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Mental And Medical Sciences Today, David L. Rowland, Ion G. Motofei

Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences

Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences is designed as a free online, open access, interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal. The JMMS mission is to address ideas and issues related to mind and medicine, publishing scientific review and empirical papers regarding mental and medical health and disease. Our goal is to stimulate constructive debates among scholars, researchers, physicians, scientists and health professionals with respect to the latest discoveries and trends in the field. The journal pays special attention to interdisciplinary and integrative perspectives, focusing primarily on papers approaching mind and body as a unitary domain of study.

Our supposition is that the …

A Peer Advocate's Experience Of Deaf Women's Disclosure Of Sexual Assault, Noëlle Opsahl

Breaking Silences, Demanding Crip Justice: Sex, Sexuality, and Disability

Deaf women experience sexual assault at alarmingly higher rates when compared to their hearing counterparts, but little is known about their disclosure trends (Anderson & Leigh, 2011; Elliott & Pick, 2015). It has been reported that nearly one in five women has experienced rape in her lifetime (NISVS, 2011). This number only reflects the number of women who have disclosed, or told another person or agency about their experience. Rape survivors are a hidden population where only the survivor and the perpetrator know this crime has occurred (Campbell, Sefl, Wasco, & Ahrens, 2004). Though there is a scarcity of information …

A New Foundation For Sexual Social Justice: The World Health Organization’S Report On Sexual Health, Human Rights, And The Law, Nikki L. Rogers, Cristina Redko

Breaking Silences, Demanding Crip Justice: Sex, Sexuality, and Disability

Social justice benefits from a unified foundation of shared basic beliefs. There are still too few global, evidence-based documents that provide standardized language and vision through which social justice standards, policy and legal actions can be created, compared and amended.

This is a broad, evidence-based public health report on best practices to foster “achievement of the highest attainable standard of sexual health”. It frames this goal as intimately related to the protection of human rights, the right to non-discrimination and to health information and services.

While other reports link laws impacting human rights and health, this specific focus on laws …

Stations Of The Cross (Kreuzweg), Chad W.D Bolton

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg) (2014) directed by Dietrich Brüggeman.

Not "Fit" For Hire: The United States And France On Weight Discrimination In Employment, Michael L. Huggins

Fordham International Law Journal

Part I will examine past and present attitudes regarding obesity in US society and will discuss the employment challenges obese individuals face because of weight discrimination. Further, Part I will survey US statutory laws at the federal, state, and local levels that currently protect against particular instances of weight discrimination. In sum, this Part aims to provide the current legal and social landscape in the United States for protecting individuals against employment discrimination based on their weight. Part II will look at France’s cultural bias against obesity and its laws against physical appearance discrimination. Part II then will analyze French …

Ending Female Genital Mutilation & Child Marriage In Tanzania, Lisa Avalos, Naima Farrell, Rebecca Stellato, Marc Werner

Fordham International Law Journal

This Article analyzes the current practices of FGM and child marriage in Tanzania and makes a number of recommendations for eliminating these severe human rights violations. Part I identifies the relevant forms of gender-based violence and discusses how they are practiced and related. Part II addresses applicable international and domestic legal authority, identifying potential gaps in domestic legal protection for young girls. Part III proposes several promising legal and policy strategies, both international and domestic, to reduce the practices of child marriage and FGM in Tanzania. Ultimately, some or all of these measures must be implemented to help bring an …

Books Received, Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Legal Structures For The Resolution Of International Problems In The Domain Of Private Foreign Investments: A Third World Perspective Now And In The Future, Osita C. Eze

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

The Lumberjack, November 4, 2015, The Lumberjack Staff

2015

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University

Do Predictive Brain Implants Threaten Patient Autonomy Or Authenticity?, Eldar Sarajlic

Publications and Research

In this commentary, I discuss this Frederic Gilbert's claim that predictive brain implants (PBIs) threaten persons’ autonomy by diminishing their postoperative experience of self-control. Contrary to Gilbert, I suggest that PBIs do not pose a significant threat to patient’s autonomy, as self-control, but rather to his or her sense of authenticity. My claim is that the language of authenticity, already introduced in the recent bioethical literature, may offer a better way to voice some of the concerns with PBIs that Gilbert recognized.

