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TRAJECTORIES OF RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS, AND SUBSTANCE USE IN A COHORT OF MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER ADULTS IN THE PITT MEN'S STUDY
No full textThere is a general misperception that sexuality and sexual orientation are not important in the lives of older adults. Older gay and bisexual men remain an invisible population in which health behaviors and health status are less well-known. While an enormous body of research has documented the disparities of substance use, depression, and HIV prevalence among Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) compared to heterosexual men, less is known about how patterns of substance use, depression, and risky sexual behavior evolve as MSM age. Using a semi-parametric, group-based approach, this study investigated the effect of aging on risky sexual behavior, depression, and illicit drug use in a cohort of middle-aged and older MSM in the Pitt Men's Study. In the three presented manuscripts, results indicate that the majority of participants did not have unprotected anal intercourse partners or use illicit drugs, and reported very low depressive symptoms across the age range of the study. At the same time, the analysis identified trajectory groups with respect to midlife exposure to risky sexual behavior, chronic depressive symptoms, and multiple illicit drug use. Several correlates such as socio-demographic variables, health behaviors (smoking and binge drinking), and psychological variables (HIV-related attitudes) were differentially associated with the trajectory groups.The results of the study refuted the negative stereotypes of older gay and bisexual men as "sad, undesirable, and depressed", yet the study managed to provide a more realistic picture of the development of mental health and HIV risk behaviors of this cohort from middle to early old age. This confirms the diversity and heterogeneity of this population noted by previous researchers. Public Health Significance: Using this epidemiologic approach, future researchers can identify subgroups of men who are at most risk for depression, substance abuse, and risky sexual behaviors over an extended period of time. As a result, public health resources such as prevention and intervention programs can be allocated to these men in a cost-effective way. In addition, investigations of the risk factors associated to each trajectory group may give clues to different etiologies of group characteristics among a cohort of aging sexual minorities
HIV infection among men who have sex with men in East and South-East Asia - time for action.
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Teacher sensemaking and implementation fidelity : how do I know what I do until I see what I did
No full textThe teacher, as the implementer of a program’s core components, is the most crucial factor that influences the process of educational implementation of any professional development (PD) program. Focusing on how teachers resolve their ambiguity and uncertainties will provide insight regarding how teachers’ participation in PD can influence their decision about implementing the program’s core components (Allen & Penuel, 2015). The purpose of this research is to explore how science teachers’ sensemaking processes influence implementation fidelity of a PD program that emphasizes reform-oriented instructional approaches. The main research question is, how does science teacher sense-making influence implementation fidelity?
Using qualitative case study and numerous data resources (observation of PD, survey, classroom observation and rating, interview, self-report, and artifacts collection) the research revealed six common triggers of teacher sensemaking instances of the program’s core components shared by all teacher participants. They are: the value of PD in their classroom, their emotion regarding the implementation of the core components, the relevance of the PD program to students’ needs, the relevance of PD to state standards, the implementation network that operates within school, and time constraints. The triggers of teacher sensemaking instances that arise only on the low fidelity implementers are: the abundance of information gained from professional learning experiences, lack of clarity about roles and responsibilities to implement the core components, lack of clarity in the setting and environment for implementation, and lack of success measures for implementation. On the other hand, sensemaking of the high-fidelity implementers is focusing on: availability and accessibility to instructional resources, accessibility of the experts, their current progression toward establishing a student-centered classroom, and availability of planning time during the PD.
