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Increasing Youth Engagement in Community Heritage and Social Justice through Implementation of a Youth Participatory Empowerment Model
Full text linkYouth in traditionally marginalized communities are often the target of policies and practices without the opportunity to provide input. This article highlights effective strategies to empower youth to become active participants in their communities. Using a Youth Participatory Empowerment Model (YPEM), youth participants from six demographically distinct communities engaged in YPEM-supported activities and strategies to identify and address a need within their community. To gain insight into successful strategies, qualitative data from pre and post implementation focus group interviews and observational field notes informed the conclusions. The participant youth represent tribal, undocumented, rural, suburban, and urban youth from underserved populations. The model works to cultivate youth voice, engagement, and empowerment and to assist mentors in the process. For youth to find success in engaging with community programing, trust and safety, strong partnerships, multi-generational mentorship, and strong youth leadership are pertinent. The study provides narrative results of the group functionality during the program
Are you Now, or Have You Ever Been, Cleopatra? A Study of Past Life Regression, Practitioners, and the Impact of Reincarnation Beliefs
Full text linkStrategies for Prevention and Management of Non-Communicable Diseases among Community Women in Nigeria: Insights for Family Social Welfare
Full text linkIn this study, modifiable risk factors, prevention and management plans for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among women were examined. This study examined published and grey literature that was gathered from a number of sources, such as open data portals on the five major illness categories that make up the NCDs such as cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), diabetes, malignancies, chronic respiratory diseases, and mental health. Literature shows that the primary behavioural risk factors for NCDs, including CVDs, diabetes, and cancer(malignancies), can be largely avoided. Inactivity, tobacco use, alcohol use, and unhealthy eating habits (often high in processed sugar, fats, and salt) are a few of these. These factors in turn raise the risk of developing metabolic risk factors like hypertension, a high body mass index (BMI), high fasting glucose levels, and elevated cholesterol. Urbanization, a longer life span, and poverty are other factors linked to the rise in NCDs. These led to the conclusion that in order to ensure family social welfare, as women are recognized as contributors to the welfare of their families, strategies should be put in place by government and non-governmental organisations through execution of a mass media campaign on healthy diets, including socially acceptable marketing to lower the consumption of total fat, saturated fats, sugars, and salt and to increase the consumption of fruit and vegetables
Formalization of a Security Framework Design for a Health Prescription Assistant in an Internet of Things System
Full text linkSecurity system design flaws will create greater risks and repercussions as the systems being secured further integrate into our daily life. One such application example is incorporating the powerful potential of the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) into software services engineered for improving the practices of monitoring and prescribing effective healthcare to patients. A study was performed in this application area in order to specify a security system design for a Health Prescription Assistant (HPA) that operated with medical IoT (mIoT) devices in a healthcare environment. Although the efficiency of this system was measured, little was presented to provide verification of the given framework details to ensure the absence of design flaws that might cause security errors within the final implementation. Formal software modeling has long been utilized as a tool to combat ambiguity, incompleteness, and inconsistencies in a given system design, but these modeling methods lack frequent research application to modern technological concepts for the purpose of preventing security vulnerabilities. This study will translate components of an existing security framework proposal for an IoT HPA system through the lens of three different formal design methods: Z-notation, TLA+, and Petri Nets. Each formal model will then be expanded on in order to demonstrate the beginning iterative steps of how each specification method can be applied to help improve the completeness, correctness, and accuracy of any given design for a high-level security system
The Cetacean Sanctuary: A Sea of Unknowns
No full textHousing cetaceans in netted sea pens is not new and is common for many accredited managed- care facilities. Hence, the distinction between sanctuary and sea pen is more about the philosophies of those who run these sanctuary facilities, the effects of these philosophies on the animals’ welfare, and how proponents of these sanctuaries fund the care of these animals. Here, I consider what plans exist for cetacean sanctuaries and discuss the caveats and challenges associated with this form of activist-managed captivity. One goal for stakeholders should be to disregard the emotional connotations of the word “sanctuary” and explore these proposals objectively with the best interest of the animals in mind. Another focus should be related to gauging the public’s understanding of proposed welfare benefits to determine if long-term supporters of donation-based sanctuary models will likely see their expectations met as NGOs and their government partners consider moving forward with cetacean sanctuary experiments
Utilization of the Hunt Trap Method to Investigate a Small Mammal Community in an Upland Pine Stand
Full text linkSmall mammals are strong and informative biological indicators of forest ecosystems. Populations are responsible for shaping successional patterns through their diets, behaviors, and contributions to other ecological communities.
Knowledge of community metrics within southern yellow pine forests under varying production and disturbance regimes can be valuable in understanding pine production impacts on biodiversity.
The objective of this study was to investigate species richness, time to detection, and activity patterns of the small mammal community in an upland pine stand utilizing the Hunt Trap Method