Law enforcement and syringe services program implementation in rural counties in Kentucky: a qualitative exploration.

Background: Existing research in urban areas has documented a multitude of ways in which law enforcement may affect risks for bloodborne infectious disease acquisition among people who inject drugs (PWID), such as via syringe confiscation and engaging in practices that deter persons from accessing syringe services programs (SSPs). However, limited work has been conducted to explore how law enforcement may impact SSP implementation and operations in rural counties in the United States. This creates a significant gap in the HIV prevention literature given the volume of non-urban counties in the United States that are vulnerable to injection drug use-associated morbidity and mortality.

A Quantitative Analysis of Coral Snakes Reveals Unexpected Variation in Stereotyped Anti-Predator Displays Within a Mimicry System.

Warning signals in chemically defended organisms are critical components of predator-prey interactions, often requiring multiple coordinated display components for effective communication. When threatened by a predator, venomous coral snakes (genus ) display a vigorous, non-locomotory thrashing behavior that has previously been qualitatively described. Given the high contrast and colorful banding patterns of these snakes, this thrashing display is hypothesized to be a key component of a complex aposematic signal under strong stabilizing selection across species in a mimicry system.

Characterizing the limits of human stability during motion: perturbative experiment validates a model-based approach for the Sit-to-Stand task.

Falls affect a growing number of the population each year. Clinical methods to assess fall risk usually evaluate the performance of specific motions such as balancing or Sit-to-Stand. Unfortunately, these techniques have been shown to have poor predictive power, and are unable to identify the portions of motion that are most unstable.

Structural and Energetic Properties of Haloacetonitrile-BCl Complexes: Computations and Matrix-IR Spectroscopy.

The FCHCN-BCl and ClCHCN-BCl complexes were investigated by quantum-chemical computations and low-temperature, matrix-isolation-IR spectroscopy. Theory predicts two stable equilibrium structures, with distinctly different B-N distances, for both complexes. One set of structures, which correspond to the global energy minima, exhibit B-N distances of 1.

This new field of inclusive education: beginning a dialogue on conceptual foundations.

Numerous scholars have suggested that the standard knowledge base of the field of special education is not a suitable intellectual foundation for the development of research, policy, and practice in the field of inclusive education. Still, we have yet to have a dialogue on what conceptual foundations may be most generative for the growth and development of the field of inclusive education. This article imagines and initiates such a new dialogue among educational researchers and teacher educators about the intellectual resources that can best support inclusive educators everywhere.