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No full textBook synopsis: The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, 2nd Edition will be a broad, interdisciplinary product aimed at students and educators interested in an interdisciplinary perspective on LGBTQ issues. This far-reaching and contemporary set of volumes is meant to examine and provide understandings of the lives and experiences of LGBTQ individuals, with attention to the contexts and forces that shape their world. The volume will address questions such as: What are the key theories used to understand variations in sexual orientation and gender identity? How do LGBTQ+ people experience the transition to parenthood? How does sexual orientation intersect with other key social locations (e.g., race) to shape experience and identity? What does LGBTQ+ affirmative therapy look like? How have anti-LGBTQ ballot measures affected LGBTQ people? What are LGBTQ+ people’s experiences during COVID-19? How were LGBTQ+ people impacted by the Trump administration? What is life like for LGBTQ+ people living outside the United States?
This encyclopedia will be a unique product on the market: a reference work that looks at LGBTQ issues and identity primarily through the lenses of psychology, human development, and sociology, and emphasizing queer, feminist, and ecological perspectives on this topic. Entries will be written by top researchers and clinicians across multiple fields—psychology, human development, gender/queer studies, sexuality studies, social work, nursing, cultural studies, education, family studies, medicine, public health, and sociology—contributing to approximately 450-500 signed entries. All entries will include cross-references and Further Readings
Sperm donors’ involvement in children's lives
No full textBook synopsis: The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, 2nd Edition will be a broad, interdisciplinary product aimed at students and educators interested in an interdisciplinary perspective on LGBTQ issues. This far-reaching and contemporary set of volumes is meant to examine and provide understandings of the lives and experiences of LGBTQ individuals, with attention to the contexts and forces that shape their world. The volume will address questions such as: What are the key theories used to understand variations in sexual orientation and gender identity? How do LGBTQ+ people experience the transition to parenthood? How does sexual orientation intersect with other key social locations (e.g., race) to shape experience and identity? What does LGBTQ+ affirmative therapy look like? How have anti-LGBTQ ballot measures affected LGBTQ people? What are LGBTQ+ people’s experiences during COVID-19? How were LGBTQ+ people impacted by the Trump administration? What is life like for LGBTQ+ people living outside the United States?
This encyclopedia will be a unique product on the market: a reference work that looks at LGBTQ issues and identity primarily through the lenses of psychology, human development, and sociology, and emphasizing queer, feminist, and ecological perspectives on this topic. Entries will be written by top researchers and clinicians across multiple fields—psychology, human development, gender/queer studies, sexuality studies, social work, nursing, cultural studies, education, family studies, medicine, public health, and sociology—contributing to approximately 450-500 signed entries. All entries will include cross-references and Further Readings
Dual impacts of hydrology and damming on eutrophication: comparison of two Ramsar wetlands in the middle Yangtze floodplain
Get PDFDam construction for social-economic benefits has raised substantial biological and ecological concerns. However, contrasting findings have been reported regarding the role of hydrological modification in floodplain lake ecosystems. Here, we evaluated the influence of hydrology and dam construction on the eutrophication of floodplain lakes over the last 200 years by studying Zn/Al (an indicator of industrial activities), nutrient influxes (total phosphorus, TP), cyanobacteria production (canthaxanthin) and aquatic invertebrate dynamics (chironomids) in 210Pb dated sediment cores from two Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance in the middle Yangtze floodplain, one dammed (Wanghu) and the other freely connected (Poyang) with the Yangtze River. The results show that Wanghu Lake transitioned to a macrophyte-dominated clear water state (as indicated by the increases in pigment derived ultraviolet radiation index and dominance of macrophyte-related chironomid taxa) after local dam construction when anthropogenic nutrient loadings were relatively low. With increases in nutrient loadings, phytoplankton increased in both lakes, but water clarity declined and macrophyte-related chironomids decreased only in the lake which was locally dammed. Our study reveals that local damming facilitates the response of floodplain lake ecosystems to eutrophication and decouples it from the effects of hydrological variability. This study highlights the potential influence of hydrology and damming on the eutrophication of floodplain lakes by influencing water clarity and macrophyte coverage, implying that evaluating the role of local dam construction on ecosystem states should be based on knowledge of nutrient conditions in floodplain lakes
A rapid review of supports for neurodivergent students in higher education. Implications for research and practice
Get PDFEfforts to make university education more inclusive have recently increased their focus on support for students with neurodivergent conditions including Autism or Dyslexia. Several practice guidelines have been published. Data tells us that neurodivergent (ND) students are more likely to drop out of higher education. We focused our definition on commonly researched conditions such as autism and dyslexia rather than a wider focus which also comprises mental health and transient conditions and recognise the limitations of doing so. We think that university environments, structures and processes might not be right to meet the needs of such students. This rapid review (a systematic way of locating and assessing literature in a specific timeframe) assessed what published literature tells us regarding adjustments and support in higher education for ND students. Through a systematic process we looked at studies summarised in nine existing reviews to consider the quality of evidence and priorities for research and practice. We found the evidence to be US-centric and sample sizes small. We synthesized evidence for (a) examination adjustments such as extra time, (b) whether clarity of instruction makes a difference, (c) focus on learning strategies, (d) technology-based interventions, (e) psychological supports, (f) mentoring and coaching, (g) comprehensive support programmes for example bringing groups of students together over a long time (h) transition into university and (i) transition into employment. Most studies focused on specific conditions such as Autism rather than taking a comprehensive approach. The evidence is overall modest and more focused on skills and learning, rather than educational outcomes (e.g. getting a good degree) and life outcomes such as successful transition into work. We suggest that future research needs to concentrate more on neuroinclusion at the level of the entire education institution, in curriculum design and transition into work and actively involve learners
