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Government policy responses to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), especially social distancing measures, have generated speculation on behavioral health effects, including interpersonal violence, domestic violence, and child abuse.1 We investigated the association between COVID-19 lockdown and emergency department (ED) visits for violence-related injuries in Cardiff, Wales, using detailed violence screening for all ED patients.2 We hypothesized that lockdown measures would decrease violence outside the home but would increase violence at home.

The Madden‐Julian Oscillation (MJO), an eastward‐moving disturbance near the equator (±30°) that typically recurs every ∼30–90 days in tropical winds and clouds, is the dominant mode of intraseasonal variability in tropical convection and circulation and has been extensively studied due to its importance for medium‐range weather forecasting. A previous statistical diagnostic of SABER/TIMED observations and the MJO index showed that the migrating diurnal (DW1) and the important nonmigrating diurnal (DE3) tide modulates on MJO‐timescale in the mesosphere/lower thermosphere (MLT) by about 20%–30%, depending on the MJO phase. In this study, we address the physics of the underlying coupling mechanisms using SABER, MERRA‐2 reanalysis, and SD‐WACCMX. Our emphasis was on the 2008–2010 time period when several strong MJO events occurred. SD‐WACCMX and SABER tides show characteristically similar MJO‐signal in the MLT region. The tides largely respond to the MJO in the tropospheric tidal forcing and less so to the MJO in tropospheric/stratospheric background winds. We further quantify the MJO response in the MLT region in the SD‐WACCMX zonal and meridional momentum forcing by separating the relative contributions of classical (Coriolis force and pressure gradient) and nonclassical forcing (advection and gravity wave drag [GWD]) which transport the MJO‐signal into the upper atmosphere. Interestingly, the tidal MJO‐response is larger in summer due to larger momentum forcing in the MLT region despite the MJO being most active in winter. We find that tidal advection and GWD forcing in MLT can work together or against each other depending on their phase relationship to the MJO‐phases., Key Points SABER and SD‐WACCMX diurnal temperature tides show a statistically similar response connected to the tropospheric Madden‐Julian OscillationTropospheric radiative and latent heating is more important in forcing the tidal MJO‐response than tropo/stratospheric wind‐filteringCoriolis, pressure gradient, advection, and gravity wave drag forcing are the important mechanisms in the MLT region for tidal MJO‐response

It is well established in the literature that pica displayed by individuals with developmental disabilities is most likely to be maintained by automatic reinforcement. However, there is a need for additional research regarding interventions that emphasize skill acquisition by teaching individuals with automatically maintained pica, multiple alternative behaviors to reduce the occurrence of this behavior. For the current study, pica emitted by three participants with developmental disabilities was targeted for assessment and treatment. Results of a functional behavioral assessment, which included a functional analysis, showed each participant’s pica was maintained by automatic reinforcement. Treatment was individualized for each participant, but primarily focused on response interruption and redirection, as well as differentially reinforcing alternative behaviors such as discarding and vacuuming potential pica items. After thinning the schedule of reinforcement for each participant, treatment was generalized across settings and people. Overall, low rates of pica were maintained over time for all participants.

s Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships(MAPP) becomes increasingly important for community^public health practice, it is critical to examine whatlearning MAPP entails as well as its barriers and benefits.Competency-based education and training interventions thatprepare public health workers to effectively contribute to theimplementation of MAPP in fheir communifies face significantobstacles. Current public health education and training programsare poorly positioned to enhance MAPP-related competenciesamong significant numbers of public health students andworkers. Establishing the communify as the classroom forlearning MAPP and forging links wifh professional education andlifelong professional development strategies are necessary forMAPP fo be successful in promoting healthy communifies.KEY WORDS: health departments, MAPP, public healthworkforce, trainingAs demonstrated throughout this special issue of thejournal, the Mobilizing for Action through Planningand Partnerships (MAPP) offers a framework for re-forming and advancing community public health prac-tice. Essential to this framework are strategies and toolsthat many public health professionals will need to mas-ter. MAPP looms as a virtual operating system forcommunity-wide health improvement activities, some-what analogous to the Microsoft and Apple operat-ing systems that power today's computers. Perhaps theLinux approach to computer operating systems is a bet-ter analogy, as it, like MAPP, employs an open-endedstrategy and encourages users to add enhancementsthat may benefit subsequent users. In any event, just ascomputer operating systems improve as new versionsreplace older ones, learning MAPP and its successorprocesses will become an ongoing challenge for current