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Sexual communication patterns of heterosexual-identified men who have sex with men.
No full textThe sexual communication patterns that comprise how heterosexual men with concordance between identity and behavior navigate their sexual encounters with women are well-established. Some heterosexual men experience discordance between their sexual identities and behaviors and may have unique practices of sexual communication, but this has not been studied. Knowledge of their sexual communication practices is an important step toward understanding and improving their sexual experiences. Therefore, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 heterosexual-identified men who have sex with men to learn more about their sexual communication strategies. Three themes were identified through interpretative phenomenological analysis: meeting sex partners, clear communication with men, and poor communication with women. Findings suggest that sexual communication is gendered. Participants reported utilizing short and explicit verbal and written communication strategies with other men via the internet and in various sexualized venues. Yet, participants more frequently used implicit sexual cues as the primary source of sexual communication when with women. Implications related to boosting sexual satisfaction and preventing nonconsensual sexual encounters are discussed.</p
Brief communication: effect of a one-stop-shop intervention on COVID-19 vaccine uptake among people living with HIV in Nairobi and Kajiado counties, Kenya
No full textPeople living with HIV (PLHIV) are at increased risk of COVID-19 related morbidity and mortality. We describe the effect of a ‘One-Stop-Shop’ intervention on COVID-19 vaccine uptake among PLHIV in Nairobi and Kajiado Counties, Kenya. All PLHIV in selected HIV clinics in Nairobi and Kajiado were included. They received the COVID-19 vaccine alongside other PLHIV services within the HIV clinics. Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s chi-square test and two sample proportion tests were performed. COVID-19 vaccine uptake among PLHIV in both counties increased post-intervention. Nairobi County had 61% COVID-19 vaccine uptake post intervention compared to 38% pre intervention while Kajiado County had 72% uptake, up from 49% pre intervention. Females had the highest post intervention uptake in both counties at 52% (Nairobi) and 54% (Kajiado). In conclusion, COVID-19 vaccine uptake among PLHIV increased after implementation of the One-Stop-Shop intervention.</p
Using Ecological Systems Theory to Enhance Community Health Literacy
No full textABSTRACT Background: The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated long-standing disparities that many people in the United States experience due to their race and ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Brief description of activity: An outcry from several relevant stakeholders ignited a federal response from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), who, among other entities, decided to address low health literacy (HL) in underserved communities. Evidence suggests that HL impacts under-resourced communities’ understanding of health issues and whether they adhere to health guidelines. Implementation: This article aims to provide an ecological analysis of HL best practices, highlighting their role in community health during public health crises. Results: Although a vast amount of literature applies Ecological Systems Theory (EST) to understanding and addressing a range of issues impacting the health of communities, scarce literature applies EST to understanding HL interventions. Lessons learned: We discuss implications for public health efforts, concluding that Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory is effective for grounding the development and implementation of best practices for promoting HL interventions. [HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice. 2025;9(1):e29–e36.] Plain Language Summary: The Ecological Systems Theory (EST) provides a framework for understanding health literacy at different levels of impact on an individual. This perspective is ideal for advancing health literacy in communities disproportionately affected by social determinants of health. We postulate that efforts to advance health literacy grounded in the EST framework are more likely to promote a health-literate society and contribute to reducing health disparities.</p
Rejecting the Group-Based View of Oppression
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This chapter argues that we should reject the standard, group-based view of oppression. On the standard view, groups are taken to be the primary subjects of oppression, and individuals are only oppressed by virtue of their membership in an oppressed group. While this view is so standard as to frequently be taken to be definitional of oppression, surprisingly little has been said to elaborate or defend it. In this chapter, the author elaborates the group-based view in more detail and argues that we should reject it on intersectional grounds. She starts by identifying what she takes to be the central commitment of the group-based view—that groups are the primary subjects of oppression—and argues that it gives rise to an additive and falsely universalizing picture of oppression that fails to do justice to important intersectional insights. The author then considers a revised version of the group-based view that abandons the claim that groups are the primary subjects of oppression, and instead centers the explanatory claim that individuals are oppressed by virtue of their membership in certain groups. On this revision, individuals are oppressed based on their social position, understood as the overall combination of groups that the individual is a member of. The author argues that while we should go in for a positional view, we should not analyze these positions in terms of group membership, because group membership fails to do the relevant explanatory work. She concludes that we should reject the group-based view of oppression.</p
LLM-Based Human-Agent Collaboration and Interaction Systems: A Survey
