LGBT Employee Groups: Goals and Organizational Structures

The problem and the solution. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees oftentimes face isolation, difficult workplace climates, and inequitable benefits and policies. LGBT employee groups offer a space for social support and provide an organized platform from which employees can advocate for changes within their workplaces.We provide a social and historical background on LGBT employee groups and provide a framework/continuum for understanding different approaches to operating these groups.These groups vary in their organizational structures and in their goals. Groups can adopt emergent organizational styles or take more orderly and structured approaches to organizing. Goals for these groups include bringing broader social change and improving organizational effectiveness. These groups provide human resource development that benefits individuals, organizations, communities, and societies

LGBTQ Employee Groups: Who Are Th ey Good For? How Are They Organized?

LGBTQ employees seek workplace change through formal and informal groups. Some groups emphasize broader social change and others focus on organizational performance. We provide the social and historical background of these groups and provide a framework for understanding their goals and aims

LGBTQ Employee Groups: Who Are They Good For? How Are They Organized?

LGBTQ employees seek workplace change through formal and informal groups. Some groups emphasize broader social change and others focus on organizational performance. We provide the social and historical background of these groups and provide a framework for understanding their goals and aims

Bullying and Victimization among Students in Special Education and General Education Curricula

International research established over a decade ago that students who are en-rolled in special education curricula are victimized and perpetrate more bullying than their general education peers. However, few empirical studies have exam-ined bullying rates among American schoolchildren who receive special education services. In the current study, a sample of middle school students (n = 1009) enrolled in general and special education programs completed the Univer-sity of Illinois bullying, fighting, and victimization scales. As hypothesized, students with disabilities reported higher rates of victimization and fighting be-haviours than students without disabilities. Conversely, students with disabilities and their general education peers reported similar rates of bully perpetration

Procesamiento por extrusión de mezclas de maíz y arroz (harinas y salvados): efecto del nivel de contenido de salvados sobre las características físicas de los extruidos

En el presente estudio se elaboró un pasaboca por extrusión de ingredientes provenientes de harina y salvados de maíz y arroz, además se pretendió medir el efecto del nivel de contenido de salvados sobre algunas características físicas de los extruidos. El procesado contuvo harinas y salvados de maíz de alta calidad proteica (QPM) y arroz biofortificado con zinc, ingredientes que proporcionan altos niveles de fibras dietarías. El producto final que se obtuvo de cada formulación se evaluó físicamente, con el fin de encontrar las mejores características de proceso que se ajusten a los requerimientos físicos en el extruido a desarrollar. Para elaborar dichos expandidos se utilizó el equipo extrusor de doble tornillo (DS 32II) del Laboratorio de Operaciones Unitarias de Tecnología e Ingeniería de Alimentos de la Universidad del Valle. La materia prima se acondicionó a una humedad del 15% y la proporción de salvado en el contenido total de la mezcla utilizada para la elaboración del producto fue de 25% y 30%, donde la proporción de salvado de arroz en la mezcla estuvo entre 0-10%. Como variables físicas se midió el índice de expansión (IE), la densidad aparente (g/cm3 ) y el trabajo de compresión (N.mm) de los extruidos, donde este último se determinó a partir de las figuras que se obtuvieron al relacionar la fuerza de compresión en función de la deformación, estos parámetros se midieron usando un texturómetro Shimadzu EZ test. Los resultados mostraron que, a mayor proporción de salvado arroz en la mezcla se obtuvo menor índice de expansión, por consiguiente, menores densidades aparentes y una necesidad de mayor fuerza de comprensión para la deformación del producto finalPregradoINGENIERO(A) DE ALIMENTO

OMEGA - OSIRIS Mapping of Emission-line Galaxies in A901/2 - II. Environmental influence on integrated star formation properties and AGN activity

We present a study of the star formation and AGN activity for galaxies in CP 15051 the Abell 901/2 multicluster system at z ∼ 0.167 as part of the OSIRIS Mapping of Emission-line Galaxies in A901/2 (OMEGA) survey. Using Tuneable Filter data obtained with the OSIRIS instrument at the Gran Telescopio Canarias, we produce spectra covering the Hα and [N II] spectral lines for more than 400 galaxies. Using optical emission-line diagnostics, we identify a significant number of galaxies hosting AGN, which tend to have high masses and a broad range of morphologies.Moreover, within the environmental densities probed by our study, we find no environmental dependence on the fraction of galaxies hosting AGN. The analysis of the integrated Hα emission shows that the specific star formation rates of a majority of the cluster galaxies are below the field values for a given stellar mass.We interpret this result as evidence for a slow decrease in the star formation activity of star-forming galaxies as they fall into higher density regions, contrary to some previous studies that suggested a rapid truncation of star formation.We find that most of the intermediate- and high-mass spiral galaxies go through a phase in which their star formation is suppressed but still retain significant star formation activity. During this phase, these galaxies tend to retain their spiral morphology while their colours become redder. The presence of this type of galaxies in high-density regions indicates that the physical mechanism responsible for suppressing star formation affects mainly the gas component of the galaxies, suggesting that ram-pressure stripping or starvation is potentially responsible.We acknowledge financial support from STFC. This work has made use of The University of Nottingham HPC facility, ‘Minerva’. BRP acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the Plan Nacional de Astronom´ıa y Astrof´ısica grant AYA2012-032295. ACS acknowledges funding from a CNPq, BJT-A fellowship (400857/2014-6). SPB and MEG gratefully acknowledge the receipt of an STFC Advanced Fellowship. AB is funded by the Austrian Science Foundation FWF (grant P23946-N16)

The ESO Distant Cluster Sample: galaxy evolution and environment out to z=1

The ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS, P.I. Simon D.M. White, LP 166.A-0162) is an ESO large programme aimed at studying clusters and cluster galaxies at z=0.4-1. How different is the evolution of the star formation activity in clusters, in groups and in the field? Does it depend on cluster mass and/or the local galaxy density? How relevant are starburst and post-starburst galaxies in the different environments? Is there an evolution in the galaxies' structures, and if so, is this related to the changes in their star formation activity? These are some of the main questions that have been investigated using the EDisCS dataset.Comment: to appear in The Messenger, issue June 200

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourteenth from SDSS overall (making this, Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes public data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (July 2014-2016). Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS); the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data driven machine learning algorithm known as "The Cannon"; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS website (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release, and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020, and will be followed by SDSS-V.Comment: SDSS-IV collaboration alphabetical author data release paper. DR14 happened on 31st July 2017. 19 pages, 5 figures. Accepted by ApJS on 28th Nov 2017 (this is the "post-print" and "post-proofs" version; minor corrections only from v1, and most of errors found in proofs corrected