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Mental Health Provider Perceptions Of Self-Efficacy Following Prison Budget Reductions, Angela Frankland

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Burnout rates for mental health workers are impacted due to budget restrictions in treatment programs. Fiscal challenges and their impact on the experiences of mental health providers have yet to be explored within correctional settings. There is a lack of research concerning mental health professional’s self-efficacy beliefs when providing treatment services to inmates. The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to explore mental health professional’s self-efficacy beliefs in correctional systems with context towards diminishing fiscal resources. Self-efficacy theory and prison rehabilitation management theory are the theoretical frameworks used as the foundation for this study. The research question was designed …

Consumer Vs. Code: The Future Of Consumer Smart Contracts From Code To Legal Practice, Amir Bushansky

Fordham International Law Journal

This Article evaluates the feasibility of implementing consumer contracts—including standard-form agreements—as smart contracts and assesses their adaptability through the lens of consumer protection law.

Specifically, it examines whether the traditional consumer contract framework can be meaningfully implemented in the form of smart contracts. It further considers whether such implementation necessitates adaptations—both in the technological architecture of the contracts themselves and in the underlying legal framework. By addressing these questions, the Article aims to contribute to a more coherent and forward-looking approach to regulating automated, code-based contracting in consumer markets.

International Human Rights Law And Forced, Coerced And Involuntary Sterilization In Africa, John Mukum Mbaku

Fordham International Law Journal

In the last several years, courts and tribunals at the international, regional, and national levels have tackled the issue of forced, coerced, and involuntary sterilization, especially as it affects the rights of members of vulnerable or marginalized groups (e.g., women and girls with disabilities, or those living with HIV). International, regional, and national human rights bodies have described forced and coerced sterilization as a violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms, which include the right to the highest attainable standard of mental and physical health, the right to information, the right to found a family, and the right to be …

Integrin Activation By Two Independently Regulated Calcium-Mediated Pathways Is Required For Neutrophil Recruitment, Marina Oguama, Pia Lindental, Regina A Clemens, Clifford A Lowell, Oliver Soehnlein, Johannes Roth, Tamam Bakchoul, Anika Cappenberg, Alexander Zarbock

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Impaired integrin activation on neutrophils is the hallmark of leukocyte adhesion deficiency syndrome in humans, characterized by reduced leukocyte recruitment. The regulation of intracellular calcium levels in neutrophils is important for cellular processes; however, the exact role of store-operated calcium entry (SOCE) and the involvement of stromal interaction molecule (STIM) calcium sensors, and ORAI1-3 calcium channels in neutrophil activation and recruitment is unknown.

METHODS: Using an acute kidney injury (AKI) model, intravital microscopy, and biochemical studies, we examined the molecular mechanisms of Ca

RESULTS: We demonstrate that STIM1 and ORAI1 in neutrophils are selectively required for E-selectin- and CXCL-1-, …

A Retrospective Analysis Of Post-Stroke Rehabilitation With Real World Use Of Brain-Computer Interface, Neha K Prasad, Nikhita J Perry, Allison L Goldring, Lee A Fleisher, Leo Petrossian, Eric C Leuthardt, Lauren Souders, Seth J Wilk

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The IpsiHand™ System is an FDA-authorized, non-invasive therapy for chronic stroke-induced upper limb motor impairment that uses a brain-computer interface (BCI) to translate intent-to-move signals into hand movement. This retrospective study evaluated real-world outcomes in stroke survivors ≥ 6 months post-stroke who were prescribed IpsiHand™ and completed regular Upper Extremity Fugl-Meyer (UEFM) assessments as part of routine care. Patients were categorized as early responders (achieving the minimal clinically important difference [MCID] of 5.25 points in UEFM score by 6 weeks), intermediate responders (achieving MCID by 12 weeks but not at 6), or early non-responders (not reaching MCID by 12 weeks). …

Persepsi Masyarakat Terhadap Limbah Usaha Peternakan Sapi Potong (Public Perception Toward Beef Cattle Farming Waste), V. S. Lestari, S.N. Sirajuddin, M. Imran

Jurnal Ilmu Ternak Universitas Padjadjaran

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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui persepsi masyarakat terhadap limbah usaha peternakan sapi potong (Studi kasus di UD. Rahma, Kecamatan Bantimurung, Kabupaten Maros, Sulawesi Selatan). Penelitian ini dilakukan selama 4 bulan mulai bulan Januari sampai dengan April 2013. Jenis penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Jumlah sampel sebanyak 39 orang yang tinggal dekat dengan peternakan sapi potong UD. Rahma. Data diperoleh melalui survey dan wawancara dengan menggunakan kuesioner. Data diolah secara deskriptif menggunakan tabel distribusi frekuensi dan garis kontinum berdasarkan skoring yang diperoleh dari setiap pertanyaan. Variabel limbah terdiri dari

dua indikator pengukuran yaitu bau dan kebersihan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan …

