Put Her In Coach: Female Sports Journalists’ Role in Women’s Athletic Coverage in the Media

The Chicago newspaper’s infamous Twitter headline read “Wife of Bears’ lineman wins a bronze medal today in Rio Olympics.” Corey Cogdell-Unrein had just won her second Olympic medal in trap shooting only to have her name and success attributed to her spouse’s athletic career. Unfortunately, microaggressions such as this one are not uncommon in the media’s coverage of women’s sports. Moreover, the coverage itself is problematic, as it is nearly non-existent compared to the attention men’s sports receive. Society has arbitrarily placed sport within the domain of men. The debate is often framed by the claim that insufficient interest in female athletics makes them unprofitable. The real question is whether or not the reason behind the lack of interest is the lack of coverage. Evidence suggests the market of female audiences is growing all the time. The solution to the disparities faced in coverage and microaggressions may rest with female journalists who are more likely to quote and report on women than men. In a vicious cycle, gender hiring practices in sports journalism are unequitable, perpetuating the media’s problematic limited attention to female sport. Media organizations must support women in editorial and leadership roles if they wish to avoid sexist culture and the estrangement of female fanatics

A New “Age” of Global Climate Governance: The Role of Youth in the UNFCCC Process

Youth activists such as Greta Thunberg have been fundamental in garnering greater recognition and mobilizing action to address the climate crisis. However, without tangible power via the right to vote in most nations, it is difficult to represent the voice and will of young people. Furthermore, international organizations, which are typically tasked with setting standards for such expansive global challenges, like climate change, face a democratic deficit as delegates sent to participate are not chosen by popular vote. Public interest groups, formally called stakeholders, composed of civilians from various social, demographic, or business entities are intended to bridge this gap and provide greater democratic legitimacy to multilateral institutions. The United Nations and their climate arm, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), brings stakeholder groups and international delegations together annually at the Conference of Parties (COP) in order to address the challenges presented by a warming world. Youth and Children are one of these designated UN stakeholder groups that strive to hold parties accountable to upscale their ambitions and engage more democratically with civil society. In this thesis, I seek to clearly establish the growing role that youth play in the UNFCCC process.Bachelor of Art

Interface Design for Unmanned Vehicle Supervision through Hybrid Cognitive Task Analysis

While there is currently significant interest in developing Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) that can be supervised by a single operator, the majority of these systems focus on Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) domains. One domain that has received significantly less attention is the use of multiple UASs to insert or extract supplies or people. To this end, MAVIES (Multi-Autonomous Vehicle Insertion-Extraction System) was developed to allow a single operator the ability to supervise a primary cargo Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) along with multiple scouting UAVs. This paper will detail the development of the design requirements generated through a Hybrid Cognitive Task Analysis (hCTA) and the display that resulted from these efforts. A major innovation in the hCTA process in this effort was the alteration of the traditional decision ladder process to specifically identify decision-making tasks that must be augmented with automation

Modeling the Impact of Operator Trust on Performance in Multiple Robot Control

We developed a system dynamics model to simulate the impact of operator trust on performance in multiple robot control. Analysis of a simulated urban search and rescue experiment showed that operators decided to manually control the robots when they lost trust in the autonomous planner that was directing the robots. Operators who rarely used manual control performed the worst. However, the operators who most frequently used manual control reported higher workload and did not perform any better than operators with moderate manual control usage. Based on these findings, we implemented a model where trust and performance form a feedback loop, in which operators perceive the performance of the system, calibrate their trust, and adjust their control of the robots. A second feedback loop incorporates the impact of trust on cognitive workload and system performance. The model was able to replicate the quantitative performance of three groups of operators within 2.3%. This model could help us gain a greater understanding of how operators build and lose trust in automation and the impact of those changes in trust on performance and workload, which is crucial to the development of future systems involving human-automation collaboration

Impacting Maternal and Prenatal Care Together: A Collaborative Effort to Improve Birth Outcomes

