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Health screenings in college health centers: Variations in practice
Get PDFObjective: The purpose of this study was to examine the routine screening of female students in college health centers for six priority health-related behaviors and experiences (tobacco use, alcohol use, eating disorders [EDs], obesity, anxiety and depression, intimate partner violence/sexual violence [IPV/SV]), and to identify variations in practice. Participants: A nationally representative sample of 1,221 healthcare providers (HCPs), including nurse practitioners, physicians, and physician assistants, from 471 U.S. college health centers. Methods: HCPs completed surveys (on-line or paper) and reported on routine screening of female college students. Results: HCPs reported consistently high rates (75–85%) of screening for tobacco use, alcohol use, and anxiety/depression. Rates of screening for IPV/SV, obesity and EDs were much lower. Nurse practitioners reported the highest IPV/SV screening rates. Conclusions: College health centers present unique opportunities for screening, case-finding and intervening to reduce long-term sequelae. Providers are well-positioned to lead initiatives to improve screening practices
Japan’s “Big Lie : The Negation of Oral Testimony of Sexual Violence
Get PDFIn recent years, powerful actors in Japan’s political elite have consistently denied the oral testimony of so-called “comfort women.” The denial of this and related historical crimes is made in the service of a claim we denote here as the “big lie.” This is the erroneous assertion that the Asia-Pacific War was a straightforward war of liberation by the Japanese Imperial Army, inspired by a blameless Emperor and carried out by morally exemplary military forces. This denial of historical realities, especially those related to “comfort women,” has constituted a contributory factor for a pattern of denial regarding all historical crimes. Effects have been far-reaching, including for survivors of sexual abuse who pursue justice. The determination to deny the validity of oral testimony by “comfort women” carried over into the judiciary and society so that numerous public conversations have created a chilling effect for survivors of abuse. Survey research with 800 young Japanese indicated that invocation of “comfort women” issues and the trope of the selfish “bad girl” led to a diminution in support for victims of sexual abuse and an increased tendency to maintain the status quo of inegalitarian gender relations. Further research is required to determine the extent and the nature of the chilling effect that is engendered by the “big lie” to the detriment of sexual abuse survivors in Japan
Final Design Report: Universal Biaxial Tensile Testing Apparatus
Get PDFThe goal of our project is to design an attachment compatible with the Instron 5586 Uniaxial Tensile Testing Machine to be used in the mechanical testing lab at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) to conduct Digital Image Correlation (DIC) testing on hyperelastic materials. The team was tasked with creating an original design that provides simultaneous and equal tension along two axes of the specimen while being subjected to a machine that only provides tension along one axis. To obtain optimal test results using our design, the tensile forces that our design applies need to not only be equal and simultaneous, but also consistent with multiple iterations of testing.
Our team conducted an extensive research process to familiarize ourselves with the problem at hand as well as existing inventions and patents for the solution. The group combined the gathered information to generate 30 concepts each, which were evaluated through Pugh charts and the Quality Function Development (QFD) analysis. Using these analyses, the team decided to use Julia’s concept 13 as our prototype for our Proof of Concept (POC) presentation in December. This concept employed the use of gears to drive simultaneous movement of all arms when the apparatus is subject to uniaxial tension. The team then used the Maker Space located in the University of Rhode Island (URI) Mechanical Engineering Capstone Room to create the first POC prototype, which was then used for testing and presented to our peers and sponsors. We used that feedback to begin the redesign process, adding in gears for larger specimen displacement, grips to hold the specimen, and other final touches for the assembly.
After many sponsor meetings and design changes, all points of feedback were accounted for. The group ordered parts through our NUWC sponsors as well as through the URI Department of Mechanical Engineering and looked into machining the arms and frames for the apparatus. While there were complications and time constraints that did not allow for machining, we were able to make a 3D mockup of our frames and arms to be used along with the gears, racks, grips, bolts, and shafts to assemble our final design. Because the frame and arms were not made of the desired material, we were not able to conduct physical testing on the design. However, the team conducted a Finite Element Analysis on the gears to ensure there is minimal loss and the stress is concentrated on only the gear teeth and the surrounding area.
