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LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF REGIONAL COOPERATION: A CASE STUDY OF GUYANA
Get PDFOn November 15, 2023, Major RNLMC (Ret) Charles Suilen presented Lessons Learned about the Importance of Regional Cooperation: A Case Study of Guyana for this year’s West Coast Security Conference. The presentation was followed by a question-and-answer period with questions from the audience and CASIS Vancouver executives. The key points discussed were Regional Triggers and Trends, Regional Actors, and Security Challenges.
Received: 01-20-2024
Revised: 01-26-202
The heating of buildings and the mental health of their inhabitants:: Three buildings in Paris
Get PDFParisian buildings are concerned by work programmes undertaken within the framework of the Climate Plan initiated by the city. This renewal process affects the social life of the buildings, which has been consolidated over the years. While a building is built by materials and populations, it is also the result of history, from its construction to its daily maintenance or degradation. Our assumption is that people who have no control over their living space are likely to suffer more mental health problems, in most cases without knowing exactly why, due to lack of knowledge about the causes of these problems or lack of health literacy concerning their living space. The inability to adapt to housing makes us wonder: How can residents’ mental health be influenced by their ability to control their living space? To show this, we will study three buildings affected by the tension between factors that generate dissatisfaction. The research-action SAPHIR, (Health, Paris, History, Building, Residential), carried out after the Covid crisis and during a period marked by the energy transition policy, illustrates the stress experienced by the inhabitants faced with the necessity to save energy and have work carried out in their homes
Treatment of Secondary Psychopathy: A Proposed Application of Decompression Treatment
Get PDFPrevious research has achieved little success in the pursuit of an effective treatment regime for psychopathy, leaving many researchers skeptical as to whether psychopathy is treatable at all. However, the same researchers often unintentionally adhere to an underlying fallacy, by assuming that psychopathy is a uniform construct. By reducing psychopathy to its primary and secondary variants, it quickly becomes apparent that this distinction is key with respect to treatability. In particular, the two psychopathy variants have three major etiological differences with regards to emotional processing, reward sensitivity, and attachment style factors. Accordingly, a relatively novel corrections/clinical hybrid model titled ‘decompression treatment’ (DT) naturally becomes relevant to the discussion. Designed to be an alternative to conventional corrections placement, DT has exclusively handled the most serious of offenders since its inception, including violent inmates, mentally disordered offenders, and most notably, adolescents manifesting psychopathic traits. The model relies on three core principles: first, is minimizing the amount of potentially harmful stimuli present in the corrections environment; second, is providing a reward system to those who exhibit prosocial behaviour; and third, is building positive relationships between patients and staff. Fittingly, these three principles directly correlate with the lived experiences of secondary, but not necessarily primary, psychopaths. After making a case for the models application in the secondary psychopath population, the discussion concludes with an examination of the strengths and weaknesses of the model. Ultimately, DT lends itself to be a promising treatment option for secondary psychopaths
Marian Miracles at Constantinople and Lepanto, 1422 and 1571
Get PDFThis paper compares the miraculous actions of the Virgin Mary during a 1422 siege of Constantinople and 1571 Battle of Lepanto. Avoiding secular skepticism against miracles, it centers the perspectives of fourteenth and fifteenth century believers by reading their accounts as faithful and accurate. From there, it defines three categories of miracle – direct-action, manipulation of human actions, and indirect, ambiguous actions that connote absolute power – and closes by questioning such categorizations altogether
CLEWs modelling workflow development to support coherent policy development
Get PDFCLEWs models provide a framework for evaluating the trade-offs between environment, energy infrastructure, water usage, land usage and resource cooperation of a nation or a group of nations.. CLEWs modelling also provides a path for governments to analyse which energy systems they should invest in and how resources, such as land and water should be allocated, to provide the lowest cost for a government’s targeted climate, agricultural and energy goals.
