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It is an assumption that physically active adults lead an overall healthy lifestyle. To examine this assumption, we administered a cross-sectional, web-based survey to a sample of young-to-middle-aged US adults between 18 and 49 who self-reported participation in at least one recreational sporting event in the past month. Logistic regressions were conducted to examine demographic characteristics associated with cancer risk and protective behaviors. Gender was represented equally (N = 938), and the average age was 32 years (SD: 8.4). Most participants reported >three days of moderate- to high-intensity physical activity (79%), but not meeting fruit and vegetable consumption guidelines (78%). Many reported current tobacco use (32%), binge drinking at least once in the past 30 days (62%), and suboptimal sun protection use (67%). Participation in lifestyle-related cancer risk and protective behaviors varied based on age, sex, education, routine doctor visits, perceived overall health, health-information-seeking behavior (how participants obtained health information), or team-based sport participation in regression models. Future interventions should be tailored to address varied cancer risk profiles among even physically active adults to encourage multiple healthy behavior changes.

Student employment is a common co‐curricular activity among undergraduate students. Previous studies have primarily focused on the impact of employment on academic outcomes and post‐graduation labor market success. Although there is an assumption that on‐campus student employment influences leadership learning, there is a lack of research directly exploring this topic. Therefore, this study explores how on‐campus student employment influences leadership capacity development in undergraduate students who worked in a department in Student Affairs. Findings suggest that on‐campus student employment influenced leadership capacity development in undergraduate students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) first light instrument IRIS (Infrared Imaging Spectrograph) will complete its preliminary design phase in 2016. The IRIS instrument design includes a near-infrared (0.85-2.4 micron) integral field spectrograph (IFS) and imager that are able to conduct simultaneous diffraction-limited observations behind the advanced adaptive optics system NFIRAOS. The IRIS science cases have continued to be developed and new science studies have been investigated to aid in technical performance and design requirements. In this development phase, the IRIS science team has paid particular attention to the selection of filters, gratings, sensitivities of the entire system, and science cases that will benefit from the parallel mode of the IFS and imaging camera. We present new science cases for IRIS using the latest end-To-end data simulator on the following topics: Solar System bodies, the Galactic center, active galactic nuclei (AGN), and distant gravitationally-lensed galaxies. We then briefly discuss the necessity of an advanced data management system and data reduction pipeline.

“Queering Archives: A Roundtable Discussion” provides a reflection on histories of queer archives studies, while marking out some key directions for the field's future development. As a broad conversation about the career of the queer archival, as both intellectual project and political practice, this discussion focuses on developments and limits within North American queer studies of the archive, which emerges as a central object of analysis and is itself somewhat archived within the terms of the discussion. The roundtable discussion provides a sustained critical engagement with the profile of the queer archive as a site for radical struggles over historical knowledge, offering a renewed sense of the queer archive as a pertinent site for scholarship and politics across an array of orientations and tendencies.

In this article the author presents his reflection on the framing of mass queer television as a technology within the cultural politics of gender and sexuality; and, next, discusses the mass production of these representations in terms of the mass production of modes of intelligibility of LGBT subjects. To narrow the argument, he focuses his discussion on the representation of queer youth on television as a way of considering some of the specific features of this mass production.

Around 300 BC, Euclid wrote "The Elements", a major treatise on the geometry of the time, and what would be considered "geometry" for many years after. Arguably "The Elements" is the second most read book of the western world, falling short only to The Bible. In his book, Euclid states five postulates of geometry which he uses as the foundation for all his proofs. It is from these postulates we get the term Euclidean geometry, for in these Euclid strove to define what constitutes "flat-surface" geometry. These postulates are: (1) [It is possible] to draw a straight line from any point to any other; (2) [It is possible] to produce a finite straight line continuously in a straight line; (3) [It is possible] to describe a circle with any centre and distance [radius]; (4) That all right angles are equal to each other; and (5) That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than the two right angles.

This article reflects on historical homophobia within educational practice and administration as an effort to consider how we might promote dialogue around the queer past of schooling. Along the way, it provides some discussion of the significance of archival knowledge in helping us to develop an understanding of the past while also providing resources for making sense of the contemporary moment. To develop my argument, I illustrate some examples of historical homophobia, through a brief discussion of some education administration practices in Australia, I then move on to briefly consider some of the implications of historical homophobia, and its effects in relation to educational research, practice and administration today. In the final section of the paper, I discuss some of the ways in which we might address the queer past of education through a cultural politics of queer reparation.

