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Reconhecimento em Dirty Works: A Gestão do Estigma no Trabalho Sexual Recognition in Dirty Works: Managing Stigma in Sex Work
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Reconhecimento em Dirty Works: A Gestão
do Estigma no Trabalho Sexual
Este artigo analisa a gestão do estigma no trabalho sexual, argumentando que
esse processo se baseia em anseios por reconhecimento e não somente em expectativas de validação e normalização do trabalho maculado. Ele se embasa nos
debates sociológicos contemporâneos sobre dirty works, que visam compreender
o impacto das máculas morais nos trabalhadores e as estratégias para gerenciamento de estigmas. A análise é realizada no universo do trabalho sexual no webcamming, um lócus central para compreender demandas por reconhecimento
devido à amplitude de sua mácula. O estudo se alicerça em etnografia digital
conduzida de 2016 a 2020 e 15 entrevistas em profundidade com trabalhadoras
sexuais. Conclui-se que as trabalhadoras buscam desenvolver uma autorrelação
positiva e conquistar estima social através do gerenciamento do estigma atribuído
a seu labor e a si mesmas, demonstrando narrativamente como o trabalho sexual
contribui para seu autodesenvolvimento e possui função social para além da
obtenção de renda.
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Recognition in Dirty Works: Managing Stigma in Sex Work
This paper analyzes the stigma managing in sex work, arguing that this process is
based on a longing for recognition and not merely on expectations to validate and
normalize the dirty work. It uses contemporary sociological debates about dirty
works, which aim to understand the impact of moral taints on workers and the
strategies for stigma management. The analysis is developed in webcamming sex
labor, a central locus to understand demands for recognition due to the breadth
of its taint. The study relies on digital ethnography conducted between 2016 and
2020 and on 15 in-depth interviews with sex workers. The paper concludes that
workers aim to develop a positive self-relation and acquire social esteem by
managing the stigma attributed to their work and to themselves, demonstrating
narratively how sex labor contributes to their self-development and has a social
role besides earning income
Operationalising Article 13 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities the role of assistive technology in ensuring access to justice
Get PDFAccess to justice is a determinant of the realisation of all other rights, including the right to health, employment, and education. As persons with disabilities experience increased discrimination and social exclusion and are at higher risk of violence than people without disabilities, it is crucial to ensure access to justice in both the civil and criminal legal spheres for people with disabilities. However, persons with disabilities experience multiple barriers at the macro/structural and individual levels to accessing justice. In light of the significance of access to justice for people with disabilities, and the multiple barriers to accessing justice experienced by those with disabilities, this perspective examines the importance of assistive technology in fulfilling the right to access justice. To fulfill the right of access to the justice system, assistive technologies must be more effectively harnessed to provide equitable access to justice for persons with disabilities
Higher social class is associated with higher contextualized emotion recognition accuracy across cultures
Get PDFWe tested links between social status and emotion recognition accuracy (ERA) with participants from a diverse array of cultures and a new model and method of ERA, the Assessment of Contextualized Emotion (ACE), which incorporates social context and is linked to different types of social interaction across cultures. Participants from the Czech Republic (Study 1) and from 12 cultural groups in Europe, North America, and Asia (Study 2) completed a short version of the ACE, a self-construal scale, and the MacArthur Subjective Social Status (SSS) scale. In both studies, higher SSS was associated with more accuracy. In Study 2, this relationship was mediated by higher independent self-construal and moderated by countries’ long-term orientation and relational mobility. The findings suggest that the positive association between higher social class and emotion recognition accuracy is due to the use of agentic modes of socio-cognitive reasoning by higher status individuals. This raises new questions regarding the socio-cultural ecologies that afford this relationship
The molecular basis of immunosuppression by soluble CD52 is defined by interactions of N-linked and O-linked glycans with HMGB1 box B
Get PDFHuman soluble CD52 is a short glycopeptide comprising 12
amino acids (GQNDTSQTSSPS) which functions as an immune regulator by sequestering the pro-inflammatory high
mobility group box protein 1 (HMGB1) and suppressing immune responses. Recombinant CD52 has been shown to act as a
broad anti-inflammatory agent, dampening both adaptive and
innate immune responses. This short glycopeptide is heavily
glycosylated, with a complex sialylated N-linked glycan at N3
and reported O-linked glycosylation possible on several serine
and threonine residues. Previously we demonstrated that specific glycosylation features of CD52 are essential for its
immunosuppressive function, with terminal a-2,3-linked sialic
acids required for binding to the inhibitory SIGLEC-10 receptor leading to T-cell suppression. Using high resolution
mass spectrometry, we have further characterized the N- and
O-linked glycosylation of Expi293 recombinantly produced
CD52 at a glycopeptide and released glycan level, accurately
determining glycan heterogeneity of both N- and O-linked
glycosylation, and localizing the site of O-glycosylation to T8
with high confidence and direct spectral evidence. This
detailed knowledge of CD52 glycosylation informed the
construction of a model system, which we analyzed by molecular dynamics simulations to understand the mechanism of
recognition and define interactions between bioactive CD52,
HMGB1 and the SIGLEC-10 receptor. Our results confirm
the essential role of glycosylation, more specifically
hyper-sialylation, in the function of CD52, and identify at the
atomistic level specific interactions between CD52 glycans and
the Box B domain of HMGB1 that determine recognition, and
the stability of the CD52/HMGB1 complex. These insights will
inform the development of synthetic CD52 as an immunotherapeutic agen
Opacity and Security Concepts for Discrete Event Systems, Linear Time-invariant Systems, and Max-Plus Linear Systems
Get PDFIn this thesis, we review concepts in privacy and security for different classes of
dynamical systems, with particular emphasis on opacity and attack detection.
