Child Sexual Abuse in Asian American Families: An Examination of Cultural Factors That Influence Prevalence, Identification, and Treatment

Child sexual abuse affects thousands of families each year. Issues pertaining to the prevalence, identification, and treatment of sexual abuse have been relatively well explored in the literature as they pertain to the dominant European American culture. These issues, however, are still relatively unexplored in terms of how sexual abuse affects Asian American families and the Asian American community. We review the relevant literature in Asian American families. These matters are explored in the context of Asian American values such as collectivity, conformity, inconspicuousness, middle position virtue, shame, self-control, and fatalism. Attitudes toward family, sexuality, and the mental health system are also discussed. Cultural and institutional barriers to underutilizing mental health services are also explored, and suggestions for overcoming these barriers are offered

A Response to a New Book about Maxine Greene’s Philosophy

Maxine Greene’s work comes to vibrant life in a new book written by John Baldacchino. The book is entitled Education Beyond Education: Self and the Imaginary in Maxine Greene’s Philosophy (Lang, 2008). Baldacchino is a professor of Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is both a practitioner of fine art and an insightful philosophical critic of art and its relation to education. His career-long commitment to thinking with care about these matters nicely positioned him to undertake an inquiry into the offering to our fellow human beings that Greene has been putting forth for several decades

Los profesores y la vida cívica de las escuelas

Teachers can influence their students¿ moral and civic learning in two broad ways. The first is through deliberate, planned activities. These include organizing school-wide assemblies on the importance of voting, escorting students to visit political institutions, and sponsoring debates in the classroom on historical or current political issues. However, such activities are intermittent and discrete. They stand out and apart from the everyday business of teaching and learning in schools and classrooms. This daily business gives rise to the second way in which teachers can influence their students¿ moral and civic learning. Teachers can do so through what scholars have called their everyday manner, style, or tact of teaching. Each of these concepts describes a kind of teacher influence that is continous, ongoing, indirect, and often nonselfconscious and unplanned. The concepts spotlight the importance of the spirit in which the teacher works. That spirit can be more important, with respect to moral and civic learning, than curricular and instructional approaches considered by themselves. In this article, I examine the spirit of teaching and its importance for civic education by constructing composite images of two different classrooms. The two teachers I describe share a strong knowledge base in their discipline and are dedicated to their work. However, the spirit in which they teach differs markedly. As a result, while their students end the academic year performing comparably on their subject matter examinations, the students take away quite different moral and civic lessons from their classroom experience. I conclude the discussion by reminding teachers of the value of pondering their manner, style, and tact. I also urge schools to provide teachers systematic opportunities to discuss together the moral and civic dimensions of their everyday work

A Spectral Method for Elliptic Equations: The Neumann Problem

Let $\Omega$ be an open, simply connected, and bounded region in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, $d\geq2$, and assume its boundary $\partial\Omega$ is smooth. Consider solving an elliptic partial differential equation $-\Delta u+\gamma u=f$ over $\Omega$ with a Neumann boundary condition. The problem is converted to an equivalent elliptic problem over the unit ball $B$, and then a spectral Galerkin method is used to create a convergent sequence of multivariate polynomials $u_{n}$ of degree $\leq n$ that is convergent to $u$. The transformation from $\Omega$ to $B$ requires a special analytical calculation for its implementation. With sufficiently smooth problem parameters, the method is shown to be rapidly convergent. For $u\in C^{\infty}(\overline{\Omega})$ and assuming $\partial\Omega$ is a $C^{\infty}$ boundary, the convergence of $\Vert u-u_{n}\Vert_{H^{1}}$ to zero is faster than any power of $1/n$. Numerical examples in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ and $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ show experimentally an exponential rate of convergence.Comment: 23 pages, 11 figure

Mouse Emi2 is required to enter meiosis II by reestablishing cyclin B1 during interkinesis

During interkinesis, a metaphase II (MetII) spindle is built immediately after the completion of meiosis I. Oocytes then remain MetII arrested until fertilization. In mouse, we find that early mitotic inhibitor 2 (Emi2), which is an anaphase-promoting complex inhibitor, is involved in both the establishment and the maintenance of MetII arrest. In MetII oocytes, Emi2 needs to be degraded for oocytes to exit meiosis, and such degradation, as visualized by fluorescent protein tagging, occurred tens of minutes ahead of cyclin B1

Telemental Health in Today\u27s Rural Health System

Telemental health has long been promoted in rural areas to address chronic access barriers to mental health care. While support and enthusiasm for telemental health in rural areas remains quite high, we lack a clear picture of the reality of telemental health in rural areas, compared to its promise. This Research & Policy Brief reports on the first part of our study—the online survey of 53 telemental health programs—and describes the organizational setting, services provided, and the staff mix of these programs. We draw from our telephone interviews with 23 of these programs to help describe the organizational context of telemental health programs

Energy-Dependent π^{+}π^{+}π^{+} Scattering Amplitude from QCD.

Focusing on three-pion states with maximal isospin ($\pi^+\pi^+\pi^+$), we present the first non-perturbative determination of an energy-dependent three-hadron scattering amplitude from first-principles QCD. The calculation combines finite-volume three-hadron energies, extracted using numerical lattice QCD, with a relativistic finite-volume formalism, required to interpret the results. To fully implement the latter, we also solve integral equations that relate an intermediate three-body K matrix to the physical three-hadron scattering amplitude. The resulting amplitude shows rich analytic structures and a complicated dependence on the two-pion invariant masses, represented here via Dalitz-like plots of the scattering rate

The Conservation Reserve Program: Economic Implications for Rural America

This report estimates the impact that high levels of enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) have had on economic trends in rural counties since the program's inception in 1985 until today. The results of a growth model and quasi-experimental control group analysis indicate no discernible impact by the CRP on aggregate county population trends. Aggregate employment growth may have slowed in some high-CRP counties, but only temporarily. High levels of CRP enrollment appear to have affected farm-related businesses over the long run, but growth in the number of other nonfarm businesses moderated CRP's impact on total employment. If CRP contracts had ended in 2001, simulation models suggest that roughly 51 percent of CRP land would have returned to crop production, and that spending on outdoor recreation would decrease by as much as $300 million per year in rural areas. The resulting impacts on employment and income vary widely among regions having similar CRP enrollments, depending upon local economic conditions.Community/Rural/Urban Development, Land Economics/Use,