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Selected AbstractsEvaluating a Survivors Group Pilot for Women with Significant Intellectual Disabilities who have been Sexually AbusedJOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, Issue 4 2007Nicholas Guy Peckham Background, Sexual abuse has been associated with trauma, low self-esteem, anger, depression and challenging behaviours. This pilot study builds on a small published literature by evaluating a survivors group (SG) for women with an intellectual disability and an educational support group (ESG) for their carers. Method, The SG was delivered weekly over 5 months for 20 sessions and the ESG ran concurrently for their seven carers in a separate room within the same community-based building. Participants were helped to build trust and rapport, provided with education about sexual abuse designed for their level of ability, and helped to reprocess the trauma of their sexual abuse. Results, Both the SG and the ESG were evaluated using a repeated-measures design (double baseline, mid-treatment, post-treatment and follow up), to see whether there was any improvement in relevant clinical dependent variables associated with the consequences of sexual abuse (i.e. trauma, self-esteem, anger, depression and challenging behaviour). Improvements occurred in sexual knowledge, trauma and depression. Neither self-esteem nor anger improved for most of the SG and challenging behaviour worsened at first before improving. Conclusions, The SG seemed to be successful in improving sexual knowledge and in reducing trauma and depression, although challenging behaviours worsened at first before improving. There is a need for more sexual abuse/sexual education groups for men and women with intellectual disabilities. [source] Reduction of ammonia emission from growing pig rooms by feeding a lower protein diet supplemented with apple pomaceANIMAL SCIENCE JOURNAL, Issue 6 2002Akemi YAMAMOTO ABSTRACT An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of supplementing a reduced crude protein (CP) diet with apple pomace on the ammonia emissions from growing pig rooms. Four pigs (45 kg BW) each were assigned to one of two diets. Each group was housed in a separate room and fed a standard diet (CP 16.6%) or a low CP, amino acid-supplemented diet (CP 9.1%) containing 23.1% of dried apple pomace for two 7-day experimental periods. After the completion of the first period, the pigs were switched to the other diet. The daily ammonia emissions, measured for 3 days after a 4-day adaptation period, were much lower for pigs fed the apple pomace-supplemented diet than for pigs fed the standard diet (0.47 g/pig vs 7.30 g/pig, respectively). The daily nitrogen intake for the standard diet and the apple pomace-supplemented diet was 58.1 and 35.5 g/pig, respectively. The pigs fed the apple pomace-supplemented diet excreted more fecal nitrogen than pigs fed the standard diet (17.5 g/day vs 11.0 g/day, respectively), but urinary nitrogen excretion with the apple pomace-supplemented diet was estimated to be 2.9 g/day, which was much lower than that for the standard diet (27.0 g/day). The addition of apple pomace to a reduced CP, amino acid-supplemented diet reduces urinary nitrogen excretion and thereby ammonia emission. [source] The Telework Tradeoff: Stress Mitigation vs.APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 2 2007Constrained Restoration As a coping strategy, telework may reduce stress from some sources; however, it may also undermine restorative functions of the home. Investigating this tradeoff between stress mitigation and the constraint of restoration, we analysed questionnaire data from 101 full-time Swedish governmental employees whose workplace relocated to another city. After the relocation, 58 employees performed , 20 per cent of their ordinary paid work at home. Coping with commuting and parenting demands frequently figured among reasons for teleworking. Having a separate room for telework appeared to ameliorate spatial but not temporal or mental overlap of work and non-work life. Teleworkers and non-teleworkers alike experienced the home more as a place of restoration than one of demands. Teleworking was reliably associated with restoration, conditional on gender; of those who teleworked, women reported less, and men more, effective restoration than their counterparts among non-teleworkers. Le télétravail, comme stratégie d'affrontement (coping), peut lutter contre le stress de diverses façons; mais il peut aussi miner les fonctions reconstituantes du foyer. Pour l'étude du compromis entre l'atténuation du stress et les contraintes du retour à l'état normal, nous avons analysé les réponses à un questionnaire rempli par 101 fonctionnaires suédois à plein-temps dont le travail a été délocalisé. A la suite de ce changement, 58 de ces agents réalisaient au moins 20% de leur tâche habituelle chez eux. Le télétravail était souvent vu comme une réponse aux exigences parentales et au transport pour aller à sur son lieu de travail. Le fait de disposer d'une pièce séparée réservée au télétravail améliorait le recouvrement spatial, mais pas les recouvrements temporel et psychologique des vies de travail,hors travail. Les télétravailleurs, aussi bien que ceux qui ne l'étaient pas, vivaient leur foyer plus comme un lieu de repos que de contraintes. Le télétravail était régulièrement liéà la remise en forme, mais parmi les télétravailleurs, les hommes témoignaient de plus et les femmes de moins de récupération effective que leurs homologues non télétravailleurs. [source] A newly designed and constructed 20 kHz magnetic field exposure facility for in vivo studyBIOELECTROMAGNETICS, Issue 1 2009Tsukasa Shigemitsu Abstract Exposure to man-made electromagnetic fields has increased over the past century. As a result of exposure to these fields, concerns have been raised regarding the relationship between electromagnetic fields and human health. Interest in the biological and health effects of intermediate frequency (IF) magnetic fields has grown recently because of the increase in public concern. In order to investigate whether IF magnetic fields have biological effects, we have developed a 20 kHz (IF) magnetic field exposure system for in vivo studies. The exposure facility was designed to study the biological effects of IF magnetic field on laboratory animals. The facility consists of a 9 m,×,9 m,×,5 m high room containing seven separate rooms including a 5.3 m,×,4.5 m,×,3 m high specific-pathogen free exposure room. The dimensions of the exposure system are 1.6 m,×,1.6 m,×,1.616 m high located inside this exposure room. The system is designed to provide magnetic fields up to 200 µT at 20 kHz with the uniformity within ±5% over the space occupied by animals. After constructing the facility, performance tests were carried out. As a result, it was confirmed that our facility met requirements for evaluation of the biological effects of IF magnetic field on small animal experiments. In this paper, the design, construction, and results of evaluation of an animal exposure facility for the in vivo biological effects of an IF magnetic field are described. Bioelectromagnetics 30:36,44, 2009. © 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] | ||||||||||