2024 Neurodiversity in business and work academic research: the perspective of workers, colleagues and employers
Get PDFAre we heading towards the right to die, after all? A review of the recent European legal landscape
Get PDFA review of Europe's evolving legal landscape on assisted dying, examining the ethical, social, and legal challenges shaping the right to die
The capacity limitations of multiple-template visual search during task preparation and target selection
Get PDFVisual search is guided by mental representations of target-defining features (attentional templates) that are activated in a preparatory fashion. It remains unknown how many templates can be maintained concurrently, and what kind of costs are associated with multiple-template versus single-template search. Here, we compared the operation of attentional templates during three-colour and single-colour search tasks. Preparatory template activation processes were tracked by measuring N2pc components to task-irrelevant singleton colour probes that appeared in rapid succession during the interval between search displays. These probes attract attention (as indexed by an N2pc) if the corresponding colour template is active at the time when the probe appears. In a three-colour search task where target identity was fully predictable (Experiment 1), only probes that matched the upcoming target colour triggered N2pcs, demonstrating that only a single target template was activated. When three possible colour targets appeared randomly and unpredictably (Experiment 2), probes that matched any of these colours triggered N2pcs, demonstrating that all three templates were activated concurrently. However, relative to a single-colour search task, clear costs emerged in this three-colour task for the attentional guidance towards search targets and for search performance. These costs appear to be linked to inhibitory interactions between simultaneously active search templates. These findings show that while at least three target templates can be maintained in parallel, multiple-template search is still subject to capacity limitations which affect both template-guided attentional guidance and the subsequent selective processing of search targets
A reappraisal of the petrogenesis of Apollo 17 lunar dunites 72415-72417: relics of the deep lunar mantle?
Get PDFLunar dunite samples 72415-72417, collected by Apollo 17 astronauts from a South Massif boulder in the Taurus-Littrow valley, are crushed breccias composed of several types of olivine- and clinopyroxene-rich clasts, some of which are (or contain) intergrowths of Cr-spinel and pyroxenes or plagioclase. Among the clasts are ellipsoidal symplectites of Cr-spinel and pyroxene, up to 300 μm in diameter, which have bulk compositions consistent with those of olivine+garnet. These symplectites are inferred to originally have been olivine+ Mg-Cr-rich garnet (pyrope-uvarovite) that formed deep in the lunar mantle and were subsequently transported closer to the lunar surface (spinel- or plagioclase-peridotite stability fields), perhaps during gravitationally-driven overturn. Abundant microsymplectite (30 μm diameter) intergrowths of Cr-spinel and pyroxene inside olivine grains, many associated with inclusions of plagioclase and augite, formed during a later decompression event (perhaps excavation to the lunar surface). These inclusions have not previously been recorded in these samples, and could be responsible for earlier reports of igneous zoning in olivine. Electron backscatter diffraction data show evidence of high shock pressures (>50 GPa), which are inferred to have occurred during the impact which excavated the dunites from the shallow anorthite-bearing lunar mantle. Apatite veinlets post-date the shock metamorphism and have been dated to 3983 ± 72 Ma and 3913 ± 118 Ma by the U-Pb method. This age is consistent with that inferred for the Imbrium impact basin, suggesting that the dunite was finally excavated from the mantle during formation of the Imbrium basin
Introduction to special issue on coexistence with Reptiles
No full textCoexistence with reptiles? Surely a preposterous idea! For the common perception of reptiles is that they are primitive life forms, cold-blooded, anti-social, emotionless, vicious and not infrequently dangerous. Well, in this special issue we show that coexistence between particular human communities and particular reptiles exists. We suggest there is something to be learned about what is possible, to widen the bandwidth of what is conceivable concerning communities of humans and of reptiles sharing the same landscapes. The introduction focuses on two major topics. First, the nature of reptiles and the sorry (but improving) state of the study of reptiles and perceptions of their capabilities. Second, on what we mean by coexistence with wildlife, and how studying coexistence might improve our civility to other kinds of creatures in the future
A diplomacy for human-nonhuman relations: letter to a young climate activist
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Taking as a point of departure the intervention of a young climate activist during an event sponsored by the New York Times in Scotland before COP 26, this piece is an attempt to present to a lay audience the human/non-human diplomacy invented and practised by a native peasant community in north-western South America. The context of such diplomacy pertains to their survival and survivance during the worst years of state and paramilitary violence in Colombia, driven by the search for profit, primitive accumulation, and largely tropical speculative ventures by multinational investors. This piece takes the form of an experimental essay or a letter, in the hope of finding alternatives to staid languages of pedantic law and forensic judgment that have condemned the language of human rights, its radical possibilities, to remain caged within a framework of stasis. It aims to explode such a framework.
and their techno-solutionism, miming mimetic beings in wonderlands of what until yesterday was pure make-believe, you said: ‘Indigenous peoples,’ who are treated like children, ‘are custodians of most of the rainforests that are the lungs of our planet. Not only that, they also have the solutions for the climate crisis. And yet, they’re not sitting at the table’... This is a letter to a young European climate activist. Also a call to listen to and learn from the indigenous peoples of the Americas how to come up with a different law and diplomacy for human-nonhuman relations
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