Recreational therapy workforce: An update

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Keogh Hoss, PhD, CTRS, FACHE, FDRT
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Normal Growth ◽  
Recreational Therapy ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics

This article explores why there is a decline in the growth rate of recreational therapy while there are substantial increases in other therapy professions and recreation workers. The growth numbers of the recreational therapy profession are at a normal growth rate of 7 percent for all occupations according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The growth rate from the Occupational Handbook for 2010-2011 projected a growth rate of 15 percent. The growth rates for occupational therapy, “therapists, all others” and recreation workers are higher than recreational therapy projected by BLS at 20 percent or higher. Possible considerations as to causes for this change in growth are proposed.

Research on supplementary feeding for production of Nile tilapia.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Diana
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Nile Tilapia ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Normal Growth ◽  
Supplementary Feeding ◽  
Natural Food ◽  
Small Fish ◽  
First Feeding ◽  
Natural Foods

Abstract Efficient supplementary feeding will utilize not only the feed added to the pond, but also natural food. Feeding improves the growth rate of fish in a pond only when the fish are food limited. Natural foods may provide all of the necessary nutrition for normal growth of small fish, and if growth begins to decline at a larger size, supplementary feeding should yield higher growth rates. One experiment compared the use of fertilizer alone, feed alone, and a combination of feed and fertilizer for growth and production of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Ponds receiving feed and fertilizer had higher growth rates than ponds with feed alone, and both showed considerably higher growth rate than ponds with fertilizer alone. Feeding was necessary to grow fish to a size of over 200 g in a reasonable amount of time. A second experiment tested the possibility that feeding at reduced ration and allowing the consumption of natural food might give a comparable growth rate to feeding alone. In this experiment, full satiation ration, 75% satiation ration, or even 50% satiation ration resulted in similar mean weights at harvest, about 400 g after 150 days. These results indicate that it may be efficient to simply feed the fish at about half of their maximum ration and allow them to eat natural food for the other half of their growth, if the pond is managed well. Economic analysis showed that fertilization resulted in $1,891 ha-1 year-1 of profit, feed only lost almost $3,000 ha-1 year-1, 75% feeding lost $258, 50% feeding yielded $1,765 ha-1 year-1, and 25% feeding yielded $155 ha-1 year-1. If the growth rate were linearly extrapolated until the fish reached 500 g and were then harvested, the 75% feeding would yield $4,835 ha-1 year-1 and the 50% feeding $5,865 ha-1 year-1. A third experiment was conducted to evaluate the timing when first feeding should occur. In this case, fish in ponds were fed once they reached 50, 100, 150, 200 or 250 g in size. The fish grew similarly before they were fed, and then grew again similarly after feeding, with a growth rate under fertilization of about 1 g day-1, and a growth rate under feeding of about 3 g day-1. Fish fed first at 50 or 100 g reached the same ultimate size by the end of the experiment and had similar production levels. Fish first fed at 150 or 200 g also showed similar results and, finally, fish fed at 250 g never reached the targeted size. These results indicate that it is most efficient to wait until the fish reach 100 g before commencing artificial feeding. Economic evaluation showed an annual net profit of $3,700 ha-1 year-1 when the fish were fed first at 50 g, $6,160 at 100 g, $4,800 at 150 g, $1,800 at 200 g and $3,600 at 250 g. Clearly, efficient feeding systems produce higher incomes than less efficient systems, and fertilization alone, if the fish reach a targeted size that has a higher economic value.

Morphogenetic expression of Arthrobacter globiformis 425 in continuous culture with carbon or biotin limitation

1978 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian P. Wills ◽  
E. C. S. Chan
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Specific Growth ◽  
Normal Growth ◽  
Arthrobacter Globiformis ◽  
Glucose Limitation ◽  
Abnormal Morphology ◽  
Chemostat Cultures ◽  
Specific Growth Rates ◽  
Biotin Limitation

When deprived of biotin, Arthrobacter globiformis 425 exhibits abnormal morphology (large, branched forms of variable size) and a retardation of its normal growth rate. In chemostat cultures, when cells were grown under glucose limitation, the morphology was normal (coccoids or rods) at specific growth rates between 0.05 and 0.125 h−1 (doubling times between 14 and 5.5 h, respectively) at 25 °C. The coccoid-to-rod morphogenesis occurs at a specific growth rate of 0.11 h−1. At the same specific growth rates and temperature, but under biotin limitation, abnormal morphology was observed.

