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A Grounded Theory of Provider Perspectives Regarding Resident Moves from Permanent Supportive Housing
No full textTo address the ongoing supply-demand gap for permanent supportive housing (PSH), Moving On initiatives (MOIs) provide linkage to affordable housing without embedded support services and rental subsidies, as well as short-term transitional case management to support transitions to independent housing. PSH providers mediate outcomes for individuals moving on from PSH by providing appropriate supports and assistance. Yet, little is known about how providers view these moves. This study explores how providers perceive moves from PSH. Individual interviews were completed with PSH providers from seven U.S. agencies. Data was analyzed via a modified grounded theory approach. The data show that organizational support and prior experience with moving on shape providers’ perceptions of resident capacity. These perceptions were associated with gatekeeping and recovery-oriented approaches, which informed providers’ self-perceived role as following or leading residents towards moving on. System-level support and pressure to adopt a moving on mindset may lead more providers to promote independence and autonomy among individuals with histories of homelessness
Museums Narrating the Nation: Case Studies from Greece and Bosnia-Herzegovina
No full textA museum that represents a community’s history and culture has the ability to influence visitors’ perceptions of that community in the present. In this paper, museums in Greece and Bosnia-Herzegovina are examined as case studies to better understand how museums narrate national identity to visitors, both domestic and international. Critical analysis of exhibits reveals that museum narratives often project the image of singular national identities. Meanwhile, they may deny the history of place of other contemporary or historic communities. In Greece, museums project a ‘Greek’ identity based on Classical, Byzantine, and post-Ottoman history. Museums in Bosnia-Herzegovina emphasize a unifying, shared history of the state’s three main ethnic communities without recognizing the profound differences felt between these communities today. These institutions encourage visitors to imagine the nation in a singular manner, without recognizing contemporary or historic diversity. Through these case studies, I interrogate the role of national museums in contemporary society, and consider the implications of transforming representational practices
The Evolutionary History of the Modern Birth Mechanism: Looking at Skeletal and Cultural Adaptations
No full textThe development of bipedalism changed the course of hominin evolutionary history. One of the most significant impacts it had, outside of locomotion, was on birth. The advent of bipedalism, combined with later encephalization, has placed many evolutionary constraints on the birth process. As a result of evolutionary pressures, a series of skeletal and cultural adaptations occurred making the modern birth process unique. This paper reviews the literature and fossil evidence and will outline the differences between three forms of birth mechanisms: modern, ancient and non- human primate. A look at the variability within these processes will lead to a more complete understanding of evolutionary history and a more critical analysis of the fossil record. This review of research on the evolution of human birth mechanisms is essential, not only to understand our history but also to apply these insights in a modern context. Knowledge of human and non- human primate birth mechanisms is useful for the biomedical community, primate conservationists and socio-cultural anthropologists trying to understand birthing practices throughout different cultures
Minimum Dominating Set for the Prism Graph Family
No full textThe dominating set of the graph G is a subset D of vertex set V, such that every vertex not in V-D is adjacent to at least one vertex in the vertex subset D. A dominating set D is a minimal dominating set if no proper subset of D is a dominating set. The number of elements in such set is called as domination number of graph and is denoted by . In this work the domination numbers are obtained for family of prism graphs such as prism CL_n, antiprism Q_n and crossed prism R_n by identifying one of their minimum dominating set
Voltaire, (6c) Lettres sur les Anglais (III) LETTRES SUR M. LOCKE, Voltaire Foundation, 2020.
