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Objectives/Goals: The ITHS KL2 Seminar Fellows program creates a larger cohort by inviting additional early career faculty to join the tailored career development curriculum. The implementation of this program seeks to increase collaboration and innovation by amplifying diverse perspectives and increased networking. Methods/Study Population: In addition to the funded KL2 Scholars awarded each year, 13–15 Seminar Fellows are invited to be full participants in the KL2 curriculum, which includes monthly career development seminars and opportunities for feedback on their research. Invited Fellows are early career investigators who were promising KL2 applicants, faculty with alternative career development funding, and/or new underrepresented faculty in Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. Fellows commit to one year of participation, which can be renewed on a case-by-case basis. Fellows have been integrated into the ITHS implementation of Flight Tracker (Vanderbilt) to follow the career pathways alongside funded KL2 award recipients. Results/Anticipated Results: The key measures of success will be the rate of seminar fellows transitioning into K-level or similar career development awards and securing other subsequent funding. Preliminary data demonstrates significant collaborations between KL2 Scholars with different areas of scientific inquiry and promotion of at least half of our past KL2 Scholars into leadership positions at prestigious medical schools in the USA and Canada. We suspect that the trends evidenced by the career progression of early KL2 recipients will be expanded into newer and different translational research projects with the addition of the KL2 Fellows program. Discussion/Significance of Impact: The Seminar Fellows program presents a cost-effective way to increase the impact of an existing career development program by amplifying cross-boundary interactions to form a strong, diverse translational research workforce.
The substantively rational value of the games studied in this paper does not help predict subject performance in the experiment at all. An accurate model must account for the cognitive ability of the people playing the game. This paper investigates whether the variation in measured rationality bounds is correlated with the probability of winning when playing against another person in games that exceed both players’ estimated rationality bound. Does seeing deeper into a game matter when neither player can see to the end of the game? Subjects with higher measured bounds win 63 percent of the time and the larger the difference the more frequently they win.
Despite having the same underlying genetic etiology, individuals with the same syndromic form of intellectual developmental disability (IDD) show a large degree of interindividual differences in cognition and IQ. Research indicates that up to 80% of the variation in IQ scores among individuals with syndromic IDDs is attributable to nongenetic effects, including social-environmental factors. In this narrative review, we summarize evidence of the influence that factors related to economic stability (focused on due to its prevalence in existing literature) have on IQ in individuals with syndromic IDDs. We also highlight the pathways through which economic stability is hypothesized to impact cognitive development and drive individual differences in IQ among individuals with syndromic IDDs. We also identify broader social-environmental factors (e.g., social determinants of health) that warrant consideration in future research, but that have not yet been explored in syndromic IDDs. We conclude by making recommendations to address the urgent need for further research into other salient factors associated with heterogeneity in IQ. These recommendations ultimately may shape individual- and community-level interventions and may inform systems-level public policy efforts to promote the cognitive development of and improve the lived experiences of individuals with syndromic IDDs.
The Library of Congress is the premiere institution for research on the life and works of Leonard Bernstein. This chapter details how Bernstein’s relationship with the library was established, documents the donations he made to the library during his lifetime, and describes how the relationship with the Bernstein estate has continued to thrive. This chapter gives an overview of the richness of the library’s Leonard Bernstein Collection, one of the most exceptional in the Music Division in terms of the variety and scope of material it contains. In addition to documenting Bernstein’s work and creative process, the Bernstein Collection provides countless avenues of research for those studying music history, television history, education, the Civil Rights movement, LGBTQ+ topics, Jewish identity, and pop culture. The chapter also highlights relevant archival material found elsewhere in the Music Division’s collections, and connects readers with digitized collection material available on the Library of Congress website.
We performed a single-centre, retrospective study to assess physiologic changes of infants in the cardiac ICU while being held by their parent. Continuous data streaming of vital signs were collected for infants included in the study from January 2021 to March 2022. Demographic and clinical characteristics were collected from the electronic medical record. The physiologic streaming data were analysed using mixed-effects models to account for repeated measures and quantify the effect of parental holding. Comparison analysis was also performed controlling for intubation, pre-operative versus post-operative status, and whether the holding was skin-to-skin or not. Ninety-five patients with complete physiologic data were included in the study. There were no immediate adverse events associated with holding. Heart rate decreased during the response time compared to its baseline value (p = 0.01), and this decrease was more pronounced for the non-intubated and pre-operative patients. The near-infrared spectroscopy-based venous saturation increased overall (p = 0.02) in patients while being held. We conclude that parental holding of infants in the cardiac ICU can be safely accomplished, and the haemodynamic and oximetric profile during the holding is favourable compared to the infants’ baseline prior to holding.
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour of the heart is an exceedingly rare benign neoplasm. While benign, without prompt management its impact can be devastating. Tetralogy of Fallot with absent pulmonary valve is a rare form of CHD. We present the first documented case of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour of the heart in the presence of tetralogy of Fallot with absent pulmonary valve.