scholarly journals INHIBITION OF GROWTH BY AMBER SUPPRESSORS IN YEAST

Genetics ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-249
Author(s):  
Susan W Liebman ◽  
Fred Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Nutrient Medium ◽  
Normal Growth ◽  
Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Highly Efficient ◽  
Critical Range ◽  
Inhibition Of Growth ◽  
Amber Suppressor

ABSTRACT Strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that contain highly efficient amber (UAG) suppressors grow poorly on nutrient medium, while normal or nearly normal growth rates are observed when these strains lose the suppressors or when the suppressors are mutated to lower efficiencies. The different growth rates account for the accumulation of mutants with lowered efficiencies in cultures of strains with highly efficient amber suppressors. Genetic analyses indicate that one of the mutations with a lowered efficiency of suppression is caused by an intragenic mutation of the amber suppressor. The inhibition of growth caused by excessive suppression is expected to be exacerbated when appropriate suppressors are combined together in haploid cells if two suppressors act with a greater efficiency than a single suppressor. Such retardation of growth is observed with combinations of two UAA (ochre) suppressors (Gilmore 1967) and with combinations of two UAG suppressors when the efficiencies of each of the suppressors are within a critical range. In contrast, combinations of a UAA suppressor and a UAG suppressor do not affect growth rate. Apparently while either excessive UAA or excessive UAG suppression is deleterious to yeast, a moderate level of simultaneous UAA and UAG suppression is not.

scholarly journals Correlations between characteristics of some free-living Chlorella sp. and their ability to form stable symbioses with Hydra viridis

1985 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 257-266
Author(s):  
M. Rahat ◽  
V. Reich
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Normal Growth ◽  
Digestive Cell ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Chlorella Sp ◽  
Proteose Peptone ◽  
Different Strains ◽  
Hydra Viridis

Aposymbiotic polyps of Hydra viridis were infected with 17 strains of in vitro cultured Chlorella sp. Larvae of Artemia fed with the chlorellae were used as an infecting vector. Of the 17 strains, seven formed stable symbioses and one formed a transient infection that disappeared within several weeks. Chlorellae of the nine other strains were cleared out of the infected hydra within 2–3 days. There was a distinct correlation between the ability of the chlorellae to form stable symbioses and their ability to adapt and grow in media enriched with 0.5% proteose peptone. Only strains that grew in the latter medium formed symbioses with the hydra. The symbioses formed with the different strains of chlorellae differed from one another. Hydra infected with some strains greened completely while those infected with other strains greened only partially. The degree of infection varied also within each population, and there were differences in the distribution of the various chlorellae along the stalk and inside the digestive cells of the hydra. Growth rates of the infected hydra were all less that those of aposymbiotic hydra or of hydra hosting native zoochlorellae. We conclude that adaptability to a nutrient-rich environment inside the perialgal vacuole of the digestive cell and a sufficient growth rate therein are crucial to the ability of chlorellae to form stable symbioses with H. viridis. In time, co-adaptation of hydra and chlorellae would restore the normal growth rate of the former and bring about regularity to the form and extent of infection by the latter.

scholarly journals A Biological Study of Fucus Vesiculosus L. and F. Serratus L.

1950 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 439-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margery Knight ◽  
Mary Parke
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Maximum Rate ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Normal Growth ◽  
Fucus Vesiculosus ◽  
The Other ◽  
Biological Study ◽  
Rate Of Growth ◽  
Rough Water

A certain variation in level of the fucoid zone with latitude is demonstrated. The belt of Fucus vesiculosus and F. serratus lies lower on the Devon coast than on either the Manx or the Argyll coast.The conditions for the optimum germination of fertilized eggs are dissimilar to those for maximum rate of frond-extension.Normal growth-rates have been established for both species for the first 3 years of life. In F. vesiculosus the average rate of elongation per week is 0·48 cm. on the Devon coast, 0·45 cm. on the Manx coast and 0·68 cm. on the Argyll coast. In F. serratus the average rate of elongation per week is 0·49 cm. on the Devon coast, 0·68 cm. on the Manx coast and 0·85 cm. on the Argyll coast. The rate of growth is shown to vary with the conditions of the environment. Shelter from rough water tends to enhance growth-rate, and there is an indication that greater stature is achieved by the plants from the Argyll station than from either of the other stations.

