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Disability and Human Trafficking: Prevention Education and Professional Training
Full text linkAim: This pilot study aimed to explore the intersection of disability and anti-trafficking prevention and training efforts from the perspectives of human trafficking survivors with disabilities and the professionals who work with them to inform further research.
Methods: The current study draws from in-depth interviews with seven participants, including two survivors and five professionals who regularly worked with human trafficking survivors with disabilities. Data analysis involved independent co-coding of transcribed interviews by a three-member research team to identify core themes and subthemes.
Results: The results showed a lack of human trafficking prevention education for people with disabilities, as well as disability inclusive training for professionals. Participants described the need for prevention education to be audience-tailored, accessible, and culturally humble. Participants described that professional training was lacking in both the inclusion of people with disabilities and accessibility, and highlighted the importance of training that includes culturally humble practices.
Implications: Prevention education necessitates consideration of the audience, including tailoring content and delivery to the audience (e.g., age/ disability type), making content accessible, and exercising cultural humility in learning about and modifying curriculum and delivery. Professional training requires inclusiveness of the heightened risk experienced by people with disabilities, as well as ways risks and signs may be distinct by disability type. Professional training should be accessible to professionals with disabilities and also include information about accessibility within organizations and culturally humble practices to better serve human trafficking survivors with disabilities
Alma Link Resolver Referring Sources Report 2023-2024
Full text linkStatistics from 2023-2024 on the number of OpenURL requests made to the Alma link resolver for items held by the University of Rhode Island Libraries.
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Alma Link Resolver Title & ISSN Report (Top 500) 2023-2024
Full text linkStatistics for 2023-2024 on the total number of OpenURL requests by journal title and ISSN made to the Ex Libris Alma link resolver for items held by the University of Rhode Island Libraries. Includes only the top 500 journals.
Information provided includes journal Title, ISSN, EISSN, Number of Requests, Number of Clicked Requests, % Clicks from Requests
QUICCHE CPIES Data Report
Full text linkThe goal of QUantifying Interocean fluxes in the Cape Cauldron Hotspot of Eddy kinetic energy (QUICCHE) was to observe mixing and stirring in the Cape Basin in the southeast Atlantic Ocean across time and space scales ranging from seconds to months and from centimeters to tens of kilometers using a variety of sensors and platforms. As part of QUICCHE, two inverted echo sounders equipped with bottom pressure gauges and current meters (CPIES) were deployed at sites designated CP01 and CP02 at 4676 and 4895 m depth respectively, from March 2023 to April 2024. This report documents the processing of data collected from these two CPIES. CTDs were taken at each CPIES site
Does Land Conservation Financially Harm Renters?
Full text linkEnvironmental public goods and hazards are unequally distributed, with minority and low-income communities faring far worse. While environmental improvements are likely to benefit disadvantaged groups, these improvements can increase the desirability of neighborhoods and increase housing prices. For homeowners, this yields a gain in equity but can negatively impact renters through increased housing costs. This paper seeks to evaluate how rental prices respond to gains in land conservation relative to owner-occupied home values using a panel of census and conservation data from the United States. We employ a first-difference regression model and use propensity score matching as a pre-processing method to improve the comparability of areas with and without new conservation. Overall, our results suggest that local gains in conservation do not capitalize into rental prices but do capitalize into home values. We pair these results with several robustness checks and alternative models, all of which support our primary findings
Challenging Motherhood and Analysing Cultural Differences: A Review of the Film Mrs. Chatterjee vs Norway (2023)
Full text linkResponse to a Political Critique and Personal Attack Against a United Nations Report that Presented New Evidence About Prostitution as a Cause and Consequence of Violence Against Women and Girls
Full text linkReem Alsalem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls, Its Causes and Consequences, responses to the false and unfounded accusations and personal attacks on her Report on Prostitution and Violence Against Women presented before the 56th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, 2024. I presented new evidence regarding the relationship between violence against women and girls and prostitution. Using human rights law, the Report described how prostitution is a system of abuse, exploitation, and violence against women and girls. The Report’s goal was to clarify concepts and terminology, to describe the root causes and consequences of prostitution. The report’s success lies in breaking the domination of the one-sided narrative that was largely imposed by powerful lobbies and interest groups that benefit from the exploitation and abuse of women’s bodies and seek to legitimize it. When prostituted women’s testimonies are given the weight they deserve; when the data is allowed to speak for itself, it is clear that prostitution is a system of violence against women and girls
Self-Assembled Cysteamine Reporter Ligands for SERS Nitrate Detection in Continuous Flow
No full textElevated nitrate concentrations in aquatic environments can contribute to the formation of harmful algal blooms, which lead to eutrophication. In this work, cysteamine self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on two-dimensional gold nanostructured substrates were investigated for the capture and detection of nitrate anions by surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) under continuous fluid flow. An indirect detection strategy is demonstrated where cysteamine Raman activity and SAM reconfiguration change due to nitrate adsorption. Nitrate adsorption, as well as SAM reconfiguration based on the gauche to trans conformation ratio, were dependent upon the cysteamine protonation state. The terminating amine of cysteamine was Raman active when protonated near the expected SAM pKa and the gold-thiol bond was increasingly Raman active above the expected pKa. Highly charged SAMs (pH 3) were not responsive to nitrate, suggesting that nitrate detection is reliant upon the dynamic interplay between protonation, charge state, and nitrate adsorption. Cysteamine SAMs responded to nitrate concentrations spanning 101 to 103 nanomolar (100 to 102 parts per billion), which are considerably lower than those previously reported for direct detection of nitrate using cationic SAMs. This work demonstrates the potential for indirect SERS detection of anionic pollutants using rationally selected capture + reporter ligands