ACT victims of crime referral project: final report

This report presents the findings of a project funded by Victim Support ACT and ACT Policing to examine the experiences of victims referred by police to support services and the operation of the referral process in the ACT. Since the completion of the report in 2009, Victim Support ACT and ACT Policing have used it to facilitate better access to support services for people affected by crime. Following the establishment of the Victims Advisory Board in 2011, the Victims of Crime Commissioner sought the support of the Board to progress matters that had been raised in the report. The Commissioner was of the view that the Board, having a function to develop and maintain protocols and procedures for the treatment of victims by agencies involved in the administration of justice, was well placed to assist Victim Support ACT and ACT Policing to progress these issues. To assist the Board to perform this function, the report is now being published to allow public access to the information

Addressing Needs Among Students Affected by Domestic Violence: Social Workers’ Perspectives

The issue of domestic violence is of great concerns and the impact on children is becoming more widely acknowledged. This social issue contains many consequences and ramifications and a wider understanding of children’s needs are emerging. With this growing recognition the importance to meet this children’s needs have been identified. This qualitative study explored how school social workers support children impacted by domestic violence through six (n = 6) semi-structured interviews. The findings, developed through an open-coding process, included the following themes: interventions used by school social workers to support children experiencing domestic violence; barriers to supporting children affected; resources that help school social workers; and supports school social workers obtain when working with children affected by domestic violence. These themes aligned with previous research but participants added depth and understanding to the previous research. More research needs to be performed in evaluating the effectiveness of interventions utilized to support children impacted by domestic violence

Asymmetric Lee Distance Codes for DNA-Based Storage

We consider a new family of codes, termed asymmetric Lee distance codes, that arise in the design and implementation of DNA-based storage systems and systems with parallel string transmission protocols. The codewords are defined over a quaternary alphabet, although the results carry over to other alphabet sizes; furthermore, symbol confusability is dictated by their underlying binary representation. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we demonstrate that the new distance represents a linear combination of the Lee and Hamming distance and derive upper bounds on the size of the codes under this metric based on linear programming techniques. Second, we propose a number of code constructions which imply lower bounds

Analyzing the Health Systems and Community-Based Development of Tanzania

Global Independent Study, Summer 2017 -- Arusha, Tanzania -- Partner Agencie(s): Child Family Health International; Children Growth and Developmenthttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/139004/1/Williamson_Poster.pd

Discovering the Secrets of the Annex: The Scenic Design of The Diary of Anne Frank

This thesis describes the analysis, design, and implementation of University of Arkansas’ production of The Diary of Anne Frank. The entire process is explored and analyzed with a specific focus on the challenges the production staff faced along with creative victories that we shared when creating this production. This document comments on and explores how the facts of the story and principal location of The Diary of Anne Frank influenced our more abstracted world of the play. This thesis includes the essential design documents and support materials used in the creation of the scenic design of The Diary of Anne Frank. This includes: research images, early sketches, ground plans, renderings, paint elevations, and production photos

MASCULINE STEREOTYPES OF LESBIANS AND MASCULINE-LOOKING WOMEN: POTENTIAL ADVANTAGES OF ASSUMED AGENTIC QUALITIES IN EMPLOYMENT

The purpose of the present study was to explore whether or not agentic stereotypes attributed to lesbian and masculine appearing women would provide an advantage in obtaining employment. Previous research has shown that lesbian women are favored over heterosexual women, and masculine appearing individuals are favored over feminine appearing individuals for traditionally masculine jobs. The present study contributes to this body of research in that it examines the role of appearance for lesbian women (in addition to heterosexual women), as well as the potential mediating role of agency in these hiring decisions. I predicted that the lesbian and masculine appearing applicants would be attributed more agentic stereotypes than heterosexual and feminine appearing women and that this would lead to higher agency and hireability ratings, as well as a higher salary. Participants in the present study were 222 undergraduate university students. They read a job description for “Executive Director,” followed by a vignette of a female job applicant, which included an image of a woman with more masculine or feminine facial features. They then rated the applicant on agentic traits, how hirable they thought she would be, how much they would pay her, and how high they assessed her salary allotment to be. As predicted, the lesbian applicant was perceived to be higher in agency, which accounted for higher hireability ratings than the heterosexual applicant. She was not allotted a higher salary, but participants assessed the salary they gave her to be higher. Compared to the feminine applicant, he masculine applicant was rated as more agentic and was given a higher salary (an effect not mediated by agency perceptions), but was not seen as more hirable. Results of this study suggest that lesbian women may benefit from “outing” themselves to employers when applying for traditionally masculine jobs in order to exploit the benefits of the stereotypes attributed to them