The 2nd LGBTQ Town Hall Meeting‏

On March 7th the Women\u27s Center hosted the second LGBTQ Town Hall Meeting‏. A few people attended and questions about URI and the future campus climate survey were asked

The First LGBTQ Town Hall Meeting‏

This was our first LGBTQ Town Hall Meeting, an event where students, faculty, and staff came to share thoughts and feelings on how our center should move forward. It took place Thursday, February 16 at 7pm in Multicultural Center, Room 005. Please share this pod cast of the meeting and we hope you will join us next time! Any and all are welcome and this was the first of many more opportunities for feedback

LGBTQ Center 2012 Brochure

This is the LGBTQ Center\u27s 2012 Brochure. LGBTQ Center 2012 Brochure; GLBT Center; Joseph A Santiago; Joe Santiago; Annie Russell; Gay/Straight Alliance (GSA) We seek to work with both the GLBTIQQ and straight communities in order to help change the campus climate at URI.; LBTQ Women’s Group This group is designed to provide a space for LBTQ women to be themselves in a safe and welcoming environment, while receiving support from each other and having fun.; Gays, Lesbians, and Allies Advancing Medicine (GLAAM) Group currently forming through two colleges at URI and the LGBTQ Center.; Student Organizations Coming Fall 2012 1. O-STEM (Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) 2. Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and LGBTQ Identities 3. Exploring Spirituality and Social Justice Issues 4. LGBTQ Support in Athletics; Student Staff Specialists; Sam Barrus; Kevin Cruz; Nikki Hartman; Ianna Leshin; Sam Simas; Brian Sit; Justin Willner; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Center; Education; OUTspoken Speakers Bureau; Coming in Fall 2012, the LGBTQ Center will begin offering a program where students can be trained to share their experiences in a panel discussion based format. The OUTspoken Speakers Bureau will be an hour long panel discussion, focused on understanding LGBTQ issues and led by students. The bureau can be utilized in any classroom, meeting, or training.; Safe Zone Project; The purpose of Safe Zone Project is to: (1) Increase awareness, knowledge, and support of LGBTQ people and issues; (2) Build a visible support network of LGBTQ Allies on URI’s campus; and (3) Improve the campus climate for LGBTQ people at URI. We offer a 2 hour Workshop to train on basic issues affecting the LGBTQ community and how to be an ally. Contact our office to schedule a workshop for your office, department, or group.; Classroom and Meeting Presentations; For any class, department, or other event, our LGBTQ Center can tailor a presentation to meet your specific needs. Please contact our office for more details.; Engagement; Large Scale Events; Throughout the year, the LGBTQ Center will offer a variety of opportunities for our community to come together. In the fall, we offer a Welcome Night where we will open the year and discuss all options for engagement throughout the year. October brings Coming Out Month activities. November will host our Transgender Day of Remembrance. March will highlight our annual LGBTIQQ Symposium. Finally, in April, we will offer the Lavender Graduation to celebrate our year together.; Mentoring Program; In Fall 2012, the LGBTQ Center will begin offering its mentoring program for students, faculty, staff, and alumni. First and second year students can apply to have junior and senior mentors. Juniors and seniors can be mentors for younger students and also have graduate student, faculty, staff, or alumni mentors.; Book Club and Family Dinners; In Fall 2012, we will offer a Book Club and Family Dinners for all interested students, faculty, and staff. The Book Club will be themed toward LGBT issues and/or identities and will meet several times during the semester. The Family Dinners will be social in nature and allow the community to come together in a relaxed atmosphere to prepare and enjoy meals together.; Support; President’s Commission on LGBTQ; The President’s Commission on LGBTQ issues focuses on providing support for all URI people, as well as assisting in creating a supportive and inclusive climate.; Coming Out Support Group; In Fall 2012, the Coming Out Support Group will meet weekly to offer students, faculty, and staff the ability to come together around issues related to the lifelong coming out process.; Gender Identity and Expression; Discussion Group; In Fall 2012, the Gender Identity and Expression Discussion Group will be an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to engage in dialogue concerning the many facets of gender identity and expression.; Bi, Pan, and Fluid Sexualities Group; Coming in Fall 2012, the Bi, Pan, and Fluid Sexualities Group will offer discussion and activities surrounding the fluidity of sexuality and sexual expression.; Conversation Group; The LGBTQ Center offers Conversation Group once a week, where students come together to discuss a variety of LGBTQ related issues, from current events to identity concepts

Validation of the Vaccination Confidence Scale: A Brief Measure to Identify Parents at Risk for Refusing Adolescent Vaccines