Through an analysis of gay protest music (1975) and an educational kit for students (1978), both sponsored by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality in the UK, this paper brings into focus a history of gay rights activists' efforts to marshal popular culture in the development of informal sex education for young people in the second half of the 1970s. Through a reparative critique of prevailing therapeutic research methodologies, and through a theoretical deployment of notions of methodological reconciliation and queer breeding, it makes the case for the importance of historical methods in contemporary sex education research.

Introduction: MicroCT of the three-dimensional fascicular organization of the human vagus nerve provides essential data to inform basic anatomy as well as the development and optimization of neuromodulation therapies. To process the images into usable formats for subsequent analysis and computational modeling, the fascicles must be segmented. Prior segmentations were completed manually due to the complex nature of the images, including variable contrast between tissue types and staining artifacts. Methods: Here, we developed a U-Net convolutional neural network (CNN) to automate segmentation of fascicles in microCT of human vagus nerve. Results: The U-Net segmentation of ~500 images spanning one cervical vagus nerve was completed in 24 s, versus ~40 h for manual segmentation, i.e., nearly four orders of magnitude faster. The automated segmentations had a Dice coefficient of 0.87, a measure of pixel-wise accuracy, thus suggesting a rapid and accurate segmentation. While Dice coefficients are a commonly used metric to assess segmentation performance, we also adapted a metric to assess fasciclewise detection accuracy, which showed that our network accurately detects the majority of fascicles, but may under-detect smaller fascicles. Discussion: This network and the associated performance metrics set a benchmark, using a standard U-Net CNN, for the application of deep-learning algorithms to segment fascicles from microCT images. The process may be further optimized by refining tissue staining methods, modifying network architecture, and expanding the ground-truth training data. The resulting three-dimensional segmentations of the human vagus nerve will provide unprecedented accuracy to define nerve morphology in computational models for the analysis and design of neuromodulation therapies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 1979 Victorian state election, fundamentalist Christian groups such as the Citizens Against Social Evil launched a public campaign against the inclusion of homosexual content in secondary school education. And, on March 19, 1979, the Minister of Education's office sent out an order to all secondary school principals directing them "to ensure that copies of books seeking to foster homosexual behaviour are not available to children". Thirty years later, and at another Victorian state election, people see a different Minister of Education campaigning on an agenda that includes an increased focus on, and support for, sexual and gender diversity in education. This historical contrast raises a number of key questions too large for full discussion, including how can one describe the history of developments in ideas about sexuality and education in Victoria? What dominant ways of knowing sexuality and education have emerged through this history? And, what have been the implications of these emergent knowledges and their attendant practices on the contemporary conjunction of sexuality and education? In order to begin exploring these large and complex questions from the perspective of a more confined set of interests, the author reflects on the disciplinary basis of the contemporary teaching of sex and sexualities in Victorian schools. In particular, he argues for an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of sex and sexualities education which foregrounds historical curriculum content and he uses this argument as a way to speak to broader questions that are raised by the shifts in sex and sexualities education since 1979. (Contains 9 notes.)

This article offers a joint reading of two cultural texts that reflect the contest over victim-oriented characterizations of queer youth in contemporary culture. The first text is a representation of queer youth taken from the popular UK television series "Shameless" (2004). The second text is an online discussion about representations of gay and lesbian characters on television that was recently posted on the "Queer Youth Network" website. Through my reading of these two texts, I explore the rise of explicit mainstream representations of gay and lesbian characters and the emergence of an identifiable queer youth audience as key characteristics of the contemporary "after-queer" moment. Through a reflection on the queer youth analytical techniques observable on the "Queer Youth Network" site, I conclude by outlining some key implications for future educational research in the field of youth, sexuality and popular culture. (Contains 10 notes.)

