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View of the entrance to Myrtilla Miner Elementary School
No full textEntrance to Myrtilla Miner Elementary School on 15th Street NE. The school is constructed of red, yellow, and blue brick
Pedestrians pass by Nellie's Sports Bar
No full textThree people pass by Nellie's Sports Bar. One of the passerby is running by in the street. Another walks toward the door. An American flag, a Washington, D.C. flag, and Rainbow flag fly from the top of the building. The top windows read 'BE SAFE.' Bunting and an American Flag hang from the bottom of the windows and the decks. A mural featuring 2 rainbow ducks and a rainbow Washington, D.C. flag is painted on the building
Spheres of influence: a Walzerian approach to business ethics
No full textMichael Walzer is one of the most distinguished political philosophers and social critics of this century. His ideas have had great import and influence in political philosophy and political discussion, yet very few of his ideas have been incorporated explicitly into the business ethics literature. We argue that Walzer’s work provides an important conceptual canvas for business ethics scholars that has not been adequately explored. Scholars in business ethics often borrow from political theory and philosophy to generate new insights and develop new substantive contributions. Many valuable theoretical resources are already used extensively—particularly Aristotle, Kant, Marx and a variety of utilitarian philosophers. Walzer offers another set of resources to bring to the conversation of what business ethics is and how business ethicists add value. This paper provides an opportunity to delve further into Walzer’s writings, particularly themes that are tied to business ethics, and to illustrate how his ideas can be extended to reshape our understanding of the field and develop new perspectives on ethical issues in commerce
Close-up of a man wearing a face mask
No full textClose-up of a man wearing a face mask. He also wears several gold accessories
View of Friendship Archway
No full textView of Friendship Archway of Chinatown taken from the middle of an empty block of H Street NW
Essential elements of a community empowerment approach to HIV prevention among female sex workers engaged in project Shikamana in Iringa, Tanzania
No full textCulture, Health and Sexuality, Volume 22, Issue sup1, 20 April 2020, Pages 111-126.Globally, female sex workers bear a disproportionate burden of HIV, with those in sub-Saharan Africa being among the most affected. Community empowerment approaches have proven successful at preventing HIV among this population. These approaches facilitate a process whereby sex workers take collective ownership over programmes to address the barriers they face in accessing their health and human rights. Limited applications of such approaches have been documented in Africa. We describe the community empowerment process among female sex workers in Iringa, Tanzania, in the context of a randomised controlled trial of a community empowerment-based model of combination HIV prevention. We conducted 24 in-depth interviews with participants from the intervention community and 12 key informant interviews with HIV care providers, police, venue managers, community advisory board members and research staff. Content analysis was employed, and salient themes were extracted. Findings reveal that the community empowerment process was facilitated by the meaningful engagement of sex workers in programme development, encouraging sex worker ownership over the programme, providing opportunities for solidarity and capacity building, and forming partnerships with key stakeholders. Through this process, sex workers mobilised their collective agency to access their health and human rights including HIV prevention, care and treatment
Exterior view from Q Street NW of Le Diplomate Bistro
No full textAn exterior view from Q Street NW of the restaurant and bistro Le Diplomate. White paper is posted over the windows from the inside, with some parts of the paper falling down
SPATIAL PATTERNS IN ARRESTS BY RACE IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA AND WASHINGTON, D.C.
No full textGeographical analysis, and spatial statistics more specifically, have been widely used in understanding spatial patterns in crime, as well as in public health data. The spatial scan statistic and a spatial autoregressive model are used here on arrest data in northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. to identify clusters in arrests and check for spatial autocorrelation of the arrests. The spatial scan statistic identifies a number of clusters, with the largest encompassing most of southeast D.C. Adjusting the scan statistic for the race of the individuals arrested, there is a change in the cluster locations. Areas with a large Black population have fewer clusters after the adjustment while new clusters appear in areas with a small Black population but comparatively high number of Black people arrested, suggesting that racial bias among police or community members is affecting arrests. There are also a number of clusters that occur due to a courthouse, jail, or mall in the Census tract, where the high number of arrests is not well predicted by the explanatory variables used for modeling. There is some evidence of spatial autocorrelation in the data, but the variation in the full dataset is largely explained by covariates in the model representing demographic characteristics of each Census tract. Looking at different subsets of the data, there is evidence of spatial autocorrelation beyond that accounted for by the covariates in the arrests in Washington, D.C., as well as in overall arrests of Black or Latino people when arrests are modeled separately by race or ethnicity.StatisticsCriminologyArrests, Race, Spatial statisticsMathematics and StatisticsDegree Awarded: M.S. Mathematics and Statistics. American Universit