The One Hundred and Fourth Annual Report of the Council 1968

1969 ◽  
Vol 73 (700) ◽  
pp. 311-332
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
The Past ◽  
Joint Policy ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One ◽  
Policy Committee

Although the past year cannot be classed as an outstanding one, nevertheless, there are some items which are worthy of noting and recording. The number of Fellows elected was the largest ever elected in one year, and the total number of members increased steadily if not spectacularly. It is of much concern to the Council that the number of Graduates and Students diminishes, and in the oncoming year efforts will be made to counteract this tendency. A Joint Policy Committee has been formed with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Institution of Production Engineers to investigate all possibilities of cooperation in establishing joint policies and activities and even administration. At present, the Committee is investigating areas of such co-operation.

scholarly journals Opioid overdose in public libraries: Results from a five state survey

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Feuerstein-Simon ◽  
Margaret Lowenstein ◽  
Roxanne Dupuis ◽  
Xochitl Luna Marti ◽  
Abby Dolan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Opioid Overdose ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Past ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One

AbstractIntroductionPublic libraries are increasingly impacted by the overdose crisis. A 2017 survey of public librarians in the state of Pennsylvania revealed that 12% had reported an on-site overdose in the previous year. There are increasing public and private efforts to equip public libraries with the opioid overdose antidote, naloxone.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional web-based survey of all public library branches in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Michigan, and Virginia. Survey questions. We used descriptive statistics to report frequencies of responses and crude odds ratios were calculated to predict the dichotomized variable of endorsement of naloxone uptake.ResultsLibrary staff reported witnessing on-site alcohol (45%) and injection drug (14%) use in the past month. The one-year cumulative incidence (12% overall) of on-site overdose ranged from a low of 10% in MI, to a high of 17% in FL. Among libraries with on-site overdoses, a minority (21%) stocked naloxone, and 12% had administered naloxone. Overall, 11% of libraries stocked naloxone on-site. Although 24% of respondents reported attending at least one training regarding SUD in the past year, 91% wanted more training on the topic.ConclusionsPublic library staff routinely address issues related to substance use and overdose in their institutions. This work highlights the importance of including public libraries as part of a comprehensive public health strategy to address substance use-related morbidity and mortality in the U.S.

Suicide by burning as an epidemic phenomenon: an analysis of 82 deaths and inquests in England and Wales in 1978–9

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 735-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Ashton ◽  
Stuart Donnan
Keyword(s):  
Index Case ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Death Certificates ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Code Of Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One ◽  
The Uk

SynopsisAn epidemic of suicide by burning in England and Wales occurred during the one-year period October 1978 to October 1979, following a widely publicized political suicide. For the 82 cases, death certificates were obtained and coroners' inquest reports sought. The victims were predominantly young single men or older married women; both groups had strong psychiatric histories; and there were no suicides which had political overtones, apart from the index case. Compared with suicides by this method in the past, a higher proportion of victims were born in the UK. It is proposed that a code of practice for the reporting of suicides by the media is required.

scholarly journals Prolonged concussion effects: Constellations of cognitive deficits detected up to year after injury

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 205970022110065
Author(s):  
Daniel D Leeds ◽  
Annie Nguyen ◽  
Christopher D’Lauro ◽  
Jonathan C Jackson ◽  
Brian R Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Cognitive Testing ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Cognitive Measures ◽  
Post Injury ◽  
The Past ◽  
Neurocognitive Assessment ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One

Concussions are associated with an array of physical, emotional, cognitive, and sleep symptoms at multiple timescales. Cognitive recovery occurs relatively quickly – five-to-seven days on average. Yet, recent evidence suggests that some neurophysiological changes can be identified one year after a concussion. To that end, we examine more nuanced patterns in cognitive tests to determine whether cognitive abilities could identify a concussion within one-year post injury. A radial-basis (non-linear boundary) support vector machine classifier was trained to use cognitive performance measures to distinguish participants with no prior concussion from participants with prior concussion in the past year. After incorporating only 10 cognitive measures, or all 5 composite measures from the neurocognitive assessment (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT)), over 90% accuracy was achieved in identifying both participants without prior concussions and participants with concussions in the past year, particularly when relying on non-linear patterns. Notably, classification accuracy stayed relatively constant between participants who had a concussion early or late in the one-year window. Thus, with substantial accuracy, a prior concussion can be identified using a non-linear combination of cognitive measures. Cognitive effects from concussion linger one-year post-injury, indicating the importance of continuing to follow concussion patients for many months after recovery and to take special note of constellations of cognitive abilities.

