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This article seeks to determine the effectiveness of rehabilitation counseling in the
adjustment to disability process of returning Iraq and Afghanistan military service members with
disabilities. Psychosocial adaptation to disability is the process by which individuals respond to
changes (e.g., functional, psychological, social) that occur subsequent to the onset of disability or
chronic illness (Bishop, 2005). The ultimate goal of rehabilitation counseling, as it relates to
psychosocial adaptation to disability, is to help clients achieve a state of overall adjustment
whereby they move beyond physical losses to value existing abilities (Livneh & Antonak, 1997;
Wright, 1983). Veterans are one of the groups that benefit from rehabilitation counseling.
Approximately 2.2 million U.S. military personnel have deployed as part of the Iraq and
Afghanistan operations (Institute of Medicine March 2013 Report). It is estimated that for every
military personnel killed in these wars, there are at least sixteen wounded, and many will return
to the United Sates with some type of disability (Frain, 2010). Rehabilitation counselors work in
numerous Department of Veterans Affairs settings: rehabilitation hospitals, outpatient clinics,
and Veteran Benefits Administration’s Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Program
(Patterson, 2009). Through these services, rehabilitation counselors assist veterans with
disabilities to prepare for and find jobs, or improve the quality of their lives. The research will
explore the correlation between injured veterans’ adjustment to disability levels and participation
in rehabilitation services. In this ongoing research the data is being collected through an internet
survey.

My paper critically examines the U.S. home health aide industry through a feminist analysis of
the relationships between home health aides, their patients, and the medical establishment. This
research adds to current feminist scholarship on care work by focusing on the social, legal and
personal relationships impacting the lives of those who give and receive care. According to the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, home health aides are one of the lowest paid members of the
healthcare field, and hiring agencies expect high turnover rates and few long-term careers. Aides
provide basic care services such as bathing, dressing, and meal preparation for elderly and
disabled clients. This industry is situated at the boundary between the public/private divide,
leading to many challenges as paid care work is performed in private homes. Historically, care
work was an expected duty done freely by the women of the family, but today much of the vital
intimate caring labor is relegated to a workforce made up predominantly of immigrant and
women of color. I add to feminist debates on gender and caregiving using intersectional analysis
and standpoint theory; discussing how race and class impact women’s ability to care for their
own families as they are paid very little caring for others. I address the implications for the
medical establishment to promote sustainable caring relationships between care recipients and
providers, and conclude that caring for the caregiver is essential in order to ensure a successful
model for patient care.

This study investigates the effects of energy price shocks on exchange rate volatility in
five major energy-producing countries Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, and Norway. There are
noticeable differences in the behavior of the exchange rate between emerging markets and
advanced economies. Russia and Brazil exhibit different patterns from those of Canada and
Norway in the direction and magnitude of conditional exchange rate volatility. The R2 for Russia
and Brazil more than doubles when oil prices are incorporated into the fundamental model, but it
increases only slightly for Canada and Norway. Our VAR analysis indicates that a one-standarddeviation
increase in oil prices causes all currencies to appreciate after the shock, but the postshock
adjustment process is relatively short in Norway and Canada and longer in Russia, Brazil,
and Mexico. Our empirical analysis further reveals that there is evidence for positive
overshooting in Russia and Brazil, and negative overshooting in Canada and Mexico. The
asymmetric behavior of exchange rate volatility among countries seems to be related to the
efficiency of financial and foreign exchange markets rather than to the importance of oil
revenues in an economy.

Loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles are often caught as longline bycatch in fisheries
worldwide. These species of sea turtle differ greatly in life history, morphology, and the ways
they are hooked. Leatherbacks tend to be “foul hooked,” externally in the shoulder or flippers,
while loggerheads tend to be hooked in the mouth or they swallow the bait so that hooking is
internal esophagus or stomach. The numbers of loggerheads and leatherbacks caught decreased
after changes in gear, bait and time of sets. However the proportion of leatherback mouth
hookings increased while foul hooking decreased. We described and compared prey approach
and attack behavior of both species in the presence and absence of visual targets. Waterborne
squid and jellyfish odors were used to elicit feeding behavior in the two species. Visual targets
were necessary to elicit biting. Loggerheads approach their prey with the mouth wide open, have
exceptionally good aim and usually bite their intended target. This accuracy is consistent with
the mouth and internal hooking. Leatherbacks frequently overshoot, miss their intended target
then have to re-approach the target multiple times before making contact. Leatherback feeding
behavior is disrupted easily if the body or flippers are touched during prey approach. This reapproach
behavior may make leatherbacks more prone snagging on lines rigged with J-hooks.
The shift by some fisheries to circle hooks, which are less prone to snagging, by give the
leatherbacks multiple chances to attack the bait and ingest it without getting hooked externally.