Analisis Biaya Transaksi Peternak Sapi Perah : Studi Kasus Pada Anggota Koperasi Di Kabupaten Kuningan Jawa Barat (Analysis Of Dairy Farmer’S Transactions Costs: A Case Study Of Cooperative Member In Kuningan, West Java), Cahyono, Nunung Nuryartono, Kuntjoro

Jurnal Ilmu Ternak Universitas Padjadjaran

Dairy farmers are groups of people who face problems of low levels of well-being. General school of

thought (mainstream) views the problem of poverty is caused by low productivity factor. The use of productivity approach in solving the poverty problem of dairy farmers needs to be supplemented by another approaches in terms of non-productivity factors. This non-productivity approach which is rarel y

used is transaction cost approach. Starting from this, the study is carried out by transactions cost approach. This study specifically aims to analyze the structure of the cost transaction and the factors leading to the emergence of transaction …

Potensi Usaha Peternakan Sapi Perah Rakyat Dalam Menghadapi Pasar Global (Potential Of Small Scale Dairy Farm For Facing In Global Market), Marina Sulistyati, Hermawan, Anita Fitriani

Jurnal Ilmu Ternak Universitas Padjadjaran

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat kondisi dan potensi yang dimiliki usaha peternakan sapi perah rakyat saat ini dalam menghadapi pasar bebas di bidang persusuan yang sudah dicanangkan pemerintah sejak tahun

1998. Penelitian ini dilakukan di wilayah kerja Gabungan Kelompok Tani-Ternak Mitra Puspa Mekar, Parongpong, kabupaten Bandung Barat, yang saat ini kondisinya dalam posisi berbenah diri setelah koperasi susu yang menaungi mereka kolaps karena kesalahan manajemen, dan bermitra dengan KPSBU Lembang dalam hal pakan, reproduksi, dan pemasaran susu. Responden yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah seluruh peternak yang tercatat sebagai anggota gapoktannak Mitra Puspa Mekar dan dapat ditemukan pada saat pencacahan. …

Power, Privilege, And Perceptions: A Critical Case Study Of Ffa And Gsa Members’ High School Experiences In A Southern Rural High School, Eric Moser, Stacy Vincent, Rebekah Epps

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

There is an urgent need to address the rampant homophobic and transphobic systems and rhetoric in the United States. School cultures reflect the systemic privileging of heterosexual and cisgender identities, which places queer students at an increased risk of victimization and harassment. Rural schools have been found to uphold heteronormative and cisnormative cultures more than suburban and urban schools, which increases safety concerns for rural queer students. Rural schools commonly offer school-based agricultural education (SBAE) and FFA programs, which have been found to struggle in their inclusion of racial minority students. To combat hostile school cultures, many schools offer a …

Beyond The Bathroom: Systemic Barriers To Trans Student Success, Andrew Leclair

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

At the intersection of educational inequity and systemic marginalization, transgender youth face some of their greatest obstacles upon walking through the schoolhouse door—ranging from legislative attacks and gender negation to denied facility access and pervasive bullying. In rural K-12 public schools—where populations are often smaller, more demographically homogenous, and vie for more socially conservative policies—trans youth are particularly vulnerable. Within this context, this piece centers the experiences of transgender students in rural K-12 public schools—highlighting the sociocultural dynamics and systemic barriers that continue to marginalize them within the United States education system today. Through a blend of literature synthesis and …

"What Are They Going To Do? Fire Me?" The Paradoxical Empowerment Of Nonbinary Teachers In Rural South Carolina, Chris Cyan Divens, Jonathan M. Coker

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

Nonbinary teachers are seldom the focus of teacher studies, particularly in challenging places such as the rural Southeastern United States. Through a critical ethnographic case study, we explored the stories of two nonbinary teachers who grew up and worked in rural South Carolina. We examined their cultural contexts, including legislative factors, school policies, and school cultures, and we highlighted how these systems created a hostile environment for queer and trans* individuals. Our participants shared how their lived experiences as queer and gender-diverse individuals provided them with an insider perspective about rural South Carolina culture and its limitations. We also found …

Sissies At The Cafeteria Table: Toward A Queer Black-Town Sense Of Place, Education And Life, Ezekiel Joubert Iii

