Reclaiming Victim Through Untold Stories: An Analysis of the Personal Stories of Women Who Have Survived Violence

Around the world one in every three women has been the victim of gender-based violence (Amnesty International USA, 2012). Be it sexual, physical, or psychological, violence against women is an epidemic that needs to end. Past research in the field of Communication has mainly focused on news media coverage of violent crimes. The accounts portrayed in news media were largely edited and focused on a hegemonic version of the experiences (Benedict, 1992; Meyers, 1997; Carll, 2003; Dowler, 2006). These news accounts generally ignore the lived experiences of the female victims, which leaves them feeling isolated in their victimization. Victims’ stories have also been largely left out of past research (outside of fields that work with victims such as Nursing and Social Work), yet understanding their experiences is critical to being able to battle violence against women. This study hopes to illuminate the realities of the lived experiences of victims, based on their own accounts. To do this the personal published stories of the victims of VAW were examined using fantasy theme analysis. Scene, dramatis personae, and action themes were categorized and compared between 22 published narratives written or told by victims of VAW. After the final categories were determined, an overarching narrative emerged from the victims’ stories, which reflects the lived experiences from victimization to recovery. The overarching story is told in three parts. The first part of the narrative tells of the victimization the women experienced. This includes how the victims made sense of the violence. The second part details how the victims came to the realization that the violence they suffered was not their fault. And the third part chronicles how the victims came to terms with their experiences, modified their behaviors, and were victims no more. By sharing their stories these victims helped to expand the knowledge base and understanding of the realities and lived experiences of victims of violence against women. All of these victims were able to get out, start their lives over, and share their stories publicly. This made them not only survivors, but heroes

Critical Language Awareness

In the latter half of the 20th century, applied linguists, dissatisfied with the positioning of language teaching, called for a multidimensional curriculum to reframe teaching (about) languages, be they first or heritage languages (L1s or HLs); English as a second, foreign or international language (ESL, EFL and EIL); or other foreign languages (FLs). Their dissatisfaction stemmed from languages being viewed in isolation (like linguistic silos), an overemphasis on teaching the four skills in a discrete (unintegrated) manner, and decontextualized grammar and vocabulary teaching. Out of this discontent grew the notion of “language awareness,” with language awareness pedagogy implemented in the UK school system for the first time in 1974. The notion and pedagogical interventions emerged from the desire to bridge languages taught in isolation, and recognize the role language plays in all subject matter teaching (i.e., language-across-the- curriculum)

Comparative Genomics of Campylobacter fetus from Reptiles and Mammals Reveals Divergent Evolution in Host-Associated Lineages

Acknowledgments The authors like to thank Brian Brooks and John Devenish (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) for providing strains and valuable suggestions.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Immunization Milestones: A More Comprehensive Picture of Age-Appropriate Vaccination

A challenge facing immunization registries is developing measures of childhood immunization coverage that contain more information for setting policy than present vaccine series up-to-date (UTD) rates. This study combined milestone analysis with provider encounter data to determine when children either do not receive indicated immunizations during medical encounters or fail to visit providers. Milestone analysis measures immunization status at key times between birth and age 2, when recommended immunizations first become late. The immunization status of a large population of children in the Oregon ALERT immunization registry and in the Oregon Health Plan was tracked across milestone ages. Findings indicate that the majority of children went back and forth with regard to having complete age-appropriate immunizations over time. We also found that immunization UTD rates when used alone are biased towards relating non-UTD status to a lack of visits to providers, instead of to provider visits on which recommended immunizations are not given

Sex-specific associations of maternal birthweight with offspring birthweight in the Omega study.

