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Older Adult Attitudes Towards Substance Use Disorders
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This research examines the attitudes that older adults hold towards substance use disorders. For the purpose of this research, attitudes towards substance use disorder may be defined as stigmatization towards this disorder or towards those individuals having this disorder. Data collection will focus on gathering the attitudes and beliefs held by those who are 50 years of age and older. Participants will be asked to complete a 30-question anonymous survey on Qualtrics, via Amazon Mechanical Turk, assessing different stigmatizing views towards the use of alcohol and other substances. We expect to find that older adults hold generally negative attitudes towards substance use disorder. Furthermore, we hypothesize they will hold more negative attitudes towards the use of opioids than alcohol. These attitudes likely serve as barriers to older adults seeking and receiving treatment for substance use disorder, when needed. Data collections is ongoing
How Sea Level Rise Effects Insurance Premiums and the Resulting Effect on Property Values in Miami-Dade County from 2010 - 2020
No full textSea level rise has put pressure upon coastal cities across the world. How exactly does sea level rise then affect the ability to insure a property and what will that affect be to the property values in Miami-Dade County? The purpose of this study is to measure the effects based upon data gathered from the years 2010 to 2020. The gathered data was on sea level rise and property value. Quantitative results of the variables of sea level rise and property value were assessed as to how the property value over time changed over time correlated to arise in sea level. A quantitative analysis of sea level rise and property value data indicated noc orrelation to a decrease in property value with a rise in sea level. Property values increased while at the same time sea level rise increased in the Miami-Dade area
Abjection and Punishment in Disney’s Maleficent
No full textDisney’s 2014 film, Maleficent (dir. Robert Stromberg) lends itself to several readings, most notably being Julia Kristeva’s concept of the abject. While the abject is generally regarded as a negative notion, readings of Maleficent which consider abjection reveal that it is in fact positively regarded within the film. This is largely due to the point of view the film takes, attempting to reposition a previous villain (Maleficent from the 1959 Sleeping Beauty, directed by Wolfgang Reitherman) into a compassionate protagonist. This is largely done through making presentations of the abject into presentations of the norm, or the accepted standard. Through analysis of abjection, witch imagery, castration symbolism, and rape-revenge plots, one comes to the conclusion that Maleficent is a narrative structure which punishes those who reject abjection.
Barbara Creed relates her concept of the monstrous-feminine to Kristeva’s ideas of abjection, defined as “that which does not ‘respect borders, positions, rules,’ that which ‘disturbs identity, system, order’” (Kristeva qtd. in Creed 8). Creed explains that the abject is that which the subject rejects, something which goes against the usual order of things. However, the abject is also crucial in the forming of one’s identity, as “that which threatens to destroy life also helps to define life” (Creed 9). Creed limits her explanation to the horror genre, though in this analysis I will attempt to expand her “illustration of the work of abjection” (10) beyond the scope of horror films and instead into the world of the Disney-produced fairytale
Academic Library Leadership and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Get PDFPrior to the pandemic academic library leadership faced a host of challenges, such as budget shortfalls, serials crisis, shifting and evolving technologies and patron expectations. These long-term obstacles were compounded by the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic which required library deans and directors to implement ever evolving safety measures while balancing the needs of library employees, students, faculty, and staff. The mental health of academic librarians and staff has long been the subject of research; however, few studies focused on the mental health experiences of academic library deans and directors. The purpose of this interpretative phenomenological analysis is to describe the experiences of academic library deans and directors through the early months of the pandemic and to utilize those data to help library leadership manage their own mental health while assisting their employees’ well-being during future crises
The Desire to Be Truly Recognized: How Incels, Don\u27t Worry Darling, and The Stepford Wives Exemplify the Master-Slave Dialectic
No full textThis paper analyzes the social commentary presented in the film Don’t Worry Darling on incel culture through the characterization and motivations of Jack Chambers. Analysis is performed through feminist rhetorical theory, citing Sherryl Vint (2007), emphasizing her application of Hegel’s master-slave dialectic on a contemporary of the film, The Stepford Wives (2004). This dialectic states that self-consciousness is dependent upon other consciousnesses, though these distinct consciousnesses’ existence creates tension between them often resulting in a one-sided recognition. Master is recognized by slave and master is fully recognized because he has power over another consciousness that willfully submits. He desires love and power over a real person, not just an object. This explains the motivations of Jack Chambers in fundamentally altering his wife’s personality without following The Stepford Wives in turning his wife into a robot. In The Stepford Wives, Walter Eberhart’s decision to not turn Joanna into a robot may not be altruistic, rather it “might simply express his own need to have (some) power over another true subject” (Vint 2007). Much of incel culture stems from beliefs of entitlement and inadequacy, both beliefs that feed into the justification of slavery and is exemplified in Jack Chambers and Walter Eberhart
A new monotypic genus and species from China, \u3cem\u3eLangxie feti\u3c/em\u3e gen. et sp. n. (Scorpiones: Buthidae)
Get PDFA new monotypic genus, Langxie gen. n., is described from Xizang (Tibet), China. The new genus shares an important morphological character with Afrolychas Kovařík, 2019: absence of external accessory denticles (EADs) along the sixth row of median denticles (MDs) on the pedipalp movable finger. Langxie gen. n. is different from Afrolychas in the following aspects: loss of EAD near the proximally enlarged MD within each row (i. e., loss of all EAD on the movable finger; this also distinguishes the new genus from other related genera in the “(Ananteris + Isometrus)” clade (Štundlová et al., 2022)), subaculear tubercle armed with or without a secondary tubercle dorsally, immaculate color pattern, more slender appendages and metasoma, and less sexually dimorphic pectines. Langxie gen. n. further differs from another geographically close genus, Himalayotityobuthus Lourenço, 1997, by the presence of highly developed pectinal fulcra (vs. absent in Himalayotityobuthus), six rows of MDs on the pedipalp movable finger (vs. 7–8 in Himalayotityobuthus) and five pairs of lateral ocelli (vs. 3 in Himalayotityobuthus). The new species, Langxie feti sp. n., is small and slender, exhibiting no obvious sexual dimorphism in pedipalp and metasoma, but the sexes are visibly different in the relative size of median ocelli and coarseness of carapacial granulation. Lattice microstructures are prominently developed on its cuticle