“I Don’t Know Where Else to Go”: Pathways to Re-Exploitation After Female Sex Trafficking Survivors in Cambodia Return Home

Little is known about the experiences of human trafficking survivors over the long term. Why do some survivors experience re-victimization while others do not? Drawing from longitudinal interviews with 64 female sex trafficking survivors in Cambodia, we use qualitative comparative analysis to compare which conditions in the lives of survivors are associated with re-exploitation and which are associated with not experiencing re-exploitation. We found there are multiple factors associated with re-exploitation tied to poverty, debt, low education, and social isolation from friends, family, and the community. Poverty is a necessary condition but is not sufficient for explaining re-exploitation on its own. Conditions contributing to the absence of re-exploitation include not having debt, not sending remittances to family, being married with children, and having social support from family, friends and/or the community. We discuss distinctions between social support for survivors (e.g., from social service organizations) and broader social protections (embedded in social and cultural institutions). Each is relevant for post-trafficking services and survivor reintegration in different ways

O uso do jogo “baralho das funções” no ensino aprendizagem de função afim / The use of the "deck of functions" game in teaching and learning about affine functions

O presente trabalho é resultado de um acompanhamento realizado a duas turmas de 1º ano do ensino médio na disciplina de Matemática através do Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação á Docência (PIBID). No início do projeto percebemos que os estudantes estavam com dificuldade no conteúdo de função afim e que havia a necessidade de fazer uma abordagem diferente da convencional para estimular a participação dos discentes nas aulas e consequentemente melhorar a aprendizagem. Partiu-se da ideia de utilizar o lúdico, pois muitos alunos aprendem mais quando estão manipulando algum material, interagindo na aula do que com uma aula expositiva onde apenas o professor é o detentor do conhecimento. Segundo Mendes (2009), O uso dos materiais concretos nas aulas de Matemática é uma ótima alternativa que contribui para a realização de intervenções do professor em sala de aula, pois os materiais são utilizados pelos próprios alunos, geralmente trabalhando em grupos pequenos, assim, o aluno se torna um agente ativo na construção do próprio conhecimento matemático. É importante também trabalhar a autonomia dos estudantes em sala de aula e incentivá-los a serem mais ativos no processo de construção do conhecimento pois segundo Freire (1996, p.24) “ensinar não é transferir conhecimento, mas criar possibilidades para a sua própria produção ou a sua própria construção”. Partindo dessa perspectiva, decidimos trabalhar um jogo denominado “Baralho das funções”. Este jogo consiste em 48 cartas com 12 expressões diferentes que expressam cada uma das distintas formas de equação, gráficos e tabelas de valores. O princípio do jogo é agrupar cartas correspondentes. Cada jogador tinha que formar um conjunto de três cartas de mesmo significado, ao final os discentes foram premiados com chocolates, como uma recompensa pelo empenho. Os vencedores do jogo ganharam uma porção maior. Os estudantes se sentiram atraídos pela dinâmica do jogo e participaram efetivamente da aula. Percebeu-se que os alunos melhoraram muito seu desempenho no conteúdo pois não se sentiam motivados em praticar os cálculos, mas com o jogo, eles realizavam os cálculos brincando e sempre pediam auxílio quando precisavam, pois todos queriam ganhar o jogo para serem recompensados. Com isso, o desempenho dos discentes que participaram ativamente desta atividade foi muito satisfatório, comprovando assim que é sempre muito importante o professor inovar sua metodologia e apostar no material concreto é uma ótima alternativa

Lagrangian Description of the Variational Equations

A variant of the usual Lagrangian scheme is developed which describes both the equations of motion and the variational equations of a system. The required (prolonged) Lagrangian is defined in an extended configuration space comprising both the original configurations of the system and all the virtual displacements joining any two integral curves. Our main result establishes that both the Euler-Lagrange equations and the corresponding variational equations of the original system can be viewed as the Lagrangian vector field associated with the first prolongation of the original LagrangianAfter discussing certain features of the formulation, we introduce the so-called inherited constants of the motion and relate them to the Noether constants of the extended system

Benefits of Implementing a Daily Safety Brief at the Baystate Children’s Hospital

Nursing Scholarship Symposium Event Posters.https://scholarlycommons.libraryinfo.bhs.org/nurs_presentations/1001/thumbnail.jp

Comparison of exit time moment spectra for extrinsic metric balls

We prove explicit upper and lower bounds for the L1-moment spectra for the Brownian motion exit time from extrinsic metric balls of submanifolds Pm in ambient Riemannian spaces Nn. We assume that P and N both have controlled radial curvatures (mean curvature and sectional curvature, respectively) as viewed from a pole in N. The bounds for the exit moment spectra are given in terms of the corresponding spectra for geodesic metric balls in suitably warped product model spaces. The bounds are sharp in the sense that equalities are obtained in characteristic cases. As a corollary we also obtain new intrinsic comparison results for the exit time spectra for metric balls in the ambient manifolds Nn themselves

Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources

This presentation presents a research study conducted at UNT. The UNT Libraries partnered with the Department of Anthropology at UNT to conduct ethnographic research of how UNT students use the electronic library services

Robust 3D pose estimation and efficient 2D region-based segmentation from a 3D shape prior

©2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.Presented at the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision, Marseille, France, October 12-18, 2008.DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88688-4_13In this work, we present an approach to jointly segment a rigid object in a 2D image and estimate its 3D pose, using the knowledge of a 3D model. We naturally couple the two processes together into a unique energy functional that is minimized through a variational approach. Our methodology differs from the standard monocular 3D pose estimation algorithms since it does not rely on local image features. Instead, we use global image statistics to drive the pose estimation process. This confers a satisfying level of robustness to noise and initialization for our algorithm, and bypasses the need to establish correspondences between image and object features. Moreover, our methodology possesses the typical qualities of region-based active contour techniques with shape priors, such as robustness to occlusions or missing information, without the need to evolve an infinite dimensional curve. Another novelty of the proposed contribution is to use a unique 3D model surface of the object, instead of learning a large collection of 2D shapes to accommodate for the diverse aspects that a 3D object can take when imaged by a camera. Experimental results on both synthetic and real images are provided, which highlight the robust performance of the technique on challenging tracking and segmentation applications