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Dropout? More like ‘pushout,’ since we fail our kids, Latino educator Victor Rios says | NBC News
It is important to specify that it is the circumstances of the young person that places them at risk, rather than labeling a student “at-risk,” according to Pedro Noguera, professor of education at the University of California, Los Angeles. “The risk lies in the circumstances the child lives in, not in the child,” said Noguera. “That is what we have to focus on. That means increasing support for community programs and opportunity — which is actually a lot more cost-effective than trying to change a person we think is broken.”
From coma to commit: Mitchell Agude’s life-altering journey to UCLA football | Los Angeles Daily News
“What brought me to UCLA was all the endless types of opportunities that it could bring,” Agude said. “Connection wise, football wise, just everything in academics. It was kinda like a no-brainer to pursue UCLA over everything else. I still pinch myself. I don’t even understand how I’m here but it’s just wild. It’s mind-boggling to me.”
While Larry Nassar victims wait, lawyers cash in on USA Gymnastics bankruptcy | Washington Post
While federal judges can reject fees in bankruptcy cases, according to UCLA expert [Lynn] LoPucki, it rarely happens. “Fees are approved something like 98.7 percent of the time,” LoPucki said.
Inside the battle for Britney Spears | Los Angeles magazine
“The Guardians,” a wrenching 2018 documentary by filmmaker Billie Mintz about widespread probate abuse, was screened recently at UCLA Law School as part of a conference on conservatorship and guardianship abuse. The discussion afterward went beyond how probate pirates across the country are raiding high-net-worth people like Britney. The worst abuses are now occurring in cities where professional conservators are targeting the elderly who reside in gentrifying neighborhoods, working hand in hand with realtors, developers, and sometimes members of feuding families to gain legal control. They can then remove the old folks from their homes — often against their will — institutionalize them, and rapidly acquire and flip aging housing stock.
Natural therapies that could help your rheumatoid arthritis | NBC’s “Today”
Because it’s not possible to predict in advance which will be the most helpful for a particular person, Dr. Elizabeth Volkmann encourages patients interested in alternative therapies to try multiple options. “My approach is to tell patients to do a combination,” said Volkmann, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of rheumatology at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Very often patients feel they have to choose,” she added. “I don’t think so. Just make sure, whatever you are using, that you tell your doctor so you can be checked for kidney and liver function.”
How medical AI can save patients from excessive exposure to radiation | Forbes
There’s also plenty of research being conducted in the area of creating 3D models out of 2D images. Publishing their research in Nature last month, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have successfully used deep learning to create 3D models out of images obtained from microscopes. Likewise, in 2018 the Allen Institute announced that it had used AI to create 3D models of cells, potentially enabling doctors to track how cancer changes them.
Even after retinal surgery, Savannah Guthrie still has a ‘bubble’ in her eye | Prevention
What does it mean to have a “bubble" in your eye? It seems weird, but it’s actually a normal part of the surgery Guthrie had, says Vivian Shibayama, O.D., an optometrist with UCLA Health. Guthrie’s retinal tear was repaired with a type of surgery called a vitrectomy, “which is where they suck out the clear fluid inside the eye so they can repair the tear,” Dr. Shibayama explains. “After they repair the tear, they put in a gas bubble or silicone oil to help the retina stay attached.” (The bubble is later removed during a second surgery, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology.)
New image of candy cane-shaped feature in center of Milky Way | Space Daily
Mark Morris, a UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a member of the research team, discovered the structure, also called the radio arc, with a former student, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, back in 1983, but they did not have such a complete and colorful image of it then. (Also: Scienmag)
Daylight Books publishes ‘Once Upon a Time in Shanghai’ | Artdaily
In his essay in the book, Michael Berry, Director of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, describes the evolution of the Chinese film industry into the global force that it is today. “Through his images, Mark Parascandola captures these sites and people that inhabit them, offering us fleeting images of classical Chinese costume dramas, modern war films, Republican Shanghai, and the socialist past. It is through these images that contradictions lurking beneath the surface emerge as we witness a side of China that is both classical and modern, genuine and staged, glamorous and mundane, new and old, deeply tied to history yet continually being remolded.”
8 simple ways to get rid of belly bloat | Shape
“Many people aren’t actually bloated at all; they’ve just developed a habit of relaxing their abdominal muscles and contracting their diaphragm, which makes them look and feel bloated because their stomachs are sticking out,” says Brennan Spiegel, M.D., an associate professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Learn to contract your abs instead. Imagine someone is about to punch you in the gut, and pull your belly button in toward your spine.
A diet plan that fakes intermittent fasting | Shape
Researchers out of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) put 19 people on a diet for five days a month for three months. On the first day, the diet provided 1,090 calories; days two through five gave them 725 calories. For the rest of the month, participants ate however they normally did. In the end, the people’s blood sugar and inflammatory markers (signs of disease-promoting inflammation) improved —even after they’d started eating normally.