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Hated on Both Sides of the Aisle: Overcoming the Tension between Christian Foundation and Present-day Social Advocacy
Heeding the imperative of recent social movements calling for racial justice, university educators are faced with the challenge of developing curriculum that eliminates cultural stereotypes and mobilizes students toward social action. There is an imperative (Smith, 2015) to increase Anti-Racist Pedagogy (ARP) (Ladson- Billings, 2005) and refine Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) (Gay, 2000) in our education systems, leaving university faculty and administration with the daunting task of designing curriculum that reflects both an understanding of and respect for all students’ identities. The author shares how she blends the social justice research she conducts, the education courses she teaches, and her Christian faith in order to forego her passive nature for the greater urgency of eradicating prejudices that are rampant in our society. How she has done this has not been easy, but the results have exceeded expectations
Protecting Patient Privacy: Strategies for Regulating Electronic Health Records Exchange
The report offers policymakers 10 recommendations to protect patient privacy as New York state develops a centralized system for sharing electronic medical records. Those recommendations include:Require that the electronic systems employed by HIEs have the capability to sort and segregate medical information in order to comply with guaranteed privacy protections of New York and federal law. Presently, they do not.Offer patients the right to opt-out of the system altogether. Currently, people's records can be uploaded to the system without their consent.Require that patient consent forms offer clear information-sharing options. The forms should give patients three options: to opt-in and allow providers access to their electronic medical records, to opt-out except in the event of a medical emergency, or to opt-out altogether.Prohibit and sanction the misuse of medical information. New York must protect patients from potential bad actors--that small minority of providers who may abuse information out of fear, prejudice or malice.Prohibit the health information-sharing networks from selling data. The State Legislature should pass legislation prohibiting the networks from selling patients' private health information
Landau theory of compressible magnets near a quantum critical point
Landau theory is used to investigate the behaviour of a metallic magnet
driven towards a quantum critical point by the application of pressure. The
observed dependence of the transition temperature with pressure is used to show
that the coupling of the magnetic order to the lattice diverges as the quantum
critical point is approached. This means that a first order transition will
occur in magnets (both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets) because of the
coupling to the lattice. The Landau equations are solved numerically without
further approximations. There are other mechanisms that can cause a first order
transition so the significance of this work is that it will enable us to
determine the extent to which any particular first order transition is driven
by coupling to the lattice or if other causes are responsible.Comment: 12 pages including 5 figures, to be presented at MMM-Intermag
conference and accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Physic
ESTUARINE CHEMICAL REACTIVITY AT THE PARTICLE-WATER INTERFACE
Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/1768 on 14.02.2017 by CS (TIS)A systematic study of the microstructures of particulate
material from the Tamar Estuary using a BET nitrogen adsorption
technique has been carried out. The results showed that suspended
material had a higher BET surface area (approximately 20m² / g )
than the associated sediments (approximately 13m² / g) . Also the
BET surface areas (8-20m² / g) of suspended material collected
during axial transects (S = 0-30°/oo) of the Tamar Estuary indicated
relatively higher BET surface areas in the turbidity maximum zone as
compared to material from up or down estuary. The BET surface areas
were inversely related to the carbon content of the particles and
although the role of Fe and Mn coatings was examined no definitive
relationship to BET surface area was evident. Analysis of nitrogen
adsorption-desorption hysteresis loops indicated the pores to be of
the parallel plate or slit type in the size range <2-50 nm. The shape
and dimensions of these pores would accomodate the penetration of
metal ions, like Zn and Cu, into the pore spaces in the particle
matrix.
A method was designed to enable the analysis of natural Zn
and Cu concentrations in small volumes extracted from a reactor on a
timescale suitable for kinetic analysis. Dissolved Cu and Zn
adsorption-desorption experiments were carried out under controlled
conditions using Tamar suspended solids as the adsorbents. The uptake
and release profiles were interpreted in terms of a two stage reaction
mechanism which involved both surface adsorption and solid state
diffusion into the pores. Rate constants were derived from a kinetic
analysis to enable evaluation of the chemical timescales of the
sorption reactions. When compared to field data of Zn distributions
in the Tamar Estuary the time constants allowed a reasoned explanation
of the observations. They also pointed to a strong coupling between
the physical and chemical timescales within estuaries.
