Q88. How can I learn about experimental treatments for people with HIV? – Video


Q88. How can I learn about experimental treatments for people with HIV?
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Q87. Do prisoners have access to up-to-date HIV treatments?
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Stone Creek Psychotherapy named Cougar 100 company

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The University of Houston has ranked Stone Creek Psychotherapy among the top 100 outstanding businesses owned or led by high-achieving University of Houston alumni.

Stone Creek Psychotherapy features a highly trained behavioral science team, offering a wide array of assessments and therapies that help clients overcome obstacles and lead a more fulfilling life. Consistent with their NeuroSystemic approach, Stone Creek is one of the best equipped centers in the country. Services include wellness consultations and assessments, Neurofeedback, AD/HD services, addiction services, parenting and child-parent relationship therapy, play therapy, couples and family therapy, along with individual and group therapy. Stone Creek clinicians are passionate about their work and approach each case with a deep commitment to personal ethics.

Dianne Appolito, director and founding partner, is a University of Houston graduate with over 30 years of experience in the field of psychotherapy. She is a leading expert in assessing and treating AD/HD and works with adolescents, children, young adults, families and couples addressing college and career issues, behavioral problems and mood disorders, PTSD, OCD, domestic violence, depression and anxiety. Dianne developed a unique relationship model that guides couples through premarital work to create healthy relationships and supports couples who experience stumbling blocks or difficult relationships.

Dana Debes, Director and University of Houston graduate, has 20 years of experience bringing a working knowledge of psychiatric facilities to her private practice. Dana is a certified Supervisor for Social Work Advanced Certification and furthered her training to include the practice of EEG Neurofeedback, a non-invasive alternative to medication. She has extensive experience in helping children, adults, couples and families overcome depression, anxiety, traumatic experiences, marital issues, behavioral problems and mood disorders.

Contact Stone Creek Psyshotherapy at 281-579-0703, or via email at info@stonecreektherapy.com, for additional information or to schedule a consultation.

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Winners named in 2014 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards competition

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Contact: Earl Lane elane@aaas.org 202-326-6431 American Association for the Advancement of Science @AAAS_News

Stories exploring the complexities of human biology, including our interactions with the trillions of microbes we all harbor, the influences of our fishy evolutionary forebears on how we look, and the enduring challenge of understanding cancer, are among the winners of the 2014 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

The awards, administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since their inception in 1945, go to professional journalists for distinguished reporting for a general audience. The Kavli Foundation provided a generous endowment in 2009 that ensures the future of the awards program.

Independent panels of science journalists pick the winners, who will receive $3,000 and a plaque at the 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Jose, Calif., in February.

Rob Stein, a science correspondent for NPR, won the radio award for reporting on the microbial hitchhikers that live on and in the human body. "In addition to revealing potentially profound new insights into human health," Stein said, research on the human microbiome, as it is called, "raises tantalizing questions about our relationship with the world around us, and even in some ways what it means to be human." The growing field of research also raises some tricky ethical concerns, Stein noted. "Altogether, producing this series proved to be a challenging, fascinating and thrilling journey," he said.

Michael Rosenfeld, David Dugan, and Neil Shubin won the in-depth reporting award in the television category for a three-part PBS series on "Your Inner Fish." The winning series described how Shubin, a fish paleontologist, and his colleagues use fossil evidence and our DNA history to trace different features of our anatomy to animals from long ago. Natalie Angier, a science writer for The New York Times, praised the PBS series. "I particularly applaud the segments that reveal what fieldwork is really like," Angier said, "and the graphics really brought the fossils to life."

George Johnson, a contributor to The New York Times, won in the large newspaper category for three insightful essays on cancer and some of the misconceptions about the disease. Hillary Rosner, a freelance writer who was one of the judges, said Johnson's pieces "are gorgeously written and offer fascinating perspectives on a topic we like to think we know a lot about."

Alan I. Leshner, chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of the journal Science, said a new online entry submission system for the contest resulted in a record 606 entries across all categories, suggesting that "there is a tremendous amount of good work being done in many venues of science journalism at a time when public understanding of science and its impact is more important than ever."

