Authentic Youth and Young Adult Partnerships: Broadening the Narrative of LGBTQ Youth Homelessness

Lived experience generates knowledge not available through formal education and training. If lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and young adults (YYA) experiencing homelessness are to be effectively engaged, their needs met, and their successful transition out of homelessness facilitated, they must be partners in the creation of solutions meant to help them. That means that everyone working to address LGBTQ YYA homelessness – including policymakers, government officials, advocates, researchers, and service providers – need to understand how to partner authentically with YYA experiencing homelessness. This article will introduce a framework for authentic YYA partnerships, describe the philosophy and values underlying the True Colors Fund’s successful partnerships with YYA, and provide examples of how YYA partnerships have informed our work, and as a result the communities we work with. It will discuss how, through the organization’s partnerships with YYA, we have recognized the importance of (1) broadening the narrative about LGBTQ youth homelessness to include the various intersecting reasons LGBTQ youth become homeless and (2) moving beyond a single paradigm of risk/victimization to include resilience and possibility

Urban Land Markets as Spatial Justice

A common view is that urban land markets subtract from, or subvert, spatial justice in cities, with spatial justice thus a definable outcome of market functions. This article explores urban land markets as spatial justice, which is multi-dimensional and subjective and integral to the functioning of markets. Seen from this perspective, urban land markets present a very particular way in which the ‚happening‘ of spatial justice unfolds. Thinking of urban land markets in this way offers considerable value to being able to grasp the ways in which they both configure and constitute spatial justice, and thus broadens our understanding of their emancipatory or conservative potential in urban development. While a distributional understanding of justice represents a fundamental tenet of much progressive thinking, in which the fairness of outcome is seen as fundamentally more important than that of the process, we argue that there is considerable benefit in viewing spatial justice as a process of the struggle to lay claim to place or space. Viewed this way, urban land markets represent a key context within which that struggle occurs, but interventions designed to improve spatial justice must focus on the social relations that inform that struggle as much or more than on land markets themselves

Structure and reconfiguration of epitaxial GeTe/Sb2Te3 superlattices

De materialen bestaande uit gemengde GeTe/Sb2Te3 legeringen vertonen opmerkelijk omschakelbare opto-elektronische eigenschappen tussen hun amorfe en kristallijne fasen. Om die reden zijn ze met succes geïmplementeerd in herschrijfbare optische DVD en Blu-Ray schijven en worden ze momenteel intensief onderzocht voor toekomstige geheugen- en fotonische toepassingen. Recentelijk werd aangetoond dat nanostructurering van deze legeringen door GeTe en Sb2Te3 in de vorm van superroosters te laten groeien de prestaties van de resulterende phase-change geheugens aanzienlijk verbetert. Ondanks deze vooruitgang waren de oorsprong van de verbetering en het gedetailleerde schakelmechanisme nog niet begrepen. Vandaar dat de focus van dit proefschrift ligt op de groei en karakterisatie van dergelijke superroosters. Met behulp van voornamelijk transmissie-elektronenmicroscopie is de gedetailleerde kristalstructuur van dergelijke multilagen geanalyseerd en uitgelegd in termen van de elektronische binding van de legeringen. Verschillende schakelmechanismen van superrooster phase-change geheugens in de literatuur werden besproken en het werd aangetoond dat ze inconsistent waren met de feitelijke structuur van de lagen. Bovendien werd aangetoond dat GeTe/Sb2Te3 superroosters een interessant platform kunnen zijn om gemengde GeTe/Sb2Te3 legeringen te bestuderen door in detail de thermische reconfiguratie ervan in kaart te brengen. In de laatste delen van het proefschrift wordt de groei van dunne lagen besproken met speciale aandacht voor de substraat-film interface. Over het algemeen werpen de resultaten licht op de structuur en het schakelmechanisme van GeTe/Sb2Te3 superrooster phase-change geheugens en illustreren paden voor de groei van vergelijkbare materialen voor ferro-elektrische, spintronische en thermo-elektrische toepassingen.The materials based on mixed GeTe/Sb2Te3 alloys show remarkable switchable opto-electronic properties between their amorphous and crystalline phases. They are therefore successfully implemented in rewritable optical DVD and Blu-Ray disks and are currently under intense investigation for future memory and photonic applications. Recently, it was shown that nanostructuring these alloys by growing GeTe and Sb2Te3 in the form of superlattices considerably improves the performance of the resulting phase-change memories. Despite this significant advance the origin of the improvement and the detailed switching mechanism were not clearly understood. Hence, the focus of this thesis is on the growth and characterization of such superlattices. Using particularly transmission electron microscopy the detailed crystal structure of such multilayers has been analyzed and explained in terms of the bonding nature of the alloys. Several switching mechanisms of superlattice phase-change memory in the literature were debated and shown that they were inconsistent with the actual structure of the films. In addition, it was shown that GeTe/Sb2Te3 superlattices can be an interesting platform to study mixed GeTe/Sb2Te3 alloys by illustrating in detail its thermal reconfiguration. In the final parts of the thesis the thin film growth is discussed with particular focus on engineering the substrate-film interface. In general, the results shed light on the structure and switching mechanism of GeTe/Sb2Te3 superlattice phase-change memories and pave way for growth of similar materials for ferroelectric, spintronic and thermoelectric applications

