15 research outputs found
Igniting Collective Freedom: An Integrative Behavioral Model of Acceptance and Commitment towards Black Liberation
No full textRacism continues to reveal disastrous effects for the Black community. There exists no behavior analytic literature with a specific focus on ending Black psychological suffering due to continual acts of violence perpetrated against the community. The author presents a behavioral model to promote Black psychological liberation, infusing pre-established frameworks of Black Psychology and cultural healing practices with acceptance and commitment therapy. The model addresses behaviors observed within systemic and internalized racism
Life satisfaction: The role of relationships, core values, income, age and distance between couples
No full textThis study explored the impact of relationship satisfaction, core values, age, and income on levels of life satisfaction. This study accessed 142 Canadian females. A cross sectional mixed methods design was used with a correlational aspect. Participants in this study completed an online questionnaire which consisted of a satisfaction with life scale, a relationship assessment scale, and a list of values scale. This study also consisted of 2 qualitative questions. Findings included partners earned income and relationship satisfaction significantly predicted life satisfaction but age did not. There was no significant difference between long distance or short distance relationships on relationship satisfaction scores. As well this study found no significant difference between the levels of income earned on relationship satisfaction or life satisfaction scores. Qualitative data explored many aspects of life that could be improved to increase overall happiness. Much previous research was supported by the results from this study.
Author Keywords: Life Satisfaction, Relationship Satisfaction, Income, Age, Core Value
The Case of the Missing Case: How Neglecting \u3cem\u3eChisom v. Roemer\u3c/em\u3e Leaves § 2 of the Voting Rights Act Analytically at Sea
No full textThis article critiques the Supreme Court\u27s decision in Allen v. Milligan for relying solely on Thornburg v. Gingles and overlooking Chisom v. Roemer, a key precedent interpreting § 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Chisom established that vote dilution claims must be tied to unequal access to the political process, not just electoral outcomes. By ignoring this linkage, the Court risks turning § 2 into a vehicle for race-based electoral entitlements. The author argues that reaffirming Chisom is essential to preserving the statute’s process-focused intent and analytical clarity.
This abstract was written using generative artificial intelligence
The coevolution of virulence : tolerance in perspective
No full textCoevolutionary interactions, such as those between host and parasite, predator and prey, or plant and pollinator, evolve subject to the genes of both interactors. It is clear, for example, that the evolution of pollination strategies can only be understood with knowledge of both the pollinator and the pollinated. Studies of the evolution of virulence, the reduction in host fitness due to infection, have nonetheless tended to focus on parasite evolution. Host-centric approaches have also been proposed-for example, under the rubric of "tolerance", the ability of hosts to minimize virulence without necessarily minimizing parasite density. Within the tolerance framework, however, there is room for more comprehensive measures of host fitness traits, and for fuller consideration of the consequences of coevolution. For example, the evolution of tolerance can result in changed selection on parasite populations, which should provoke parasite evolution despite the fact that tolerance is not directly antagonistic to parasite fitness. As a result, consideration of the potential for parasite counter-adaptation to host tolerance-whether evolved or medially manipulated-is essential to the emergence of a cohesive theory of biotic partnerships and robust disease control strategies.Peer reviewe
Not Alone:A Touring Exhibition for Our Strange New World
No full textInspired by a fragment of an old song, Golden Thread Gallery director Peter Richards had an idea for an entirely new kind of exhibition, one that could overcome the distances forced between artists and curators worldwide by the Covid-19 pandemic. Not Alone is an exhibition in a bottle, containing eight new works from some of the leading artists on this island: Graham Gingles, Joy Gerrard, Sharon Kelly, John Rainey, Chloe Austin, Ailbhe Greaney, Megan Doherty and Clare Gallagher. Each has created a piece of art tiny or portable enough to fit inside a glass bottle, yet powerful enough to convey vast philosophies, stories and ideas, and endless possibilities of interpretation.Packed up, the exhibition will now be sent out into our strange new world to international curators who will each mount the exhibition/s in their own homes. Installing and arranging the works in their space as they see fit, they will each create a new configuration, new context and new connections for the exhibition.They will then pack Not Alone back into its bottle, and send it on to the next destination. At this moment in time it is on its way to Bologna, Italy, where the first curator, Chiara Matteucci, is waiting.And after that, it will go to Rome, and Amsterdam, then Stockholm, and then… to destinations as yet unknown. It may never return, but we will follow its journey around Europe and share each iteration of the exhibition on social media.The sculptural piece On Crumbs of Shadow is a small sheet of tumble dryer lint. It consists of several layers of lint built up over repeated wash cycles, distinguished by the predominant colour of each laundry load, and containing other materials including hair from the artist's family's home haircuts. The piece is part of the larger body of work, The Second Shift. Along with the related video piece, It Clings to Me Like a Leech, it asks questions about the invisibility of domestic labour and the expenditure of effort on keeping things looking the same. It also concerns the denigration of care work and women's work in a culture which prioritises capital. These works attempt to make visible and tangible the energy and time spent on what is unnoticed, unpaid and unaccounted for
