August 2018 Classes by Miner Library

Here are the classes offered by Miner Library for the upcoming month:

Blackboard Basics for Academic Courses and Residencies

Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 Time: 10:00am – 11:30am

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RefWorks Basics

Date: Monday, August 20, 2018 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm

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For a full list of Miner Library’s classes, visit our Classes page.

Have a question? Contact Miner Library’s Answer Desk @ 585-275-3361.

Getting the Most from EndNote – Capture Reference Feature

It is easy to export articles from scholarly databases like PubMed or Web of Science into EndNote, but how can you do insert a reference from popular media sources like the New York Times or government websites like CDC.gov?

Typically, you would have to create a new reference manually.  Now you can use the capture reference feature to export this information directly into EndNote.  It will not work for all websites, and you may only get partial data from others. So, you may still have to use the New Reference and Edit Reference features.  But using Capture Reference could make getting the reference data from many websites much easier.

• If you have not already set up an account with EndNote, you will have to do this first.

• From EndNote, click on References and then Preferences (For Mac users: Click on EndNote in the toolbar and then click on Preferences)

 

• From here select Sync and click on the button labeled Enable Sync.

• From here, you will have the option to create a new EndNote account by clicking on the Sign Up button.

• Once you have your account set up, enter this web address into your browser:

http://www.myendnoteweb.com/EndNoteWeb.html?func=downloadInstallers&cat=download&

• Login using your account information.

• From here, select the Downloads tab.

• To install the capture tool you will need to add this to your Bookmarks/Favorites bar – depending on your browser there might be two ways to do this:

• Drag the Capture Reference button to your Bookmarks/Favorites bar

         or

• Right-click and select Add to Favorites or Bookmark this Link

• Navigate to a website that you would like to cite.

• Click on the Capture Reference bookmark.

• In the pop-up window, make sure to select EndNote.

• You may have to add some information manually.

• In the example below you would want to add the appropriate information to the Author, Access Year, and Access Date fields. You can also do this by using the Edit Reference feature in EndNote.

• Tip: Include a comma at the end of the author field when using an organization’s name. This will ensure that EndNote formats the name properly for in-text and bibliography citations.

• Click on the Save To button and the reference will be added to your library.

EndNote is a citation management tool that can help you organize your research and save invaluable time creating your in-text citations and bibliographies.

To learn more about EndNote, sign up for one of our classes or schedule a meeting with Daniel Castillo.

July 2018 Classes by Miner Library

Here are the classes offered by Miner Library for the upcoming month:

RefWorks Basics

Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm

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Podcast Basics

Date: Thursday, July 26, 2018 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm

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For a full list of Miner Library’s classes, visit our Classes page.

Have a question? Contact Miner Library’s Answer Desk @ 585-275-3361.

These Feet are Made for Walking. Tips for Summer Foot Health.

What are your plans this summer? Whether you are beach-bound, sight-seeing in the city or heading into the wilderness, the American Podiatric Medical Association offers the following tips:

• Limit walking barefoot as it exposes feet to sunburn, as well as plantar warts, athlete’s foot, ringworm, and other infections and also increases risk of injury to your feet.
• Wear shoes or flip-flops around the pool, to the beach, in the locker room and even on the carpeting or in the bathroom of your hotel room to prevent injuries and limit the likelihood of contracting any bacterial infections.
• Remember to apply sunscreen all over your feet, especially the tops and fronts of ankles, and don’t forget to reapply after you’ve been in the water.
• Stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water throughout the day. Drinking water will not only help with overall health, but will also minimize any foot swelling caused by the heat.
• Keep blood flowing with periodic ankle flexes, toe wiggles, and calf stretches.
• Some activities at the beach, lake, or river may require different types of footwear to be worn, so be sure to ask the contact at each activity if specific shoes are needed. To be safe, always pack an extra pair of sneakers or protective water shoes. If your shoes will be getting wet, they should be dried out completely before your next wearing to prevent bacteria or fungus from growing.
• In case of minor foot problems, be prepared with the following on-the-go foot gear:
  • Flip flops—for the pool, spa, hotel room, and airport security check points
  • Sterile bandages—for covering minor cuts and scrapes
  • Antibiotic cream—to treat any skin injury
  • Emollient-enriched cream—to hydrate feet
  • Blister pads or moleskin—to protect against blisters
  • Motrin or Advil (anti-inflammatory)—to ease tired, swollen feet
  • Toenail clippers—to keep toenails trimmed
  • Emery board—to smooth rough edges or broken nails
  • Pumice stone—to soften callused skin
  • Sunscreen—to protect against the scorching sun
  • Aloe vera or Silvadene cream—to relieve sunburns

The American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) reminds you to ensure that your tetanus shot is up to date. ACFAS also urges you to:

• NEVER mow your lawn barefoot.
• Be careful around campfires because it’s easy to accidently step on hot coals.
• Exercise caution around lakes, rivers and ponds where murky water can hide sharp objects.
• People with diabetes should NEVER go barefoot.

