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“You are Not Alone”: Linking Peer Support to Information and Resources for Mental Health Concerns in Advocacy Groups’ Social Media Messaging
No full text© 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The pervasive stigmatization of mental health concerns has caused a public health crisis in the United States, as it prevents individuals from seeking treatment for such concerns. Grassroots mental health advocacy groups working to mitigate this stigma and promote treatment largely do so through social media messaging strategies to provide audiences with information, resources, and peer support. Yet, scholars have not fully explicated what constitutes information, resources, or support. Further, little is known about mental health advocacy groups’ goals for and perceived effectiveness of these strategies or how audience members understand these messaging strategies. By employing a case study approach with two grassroots mental health advocacy groups, this study provides a nuanced understanding of the strategies involved in providing information, resources, and peer support in social media messaging. This study also demonstrates that both content creators and audience members agree on the importance of linking support strategies–specifically peer support–with information and resources to achieve the organizations’ primary goals. Theoretical and practical implications for the strategies used by both organizations are discussed
Complementary policies for multidimensional problems: Does the low-income housing tax credit complement homeless services in the USA?
No full text© Urban Studies Journal Limited 2020. Governments use multiple policies targeting different severities of housing insecurity to address multidimensional urban problems such as homelessness, where poverty and unaffordable housing intertwine with many causes and contexts. Previous studies have focused on the determinants of housing insecurity or using affordable housing alone but not on how using multiple policies jointly reduces homelessness. We explore if affordable housing created by the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) complements homeless services through the housing security network in decreasing homelessness in communities. Utilising a first-differenced model with panel data from 2007 to 2015, results indicate that LIHTC unit developments complement homeless services in moderately reducing homelessness when both policies are used relative to only using homeless services. Studying multiple policies addressing homelessness creates a useful application of theory on complementary policies to see how affordable housing with homeless services affects homelessness at the community level
An approach for optimizing multi-objective problems using hybrid genetic algorithms
No full text© 2020, The Author(s). Optimization problems can be found in many aspects of our lives. An optimization problem can be approached as searching problem where an algorithm is proposed to search for the value of one or more variables that minimizes or maximizes an optimization function depending on an optimization goal. Multi-objective optimization problems are also abundant in many aspects of our lives with various applications in different fields in applied science. To solve such problems, evolutionary algorithms have been utilized including genetic algorithms that can achieve decent search space exploration. Things became even harder for multi-objective optimization problems when the algorithm attempts to optimize more than one objective function. In this paper, we propose a hybrid genetic algorithm (HGA) that utilizes a genetic algorithm (GA) to perform a global search supported by the particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) to perform a local search. The proposed HGA achieved the concept of rehabilitation of rejected individuals. The proposed HGA was supported by a modified selection mechanism based on the K-means clustering algorithm that succeeded to restrict the selection process to promising solutions only and assured a balanced distribution of both the selected to survive and selected for rehabilitation individuals. The proposed algorithm was tested against 4 benchmark multi-objective optimization functions where it succeeded to achieve maximum balance between search space exploration and search space exploitation. The algorithm also succeeded in improving the HGA’s overall performance by limiting the average number of iterations until convergence
Blended Learning Course Design from the Perspective of Learning Powered by Technology-A Case Study on Computer Networking
No full text© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Most universities have adopted a traditional classroom-teaching mode for teaching computer networking courses. Moreover, with the limitations of computer networking experimental environment, there tend to incur some issues, such as the discrepancy of theory and practice, poor effect of experimental teaching, students’ lack of professionalism, etc. In this paper, upon the basis of exploring the theory of blended learning, and oriented by adopting appropriate technologies to support learners for critical problem solving, we propose the design mode of blended learning course from the perspective of “Learning Powered by Technology”. In order to provide reference for computer network teaching practice, at the end of the paper, we take computer networking course as a case to study how to apply for the proposed idea to a specific course design. We conducted a survey to investigate the effect of the blended learning course design and obtained encouraged results
The Resistance to Change-Beliefs Scale: Validation of a New Measure of Conservative Ideology