Gas turbine engines for aircraft applications are complex machines requiring advanced technology drawing from the disciplines of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, combustion, materials science, mechanical design, and manufacturing engineering. In the very early days of gas turbines, the combustor module was frequently the most challenging. Although the capability of the industry to design combustors has greatly improved, challenges still remain in the design of the combustor, and further innovations are required to reduce carbon emissions. Many companies in the aviation industry committed to a pathway to carbon-neutral growth and aspire to carbon-free future in 2008. Additionally, airframers have aggressive goals to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 50% by 2050 compared to those in 2005. Achieving these goals require technology advancements in all aspects of the aviation industry including airframers, engine manufactures fuel providers, and all the associated supply chains. The focus of this chapter is the influence of one module of the aircraft engine – the combustor.
Gas turbine engines for aircraft applications are complex machines requiring advanced technology drawing from the disciplines of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, combustion, materials science, mechanical design, and manufacturing engineering. In the very early days of gas turbines, the combustor module was frequently the most challenging. Although the capability of the industry to design combustors has greatly improved, challenges still remain in the design of the combustor, and further innovations are required to reduce carbon emissions. Many companies in the aviation industry committed to a pathway to carbon-neutral growth and aspire to carbon-free future in 2008. Additionally, airframers have aggressive goals to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 50% by 2050 compared to those in 2005. Achieving these goals require technology advancements in all aspects of the aviation industry including airframers, engine manufactures fuel providers, and all the associated supply chains. The focus of this chapter is the influence of one module of the aircraft engine – the combustor.
In fusion devices, the geometry of the confining magnetic field has a significant impact on the instabilities that drive turbulent heat loss. This is especially true of stellarators, where the density-gradient-driven branch of the ‘trapped electron mode’ (TEM) is predicted to be linearly stable if the magnetic field has the maximum-J property, as is very approximately the case in certain magnetic configurations of the Wendelstein 7-X experiment (W7-X). Here we show, using both analytical theory and simulations, that the benefits of the optimisation of W7-X also serve to mitigate ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) modes as long as an electron density gradient is present. We find that the effect indeed carries over to nonlinear numerical simulations, where W7-X has low TEM-driven transport, and reduced ITG turbulence in the presence of a density gradient, giving theoretical support for the existence of enhanced confinement regimes, in the presence of strong density gradients (e.g. hydrogen pellet or neutral beam injection).
After several years of hard-fought negotiations on a project co-founded and championed by it, the United States sent shockwaves through the international trade community by withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This chapter seeks to discuss the political environment in Washington, DC during the TPP’s negotiation and the failed attempt at shepherding it through to final fruition, taking care to explain the seemingly arcane way that trade agreements are implemented in the U.S. system. The authors map out the shifts in trade politics leading up to completion of the TPP, highlight a few of the more contentious substantive issues that arose along the way, and deliver a kind of post- mortem for the United States’ participation in the TPP, commenting briefly on the likelihood of a resumption of interest in the project in Washington, DC.
The goal of this chapter is to provide an overview and critique of the major theories in the cognitive neuroscience of intelligence. In taking a broad view of this literature, two related themes emerge. First, as might be expected, theoretical developments have generally followed improvements in the methods available to acquire and analyze neural data. In turn, as a result of these developments, along with those in the psychometric and experimental literatures, cognitive neuroscience theories of intelligence have followed a general trajectory that runs from relatively global statements early on, to increasingly precise models and claims. As such, following Haier (2016), it is perhaps most instructive to divide the development of these models into early and later phases.
Kinetic-ballooning-mode (KBM) turbulence is studied via gyrokinetic flux-tube simulations in three magnetic equilibria that exhibit small average magnetic shear: the Helically Symmetric eXperiment (HSX), the helical-axis Heliotron-J and a circular tokamak geometry. For HSX, the onset of KBM being the dominant instability at low wavenumber occurs at a critical value of normalized plasma pressure $\beta ^{\rm KBM}_{\rm crit}$ that is an order of magnitude smaller than the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) ballooning limit $\beta ^{\rm MHD}_{\rm crit}$ when a strong ion temperature gradient (ITG) is present. However, $\beta ^{\rm KBM}_{\rm crit}$ increases and approaches the MHD ballooning limit as the ITG tends to zero. For these configurations, $\beta ^{\rm KBM}_{\rm crit}$ also increases as the magnitude of the average magnetic shear increases, regardless of the sign of the normalized magnetic shear. Simulations of Heliotron-J and a circular axisymmetric geometry display behaviour similar to HSX with respect to $\beta ^{\rm KBM}_{\rm crit}$. Despite large KBM growth rates at long wavelengths in HSX, saturation of KBM turbulence with $\beta > \beta _{\rm crit}^{\rm KBM}$ is achievable in HSX and results in lower heat transport relative to the electrostatic limit by a factor of roughly five. Nonlinear simulations also show that KBM transport dominates the dynamics when KBMs are destabilized linearly, even if KBM growth rates are subdominant to ITG growth rates.