The research also identifies four types of teachers’ implementation orientation as they make sense of the PD program. They are, (i) passive distributive, (ii) critical evaluative, (iii) creative emergent, and (iv) transformative. The research found that teacher sensemaking of PD is interconnected with their implementation. Thus, to study teacher sensemaking is not only to focus on how teachers make sense of the PD program, but also to study how they implement the reform-oriented program in the classroom.Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Educatio
Innovative laboratory assessment of the resilient behaviour of materials (rigid, elastic and particulates)
No full textMalaysian Technical Universities Conference on Engineering and Technology (MUCET) 2012 organised by technical universities under the Malaysian Technical Universities Network (MTUN), 20th - 21st November 2012 at Hotel Seri Malaysia, Kangar, Perlis.This paper discusses the resilient behaviour of various materials of high rigidity, high elasticity and of particulate materials. The resilient behaviour is measured by the resilient modulus (Mr)test which is the mechanical response of soils to a dynamic cyclic load which simulates traffic loading conditions and it is an important parameter in the design of both flexible and rigid pavements. The materials used are of a concrete cylinder, a rubber sample and particulate materials which are sands of different particle size and shape classification. The design resilient modulus follows a constitutive model and it is used to compare the resilient behaviour of each material. The constitutive model shows that the design resilient modulus is affected by the particulate characteristics and how it can be related to a stiff and flexible material
Sin
No full textThis essay invites its readers to view the Canterbury Tales through the prism of the Parson’s Tale, utilising his treatise to diagnose the manifold sins of Chaucer’s cast of characters. At times the Canterbury Tales encourages its audience to activate their knowledge of sin, garnered in Chaucer’s contemporaries through repeated exposure to penitential guidance. Tavern sins, and Harry Bailley’s defining sin, exposed by the opportunistic Pardoner are discussed amongst other trespasses. The discussion concludes by considering Chaucer’s Retractions and how he may have attempted to mitigate the penitential burden of being the author of stories that might ‘sownen into synne’
Post-, trans-, hyper-sin
No full textThe article dedicated to the problem of sin and sinfulness, and the person’s status in contemporary
culture. For achieving this goal the author provides the comparative analysis of the two
cultural contexts in relation to the problem of sin, namely, of the contemporary media space
of the Internet and the religious situation of the 19th century. Based on the understanding of
the sinfulness of the Danish philosopher S. Kierkegaard for who a sin is ontological and the
underlying characteristics of a person in constant “dialogue” with God, the author makes the
comparison to how the sin is treated in modern media space from social media to the message
of Pope addressed to journalists. In contrast to the cultural situation of the nineteenth
century, which was condensed in the understanding of sin in Kierkegaard’s religious philosophy,
the modern secular world of the Internet and media zones use the term of sin not as an
ontological marker, but only as a metaphor, a rhetorical figure. This metaphor has no significant
existential and ontological status in comparison with the understanding of sin in the age
of Kierkegaard. Modern understanding of sin is not comparable to the sensations, spiritual
experiences, and suffering religious thinker of the nineteenth century forms a consciousness
of a modern man, deprived of essential imperatives. Modern man does not know of any true
sin, does not see pain, suffering, hunger, i.e., deprived of the most important existential orientations
that have shaped a spirituality of a man until the mid 20th century. Accordingly, the
modern model of the assembly of human consciousness is radically different from how was
created a religious traditionalist consciousness for which sin, suffering, pain, and death were
deep existential imperatives
sj-docx-1-aph-10.1177_10105395231220465 – Supplemental material for Intentions to Quit, Quit Attempts, and the Use of Cessation Aids Among Malaysian Adult Smokers: Findings From the 2020 ITC Malaysia Survey
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-aph-10.1177_10105395231220465 for Intentions to Quit, Quit Attempts, and the Use of Cessation Aids Among Malaysian Adult Smokers: Findings From the 2020 ITC Malaysia Survey by Ina Sharyn Kamaludin, Lim Sin How, Anne Yee, Susan C. Kaai, Mi Yan, Mahmoud Danaee, Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin, Farizah Mohd Hairi, Nur Amani Ahmad Tajuddin, Siti Idayu Hasan, Anne C. K. Quah and Geoffrey T. Fong in Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health</p
[[alternative]]The Regional Development On San-Sin Plain Of I-lan In Japanese Colonical Regime
No full text[[abstract]]Abstract
The essay is a study in the frontier area, San-sin of I-lan, which dealing with the historical process of this frontier society. It has focus on illustrating the regional specialty of this frontier area, by its original environment and nation mechanism.
