The Most Eloquent Dissents: Writ Writing at Parchman Penitentiary

This thesis evaluates the long history of self-advocacy on the part of incarcerated men at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Pro se prisoners at Parchman take to the courts to improve their conditions of confinement, defend their constitutional rights, and secure their freedom. Writ writers at the prison face pervasive obstacles and restrictions in their efforts to help themselves and their fellow prisoners, but they persist nonetheless

Perancangan Web Service REST API Menggunakan PHP dan Framework Laravel di Tenta Tour Salatiga

Growth in Indonesia’s tourism is increasing rapidly with over hundred thousands of yearly visitors. Travel agencies like Tenta tour provides travel and tourism planning services for customers, offering easy process and packages suited for any needs. Conventional methods used for planning tour plans are deemed inefficient and ineffective. To solve problems commonly found, a web service is designed to provide data transfer and management. System is developed with prototyping model until requirements are met, followed by system testing to ensure stable and fast performance. The research produced an integrated system by utilizing REST API web service and offer interoperability across systems. The system provides information on available travel packages and offers reservation and customization features. Results from performance testing shows the capabilities of implemented web service design in managing requests and responses. The system provides responsive and easy data transfer and management.Pertumbuhan pariwisata Indonesia meningkat pesat dengan lebih dari ratusan ribu pengunjung tahunan. Agen perjalanan seperti Tenta tour menyediakan layanan perencanaan perjalanan dan wisata untuk pelanggan, menawarkan proses yang mudah dan paket yang sesuai dengan kebutuhan. Metode konvensional yang digunakan untuk merencanakan perjalanan wisata dinilai kurang efisien dan efektif. Untuk mengatasi masalah yang ditemukan, sebuah web service dirancang untuk menyediakan transfer dan pengelolaan data. Sistem dikembangkan dengan model prototyping hingga kebutuhan terpenuhi, diikuti dengan pengujian sistem untuk memastikan kinerja yang stabil dan cepat. Penelitian ini menghasilkan sebuah sistem yang terintegrasi dengan memanfaatkan layanan web REST API dan menawarkan interoperabilitas antar sistem. Sistem menyediakan informasi tentang paket perjalanan yang tersedia dan menawarkan fitur reservasi dan kustomisasi. Hasil dari pengujian kinerja menunjukkan kemampuan web service yang diimplementasikan dalam mengelola request dan response. Sistem menyediakan transfer dan manajemen data yang responsif dan mudah

Defining and measuring displacement: is relocation from restructured neighbourhoods always unwelcome and disruptive?

Current regeneration policy has been described as ‘state-led gentrification’, with comparisons made with the ‘social disruption’ caused by slum clearance of the 1950s and 1960s. This article takes issue with this approach in relation to the study of the restructuring of social housing areas. The terms ‘forced relocation’ and ‘displacement’ are often too crude to describe what actually happens within processes of restructuring and the effects upon residents. Displacement in particular has important dimensions other than the physical one of moving. Evidence from a recent study of people who have moved out of restructured areas shows that although there is some evidence of physical displacement, there is little evidence of social or psychosocial displacement after relocation. Prior attitudes to moving and aspects of the process of relocation—the degree of choice and distance involved—are important moderators of the outcomes. Issues of time and context are insufficiently taken into consideration in studies and accounts of restructuring, relocation and displacement

Notorious places: image, reputation, stigma: the role of newspapers in area reputations for social housing estates

This paper reviews work in several disciplines to distinguish between image, reputation and stigma. It also shows that there has been little research on the process by which area reputations are established and sustained through transmission processes. This paper reports on research into the portrayal of two social housing estates in the printed media over an extended period of time (14 years). It was found that negative and mixed coverage of the estates dominated, with the amount of positive coverage being very small. By examining the way in which dominant themes were used by newspapers in respect of each estate, questions are raised about the mode of operation of the press and the communities' collective right to challenge this. By identifying the way regeneration stories are covered and the nature of the content of positive stories, lessons are drawn for programmes of area transformation. The need for social regeneration activities is identified as an important ingredient for changing deprived-area reputations