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Virginia Tech Partners with VTI Instruments to Advance Education and Research in Infrastructure Monitoring

Irvine, CA (PRWEB) November 06, 2014

The Virginia Tech College of Engineering recently announced the completion of Goodwin Hall (formerly the "Signature Engineering Building") - Smart Infrastructure Laboratory. The Virginia Tech Smart Infrastructure Laboratory (VT-SIL) aims at advancing education and research in areas that utilize sensor information in an effort to improve the design, monitoring and daily operation of civil and mechanical infrastructure, as well as investigate how humans interact with the built environment.

Goodwin Hall is the most instrumented building for vibrations in the world with over 240 accelerometers distributed throughout the building. The facility will be extremely valuable in the improvement of research in fields including structural health monitoring, building dynamics, foot pattern tracking, behavioral science, and smart energy use.

Virginia Tech required partners in the development of the data acquisition systems for Goodwin Hall, and VTI Instruments' reputation and history as a flexible, precision DAQ provider allowed for a partnership in the development of this system to be forged.

"We required a data acquisition provider that was flexible and would work with us as a partner and not just a vendor, especially as this project evolves," said Dr. Pablo Tarazaga, Founder & Co-Director of VT-SIL. "VTI and Virginia Tech were able to work side by side in the creation of a solution that would be open to expansion without sacrificing the fidelity of the instruments."

The development of the continuous data collection system on open IVI driver standards, as well as the incorporation of COTS equipment protects Virginia Tech's capital investment and mitigates obsolescence, ensuring longevity of the DAQ system for the lifetime of the building.

By incorporating the VTI CMX09 PXIe chassis, the EMX-4250 PXIe DSA, and the EMX-2500 PXIe LXI Ethernet controller, Virginia Tech was able to create a 288 channel modular, scalable, DAQ solution distributed throughout the building on multiple floors.

VTI's incorporation of the IEEE-1588 Precision Time Protocol via Ethernet allowed easy synchronization with no additional time synchronization cabling required. With all channels synchronized, dynamic events can be tracked, analyzed, and phasing can be maintained for modal analysis.

"Working with Dr. Tarazaga and helping further the education of our future engineers brings great pleasure to us at VTI," said Tom Sarfi, VP of Product Management. "We see great benefit coming from this building, not just for education but also furthering our research in regards data acquisition and analysis."

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Pedro Noguera awarded prize for outstanding achievement in behavioral and social sciences

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Contact: Camille Gamboa camille.gamboa@sagepub.com 805-410-7441 SAGE Publications

Los Angeles, CA (November 4, 2014) SAGE and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (CASBS) are delighted to announce that Dr. Pedro Noguera is the 2014 recipient of the SAGE-CASBS award. Established in 2013, the award recognizes outstanding achievement in advancing the understanding of the behavioral and social sciences as they are applied to pressing social issues.

Dr. Noguera is a sociologist and education rights activist whose transformational work helps to illuminate how schools are influenced by social and economic conditions as well as by demographic trends in local, regional and global contexts. He is the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University and holds faculty appointments in the departments of Teaching and Learning and Humanities and Social Sciences at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Development. Having served as a classroom teacher in public schools across the nation, Dr. Noguera continues to work as a researcher and advisor to schools nationally and internationally.

"Receiving the SAGE-CASBS Award is both humbling and deeply satisfying for me," commented Dr. Noguera. "I have devoted my scholarly career to the study of pressing social problems: youth violence, school failure, urban poverty, racial disparities and many others. Drawing on theory and method from the behavioral sciences has been extremely important for my work because it has made it possible to challenge poorly conceived public policies and to counter conventional thinking that is rooted in stereotypes and biases. By utilizing empirical research to explore the complexities that underlie many pressing social issues, we can open up new possibilities for policy, practice and social action. The SAGE-CASBS award is an affirmation that this type of inquiry and scholarly endeavor is not only legitimate but extremely important. "

Currently, Dr. Noguera serves as Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools. Previously, he was appointed by the governor of New York to the State University of New York (SUNY) Board of Trustees and in 2014 he was elected to the National Academy of Education.

"Dr. Noguera's remarkable work as an academic is rivaled only by his passionate efforts to transform his research into better educational environments and opportunities for underserved students. Communicating with policymakers, with other educational decision makers, and to the broader public, he has made important progress in a larger effort to close the education gap and achieve educational justice," commented SAGE Founder and Executive Chairman Sara Miller McCune. "Dr. Noguera embodies the mission of the SAGE-CASBS award, and we are delighted to announce him as the 2014 winner."