A 1-week online self-compassion training reduces self-criticism and pain endurance in people with non-suicidal self-injury ideation – a randomized-waitlist controlled study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sukriti Drabu ◽  
Oliver Sündermann ◽  
Ryan Y. Hong
Keyword(s):  
Training Group ◽  
Controlled Study ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Single Session ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One

Self-criticism has been identified as a key underlying vulnerability that lowers of one’s positive self-regard and pain barriers that prevent individuals from engaging in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). Additionally, research suggests that self-compassion may serve as a protective tool in counteracting self-criticism. This study examined the efficacy of a brief online self-compassion training on past year NSSI engagers and ideators in reducing (a) explicit self-criticism, (b) implicit self-criticism, (c) pain endurance and (d) the inclination to engage in NSSI. Sixty-three Singaporean adults who reported the presence of self-injurious thoughts or behaviors in the past one year were randomly assigned to either a 1-week self-compassion training group or a waitlisted control group. As compared to the control group (n = 33), the training group (n = 30) yielded significantly greater reduction in explicit self-criticism after a single session and significantly greater reduction in self-criticism, pain endurance, as well as the explicit inclination to self-injure after the one-week online training. The reduction in explicit self-criticism and inclination to self-injure was maintained at the 2-week follow-up. These findings provide novel evidence supporting the efficacy of using a brief online self-compassion intervention to reduce NSSI correlates and symptoms.

Editorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Weber
Keyword(s):  
Speaking Up ◽  
Small Talk ◽  
The Past ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

This past week marked the one-year anniversary of my staff and me working from home. When we packed up our cubicles and offices in March 2020, no one expected to be working remotely from home for long. We honestly expected to return in a few weeks or at least by the end of April. In the meantime, the university kept extending our work-from-home agreements. During the past year, we have acquired new skills and ways of working. For example, we have mastered how to use WebEx and Zoom for meetings and have realized that this technology can make our meetings more effective. Although some people complain of Zoom fatigue, we have found that our meetings are shorter, and no one lingers afterward. We may start meetings with small talk, but when we are done, people are ready to sign off. Participants who may have difficulty speaking up can choose to use the chat box, and entering terms like “stack” in the chat box helps to ensure that everyone gets a chance to speak and in a predetermined order. It avoids having everyone try to speak at once and ensures all have a chance to speak.

Sharing Teaching Ideas: A New Look For Some Old Algebra Concepts

1990 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Maureen Johnson ◽  
Pat Ueland
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Teaching Algebra ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Average Students ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One ◽  
Teaching Ideas ◽  
New Look

During the past two years, our school district has adopted a different approach for teaching algebra to the “average” students. This change was made on the basis of the premise that these students do not need more work in arithmetic but need more time in algebra. Rather than offer a one-year prealgebra course and a one-year algebra course, we decided to offer a two-year algebra course. Students choosing the two-year course spend approximately one year on the first half of the text (the same text as the one used in the one-year algebra course) and the second year covering the other half of the text.

scholarly journals “Back to Normal” vs. “New Normal”: the Post-Pandemic Recovery of Italian Tourism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Bellini
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Normal ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Conceptual Nature

Based on one year of intensive interaction with and feedback from practitioners, this paper provides a twofold contribution of a conceptual nature. On the one hand, it attempts to clarify the nature of the crisis in comparison with the past experiences. On the other hand, with reference to the literature on dynamic capabilities, it outlines, in an ideal-typical way, two diverging and co-existing (and therefore conflicting) perspectives of the recovery process that are summarized in – respectively – the “back to normal” and the “new normal” discourses.

