Commentary on Grandparents in Kinship Care: Help or Hindrance to Family Preservation

Invited commentary on Grandparents in Kinship Care: Help or Hindrance to Family Preservation

“States of Emergency”: Armed Youths and Mediations of Islam in Northern Nigeria

On November 14, 2013, the U.S. Department of State labeled Boko Haram and a splinter group, Ansaru, operating in northern Nigeria, “foreign terrorist organizations” with links to al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). This designation is debatable, since the groups are diffuse, with tendencies to split or engage other armed groups into violent actions, primarily focused on Nigerian national and state politics and the implementation of shari’a criminal codes. This essay offers two analytic perspectives on “states of emergency” in Nigeria and the affective, violent forms of “justice” that armed young men employed during the 2000 implementation of shari’a criminal codes in Kano State, important contexts for analyses of militant groups such as Boko Haram or Ansaru. One analysis is meant to capture the expressive aspects of justice, and the other presumes a-priori realms of public experience and understanding that mediate the suffering and the cultural, religious, and political forms of justice Muslim youths draw upon to make sense of their plight. Based on eight years of ethnographic research in northern Nigeria, I suggest the uneasy reliance in Nigeria on secular and religious legalism as well as on extrajudicial violence to assure “justice” (re)enacts real-virtual experiences of authorized violence as “justice” in Nigeria’s heavily mediated publics

Evaluation of Intimate Partner Violence Screening in a Metropolitan Public Health Department

Routine intimate partner violence (IPV) screening has been recommended for all health care settings to prevent subsequent short and long term health consequences of survivors. However, provider adherence remains low. The purpose of this quality improvement project is to evaluate current screening practices, identify the needs of, and provide resources to three family planning clinics within a metropolitan public health department. The project utilized Donabedian’s Structure, Process, and Outcomes Model to map current protocols within three family planning clinics to identify current practices. A chart review including 105 patient charts was done to identify documentation of IPV screening/discussion as well as referrals following a positive victim response. A focus group composed of three clinic managers and seven individual interviews with clinical staff members were conducted to identify key themes and any barriers to screening. The mapping of practices revealed the overall clinic flow, resources within the clinics, and questions regarding IPV asked. The chart review revealed 47% patients were not asked about IPV and no information regarding subsequent referrals was provided. Five key themes were identified for both the focus group and the individual interviews. The focus group revealed only patient disclosure barriers, while the individual interviews revealed institutional and personal provider barriers, in addition to patient disclosure barriers. Following the individual interviews and focus group an educational session was conducted, resources were provided, and a post-intervention survey was distributed to assess readiness to screen. The post-intervention survey from the managers revealed more psychiatric support resources could be provided to enhance readiness. The clinical staff members had sufficient scores to consider them ready to screen. Overall the study found that additional interventions are needed to ensure providers are prepared to screen and appropriately refer survivors. Evaluation of Intimate Partner Violence Screening in a Metropolitan Public Health Department. Approximately 23 million women and 1.7 million men will experience intimate partner violence (IPV) in their lifetime (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2017). To address this alarming incidence of IPV, the Department of Health and Human Services has responded by guaranteeing access to preventive services, including IPV screening, under the Affordable Care Act (Ramachandran et al., 2013). Routine screening for IPV is now recommended by the American Medical Association, the American Nurses Association, the CDC, and many more (DeBoer et al., 2013;Sormanti & Smith, 2009; Thackeray, Stelzner, Downs, & Miller, 2007). Despite national recommendations for routine intimate partner violence screening, provider adherence remains low. Studies assessing emergency departments reported that only 13% of patients were asked about IPV (Waalen et al., 2000). Additionally, studies found that only 10 to 39% of patients were screened for IPV at women’s health visits (Renker, 2008). Consequently, intimate partner violence is often underreported, unidentified, and improperly managed by health care providers

Your Majesty\u27s Friend : Foreign Alliances in the Reign of Henri Christophe

In modern historiography, Henri Christophe, king of northern Haiti from 1816-1820, is generally given a negative persona due to his controlling nature and his absolutist regime, but in his correspondence, he engages in diplomatic collaborations with two British abolitionists, William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson, in order to improve his new policies and obtain international recognition. This paper argues that the Haitian king and the abolitionists engaged in a mutual collaboration in which each party benefitted from the correspondence. Christophe used the advice of the British abolitionists in order to increase the power of Haiti into a powerful black state, and Wilberforce and Clarkson helped the king position Haiti as a self-sufficient nation to fuel their abolitionist argument of the potential of post-emancipation societies