Opacity has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its role in
tackling privacy-related problems within the area of system and control theory.
Opacity is an information-flow property that is concerned with a system ability
to hide information from an external observer. This property plays a key
role in strengthening resilience against attacks and prevents adversaries from
determining if their attacks have succeeded.
We begin the thesis by examining opacity in its original setting of discrete event
systems (DES) and consider a more recent adaptation for linear time-invariant
(LTI) systems. In addition, we also provide some initial thoughts on how opacity
might be formulated in the context of max-plus linear systems. Although maxplus
systems constitute a subclass of DES, their formal structure resembles that
of LTI systems. These models arise in practical setting such as manufacturing
systems, communication networks, and railway systems, where synchronization
and timing constraints are critical.
To ensure the reliable operation of any system, it is essential to design mechanisms
that mitigate the effects of malicious behaviour. This thesis also reviews
concepts in security with a focus on attack detection, and discusses the connection
between opacity and the notion of undetectable attacks
Racial microaggressions and beyond: the voice and song of the caged bird. An exploration of the lived reality of racism in the lives of Black, Black-white Mixed Ancestry, Asian, and Irish Traveller students during their school-going years in Ireland (1990s-2000s)
Get PDFThis study explores racism-racial microaggressions in educational contexts from the perspective of Black, Black-white Mixed ancestry, Asian, and Irish Traveller Students. The lacuna in the literature around racialised and minoritised students' experiences of racism in post-primary contexts foregrounded this research. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with ten individuals, the study uses a multi-theory and multi-qualitative method (bricolage) approach to examine the lived experiences of these students at predominantly white educational institutions (PWIs) in Ireland.
Critical race theory (CRT) and critical counter-narrative are employed to challenge the master narrative that ‘Ireland is not a place of racism’ and to decentre whiteness and the dominant perspectives and realities rooted therein, which are valorised and given eminence in society. This study foregrounds and privileges the voice, experiential realities, and subjugated knowledges of racialised and minoritised individuals, which are often dismissed and trivialised in education scholarship and other domains.
Research participants share the stark reality that racism in all its forms is a very real and harrowing part of their lived experience. The ten study participants provide retrospective and introspective counter-narratives that reveal the dehumanisation, marginalisation, violent erasure, ostracisation, criminalisation, discrimination, and isolation suffered at the hands of members of the dominant group. Participants also reported deafening silences, a fragile race avoidance, and a sweeping under-the-rug approach adopted by school personnel when it came to addressing issues of race and racism.
The combined impact of explicit racism and the more subtle, insidious racial microaggressions and the associated effects was reported to be severely detrimental, with long-lasting and far-reaching pernicious repercussions. Study participants offer recommendations for transformative action that policymakers, school leadership, and the teaching body at large can adopt to advance racial equity. Using Huber and Solorzano’s (2020) tree model as a basis, this investigation also illustrates the ways that ideologies inherent in white supremacy serve as roots that produce and justify racism-racial microaggressions. Ultimately, the study calls for a
denuding and dethroning of the deification of white supremacy and whiteness for racial justice to prevail in our classrooms, schools, and society at large. An examination and interrogation of whiteness, particularly in predominantly white settings, is a foundational prerequisite for reform at a societal level
Unique osteological evidence for human-animal gladiatorial combat in Roman Britain
Get PDFThe spectacle of Roman gladiatorial combat captures the public imagination and elicits significant scholarly interest. Skeletal evidence associated with gladiatorial combat is rare, with most evidence deriving from written or visual sources. A single skeleton from a Roman cemetery outside of York where gladiators arguably were buried presented with unusual lesions. Investigation, including comparative work from modern zoological institutions, has demonstrated that these marks originate from large cat scavenging. Thus, we present the first physical evidence for human-animal gladiatorial combat from the Roman period seen anywhere in Europe
Gradient test to assess homogeneity of probabilities in discrete-time transition models with application in agricultural science data
Get PDFLongitudinal studies in discrete or continuous time involving categorical data are common in agricultural sciences. Transition models
can be used as a means to analyse the resulting data, especially
when the aim is to describe category changes over time, as well as to
accommodate covariates due to experimental design. Here we focus
on discrete-time models, for which it is critical to assess whether the
underlying process is stationary or not. Tests based on likelihood
procedures are very useful, and here we propose the Gradient test
to assess stationary, or homogeneity of transition probabilities. We
carried out simulation studies to evaluate the performance of the
proposed test, which indicated a good performance regarding type-I
error and power when compared to other classical tests available in
the literature. As motivation we present two studies with agricultural
data, the first one applied to entomology with nominal responses
and the second application refers to the degree of injury in pigs.
Using our proposed test, stationarity and non-stationarity were verified respectively in the applications. Since the gradient test to assess
stationarity has a simplified structure when compared to other tests,
it is therefore a useful alternative when carrying out inference in
these types of models
Enhancing Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Design Through Education Frameworks: Executive Summary
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Inspireurope + Insights Researchers at Risk as Human Rights Defenders
Get PDFSupport for human rights defenders is a long-established part of the European Union’s human rights
external relations policy. The purpose of this brief is to highlight that a significant number of researchers at
risk are HRDs, whether by the nature of their academic work, extramural advocacy work, or expressive
activities