Comparison of copper sulphate pentahydrate growth rates determined by different methods

1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 1691-1707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloslav Karel ◽  
Jiří Hostomský ◽  
Jaroslav Nývlt ◽  
Axel König
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Crystal Growth ◽  
Fluidized Bed ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Copper Sulphate ◽  
Crystal Growth Rate ◽  
Effect Of Temperature ◽  
Rotating Disc ◽  
Shape Factors ◽  
Data Treatment

Crystal growth rates of copper sulphate pentahydrate (CuSO4.5 H2O) determined by different authors and methods are compared. The methods included in this comparison are: (i) Measurement on a fixed crystal suspended in a streaming solution, (ii) measurement on a rotating disc, (iii) measurement in a fluidized bed, (iv) measurement in an agitated suspension. The comparison involves critical estimation of the supersaturation used in measurements, of shape factors used for data treatment and a correction for the effect of temperature. Conclusions are drawn for the choice of values to be specified when data of crystal growth rate measurements are published.

Measurement of growth rates for single crystals and pressed tablets of CuSO4.5 H2O on a rotating disc

1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (11) ◽  
pp. 2951-2961 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloslav Karel ◽  
Jaroslav Nývlt
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Single Crystal ◽  
Single Crystals ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Diffusion Coefficients ◽  
Preferred Orientation ◽  
Rotating Disc ◽  
Dissolution Rates ◽  
Rates Of Growth ◽  
Good Agreement

Measured growth and dissolution rates of single crystals and tablets were used to calculate the overall linear rates of growth and dissolution of CuSO4.5 H2O crystals. The growth rate for the tablet is by 20% higher than that calculated for the single crystal. It has been concluded that this difference is due to a preferred orientation of crystal faces on the tablet surface. Calculated diffusion coefficients and thicknesses of the diffusion and hydrodynamic layers in the vicinity of the growing or dissolving crystal are in good agreement with published values.

[Food Prices and the Bureau of Labor Statistics]: Rejoinder

1960 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 285
Author(s):  
William H. Kruskal ◽  
Lester G. Telser
Keyword(s):  
Food Prices ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics

scholarly journals Accuracy of State-Level Surveillance during Emerging Outbreaks of Respiratory Viruses: A Model-Based Assessment

2021 ◽  
pp. 0272989X2110222
Author(s):  
Yuwen Gu ◽  
Elise DeDoncker ◽  
Richard VanEnk ◽  
Rajib Paul ◽  
Susan Peters ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Disease Progression ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
State Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
State Surveillance ◽  
First Come First Serve

It is long perceived that the more data collection, the more knowledge emerges about the real disease progression. During emergencies like the H1N1 and the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemics, public health surveillance requested increased testing to address the exacerbated demand. However, it is currently unknown how accurately surveillance portrays disease progression through incidence and confirmed case trends. State surveillance, unlike commercial testing, can process specimens based on the upcoming demand (e.g., with testing restrictions). Hence, proper assessment of accuracy may lead to improvements for a robust infrastructure. Using the H1N1 pandemic experience, we developed a simulation that models the true unobserved influenza incidence trend in the State of Michigan, as well as trends observed at different data collection points of the surveillance system. We calculated the growth rate, or speed at which each trend increases during the pandemic growth phase, and we performed statistical experiments to assess the biases (or differences) between growth rates of unobserved and observed trends. We highlight the following results: 1) emergency-driven high-risk perception increases reporting, which leads to reduction of biases in the growth rates; 2) the best predicted growth rates are those estimated from the trend of specimens submitted to the surveillance point that receives reports from a variety of health care providers; and 3) under several criteria to queue specimens for viral subtyping with limited capacity, the best-performing criterion was to queue first-come, first-serve restricted to specimens with higher hospitalization risk. Under this criterion, the lab released capacity to subtype specimens for each day in the trend, which reduced the growth rate bias the most compared to other queuing criteria. Future research should investigate additional restrictions to the queue.

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