Dopamine affects short-term memory corruption over time in Parkinson’s disease

Cognitive deficits are a recognised component of Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, particularly within the domain of short-term memory, it is unclear whether these impairments are masked, or caused, by patients’ dopaminergic medication. The effect of medication on pure maintenance in PD patients has rarely been explored, with most assessments examining maintenance intercalated between other executive tasks. Moreover, few studies have utilised methods that can measure the quality of mental representations, which can enable the decomposition of recall errors into their underlying neurocognitive components. Here, we fill this gap by examining pure maintenance in PD patients in high and low dopaminergic states. Participants had to encode the orientation of two stimuli and reproduce these orientations after a short (2 s) or long (8 s) delay. In addition, we also examined the performance of healthy, age-matched older adults to contextualise these effects and determine whether PD represents an exacerbation of the normal ageing process. Patients showed improved recall OFF compared to ON their dopaminergic medication, but only for long-duration trials. Moreover, PD patients OFF their medication actually performed at a level superior to age-matched controls, indicative of a paradoxical enhancement of memory in the low dopaminergic state. The application of a probabilistic model of response selection suggested that PD patients made fewer misbinding errors in the low, compared with high, dopaminergic state for longer-delay trials. Thus, unexpectedly, the mechanisms that prevent memoranda from being corrupted by misbinding over time appear to be enhanced in PD patients OFF dopaminergic medication. Possible explanations for this paradoxical effect are discussed

Changing contexts and critical moments: interim outcomes for children and young people living through involuntary relocation

The aim of this article is to understand how involuntary relocation – in the context of transformational regeneration – affects children and young people’s (CYP) interim outcomes through its impacts on residential contexts, and its intersections with their transitions and critical moments. Findings are based on a longitudinal qualitative study of 13 families’ (comprising 32 CYP) lives as they relocated from high rise flats to different housing and neighbourhoods over three years. Relocation altered two key contexts directly, home and neighbourhood, and may have indirectly altered the other contexts – peers, school and family. However, we found there were as many non-relocation related factors as relocation factors associated with outcomes, and a number of significant critical moments affecting CYP’s lives. Whilst relocation can seem the ‘big thing’ from the point of view of practitioners and researchers, from the perspective of CYP, it can seem a small part of the much bigger picture of change in their lives

Protocol for a mixed methods study investigating the impact of investment in housing, regeneration and neighbourhood renewal on the health and wellbeing of residents: the GoWell programme

Background: There is little robust evidence to test the policy assumption that housing-led area regeneration strategies will contribute to health improvement and reduce social inequalities in health. The GoWell Programme has been designed to measure effects on health and wellbeing of multi-faceted regeneration interventions on residents of disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Methods/Design: This mixed methods study focused (initially) on 14 disadvantaged neighbourhoods experiencing regeneration. These were grouped by intervention into 5 categories for comparison. GoWell includes a pre-intervention householder survey (n = 6008) and three follow-up repeat-cross sectional surveys held at two or three year intervals (the main focus of this protocol) conducted alongside a nested longitudinal study of residents from 6 of those areas. Self-reported responses from face-to-face questionnaires are analysed along with various routinely produced ecological data and documentary sources to build a picture of the changes taking place, their cost and impacts on residents and communities. Qualitative methods include interviews and focus groups of residents, housing managers and other stakeholders exploring issues such as the neighbourhood context, potential pathways from regeneration to health, community engagement and empowerment. Discussion: Urban regeneration programmes are 'natural experiments.' They are complex interventions that may impact upon social determinants of population health and wellbeing. Measuring the effects of such interventions is notoriously challenging. GoWell compares the health and wellbeing effects of different approaches to regeneration, generates theory on pathways from regeneration to health and explores the attitudes and responses of residents and other stakeholders to neighbourhood change

Alien Registration- Gowell, Isabell (Hallowell, Kennebec County)

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