All Names Are Not Equal: Choice of Marital Surname and Equal Protection

Part I of this Note recounts the history of women‘s lack of autonomy in marriage, the history of marital name-change, and the establishment of intermediate scrutiny as the constitutional test under which gender-based equal protection issues are analyzed. Part II of this Note analyzes the lack of men‘s statutory right in most states to change their last names upon marriage through the lens of intermediate scrutiny and concludes that there is an equal protection violation. Part II further analyzes why a majority of marrying women adopt their husbands‘ surnames, and asserts that marrying men‘s relative inability to change their surnames has the negative effect of further restricting women‘s agency, in that the choice marrying women have in changing their surnames resembles more of a coerced decision. Part III of this Note reviews statutes of the eight states in which men possess a statutory right to change their last names upon marriage, and proposes that all states adopt similar statutes that not only grant marrying men and women the same processes for changing their last names, but also eliminate the discriminatory language found in existing statutes

A Non-Parametric Learning Approach to Identify Online Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is among the most challenging law enforcement problems which demands persistent fight against from all over the globe. In this study, we leverage readily available data from the website "Backpage"-- used for classified advertisement-- to discern potential patterns of human trafficking activities which manifest online and identify most likely trafficking related advertisements. Due to the lack of ground truth, we rely on two human analysts --one human trafficking victim survivor and one from law enforcement, for hand-labeling the small portion of the crawled data. We then present a semi-supervised learning approach that is trained on the available labeled and unlabeled data and evaluated on unseen data with further verification of experts.Comment: Accepted in IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics 2016 Conference (ISI 2016

Factors influencing older adult collaboration on health problems

The current study examined the factors (i.e., gender, marital status, domain and severity of the problem) that influence older adults\u27 strategy ratings on health-related problems. One hundred twenty-eight community-dwelling adults aged 60 and older (M = 71.4 years, SD = 7.21) rated strategies to solve four hypothetical health problems in two domains: heart, arthritis (one mild problem and one severe problem in each domain). Overall, results suggest that gender and marital status, as well as the domain, and severity of health problems impact older adults\u27 rating of strategies to solve health-related problems. The effects of gender, marital status and severity differed within each of the domains of health problems. Findings illustrate the importance of considering all of the factors (i.e., gender, marital status, domain of health problem, and severity of health problem) that influence the strategies that older adults use to solve health-related problems

Bubbles and Snuggles: Interventions to Reduce Pediatric Pain During Vaccination

The use of evidence-based distraction and comfort positioning during pediatric vaccination may help to decreased pain scores when compared with no intervention. This presents a costeffective, easy to implement, parent/clinician supported intervention to reduce pediatric procedural pain

Improved Peddler for the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Healthcare System

ME450 Capstone Design and Manufacturing Experience: Fall 2015The Ann Arbor Veterans Association (AAVA) has a Home Based Cardiovascular Rehabilitation (HBCR) program for patients who have experienced a significant cardiac event and live in areas far from the AAVA. A peddler sent home with veterans for this program has been identified as displeasing and uncomfortable to use; we have been tasked in redesigning the machine to fit the needs of healthcare professionals and alleviate the complaints expressed by users. The areas we have determined that need redesign are: application of pedaling resistance, pedal design, a time and distance display, and anchoring of the peddler during use - all while maintaining the ability to pedal with hands or feet and a relatively compact and lightweight peddler that will be portable for veterans of all ages. The concepts we have chosen to meet these needs are a band brake to apply resistance to a rotor, larger pedals, a bike computer, and increased coefficient of friction between the peddler and the surface. Our final design incorporates these chosen concepts into a complete peddler which meets the key specifications.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/117342/1/ME450-F15-Project25-FinalReport.pd

Abusive Interactions: Research in Locked Wards for People with dementia

This paper reports on a study in which unique access to 3 locked psycho-geriatric wards of a hospital allowed ethnographic exploration into everyday social worlds of fourteen people with dementia. Findings indicate abusive practice in the wards and show that participants in receipt of such practice responded with self-defence and resistance, but ultimately were defeated. In a development of Sabat’s (2001) Selfs 1-3 framework, I identify how abusive practice arose due to staffs’ inability to recognise different aspects of patients’ self. Recommendations for practice include integrating a developed Selfs 1-3 framework into staff training and evaluating its impact on practice

The X-Trials: Neural Correlates of an Inhibitory Control Task in Children and Adults

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to examine developmental differences between adults and 6-year-old children in the neural processes involved in an inhibitory control task. Twenty adults and 21 children completed a task that required them to selectively respond to target stimuli while inhibiting responses to equally salient non-target stimuli. Because this task had been previously studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the relation between the fMRI and ERP findings was informally examined. The results indicate that latency and amplitude of the P3 differentiated the different types of trials. However, the pattern of event-related neural activity differed for adults and children. These results, which suggest that adults and children may be using different processes to perform this task, have implications for the interpretation of the previous fMRI findings