PURPOSE: We investigated nonlinear and offspring sex-specific associations of maternal birthweight (BW) with offspring BW among participants of the Omega study, a pregnancy cohort. METHODS: Maternal BW was modeled as a continuous variable, linear spline and binary variable indicating low birthweight (LBW;≥2500 grams). Offspring BW was modeled as a continuous and binary variable in regression models. Nonlinearity was assessed using likelihood ratio tests (LRTs) in marginal linear spline models. RESULTS: For every 100-gram increase of maternal BW, offspring BW increased by 22.29 (95% CI: 17.57, 27.02) or 23.41 (95% CI: 6.87, 39.96) grams among mothers with normal BW or born macrosomic, respectively, but not among LBW mothers (β = -8.61 grams; 95% CI: -22.88, 5.65; LRT P-value = .0005). For every 100-gram increase in maternal BW, BW of male offspring increased 23.47 (95% CI: 16.75, 30.19) or 25.21 (95% CI: 4.35, 46.07) grams among mothers with normal BW or born macrosomic, respectively, whereas it decreased 31.39 grams (95% CI: -51.63, -11.15) among LBW mothers (LRT P-value \u3c .0001). Corresponding increases in BW of female offspring (16-22 grams) did not differ among mothers with LBW, normal BW or macrosomia (LRT P-value = .9163). CONCLUSIONS: Maternal and offspring BW associations are evident among normal BW and macrosomic mothers. These associations differ by offspring sex

An exact solution of the moving boundary problem for the relativistic plasma expansion in a dipole magnetic field

An exact analytic solution is obtained for a uniformly expanding, neutral, highly conducting plasma sphere in an ambient dipole magnetic field with an arbitrary orientation of the dipole moment in the space. Based on this solution the electrodynamical aspects related to the emission and transformation of energy have been considered. In order to highlight the effect of the orientation of the dipole moment in the space we compare our results obtained for parallel orientation with those for transversal orientation. The results obtained can be used to treat qualitatively experimental and simulation data, and several phenomena of astrophysical and laboratory significance.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:physics/060323

Study on Ecosystem Status and its Evolution in Jiulongjiang River Estuary

随着社会经济的发展和自然环境的变化，我国的河口生态系统面临着日益严重的压力和一系列生态灾害频发的风险，迫切需要对河口生态系统开展评价，从科学的角度分析生态系统过去、现状、成因、发展趋势，以指导生态系统管理工作。因此，研究河口生态系统状态及其演变具有重要的理论和实际应用价值。 目前，我国对河口生态系统状态的研究和评价的开展尚在探索阶段，还未形成制度化的评价机制、指标体系及评价方法，虽然有少量与河口生态系统相关的研究成果，但长时间序列的河口生态系统评价少之又少。本文构建了河口生态系统PSR模型评价指标体系，并以中国特有的五年经济社会发展规划时间为划分评价时间单元，建立了长期的河口生态系统状态演变...According to the development of community economy and the changes of natural environment, the estuarine ecosystem in China are faced with growing pressure and a series of risks of environment disaster. It is necessary to assessment on the estuarine ecosystem, to analyze the past, current status, cause and ecolution trends by scientific angles, in order to guide ecosystem management. Therefore, res...学位：理学硕士院系专业：海洋与环境学院海洋学系_海岸带综合管理学号：2242007115083

Homozygous SLC4A11 mutation in a large Irish CHED2 pedigree

Background: Congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy (CHED) is a genetic disorder of corneal endothelial cells resulting in corneal clouding and visual impairment. Autosomal dominant (CHED1) and autosomal recessive (CHED2) forms have been reported and map to distinct loci on chromosome 20. CHED2 is caused by mutations in the SLC4A11 gene which encodes a membrane transporter protein. Materials and methods: Members of a large CHED2 family were recruited for clinical and genetic studies. Genomic DNA was sequenced for the exons and intron-exon boundaries of the SLC4A11 gene. Results: Twelve family members were recruited, of which eight were diagnosed with CHED. A homozygous SLC4A11 mutation (Leu843Pro) was detected in the eight patients; a single copy of the mutation was present in three unaffected carriers. Conclusions: A missense SLC4A11 mutation (Leu843Pro) is responsible for CHED2 in this family; this is the first report of this mutation in a homozygous state