The One Hundred and First Annual Report of The Council 1965-66

1966 ◽  
Vol 70 (664) ◽  
pp. 506-531
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One

The Centenary Year of the Society was launched by the Honorary President, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, by his Foreword in the Centenary Journal. “The hundred years of the Royal Aeronautical Society spans the whole romantic, even fantastic, story of Man's adventure into the air and into space.”The Annual Reports and the Journal throughout these hundred years have chronicled the story. This Annual Report —the hundred and first—records the contrasting interests of this past year: the advent of the Centenary has resulted in the somewhat nostalgic writings on the past, and considerations on the future have been caused by the Plowden Report.

Abstract 054: Mortality Decline After Ischemic Stroke-the Medicare Cohort From 2009 to 2013

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shumei Man ◽  
Jesse D Schold ◽  
Ken Uchino
Keyword(s):  
Ischemic Stroke ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Stroke Prevention ◽  
System Of Care ◽  
Mortality Decline ◽  
Medicare Beneficiaries ◽  
American Hospital ◽  
The Past ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One

Objectives: After a declined in mortality by 25.4% from 1996 to 2005, stroke became the fifth leading cause of death in men and the second leading cause of death in women. Stroke mortality decline in the past was mainly attributed to the improvement of stroke prevention. Stroke system of care has gone through evolutional changes in the past decade in both acute stroke treatment, preventing complications, identifying stroke etiology and stroke prevention. This study is to examine whether there was greater decline of mortality after ischemic stroke hospitalization from 2009 and 2013. Methods: We examined the one-year mortality in Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥65 years who were hospitalized between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2013 with a primary discharge diagnosis of ischemic stroke. The data of the patient information were obtained from the Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) file. The list and characteristics of hospitals were obtained from the American Hospital Association Annual Survey Database. All statistical analyses were performed using SAS Version 9.4 software. Results: A total of 1165,960 Medicare Beneficiaries was hospitalized for ischemic stroke between 2009 and 2013. The one-year mortality showed a steady declined by 17.6 % over the five years period. The one-year mortality declined by 17.4% in female, 17.8% in male, 17.0% in black,17.6 % in white, 22.6% in Hispanic, and 20.3% in Asian. Among the ten-year age group, people aged 65 to 74 years had the greatest decline in mortality, 22.5%, followed by 19.2% decline in the group 75 to 84 years, and 14.7% in the group 85 years and over. Conclusion: The one-year mortality among Medicare beneficiaries after ischemic stroke hospitalization showed a dramatic decline from 2009 to 2013. Further study is needed to determine whether this is attributable to the change of stroke system of care in the past decade.

Genetics in thrombophilia

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (01) ◽  
pp. 47-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. H. Reitsma
Keyword(s):  
Venous Thrombosis ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Recurrence Risk ◽  
Genetic Variations ◽  
Risk Scores ◽  
Duration Of Treatment ◽  
The Past ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One ◽  
Inherited Risk

SummaryVenous thromboembolism (VTE) poses a worldwide health burden affecting millions of people each year. The annual incidence of symptomatic VTE, the collective term used here for deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism or both, is 2–3 per thousand inhabitants. The one-year mortality is 20% after a first VTE. Of the surviving patients 15–25% will experience a recurrent episode of VTE in the three years after the first event. Primary and secondary prevention is key to reducing death and disability from VTE. How to make use of our current knowledge of inherited risk of VTE for primary and secondary disease prevention is not straightforward. This despite the fact that in the past two or three decades we have made major strides in enlarging our understanding of inherited VTE risk, and that new inherited risk factors continue to be identified.For primary prevention of VTE genetic testing is not likely to play a role in the future. Genetic variations also determine recurrence risk, albeit that the effect sizes for individual genetic variations are invariably lower than those for first VTE events. Multilocus genetic risk scores improve risk classification, and it is now possible to stratify patients who have had a first venous thrombosis, into subgroups with a high and low risk of recurrence. Whether this approach can be used to tailor intensity and duration of treatment remains to be established.

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