Habits are fundamental for embodied action. In order to contribute to an embodied account of habit formation, we will bring together the ontological approaches of William James (1842–1910), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961), and Nishida Kitarō (1870–1945). James treats habits as key to the mind, placing them at the center of his ontology. James argues that the laws of nature characterize immutable habits of matter, and that living things are “bundles of habits.” Likewise, habits play a central role in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. The “lived body,” which Merleau-Ponty often refers to as the “habit body,” determines the character of experience. Nishida argues, following James, that habits structure human behavior and exemplify the continuity of reality. Nishida's nondualism fuses the embodied subject and the ontological world using habits. This has important implications for an embodied theory of habits, and thus for embodied cognitive science. We conclude by exploring ways that Nishida's work Enactivism, and ecological psychology mutually benefit when explored together.
A new optimized quasi-helically symmetric configuration is described that has the desirable properties of improved energetic particle confinement, reduced turbulent transport by three-dimensional shaping and non-resonant divertor capabilities. The configuration presented in this paper is explicitly optimized for quasi-helical symmetry, energetic particle confinement, neoclassical confinement and stability near the axis. Post optimization, the configuration was evaluated for its performance with regard to energetic particle transport, ideal magnetohydrodynamic stability at various values of plasma pressure and ion temperature gradient instability induced turbulent transport. The effects of discrete coils on various confinement figures of merit, including energetic particle confinement, are determined by generating single-filament coils for the configuration. Preliminary divertor analysis shows that coils can be created that do not interfere with expansion of the vessel volume near the regions of outgoing heat flux, thus demonstrating the possibility of operating a non-resonant divertor.
The discussion and critical examination of poverty, child poverty and the impact of child poverty on school education in Scotland has intensified in recent years. This has been provoked by the increase in the level of poverty and a greater awareness of the effects of poverty and deprivation. The levels of child poverty have remained more stable but are still disturbingly high. Arguably, a more informed and nuanced understanding of the complexity of these issues has begun to emerge and influence public consciousness. There is now greater cognisance that children are dependents and are affected by the financial resource issues faced by their parents or carers. These challenges can include longterm unemployment or the cycle of ‘low pay, no pay’ (Thompson, 2015). There has been a rise in the level of working poverty in Scotland as the percentage of the workingage population in relative poverty has risen from 48% in 1996– 99 to 59% in 2014– 2017 (Scottish Government, 2019a). These challenges all lead to temporary or longerterm financial insecurity that impact on the lives of children and their readiness to participate in all social and academic aspects of school life.
There has also been an increased focus on research and the collation of information on child poverty and the impact of child poverty on school education. There are numerous ways to measure child poverty and deprivation and there is a substantial body of evidence on attainment and achievement (these will be discussed later in the chapter). There is also evidence that gender and disability are important factors that can be barriers to work and this has an effect on the household income (Congreve and McCormick, 2018). Around 40% of the children living in poverty are in a family with a disabled member, usually an adult. For half of these children, there is no adult working in the household. The children themselves may be the primary or sole carer for a disabled adult: there are approximately 44,000 young carers (young people under 18) in Scotland who care for a friend or a member of the family because of illness, disability, mental health or addiction (Scottish Government, 2018a).
OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Kidney transplant is superior to dialysis for the treatment of end-stage kidney disease, but accessing transplant requires high patient engagement. We sought to develop a group counseling intervention with patients and their social support members using an evidence-based, stakeholder-engaged approach. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: We employed an Intervention Mapping approach to incorporate qualitative data from stakeholders on barriers to accessing kidney transplant. Data were collected from 13 focus groups of African American (AA) and white adult kidney transplant candidates and their social support networks in Minnesota and Georgia. We completed this process through (1) qualitative data collection, (2) utilizing data and intervention mapping methods to develop a conceptual framework to describe associations between behavioral determinants and desired outcomes, and (3) using these products to identify evidence-based approaches to modify behavioral determinants through a theory based intervention. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Participants describe experiences of overwhelm, isolation, helplessness, and difficulty communicating. In addition, AA participants expressed distrust in the medical system. We systematically incorporated these themes into a conceptual model of behavior change that identifies determinants of necessary actions to obtain transplant, including knowledge, self-efficacy, reduced decisional conflict, and perception of social support. Evidence-based methods to modify these determinants, such as modeling, goal-setting, and mobilizing social support, were incorporated into the design of a group education and counseling intervention with an individualized risk calculator. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Intervention mapping allows for behavior change theories to be incorporated into counseling sessions with patients and their social support networks. This approach translates qualitative data into an evidence-based intervention which will be piloted in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to determine feasibility for a larger RCT.