"Pedro Noguera represents the very best of contemporary social science," said CASBS Director Margaret Levi. "A distinguished Professor of Education and Sociology, he has built an outstanding research career grounded in his formative, practical experience as a classroom teacher and school board member. He is fundamentally concerned with how to make teachers and indeed the whole of society accountable for providing equal educational opportunities and for closing the achievement gap. He focuses on education as an important developmental tool for individuals and their communities."

A regular commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR, among others, as well as a writer for The Nation, Dr. Noguera will give a keynote speech at CASBS' Behavioral & Social Science Summit on November 8, 2014 at Stanford University. Themed, "The City," this year's conference will bring together some of the world's top social and behavioral scientists with leaders in industry, media, and the community to discuss the best means and policies for improving the urban experience.

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Intersection of Technology and Addiction Explored at Pepperdine University Conference

Malibu, CA (PRWEB) November 04, 2014

On Nov. 21, Robert Weiss, LCSW, CSAT-S, founder of the Sexual Recovery Institute in Los Angeles and senior vice president of clinical development for Elements Behavioral Health, and Dr. Pamela Peeke, nutrition scientist and senior science adviser to Elements Behavioral Health, will speak at a conference titled Technology, Addiction and the Modern Family: Helping Clinicians Navigate Technology Related Concerns in Their Practices.

Weiss presentation will explore Internet-related addictive behavior patterns and provide therapeutic strategies for treating this growing population of clients. Well provide context and information about Internet addiction, as well as offer encouragement to test ones digital awareness, says Weiss. This is an area thats rapidly evolving and challenging some of our basic assumptions about addiction and therapy.

Dr. Peeke will discuss seminal studies on Internet addiction and the many ways that the Internet can fuel destructive behavior. Just as important, she says, Well also discuss practical solutions for Internet addiction, such as establishing limits and boundaries in the use of digital technology, and well look at ways in which the Internet can be used to promote health.

The schedule for the conference, which is the first in a series of symposia for professionals hosted by Pepperdine, is as follows:

9:15 to 10:45 a.m. Closer Together: Further Apart - The Effect of Digital Technology on Addiction, Psychotherapy and Our Daily Lives (Robert Weiss, LCSW, CSAT-S)

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Put That Down and Talk to Me: How Digital Drama Is Redefining Mind and Body Wellness in Psychotherapy (Pamela Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP)

1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Teens Online: What Should We (Not) Be Concerned About? (Jaana Juvonen, PhD - UCLA, Professor of Psychology)

2:45 to 4:15 p.m. Problematic and Addictive Computer/ Video Gaming: Assessment and Treatment (Kenneth Woog, PsyD - Pepperdine University, Associate Director - PRYDE Program)

4:15 to 4:45 p.m. Panel discussion

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National Geographic Channel Premieres Hidden Camera Series That Uses High-Tech and Mechanical Builds to Manipulate Bad …

IF STAIRCASES WERE BEAT BOXES, WOULD MORE PEOPLE CLIMB THEM?

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL PREMIERES HIDDEN CAMERA SERIES THAT USES HIGH-TECH AND MECHANICAL BUILDS TO MANIPULATE BAD BEHAVIOR

Crowd Control, Hosted by Best-Selling Author Daniel Pink, Premieres Monday, Nov. 24, at 9 & 9:30 PM ET/PT on National Geographic Channel

(WASHINGTON, D.C. - Nov. 3, 2014) What if we could make the DMV a happier place by adding a little laughter? Or curb America's speeding epidemic without issuing a single ticket? Or reduce the rate of pedestrian collisions by making it worth the wait at the crosswalk?

In National Geographic Channel's (NGC's) new 12-part series Crowd Control, premiering Monday, Nov. 24, at 9 & 9:30 p.m., viewers will discover that sometimes all you need is a little science to help make the world a better place. Best-selling author and behavior change expert Daniel Pink (@DanielPink) will use behavioral science to lead a series of experiments that show how we can apply the power of persuasion in our daily lives to reduce stress, minimize annoyances, improve health and increase happiness. Using hidden cameras to record his results, Pink will tackle the seemingly impossible task of righting everyday wrongs - from convincing partygoers to clean up their streets to stopping the senseless rush at an airport baggage claim.

Crowd Control will air globally on National Geographic Channels in 440 million homes in 171 countries and 45 languages later this fall. For more information, visit http://www.natgeotv.com and follow us on Twitter at @NGC_PR.

