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From Commerce to Catharsis: Investigating Fandom and Cathartic Consumerism
No full textThis conceptual paper explores the therapeutic and cathartic aspects of fandom-related consumption, aiming to understand how fans engage with objects related to their interests for emotional and psychological relief. A systematic review of literature on fandom, catharsis, and consumer behaviour reveals a significant gap in understanding the individualized nature of fandom-mediated cathartic consumption. The research investigates the complex and personal relationships that fans form with their objects of interest, emphasizing how these connections drive fandom-related consumption behaviour for therapeutic purposes.
The study underscores the importance of comprehending the interplay between emotional and social factors in influencing consumer behaviour. For marketing and branding professionals, this understanding is crucial in enhancing customer satisfaction, loyalty, and perceived value. By acknowledging the psychosomatic relationship consumers have with brands, companies can strengthen their market position and foster deeper customer relationships.
Fandoms are typically seen as collective experiences that foster social identity and community. However, this study emphasizes the often overlooked individual aspect, where fandom can contribute to personal well-being, mental health, and emotional stability through parasocial relationships and immersive experiences. Understanding these personal dynamics is essential for future research and for leveraging fandom-related consumption in marketing strategies.
This paper calls for further empirical investigations into the individualized cathartic benefits of fandom-related consumption, with a particular focus on the personal bonds fans form with their idols and the therapeutic outcomes of such engagements
Co-Crystallization of Photoresponsive Molecules with Metal Perchlorates
No full textThe interaction between photoresponsive molecules and potent oxidizers, such as metal perchlorates, is of interest to the Marczenko lab for their potential to control energetic material reactivity, leading to increased energy release and improved detonation. Metal perchlorates, such as manganese (Mn(ClO4)2), nickel (Ni(ClO4)2), and aluminum (Al(ClO4)3), are known for their oxidizing strength, releasing oxygen during decomposition to enhance the combustion capabilities of energetic materials. Additionally, they are thermally stable, making them suitable for higher temperature applications.
Photoresponsive molecules can transfer energy from light to matter. The photoresponsive molecules of interest for this project were azobenzene and styrylpyridine derivatives. Co-crystallization of photoresponsive molecules with Mg, Ni, and Al perchlorate salts using slow cooling and evaporation methods yielded positive preliminary results. Characterization techniques, including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), were utilized to assess molecular identity and phase formations. Diethyl benzylphosphonate was successfully synthesized, which was required for the successful synthesis of (E)-4-styrlpyrdine. Future work will continue to characterize the products from these reactions, generate co-crystals of (E)-4-styrlpyrdine with metal perchlorate salts, and assess the photoreactivity of these new materials
Building Queer Utopia: A Framework for Collectivity & Creativity
No full textA critical or queer utopia is a space where we can dream radically different potentialities than those dictated to us by the myriad oppressions of daily life. Beyond glimpsing alternative futures, collective spaces, such as hybrid art-social events, centre desire, joy, and curiosity. They can also create room for different modes of being in the world and room to breathe. Although this world is neither utopic nor queer in many regards, it is still possible to make pockets that are both in the here and now, if only fleetingly. I believe queer people are actively fostering such spaces within their intimate social circles and beyond. This experimental research project combines queer theory, qualitative interview data, and the process of making art in group settings to understand how and why 2S/LGBTQIA+ student artists use their creative practices to explore the self and build community. It also offers a foundational framework for future projects in this area—academic, creative, sociopolitical, or a combination thereof. I designed an open-access zine to document the workshop guide, artwork and stories by myself and participants, interview excerpts addressing desirable futures, and some reflections on the project
Can De-escalation Training Reduce Use of Force and Injuries to Citizens Without Risking Officer Safety?
No full textThe authors evaluated the effects of customized police de-escalation training in Tempe, AZ, by comparing officers who did, or did not, receive the training. This training was designed with interpersonal skills, emotional regulation, tactical skills, and officer safety/wellness as key pillars, along with scenario-based assessments and refresher training. The authors investigated the impact of the training using administrative data, as well as body-worn camera (BWC) footage for all use of force incidents six months pre- and post-training. The key outcomes were use of force (overall and by type), encounter length, and citizen and officer injury.