New Exhibit @Miner: “Postcards from Puerto Rico”

Hurricane Maria sliced through Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017.

We’ve all heard the sound bytes:

• The worst natural disaster on record to affect Dominica and Puerto Rico
• Winds at 175 mph
• 70,000 homes leveled
• 3 million people without power or water
• Health care system in tatters

As an Upstate New York resident, I have a hard time relating to these numbers and to this level of devastation.

“Postcards from Puerto Rico,” an exhibit highlighting some of the people from University of Rochester and our community who came together to support Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, brings it home for me.

Last October, 11 providers from the UR Medical Center departed for Puerto Rico. They joined about 70 other physicians and nurses from across New York state. They assisted with emergency operations and health care planning at medical sites, provided hands-on patient care, and more. They spent two weeks on the island at a time when it was largely without power and adequate supplies.

Read more>> https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/5165/urmc-providers-join-forces-for-relief-efforts-in-puerto-rico.aspx

Wendy Allen-Thompson, Luis Rosario-McCabe, Tim Dye, and others shared their photos and first-person narratives with us, which are displayed as postcards.

Now, I can connect faces and voices to the devastation. It’s personal.

Tim wonders, “How could people survive what must have been an incredibly traumatic 10-hour blasting of this storm?…How could anyone recover from such a trauma?”

The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season began June 1. And I can’t get Tim’s words out of my head.

According to Sheri Fink (The New York Times, May 29, 2018), “As hurricane season begins this week, experts are still trying to count the number of deaths caused by last year’s devastating Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. The latest estimate: roughly 4,600, many of them from delayed medical care.”

Experts disagree on predictions for the 2018 hurricane season. But, as Marshall Shepherd said in his June 2 Forbes article, “Irrespective of how many storms are predicted, it only takes one storm to cause a human tragedy.”

September 20, 2017, was…and still is…a human tragedy.

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Additional resources, provided by Tim Dye

•  WXXI News

Connections: An update on the crisis in Puerto Rico, and cultural competency in medical care (50:16) http://wxxinews.org/post/connections-update-crisis-puerto-rico-and-cultural-competency-medical-care

•  Our mobile clinic concept (0:56) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaGBwkZ6FAY 

•  Sobre las conciencias de los hombres: A medical ecological view on post-Maria Puerto Rico

http://tinyurl.com/conciencias1 (Part 1)
http://tinyurl.com/conciencias2 (Part 2)
https://tinyurl.com/conciencias3 (Part 3)

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Tick and mosquito season is here. Stay safe out there!

Tick and Mosquito Season Is Here, Stay Safe Out There

According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), illnesses from mosquito, tick and flea bites have tripled in the U.S., with more than 640,000 cases reported during the past 13 years. This alarming number includes nine new germs spread by mosquitoes and ticks that were discovered or introduced into the United States during this time.

Of course, this does not mean that you have to stay inside all spring and summer, but there are some steps you should take to protect yourself and loved ones (including the furry loved ones):

According to the CDC to protect from tick bites you should:

Before You Go Outdoors

• Know where to expect ticks. Ticks live in grassy, brushy, or wooded areas, or even on animals. Spending time outside walking your dog, camping, gardening, or hunting could bring you in close contact with ticks. Many people get ticks in their own yard or neighborhood.
• Treat clothing and gear with products containing 0.5% permethrin. Permethrin can be used to treat boots, clothing and camping gear and remain protective through several washings.
• Use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-registered insect repellents containing DEET, picaridin, IR3535, Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus (OLE), para-menthane-diol (PMD), or 2-undecanone. EPA’s helpful search tool can help you find the product that best suits your needs. Always follow product instructions.
  • Do not use insect repellent on babies younger than 2 months old.
  • Do not use products containing OLE or PMD on children under 3 years old.

Avoid Contact with Ticks

• Avoid wooded and brushy areas with high grass and leaf litter.
• Walk in the center of trails.

After You Come Indoors

• Check your clothing for ticks. Ticks may be carried into the house on clothing. Any ticks that are found should be removed. Tumble dry clothes in a dryer on high heat for 10 minutes to kill ticks on dry clothing after you come indoors. If the clothes are damp, additional time may be needed. If the clothes require washing first, hot water is recommended. Cold and medium temperature water will not kill ticks.
• Shower soon after being outdoors. Showering within two hours of coming indoors has been shown to reduce your risk of getting tickborne diseases due to our capability to inspect our bodies for ticks without clothes on. Showering may help wash off unattached ticks and it is a good opportunity to do a tick check.
• Check your body for ticks after being outdoors. Conduct a full body check upon return from potentially tick-infested areas, including your own backyard. Use a hand-held or full-length mirror to view all parts of your body. Check these parts of your body and your child’s body for ticks:
  • Under the arms
  • In and around the ears
  • Inside belly button
  • Back of the knees
  • In and around the hair
  • Between the legs
  • Around the waist
• Examine gear and pets. Ticks can ride into the home on clothing and pets, then attach to a person later, so carefully examine pets, coats, and daypacks.

