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Repeatedly, peer support (PS) research in mental health settings has indicated the influential impact of PS on recovery outcomes, including community reintegration and overall quality of life. Despite these findings, and the bolstering of PS in UK healthcare policy, PS remains underdeveloped in UK mental health settings. This is particularly pronounced in forensic mental health settings where the development of PS has remained heavily restricted by application difficulties in secure care models. The current study aims to provide one of the first in-depth explorations of PS experiences for both service users (SUs) and peer support workers (PSWs) in UK forensic mental health services. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 participants (ten SUs, three PSWs) and analyzed using thematic analysis. Four primary themes were identified detailing the experiences and challenges of forensic-based PS: Experiences of PS from SU perspective; Experiences of PS from PSW perspective; Contrasting care: Addressing the "Us and them" divide, and Further service development. Recommendations identified for progressing PS center on integration improvements, increasing the variety of peer-led interventions, and incorporating PS's "flexible" nature into traditional models of care. Further action is needed to develop and embed PS in forensic care, including guidance for the development of strategies and policy, and direction for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investigations of face identification have typically focussed on matching faces to photographic IDs. Few researchers have considered the task of searching for a face in a crowd. In Experiment 1, we created the Chokepoint Search Test to simulate real-time search for a target. Performance on this test was poor (39% accuracy) and showed moderate associations with tests of face matching and memory. In addition, trial-level confidence predicted accuracy, and for those participants who were previously familiar with one or more targets, higher familiarity was associated with increased accuracy. In Experiment 2, we found improvements in performance on the test when three recent images of the target, but not three social media images, were displayed during searches. Taken together, our results highlight the difficulties inherent in real-time searching for faces, with important implications for those security personnel who carry out this task on a daily basis.

Coping with increasing demand with limited capacity in a highly specialised service requires innovation. This review explores the impact of patient-initiated follow up, arguing that the introduction of this model has been highly effective in the management of patients with Behҫet's syndrome, a lifelong relapsing and remitting auto-inflammatory disease, at one national centre in the UK. Allowing patients to self-direct their care through patient-initiated follow up has resulted in an engaged and empowered cohort that values clinical review when required. Access to rapid in-person assessment when needed was found to be highly appreciated by patients at the centre, while also facilitating prompt recognition and management of flare ups, which reduced the incidence of life-changing or life-threatening events. The author believes that patient-initiated follow up could be embedded into any specialised service, releasing appointment slots so that new patient referrals or safety reviews can be expedited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the relationship between the dispositions toward research that writing teachers convey through their assignments and those that their students express in their reflective writing. We applied the term "problem-exploring" to a set of dispositions described by the ACRL Framework and coded each clause of instructor assignment text and student reflective writing from six FYW sections, half of which were working with a librarian to incorporate core concepts from the Framework. We found a strong correlation between the proportion of instructors' problem-exploring assignment language and students' expressions of problem-exploring at end of term. The rates of problem-exploring were significantly higher for instructors and students in sections working with the Framework. Our results offer a new lens through which to view research-assignment design, provide evidence of how assignments can foster problem-exploring, and support the value of pedagogical collaboration with librarians.

Accurate estimates of fecundity and spawn timing are essential to fisheries management but can be difficult to obtain in nonaggregating broadcast-spawning species such as the commercially harvested sea cucumber Parastichopus californicus. Individuals of P. californicus collected from Southeast Alaska (SEAK) over 3 y were examined to determine the timing of spawning based on seasonal variations in gonad indices (GI). Gonad indices measured at different time points in the annual reproductive cycle were compared with gonad lipid content and egg development to validate GI as an indicator of gonad maturation. Fecundity was estimated as the total number of eggs and as the number of viable eggs produced in both live-spawned and strip-spawned animals. Results suggest spawning may occur slightly earlier than previously reported in British Columbia, Canada, where fecundity was about two times higher than in SEAK. Seasonal changes in gonad total lipid and maturation stage were recorded. Gonad index was moderately correlated with both gonad lipid content and maturation stage. Estimates of total fecundity and viable eggs based on live spawning did not significantly differ among the 3 y sampled. Live spawning yielded comparable estimates of total fecundity and viable eggs per gram female wet weight compared with strip spawning. These findings inform aquaculture efforts and management of the commercially harvested SEAK population of P. californicus. KEY WORDS: Parastichopus californicus, fecundity, gonad indices, gonad lipid, holothurian fisheries, INTRODUCTION The California sea cucumber Parastichopus californicus (Stimpson, 1857) is the predominant species of sea cucumber commercially harvested on the North Pacific coast of the United States and Canada and [...]

