuine occupational criteria regarding gender, but not with regard to the selecting staff for specific tasks according to client preference, in CASCAIDr's view. That's another example of why having a direct payment might be better for a person who can then become a direct employer; on the other hand, if one's tendencies mean that the employment relationship fails again and again, then a direct payment isn't going to be regarded as an appropriate way of meeting the social care need, and the council will just refuse to deploy the budget in that particular way.
The wider point is that when a company commissioned by a council gets into difficulties with a council client, that is NOT just a matter for that company, but also a matter for the commissioning council. The company is entitled to expect a person to make a complaint first, to the company, if that is what the problem is, but here, the company took executive action which needed to be FAIR. All providers to publicly funded clientele in the social care world owe human rights, directly, to the customers, under the Care Act, and need to be fair and stick to respecting people's privacy and dignity, not just finding them guilty of abusing female staff without properly considering the representations of the customer.
If that sort of an issue isn't resolved, it will OBVIOUSLY impact on the appropriateness of relying on that particular provider to meet needs, and it's then a breach of statutory duty on the part of the council not to meet assessed eligible needs.
When the council punted the man's case around potential alternative providers, it seems as if they disclosed the current provider's stance that men only would have to be used for delivery of the service. That would have raised some enquiries, inevitably, and whatever was said, that was an inappropriate discussion if the council were at that point just trying to be useful brokers, helping Mr C navigate the market. If on the other hand they were wearing their commissioner hats, then they had a duty to providers to advise of the full picture, but that makes it doubly wrong that they had allowed the full picture to harden up into one which painted Mr C as behaving inappropriately with female staff, in the first place.
Legal literacy about who is doing what for whom, in adult social care, and under what governing legal framework, (PLEASE!) would have solved all of these problems, we think.
We think that if the man had paid out for private care in the period when his needs were not otherwise being met, or his family had not been informal volunteers, as such, then that would have been a clear case of entitlement to restitution in the sum paid out or otherwise given in terms of value.
As it was, the £750 he received was a token payment for the distress and aggravation caused, because there is no legally based claim for pure DAMAGES for breach of statutory duty. When making recommendations about redress, however, the LGSCO and Parliamentary and Health Service Commissioner ARE able to take account of the distress factor and add a sum for that, too.
If you want help, please consider seeking advice from CASCAIDr via our referral form on the top bar menu of the site.
The full Local Government Ombudsman report of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council's actions can be found here
https://www.lgo.org.uk/decisions/adult-care-services/domiciliary-care/18-011-449
Categories : Local Government Ombudsmen's Reports


