95 research outputs found
Young generations’ hopelessness perpetuates long-term conflicts
No full textFunding Information: The authors would like to thank Roni Porat for their valuable contribution in the conceptualization stage of the research, and Shir Harpaz, Natali Afrimov, and Dan Heskia for their assistance in the data analysis. This work was supported by an Israel Science Foundation Grant (3105/21) to the first author (BSH). Funding Information: The authors would like to thank Roni Porat for their valuable contribution in the conceptualization stage of the research, and Shir Harpaz, Natali Afrimov, and Dan Heskia for their assistance in the data analysis. This work was supported by an Israel Science Foundation Grant (3105/21) to the first author (BSH). Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s).Transforming long-term conflicts into peaceful intergroup relations is one of the most difficult challenges for humanity. Such meaningful social changes are often driven by young people. But do young people living in contexts of long-term conflicts believe that change is even possible? In a series of six studies (Ntotal = 119,671) over two decades and across two unrelated intractable conflicts in Israel/Palestine and Cyprus, we found that younger (compared to older) generations from both respective rival groups have less hope for peace, and consequently less conciliatory attitudes. We also show that this gradual improvement of peace-promoting emotions and attitudes with increasing age can be experimentally accelerated in young people through a virtual reality-based aging simulation. These findings provide a new perspective on the fundamental question of why long-term conflicts are so difficult to resolve and highlight the importance of instilling hope in young generations to advance peace processes.Peer reviewe
Active/Passive, ‘Diminished’/‘Beautiful’, ‘Light’ from Above and Below: Rereading Shekhinah’s Sexual Desire in Zohar al Shir ha-Shirim (Song of Songs)
No full textIn Zohar al Shir ha-Shirim, the Zohar’s reading of Song of Songs, Shekhinah, echoing themes associated with the Shulamite of the biblical text, consistently initiates cosmic union. Sexual desire in the zoharic texts is a form of capital necessary to facilitate sefirotic intercourse, although scholarly readings of the zoharic corpus often identify Shekhinah as a passive receptacle. This, however, is only true if the endemic contradictions within the texts are glossed over. In Song of Songs, the Shulamite’s sexual ‘initiative’ is core. This was not lost on the author(s) of Zohar al Shir ha-Shirim, who, in struggling to explain Shekhinah’s sefirotic role in line with the erotics of Song of Songs, inescapably echoed the ‘depatriarchalizing’ themes of the biblical text. As this article demonstrates, in Zohar al Shir ha-Shirim, Shekhinah is active and repeatedly encourages and frustrates cosmic sexual intercourse. Zohar al Shir ha-Shirim shows that it is possible to reread Shekhinah’s role beyond the androcentrism of the authors as well as scholarly assumptions about her passivity
[[alternative]]BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF JUDO HARAIGOSHI TECHNIQUE DURING THE KAKE
No full text[[abstract]]BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF JUDO HARAIGOSHI TECHNIQUE DURING THE KAKE
Lin Shir Hsin
Advisor：Huang Chen Fu
ABSTRACT
According to the techniques used by judoists in 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and 1997 Judo Word Cup. Haraigoshi was one of most used techniques by different levels of judoist to win the game. However, although its basic skill does not change, the different movements will be developed according to the judoists body type, experiences, native intelligence, and coaching style. For this reason, the purpose of this study is to investigate the kinetics and kinematics differences when the position of support leg of thrower were at 60 degrees, 90 degrees, and 120 degrees with thrown.
Eight judoists participated in this study. Two JVC 9800 digital cameras（60Hz） and one Kistler 9287（600Hz）force platform were used to collect the kinematic and kinetic data..
The results of this study were as followed:
1. The greater the support leg angles, the shorter the movement time.
2. No difference was found on thrown maximum center of gravity（C.G）velocity and thrower maximum C.G vertical displacement and maximum attack leg C.G velocity on different support leg angles.
3. The minimum angles of knee joint and the minimum body angle had significant difference between support leg at 90 degrees and 60 degrees.
4. Maximum vertical ground reaction force（GRF）of thrower was observed near 0.1 second after thrown both feet off ground. No difference on maximum GRF was found on three angles.