No full textRecent advances in large language models (LLMs) have sparked growing interest in building fully autonomous agents. However, fully autonomous LLM-based agents still face significant challenges, including limited reliability due to hallucinations, difficulty in handling complex tasks, and substantial safety and ethical risks, all of which limit their feasibility and trustworthiness in real-world applications. To overcome these limitations, LLM-based human-agent systems (LLM-HAS) incorporate human-provided information, feedback, or control into the agent system to enhance system performance, reliability and safety. These human-agent collaboration systems enable humans and LLM-based agents to collaborate effectively by leveraging their complementary strengths. This paper provides the first comprehensive and structured survey of LLM-HAS. It clarifies fundamental concepts, systematically presents core components shaping these systems, including environment & profiling, human feedback, interaction types, orchestration and communication, explores emerging applications, and discusses unique challenges and opportunities arising from human-AI collaboration. By consolidating current knowledge and offering a structured overview, we aim to foster further research and innovation in this rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field. Paper lists and resources are available at https://github.com/HenryPengZou/Awesome-Human-Agent-Collaboration-Interaction-Systems. The arXiv version is at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00753</p
Pesticide Safety Webinar Series
No full textDiagnosis and Management of Pesticide-Related Illness and How to Prevent Pesticide Poisoning in Farmworkers: Three-Part Webinar Series</p
Analysis of Proposals to Revise Tier 2 Pension Plans
No full textThe State of Illinois is facing major pension challenges. In 2010, the state created Tier 2, which resulted in lower pension benefits for employees who started January 1, 2011 or later. The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability (2011) estimated this would save the state 10.1 billion, which is equivalent to 19 percent of the state’s total budget for the general funds (Governor’s Off ice of Management and Budget, 2024). These high funding levels are expected to continue as the state remains on a path to achieve 90 percent funded levels for the state pension plans by 2045 as required by state statute. Documenting recent experiences should help to inform discussion of what is likely to happen next, as the rental housing market transitions back to normal now that the eviction moratoria have been lifted. A substantial backlog of eviction cases means that the range of innovations in.The state’s five pension plans combined had $144 billion in unfunded liabilities and a funded level of 46 percent in FY 2024 (Bae & Fast, 2024). This is the lowest funded level among the 50 states (S&P Global, 2024). Therefore, proposals to revise the Tier 2 pension plan could compound the state’s current fiscal challenges.</p
Agricultural Vehicle Crash Surveillance, 2018-2023
No full textThe Agricultural Vehicle Crash Surveillance Report summarizes information gathered from police accident reports (PARs; also referred to as police crash reports) reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) through the Illinois Crash Information System (CIS). Starting with data collected in 2018, this report includes common descriptors and reasons for crashes, vehicle-specific data for agricultural vehicles involved in crashes, demographic characteristics of people involved in agricultural-related vehicle crashes, and temporal and spatial patterns using the CIS. Based on this analysis, agricultural-related vehicle crashes are common in Illinois, with reported crashes widely distributed across the state. Most crashes occurred during months when planting (May/June) and harvesting (September to November) occur, demonstrating seasonality in collision incidents. Additionally, workdays saw higher crash totals compared to weekends, with Monday through Wednesday seeing the highest crashes. While the number of agricultural-related crashes accounts for a small subset of the total number of crashes seen in Illinois, these incidents may be underreported, and the severity of these types of crashes may also be greater due to the nature of the vehicles or machinery involved. Therefore, greater surveillance efforts are vital to comprehensively describe agriculture vehicle crash characteristics, including their prevalence and severity.From 2018 to 2023, the total number of crashes involving agricultural vehicles decreased from 622 in 2018 to 501 in 2020 and 2023, with a slight increase seen in 2021 (n=518).The point of first contact was the front of agricultural vehicles in 12.2% of crash cases compared to 20.8% of non-agricultural vehicles, indicating that many of the collisions involve the agricultural vehicle getting rear-ended by a second vehicle.The months with the highest instances of crashes were September (10.4%), October (16.3%), November (12.0%), and June (10.8%).</p
<b>THE BRACERO LEGACY ON MIGRANT AGRICULTURAL LABOR</b>
No full textCivic engagement involves an individual or group seeking to address community concerns. Throughout American history, examples of individuals committing themselves to fostering change are ample. When it comes to Latinos, some of the most prominent movements emerged during the mid-20th century. One can argue that Bracero Program farm workers emerged as some of the most dominant voices for agricultural migrant workers in the US. This program was enacted in 1942 in response to labor shortages stemming from World War II. During its 22 years, more than 4 million Mexicans crossed into the U.S. to work under temporary contracts in industries that included agriculture and railroads (Smith, 2022). Unfortunately, many Braceros would not only face physical and mental abuse, but also financial exploitation.Using historic interviews, documentaries, and academic texts, this study examines how the Bracero Program not only fueled political engagement and mobilization of migrant workers during the 1940s, but also how it institutionalized the importance of civic and political participation for migrants through the creation of the United Farmer Workers Association (UFWA). Findings underscore that fostering change was not easy. Some of the earlier strategies employed to foster better working conditions included recognition of inequality and abuse, education of members, identification of demands, calls to action, identification of leadership, coalition building, organization building, civic engagement tactics, and political lobbying; efforts that were eventually institutionalized through the UFWA. Decades later, the UFWA has continued to use and build upon these strategies to advocate for the rights of migrant workers.Despite claims that Latinos rarely take part in civic engagement activities, this is not the case. Latinos do indeed have a rich history of participation often neglected by researchers (Garcia & Sanchez, 2008). This is why this type of historic overview is necessary. Though attention has been placed on understanding the role and impact of the Bracero Program, not enough time is spent exploring the legacy of this movement on future generations of migrants.</p
The (universally) Japanese property for valuation rings and Prüfer domains
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