This work has indicated an association between trace metal
sorption reaction rates and estuarine particle microstructure. These
rate constants are of value in the refinement of hydrodynamic models
and this study has implications for the availability of trace metals
for biological or chemical remobilisation.Institute for Marine
Environmental Research,
Prospect Place, The Hoe
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Plant strategies, dispersal and origins of flora at the northern Coral Sea Islands Territory, Australia
A checklist of vascular plants of Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve (CHNNR) (17º 11’S, 149º 00’ E to 16º 23’S, 150º 30’E and Willis Island (16º 24’S, 149º 58’E) at the northern Coral Sea Islands Territory of Australia compiled during 2006/07 surveys, recorded 30 species including 18 species indigenous to the Coral Sea Islands (60%), 10 exotic species (33%) and two that were planted (7%). Plant life-forms included: 5 species of trees and tall shrubs (17%), 2 species of low shrubs (6.5%), 21 herbs (70%), and 2 vine/creepers (6.5%). Plant dispersal for the 30 species is predominantly by human activities (40%), ocean currents (33%) and seabirds (27%). The garden species and dispersal modes at Willis Island indicate that non-residential casual human visitation at CHNNR has at present had little effect on establishment of exotic weeds. Resilience of leverage flora, floristic diversity and species origins of CHNNR are discussed in relation to its connectivity with the Melanesian region due to the South Equatorial Current operating in the region. Colubrina asiatica was recorded as a new record for oceanic islands in Australian territories. Previously recorded Ximenia americana and Digitaria ctenantha are considered locally extinct. Pattern analyses indicate that cays of similar size and vegetation structure are the most similar in floristic composition. Willis Island flora is relatively dissimilar to the CHNNR cays, due to the influence of anthropogenic activities associated with a staffed weather station
A Framework for Firm-Level Critical Material Supply Management and Mitigation
Organizations of all sizes are vulnerable to critical material supply disruptions. Although there is a significant body of literature that examines how large entities such as nations and governments can assess and mitigate criticality, there is very little work that addresses firm-level criticality in a way that is actionable for businesses. This work uses literature review and case study analysis to understand the impact of critical material supply risk at the firm level, and to determine salient internal indicators. A total of 42 criticality studies were reviewed and the findings were used to develop a framework to assess and monitor criticality risk using internal firm-specific data. The framework incorporates three categories of risk including product concept viability, production, and profitability. It also contains four key business functions including finance, procurement, marketing, and production. These aspects were chosen because they are relevant to all businesses that produce and sell manufactured goods, and because they represent dynamics that are within the control of an individual firm. Unlike the global and national level indicators emphasized in most current research, the indicators proposed in this research are derived from data such that firms can compile it with reasonable ease. Finally, this work considers the role of the organization in criticality risk assessment and mitigation through an examination of the data needed to complete the aforementioned framework and the likely sources of that information. The findings of this analysis elucidate the gap between internal and external and micro and macro criticality assessment, as well as provide a framework for firm-level criticality mitigation
Theory of magnetism with temporal disorder applied to magnetically doped ZnO
A dynamic model of the asymmetric Ising glass is presented: an Ising model
with antiferromagnet bonds with probabilities q arranged at random in a
ferromagnetic matrix. The dynamics is introduced by changing the arrangement of
the antiferromagnetic bonds after n Monte Carlo steps but keeping the same
value of q and spin configuration. In the region where there is a second order
transition between the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic states the dynamic
behaviour follows that expected for motional narrowing and reverts to the
static behaviour only for large n. There is a different dynamic behaviour where
there is a first order transition between the ferromagnetic and spin glass
states where it shows no effects of motional narrowing. The implications of
this are discussed. This model is devised to explain the properties of doped
ZnO where the magnetisation is reduced when the exchange interactions change
with time.Comment: Paper was presented at MMM 2008 and is accepted for publication in
J.A.
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