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Consider replacing an old-fashioned manual thermostat with an automatic one that can be programmed to appropriately cool your home during the times that you are there.
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The 27th International Conference on Automated Deduction
23-30 August 2019 — UFRN/Hotel Praiamar — Natal — Brazil
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From Counter-Model-based Quantifier Instantiation to Quantifier Elimination in SMT
Cesare Tinelli — The University of Iowa (USA)
Abstract: Despite decades of research, reasoning efficiently about formulas containing both quantifiers and built-in symbols for a given background theory remains a challenge in automated deduction. Nevertheless, several exciting advances have been made in the last few years, mainly in two directions: (i) integrating theory reasoning in saturation-based calculi for first-order logic and (ii) integrating quantified reasoning into frameworks for ground Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT). Focusing at the latter, this talk provides an overview of a general, refutation-based approach to reason about quantified formulas in SMT. The approach maintains a set S of ground formulas that is incrementally expanded with selected instances of quantified input formulas, with the selection based on counter-models of S. In addition to being quite effective in practice, for several logical theories that admit quantifier elimination and have a decidable universal fragment this approach also leads to practically efficient decision procedures for the full theory. While the approach applies to traditional theories with quantifier elimination such as linear real and integer arithmetic, this talk will present new promising developments for the theory of fixed-sized bit vectors and the theory of floating point arithmetic whose full-fragments are notoriously difficult to reason about.
Automated Reasoning for Security Protocols
Cas Cremers — CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany
Abstract: Security protocols are a prime example of seemingly simple algorithms for which it would be highly desirable, and possibly feasible, to provide formal proofs of their security. Yet despite several decades of active research, this goal has remained elusive. In this talk we will revisit the security protocol problem, why it is so crucial, and how forms of automated reasoning have helped advance the state of the art, using the TLS 1.3 protocol as an example . We highlight some of the many open general questions and how future advancements in automated reasoning might help towards the ultimate goal of deploying provably secure protocols.
Computer Deduction and (Formal) Proofs in Mathematics
Assia Mahboubi — Inria, LS2N, Université de Nantes, France, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Abstract: In 1976, K. Appel and W. Haken announced a computer-assisted proof of the Four Color theorem, solving a long standing open question in graph theory. Since, experimental mathematics have gained momentum and computers have even changed the very nature of peer-reviewed mathematical proofs. This phenomenon can be observed in a broad spectrum of fields, including number theory, dynamical systems, combinatorics, etc.
A vast variety of software is available today for doing computer-aided mathematics. Tools, and the algorithms they implement, are usually grouped in two partially overlapping categories: the symbolic ones, typically computer algebra systems, and the numerical ones. This talk is about a different flavor of software for doing mathematics with a computer: proof assistants. So far proof assistants have been mostly used for research projects in computer science, often related to program verification. But proof assistants, and in particular those based on dependent type theory, are receiving these days an increased attention from users with a background in mathematics. Designing formal libraries about contemporary mathematics raises specific issues and challenges for proof assistants, that we will discuss.
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Bucks' NBA Playoff run could bring big boost to Milwaukee's economy
By Bill Miston
Bucks economic impact
MILWAUKEE -- While the Milwaukee Bucks still don't know who they will face on the court for the Eastern Conference Finals, officials say the continued NBA Playoffs march is set to bring in millions of dollars for Milwaukee.
"We estimate that every game that the Bucks play here at home is bringing in $3 million in economic impact," said Lindsey McKee, Visit Milwaukee.
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Visit Milwaukee's Lindsey McKee says, those numbers are figured out by looking at another Milwaukee team with recent playoff experience: the Brewers.
It's estimated that if the Bucks were to reach the NBA Finals, the figures could start at least $12 million of economic impact alone.
Running the gamut from not just game gear, but tourists spending the bucks on hotels, transportation, and food and beverage.
It's a position Cream City hasn't been in in some time. The last time the Bucks reached the Eastern Conference Playoffs was in 2001; the city, and the area around the Bradley Center and new Fiserv Forum, has changed significantly.
"The heart of the city is incredibly vibrant right now. Going to a Bucks game, or going downtown to watch a Bucks game is an experience," said Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.
Mayor Tom Barrett says the Bucks extended playoff run not only means a chance for a parade but positioning the heart of the city in front of millions of people across the country throughout the playoffs and beyond.
"Stronger the heart can be, the stronger the entire community can be," said Barrett.
Visit Milwaukee officials point out that the numbers are just estimations at this point, but looking forward to hammering down the numbers once the playoffs start and they're banking on the Bucks making it all the way.


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We found you 5 pubs!
Pubs & bars in Amlwch that are Cask Marque members
Trying to find pubs in Amlwch that are Cask Marque members? You've come to the right place. We've got every pub and bar in the UK listed. Whether you're looking for a pub or bar to play darts, somewhere to play pool or just want to have a look at a menu before you go, we can help.
3.1 miles Rhosgoch, Gwynedd
The Ring or Y Ring as they say in Wales is located on the north of the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales. The traditional public house was built in 1851 by "Greenhall and Whitley" and has operated as a freehouse for a number of years now.
Kinmel Arms
6 miles Moelfre, Gwynedd
Benllech
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Perfect tourist pub based close to Benllech Beach, caravan park and country walks. This is a landmark pub in the village which serves traditional pub food and a good range of cask ales.
Tavern on the Bay
9.1 miles Pentraeth, Gwynedd
Ship Inn
9.2 miles Red Wharf Bay, Pentraeth


The Pupil Premium is an allocation of additional funding to provide schools to support groups of children who are vulnerable to possible underachievement. These include pupils who are entitled to free school meals; those looked after by the authority and children of armed service personnel. The intended effect of this funding is to accelerate progress and raise attainment.
In most cases the Pupil Premium is allocated to schools and is clearly identifiable. It is for schools and academies to decide how the Pupil Premium is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.
All schools and academies are required to report on the amount of funding received, how this is being used and the impact of any work.


