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Oregon State Rank Assessment for Mann\u27s Mollusk-eating Ground Beetle (Scaphinotus mannii)
Get PDFOregon state conservation status assessment for Mann\u27s mollusk-eating ground beetle (Scaphinotus mannii) using NatureServe methodology, 2024
Faint Glimmers: Redrawing the Housewife in Yamada Murasaki\u27s \u3ci\u3eTalk to My Back\u3c/i\u3e
Get PDFYamada Murasaki\u27s seminal manga collection Talk to My Back, originally titled Shinkirari, tells a story of a woman\u27s gradual journey toward agency within the constraints of a nuclear patriarchal family. Set within the everyday suburban life of Chiharu in 1980s Japan, Yamada uses subtle visual cues and restrained narrative techniques to illustrate her protagonist\u27s struggles and quiet breakthroughs as she questions her identity and renegotiates her role as a housewife and mother.
By exploring the often-overlooked inner world of a housewife, Yamada scrutinizes traditional gender roles and reveals the burden and psychological toll of the emotional labor imposed on women in a society that undervalues them. The simplicity of Yamada\u27s distinct artwork, combined with her richly woven narrative, not only challenges the idealized notion of good wife, wise mother (ryōsai kenbo) but also fosters empathy in readers, inviting them to connect deeply with Chiharu\u27s moments of struggle and self-assertion.
Situated at the intersection of gekiga and shōjo manga, Talk to My Back carves out a space free from the constraints of either genre, serving as a powerful medium for social critique and personal narrative. This paper employs visual and narrative analysis from Comics and Manga Studies to examine how Yamada\u27s work redefines the Japanese housewife role and explores the universal themes of womanhood, family, and home. Through this exploration, Yamada\u27s work--and manga as a medium--contributes to both academic and cultural discourse on gender, identity, and domestic life
Exploring the Radical Potential of Queer AZN and Pasifika CRT for Clinical Social Work Praxis
Get PDFIn the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the crisis in Palestine, and the continued rise in hate crimes against Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, clinical social work praxis centering on the intersectional identities of queer and transgender AAPI communities has never been more vital. Through the visioning of an approach that addresses these intersecting identities and our own experiences with racism, cisheterosexism, and transphobia, we propose a theoretical framework, Queer AZN and Pasifika Critical Race Theory (CRT), for clinical social work praxis. Specifically, we describe six tenets of a Queer AZN and Pasifika CRT approach, which include (1) Queer, Brown Asianization; (2) Challenging mainstream ideologies about Asians, Pacific Islanders, Queer and Transgender Pacific Islanders, and Queer and Transgender Asian Americans; (3) Global, decolonial perspectives; (4) Re-constructive histories; (5) Multidisciplinary story, practice, praxis, and voice; and (6) a Social Justice perspective. We present cases as an opportunity to explore and reflect on clinical social work practice with queer and trans AAPI people through the lens of Queer AZN and Pasifika CRT
Story of Your Lazy Function’s Life: A Bidirectional Demand Semantics for Mechanized Cost Analysis of Lazy Programs
No full textLazy evaluation is a powerful tool that enables better compositionality and potentially better performance in functional programming, but it is challenging to analyze its computation cost. Existing works either require manually annotating sharing, or rely on separation logic to reason about heaps of mutable cells. In this paper, we propose a bidirectional demand semantics that allows for extrinsic reasoning about the computation cost of lazy programs without relying on special program logics. To show the effectiveness of our approach, we apply the demand semantics to a variety of case studies including insertion sort, selection sort, Okasaki\u27s banker\u27s queue, and the implicit queue. We formally prove that the banker\u27s queue and the implicit queue are both amortized and persistent using the Rocq Prover (formerly known as Coq). We also propose the reverse physicist\u27s method, a novel variant of the classical physicist\u27s method, which enables mechanized, modular and compositional reasoning about amortization and persistence with the demand semantics
A Time Synchronized Multi-Hop Mesh Network with Crystal-Free Nodes
Get PDFIn this work we propose and demonstrate a protocol for a time synchronized channel hopping mesh network for wireless transceivers that use exclusively imprecise and inaccurate on-chip oscillators. This protocol is built on an IEEE 802.15.4 physical layer radio that enables interoperability with protocols such as 6TiSCH or Thread. A calibration-bootstrapped multi-hop mesh network is demonstrated with a single crystal-enabled node acting as the root. The protocol is designed to create a multi-hop mesh while compensating noisy and drifting oscillators and timers. With a 4 s synchronization period, an experimental implementation of the network maintains, in the worst case, 1.8 ms 3σ absolute time synchronization and 820 µs 3σ hop-to-hop synchronization across four hops, under ambient environmental conditions. The resistance to environmental variation is tested by varying one node\u27s supply voltage. With time and frequency feedback from received packets, the node maintains this synchronization with a supply variation of 2.5 mV/s, which is equivalent to a temperature variation of 10°C/min with a packet rate of 0.5 Hz
A Model of Personal Relationships and Cyberbullying Perpetration Among Adolescents: A Person*environment Model