No full text« La treizième des Lettres sur les Anglais porte sur Locke et la question de l’âme. La première version de la Lettre sur Locke – qui fait l’objet du présent volume – est écartée par Voltaire des Lettres sur les Anglais en 1733 à cause de ses audaces quasi-matérialistes qui risquaient d’entraîner la censure de l’ensemble de l’ouvrage, et elle est remplacée par la version édulcorée que nous connaissons aujourd’hui en tant que Lettre 13. Voltaire reprend la première version en 1736 et développe la comparaison entre l’homme et l’animal, vers l’affirmation d’un lien essentiel entre l’‘organisation’ des corps et leurs propriétés cognitives. La Lettre lui échappe alors et connaît une circulation manuscrite et de nombreuses éditions au cours du dix-huitième siècle. Elle jouera un rôle important dans l’émergence de la pensée matérialiste au cœur des Lumières françaises. » http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/publication/lettres-sur-les-anglais-iii/« La treizième des Lettres sur les Anglais porte sur Locke et la question de l’âme. La première version de la Lettre sur Locke – qui fait l’objet du présent volume – est écartée par Voltaire des Lettres sur les Anglais en 1733 à cause de ses audaces quasi-matérialistes qui risquaient d’entraîner la censure de l’ensemble de l’ouvrage, et elle est remplacée par la version édulcorée que nous connaissons aujourd’hui en tant que Lettre 13. Voltaire reprend la première version en 1736 et développe la comparaison entre l’homme et l’animal, vers l’affirmation d’un lien essentiel entre l’‘organisation’ des corps et leurs propriétés cognitives. La Lettre lui échappe alors et connaît une circulation manuscrite et de nombreuses éditions au cours du dix-huitième siècle. Elle jouera un rôle important dans l’émergence de la pensée matérialiste au cœur des Lumières françaises. » http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/publication/lettres-sur-les-anglais-iii
A novel IVGTT model including interstitial insulin
No full textMinimal Model (MM) is the top-scoring model for assessing physiological characteristics to diagnose the potential or onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) through the intravenous glucose tolerance test (IVGTT) for the past four decades. Nevertheless it has been arguable that MM method either overestimates glucose effectiveness (GE) or underestimates insulin sensitivity (IS) in some cases by both biologists through in vivo experiments and mathematicians by analysis and/or simulations. We propose a novel model including the interstitial insulin according to physiology and adapted from the well accepted Sturis’ model for the glucose-insulin metabolic system suitable to the IVGTT setting. Our model consistently overcomes the aforementioned defects in a subgroup of subjects. In addition, the variable X for insulin action in MM might be appropriately interpreted as an increment of insulin in the interstitial space in response to the bolus stimulus, rather than being proportional to the interstitial insulin as believed
hard ground / long road
No full textMy work is anchored in analog technology, found materials, field recordings, and the search for constellations of micro-narratives. In August 2021, I drove from San Francisco, California to London, Ontario. During the seventeen days on the road, I recorded radio noise (AM, FM picket-fencing) as well as my voice describing the environment surrounding the road at the times when I could not stop to take a photo. The sounds collected from the long road are recorded chronologically in an intaglio print. These recordings are the foundation of multidisciplinary sound and visual projects that coalesce as an installation exploring place/no-placeness, transience, precognition, repetition, delays, disappearance, and noise.
Works selected for tba journal are pinhole photographs, a double-sided intaglio print, and a sound composition, that are all a part of the series described in my artist statement and share the title hard ground / long road. The print is reproduced at its original scale; the text is followed by the reverse side of the print, which is a line drawing. Two pinhole photographs bookend the works on paper. The sound companion to the visual works is a composition created on and with magnetic tape. The composition foregrounds incidental sounds of the process of making the work: tape splicing and rewinding. recorder fixing, road noise and tape hiss, woven with cut-up radio recordings
Modèle(s) de l’avenir ? Les revues épirevues en tant que tendance négligée et émergente dans la communication savante
No full textAbstract: Overlay journals, a potentially overlooked model of scholarly communication, have seen a resurgence due to the increasing number of preprint repositories and preprints on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) related topics. Overlay journals at various stages of maturity were examined for unique characteristics, including whether the authors submitted their article to the journal, whether the peer reviews of the article were published by the overlay journal, and whether the overlay journals took advantage of opportunities for increased discovery. As librarians and researchers seek new, futuristic models for publishing, overlay journals are emerging as an important contribution to scholarly communication.Les revues épirevues, un modèle de communication scientifique souvent négligé, ont connu une résurgence en raison du nombre croissant de dépôts d’archivage numériques de prépublications et d’articles en prépublication sur des sujets liés à la COVID-19. Des épirevues ont été examinées à divers stades de leur maturité concernant diverses caractéristiques uniques : si les auteurs ont soumis leur article à la revue, si les révisions par les pairs de l’article ont été publiées par l’épirevue et si les épirevues ont profité des opportunités de découverte accrues. Alors que les bibliothécaires et les chercheurs cherchent de nouveaux modèles avant-gardistes pour l’édition savante, les épirevues émergent désormais comme étant une contribution importante à la communication savante
"Inside and Outside the Boxes": Examining the importance of gender-transformative activities in sexual violence prevention programs with male university students
No full textThis paper explores male university students’ perspectives of gender-specific sexual violence prevention on university campuses in Ontario, Canada. Specifically, the goal of this project is to better understand how men perceive anti-violence activities that explicitly make connections between socialized masculinity and gender-based and sexual violence to facilitate men’s investment in violence prevention. Through two focus groups with a total of six male university students, participants were invited to reflect on an anti-violence activity, titled “the Gender Boxes,” which explores traditional conceptualizations of gender through the metaphor of stepping inside and/or outside of the box of ‘masculinity’ and how it shapes men’s understandings of gender-based violence. Findings suggest that societal conceptualizations of cisheteropatriarchal masculinity demand that young men perform gender in ways that reify traditional gender roles and facilitate gender-based and sexual violence, which contributes to a growing body of literature on men’s engagement in gender-transformative anti-violence work