With 20 years of experience studying why we do the things we do, Pink will draw on academic theories and enlist an elite team of designers, builders and technologists to change bad behavior into good. Using the power of guilt, fear, shame and outright lying, Crowd Control will curate social behavior in fun and eye-popping ways that have real-life applications. He'll introduce targets in men's restrooms to reduce cleaning bills, lie to the elderly to make them stronger and scare the pants off air travelers to reduce their chances of death.

Scientifically based but shamelessly entertaining, Pink travels the country to catch unsuspecting members of the public in the act - from Brooklyn, where he'll calm a long line of patrons waiting to get into a popular pizza joint, to New Mexico, where a "musical road" will reward drivers for obeying the speed limit. He'll also convince New Orleans revelers to clean up Bourbon Street and corral oblivious texting pedestrians with a special cellphone lane in Washington, D.C. Additional stops on Pink's itinerary include Orlando, Dallas, Providence and the Jersey Shore.

"We made a list of the most annoying social situations we face on a daily basis, and then used science to fix them," said Pink. "Viewers will be amazed at just how much we can influence behavior by slightly altering the situation, and how these small adjustments can actually make a big difference in our world."

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School districts recruit at UNCs first Fall Teachers Fair (video)

BY THE NUMBERS

53: School districts represented at UNCs first fall teachers fair

150: Teacher candidates who had passed through the UNC Ballrooms by 11 a.m. Tuesday

2,601: Number of UNC College of Education and Behavioral Science students, a 20 percent increase since fall 2009.

729: Number of UNC College of Education graduates in 2013-2014, which is 42 more graduates than UNC had in 2009-2010.

78: Percent of UNC College of Education graduates who get jobs within a year of graduation.

74: Percent of UNC College of Education graduates who get jobs in Colorado following graduation

Pens clicked, feet tapped and papers were shuffled as dozens of future teachers sought to strut their stuff at the University of Northern Colorados first Fall Teachers Fair.

School district representatives from as far away as Alaska, Louisiana, Texas and Arizona were equally pleased to meet teacher candidates from UNC and other Colorado universities.

After all, both sides goals were the same: Gainful employment for future teachers.

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Toddlers copy their peers to fit in, but apes don't

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Contact: Anna Mikulak amikulak@psychologicalscience.org 202-293-9300 Association for Psychological Science @PsychScience

From the playground to the board room, people often follow, or conform, to the behavior of those around them as a way of fitting in. New research shows that this behavioral conformity appears early in human children, but isn't evidenced by apes like chimpanzees and orangutans.

"Conformity is a very basic feature of human sociality. It retains in- and out-groups, it helps groups coordinate and it stabilizes cultural diversity, one of the hallmark characteristics of the human species," says psychological scientist and lead researcher Daniel Haun of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Jena.

"This does not mean that conforming is the right thing to do under all circumstances conformity can be good or bad, helpful or unhelpful, appropriate or inappropriate both for individuals and the groups they live in. But the fact is that we conform often and that human sociality would look very differently without it," Haun explains. "Our research shows that children as young as 2 years of age conform to others, while chimpanzees and orangutans instead prefer to stick with what they know."

The research, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, is novel in that it provides a direct comparison between apes and humans indicating that the tendency to abandon one's own preferences just in to fit in appears to be particularly pronounced in humans.

In previous research, Haun and colleagues had found that both human children and chimpanzees rely on the majority opinion when they are trying to learn something new, which makes sense if the group has knowledge that the individual doesn't. But other research has shown that human adults sometimes follow the majority even when they already have the relevant knowledge, just so that they don't stand out from the group.

To find out whether very young children and apes would also show this so-called "normative" conformity, Haun and co-authors Michael Tomasello and Yvonne Rekers presented 18 2-year-old children, 12 chimpanzees, and 12 orangutans with a similar reward-based task.

Each participant was shown a box that contained three separate sections, each of which had a hole in the top. By interacting with the box, the participants learned that although the ball could be dropped in any of the three sections, only one of the sections would deliver a treat (peanuts for the apes and chocolate drops for the children).

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Professor donates $1 Million to BHSU

SPEARFISH Dr. James Hess, professor of psychology and chairman of the School of Behavioral Sciences at Black Hills State University, recently pledged a $1 million gift to BHSU to establish the School of Behavioral Sciences Make a Difference Initiative. In exchange for scholarship funds, students will be challenged to lead sustainable community projects designed to make a difference in the lives of others.