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Materiały drewnopochodne – materiały, do których produkcji używa się odpadów, powstałych podczas uzyskiwania tarcicy (trociny, wióry, gałęzie drzew) oraz paździerzy.

Materiały drewnopochodne:
 sklejka - materiał drewnopochodny o bardzo szerokim zastosowaniu. Jest to płyta sklejona z nieparzystej liczby cienkich arkuszy drewna. Arkusze są tak ułożone by włókna jednej warstwy krzyżowały się z włóknami warstw sąsiednich. Dzięki temu sklejka jest odporna na wilgoć i nie zmienia pod jej wpływem ani wymiarów ani kształtu.
 płyty wiórowe są wykonane z wiórów drzewnych o określonych wymiarach, spajanych klejem pod ciśnieniem.
 płyty pilśniowe powstają ze spilśnionych, czyli splątanych ze sobą włókien drzewnych i roślinnych (np. lnu, konopi) sprasowanych pod wysokim ciśnieniem. Wyróżniane są płyty pilśniowe niskiej gęstości (LDF), średniej gęstości (MDF) oraz wysokiej gęstości (HDF).

Zalety materiałów drewnopochodnych:
 nie pękają, nie mają sęków i innych wad drewna,
 są odporne na działanie grzybów i owadów,
 płyty mają dużą powierzchnię, którą można ekonomicznie wykorzystać,
 są tańsze od drewna,
 mają dobre właściwości izolacyjne.

Wady materiałów drewnopochodnych:
 łatwopalne

Dzięki swoim zaletom materiały drewnopochodne znalazły szerokie zastosowanie w:
 przemyśle meblarskim, wykonuje się z nich np. szafy, biurka, regały, blaty stołów,
 budownictwie, wykorzystuje się np. do obkładania (obijania) konstrukcji ścian i dachu oraz ich izolacji, a także podłóg.

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An extraordinary example of the skills of Parisian bronze workers, this clock was made by the most famous of them all, Pierre Gouthière. More of a work of sculpture than a clock case, its rich gilding would have glittered magnificently in the candle light of an eighteenth-century house. Gouthiere has managed to create different textures to the skin, feathers, rocks and water of the subject.
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Lot:8006 1787 Massachusetts Half Cent. Ryder 2-A, W-5910. Rarity-4. AU-58 (PCGS).
1787 Massachusetts Half Cent. Ryder 2-A, W-5910. Rarity-4. AU-58 (PCGS).75.7 grains. Very attractive light olive and steel brown with subtle mottling noted on the obverse when studied under strong light. A trace of very light surface debris clings to the arrow and in other recesses, adding to the originality of this lovely piece. Glossy and well struck with fairly crisp detail. The only notable softness is among the highest relief points on the Indian, though all pleats are separated, with just a trace of natural roughness at this area that did not strike fully out. Nicer than the Garrett, Taylor and Michael Demling coins.From the Twin Leaf Collection of Connecticut & Massachusetts Coppers. Earlier ex Jim McGuigan; Bill Weber, Superior, June 2002:2072.


Process Safety News enters its Winter 2018 issue with a new look.
As always, feedback is appreciated and helps to feed further articles and discussion. Customers and industry partners drive our testing services and products with their needs and questions.
What is Risk Based Inspection? Related to Process Safety Management (PSM)?
Fauske & Associates, LLC (FAI) is a world leader in nuclear, industrial and chemical process safety. Founded in 1980 by Hans Fauske, D.Sc., Michael Grolmes, Ph.D. and Dr. Robert Henry, Ph.D., Fauske & Associates, LLC became a wholly owned subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC in 1986.


