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The Body in Extremist White Supremacism
Full text linkThis article advances the study of racial extremism by analyzing how its practices of violence and sexuality are marked on the bodies of participants in the form of scars, physical stances, abuse, tattoos, pregnancy, injury, strength and size, using an extraordinarily rich and extensive set of narratives collected from lengthy in-person interviews with 47 former members of U.S. extremist white supremacist groups. It asks how embodied practices of violence and sexuality enable extremist white supremacist groups and actors, how embodied practices of violence and sexuality disable these groups and actors, and how gender matters in embodied practices in these groups. As a lens into embodied practices of violence, interview narratives about participants\u27 preparation and deployment of their bodies in violent situations are analyzed, with attention to the gendered nature of these processes. Similarly, interviewees\u27 narratives about their racialization of sexuality and sexual transactions are analyzed to understand embodied practices of sexuality and their gendered aspects. The embodiment of racist violence is found to be important in making racial extremism a visceral aspect of the lives of its adherents. This is highly gendered, as women and men use and experience violence in different ways. The embodiment of racist sexuality is found to be an iterative process of assessing one\u27s sexuality and the value of one\u27s sexual body to others, a process that serves as a portal to women\u27s victimization while allowing some women to gain access and influence in a highly misogynistic world
Utilizing Pharmacogenomics to Improve Students\u27 Self-Perception on the Interprofessional Competencies of Roles and Responsibilities, and Teams and Teamwork
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Pharmacogenomics (PGx) is an emerging discipline with the potential to revolutionize personalized medicine, but its successful implementation requires interprofessional collaboration. To address this need, a virtual interprofessional education (IPE) session was designed for student pharmacists and medical students to engage in a case-based learning experience. Objective
The primary objective was to develop and implement an IPE activity focused on a patient case requiring PGx-guided dual antiplatelet therapy and to assess students\u27 perceptions of two Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Version 3 Core Competencies. A secondary objective was to identify key lessons from the session. Methods
Pharmacist and physician faculty collaboratively developed a cardiovascular case utilized in virtual sessions from 2021 to 2024, requiring percutaneous coronary intervention, highlighting the need for PGx-guided antiplatelet treatment options. To assess student collaborative learning, a survey instrument self-assessed competence in four areas, communication, engagement, knowledge, and scope, which aligned to the two IPEC Core Competencies before and after the session using a Likert scale. Wilcoxon signed-rank tests evaluated differences between pre- and post-activity perceptions, with a p-value \u3c .05 considered statistically significant. Additionally, three investigators conducted a thematic analysis of students\u27 free-text reflections to identify qualitative insights. Results
A case was iteratively developed and implemented in virtual IPE sessions from 2021 to 2024. Six hundred twenty-nine students participated in the sessions, with 507 (80.6%) completing post-surveys. There was a statistically significant improvement in the agreement scale in post-activity perception compared with pre-activity perception in all four areas. The thematic analysis of the free responses identified four themes: (1) the value of collaboration and teamwork, (2) clinical and PGx knowledge, (3) roles, responsibilities, and scope of practice, and (4) the importance of communication. Conclusion
The virtual IPE session framework effectively enhanced students\u27 perception of interprofessional competencies, demonstrating the feasibility of using case-based PGx to foster collaborative, patient-centered care
1st Place Contest Entry: The Chip Off the Block : The 21st-Century Legacy of Schoolhouse Rock!
Full text linkThis is Megan Lewandowski\u27s submission for the 2025 Kevin and Tam Ross Undergraduate Research Prize, which won first place. It contains their essay on using library resources, their bibliography, and a summary of their research project on the legacy of Schoolhouse Rock! in the 21st century.