Senate Meeting, November 4, 2015, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Easterner, Vol. 67, No. 7, November 4, 2015, Associated Students Of Eastern Washington University

Student Newspapers

This issue of the Easterner contains articles about Africana Studies professor Okera Nsombi, sorority-led efforts to curb violence against women on campus, rise of reported sexual assaults on campus, the 10-year anniversary of the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (CSTEM), the removal of gender-specific titles for the Eastern Royalty Pageant, the history of Homecoming, Boundary Brewing, the football victory over Weber State, the advancement of the soccer and volleyball teams to the conference tournament, and the cross-country season.

Rotunda - Vol 94, No.10 - Nov. 4, 2015, Longwood University

Rotunda

No abstract provided.

Obesity: A Persistent Global Health Problem, Linda Eanes

School of Nursing Faculty Publications

Despite extensive public attention given to diet and exercise as effective countermeasures to obesity and obesity-related problems, there has been no significant reduction in obesity rates in the United States and throughout the world. The author provides a brief update on obesity, dietary and physical activity guidelines, potential contributing factors to behavioral change and the role that nurses have in advancing health promoting activities that can reduce the health risks associated with obesity.

Flyer News, Vol. 63, No. 6 (Nov. 4, 2015), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

November 4, 2015 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: November 04, 2015, Eastern Illinois University

November

No abstract provided.

Gerdon V. Con Paulos, Inc. Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 43234

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Undergraduate Council Meeting, November 4, 2015, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. Undergraduate Council

USF St. Petersburg Undergraduate Council

Minutes from the November 4, 2015, meeting of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Undergraduate Council.

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Values Based Training To Impact Physical Activity In Adults, Jessica Sykes

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study aimed to investigate the use of values based training with typically developing adults to affect levels of physical activity recorded by FitBit Flex technology in the form of step count. Traditional approaches have shown promise but with mixed results. Interestingly, one must look outside of behavior analysis for interventions attempting to affect control by an individual’s covert verbal behavior. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has been shown to be effective in various behavior change areas by using a values based approach that focuses on the control of rules and their motivative functions. An ACT training protocol (ACTr) consisting …

Development And Validation Of The Behavioral Tendencies Questionnaire, Nicholas T. Van Dam, Anna Brown, Tom B. Mole, Jake H. Davis, Willoughby B. Britton, Judson A. Brewer

Publications and Research

At a fundamental level, taxonomy of behavior and behavioral tendencies can be described in terms of approach, avoid, or equivocate (i.e., neither approach nor avoid). While there are numerous theories of personality, temperament, and character, few seem to take advantage of parsimonious taxonomy. The present study sought to implement this taxonomy by creating a questionnaire based on a categorization of behavioral temperaments/tendencies first identified in Buddhist accounts over fifteen hundred years ago. Items were developed using historical and contemporary texts of the behavioral temperaments, described as “Greedy/Faithful”, “Aversive/Discerning”, and “Deluded/Speculative”. To both maintain this categorical typology and benefit from the …

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

Morgan, Joan, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Joan Morgan is the author of “When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost’, activist, and doctoral student. She is of Jamaican descent. Her parents came to the United States and settled in the Bronx near Crotona Park. Her father was one of the founding members of the Jamaican Labor party; she calls the Bustamante's her “godparents.” He was also a member of the Jamaica Freedom League while in the Bronx.

While living on Fulton Avenue, Joan used to frequently go to Crotona Park because of the community center right by it, the Clermont Center. Her mother was an active member of …

Attractor-Based Obstructions To Growth In Homogeneous Cyclic Boolean Automata, Bilal Khan, Yuri Cantor, Kirk Dombrowski

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

We consider a synchronous Boolean organism consisting of N cells arranged in a circle, where each cell initially takes on an independently chosen Boolean value. During the lifetime of the organism, each cell updates its own value by responding to the presence (or absence) of diversity amongst its two neighbours’ values. We show that if all cells eventually take a value of 0 (irrespective of their initial values) then the organism necessarily has a cell count that is a power of 2. In addition, the converse is also proved: if the number of cells in the organism is a proper …