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Home Knowledge Bank News FDA Clears Cytovale's IntelliSep Sepsis Test, First in a New Class...
FDA Clears Cytovale's IntelliSep Sepsis Test, First in a New Class of Emergency Department-Focused Diagnostic Tools
Cytovale®, a medical diagnostics company focused on advancing early detection technologies to diagnose fast-moving and immune-mediated diseases, announced that its IntelliSep® test has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance to aid in the early detection of sepsis for the approximately 30 million adult patients with signs and symptoms of infection who present to US emergency departments (ED) each year.
IntelliSep is a groundbreaking diagnostic tool that helps clinicians recognize sepsis and supports critical time-sensitive clinical decisions, providing test results in under 10 minutes. The first in a new class of ED-focused diagnostic tools that assess host response, the test is a simple, fast, and intuitive solution that provides actionable answers directly from a standard blood draw. IntelliSep categorizes patients into three bands according to their probability of sepsis, with Band 1 indicating low probability of sepsis and Band 3 indicating high probability of sepsis. The results may equip providers with a tool to optimize clinical outcomes and empower hospitals to improve resource utilization and achieve operational excellence. IntelliSep may also support hospital efforts to meet guidelines set by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for timely sepsis treatment, known as SEP-1.
Sepsis is the leading cause of death worldwide and is responsible for more than 270,000 deaths every year in the United States—more than opioid overdoses, prostate cancer, and breast cancer combined. 1,2 The condition is the body's overwhelming life-threatening response to an infection, which triggers a chain reaction and quickly leads to tissue damage, organ failure, and death.1 The risk of death from sepsis increases by as much as 8 percent each hour the condition goes untreated.2 According to the Sepsis Alliance, as many as 80 percent of sepsis deaths could be prevented with rapid diagnosis and treatment—making early detection critical to improving clinical, operational, and financial outcomes.1
"Early detection of sepsis is an invaluable capability for healthcare professionals. Quickly identifying sepsis is critical to saving lives, but until now, we've lacked a reliable tool to either recognize the condition or explore alternate diagnoses," said Hollis O'Neal, MD, Medical Director of Research at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Critical Care Physician at LSU Health Sciences Center, and National Principal Investigator on the multi-center CV-SQuISH-ED study that supported the clearance. "IntelliSep is truly a game changer for sepsis because it provides a unique indicator that gets to the heart of the current sepsis definition, immune dysregulation. The test provides hospital staff with the information needed to identify and treat septic patients efficiently and reduce the financial and health burdens of overtreatment for hospitals and patients."
The CV-SQuISH-ED study is a multi-center clinical validation study that was completed in early 2022 and is being prepared for publication.3 Data from previously published studies demonstrate the 10-minute test's potential to aid physicians in rapidly identifying patients at increased risk of sepsis.4
"This clearance is a pivotal step forward in Cytovale's commitment to early detection technologies to improve health," said Cytovale co-founder and CEO Ajay Shah. "Every minute is crucial in identifying sepsis, and IntelliSep has the potential to transform clinical approaches to sepsis triage and diagnosis and save countless lives."
IntelliSep's innovative technology, which is run on the Cytovale System, assesses the body's immune response to an infection using immune cell morphology. By applying pressure to tens of thousands of cells and observing their reaction, IntelliSep can provide valuable new insight related to sepsis. The biophysical properties of white blood cells from septic patients demonstrate distinct changes when subjected to pressure; these changes are captured in images and then characterized using a proprietary algorithm to produce a result.
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A key competitor to the Ghibli was Iso's Grifo. It also had a V8 up front, only it came from America. Depending upon the horsepower output, the Grifo was quicker and faster than the Ghibli. Today's collector car marketplace has recognized that, for at auction a Grifo typically brings double (or more) than the Maserati.
That blue blur is in an even faster version of the Grifo. The raised center section of the hood means this particular Iso has a 427 in place of the standard 327. Mated with a 5-speed transmission, it was good for 170+ mph.
In 1970 the Grifo got covered headlights, and the big block version was known as the Grifo Can Am. Today the big block Grifos' value typically exceeds that of a Ferrari Daytona.
The Apollo Spyder is a luscious machine. Beautiful to look at and wonderful to drive, I was totally captivated by the car's charm during the day I spent with this example. That's Apollo founder Milt Brown behind the wheel.
Ferrari's V8-powered 348 debuted in 1989, and was made up to 1995, with around 8200 built. Intriguingly, there was another mid-engine V8 that was also built in Modena at the same time that is quite desirable, but not nearly as well known.
While many know of the Panters made in the 1970s and '80s, the Nuova Pantera of the 1990s is much more rare. It was certainly more refined than Ferrari's 348, and is quite rare--just 41 were made from 1991-1995.
De Tomaso's Nuova Pantera was a completely different car from the earlier Panteras that were made from 1971-1989. Both used Ford V8s; in this case it was a 5-liter versus 5.7 liters with the earlier cars. If one came to market today, it would carry a substantial premium over its Ferrari competitors.