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

Contemporary research has shown rural communities to be places with diverse identities and ideologies, disrupting much of the mainstream images of rural spaces as isolated, White, monocultural, and conservative. However, the persistent tendency to imagine racial inequality and queer life as urban contributes to the invisibility of intersectional struggle. Drawing from Critical Pedagogy, Black geographies, Black Queer Studies, and Mobility Studies, this study examines the collective educational experience and storytelling of Black rural queers in a Metro-Rural community in the Upper Midwest. Using an autogeographic approach, building from auto-ethnography and archival praxis reveal how the spatial structures that reproduce educational …

Queer Methods And Rural Education: Studying The Foxfire Program, Brooke Boling

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

During the summer of 2023, I conducted a study in rural Rabun County, Georgia, with a cohort of high school students as they worked to create a magazine focused on Appalachian culture. The magazine, known as Foxfire, has been published since 1966 by rural high school students who were led by writing teachers. In its heyday, the Foxfire Magazine was seen as a bastion of critical education, as its teachers and founder implemented Deweyan pedagogy and asked students to critically reflect on issues of rural Southern Appalachian culture in their writing. The Foxfire Magazine was wildly successful, resulting in a …

Reading About Gender Identity In A Rural Community: Discourse Around Young Adult Literature And Social Justice, Ashley S. Boyd, Rachael R. Wolney

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

This study explores how a rural adult book club engaged with gender identity through young adult literature (YAL), focusing on Mason Deaver’s I Wish You All the Best. Facilitated by two teacher educators, the club brought together local residents and a guest speaker from a regional support organization to discuss gender, pronouns, and the experiences of nonbinary youth. Using critical discourse analysis and thematic coding, the authors examine how participants, cisgender adults, navigated unfamiliar concepts, reflected on their own beliefs, and considered implications for their personal and professional lives. Findings highlight the power of YAL to serve as a …

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly: Personifying The South In Rural Queer Collegians’ Stories, Miranda N. Rutan, Leia K. Cain

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

In this study, we explore the complex interplay between queer identity and Southern cultural narratives among rural college students in the U.S. Bible Belt. We integrated narrative inquiry and arts-based research to examine how participants personify the South within their own stories, revealing nuanced understandings of belonging and identity. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, participant-created artwork, and discussions about these artworks. Our findings illustrate a dynamic representation of the South as both a source of support and a site of conflict, highlighting the dual roles of community and marginalization in shaping rural queer Southern identities. This research contributes to …

Queer Kids In The Country: Challenges, Resources, And Queer Cultural Capital Of Rural Lgbtqia+ Youth, Michelle L. Page

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

This qualitative study investigates the experiences of rural youth who identify as LGBTQIA+. Both rural young people and LGBTQIA+ youth are less likely to pursue higher education and more likely to report negative experiences in their schools and communities. Rural LGBTQIA+ youth face different challenges than do urban and suburban queer youth; therefore, different resources and strategies must be unveiled, developed, and employed in an effort to support rural LGBTQIA+ young people. This study explicates the challenges and assets of rural queer youth, finding that such young people continue to experience challenges in their schools and communities, particularly around identity …

Beyond The City Limits: Representations Of Rurality And Lgbtqia+ Youth In Young Adult Literature, Michelle L. Page

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

Narratives of flight from rural to urban areas predominate in research related to LGBTQIA+ communities. Thus, rural LGBTQIA+ young people rarely see representations of themselves or their environments, especially positive portrayals. Such representations are important in that they are productive of identities, not just reflective of them. This study examines a collection of young adult literature with LGBTQIA characters and rural settings, analyzing the portrayals of place (rurality) and identity (LGBTQIA+). In this paper I will demonstrate how current LGBTQIA+ young adult literature reinforces dominant narratives that privilege urbanity and I assert that counternarratives to the rural flight story are …

Rural Geographies, Queer Youth And Metronormativity, Fenton Litwiller

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

In 1995 Weston articulated an oft recited story where queers move from persecutory rural geographies to the more accepting city. While Weston interrogated this spatial binary and demonstrated failed promise of the metropolis to deliver, particularly across intersections of gender, the urban flight narrative persists. Jack Halberstam (2005) used the term ‘metronormativity’ to illustrate the power of this narrative that influences a research focus on urban queers. This study contributes insights on how queer youth who live in remote Canadian geographies navigate and express gender and sexuality. Eight participants (12 – 24) attended an informal educational space, a genderplay workshop, …

Queer Of Color Critique And The Politics Of Epistemic Agency: Rural Educators Desettling Curricular Expectations, C.A. Langerud, Madelaine Adelman, Daniel D. Liou