Megan is a fourth-year student at Chapman University, majoring in Music and Psychology. Their faculty mentor is Dr. Carrie Dike
Enhancing Water Scarcity Resilience in Egypt through Machine Learning-Driven Phenological Crop Mapping and Water Use Efficiency Analysis
Full text linkAgriculture forms the backbone of Egypt’s economy, with the Nile Valley and Delta serving as key production zones for crops like wheat, rice, and clover. However, the sector faces mounting pressure from water scarcity, as it depends almost entirely on the Nile for irrigation, making it necessary to map major crops for assessing Water Use Efficiency (WUE) and informing agricultural planning. In this study, we used machine learning (ML) techniques—specifically Support Vector Machine (SVM) to time-series phenological data and optical indices (Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Bare Soil Index (BSI), Land Surface Water Index (LSWI), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), and Plant Senescence Reflectance Index (PSRI)) to map major crop types—specifically rice (a summer crop),wheat and clover (winter crops) —across entire Nile Basin in Egypt. Training and testing showed satisfactory performance, with testing accuracy ranging from 0.73 to 0.82 and training accuracy from 0.70 to 0.90. In addition, this study evaluates responsiveness of crop WUE to Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD) and other meteorological and biophysical factors—including solar radiation, precipitation, maximum temperature, gross primary productivity, and evapotranspiration. Our findings confirm VPD as dominant factor affecting WUE, with a 3.5 kPa threshold beyond which WUE no longer responds, signaling a physiological limit for water management. The projected VPD trend, based on ensemble analysis of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 models under SSP245 and SSP585 scenarios, indicates an increase in number of months with high VPD in future, reinforcing the need for adaptive irrigation strategies in the region
Plant Nutrient Acquisition Under Elevated CO\u3csub\u3e2\u3c/sub\u3e and Implications for the Land Carbon Sink
No full textTerrestrial ecosystems currently sequester around one-third of the anthropogenic carbon emitted each year, slowing the pace of climate change. However, the future of this sink under rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations remains uncertain, in part due to the impact that nutrient limitation may have on plant biomass. Here we review plant nutrient acquisition strategies and evidence of the enhanced utilization of these strategies under experimental and real-world elevated CO2. Many of the strategies that are key to alleviating nutrient limitation under elevated CO2 are not well represented in current Earth system models, and a simple data-driven analysis implies that models that do not account for nutrient acquisition strategies could underestimate the land sink
Poking Holes and Adding Points in Dictator Games
No full textDeviations from choices predicted by self-regarding preferences have regularly been observed in standard dictator games. Such behavior is not inconsistent with conventional preference theory or revealed preference theory, which accommodate other-regarding preferences. By contrast, experiments in which giving nothing is not the least generous feasible act produce data that is inconsistent with conventional preference theory including social preference models and suggest the possible relevance of reference point models. Two such models are the reference-dependent theory of riskless choice with loss aversion and choice monotonicity in moral reference points. Our experiment includes novel treatments designed to challenge both theoretical models of reference dependence and conventional rational choice theory by poking holes in or adding to the dictator’s feasible set along with changes to the initial endowment of the players. Our design creates tests that at most one of these models can pass. However, we do not find that any of these models fully capture behavior. In part this result is due to our observing behavior in some treatments that differs from previous experiments for reasons attributable to implementation differences across studies
Final Offer Arbitration with Asymmetric Evidence
No full textAs disputants increasingly rely upon arbitration it is critical to understand outcomes that are likely to arise from mechanisms like final offer arbitration. While a sizable experimental literature investigating strategic behavior in final offer arbitration exists, that work has overwhelmingly focused on situations where the arbitrator’s beliefs about the appropriate resolution are symmetric and uninfluenced by the disputants’ cases. This paper considers a setting where the arbitrator’s beliefs depend on the strength of each disputant’s case. We find disputant responses to changes in the relative strength of their case generally follow comparative statics predictions. Further, we find that final offers are closer to theoretical predictions when the mean of the arbitrator’s preferences favors the disputant and the variance of those preferences is lower. However, we also observe that disputants become more aggressive the more the arbitrator’s preferences are skewed in the disputant’s favor
First-Hand Perspectives of Autistic and Neurodiverse Individuals in Social and Extracurricular Settings
No full textThis dissertation explores the firsthand experiences of autistic and neurodiverse individuals in social and extracurricular settings. Grounded in symbolic interactionism and disability studies, this study leveraged qualitative interviews to provide greater insight into the extracurricular lives of autistic persons and the quality of preparation and education provided to said participants to successfully navigate those experiences. Due to the limited number of studies on this topic, and the tendency of programs to focus on general skill development for this population, significant attention was also given to investigating the activity-specific skills needed for various social and extracurricular activities.
Understanding the intricacies in how neurodiverse individuals navigate said interactions has historically proven difficult to capture in clinical studies that mainly focus on third-person accounts. Coupled with the wide range of disability policies, practices, and curriculum, dedicated to servicing the needs of neurodiverse individuals, current understanding of the lived realities of neurodiverse populations in extracurricular activities is minimal. Therefore, leveraging our learnings from the in-depth interviews about the personal experiences, triumphs, and challenges of the study participants in the social and extracurricular realm, the study seeks to provide greater input on how social skills programs can be better equipped and updated to conform to current neurodiverse standards and experience