RESULTS SGS-GPA cohort and characteristics There were 27 patients managed for SGS-GPA in the joint ENT vasculitis clinic between 1 January 2000 and 2 November 2020. Keywords: granulomatosis with polyangiitis; immunosuppression; subglottic dilatations; subglottic stenosis EN granulomatosis with polyangiitis immunosuppression subglottic dilatations subglottic stenosis 351 356 6 02/17/22 20220301 NES 220301 Key points Subglottic stenosis (SGS) is the commonest tracheobronchial manifestation of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), with early recognition and treatment key to preventing its vasculitic progression and fibrosis. Our management strategy emphasised rapid SGS-GPA treatment with limited surgical manipulation of the airway and systemic immunosuppression (IS) to prevent evolution of SGS and concurrent systemic vasculitic relapse. [Extracted from the article]

Not all Resident Assistants experience burnout; however, the numerous responsibilities, conflicting roles, and other demands of a 24-hour-per-day job combined with their own schoolwork make RAs particularly vulnerable. Participants (N=57) completed a questionnaire and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Findings suggest that RAs on first-year floors are at greatest risk. (EMK)

Matching two different images of an unfamiliar face is difficult, although we rely on this process every day when proving our identity. Although previous work with laboratory photosets has shown that performance is error-prone, few studies have focussed on how accurately people carry out this matching task using photographs taken from official forms of identification. In Experiment 1, participants matched high-resolution, colour face photos with current UK driving licence photos of the same group of people in a sorting task. Averaging 19 mistaken pairings out of 30, our results showed that this task was both difficult and error-prone. In Experiment 2, highresolution photographs were paired with either driving licence or passport photographs in a typical pairwise matching paradigm. We found no difference in performance levels for the two types of ID image, with both producing unacceptable levels of accuracy (around 75%-79% correct). The current work benefits from increased ecological validity and provides a clear demonstration that these forms of official identification are ineffective and alternatives should be considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spatial distributions of fished species must be well characterized to avoid local depletions, identify critical habitat, and predict and mitigate interactions with other fisheries. The Bristol Bay red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) fishery is one of the largest crab fisheries in Alaska. Summer crab distributions have been well documented by decades of bottom trawl surveys. However, crab movement and distribution are poorly understood outside the summer survey period, which creates several management challenges. One important component of fishery management is the existence of no-trawl zones, which are intended to protect crab from bottom trawl fisheries. However, it is difficult to evaluate the placement of no-trawl zones, because most crab bycatch occurs in trawl fisheries during winter when crab distributions are unknown. Daily fishing logs, kept by skippers in the red king crab fleet since 2005, contain detailed information on the spatial distribution of catch and effort of legal sized male crab during the autumn crab fishery. However, data contained in these hand-written logbooks have not been readily accessible. We digitized daily fishing logs from 2005 to 2016 and used spatial information on catch and effort to infer geographic distributions of legal sized male king crab during the crab fishing season. Changes in distribution were tracked across this 12-yr period and comparisons were made between warm and cold temperature regimes. In warm years (2005, 2014–2016), crab aggregated in the center of Bristol Bay, Alaska, while in cold years (2007–2013) they were closer to the Alaska Peninsula. The majority of crab were caught in no-trawl areas (63.4% on average), but variations occurred among years and with temperature regime (40.0–86.8% in no-trawl zones). As temperatures continue to shift in the Bering Sea, it will be important to continue monitoring crab distributions outside the summer survey period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Studies of host‐associated microbes are critical for advancing our understanding of ecology and evolution across diverse taxa and ecosystems. Nematode worms are ubiquitous across most habitats on earth, yet little is known about host‐associated microbial assemblages within the phylum. Free‐living nematodes are globally abundant and diverse in marine sediments, with species exhibiting distinct buccal cavity (mouth) morphologies that are thought to play an important role in feeding ecology and life history strategies. Here, we investigated patterns in marine nematode microbiomes, by characterizing host‐associated microbial taxa in 281 worms isolated from a range of habitat types (deep‐sea, shallow water, methane seeps, Lophelia coral mounds, kelp holdfasts) across three distinct geographic regions (Arctic, Southern California and Gulf of Mexico). Microbiome profiles were generated from single worms spanning 33 distinct morphological genera, using a two‐gene metabarcoding approach to amplify the V4 region of the 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene targeting bacteria/archaea and the V1–V2 region of the 18S rRNA gene targeting microbial eukaryotes. Contrary to our expectations, nematode microbiome profiles demonstrated no distinct patterns either globally (across depths and ocean basins) or locally (within site); prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial assemblages did not correlate with nematode feeding morphology, host phylogeny or morphological identity, ocean region or marine habitat type. However, fine‐scale analysis of nematode microbiomes revealed a variety of novel ecological interactions, including putative parasites and symbionts, and potential associations with bacterial/archaeal taxa involved in nitrogen and methane cycling. Our results suggest that in marine habitats, free‐living nematodes may utilize diverse and generalist foraging strategies that are not correlated with host genotype or feeding morphology. Furthermore, some abiotic factors such as geographic region and habitat type do not appear to play an obvious role in structuring host–microbe associations or feeding preferences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study on the process of articulating and coming in terms with the experience of miscarriage online and relation of the same with the narrative identity of women. Authors suggest that modern tools provide better means to express the feeling and enable sustaining multiple narrative threads to express better women's feelings regarding miscarriages. The authors discuss communities on the Internet like Facebook, Wordpress and BabyCenter.com affect selfpresentation as well.

