Homelessnewss, Women and Mental Health: Service Provider Perspectives

Aims: People who are homeless disproportionally experience mental health problems compared to the general population, however struggle to get the support they need. There is growing recognition of the gendered nature of homelessness and the need for more research exploring women’s experiences. This study sought to explore what helps and hinders women experiencing homelessness when accessing NHS mental health services, and how COVID-19 has impacted service access. Method: Fifteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with employees working with women in third sector organisations offering a diverse range of services to women experiencing homelessness. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using Thematic Analysis to identify common barriers and facilitators to mental health service access. Findings: Four themes were identified: 1. Double Impact of Gendered Abuse and Trauma, which outlines how gendered trauma can increase the risk of mental health problems but also reduce the likelihood women seek mental health support. 2. NHS Mental Health Services seen as Stretched Gatekeepers relates to the NHS being under-resourced, with complex and exclusionary referral pathways and support only available in a crisis. 3. Generic Mental Health Services are Unforgiving and Retraumatising outlines how services can be inflexible and punitive, lack awareness of gendered trauma and be discriminatory and coercive. 4. Ambivalent Interface between Third Sector and NHS Mental Health Services indicates how service providers offer significant mental health support to women but can feel unsupported by NHS mental health services in doing so. This theme outlines the value of specialist homelessness mental health services. Conclusion: Mental health services are difficult to access for women experiencing homelessness. Women experience gendered barriers to mental healthcare which services need to consider. Specialist homelessness mental health services can facilitate access to mental healthcare by focusing on outreach, offering more flexible services, and building longer-term trusting relationships with women

NASA scientific and technical information program multimedia initiative

This paper relates the experiences of the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program in introducing multimedia within the STI Program framework. A discussion of multimedia technology is included to provide context for the STI Program effort. The STI Program's Multimedia Initiative is discussed in detail. Parallels and differences between multimedia and traditional information systems project development are highlighted. Challenges faced by the program in initiating its multimedia project are summarized along with lessons learned. The paper concludes with a synopsis of the benefits the program hopes to provide its users through the introduction of multimedia illustrated by examples of successful multimedia projects

Grover's search with faults on some marked elements

Grover's algorithm is a quantum query algorithm solving the unstructured search problem of size $N$ using $O(\sqrt{N})$ queries. It provides a significant speed-up over any classical algorithm \cite{Gro96}. The running time of the algorithm, however, is very sensitive to errors in queries. It is known that if query may fail (report all marked elements as unmarked) the algorithm needs $\Omega(N)$ queries to find a marked element \cite{RS08}. \cite{AB+13} have proved the same result for the model where each marked element has its own probability to be reported as unmarked. We study the behavior of Grover's algorithm in the model where the search space contains both faulty and non-faulty marked elements. We show that in this setting it is indeed possible to find one of non-faulty marked items in $O(\sqrt{N})$ queries. We also analyze the limiting behavior of the algorithm for a large number of steps and show the existence and the structure of limiting state $\rho_{lim}$.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figure

Summary of investigations of light scattering in highly reflecting pigmented coatings

Light scattering in highly reflecting pigmented coatings - silver bromide and particle suspensions and paint film

The Small-Is-Very-Small Principle

The central result of this paper is the small-is-very-small principle for restricted sequential theories. The principle says roughly that whenever the given theory shows that a property has a small witness, i.e. a witness in every definable cut, then it shows that the property has a very small witness: i.e. a witness below a given standard number. We draw various consequences from the central result. For example (in rough formulations): (i) Every restricted, recursively enumerable sequential theory has a finitely axiomatized extension that is conservative w.r.t. formulas of complexity $\leq n$. (ii) Every sequential model has, for any $n$, an extension that is elementary for formulas of complexity $\leq n$, in which the intersection of all definable cuts is the natural numbers. (iii) We have reflection for $\Sigma^0_2$-sentences with sufficiently small witness in any consistent restricted theory $U$. (iv) Suppose $U$ is recursively enumerable and sequential. Suppose further that every recursively enumerable and sequential $V$ that locally inteprets $U$, globally interprets $U$. Then, $U$ is mutually globally interpretable with a finitely axiomatized sequential theory. The paper contains some careful groundwork developing partial satisfaction predicates in sequential theories for the complexity measure depth of quantifier alternations

Enfield Citizens’ Advice Bureau - clients profile & needs gap analysis

This research report maps the characteristics of Enfield Citizens Advice Bureau’s clients and explores their needs and the impact of CAB services on their lives. The report also identifies challenges and opportunities faced by the organisation and, more generally, by local third sector service providers in the changing funding and policy environment

Anisotropic creep in a glass-fibre laminate

A glass fibre epoxy resin laminate was prepared from a flexible thermosetting resin and a 'plain weave' glass cloth. Experiments in simple tensile creep were carried out on strips cut with their long dimensions at various angles to the warp threads in the glass cloth. It was found that each of these strips showed, over the limited range of loads and times covered, essentially linear creep behaviour. The creep compliance varied systematically with direction being as much as twenty times smaller in the warp and weft directions as at 45° to these directions. It was found that the shape of the creep compliance versus orientation curves was similar for all times and the behaviour can therefore conveniently be described by two curves, a master curve of reduced creep compliance as a function of direction and a curve of reduction factor versus time. The significance of both these curves is discussed in terms of an extension of linear viscoelasticity theory to the case of antisotropic materials. It is shown that the variation of creep compliance with direction is similar in form to the variation of elastic compliance with direction in orthorhombic anisotropic elastic materials and also that the results are consistent with a similar variation of relaxation time spectrum with direction

Non-newtonian flow in incompressible fluids. Part 3: some problems in transient flow

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Non-Newtonian flow in incompressible fluids: part 1: a general rheological equation of state: part 2: some problems in steady flow

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