Investigation Of The Effects Of Impulsivity And Executive Function On A Complex Prospective Memory Task, Emily Kellogg

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Prospective memory is colloquially known as “remembering to remember” and refers to forming an intention in the present time to fulfill at some point in the future. It has previously been studied within the context of executive functioning (i.e., purposive and goal directed behavior) and impulsive behaviors (e.g., gambling, risk seeking) within clinical populations. This study sought to further elucidate the relationships of impulsivity and executive functions on prospective memory in a non-clinical population. One hundred and nine undergraduates completed the UPPS-P impulsivity self-report questionnaire, three cognitive tasks measuring components of executive function, (i.e., planning, inhibition, and switching), and a …

To "Plant Our Trees On American Soil, And Repose Beneath Their Shade": Africa, Colonization, And The Evolution Of A Black Identity Narrative In The United States, 1808-1861, Edward Jason Vickers

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This work explores the role that ideas about Africa played in the development of a specifically American identity among free blacks in the United States, from the early nineteenth century to the Civil War. Previous studies of the writings of free blacks in the Revolutionary period, and of the American Colonization Society (ACS), which was devoted to removing them back to an African homeland, have suggested that black discussions of Africa virtually disappeared after 1816, when the colonization movement began. However, as this work illustrates, the letters, books, newspapers, and organizational records produced by free blacks in the antebellum era …

Linking Insomnia And Suicide Ideation: The Role Of Socio-Cognitive Mechanisms In Suicide Risk, Melanie Lauren Bozzay

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Despite what is known about predictors of suicide risk and consequences of insomnia, research has yet to delineate mechanisms that may explain the known relationship between insomnia symptoms and suicide risk. There is some disagreement in the literature regarding whether this relationship could be primarily explained by recent depressive symptoms, or whether there may be other explanatory factors related to sleep deficits. The present study addressed this contention in the literature by examining 1) whether socio-cognitive variables (e.g. fatigue, appraised social problem-solving ability, and hopelessness) explained this insomnia-ideation relationship, and 2) whether these variables contributed some explanatory variance in suicide …

What Is The Effect Of Simulation On Knowledge Acquisition In A Second Semester Associate Degree Nursing Gerontological Community Health Class?, Cynthia M. Ashby

DNP and Student Works

Simulation is an effective teaching method that improves learning, enhances clinical decision making processes, increases confidence in nursing practice and allows for mistakes without harm to patients. An identified need to develop teaching strategies to aid nursing students transfer theoretical knowledge to clinical practice at a community college nursing program. A clinical improvement project was implemented to assess if simulation enhanced knowledge acquisition in the community health portion of the course that translates to the clinical application evaluated via a computerized proctered exam. Simulation proved to be an effective tool to improve the transference of theoretical knowledge to clinical practice.

Spectrum, Volume 35, Issue 7, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Jack Welch College of Business named on Bloomberg's Best Business Schools of 2015 -- Sacred heart reacts to News 12 neighbor complaints -- SHU hosts writing workshop for student veterans and their families -- SHU responds to Halloween sexual assault on student -- Professor Jonas Zdanys named poet-in-residence -- New health-conscious grocery store opens in Fairfield -- SHU announces new American History Minor -- Gifford inducted into broadcasting and cable hall of fame -- Woman's gold ties for third at ST.Johns Invitational -- Fencing team prepare for a big season -- Wrestling team starts season

The Cultural Adaptation Of The Clinician-Administered Ptsd Scale For Spanish-Speaking Latinos With Limited English Proficiency In The United States, Maria Jose Rendon

Open Access Dissertations

In this study, I conducted an empirically-based adaptation of the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5; Weathers, Blake, Schnurr, Marx, & Keane, 2013b) for Spanish-speaking Latinos with limited English proficiency (LEP). The sample utilized cross-cultural equivalence guidelines posited by the Cultural Equivalence Model (Canino & Bravo, 1994; Flaherty et al., 1988) to achieve content, semantic, and technical equivalence between the Spanish adaptation of the CAPS-5 and its original English version. This process entailed seven steps: (a) the forward translation by a native Spanish speaker, (b) revision by a panel of bilingual Latino mental health professionals (n = 3), (c) revision …