Barry University

About: Barry University is a education organization based out in Miami, Florida, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Social work. The organization has 645 authors who have published 1119 publications receiving 17494 citations.

Growth rates of the tropical sea urchins Tripneustes ventricosus and Lytechinus variegatus based on natural recruitment events

Abstract: A BSTRACT. — The sea urchins Tripneustes ventricosus and Lytechinus variegatus are ecologically and economically important grazers of seagrass beds throughout the Caribbean and Florida. In Jamaica we observed recruitment events of T. ventricosus at the same site and season (January-April) in 2001 and 2002. In 2002 there was a concurrent recruitment of L. variegatus . Following the 2001 recruitment T. ventricosus grew at a rate of 1.2 mm wk -1 and at relatively low rates (0.6 mm wk -1 ) after the 2002 recruitment. The 2002 recruit cohort of L. variegatus also grew at low rates (0.7 mm wk -1 ) compared to published values. While densities of T. ventricosus remained relatively stable after the 2001 recruitment, densities of both species declined after the 2002 recruitment. The low growth rates and density decreases after 2002 suggest that the increases in abundances resulting from the 2002 recruitment intensified intra- and interspecific competition among urchins.

Making Peace with Difference: A Hermeneutic of Inclusive Conversation

Abstract: The search for peace within incommensurability marks the beginning of the twenty-first century. Over the twentieth century, modern industrial nations huffed and puffed their way into postmodern postindustrialism while other culture-countries of the world emerged into modernity - "a new modernity" - taking new forms, making new claims, and challenging old understandings. Claims of universalism and unity rang increasingly hollow over the last decades of the twentieth century. Ethnic and religious nationalism reached new peaks of passion and anxiety. Equality, defined only as sameness, seemed to lose its integrity as the central theme of justice. Bubbling persistently beneath the unstable postmodern terrain have been the demands of difference. If the world is to survive, even in its fragments, we must make peace with human difference.Difference is the puzzler of human relationships. Misunderstanding, aversion, fear, and hatred find their bottom in perceived differences with the "Other." Difference may also be seen as the chief organizer of injustice. Power-laden "othering" is the cornerstone of oppression and attendant assumptions of superiority. Yet, in the growth of global transactions, multicultural perspectives, and accompanying forces of integration and disintegration, the recognition and negotiation of difference are essential to success. To the practice and teaching of law, difference holds particular significance. Difference may provide both the riddle and the key to the effectiveness of legal systems and the persistence of any form of justice that calls itself participatory.This article offers an interdisciplinary approach to difficult issues of difference. Drawing from scholarship in feminist theology, social sciences, and ethics, the article poses a critical and constructive hermeneutic that first interrogates difference and then invites a constructive vision of difference from the lens of inclusive mutuality. Building on the interrogatory hermeneutic of difference, the article will offer four critical moments: naming difference through social location, history, and context; assessing power relations through both a microanalysis and macroanalysis of power and privilege; decentering the hidden norm through language and a new angle of vision; and interpreting difference through sensitivity to meanings from the domains of culture and gender. Finally, the artilce will imagine a constructive hermeneutic of inclusive justice that seeks to foster conversation across racial, gender, cultural, and class difference.

Understanding Patents: A Legal Overview and Research Bibliography

Abstract: This article provides an overview of patents, with background information on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and includes what can be patented, the requirements of utility, novelty, and nonobviousness, who may apply for a patent, what the patent application must include, and prior art searches. A research bibliography is included at the end of the article.

International Negotiation Simulations: An Examination of Learning Processes and Outcomes.

Abstract: Negotiation skills are valuable tools especially in the international business context. However, the extent to which negotiation simulations build new skills rather than augment existing skills is unclear. This empirical study focuses on the extent to which Mexican students and U.S. students learned from a negotiation simulation. The results indicate that all students learned something but that the Mexican students learned more.

Infection and Inflammation in the Wound Environment: Addressing Issues of Delayed Wound Healing With Advanced Wound Dressings.

Abstract: Impaired wound healing is estimated to affect about 2% of the US population, and a major goal of health care providers (HCPs) is to better understand delayed healing so they can effectively choose advanced wound dressings to manage these wounds. However, there are estimated to be more than 3000 dressing options available, making dressing selection an overwhelming burden. An expert panel of 7 HCPs experienced in diverse medical disciplines and 3 scientists convened to discuss the use of 2 families of dressings (silver-oxysalt [AgOx] dressings and oxidized regenerated cellulose/collagen [ORC/C] dressings) and delayed wound healing. Before the meeting, panelists reviewed 16 articles concerning the dressings, and 2 scientists presented on the topics of infection and inflammation in the wound environment, along with providing information about the dressing families, during the meeting. In addition, each HCP presented specific cases in which they had applied AgOx or ORC/C dressings and described how the dressing was used to manage stalled healing. After the meeting, the panelists and another HCP who was unable to attend the panel meeting provided insight and feedback for this publication, which provides an overview of the meeting. A major theme of this panel discussion was the need for a fundamental change in how HCPs approach wound care, especially for nonhealing wounds and underlying issues of infection and inflammation in the wound environment. Ultimately, the panel developed a decision-tree model for risk-stratifying patients based on their potential to have or develop these 2 underlying issues, followed by deciding on treatment options based on the status of infection and inflammation in the wound.