282 research outputs found
A Closed Mouth Gonna Get You Nothinâ: How Conflict is Handled after Diversity and Inclusion Training
Diversity and Inclusion training is often used in organizations to engage with the increasing demographic diversity in the United States. However, many organizations continue to base their trainings and initiatives on a paradigm which was primarily motivated to prevent litigation, rather than to ensure economic opportunity for all. Over time, such Diversity efforts failed in many documented instances to ensure such opportunities and in fact, created a host of unwanted side-effects, such as employee turnover, job dissatisfaction, and misconceptions regarding the soundness of Diversity and Inclusion efforts.
However, a number of organizations have undertaken Diversity and Inclusion efforts in earnest. It is in one of these organizations that this paper examines two sites to answer the following: how do members of organizations which state commitment to diversity and inclusion handle conflict after having received diversity and inclusion training?
This paper traces the development of Diversity and Inclusion through its earliest antecedents to the present day in order to understand one organization\u27s answers to that question. This paper further argues that antecedents to contemporary Diversity and Inclusion models were based on faulty assumptions, bad faith, and did not receive the necessary institutional support--particularly from leadership--necessary to succeed. Not only do Diversity and Inclusion practices work to minimize prejudice, minimize destructive conflict/create opportunities for productive conflict, it works to break free of the zero-sum thinking of the Black/White Binary Paradigm of race (and other dominant discourses), and supports the Business Case for Diversity. This study has found that for the participants interviewed, when Diversity and Inclusion efforts are successful, conflict is handled productively, and often is not recognized as conflict at all
Psoriasiform Hailey-Hailey Disease Presenting as Erythematous Psoriasiform Plaques Throughout the Body: A Case Report
INTRODUCTION:
Hailey-Hailey disease is an adult-onset skin condition characterized by lesions in the intertriginous regions of the body. The lesions can be pruritic, painful, and associated with physical and social impairment.
CASE PRESENTATION:
We present a case of psoriasiform Hailey-Hailey disease in a 60-year-old white woman who exhibited erythematous psoriasiform plaques in many areas of her body. The patient's condition was successfully treated with a twice-daily regimen of doxycycline, mometasone, and clindamycin.
DISCUSSION:
It is important to recognize this variant of Hailey-Hailey disease so it can be diagnosed and treated promptly. Hailey-Hailey disease can be treated with topical corticosteroids and antibiotics and usually is associated with a positive prognosis
An Ethical Inquiry to Personhood as the Standard for Sexbot Ownership: A Response to S. Petersen
In the field of robot ethics, debates about sexbots, their personhood, and their moral status continue. To provide our stance in this debate, we ask the question: Is it unethical for sexbots to be owned? This paper responds to the claims of Steve Petersenâs (2016) paper âIs it good for them too? Ethical concerns for the sexbotsâ, where he argues that sexbots are not wronged for performing the functions they are designed for. We respond to this claim by arguing for John Danaherâs Theory of Ethical Behaviorism (2020). If ethical behaviorism is correct in claiming that behavior is a sufficient ground for moral status ascription, we see sexbot ownership as unethical. We argue for our claim and show that the moral considerability of the sexbot could be proven under the standards given in our framework for ascribing moral status
Temperature dependence of the upper critical field of an anisotropic singlet superconductivity in a square lattice tight-binding model in parallel magnetic fields
Upper critical field parallel to the conducting layer is studied in
anisotropic type-II superconductors on square lattices. We assume enough
separation of the adjacent layers, for which the orbital pair-breaking effect
is suppressed for exactly aligned parallel magnetic field. In particular, we
examine the temperature dependence of the critical field H_c(T) of the
superconductivity including the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO or LOFF)
state, in which the Cooper pairs have non-zero center-of-mass momentum q. In
the system with the cylindrically symmetric Fermi-surface, it is known that
H_c(T) of the d-wave FFLO state exhibits a kink at a low temperature due to a
change of the direction of q in contrast to observations in organic
superconductors. It is shown that the kink disappears when the Fermi-surface is
anisotropic to some extent, since the direction of q is locked in an optimum
direction independent of the temperature.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, revtex.sty, submitted to J.Phys.Soc.Jp
A Two-dimensional Superconductor in a Tilted Magnetic Field - new states with finite Cooper-pair momentum
Varying the angle Theta between applied field and the conducting planes of a
layered superconductor in a small interval close to the plane-parallel field
direction, a large number of superconducting states with unusual properties may
be produced. For these states, the pair breaking effect of the magnetic field
affects both the orbital and the spin degree of freedom. This leads to pair
wave functions with finite momentum, which are labeled by Landau quantum
numbers 0<n<\infty. The stable order parameter structure and magnetic field
distribution for these states is found by minimizing the quasiclassical free
energy near H_{c2} including nonlinear terms. One finds states with coexisting
line-like and point-like order parameter zeros and states with coexisting
vortices and antivortices. The magnetic response may be diamagnetic or
paramagnetic depending on the position within the unit cell. The structure of
the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) states at Theta=0 is reconsidered.