If you do find a tick that attached itself to you, here are some tips from the CDC:

How to Remove a Tick

• Use fine-tipped tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin’s surface as possible.
• Pull upward with steady, even pressure. Don’t twist or jerk the tick; this can cause the mouth-parts to break off and remain in the skin. If this happens, remove the mouth-parts with tweezers. If you are unable to remove the mouth easily with clean tweezers, leave it alone and let the skin heal.
• After removing the tick, thoroughly clean the bite area and your hands with rubbing alcohol or soap and water.
• Never crush a tick with your fingers. Dispose of a live tick by putting it in alcohol, placing it in a sealed bag/container, wrapping it tightly in tape, or flushing it down the toilet.

Avoid folklore remedies such as “painting” the tick with nail polish or petroleum jelly, or using heat to make the tick detach from the skin. Your goal is to remove the tick as quickly as possible–not waiting for it to detach.

Follow-up

If you develop a rash or fever within several weeks of removing a tick, see your doctor. Be sure to tell the doctor about your recent tick bite, when the bite occurred, and where you most likely acquired the tick.

Preventing ticks on your pets

Dogs are very susceptible to tick bites and tickborne diseases. Vaccines are not available for most of the tickborne diseases that dogs can get, and they don’t keep the dogs from bringing ticks into your home. For these reasons, it’s important to use a tick preventive product on your dog.

Tick bites on dogs may be hard to detect. Signs of tickborne disease may not appear for 7-21 days or longer after a tick bite, so watch your dog closely for changes in behavior or appetite if you suspect that your pet has been bitten by a tick.

Talk to your veterinarian about the best tick prevention products for your dog.

To further reduce the chances that a tick bite will make your dog sick:

• Check your pets for ticks daily, especially after they spend time outdoors.
• If you find a tick on your pet, remove it right away.

Note: Cats are extremely sensitive to a variety of chemicals. Do not apply any tick prevention products to your cats without first asking your veterinarian!

To prevent mosquito bites, which can potentially carry West Nile Virus or Eastern equine encephalitis, and potentially other mosquito-borne illness such as Zika Virus in Upstate New York, the CDC and the WHO recommends the following:

• Use insect repellent: When used as directed, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-registered insect repellents are proven safe and effective, even for pregnant and breastfeeding women. Use an EPA-registered insect repellent with one of the following active ingredients:
  • DEET
  • Picaridin
  • IR3535
  • Oil of lemon eucalyptus (OLE)
  • Para-menthane-diol (PMD)
  • 2-undecanone
• Cover up: Wear long-sleeved shirts and long .
• Routinely check your house surroundings to identify any potential breeding grounds: A female mosquito can lay 100-300 eggs at a single time. Keep in mind mosquitoes can use a single plastic bottle cap filled with water to lay their eggs.
• Keep mosquitoes outside: As long as it is possible, use air conditioning, or window and door screens. If you are not able to protect yourself from mosquitoes inside your home or hotel, ideally sleep under a mosquito bed net.

Here at the University of Rochester Medical Center, we have some graduate students taking the problem of tick and mosquito borne illnesses head-on using innovative, and transformative engaging approaches that are designed for communities.

Highlighting Research at URMC

Lorne Farovitch, a Translational Biomedical Science PhD student in Dr. Benjamin Miller and Dr. Tim Dye’s labs, is studying tick-borne diseases using interdisciplinary approach, including diagnostic testing, science communication and epidemiology. His research is focused on three goals: 1) Define the relationship and the geographic distribution of tick-borne diseases, 2) Determine the application of novel diagnostic testing and 3) Document and determine the effective science communication method with deaf population.

José Pérez Ramos, a Translational Biomedical Science PhD student in Dr. Tim Dye’s Lab, is doing important work in using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to crowd-source mosquito control. He works on the island of Culebra, which is located off the coast of Puerto Rico. Culebra had one of the highest rates of Zika in Puerto Rico. Jose’s work focuses on understanding environmental challenges and mosquito-borne disease risks in the context of a marginalized island. One objective is to use crowdsourcing, maps and technology to engage the community to reduce health risks.

June 2018 Classes by Miner Library

Here are the classes offered by Miner Library for the upcoming month:

EndNote Basics

Date: Thursday, June 28, 2018 Time: 9:00am – 10:00am

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Podcast Basics

Date: Thursday, June 28, 2018 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm

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For a full list of Miner Library’s classes, visit our Classes page.

Have a question? Contact Miner Library’s Answer Desk @ 585-275-3361.