Strengths-based approaches to research with military-connected children (MCC) are sparse and their voices are rarely given the equivalent weight and influence compared to the voices of adults. Recreational camps can promote positive outcomes, and this paper draws on qualitative participatory methods exploring MCCs perceptions of a one-week recreational camp. It revealed three key interrelated themes about MCCs experience: (1) relationships; (2) age; and (3) organization and scheduling. The findings support the potential of recreational camps to improve outcomes for MCC and the importance of including children's voices in the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Association mapping currently relies on the identification of genetic markers. Several technologies have been adopted for genetic marker analysis, with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) being the most popular where a reasonable quantity of genome sequence data are available. We describe several tools we have developed for the discovery, annotation, and visualization of molecular markers for association mapping. These include autoSNPdb for SNP discovery from assembled sequence data; TAGdb for the identification of gene specific paired read Illumina GAII data; CMap3D for the comparison of mapped genetic and physical markers; and BAC and Gene Annotator for the online annotation of genes and genomic sequences. Key words: SNP discovery, association mapping, comparative genomics, second generation genome sequencing. L'analyse d'association repose presentement sur l'identification de marqueurs genetiques. Plusieurs technologies ont ete employees pour l'analyse de marqueurs genetiques, les polymorphismes mononucleeotidiques (SNP) etant les plus populaires la oil une information genomique suffisante etait disponible. Les auteurs decrivent plusieurs outils qu'ils ont deeveloppees pour l'identification, l'annotation et la visualisation des marqueurs moleeculaires pour des fins d'analyse d'association. Ceux-ci incluent autoSNPdb pour l'identification de SNP au sein de donneees de sequence, TAGdb pour l'identification d'etiquettes specifiques d'un gene au sein de collections d'etiquettes de sequence Illumina GAII, CMap3D pour la comparaison de marqueurs genetiques et physiques, et un annotateur de clones BAC et de genes pour effectuer l'annotation automatiseedegenes et de sequences geenomiques. Mots-cles: identification de SNP, analyse d'association, genomique comparee, sequencjage genomique de seconde geeneration., Introduction Association mapping is being driven by changes in technology that permit the discovery of large numbers of genetic variants and the screening for these genetic variations across large populations. [...]

interview with MARY TOMSIC This conversation was conducted electronically between Daniel Marshall and Mary Tomsic as she backpacked around South-East Asia. DANIEL: Was it difficult to balance teaching with finishing [...]

It sometimes happens that teenage youth strives to show independence by adoption of some lifestyle different from that of his elders. Independence is good, but it seems to me that [...]

featuring STEVEN ANGELIDES, BRETT FARMER, ANNAMARIE JAGOSE, SHEILA JEFFREYS, FRAN MARTIN, GRAHAM WILLETT & AUDREY YUE. SEX WORK: AN INTRODUCTION In a national context of increased market liberalisation, scholarly research [...]

featuring MICHAEL CROWHURST, 'JANE', DANIEL MARSHALL, BRONWYN MCMAHON, RAY MISSON & JOEL WINDLE INTRODUCTION In the last twenty-five years or so there has been an increasing acknowledgment of the importance [...]

Quotidian 1. Everyday, commonplace. 2. Recurring daily: in full quotidian fever (a fever recurring every day). Queer 1. an umbrella term used to incorporate non-normative sexual practices, identifications and knowledges; [...]

Results show that Ru(sub)3(C))(sub)12 catalyzes the coupling reaction of aromatic C-H bonds present in phenyloxazolines, carbon monoxide, and olefins. Data indicate that an oxazoline ring is effective in directing carbonylation at a C-H bond in terms of site selectivity, like benzene ring, and reactivity.

Research was conducted to examine a one-step method for the preparation of heterobenzylic sulfonium salts derived from furan, thiophene and pyrrole. The novel sulfonium salts go through palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling with different organostannanes, organozinc halides and organobronic acids, in contrast to their corresponding halides. Results indicate that triphenyl phosphite, an effective supporting ligand that is not readily akylated, was uniquely effective as ligand in heterobenzylic cross-couplings.

Objective: It is increasingly recognized that patient safety requires heterogeneous insights from a range of stakeholders, yet incident reporting systems in health care still primarily rely on staff perspectives. This paper examines the potential of combining insights from patient complaints and staff incident reports for a more comprehensive understanding of the causes and severity of harm. Methods: Using five years of patient complaints and staff incident reporting data at a large multi-site hospital in London (in the United Kingdom), this study conducted retrospective patient-level data linkage to identify overlapping reports. Using a combination of quantitative coding and in-depth qualitative analysis, we then compared level of harm reported, identified descriptions of adjacent events missed by the other party and examined combined narratives of mutually identified events. Results: Incidents where complaints and incident reports overlapped (n = 446, reported in 7.6%' of all complaints and 0.6% of all incident reports) represented a small but critical area of investigation, with significantly higher rates of Serious Incidents and severe harm. Linked complaints described greater harm from safety incidents in 60% of cases, reported many surrounding safety events missed by staff (n = 582), and provided contesting stories of why problems occurred in 46% cases, and complementary accounts in 26% cases. Conclusions: This study demonstrates the value of using patient complaints to supplement, test, and challenge staff reports, including to provide greater insight on the many potential factors that may give rise to unsafe care. Accordingly, we propose that a more holistic analysis of critical safety incidents can be achieved through combining heterogeneous data from different viewpoints, such as through the integration of patient complaints and staff incident reporting data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]