Hosting and Human Rights: The Summer Olympics in the Twenty-First Century.

During the twenty-first century, Summer Olympic Games have been used to distract from, justify and push through acts of increased securitization, surveillance, and displacement of the host city populace. Situating sport within the field of International Relations, we outline these civil and human rights intrusions across successive Games. From Sydney 2000 to Rio de Janeiro 2016, we explicate the consequences, contestedness, and evolution of repressive techniques applied at each Games using theories of hegemony espoused by Antonio Gramsci, Robert W.

Recovery of DNA from SERATEC immunochromatographic PSA and saliva test strips.

There is an increased use of immunochromatographic test strips to presumptively identify bodily fluids of forensic interest, such as blood, semen, and saliva. Commonly, forensic samples are of low quantities. In the practice of conserving limited samples, it would be ideal to be able to recover the genetic material deposited on these testing membranes.

Technical note: presence of gunshot residue in and around a police station.

Previous studies on the transference of gunshot residue (GSR) have shown that GSR can be transferred to surfaces through everyday activities and can persist on surfaces. Being that all police departments operate differently and have different spaces, GSR can be transferred and accumulates in different areas. Samples were collected from persons and surfaces in and around the Scranton Police Department and tested by scanning electron microscopy to identify GSR.

Detection of prostate specific antigen and salivary amylase in vaginal swabs using SERATEC® immunochromatographic assays.

Immunochromatographic assays are used by crime laboratories to conduct simple and quick analyses of bodily fluids. These streamlined tests are ideal for decreasing the sexual assault kit backlog in the United States. A large-scale analysis of the frequency of positive results of amylase and prostate specific antigen (PSA) endogenously found in the vaginal cavity was conducted using the SERATEC PSA Semiquant and Amylase tests.

Development of a multiplex, PCR-based genotyping assay for African and Asian elephants for forensic purposes.

Wildlife crimes and the threats they present to elephant populations raise the need to develop and implement DNA-based methodology as an aid for wildlife forensic investigations and conservation efforts. This study describes the development of a tetra-nucleotide repeat STR multiplex, genotyping assay that will identify Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) and African elephant (Loxodonta africana) DNA. The assay targets six tetra-nucleotide STRs and two sex-typing markers simultaneously in both genera of elephants, a first for elephant genotyping assays.

ELEquant: a developmental framework and validation of forensic and conservation real-time PCR assays.

A framework for the development and validation of a qPCR assay for species identification and DNA quantification for conservation and forensic purposes is presented. Elephants are commonly poached for their ivory tusks, which is the primary driving force behind their endangered status. In addition to poaching and trade, habitat loss due to logging and mining has also resulted in loss of elephants.

Using synthetic oligonucleotides as standards in probe-based qPCR.

Real-time PCR (qPCR) is widely used in the life sciences. For quantifying DNA, a standard curve is required. Common methods for standard development are time consuming, costly, necessitate a specific skill set, and pose a contamination risk.

Helping Older Adults Sustain Their Physical Therapy Gains: A Theory-Based Intervention to Promote Adherence to Home Exercise Following Rehabilitation.

Background And Purpose: The benefits of exercise gained by older adults during physical therapy are often not maintained once the program is over. This lack of sustained benefits is thought to be partially the result of poor adherence to the prescribed home exercise program to be continued once therapy is completed. Most of what is known about older adults' adherence to physical therapy and home exercise comes from research seeking to identify and understand predictors of adherence, rather than trying to enhance adherence explicitly.

Male caregivers of spouses with Alzheimer's disease: risk factors and health status.

Caregiving for persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been shown to pose a challenge to the health of the spousal caregiver. Because most of the caregiving literature focuses on the female caregiver, there is some question about the generalizability of such literature to the male caregiver. This report focuses on male caregivers of spouses with AD and represents a subsample from a larger descriptive study that examined the relationship between risk factors and the health status of spousal caregivers.