Meningkatkan Kompetensi Guru Melalui Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Mind Mapping dalam Pembelajaran Berbasis Metode Peer Teaching pada Guru Sekolah Dasar

Penelitian Tindakan Sekolah (PTS) ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan Kompetensi Guru Menerapkan Model Pembelajaran Mind Mapping dalam Mengajar Guru UPT SD Negeri 210 Minna Kecamatan Tana Lili Kabupaten Luwu Utara. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode Penelitian Tindakan Sekolah (PTS). Subjek penelitian yaitu guru UPT SD Negeri 210 Minna Kecamatan Tana Lili Kabupaten Luwu Utara.dengan jumlah guru seba-nyak 13 (tiga belas) orang. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah teknik observasi, wawancara. Penelitian ini dilakukan 2 siklus yaitu siklus pertama dilakukan metode Bimbingan dan pelatihan metode feer teaching dapat meningkatkan kompetensi guru dalam proses mengajar. Guru menunjukkan keseriusan dalam memahami dan melakukan peer teaching dengan bimbingan dan pelatihan dari peneliti. Informasi ini peneliti peroleh dari hasil pengamatan pada saat bimbingan dan latihan metode feer teaching meningkatkan kompetensi guru menerapkan  model mind mapping dalam pembelajaran. Kesimpulan akhir dari penelitian ini adalah dengan Bimbingan dan pelatihan metode feer teaching dapat meningkatkan kompetensi guru dalam proses mengajar.  Hal itu dapat dibuktikan dari hasil observasi/pengamatan yang memperlihatkan bahwa terjadi peningkatan kompetensi guru dari siklus ke siklus .yaitu terjadi peningkatan sebesar19,81% dari siklus pertama  kesiklus kedua

Using Mixed Methods to Identify Delirium Bundle Care in the Intensive Care Unit

Delirium is a serious complication experienced by patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Over the past 15 years, researchers have identified risk factors, assessment techniques, pharmacological, and nonpharmacological interventions. Despite the current literature, there is a gap regarding delirium bundle care provided by an interprofessional team. This dissertation, a compendium of three manuscripts, delineates delirium bundle care by the interprofessional team in the ICU. The first manuscript details Rodgers’ Evolutionary Concept Analysis to identify attributes, antecedents, consequences, surrogate concepts, and related terms of bundled delirium care in the ICU. The second manuscript utilized the Social Ecological Model to identify factors that prevent or facilitate delirium bundle care in the ICU based on behavioral determinants and environmental factors. The third manuscript details a convergent parallel mixed-­‐method study guided by Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to explore clinical perceptions, roles, and practices of the surgical ICU interprofessional team regarding delirium bundle implementation. Findings from the first study used Rodgers’ Evolutionary View of Concept Analysis to identify attributes, antecedents, and consequences of delirium bundle care. Results from the second manuscript identify the facilitators and barriers based on the Social Ecological Model for implementing the ABCDEF bundle and PAD guidelines for managing delirium in the ICU. The findings from the convergent parallel mixed-­‐method study identified factors associated with domains from the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research. Results from this study showed that structural and cultural elements of an ICU need to be considered when exploring how the interprofessional team of nurses, physicians, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and physical therapists implements the ABCDEF bundle. The findings of the three manuscripts are integrated in the conclusion of this dissertation