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British Naturism podcast, Women in Focus:Annebella Pollen
No full textA two-part podcast interview with Helen Berriman, Women's Officer for British Naturism (the UK's principal naturist membership organisation), for her Women in Focus podcast, hosted by British Naturism. The subject is Annebella Pollen's research on cultural histories of nudism / naturism. In the first of a two-part conversation, Helen speaks with Professor Annebella Pollen from the University of Brighton, author of Nudism in a Cold Climate. Pollen discusses her decade-long research into the visual history of naturism in Britain, revealing how photography shaped the movement's public identity from the 1920s onwards. The conversation explores a fascinating paradox; whilst magazines like Health and Efficiency once sold hundred's of thousands of copies per issue, featuring idealised bodies of professional models, actual naturist membership numbers were much lower. Pollen explains how early practitioners hid behind pseudonyms to protect their professional reputations, and how the movement's own promotional imagery created tensions between philosophical ideals and practical recruitment. Drawing on archival research conducted during lockdown, she offers an outsider academic perspective that complements lived experiences, examining how naturism has been publicly mediated rather than privately practised
COVER:Enhancing virtualization obfuscation through dynamic scheduling using flash controller-based secure module
No full textVirtualization obfuscation is a very effective method used to protect programmes from malicious analysis by obscuring their code. Due to the fixed scheduling structures, typical virtualization obfuscation schemes can be compromised by automated analysis tools. To enhance the protection strength of virtualization obfuscation, additional protection techniques of the virtualization structure have been proposed. However, previously proposed solutions incur significant performance overhead or require a strong assumption in software-protection techniques. We present COVER, a novel virtualization obfuscation technique in conjunction with the flash controller. COVER enhances the obfuscation and protects the secret parameters of the virtualization structure with a flash controller-based secure module. We implement a prototype of COVER and describe a prototype implementation of a flash controller-based secure module on a Solid State Drive (SSD). We demonstrate COVER’s efficacy against various code analysis methods, and evaluate COVER’s performance using a set of real-world applications. The evaluation results demonstrate that COVER effectively protects the secret parameters of the virtualization structure and increases the effort involved in deobfuscation. Compared with two commercial obfuscators, COVER provides additional protection strength without incurring significantly more overhead in terms of runtime and code size
Researching rape that is not recognised:An auto/biographical understanding of woman-to-woman rape and sexual assault
No full textWoman-to-woman rape and sexual assault globally remain an ultimately unaddressed problem. Consequently, victims/survivors must cope with little to no support as they endure post-traumatic responses. In this chapter, I share my auto/biographical experiences of researching the perceived impacts of woman-to-woman rape and sexual assault, the subsequent experience of disclosure, reaction and support, and the consequences for victim/survivor subjective experience of occupations. My findings related to the post-traumatic survival reactions and behaviours explicate the complexities of the victim/survivor experiences; this was equally apparent when they tried to cope and survive throughout their daily lives. My study was the first of its kind to illuminate this aspect of woman-to-woman rape and sexual assault and remains one of very few studies to explore what continues to be largely invisible in the sexual violence discourse and conceptualisations. As a researcher, the significance of my positionality forced me to consider what is meant by sensitive—let alone traumatic—research.</p
Communicating the affective dimension of Classical Chinese poetry
No full textEmotion is often considered central to the creation and the experience of Classical Chinese poetry. However, unlike many mental states, emotional states are non-propositional. Using ‘Dreaming of Weizhi’ by the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi as an example, this paper argues that certain features of an utterance can provide cues to ostension by activating experiential heuristics through which the reader may satisfy his expectations of relevance. Through this process, he comes to experience a certain emotion and attributes his experience to the poet’s intention by applying procedural constraints on utterance processing. The reader’s attention is directed toward specific aspects of the utterance, producing affective effects that supplement cognitive effects and enabling the reader to better assess the relevance of the stimulus. This process can be accounted for using a ‘dual-route’ model, which highlights the role of mental imagery in the communication of emotional states and other relevant mental states
Storying the immobilities of gender violence in the UK and Mexico
No full textStorying the immobilities of gender violence in the UK and Mexico is an English/Spanish book of visual and textual narratives of gender-based violence (GBV) in the UK and Mexico. The book is based on an Arts and Humanities funded project, which sought to engage new audiences with the im/mobilities of GBV through art. Im/mobilities here refers to the intermittent constraining and forcing of movements by individuals or institutions and as argued here, produces GBV. Visual and textual stories convey the 'felt' experience of GBV, engaging readers and audiences in the apparently 'mundane' as well as the ‘shocking'. Such stories help contest the prominence of crime statistics in evidencing GBV, statistics which often distort experience and reflect and maintain exclusionary policies and practices, particularly for minoritised communities. Our trans-national project invited artists and creative writers from diverse backgrounds in the UK and Mexico to respond to lived accounts of GBV in comic stories, short stories, poems, 3D installations, fine art photography and painting and film. These were exhibited in consecutive exhibitions in Mexico City and Brighton, which invited a range of audiences to engage in Roundtable and panel discussions as well as arts-based workshops. This book brings together these visual and textual stories and sets out a series of readings and analyses that seek to further knowledge on GBV in different cultural contexts