Last week we examined the absurdity of dust covered, grime encrusted cars bringing a serious premium at auction when compared with the prices of true preservation and concours condition cars. On the other end of spectrum is a sensible pricing trend that has gone largely unnoticed by the collector car world: the rising value of the "original hybrids," and how in many cases these cars are now more desirable than GTs with homegrown engines.
Until the late 1990s, the term "hybrid" had nothing to do with a Toyota Prius or Honda Insight, batteries, electric motors, stop-start technology and more. Instead, hybrid meant a European sports or GT car with an American engine, typically a V8. For decades some shortsighted purists looked down on these trans-Atlantic marriages even though they often had equal or greater horsepower, equivalent or superior performance, and were more reliable than their supposed thoroughbred European counterparts.
Plus they were more tractable in traffic, especially in congested situations such as a city. Back in the day there was a term often used with high-strung European cars: "Italian tune up." This meant you had to rev the engine to blow out the carbon while a fast sports/GT idled or moved along at continuous slow speeds. This wasn't applicable to the American powered GTs, and in most cases, they also didn't overheat.
…Until recently, that is. In the past four years, a number of "Best of Both Worlds" cars have become equal or more costly than their 100% European competitors, a trend that really came into focus at last year's Gooding & Co. Scottsdale auction when a late 1980s Pantera sold for $300,000+. This was double or triple the price of the best Ferrari 328, and the more I researched, the more I realized this wasn't a one-off transaction.
For example, historically Ferrari Daytonas have cost five to six times the price of Iso's two-seat Grifo, but today the best small-block Grifos are nearly at parity with many Daytonas, and the rare big block 7 Liter and Can-Am Grifos (90 made) often cost more. And Grifos are typically double or even triple the price of Maserati Ghibli's coupe—which personal experience says is sensible, for the Grifo is a better, faster car.
I discovered this in the 1980s when I had a 5-speed Series II (covered headlight) small-block Grifo. A friend had a mint condition 5-speed 4.9-liter Ghibli SS, and to see which one was quicker we did a number of rolling starts and ran them to 130 mph; repeatedly the Grifo was ahead by a number of car lengths when we hit that threshold. Then in correspondence I had with Paul Frere, the former Le Mans winner who was one of the great automotive journalists and tested both cars when they were new, he declared his preference for the Grifo, and one thing he noted was its superior performance.
While I think Isos likely remain the pinnacle of the "Best of Both Worlds" machines, a true contender for the "Best" title is the last of the Panteras. Known as the "Nuova Pantera" or "Pantera 90" when it was in production in the first half of the 1990s, its design was a Marcello Gandini redo of the original Tom Tjaarda wedge, and it looked sensational. The 5.0 Ford V8 had been balanced and blueprinted by De Tomaso, and was mated to a 6-speed transmission.
Santiago De Tomaso was running the factory at the time, following his father's stroke, and he told me the chassis and underpinnings were all new. On the road the Nuova Pantera was an impressive machine, and the engine was a sweetheart. The cam came on at 3,000 rpm so the 300+ horsepower V8 gave you a serious shove into the comfy leather seat. The soundtrack was lovely, the chassis tight as a drum, the ride communicative and compliant. The whole car was considerably more refined than the original rough-and-rumble Pantera that was built from 1971 to 1989, and definitely equal or superior to Ferrari's 348 that was in production when the Nuova Pantera debuted in 1991.
The Nuova Pantera remained in production into 1995. With just 41 made it's quite rare (Ferrari made around 8,200 348s), and the one in the photos may be the only targa version. Needless to say, it would bring a pretty penny at auction today, and considerably more than its Ferrari counterparts.
The Apollo had a proprietary ladder-type chassis that was sent to Italy where Carrozzeria Intermeccanica mated it to a berlinetta or spyder coachwork, and installed the interior. The package then returned to Oakland, where the Buick powertrain and more was installed. As with so many of these type of efforts, the passion was there, the concept and intent was good, but proper funding was lacking so just 88 Apollos were built from 1961-1965/66.
I've driven a handful of Apollos, and was completely charmed by the spyder version. Designed by Franco Scaglione of Alfa BAT fame and more, at the end of my day with Milt Brown's personal car, I found it to be a comfortable, exciting and well-balanced package. But they are also exceedingly rare, with just 11 made—which was just one of the reasons I asked Milt Brown if he would include me in his will so I could have the car!
Needless to say, Apollos, Iso Grifos and Nuova Panteras are just the tip of a very interesting iceberg, for there are many Transatlantic Marriages that deserve the recognition they are getting. For as said at the beginning of this piece, it looks like the marketplace has finally caught onto the inherent goodness of the concept, and thumbed its nose at the purists.
While many know of the Panters made in the 1970s and '80s, the Nuova Pantera of the 1990s is much more rare. It was certainly more refined than Ferrari's 348, and is quite rare–just 41 were made from 1991-1995.
In other words, the Best of Both Worlds recipe holds as much merit now as it did when such machines were new, and today's collector car market has embraced the value and performance proposition they bring to the game.


