355 research outputs found
The Iconic Impact of Substance Use and High Recidivism in the Criminal Justice System: An Exploration of Interventions Within America\u27s Most Costly Solution
Addressing Health Concerns of Indigenous Land Defenders at Fairy Creek
This paper was originally written for Dr. Sandie Dielissen in the department of Indigenous Studies for INDG 301W D100: Issues in Applied Indigenous Studies Research. The assignment asked students to explore a decolonizing methodology for a contemporary issue involving Indigenous peoples. The paper was a part of a group submission, where students from different academic backgrounds commented on the situation at Fairy Creek using their own disciplinary lens. The paper uses APA citation style
How Canadian Public Schools Undermine Indigenous Humanity: Educational Administration and Ongoing Colonialism
This thesis is a non-empirical, anticolonial, historical, and political analysis of policy and public education in Canada. I examine the socio-cultural and ideological foundations of Western education and the ongoing colonialism within the public education system in Canada. Central to my theoretical framework is understanding how the white settler state is created and maintained in Canada. My focus on white settler colonialism is important as it will highlight how the whiteness of public schools and their administration maintains erasure and genocide through policy. After decades of blaming and fixating on the Indigenous youth viewed as incapable of succeeding in the Canadian public education system, it is time to shift the gaze back to the system itself. What is this system that claims to support the integration of Indigenous youth into its masses while simultaneously further oppressing them via discipline and surveillance efforts? In order to understand the problem of the Canadian public school system undermining Indigenous humanity, we need to understand the system itself and how, and by whom, it is maintained. How does this system remain intact? We have been working towards the inclusion of Indigenous youth into the public education system for decades with little to no improvement. What keeps this system of harm alive? How does it reproduce itself? In order to understand the problem of Indigenous youth being failed by the public education system in Canada, a critical history of the policies and ideologies that inform education, specifically public education, is needed.
As a white settler and educator working within the system I am critiquing, I hope to highlight the challenges in supporting Indigenous peoples’ sovereignty. This thesis is part of my own journey in understanding the forces that shape us and the systems we simultaneously uphold and are troubled by
Safety First: Fostering the Neurological Experience of Safety in Dance/Movement Therapy Sessions for Survivors of Sexual Trauma
The purpose of this clinical case study was to explore and describe how a neurological experience of safety was fostered for survivors of sexual trauma in dance/movement therapy sessions at a community-based rape-crisis counseling center. This study focused on how the theories of trauma-informed therapy and dance/movement therapy were applied to clinical practice with survivors of sexual trauma in order to shift them out of trauma-related responses. Reflections on this process were captured via structured and narrative journaling, which was then synthesized by highlighting and interpreting common themes that emerged. Findings indicated that externalizing trauma-related responses using symbolic imagery and movement, orienting to the external present moment, and befriending the body and its internal processes have been shown to promote feelings of safety and connection within the body of survivors. Additional findings revealed that the therapist’s attunement and non-verbal containment of survivors’ trauma-related responses through the therapeutic movement relationship was a key component in enabling them to navigate through these responses into a felt sense of internal safety. Implications of this study included the importance of engaging survivors in their creative processes to increase their awareness of and shift their relationship to trauma-related responses, as well as the importance and centrality of the therapeutic movement relationship in facilitating a neurological experience of safety. 37 pages
First Do No Harm: Advancing Public Health In Policing Practices
This report contains recommendations on how community health providers and police can work together to promote access to health services for marginalized populations often caught up in the criminal justice system -- people who live in poverty, use drugs, or live with mental illness -- while reducing needless and expensive cycles of arrest and incarceration. It provides practical strategies for incorporating principles of harm reduction -- which aims to remedy the negative effects of drug use and other high-risk behaviors, even when people are not ready or willing to give up the behavior -- and health promotion into policing practices. The report is the latest in a series from Vera's Justice Reform for Healthy Communities Initiative, which aims to improve the health and well-being of the individuals and communities most affected by mass incarceration. At the center of these communities are the millions of medically vulnerable and socially marginalized people who cycle through the criminal justice system each year instead of receiving the care they need, often due to being arrested on minor offenses such as drug possession, loitering, or public intoxication
Sophomore Recital: Chelsea Davis, Flute; Lu Witzig, Piano; April 5, 2024
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A study of the adhesive foot of the gecko: Translation of a publication by Franz Weitlaner
In recent years, hundreds of scientific studies have been published regarding gecko-inspired adhesives. The primary reason for this increasing interest lies in the unique properties which are combined in the adhesive system of the gecko: this natural system can quickly and repeatedly adhere to different surface chemistry and roughness without the use of adhesion-mediating fluids. Although these properties seem to be inconspicuous at first, there is no man-made system currently available which successfully combines all of these properties and competes with the biological adhesive system. However, there are many applications which may benefit from an artificial adhesion system inspired by geckos, ranging from climbing robots and handling systems to biomedical patches and household objects
Substrate temperature effects on the peel behavior of temporary pavement marking tapes
Temporary pavement marking (TPM) tapes are utilized In road construction to delineate temporary traffic lanes and work zones. Adhesive failure of TPM tapes can therefore remove lane and work zone designations, confusing drivers and causing serious accidents, especially in high speed zones. Thus, the adhesion of TPM tapes to pavement surface plays an important role in road construction traffic safety. Pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs) comprise the adhesive layer of TPM tapes. The adhesion of PSAs depends on their temperature-dependent viscoelastic properties. Since environmental conditions vary during construction, the adhesion of TPM tapes will change over a range of operating temperatures. The viscoelastic properties and peel force of four brands of commercial TPM tapes were characterized via double lap shear dynamic mechanical analysis and 90° angle peel adhesion testing over a range of temperatures (−20°C to 40°C). The interfacial fracture behavior and peel forces were analyzed with respect to the measured viscoelastic properties of TPM tapes. For temperatures below the glass transition temperature of the top layer and the transition temperature into the rubbery plateau of the PSA, the peel force decreased. Through this simple technique, an effective operating temperature range for each TPM tape was determined
"It’s the Hardest Decision I Have": Clients and Defenders on the Role of Mental Health in Case Strategy
A critical appraisal of "The effects of two therapeutic patellofemoral taping techniques on strength, endurance, and pain responses"
This is a critical appraisal of "The effects of two therapeutic patellofemoral taping techniques on strength, endurance, and pain responses", which was published in 2012 in the journal, Physical Therapy in Sport and was written by Javier A. Osorio et al.. This study compared two patellofemoral taping techniques to each other and to a control condition of no tape. The outcome measures they recorded were strength, endurance, and pain. This was an organized and well written article in which the strengths outweighed the weaknesses. Some of the strengths include the extensive literature review process in the introduction and discussion sections, the experimental design, as well as the clarity of the methods. Some of the weaknesses include the inconclusive nature of the literature review in both the introduction and discussion, the chosen outcome measures, and the subjects not being blinded to the conditions they were in. This study is a useful resource to clinicians on the benefits of patellofemoral taping techniques on patients with patellofemoral pain. In addition, it is a useful resource to researchers interested in taping techniques to further the research based on these findings
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