The transition n->\infty of the paramagnetic vortex states to the FFLO-limit is
analyzed and the physical reason for the occupation of higher Landau levels is
pointed out.Comment: 24 pages, 11 figure
Enhancement of the upper critical field and a field-induced superconductivity in antiferromagnetic conductors
We propose a mechanism by which the paramagnetic pair-breaking effect is
largely reduced in superconductors with coexisting antiferromagnetic long-
range and short-range orders. The mechanism is an extension of the Jaccarino
and Peter mechanism to antiferromagnetic conductors, but the resultant phase
diagram is quite different. In order to illustrate the mechanism, we examine a
model which consists of mobile electrons and antiferromagnetically correlated
localized spins with Kondo coupling between them. It is found that for weak
Kondo coupling, the superconductivity occurs over an extraordinarily wide
region of the magnetic field including zero field. The critical field exceeds
the Chandrasekhar and Clogston limit, but there is no lower limit in contrast
to the Jaccarino and Peter mechanism. On the other hand, for strong Kondo
coupling, both the low-field superconductivity and a field-induced
superconductivity occur. Possibilities in hybrid ruthenate cuprate
superconductors and some organic superconductors are discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, revtex.sty, to be published in J.Phys.Soc.Jpn.
Vol.71, No.3 (2002
Evolution of quantum criticality in the system CeNi9Ge4
The heavy fermion system CeNi9Ge4 exhibits a paramagnetic ground state with
remarkable features such as: a record value of the electronic specific heat
coefficient in systems with a paramagnetic ground state, \gamma = C/T \simeq
5.5 J/molK^2 at 80 mK, a temperature-dependent Sommerfeld-Wilson ratio,
R=\chi/\gamma, below 1 K and an approximate single ion scaling of the
4f-magnetic specific heat and susceptibility. These features are related to a
rather small Kondo energy scale of a few Kelvin in combination with a
quasi-quartet crystal field ground state. Tuning the system towards long range
magnetic order is accomplished by replacing a few at.% of Ni by Cu or Co.
Specific heat, susceptibility and resistivity studies reveal T_N \sim 0.2 K for
CeNi8CuGe4 and T_N \sim 1 K for CeNi8CoGe4. To gain insight whether the
transition from the paramagnetic NFL state to the magnetically ordered ground
state is connected with a heavy fermion quantum critical point we performed
specific heat and ac susceptibility studies and utilized the \mu SR technique
and quasi-elastic neutron scattering.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, will be published in J.Phys.: Conf. Series
(Proceedings of the International & Interdisciplinary Workshop on Novel
Phenomena in Intergrated Comples Sciences: From Living to Non-living Systems,
Japan, held in Kyoto, October 11-14, 2010
Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Priority Cultural Heritage Structures in the Philippines
At the end of 2013 two catastrophic events occurred in the Philippines: the M 7.2 earthquake
in Bohol and the strongest ever recorded Typhoon Haiyan, causing destruction across the islands of Cebu,
Bohol and the Visayas region. These events raised the need to carry out a multi-hazard risk assessment of
heritage buildings, many of which were irretrievably lost in the disasters. Philippinesâ Department of
Tourism engaged ARS Progetti S.P.A., Rome, Italy, and the Center for Conservation of Cultural Property
and Environment in the Tropics (CCCPET), University of Sto. Tomas, Manila, to undertake the
âAssessment of the Multi-Hazard Vulnerability of Priority Cultural Heritage Structures in the
Philippinesâ, with experts from University College London, UK, and De La Salle University.
The main objective of the project was to reduce the vulnerability of cultural heritage structures to multiple
natural hazards, including earthquake, typhoon, flood, by: (i) prioritizing of specific structures based on
hazard maps and historical records; (ii) assessing their vulnerability; and (iii) recommending options to
mitigate the impacts on them. The paper presents the methodology introduced to determine the seismic
risk these heritage buildings are exposed to. All the selected cultural heritage structures are under the
jurisdiction of the National Museum Commission of Philippines and of the National Commission for
Culture and Arts
Structure-guided design and optimization of small molecules targeting the protein-protein interaction between the von hippel-lindau (VHL) E3 ubiquitin ligase and the hypoxia inducible factor (HIF) alpha subunit with in vitro nanomolar affinities
E3 ubiquitin ligases are attractive targets in the ubiquitin-proteasome system, however, the development of small-molecule ligands has been rewarded with limited success. The von Hippel-Lindau protein (pVHL) is the substrate recognition subunit of the VHL E3 ligase that targets HIF-1α for degradation. We recently reported inhibitors of the pVHL:HIF-1α interaction, however they exhibited moderate potency. Herein, we report the design and optimization, guided by X-ray crystal structures, of a ligand series with nanomolar binding affinities
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