In this paper, the author attempts to analyze a distinct library controlled vocabulary. Chiropractic Subject Headings (ChiroSH), in the greater context of the history of medical literature and medical subject headings, the history of chiropractic clinical practice and chiropractic literature, and its use in the Index to Chiropractic Literature (ICL) in particular. Using a variety of sources including journal articles and interviews with ICL indexers, chiropractic librarians, and the current editors of ChiroSH, the author intends to demonstrate the value in developing specialized controlled vocabularies for areas of medical knowledge that go beyond the scope of MeSH, to ultimately enhance the research of students, faculty, practitioners, and the curious. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mutation of story that takes place between Woolf's 1925 novel and Cunningham's in 1998 reveals differences in how a novel operates in the cultural context of postmodernism. One of the key elements being adjusted in this particular adaptation is an approach to identity. This article considers how treatments of subjectivity resonate with the workings and contexts of the narratives in which they appear. The boundaries of the subject in Mrs. Dalloway locate an epistemological, modernist quest at the center of the novel. The three story lines of The Hours give us fictional characters constructed not only differently from those in Woolf, but differently from each other. It is in Cunningham's departure from a coherent representation of the subject that his novel becomes more radically postmodern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Although polychaetes are one of the dominant taxa in marine communities, their distributions and taxonomic diversity are poorly understood. Recent studies have shown that many species thought to have broad distributions are actually a complex of allied species. In Canada, 12% of polychaete species are thought to occur in Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific Oceans, but the extent of gene flow among their populations has not been tested. Methodology/Principal Findings: Sequence variation in a segment of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene was employed to compare morphological versus molecular diversity estimates, to examine gene flow among populations of widespread species, and to explore connectivity patterns among Canada's three oceans. Analysis of 1876 specimens, representing 333 provisional species, revealed 40 times more sequence divergence between than within species (16.5% versus 0.38%). Genetic data suggest that one quarter of previously recognized species actually include two or more divergent lineages, indicating that richness in this region is currently underestimated. Few species with a tri-oceanic distribution showed genetic cohesion. Instead, large genetic breaks occur between Pacific and Atlantic-Arctic lineages, suggesting their long-term separation. High connectivity among Arctic and Atlantic regions and low connectivity with the Pacific further supports the conclusion that Canadian polychaetes are partitioned into two distinct faunas. Conclusions/Significance: Results of this study confirm that COI sequences are an effective tool for species identification in polychaetes, and suggest that DNA barcoding will aid the recognition of species overlooked by the current taxonomic system. The consistent geographic structuring within presumed widespread species suggests that historical range fragmentation during the Pleistocene ultimately increased Canadian polychaete diversity and that the coastal British Columbia fauna played a minor role in Arctic recolonization following deglaciation. This study highlights the value of DNA barcoding for providing rapid insights into species distributions and biogeographic patterns in understudied groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the model of the family in the African and Caribbean community in the modernist narrative of Mayse Conde. Problem of identity in Faulkner's fiction; Possibility of narrative coherence; Faulkner's models for family narrative; Characterization in Conde's short stories; Pays mele as an example of the possibility of the family metaphor as a model for an `engaged' community.

Focuses on the implication of biology and cultural traditions for human infanticidal behavior. Genetic aspects of infanticidal behavior; Classification of human infanticide; Ancestral influences of infanticidal behavior.

Interspecies differences in dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD), the initial and rate-limiting enzyme in pyrimidine degradation, were assessed in cytosol from livers isolated from human, monkey, dog, rat, and mouse. Hepatic DPD activity was measured by an HPLC assay with on-line radioactivity detection, using [sup 14] C-5-fluorouracil as a substrate. Activity was highly variable within each species and significant interspecies differences in liver DPD activity were observed. The order of activity was mouse > rat > human > dog ≥ cynomolgus monkey > rhesus monkey. These data suggest that careful selection must be made when choosing in vivo models of human DPD for the preclinical development of novel fluoropyrimidine anticancer agents and DPD inhibitors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on the response of the community nursing workforce to the COVID-19 pandemic in Great Britain as of March 2021. Topics include the declining COVID-19 infections and deaths in the country, the measures being adopted like the lockdown stay-at-home guidelines and national vaccination programmes, and the challenges in fighting the disease like staff and personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages.

A correction is presented to the article "The Coral Core Microbiome Identifies Rare Bacterial Taxa as Ubiquitous Endosymbionts."