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

The purpose of this research is to use queer of color critique (QOCC) as an analytical framework to explore rural K-12 educators’ epistemic agency. The research focuses on educators’ engagement with a national initiative by an advocacy organization to distribute LGBTQ+ and racially diverse books to K-12 schools. The analysis centers on the educators’ praxis of epistemic agency against settled expectations associated with including queer and trans People of Color’s (QTPOC’s) stories in their schools. Our findings on educators’ epistemic agency center on three areas of knowledge and activity. First, educators demonstrate their ability to be aware of their local …

“I’Ve Already Invested So Much Time, Effort, And Money Into This, So I Stay For Me”: A Case Study Of Paulina A First-Generation Trans Latina Rural Community College Student, Ángel De Jesus Gonzalez

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

While research continues to emerge on queer and/or trans (QT) experiences in higher-education, a paucity remains on the nuanced realities of those who exist at the intersections of identities, institutional, and regional contexts. Guided by jotería identity-and-consciousness, this intrinsic case study focuses on Paulina, a first-generation trans Latina rural community college student via queer pláticas. She informs ways that trans Latina students in rural community colleges exists and resists hostile ecological educational environments and in doing so generate queer futurities of rurality. Paulina’s jota-historia disrupts notions of QTs communities presence in rural spaces, rural spaces as synonymous with white, …

Rotating Along The Borderlands: Contextualizing Border Rurality Among Queer Transfronterizxs College Students, Carlos A. Fitch

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

Queer Transfronterizx students at rural higher education institutions experience an array of systemic and racialized inequities related to Queerphobia, residential nativism, and immigration challenges. Through a Critical Race Feminista Methodology (CRFM), seven Queer Transfronterizx college students engaged in testimonios and a Queer plática to shed light into the navigation of their rural higher education contexts and lived experiences. The findings note the collaborators’ experience of (1) endangered educational oases, (2) the dual identity isolation pertaining to Queer and Latinx belongings, (3) transborder hypervigilance emerged from border- crossings practices, and (4) a rural border flexibility that provides Queer privileges. Recommendations for …

A Trans Youth’S Encounters With Queerness In Puerto Rico, Gabriel T. Acevedo

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

This article explores the lived experiences of Pedro, a transgender youth from rural Puerto Rico, to examine how queer and trans identities are negotiated within contexts shaped by colonialism, Catholic traditions, machismo, and rural community life. Drawing on queer theory, Latinx studies, rural education research, and narrative inquiry, the study highlights Pedro’s voice through interviews, self-narratives, and reflections, positioning youth as knowledge creators rather than passive subjects. Findings reveal three interconnected themes: (1) the importance of educational relationships in fostering belonging and dialogue, (2) the disruption of normative expectations around adolescence, queerness, and urban migration, and (3) the expression of …

Introduction: Queering Rural Education, Leia K. Cain, Ty Mcnamee, Darris Means

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

In this editorial introduction, we situate this dual-journal special issue within the current legislative landscape targeting queer and trans people across North America in rural communities. We describe our collaboration with the editorial teams of the Journal of Research in Rural Education and the Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education to illuminate the experiences and perspectives of queer youth and adults in and from rural spaces. We then introduce the articles published in JQTSiE, which are organized into four interrelated themes: (1) Embodied Pedagogies and Spatial Navigation, (2) Institutional Structures and Resistance, (3) Community, Literacy, and Representation, …

Brochure From The Committee On Minimum Income For Deprived Americans (Comida)

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Trifold brochure from the Committee on Minimum Income for Deprived Americans (COMIDA). The brochure asks for support for the "House Bill 308 for a Texas Minimum Wage".

"Our Common Mission"

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Document titled "Our Common Mission" that states that the church has acknowledged that men have the right to work. The document also mentions that work is one of the biggest contributions men can do to save souls and bring them to Jesus.

Report Of The Social Action Department Of The Texas Catholic Conference To The Catholic Bishops Of Texas

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Report of the Social Action Department of the Texas Catholic Conference to the Catholic Bishops of Texas regarding poverty and socio-economic difficulties in the Rio Grande Valley area and suggested Church programs.

Statement Of Church Concern For Farm Labor Relations

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Document titled "Statement of church concern for farm labor relations". The document lists guidelines for members of churches in communities along the march of workers from Valley to Austin.

Endnotes Of Newspaper Clippings

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Endnotes document listing newspaper clippings relating to farm worker strikes.

Statement Of Frank Mccarty On La Casita Farms Strike

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Statement from Frank McCarty, field representative of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) on the La Casita Farms strike.

Affidavit Of John Hugh Muir

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Affidavit of John Hugh Muir, former student of Columbia University in New York. In the document he states the events that took place on Friday, May 26, 1967during the La Casita Farms Strike.