No full textAlthough cyberbullying is relational by nature, prior models focused on individual explanations for cyberbullying rather than integrating contextual processes. We present the Relational Model of Cyberbullying Motivation and Regulation (RMC). This model applies the concepts of proximal processes (e.g., interactions with parents, teachers, peers) from ecological systems theory and the concepts of psychological resources (e.g., autonomy, competency, and relatedness) from self determination theory to explain youth motivation and self-regulation of cyberbullying. First, we review theoretical foundations for the theories involved and outline postulates for youths’ proximal influences, motivations for, and regulation against cyberbullying perpetration. Then, we present a pathway by which the most proximal social influences on youth impact the development of psychological resources, which then may impact cyberbullying. We also present pathways by which autonomy, competence, and relatedness have an indirect impact on cyberbullying via motivation and self-regulation. The RMC informs intervention efforts by identifying proximal contexts and leverage points to disrupt processes that lead to competence and/or autonomy to cyberbully others
Impact of Testosterone Therapy on Pulmonary Function in Transgender and Gender Expansive Individuals Assigned Female at Birth: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study
No full textBackground
Interpretation of pulmonary function tests (PFTs) currently uses normative data derived with a cisgender assumption for men and women, not taking into consideration transgender individuals who may have undergone interventions including hormonal therapy. If muscles involved for respiration change with exposure to testosterone therapy, normative PFT calculations for presumed cisgender individuals may not apply to transgender individuals. Thus, investigating pulmonary function in those who have undergone testosterone therapy will aid the accuracy of PFTs for this population. Aims
Examine the potential impact of testosterone therapy on pulmonary function in gender expansive individuals assigned female at birth (AFAB) and complications of comparing PFT results against current normative data. Methods
Primary outcomes were respiratory volume and strength, reflected by measures of forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), FEV1/FVC, maximum inspiratory pressure (MIP), and maximum expiratory pressure (MEP). Paired samples t-tests were performed between age- and race-matched pairs of 24 AFAB gender expansive individuals on testosterone therapy and 24 AFAB participants without a history of testosterone use. Results
Within-group comparison using Pearson correlation of individuals taking testosterone consistently for \u3e1 year for gender-affirming purposes, yielded a moderate correlation for dosage and MIP of r(20) = 0.43, p = 0.049. Paired samples t-tests revealed highly significant differences in MEP (p = 0.001) and significant differences in FEV1/FVC (p = 0.026) for the testosterone use and no testosterone use groups. Percent predicted values for all measures were higher when analyzed using cisgender female normative data across both groups
Health from the Grassroots, Listening to Mob: University- Based Aboriginal Researchers Collaborate with Aboriginal Communities to Identify Health Priorities
Get PDFBackground: There is opportunity for Universities to actively engage with Aboriginal communities to participate, conduct, and ideally lead, responsible research that attends to community priorities and issues. The Health from the Grassroots (Grassroots) project seeks to address an ongoing mismatch between university-defined priorities and community-defined priorities in rural [***]. Grassroots, led by Aboriginal staff of the [***], is a community engagement project aimed at engaging Aboriginal communities in conversations to inform research priorities. This paper describes the project vision, implementation, and lessons learned in the first years.
Approach: The Grassroots project was a true representation of collaborative research led by and for Aboriginal people. We designed and conducted a local survey and yarning sessions with community members and used this information to design a “rich picture” to report findings and engage in further conversation with communities about evolving health and research priorities.
We identified strengths and challenges faced by communities and health services in the region. The Aboriginal research team centred community in decision-making for project design and direction.
Lessons Learned: Challenges encountered included limited resources and devoted time for the research team as this project occurred alongside staffs’ substantive positions. Community members were highly engaged in the consultation process and the rich picture continues to be used to further conversations about research action.
Conclusions: Deep-rooted relationships and identities as members of the Community in which we live, and work enabled meaningful consultation to inform research action. Research priorities identified through the Grassroots project have been integrated into the ongoing work of the [***]
From Body to World: empathy and the transformative power of cinematic imagination
Get PDFThe transformative power of fiction has been acknowledged since antiquity (Jaén and Simon, 2012) and technologies such as cinematography have amplified it. This power resides in its capacity to move us, to change our emotional states. Moreover, the audiovisual and narrative strategies employed in film fictions allow us to experience emotions not only intensely but also safely. Our participatory responses are both elicited and modulated by the fictional “crafted” quality of the stories that we witness on the screen. What happens before our eyes does not pose a threat to us and does not need our intervention. Yet, it seems quite real to our brains and may transform us, by allowing us to adopt different cognitive-affective perspectives, which may result in prosocial behaviors, that is, actions oriented toward the benefit of others
Reflections on the First 50 Years of Oregon\u27s Pioneering Statewide Land Use Planning, 1973-2023
Get PDFArthur C. Nelson, emeritus professor of urban planning and real estate development at the University of Arizona, presents an assessment of the impact of Senate Bill 100 on land use in Oregon over the past fifty years, and of the challenges ahead to 2050 and beyond.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/planoregon_interviews/1072/thumbnail.jp