Objective To validate a brief measure of vaccination confidence using a large, nationally representative sample of parents. Methods We analyzed weighted data from 9018 parents who completed the 2010 National Immunization Survey–Teen, an annual, population-based telephone survey. Parents reported on the immunization history of a 13- to 17-year-old child in their households for vaccines including tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Tdap), meningococcal, and human papillomavirus vaccines. For each vaccine, separate logistic regression models assessed associations between parents\u27 mean scores on the 8-item Vaccination Confidence Scale and vaccine refusal, vaccine delay, and vaccination status. We repeated analyses for the scale\u27s 4-item short form. Results One quarter of parents (24%) reported refusal of any vaccine, with refusal of specific vaccines ranging from 21% for human papillomavirus to 2% for Tdap. Using the full 8-item scale, vaccination confidence was negatively associated with measures of vaccine refusal and positively associated with measures of vaccination status. For example, refusal of any vaccine was more common among parents whose scale scores were medium (odds ratio, 2.08; 95% confidence interval, 1.75–2.47) or low (odds ratio, 4.61; 95% confidence interval, 3.51–6.05) versus high. For the 4-item short form, scores were also consistently associated with vaccine refusal and vaccination status. Vaccination confidence was inconsistently associated with vaccine delay. Conclusions The Vaccination Confidence Scale shows promise as a tool for identifying parents at risk for refusing adolescent vaccines. The scale\u27s short form appears to offer comparable performance

Mixed Noise Removal by Processing of Patches

Sonar images are degraded by mixed noise which has an adverse impact on detection and classification of underwater objects. Existing denoising methods of sonar images remove either additive noise or multiplicative noise. In this study, the mixed noise in sonar images, the additive Gaussian noise and the multiplicative speckle effect are handled by the data adaptive methods. A patch based denoising is applied in two phases to remove the additive Gaussian and multiplicative speckle noises. In the first phase, the adaptive processing of local patches is used to remove the additive Gaussian noise by exploiting the sonar image local sparsity. The PCA and SVD methods are used for denoising the noisy image patches and blocks of patches. In the second phase, the weighted maximum likelihood denoising of the nonlocal patches reduces the speckle effect by exploiting the non-local similarity in a probability distribution. Experiments on side scan sonar images are conducted and the results show the importance of removing both the additive and multiplicative components from the sonar images

Estimates of nitrogen fixation by legume cover crops grown in young rubber plantations using 15N isotope dilution technique

15N Isotope dilution technique has been used to estimate the amounts of N2 fixed by leguminous cover crops, Pueraria phaseoloides and Mucuna bracteata grown in the inter-rows of immature rubber plantation, using Ipomoea batatas as the reference plant. The field experiment was conducted in the RRII farm during 2009, in an area planted with Hevea brasiliensis, clone RRII 105. The cover crops and the reference plant were established in separate blocks. For labeled urea application, micro-plots (1m x 1m) were established and 15N labeled urea, 5 atom % 15N excess, was applied @ 5 kg ha-1. After 45 days, the above ground biomass from the micro-plots was harvested, weighed and sub-samples were collected for determination of dry matter accumulation, N content and 15N enrichment. Micro-plot experiments were conducted thrice during the active growth period of the legumes and the reference plant, i.e., during June-July, August-September and October-November. Estimates of N2-fixation for P. phaseoloides ranged from 79.82 kg N ha-1 during June-July to 39.32 kg N ha-1 during October-November and averaged 58.1 kg N ha-1. Corresponding estimates for M. bracteata ranged from 83.95 kg N ha-1 during June-July to 57.03 kg N ha-1 during October-Nov and averaged 69.7 kg N ha-1. The study showed that both the cover crops fixed considerable quantities of atmospheric nitrogen and that N2 fixation by M. bracteata was higher than that of P. phaseoloides

MOBILE PHONES AND WORKING-CLASS WOMEN: THE CASE OF FISH VENDORS

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Observer la transition énergétique « par le bas »: L’exemple des acteurs du bassin minier de Provence

Cette contribution a également mobilisé Hubert Amarillo (LEST, Aix-Marseille Université-CNRS), Nassim Amrouche (IDEMEC, Aix-Marseille université-CNRS) et Yaya Bassène (TELEMME, Aix-Marseille Université-CNRS).International audienceS’appuyant sur une recherche menée dans l’ancien bassin minier de Provence, une équipe de chercheurs aborde l’enjeu de la transition énergétique par le prisme des acteurs ordinaires. Ils montrent le rôle joué dans ce processus par les PME et les ménages, mais aussi par les collectivités locales et les travailleurs du secteur de l’énergie

Tyramide signal amplification mass spectrometry (TSA-MS) ratio identifies nuclear speckle proteins

We present a simple ratio method to infer protein composition within cellular structures using proximity labeling approaches but compensating for the diffusion of free radicals. We used tyramide signal amplification (TSA) and label-free mass spectrometry (MS) to compare proteins in nuclear speckles versus centromeres. Our “TSA-MS ratio” approach successfully identified known nuclear speckle proteins. For example, 96% and 67% of proteins in the top 30 and 100 sorted proteins, respectively, are known nuclear speckle proteins, including proteins that we validated here as enriched in nuclear speckles. We show that MFAP1, among the top 20 in our list, forms droplets under certain circumstances and that MFAP1 expression levels modulate the size, stability, and dynamics of nuclear speckles. Localization of MFAP1 and its binding partner, PRPF38A, in droplet-like nuclear bodies precedes formation of nuclear speckles during telophase. Our results update older proteomic studies of nuclear speckles and should provide a useful reference dataset to guide future experimental dissection of nuclear speckle structure and function