Ethiopia is a truly magnificent independent never colonized African country with its vast history,culture, national reserves, awesome landscapes, archeology beautiful and friendly countrymen. Ethiopia has its own script, notational system and calendar. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church is the oldest in Africa - Christianity was made the state religion in the Axumite Empire in 330 AD, before Rome. Muslim communities were established in Ethiopia before the triumph of Islam in its birth place, the Arabian Peninsula, while Ethiopian Jews, or Bete Israel, date their provenance back to the time of the first temple.
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is located in the northeastern part of Africa known as ' The Horn of Africa'. It leis in the equatorial region between 30 - 180 north and 330 - 480 east, Eritrea and Djibouti bound in on the northeast, on the east and southeast by Somalia, on the south by Kenya and on the west by the Sudan. Ethiopia, as large as France and Spain combined, has an area of 1,104,300 km? It is the tenth largest country in Africa. It is a democratic national comprising of 11 semi-autonomous administrative regions organized loosely along major ethnic lines. It has an agriculturally dominated economy, which is about 65 per cent of the land is presently cultivated.
Ethiopia's economy is predominantly agricultural. The highlands and Rift valley are very fertile, which contain many large rivers with enormous untapped potential for irrigation projects. About 90 per cent of the population earns their living from the land, mainly as subsistence farmers. Agriculture is the backbone of the national economy and the principal exports from this sector are coffee, oil seeds, pulses, flowers, vegetables, sugar and foodstuffs for animals. There is also a thriving livestock sector, exporting carrel on the hoof and hides and skins. 25% of the populations grow coffee and it accounts for 55% of Ethiopia's exports.
Ethiopia home more than 80 ethnic groups, each with their own greeting customs. It is best to find out these customs before meeting with any particular group (however Selma is used and common in everywhere), so as to communicate that you are a respectful and well-informed individual. However, in most circumstances when meeting an Ethiopian, smiling and handshaking are usual, although the handshake may be light compared to the firm, solid handshakes you might be used to. In Ethiopia, it is considered proper etiquette to always shake hands with the right hand, as left-handed handshakes, as well as giving a gift with just your left hand, is considered wholly inappropriate. However, to show your respect to the elders' you can shake with both hand together and hold a while. If you are travelling with children make sure that your children greeting the elders and also many people come and greeting them it is common one greets you will greets to your children so that not to offend and to be offended.
This can depend on where you are going. In most of the country, the main rainy season runs from June to the mid of September, with short rains in March and may that makes loose the soil for highland farmer. In the Omo and Mago parks however, in Southern Ethiopia, the seasons are different with the main rains from March to June and shorter rains in November.
No visa is required for the following nationals of Kenya Djibouti, and The Sudan. In addition nationals of the following countries can easily get a visa on arrival in the air port.
The possession of a valid Yellow Fever vaccination certificate is no longer mandatory but visitors coming from countries where Yellow Fever has been reported may be asked. Immunization for Hepatitis A and B, Tetanus, Typhoid and Polio is recommended.
In many places even on the highlands frequently reported the occurrence of malaria due to the global warming effect .The Lowland areas along the Awash River, the Omo Valley, Rift Valley and Gambela are subject to malaria outbreaks which have been identified as resistant strains to some medicine, so you should consult your doctor about the prescription. Alternatively, you can keep mosquitoes and other insects at bay with repellent creams and sprays.
Visitors should take a simple first aid pack, which would include: different size plasters, antiseptic cream, anti-histamine cream and/or tablets for insect bites, sun barrier cream (while temperatures are moderate the sun is strong) and anti-diarrhea tablets.
Though the country lays in tropics , temperatures moderated by high altitude not exceed 25 o C in most of the country, however in some of the lowland and rift valley areas (south and west Omo valley and Awash) it can get considerably hotter. Pack light clothes for the day time and a jacket or sweater for the evenings but for Danakil depression it needs also Scarve or toben to cover up from sun and sand blow, and a good pair of walking shoes even if you are not going trekking - path ways around historic sites are usually uneven and stony. Trekkers in the Simien and Bale Mountains will need warm clothes, waterproofs and 3-4 season sleeping bags.
In line with their common conservative ethos, Ethiopians also tend to dress quite modestly. When travelling through Ethiopia, women especially should cover their shoulders and upper arms, particularly when in Muslim areas and while visiting Ethiopian orthodox churches.