Thus, the author attempt to express the following 6 topics：
（1） Analyzing the character of San-sin regional environment,
（2） Constructing the spatial process of land cultivation in Ching Dynasty,
（3） Exploring how the nation mechanism guided the development of this frontier area,
（4） Understanding the pattern of land cultivation in Japanese’s colonial regime,
（5） Finding the detail of economical production of San-sin area in Japanese capitalism and how the nation mechanism reconstructs the environment,
（6） Analyzing the rule of space structure and the character of society in San-sin area,
The results of this study are the follows:
1. San-sin plain is sited on the gate of Tai-Yia tribe, where it was the most dangerous region in Taiwan close-mountainous areas. Meanwhile, the natural environment of San-sin is an alluvial fan, accompanied with several furious floods annually.
Both of the two factors make the crucial key-point to influence San-sin region development.
2. Due to the dangerous environment, Han People experienced very hard time to cultivate this frontier area,but they gains few achievement ,finally.
It’s not until 1850, shugfan （the more civilized aborigines）begun to immigrate into the San-sin plains and developed their community by force.
They built their settlements from north to south, and from east to west on the southern I-Lan. But all the settlements were still sparse on San-sin plain during Ching Dynasty.
3. Japanese colonial authority had diversified its governing aborigine’s policy by setting up cordons from 1903 to 1911, and activated San-sin plain becoming a safe frontier for new immigrants to move in.
4. Shortly after Japanese colonial regime had controlled the aboriginal boundary, it attracted various groups to cultivate this great virgin land.
Under the powerful control of the colonial authority, Japan’s private corporations and I-lan land-owners cultivated the wild land, San-sin plain was well cultivated eventually.
5. After finishing land cultivation, nation mechanism and the capitals make more investments to transform the landscape to a stable area.
Forest resources, camphor trees and cane-sugar become the main business of the San-sin plain, too. In other words, San-sin plain pave its way to a capitalized economical system, ultimately.
6. In the meantime, nation mechanism was also the main power to influence the social structure on San-sin plain. Nation mechanism constructed a good space stratum, and the regional social activities also held in the same administrative division.
The local society was constructed by nation mechanism. It helped the cultivation of San-sin, but in another way, it also made San-sin the same as all other areas in Taiwan.
Distributional Impacts in a Comprehensive Climate Policy Package
No full textThis paper provides a simple analytic approach for measuring the burden of carbon pricing that does not require sophisticated and numerically intensive economic models but which is not limited to restrictive assumptions of forward shifting of carbon prices. We also show how to adjust for the capital income bias contained in the Consumer Expenditure Survey, a bias towards regressivity in carbon pricing due to underreporting of capital income in higher income deciles in the Survey. Many distributional analyses of carbon pricing focus on the uses-side incidence of carbon pricing. This is the differential burden resulting from heterogeneity in consumption across households. Once one allows for sources-side incidence (i.e. differential impacts of changes in real factor prices), carbon policies look more progressive. Perhaps more important than the findings from any one scenario, our results on the progressivity of the leading cap and trade proposals are robust to the assumptions made on the relative importance of uses and sources side heterogeneity.
Distributional Impacts in a Comprehensive Climate Policy Package
No full textThis paper provides a simple analytic approach for measuring the burden of carbon pricing that does not require sophisticated and numerically intensive economic models but which is not limited to restrictive assumptions of forward shifting of carbon prices. We also show how to adjust for the capital income bias contained in the Consumer Expenditure Survey, a bias towards regressivity in carbon pricing due to underreporting of capital income in higher income deciles in the Survey. Many distributional analyses of carbon pricing focus on the uses-side incidence of carbon pricing. This is the differential burden resulting from heterogeneity in consumption across households. Once one allows for sources-side incidence (i.e. differential impacts of changes in real factor prices), carbon policies look more progressive. Perhaps more important than the findings from any one scenario, our results on the progressivity of the leading cap and trade proposals are robust to the assumptions made on the relative importance of uses and sources side heterogeneity.
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