Objectives To describe the development of a collaborative partnership to improve birth outcomes in Harris County, Texas. Methods State and city-level maternal and infant health data were re-analyzed and presented to stakeholders at the zip-code level to generate a renewed response to health issues in these populations, particularly infant mortality. Public and private sector stakeholders convened to form the Impacting Maternal and Prenatal Care Together (IMPACT) Collaborative, identifying four priority areas that required collaborative action. Results Priority area action groups are currently working on strategies to improve maternal and infant health outcomes. Collaborative strategies include: raising patient and provider awareness, campaign partnerships, advocating for legislative change, and implementing community based programs. As a collaborative, IMPACT received funding to implement an evidence-based health education intervention for women at risk of having poor birth outcomes. Conclusions Through the leveraging of resources, expertise, and leadership, collaborative partnerships are capable of formulating innovative ideas, developing sustainable solutions, and generating change at multiple levels

Evaluation Of Bias Issues Within Regression-Based Inverse Modeling Methods Against Climate And Building Characteristics Using Synthetic Data

Typically, a model of the energy use of a building is created using the building\u27s characteristics and climate information for its location. However, models of existing homes can be created using monitored energy and climactic data in a process called inverse modeling. Such a technique has potential for those seeking to evaluate the savings a home before and after a retrofit (Meier, Busch, & Conner, 1988).Several programs use an inverse modeling technique to model a home\u27s energy use based on total home energy use, heating and cooling energy use, and indoor/outdoor temperature data from a home (Kissock, Haberl, & Claridge, 2003). For example PRISM, the PRInceton Scorekeeping Method, was used widely in the 1980s and 90s to evaluate the performance of residential energy efficiency improvements (Fels, 1986). In 2006, researchers from Building America evaluated several homes using a least-squares regression technique on monitored data from these homes. The researchers compared the performance of low-energy homes working towards the Building America goal of 70% whole-house efficiency to homes built to minimum code requirements. The 2006 study found a correlation between the efficiency of a home to the performance reported by the least-squares regression, but asserted that more analysis into the method was needed in order to ascertain its accuracy, especially regarding floor type, climate, and house size (Chasar, et al., 2006).This paper seeks to evaluate the accuracy of the regression technique used in 2006 by using the same least-squares regression analysis on data created from hourly energy simulation software. Synthetic data allows researchers to cheaply and quickly obtain more data for analysis and to isolate the effects of single characteristics on a home\u27s performance in a regression analysis model

Sex in the time of coronavirus: Queer men negotiating biosexual citizenship during the COVID-19 pandemic

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, representations of irresponsible gay men partying with little regard for viral transmission have circulated across social media; a construction of gay men that has a history that long precedes the coronavirus conjuncture. In this article, we draw on in-depth qualitative interviews with 43 queer men in London and Edinburgh, to investigate experiences of sexual and intimate practices during COVID-19 and use the concept of ‘biosexual citizenship’ (2018) to analyse the ethical frameworks these men used to navigate them. We argue that rather than being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ biosexual citizens, queer men have developed an array of ethically reflexive strategies in order to negotiate the difficult terrain they have had to face when trying to pursue their cultures of sex and intimacy during the pandemic. In so doing, they appear to enact biosexual citizenship through diverse sexual practices that both inevitably include and challenge both hegemonic imperatives of responsibility and well-being, as well as well-worn media representations of reckless, hedonistic gay men

Agritourism in Oklahoma

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Anti-schistosomal immunity to core xylose/fucose in N-glycans

Schistosomiasis is a globally prevalent, debilitating disease that is poorly controlled by chemotherapy and for which no vaccine exists. While partial resistance in people may develop over time with repeated infections and treatments, some animals, including the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), are only semi-permissive and have natural protection. To understand the basis of this protection, we explored the nature of the immune response in the brown rat to infection by Schistosoma mansoni. Infection leads to production of IgG to Infection leads to production of IgG to parasite glycoproteins parasite glycoproteins with complex-type N-glycans that contain a non-mammalian-type modification by core α2-Xylose and core α3-Fucose (core Xyl/Fuc). These epitopes are expressed on the surfaces of schistosomula and adult worms. Importantly, IgG to these epitopes can kill schistosomula by a complement-dependent process in vitro. Additionally, sera from both infected rhesus monkey and infected brown rat were capable of killing schistosomula in a manner inhibited by glycopeptides containing core Xyl/Fuc. These results demonstrate that protective antibodies to schistosome infections in brown rats and rhesus monkeys include IgG responses to the core Xyl/Fuc epitopes in surface-expressed N-glycans, and raise the potential of novel glyco-based vaccines that might be developed to combat this disease