Faith-based and Graduate Adult Educator\u27s Negotiation of Similarities and Differences Among People as an Indicator of Their Multicultural Effectiveness

This study examined the relationship between adult educators‘ multicultural effectiveness scores and their negotiation of similarities and differences scores. The participants were in faith-based institutions, specifically Christian churches and in graduate adult education programs of universities and colleges in the United States. Multicultural effectiveness was measured by the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) that the authors reported measured multicultural effectiveness as the primary, encompassing variable. The MPQ is a five-point Likert scale with 91 items. The MPQ reliability was a Cronbach‘s alpha of .82 (Van der Zee & Van Oudenhoven, 2000). The Miville-Guzman Universality-Diversity Scale (M-GUDS) measured the negotiation of similarities and differences. The M-GUDS is a six-point Likert scale with 45 items on the long form and 15 items on the short form. Its internal consistency and reliability were high measuring Cronbach‘s alpha .89 (Miville et al., 1999). There were 40 participants in the study. A Pearson Correlation indicated a significant correlation, r(38)=.59,

ETHNIC MINORITY STATUS, A GERMAN CASE STUDY

There has been extensive research concerning happiness and its causes. In the context of the European Union, scholars have utilized the European Social Survey, a biennial survey that is conducted across Europe. The survey asks respondents to score their happiness on a scale of 1 to 10. Researchers have used these results to build regression models that analyze happiness as a function of various socio-demographic factors (Safi 2010; Vega-Tinoco et al. 2022; Aassve et al. 2012; & Piper 2015). Ethnic minority or immigrant status has been one of the factors under investigation. In particular, studies found that there was a negative correlation between immigrant status and happiness and a negative correlation between ethnic minority status and happiness (Kirmanoğlu & Başlevent 2014; Safi 2014). Nevertheless, there has not been extensive research at the individual country level concerning Germany and ethnic minorities. Due to the 2015 refugee crisis, Germany experienced an influx of immigrants, making it an interesting case study for the impacts of ethnic minority status on happiness. I predict that ethnic minorities have decreased happiness due to factors relating to the struggles of immigrating, coupled with anti-immigrant sentiments and racism. Using the 2018 ESS, this paper will examine if there is a correlation between ethnic minority status and happiness, while controlling for gender and region in Germany.Master of Art

Multi-stage linear slot virtual impactor for concentration of bioaerosols

Two linear slot virtual impactor arrangements were developed and investigated in this study. Both arrangements encompassed two-stage impaction for concentration of bioaerosols. The first arrangement consisted of eight linear slot impactors in parallel for the first stage with the designed dimensions of 87 mm (3.4Â) for the throat length, 0.305 mm (.012Â) for the accelerator throat width, and 0.457 mm (.018Â) for the receiver throat width. The second stage contained a single unit with the designed dimensions of 71 mm (2.8Â) for the throat length, 0.36 mm (0.014Â) for the accelerator throat width, and 0.49mm (0.019Â) for the receiver throat width. The second arrangement contained a single impactor for the first stage with a designed throat length of 87 mm (3.4Â), a designed accelerator throat width of 0.43 mm (.017Â), and a designed receiver throat width of 0.63mm (.025Â). The second stage also contained a single impactor with a designed throat length of 8.73 mm (3.4Â), a designed accelerator throat width of .43 mm (.017), and a designed receiver throat width of 0.63 mm (0.25Â). To verify the tolerances of the machined impactors, optical measurements were made. Both arrangements were subjected to liquid and solid particle tests and have a theoretical concentration factor of 100X. The arrangements were tested at flow rates that ranged from 10 L/min to 1000 L/min, where the collection efficiency of the minor flow was determined. An unknown acoustical phenomenon was present during aerosol tests at elevated flow rates causing low minor flow collection efficiencies. In order to test the impactors at elevated flow rates, the acoustical generation phenomenon was systematically studied and suppressed. The cutpoint for the first arrangement was 1.3µm AD, and the cutpoint for the second arrangement was 1.0 µm AD. The average Stk50 for both arrangements was 0.71. The throat velocity through the impactors ranged from 21.8 m/s to 73 m/s, and the peak efficiency for these specific throat velocities ranged from 99% to 74%, respectively

A Simulation Study Of The Impact Of Forecast Recovery For Control Charts Applied To ARMA Processes

Forecast-based schemes are often used to monitor autocorrelated processes, but the resulting forecast recovery has a significant effect on the performance of control charts. This article describes forecast recovery for autocorrelated processes, and the resulting simulation study is used to explain the performance of control charts applied to forecast errors

Naturalism in the Work of Stephen Crane

A critical study of naturalism and its influence in the works of Stephen Crane