No full text© 2019 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. The motivated social cognition (MSC) model of conservative ideology posits there are two core facets of conservative political ideology—endorsement of hierarchies and resistance to change. The present research tested the validity and reliability of a scale developed to measure resistance to change. Five studies support the validity, reliability, and factor structure of the Resistance to Change-Beliefs (RC-B) scale. Scores on the RC-B scale correlated with social and cognitive motivations as well as self-identified conservatism. RC-B also predicted more conservative stances on political issues and factor analyses supported the predicted internal structure of the RC-B scale. This provides the field with a validated instrument that avoids problems inherent in previous measures, can be used to test predictions from the MSC model, and has potential applications beyond political psychology
The Confederate Flag Goes Global: Where and Why It Flies Abroad
No full textThis presentation by Dr. Jordan Brasher was delivered as a part of the Fall 2020 Virtual Speaker Series on Southern Confederacy & Memorialization in the History & Geography Department at Columbus State University. Dr. Brasher discusses the transnational uses of the embattled Confederate flag, especially where and why it flies abroad, in the context of the ongoing global struggle to come to terms with the histories and memories of slavery, indigenous dispossession, settler colonialism, and other forms of white supremacy. The presentation especially explores how the Confederate flag becomes embedded into local cultural fabrics around the world in places like Ireland, Germany, and Brazil, igniting social tensions and inflaming historic traumas.https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/confederacy/1001/thumbnail.jp
The Role of Mixed-Reality Environment in Stress Management and Professional Identity Development of Pre-Service Teachers
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Earliest Known Material of Amia, Bowfin, From The Sentinel Butte Formation (Paleocene), Medora, North Dakota
Get PDFAmia calva is an icon in the field of comparative osteology, yet we have a poor understanding of the evolution of the genus because many fossil amiid bones have gone unidentified. Here we identify new material of the genus, Amia, with evidence of two unidentified species. Previously, the oldest known material identifiable as Amia cf. A. pattersoni, was a specimen from the Paleocene epoch of Alberta, Canada approximately 58 million years in age. Fossils of the two unidentified species of Amia were found in the Sentinel Butte Formation, a geologic formation of Paleocene age (~ 60 million years ago) near the town of Medora, North Dakota. The specimens are classified as Amia because the coronoid tooth plates exhibit conical teeth and the parasphenoid exhibits a long tooth patch that extends anteriorly past the ascending rami of the bone. This new Amia material is distinguished from other species based on three criteria. First, the parasphenoid tooth patch is extremely wide posteriorly, reaching the lateral margins of the bone, but very long and narrow anteriorly. Second, the gular plate is uniquely shaped, not being truncated posteriorly but rather tapering both anteriorly and posteriorly. Third, the teeth of coronoid tooth plates are robust, unlike those of other species of Amia which are thinner and more elongated. The frontals of each specimen are very different in shape and proportions suggesting two different taxa. Width and length ratios of bones from the Amia specimens were analyzed to further determine fossil characteristics. One of these taxa could attain a large size with a total length well in excess of 1 m. Together, these taxa highlight the necessity to document the evolutionary history of this long and important lineage of Amia
Implementing Writing in Content Areas: Teachers’ Perceptions as Writing Instructors
Get PDFTeachers across content areas have a shared responsibility to incorporate writing instruction into the curriculum; however, analysis of needs assessment survey data collected during Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy grant application in 2014 revealed that the faculty of the participating high school did not embrace writing instruction responsibility. The purpose of the study was to investigate teachers’ perceptions, confidence, and use of writing instructional strategies throughout content areas at the conclusion of implementation of the five-year grant. The researcher conducted an explanatory sequential mixed methods design that utilized a survey, interviews, and lesson plan document analysis. The survey sample consisted of 31 faculty members of the participating high school and 8 interview participants selected from survey respondents. The researcher performed a series of descriptive and frequency analyses followed by cross-tabular analyses. Findings suggested that teachers perceived a shared role in writing instruction; however, the researcher discovered a lack of understanding existed as to the definition of content area writing instruction. The researcher further found a perceived stigma in English language arts ownership of writing; therefore, content area teachers perceived a minimal role in writing instruction in content areas. Teachers also reported that writing ability was a requirement to teach writing; however, many teachers did not feel confident in this regard. Furthermore, despite a lack of understanding of what constituted content area writing, each interview participant cited examples of content area writing strategies and tasks implemented during content area instruction geared toward helping students better understand the content material. This research study could benefit development of professional learning opportunities for teachers in the area of content writing instruction