Sustainable assessment in digital health interventions for primary care:A scoping review
No full textBackground: Primary care is essential for improving healthcare access and global health, yet it faces challenges related to limited capacity and slow response times. Digital health interventions (DHI) (DHIs) are increasingly used to address these gaps by promoting healthy behaviours, patient empowerment, and health literacy. However, their implementation is challenged by insufficient regulations and infrastructure, and evaluations often overlook broader sustainability concerns. This scoping review examines how DHIs in primary care are assessed for sustainability across financial, social, and environmental domains. Methods: The scoping review methodology consisted of three stages: pearl-growing, keywords with operators, and reference list search. MEDLINE (PubMed and Ovid), CINAHL, IEEE Access, ScienceDirect, NICE, and TRIP databases were utilised, and the results were evaluated using qualitative content analysis. Results: The review highlights four aspects to consider when implementing digital health interventions: Enhancing health promotion and illness prevention through the user’s adherence to treatment, while addressing clinical risks. Examine social implications considering wellbeing, access, inclusion, participation, empowerment, and data protection. Consider financial impacts such as resource management, available funding, and appropriate infrastructure. And environmental implications that include product life cycle, resource use, and greenhouse emissions. Conclusions: It is recommended that guidelines for implementing DHIs in primary care prioritise improving health promotion and preventive care. Emphasising the value of building public trust by promoting well-being, ensuring human rights in data governance, addressing social determinants of health, and improving resource efficiency through interoperability and circular economy principles
Centring Animals in the History of Experimental Psychology:Pavlov and the Kingdom of Dogs
No full textThis article addresses the question of how we can more adequately centre the lives of experimental animals in psychology, in line with the 'animal turn' and subsequent developments in animal studies and animal history. It does so via a specific case study — Pavlov's famous 'classical conditioning' experiments with dogs — drawing on recent comprehensive translations of Pavlov's publications, supplemented by historical-biographical accounts and archives. The article briefly summarizes Pavlov's career before 'following' the journey of the dogs through the various stages of life in the laboratory, including recruitment, housing, surgery and experimentation. Organized according to shifts in the concerns of animal studies over time as identified by Erica Fudge, the article establishes how the dogs have been represented, how they might be said to have agency, and how their agency, and the agency of others, emerges through the various relations that constitute the laboratory enterprise. In combining these elements the article offers an historical account of the experiences of Pavlov's dogs that aims to decentre the usual protagonists (Pavlov, methods, concepts) and recentre the animals involved, and their various interactions and entanglements. In situating the animals in dynamic networks of interaction, within specific material, social and historical settings, a sense of canine agency is enriched and qualified, and any assumption that Pavlov's dogs were interchangeable and passive experimental objects profoundly challenged
Self and self-with-other schemata, sexual communication, and relationship satisfaction in heterosexual and gay men
No full textThe effects of self and self-with-other schemata (internalized homonegativity and attachment style) and sexual communication upon relationship satisfaction in partnered men were studied. Cross-sectional data from 172 heterosexual and 133 gay men in the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany, analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression, showed that sexual communication was positively associated with relationship satisfaction and that, in gay men, internalized homonegativity was negatively associated with relationship satisfaction, while controlling for the effects of country. Anxious attachment ceased to be a significant predictor of relationship satisfaction and the effect of internalized homonegativity decreased when sexual communication was entered in the model. Additionally, the relationship between sexual communication and relationship satisfaction was moderated by country, being stronger in the UK sample. Therapeutic and psychoeducational approaches to enhancing relationship satisfaction should enhance communication behaviors and negative self-schemata, such as internalized stigma
Performing access:women, frictions and the ‘third gender’ in journalism
No full textWomen (video) journalists have been put in boxes; they have been told what is the right place for them in the media industry for years (Chambers et al., 2004, Ross Arguedas, 2025, Topić and Bruegmann, 2021). This chapter looks outside these categories to understand practitioners who operate from the margins of the places and stories their male colleagues do, which leads to different experiences and results. This chapter draws from interviews with women video journalists from around the globe about their experiences while working in the field to understand the different types of generative frictions and the strategies women use to turn frictions into professional strengths. The research points to different performing acts women (video) journalists use to access, record and edit news stories under the framework of what has been labelled the ‘third gender’. Journalists operating from the margins harness social and identity frictions in intersectionality of their gender, race and professional role in a specific geo-cultural contexts. The chapter uses media frictions to offer new perspectives in journalism practice, focusing on practitioners who are producing news stories on topics and people who otherwise wouldn’t have been seen or heard. <br/