Hess has been a psychology professor at BHSU for 32 years and his generous donation is equivalent to the salary he made in his first 19 years of teaching at BHSU. He says he intends to keep teaching as long as he feels like he is making a difference in the lives of students.

This million-dollar scholarship gift from Professor Hess will have a profound impact on students while they earn their degrees by providing scholarship funds and encouraging community leadership skills. However, the Make a Difference Initiative also ensures our graduates will become leaders in their future communities, BHSU President Tom Jackson, Jr., said. I commend Professor Hess for his visionary idea and express my sincere thanks for his generosity and commitment to Black Hills State University.

By establishing the Make a Difference Initiative, Hess hopes to change the culture of scholarship funding by encouraging recipients to give back right from the start and continue that practice long after they graduate.

Even while theyre receiving funds from the initiative, I want our scholarship recipients to engage and make a difference in the lives of others, said Hess. I want the students to remember their experience years from now, changing their attitude and encouraging them to continue giving back.

The initiatives board of directors will meet this year to polish the initiative and will distribute the first two $2,500 scholarships in 2015. In addition to the scholarship, recipients will receive a $2,500 match allocated for student projects. Future scholarships and projects will be added in the coming years, and the dollar amounts will be increased.

Students receiving the Make a Difference Initiative scholarships must give something more than going to class and getting good grades, said Hess.

Student projects must create sustainable solutions, said Hess, referencing the proverb give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Examples of sustainable solution projects described in the initiatives planning document include implementation of a self-concept improvement program for a womens shelter or designing a summer camp for children of divorced families.

Steve Meeker, BHSU vice president for university advancement, said Hess gift will teach students how to make a difference in peoples lives while also teaching them to give back in both time and treasure.

Dr. Hess gift is extremely generous, and he has a great plan to motivate future leaders, said Meeker. This gift sends a strong message as to what BHSU and our students mean to him and is very much appreciated.

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AT&T, United Way Build Customer-centricity and Engagement

Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) October 30, 2014

Why do customers engage with brands?

Customer experience can be a misleading term, because the experience is not built on a singular factor. Brands that have mastered the art of CX understand that an amalgamation of positive encounters combines to form the overall desired customer experience success.

At the 2014 Engagement & Experience Expo, AT&T and United Way will present sessions on fostering effective customer engagement paradigms that lead to all-encompassing customer experiences.

AT&T will present a session titled, How to Enable Change in Customer (and Associate) Centricity. In this session, attendees will learn how AT&T builds customer-centricity into the fabric of its organization, and how companies can follow that model to develop thriving customer experience strategies. Additionally, AT&T will share the importance of communication, engagement, and conversational intelligence in improving customer centricity.

Before building customer-centricity, marketers need to understand why customers engage with certain brands. United Way and The Behavioral Science Lab will speak from a behavioral economics perspective in a session titled, Increasing Brand Engagement Through Behavioral Economics. In this session, attendees will learn how United Way uses behavioral economics to understand the psychological and emotional factors that improve customer acquisition and sustained experiences. United Way will reflect on its past dearth of customer knowledge, and demonstrate how the introduction of data tools and behavioral economics insight has illuminated its understanding of the influencing factors of its donors.

Thanks to new technologies and enhanced analytic tools, todays brands are better equipped to create outstanding customer experiences, shared Erin Raese, President and COO, Loyalty360 The Loyalty Marketers Association. We are thrilled to feature highly regarded speakers from AT&T and United Way whose success stories can help show attendees the way.

About Engagement & Experience Expo Engagement & Experience Expo is a forum to openly discuss customer, brand and channel challenges and solutions. Discover how to optimize the customer experience at all touch-points and increase the impact of engagement throughout the customer lifecycle. Through a robust slate of best-in-class speakers and interactive discussions, attendees will learn about the latest theories, best practices, relevant case studies, emerging trends and strategies that drive measurable behavioral change and quantifiable results. The 4th annual Engagement & Experience Expo will be held Nov. 10-12, 2014, at the Renaissance Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas.

About Loyalty360 Loyalty360 is an unbiased, market driven, voice-of-the-customer focused clearinghouse and think-tank that is committed to bringing customer loyalty to the forefront as a critical marketing strategy. A trusted source for cutting-edge research, best practices, and networking opportunities, Loyalty360 gives members the expert insights and guidance they need to better understand loyalty and develop programs that effectively engage their customers and employees and build stronger relationships with them. [http://www.loyalty360.org

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