Homophobic slurs and public apologies: the discursive struggle over fag/maricón in public discourse

A handful of recent incidents hints at an ideological struggle over the use of the English word fag(got) and the Spanish word maricón in public discourse. This article examines the discursive and ideological struggle over the terms through the comparison of two cases in which Spanish/English bilingual Latinos in the U. S. use what might be considered homophobic slurs in public discourse in two distinct contexts — an informal, off-record sports-related press conference and a radio talk show political interview. The three main aims of the article are to examine and compare the content and context of the two public apologies, to examine the discursive and ideological struggle over the appropriateness of fag/maricón in public discourse through the evaluation of their use, and to contextualize the two case studies within the research on the construction of homophobia in discourse

Development And Validation Of The Brain Fag Propensity Scale

Brain Fag Syndrome (BFS) is a psychiatric disorder associated with study among African students. Among secondary school students, it affects two to four out of every ten students. One of the consequences of this illness is early foreclosure of education in affected students. However, clinical experience suggests that many students have sub-threshold symptoms of brain fag and are at risk for developing brain fag syndrome. This study aimed to develop a valid and reliable psychometric instrument that measures brain fag syndrome propensity

Smidig epistemologi

Praktiske fag kan somme tider framstå som ein pariakaste ved universiteta. Vitskapsideala som er utvikla over fleire hundre år inneber at det er like viktig å vita korleis me kan vita, som faktisk å vita. Kunnskap skal vera objektiv og etterprøvbar og helst kontekstfri. Praktiske fag vert dregne i eit dilemma mellom vitskaplege ideal og praktisk relevans. Mange profesjonsfag har etter kvart ein rik litteratur om dette problemet, der ein utviklar epistemologiar som er likeverdige med dei konvensjonelle vitskapane, men som tek omsyn til skilnaden mellom fag som skildrar verda og fag som endrar verda. Dette har i liten grad vore drøfta innanfor programutvikling, og her skal me sjå på korleis eksisterande metode og epistemologi frå design kan vera relevant for programutvikling generelt og smidige metodar spesielt. Vidare skal me drøfta korleis denne innsikta er relevant for undervising og vurdering

Sharing the cost of risky projects

Users share the cost of unreliable non-rival projects (items). For instance, industry partners pay today for R&D that may or may not deliver a cure to some viruses, agents pay for the edges of a network that will cover their connectivity needs, but the edges may fail, etc. Each user has a binary inelastic need that is served if and only if certain subsets of items are actually functioning. We ask how should the cost be divided when individual needs are heterogenous. We impose three powerful separability properties: Independence of Timing ensures that the cost shares computed ex ante are the expectation, over the random realization of the projects, of shares computed ex post. Cost Additivity together with Separability Across Projects ensure that the cost shares of an item depend only upon the service provided by that item for a given realization of all other items. Combining these with fair bounds on the liability of agents with more or less flexible needs, and of agents for whom an item is either indispensable or useless, we characterize two rules: the Ex Post Service rule is the expectation of the equal division of costs between the agents who end up served; the Needs Priority rule splits the cost first between those agents for whom an item is critical ex post, or if there are no such agents between those who end up being served