Men would be best to opt for (cotton or linen) trousers with a shirt or t-shirt, and women should wear longer skirts and dresses, with a modest and unrevealing top. Again, women especially should avoid wearing shorts, although in particularly well-populated tourist areas, this is generally deemed as acceptable.
It is no longer obligatory for visitors to declare currency in their possession on arrival, but should visitors wish to change money back on departure, it will be necessary to produce receipts from banks and authorized foreign exchange dealers. The Ethiopian currency is the birr, the rate of which against the US dollar is fixed essentially by market demand.Credit card acceptance is now growing throughout the country, but banks which issue cash withdrawals on cards will only do so to a limit of US$500.00 per day (paid in birr), and this only in Addis Ababa and a few other main cities.ATMs for Visa and other cards can now be found in some banks, and in some of the main hotels in Addis Ababa, and this service is expected to be available soon in other main urban centers.
On arrival at Addis Ababa airport please proceed through immigration and baggage collection and custom clearance. Once through proceed out of arrival hall, where Aberus Ethiopia Tours (AET) representative will meet you holding the sign with AET (or passenger) name on it, AET representative will accompany to your hotel. He/she will also inform you start time of the tour.
identifying new arrivals, other than that violent robbery and muggings are rare and generally visitors can tour the city day and night in safety.
Please reconfirm your onward international flight or hand over the responsibility to one of our staffs in office through the AET representative you will meet at the airport. Departure is contemporarily included in the airfare and you need not worry about it unless specified. Not all but most domestic flights are operated with the two propellers Fokker 5O. Luggage allowance 20kg for check in luggage and 7kg for hand luggage. Please keep all your valuables in the hand luggage. Whether the purchase of your flight ticket is made by us or by you, reconfirmation of all domestic flights are on our shoulder.
It is of the utmost importance that you are properly insured and make sure that you carry details of this insurance with you on your tour. For more information please ask the help of your travel agent.
Photographing Military camp, Ministry buildings, Embassy and important bridges are totally forbidden Ethiopia has a different time calculating system and three hours ahead of Green witch Mean time (GMT). The Ethiopian day is calculated in a manner similar to that in many equatorial countries, where day and night is always the same length. Time remains constant through the year counting starts from western 6 and 6 Western 7 is there fore one o'clock, noon is 6 o' clock and 6 is 12 o'clock. In Addis Ababa, then sunrise and sunset at around 6:30 and 18.45 respectively.
Telephone, Tele fax, Internet, e-mail and postal facilities are available in the country. Internet services are available in major cities and towns only. The international dialing code for Ethiopia is +251.
Addis Ababa has two 5 star hotels - the Hilton and the Sheraton (5 star plus) - and a growing number of tourist class hotels. Standards vary outside the capital, but apart from some areas on the west bank of the Omo and in parts of the Afar Region where camping would be necessary, it is generally possible to get relatively clean rooms with en suite toilet and shower.
For proffesional camera and filming you should be processed and get permision from Minitry of information ahead of your arrival.Suntrek Ethiopia Tours will assist you facilitating your permision.
For ordinery Tourist camera you may come acrose the airport security to check your camera you should be cooperative. we always ask you to take more film, digital camera cards and spare batteries than think you will need. Ethiopia is very photogenic and it will be easy to use at least one roll of 36 exposures per day or fill half your digital camera card.
Except the Omo valley people and some dominantly Muslim regions most people in Ethiopia like their picture to be taken. Acceptance for picture is expressed either with smile or with proper positioning oneself for picture. While rejection is expressed through giving oneself back or covering face with hand or cloth.
In the Afar and some dominantly Muslim region you need to wait until your guide or driver negotiates with the locals. This doesn't include the most photogenic regions like Harar and Bati Market where there is no picture fee. Except for the above mentioned places, please don't pay picture fee!
No photography fee in all natural attractions and heritages sites but there are few places with prohibition.
This is difficult to suggest but What we remind is that tipping is not compulsory, nor have any fixed amounts. The bottom line in determining whether and how much to tip is to ask yourself how much the individual did make your travels more enjoyable and worth.
Our guest relation staff is in attendance 24 hours a day, seven days a week to handle any eventuality that might crop up any odd hour. Telephones at our head office in Addis are manned 24 hours daily.