Microbreweries are one of the fastest growing industries within the United States.
According to Brewer’s Association, the number of craft brewers increased from 8 in 1980 to
over 1500 in 2012. Prior to the 1970’s, light lagers were the only type of beer available in the
United States. Homebrewing began as a way to explore different beer styles that national brand
brewers had previously ignored. As the popularity of these homebrews began to grow, the
number of microbreweries greatly increased throughout the United States. South Florida in
particular has witnessed a substantial expansion in the microbrewery industry. This study
explored four craft brewers in Palm Beach and Broward County, Florida. Why does this two
county area need more than one brewery? During the course of the research, four themes
emerged: a sense of identity, a sense of place, a sense of community, and the power of
transformation. Microbreweries appear to be a part of a growing trend towards “neolocalism,” or
the conscious and active ways people reject a homogenized culture. Studies of microbreweries
add to our understanding of the ways South Florida embraces the unique and authentic. Since
each brewery is unique, that experience of the “neolocal” can only be had at each individual
microbrewery. Further work is necessary to determine if the sense of place and sense of
community is apparent at microbreweries throughout the state, or the “neolocal” is a regional
phenomenon confined to South Florida

Dry-cast reinforced concrete pipes (D-C-RCP) have been used as drainage pipes by the
Florida Department of Transportation and other DOTs in the United States. Corrosion of the
steel reinforcement embedded in concrete is a major economic burden for bridges and other
structures subjected to de-icing salts, or harsh marine environments. This study investigates the
corrosion propagation of instrumented specimens obtained from segments of two types of D-CRCPs
(Types F and C). The objectives of this study are to better understand the mechanism of
corrosion propagation in D-C-RCPs and to identify the factors that affect the corrosion
propagation. Potential, depolarization, linear polarization resistance (LPR) and electrochemical
impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements were carried out to monitor the corrosion condition
and the mechanistic properties of the reinforcement. A galvanostatic approach was used to
accelerate the chloride transport to the steel surface until corrosion initiated. Once the specimen
was declared active, the electric field was suspended. For ~250 days, the corrosion was
monitored in the laboratory environment. The specimens were then transferred to a high
humidity chamber and anodically polarized with a galvanostat to accelerate the corrosion
propagation. The specimens were disconnected every two weeks to perform depolarization, LPR
and EIS measurements. In the high humidity environment, type F specimens are exhibiting a
higher corrosion rate most likely due to the smaller concrete cover allowing the chlorides to
reach the steel rebar surface quicker and reach a higher chloride concentration. Results will be
compared with conventional gravimetric weight loss measurements.

The visual cortex of higher mammals, including humans, is arranged as to achieve a
continuously varying map of features such as the orientation of contours in the environment.
Previous studies used intrinsic signal and two-photon imaging to examine the functional
composition of these cortical maps, but lacked the functional resolution to resolve the underlying
synaptic architecture. Here, we exploited recent advances in genetically encoded calcium
indicators to perform in vivo two photon imaging of dendrites and dendritic spines in an animal
with a mapped visual cortex. We found sharp orientation and direction tuning when we presented
drifting gratings and imaged synaptic calcium transients from large numbers of dendritic spines
in single neurons, obtaining synaptic maps of orientation preference. In addition, we
implemented a newly developed two-photon microscope that uses acousto-optical deflectors to
rapidly steer a pulsed laser in three dimensions. This technology allowed us to image 320 single
cells in an 800x800x200 micron three-dimensional volume, which yielded a three-dimensional
orientation map with single-cell resolution. In the future, we will perform fast, three-dimensional
imaging of a single cell and its entire dendritic tree to monitor functional properties of a cell’s
inputs and its somatic spiking output. These experiments will yield important insight into
synaptic integration and sensory processing in cortical maps and how such organizing principles
might be disrupted in disease states.

Cacospongia cf. linteiformis is a marine sponge collected from Bahamas possessing
various bioactive compounds. Two pairs of diastereomers spongianolides E&F were isolated for
the first time through function group modification acetylation, and their relative configurations
were determined based on Nuclear Overhauser Effect Spectroscopy NOESY. The mixture of
isomers of spongianolides E&F are exhibiting inhibition against Schnurri-3. Bioassays will be
repeated to unveil the assignment of the bioactivities for the four isomers.

Emotion and coordinated movement complimentarily depicts our social experiences.
How is motion colored? This study investigates variations in emotional responses during social
coordination. Subjects were instructed to coordinate their finger movement with a Virtual Partner
(VP), whose homologous movement was displayed as a video on the computer screen. The
partner was driven by the Haken-Kelso-Bunz equations, an empirically validated model that
captures behavioral and social coordination. It has been shown that people perceive VP as an
intentional human agent. In each of 80 trials, subjects coordinated for 8 sec inphase or antiphase
with VP, and then rated the partner’s intention (cooperation -VP intend same coordination
pattern as human-, or competition) and subjective response to a Turing test of partners’
humanness. VP cooperated for half of the time, and could change its intention in the middle of a
trial. Skin potential response (SPR) quantified the intensity of emotional responses. After
validating the SPR measurements, we compared emotional responses by coordination pattern,
cooperative~competitiveness, and humanness attribution. Subjects experienced higher emotional
responses when they believed that their partner was human. This was observed both during
coordination (ANOVA, p=0.020), and during rating (p=0.012). Furthermore during the rating
period, higher emotional responses were found for cooperative behavior (p=0.012), modulated
by VP’s change of intention and coordination pattern. This study suggests that emotional
responses are strongly influenced by features of the partner’s behavior associated with
humanness, cooperation and change of intention. Implications for mental health (e.g. autism) and
design of socially cooperative machines will be discussed.