5. This study showed that the angle 90 degrees was the best angle between three position.
Keyword：Judo、Biomechanics、Haraigoshi、Kinematics、Kinetics
A Case Study of Guerrilla Virtual Reunification from the Morningside Hospital History Project: Privacy and Access, Independence and Sustainability
No full textThe Lost Alaskans Morningside Hospital History Project (MHHP) is a grassroots community archival project documenting the nearly 3,500 Alaskans who were institutionalized at a private psychiatric hospital in Oregon from 1904-1960. Through semi-structured interviews with volunteers and researchers, this article analyzes the MHHP’s online patient database as an experiment in guerrilla virtual reunification—digitally reuniting scattered archival records outside of institutional partnerships. The study highlights two pairs of competing archival virtues: privacy and access, and independence and sustainability. The research underscores how community archives navigate ethical, legal, logistical, and affective challenges in their goal of documenting marginalized histories. In particular, the article discusses the fragility of grassroots digital preservation and the special challenges in documenting and identifying institutionalized people.This version of the article has been accepted for publication after peer review and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post- acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10502-025-09519-
Finding the Lost Alaskans: Volunteer and Researcher Experiences with the Morningside Hospital History Project
No full textFrom 1904-1960, over 3,500 Alaskans were deemed insane by a jury and sent to the privately-owned Morningside Hospital in Portland, Oregon. The Morningside Hospital History Project (MHHP) aims to find these “Lost Alaskans” by digitizing archival documentation scattered across the country, reconnecting families with information about their lost relatives, and bringing the history of Morningside back into public memory. As a volunteer-run organization with no ties to a larger institution and a unique modus operandi of guerilla virtual reunification, the MHHP is a fascinating case that challenges both halves of the term “community archives.” This study uses semi-structured interviews with MHHP volunteers and Morningside researchers to explore themes of volunteer motivation, competing values of privacy and access, sustainability and independence, and repatriation.Master of Science in Library Scienc
Tarptautinių medicinos studentų socialinės, ekonominės elgsenos ir gyvensenos sąsajos su depresijos simptomų pasireiškimu.
No full textAuthor: Shir Tiger Title: Social, economical and lifestyle behaviors linked with depressive symptoms appearance in international medical students. Aim: to evaluate the association between social, economical and lifestyle behaviors with depressive symptoms appearance in international medical students. Objectives: 1) Assess depressive symptoms in international medical students. 2) Assessing for social and economical indicators such as age, gender, subject of studying, faculty, and lifestyle behaviors such as smoking, drinking, BMI and language skills. 3) Evaluate the association between depressive symptoms appearance with these factors in international medical students. Methodology: the participants in this study were 101 students. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the appearance of depressiveness and to assess correlation to social, economical and lifestyle behaviors in international medical students. Only students that indicated that they are international students were enrolled. In the study we used Beck’s Depression Inventory to assess for depression and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support to assess for social support. Results: gender and smoking have the highest association with depressive symptoms appearance among international medical students in Lithuanian University for Health and Science. Language skills after arriving to Lithuania and financial support had the highest association with social support among international medical students in Lithuanian University for Health and Science. All other factors such as age, faculty, subject of studying and life style, that were examined had no association between depression and depressive symptoms and social support. Conclusion: there was an increased risk for depression in those who smoke and female gender, and an decreased social support in those with no financial support and in increased social support in those with better English knowledge after coming to Lithuania. Practical recommendations: we would like to recommend the university to implant a program for mental health services that is both accessible and affordable. Elaboration of the existing mentoring program, in a way that will include higher years at the university as well, is recommended as well
Inside, Outside, Morningside: Alaska’s Insane in Portland, Oregon, 1904-1960
No full texthttps://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/7f667ca2-7491-4404-9eed-e7e90f009200/thumb/128.jpgFrom 1904-1960, every Alaskan deemed insane by a jury of six men was sent to Morningside, a private psychiatric institution in Portland, Oregon. This thesis argues that Morningside was able to hold on to this arrangement for so long because the claims it made about expertise and psychiatric therapeutics appealed to dominant psychiatric discourses of the era. In particular, the adoption of shock therapies at Morningside starting in 1937 represented a faith in biomedical progress and psychiatric professionalization. Looking at the institution from the lenses of “Inside, Outside, and Morningside”, this thesis traces the downfall of Morningside to the successful integration of critiques emanating from both Inside and Outside. Alaskan critiques of Morningside on the basis of self-determination, as part of the larger fight for statehood, combined with D.C.-based critiques of the type of care provided at Morningside and resulted in congressional action that made the institution obsolete. Abbreviated patient records, congressional hearings, popular press coverage, and other archival sources are used to explore moments of tension in Morningside’s history. In light of the unique opportunities presented by the extent and form of Morningside’s archival record, this thesis synthesizes political, social, and medical history in the service of a more robust history of Morningside and its patients
Review of Building Representative Community Archives: Inclusive Strategies in Practice
No full textIn Building Representative Community Archives, editor Hannah Leah Crummé sets out to provide a practical guide to building community archives through ten case studies. The volume covers three types of projects: oral history, collection and curation, and reassessment. With some exceptions, community-created and community-maintained archives are sidelined in this collection. The majority of case studies describe academic special collections units embracing community archival principles and practices to meet their own goals, and some chapters do not meaningfully engage with community archives at all. Though many chapters succeed on their own terms, the misleading framing produces a collection that is less than the sum of its parts
Cora Lynn School District No. 2012
No full textPhotograph - Alice B. Donahue's first school, Cora Lynn School, Red Willow, Alberta. The Junior Room had 40 pupils and George Carter (later president of NAIT) is on far left wearing a white shir
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