Despite the setbacks in machining and testing, our team has exceeded expectations for the past two semesters. Based on the testing and analyses we were able to conduct, we are confident that our apparatus will provide equal and simultaneous force on the desired specimen. Our sponsors are enthusiastic about the concept and plan to machine the frame and arms to conduct testing on the apparatus, and will later go on to use it for the testing of hyperelastic materials
Shipping Sleeve Solution
Get PDFThis Final Design Report serves as a demonstration of Team 19’s, the Package Pals, Capstone project. The purpose of the report is to provide an explanation of the project, goals, findings, and accomplishments. The Package Pals were tasked by their sponsor, MAGSEAL, to design a shipping system that ensures protection and stability, accommodates various seal diameters, and optimizes expenses and sustainability. Every seal produced by MAGSEAL is custom made for its unique application and composed of the seal case rotor and magnet stator. These main components should not slide against one another because mobility can cause demagnetization. Through the use of an innovative solution, known as 3D Floating Frame Cases, the team was able to meet the criteria for the system provided by the sponsor. The design of the frame cases consists of an ABS plastic frame that is lined with PE film on the top and bottom faces. Enclosing the MAGSEAL seals within the film faces of the frame prevents sliding between components. This product is readily available and can accommodate multiple seal diameter sizes which eliminates the need for manufacturing the shipping sleeves that divert time from producing seals. Decreasing assembly time was made possible through the user-friendliness of the frame cases and using a layering method for the outer packaging. The layering mimics the individual cardboard boxes used in the current system by using bubble wrap and cardboard slats. The stable structure of the frame along with the layered outer packaging method of the new process allows for the ability to absorb the forces that the package may endure during transit. In addition to this, using sustainable materials, and condensing the amount of packaging used for each seal would decreases the cost, reduces waste, and aids in a low impact solution for the system.
The Package Pals were able to accomplish this by using the information gathered from the sponsor, literature searches, and patent searches to create design specifications that aided in producing design concepts. These concepts were narrowed down through a Pugh Analysis and QFD for the optimal design choice of the frame cases. Tests were conducted according to industry standards for the current and concept systems, the seals were examined for damage, and data was recorded. The team used findings to confirm if their solution was a viable option and access areas to improve upon during the redesign process. A financial analysis was performed for ensuring the cost improvements. In addition to this, the team included a storage space analysis to demonstrate the conciseness of the new system. This report details the comparison of both systems and where improvements were made for the sponsor and their system
Two Decades of Gender Troubles in Iceland: The Translation of Gender, Differences, and the Uncertainty of Meaning
Get PDFWhen “gender” was translated to Icelandic in 1998 as kyngervi, the notion of performative gender had been circulating in Icelandic academia for a little over a year. The introduction and dissemination of the term inside academia then became quite rapid, with the help of diverse professional fields such as art, literary, history and gender studies, but criticism on the translation did not appear until well into the second decade of the twenty-first century, when it was pointed out that the translated term conveys a difference between “sex” and “gender,” with the possible consequence of perpetuating this dichotomy although it had been under scrutiny within English speaking feminist debates since the beginning of the 1990s. Notwithstanding this difference, the term had by then gained ground in academia. It was widely used in feminist and queer activism, and it had found its way into public institutions and regulations. This article sheds light on how key terms travel in translation and possibly break barriers between disciplines and people. What has the confusion between the signifier and the signified led to, given that the notion of performative gender—as a notion emphasizing a socially constructed reality rather than a biological given—has gained ground and come to be widely accepted in Icelandic society? Can we possibly say that the term’s translation history is in itself a proof of Judith Butler’s theory, since the unstable meaning of the sign does not seem to have much to do with its acceptance? It is rather the repetition and iteration of a unique Icelandic queering of the concept that has secured its dissemination
Beauvoir, “French” Feminisms, and “Translation Work:” A Roundtable Conversation
Get PDFThis conversation featuring four scholars—Sandrine Sanos, Judith G. Coffin, Lorraine Delavaud, Marine Vaslin—took place on zoom on December 1, 2023. It was organized, transcribed, and edited by Sandrine Sanos who also wrote the introduction to contextualize the conversation. The roundtable reflects on the making of the translation of Judith Coffin’s book on Beauvoir; and how it became a collective object, and the challenges and productive limitations that it involved, showing how such a project helped forge and relied upon transnational, transdisciplinary, and transgenerational feminist solidarities. The ways Beauvoir became a transatlantic object sheds light on the ways that the book and its translation allow us to see Beauvoir anew