I had a great day with my Singapore Five-0 mates at the 60 km Nusa Iskandar MTB Adventure Ride 2012 in Gelang Patah, Johor. There were well over a thousand participants with a significant contingent from Singapore.
The previous year's event was well organised and this year was even better. The support at the water stops was like clock work and the trail all rideable.
The Super Downhill at the beginning was brilliant and lots of fun. My Stumpy 29er hardtail was almost perfect, except for the rough and fast hard-packed plantation fire roads which was harsh without rear suspension. I got lost twice but found my way back into the groove quickly.
The combination of Hammer Endurolytes, Gels, Perpetuem Solids, a couple of bananas and a bottle of water consumed religiously every hour ensured that I was properly nourished and hydrated, no cramps despite the oppressive heat.
I arrived at the finish line at 12 noon in 24th position and 3:31 hours, quite happy with my performance. A quick wash of the bike, a pleasant drive home to Singapore and I ended at the massage table for a well-earned 90 minute rub down. Bliss!
The MTB race commenced at 7.30 am with 75 racers. The course was 30 km with 2 big climbs - a 1,200 m hill sending us 80 m up followed by a fast downhill and a sharp 500 m climb sending us 60 m up.
The route had many interesting elements such as a quick sprint through the Gopeng market, zig-zagging between limestone caves and cutting through little villages with friendly locals.
This race was both a physical and a mental challenge. I completed 8 laps with a total of 235 km and 2,100 m climb and finished 7th place. Lars completed 7 laps after the first lap sprint killed him.
Morten completed 6 laps and suffered because of his 1x10 configuration. Mike had to retire after the 5th lap because of a knee injury sustained in a crash. All in all and fantastic outing with superb technical support from Han from Attitude Bikes.


Warner Pacific College students and the Friends of Mt. Tabor recently spent a day at Mt. Tabor Park removing English ivy and other invasive species.
Portland Parks & Recreation depends on its outstanding volunteers, who spend thousands of hours clearing and maintaining trails and green spaces in our Portland parks. We're grateful for the efforts from the community to help maintain our national Gold Medal-winning parks system.
Our No Ivy League is a team of volunteers who work hard every year to destroy and remove invasive English ivy from Forest Park and other natural areas. Each year, they coordinate No Ivy Day - a city-wide ivy removal effort. No Ivy Day will be on Saturday, October 13, at locations throughout Portland. There is still time to sign up and volunteer!
Find out more about volunteering for Portland Parks & Recreation online.


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This days in AAGRAFA we have been digitalizing and compiling old tapes featuring Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza. Architec and Professor in our Architecture School in Madrid and designer of the Arantzazu Sanctuary in my hometown back in the fifties. We present here four disc containing many conferences, classes and some tributes to his work. Here is the list of the releases on DVD available now on ETSAM library for the nostalgic and true architecture lovers. I hope you enjoy them.