An evaluation of youth mental health first aid training with law enforcement officers.

Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training has been adopted across the United States to teach adults how to identify and respond to youth mental health challenges and crises. Evaluations of YMHFA have yet to be undertaken with law enforcement populations, although agencies and officers are participating in the training. The present study implemented and evaluated YMHFA with law enforcement officers ( = 446) across a southeastern state.

Characterization of the ZCTs, a subgroup of Cys2-His2 zinc finger transcription factors regulating alkaloid biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus.

The C. roseus ZCTs are jasmonate-responsive, can be induced by CrMYC2a, and can act as significant regulators of the terpenoid indole alkaloid pathway when highly expressed. Catharanthus roseus is the sole known producer of the anti-cancer terpenoid indole alkaloids (TIAs), vinblastine and vincristine.

Testing the Impact of a Law Enforcement-Operated Co-responder Program for Youths: A Quasi-Experimental Approach.

Objective: The authors examined whether use of a co-responder program reduced the likelihood of an involuntary commitment examination as the disposition of a police encounter with youths experiencing a mental health crisis and 1 year after the initial incident.

Methods: Using a quasi-experimental design, the authors compared 206 incidents that involved the co-response program with 327 incidents that did not involve the program. Propensity score matching was used to balance groups on demographic and incident characteristics.

Mechanisms of Spirodela polyrhiza tolerance to FGD wastewater-induced heavy-metal stress: Lipidomics, transcriptomics, and functional validation.

Unlike terrestrial angiosperm plants, the freshwater aquatic angiosperm duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza) grows directly in water and has distinct responses to heavy-metal stress. Plantlets accumulate metabolites, including lipids and carbohydrates, under heavy-metal stress, but how they balance metabolite levels is unclear, and the gene networks that mediate heavy-metal stress responses remain unknown. Here, we show that heavy-metal stress induced by flue gas desulfurization (FGD) wastewater reduces chlorophyll contents, inhibits growth, reduces membrane lipid biosynthesis, and stimulates membrane lipid degradation in S.

Effector Repertoire of the Sweetpotato Black Rot Fungal Pathogen .

In 2015, sweetpotato producers in the United States experienced one of the worst outbreaks of black rot recorded in history, with up to 60% losses reported in the field and packing houses and at shipping ports. Host resistance remains the ideal management tool to decrease crop losses. Lack of knowledge of biology represents a critical barrier for the deployment of resistance to black rot in sweetpotato.