The project documents the current best practice for creating a CLEWs model using the Open Source Energy Modelling System (OSeMOSYS). Current best practices create a CLEWs model using OSeMOSYS Global for electricity system details and GeoCLEWS for the land and water use structure. These pieces are then processed to build a CLEWs base model for any country. The project identifies areas where the workflow can be streamlined and automated using Python scripts and snakemake automation.
I applied this workflow to a model of Guyana and provide example results highlighting the benefits and usefulness of the workflow
Intergenerational Transmission of Emotional Wellbeing: Examining the Socialization of Positive Emotions Across Generations
Get PDFEmotion socialization (ES; i.e., strategies that minimize, dismiss, magnify, or reward emotions) are influenced by parents’ own understanding and expression of emotions, which is shown to be a function of their socialization history (i.e., strategies used by their parents; Leerkes et al., 2020). Intergenerational ES research has focused almost exclusively on negative emotions (e.g., anger, sadness). However, positive emotions are critical for wellbeing and positive relationships (Costa Martins et al., 2018). Importantly, unlike negative emotions that are managed to promote effective regulation, positive emotions (e.g., joy, gratitude, pride) are cultivated primarily in discussions in which they are magnified (i.e., reciprocating the emotion with equal or greater intensity), particularly in Western cultures (Fredrickson, 1998). Our research will explore the role that parental socialization histories play in shaping their own strategies to socialize positive emotions in their children in the context of parent-child conversations. In this study, 80 parent-child pairs will be recruited from the Greater Vancouver Area, focusing on children ages 6-9 years (a critical developmental period for emotion development; Peplak et al., 2023). Parents will complete a questionnaire, in which they will report on their own parents’ ES strategies of positive emotions (including pride). Parent-child pairs will then discuss emotionally evocative stories. We will code conversations for supportive and unsupportive emotion socialization strategies. A correlational analysis will be conducted to examine the association between parents’ emotion socialization history and their socialization of positive emotions, from which intergenerational influence can be inferred. Preliminary findings will be presented and discussed.
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Joanna Peplak, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser Universit
The Influence of Cultural Norms on Features in Parent-Child Conversations of Moral Pride
No full textMoral pride—a positive emotion after engaging in an act of kindness—can serve as a psychological reinforcement for continued moral action. Cross-cultural research on moral pride suggests it emerges from 6 to 9 years of age, with Western countries (e.g., Canada) expressing heightened levels and Eastern countries (e.g., Japan) experiencing dampened levels. Considering the value of modesty and group harmony, collectivistic cultures tend to suppress expressions of pride, whereas this emotion is promoted in individualistic cultures. Yet, there is a dearth of research on how moral pride is socialized in conversations and the role cultural background plays in (in)directly promoting or attenuating pride-related emotions in children. Our study aims to explore (1) parental communication practices within moral pride-discussions between parent-child dyads, and (2) the role of culture in parental socialization strategies of moral pride. We will recruit 80 ethnically diverse parent-child dyads (children ages 6 to 9 years) from the Greater Vancouver Area. Dyads will discuss stories designed to evoke pride following moral and achievement-related accomplishments. Parents will complete the Singelis’s norms subscale to gauge adherence of collectivistic or individualistic cultural norms. We predict that parents who endorse individualistic cultural norms will guide their children towards positive emotions, by emphasizing the importance and benefits of pride within conversations. Conversely, parents endorsing collectivistic norms may direct their children towards the action that leads to accomplishments, while downplaying the significance of pride itself. Preliminary findings will be presented upon the commencement of data collection
The Old Grey Box
Get PDFA tale of a suicidal young woman and the events that unfolded in the years leading up to her hospitalization
The Continuity of Parks : La continuidad de los parques
No full textThrough a story inside a story, fact and fiction collide. In the frame story, a man has just finished some "urgent business" in town and is returning to his home estate while reading a novel. Two lovers who gather in a lodge in the woods to destroy "that other body" are the subject of the novel he is reading, The Embedded Story. When one of the novel's protagonists, the embedded tale, inserts himself into the frame story's reality, the narrative's structure is disrupted