Both officer groups saw declines in use of force encounters after training delivery, which is likely attributed to reduced police-citizen contacts due to the global pandemic. Trained officers decreased certain force types that are likely to cause injury (e.g., strikes). Trained officers also spent significantly more time on scene for use of force encounters. Finally, trained officers were less likely to injure community members when using force. These changes occurred with no increased risk of injury to officers who received the de-escalation training
Perceptions of Police Treatment from Young Persons with Mental Illness: Findings from the Australian Youth Safety Survey
No full textThis study sought to understand the experiences and perceptions of the police from young people with mental illness in Australia.
The findings of the source article showed that young people with mental illness, and other young people with marginalized identities, were significantly more likely than their peers to distrust the police and believe them to be procedurally unjust as an organization.
Public perceptions of the police are important since they may influence the way in which the public and the police interact with one another and whether young people with mental illness will call police for assistance
The Mock Transcript Technique: An Interviewing Tool for Improving Witnesses Recall
No full textThe Mock Transcript technique is designed to help interviewees understand the level of detail expected to be recalled by showing them a lengthy transcribed statement from a “previous interviewee”. The Mock Transcript technique sets a clear expectation for a witness by emphasizing that a prior interviewee put in significant effort and shared extensive fine-grained details when recalling their experience.
Initial laboratory research has shown that the Mock Transcript technique is effective in encouraging interviewees to provide more detailed accounts of what they witnessed. However, more research is needed to determine how well it works during real police interviews
Rebellious and Zapatista Children and Youth: The experience of the Otomí community in resistance in Mexico City
No full textThe Otomí community in resistance in Mexico City is part of the Indigenous Council of Government (CIG) of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Mexico. For more than four decades they have been demanding the lack of rights of indigenous communities to health, education, housing and decent work, among many others. This article gives an account of the way in which Otomi children and youth have experienced these struggles over the last six years, in which they have lived through a series of experiences ranging from rejection in schools and police harassment, to eviction from their homes. Amid this violence and because of the pandemic in 2020, Otomi women took over the former National Institute for Indigenous Peoples (INPI) to convert it into the Samir Flores Soberanes Peoples\u27 House. This place is already emblematic at national and international level because it brings together other struggles that dialogue with Zapatismo in the search for the construction of other ways of inhabiting the world, from justice and dignity. In this article, we analyze how racism operates in different dimensions in a profoundly unequal society such as the Mexican one
Investigating the Invisible Hand of Colonialism: A critical children’s rights and decolonial literature review of children\u27s health and social policies
No full textAcross contexts, health and social policies for children are developed and operate within legal and social frameworks imbued with colonial legacies, hierarchies, and epistemologies. This academic literature review examines how colonialism has ascribed dominant rhetoric and practices surrounding children, childhood, and children’s rights, perpetuating hierarchies and selective realisation of rights replicating imperialism that disenfranchises marginalised children and imposes Western ideals globally (Faulkner & Nyamutata, 2020). Health and social systems and policies have been—and continue to be—implicated in colonialism (Hoselton, 2024). To decolonize children’s rights and produce equitable, inclusive policies, the paper recommends support for effective child and youth participation, avoiding state complacency, improving respect of families and networks, and greater integration of Indigenous knowledges and values. This paper highlights what has and has not been addressed by researchers, policy-makers, and other professional stakeholders to envision a decolonial future with all children included in meaningful, culturally relevant health and social policies.  
Excluding cosmetic surgeries on hyperbolic 3-manifolds
No full textThis paper employs knot invariants and results from hyperbolic geometry to develop a practical procedure for checking the cosmetic surgery conjecture on any given one-cusped manifold. This procedure has been used to establish the following computational results. First, we verify that all knots up to 19 crossings, and all one-cusped 3-manifolds in the SnapPy census, do not admit any purely cosmetic surgeries. Second, we check that a hyperbolic knot with at most 15 crossings only admits chirally cosmetic surgeries when the knot itself is amphicheiral. Third, we enumerate all knots up to 13 crossings that share a common Dehn filling with the figure-8 knot. The code that verifies these results is publicly available on GitHub
Creating an Undergraduate Student Handbook for Scientific Journal Publication
No full textThe Undergraduate Student Handbook for Scientific Journal Publication was developed to support first-year students in understanding and navigating the academic publishing process. Designed for NSCI 1000, an interdisciplinary seminar focused on scientific literacy and communication, the handbook builds on a course assignment where students create infographics about Citizen Science projects. It provides clear, step-by-step guidance on the publication process, from peer review to editing, enabling students to create a special edition of the Carleton Undergraduate Journal of Science (CUJS)