54 research outputs found
Toward Trauma-Informed Professional Practices: What Legal Advocates and Journalists Can Learn from Each Other and Survivors of Human Trafficking
Developments in the fields of law and journalism during the last two decades have led to greater awareness of the need for trauma-informed practices vis-Ă -vis survivors of violence, and correspondingly, the emergence of pedagogical resources for legal advocates and journalists. Due to traditional disciplinary silos, extant resources on trauma-informed practices in each field have been authored in relative isolation from each other, i.e., guides for legal advocates have been blind to guides for journalists and vice versa. This Article demonstrates that despite the obvious differences between lawyering and journalism, professionals in these two fields share some of the same aims as they interact with survivors of human trafficking in the course of their work, beginning with the shared aims of fact-finding and truth-telling. They also take on the role of representing the experience and perspective of survivors to others, albeit in distinct arenas. Because of those common aims and roles, this Article contends that lawyers and journalists also face similar challenges and risksâto themselves and to the survivors with whom they interact and representâas they attempt to be trauma-informed in their work. Relatedly, many survivors of human trafficking have reported being retraumatized by their interactions with both lawyers and journalists. Drawing on multiple genres of publications and firsthand accounts, this Article interleaves insights from extant resources on trauma-informed practices from the fields of legal advocacy, prosecution, and journalismâand from survivors themselvesâin order to articulate foundational practices that have potential to be beneficial to both professions, and to survivors
Not Your Father's Internet: The Generation Gap in Online Politics
Part of the Volume on Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage YouthMany have hoped that recent increases in online political campaigning might potentially stimulate greater political engagement among American youth. In this chapter we explore this possibility, drawing insights from a variety of studies ranging from feature and content analyses of campaign websites to detailed focus group discussions with young citizens. On the whole, this research suggests a yawning generation gap between the ways that political candidates typically use the Internet, and the preferences and expectations young people bring to cyberspace. Focusing on competing notions of interactivity as a key fault line, we conclude with a discussion of the principal issues that must be negotiated in order for this gap to be narrowed
An exploration of factors that impact on levels of employee satisfaction and organisational performance : an organisational diagnosis
Organisations today, regardless of their function, exist in an environment that is characterised by change. In order to maintain a competitive advantage it is vital that organisations manage such change and are sensitive to their human resource. It is imperative for organisations to understand and explore the factors that impact on employee satisfaction and overall organisational performance. The hospitality industry is an industry that is notorious for low levels of pay and long working hours, and often dissatisfied employees. This research focused on a hotel, that is part of an international chain of hotels, which has recently undergone a rebranding process (a change from within). This research aimed to assess and explore factors that impact on levels of employee satisfaction and organisation/hotel performance, in other words it aimed to 'diagnose' the hotel's current status. The research was conducted in two phases. Phase one made use of a widely used measure of job satisfaction, the job descriptive index (JDI), that looked at five facets of job satisfaction namely: pay, opportunity for promotion, co-workers, supervision and the nature of work. Phase two further explored the results of the JDI (staff being very dissatisfied with pay and promotions opportunity) and further explored other areas of the organisation/hotel with the use of an organisational development model, Weisbord's Six-Box Model (1990). The 'boxes' included areas of purpose, structure, relationships, leadership, rewards and helpful mechanisms. These areas were explored with staff using focus groups. Heads of departments (management) and the deputy general manager of the hotel were interviewed using a semi-structured interview format, exploring similar issues to those researched with staff. Results indicated problems in the hotel with regard to purpose, a severe lack of communication and staff feeling they have little chance for promotion as well as pay structures being perceived as unfair. The overall leadership at the hotel was described as erratic, and relationships between management revealed high levels of mistrust. Due to limited research in the South African hospitality industry, much of the literature available is based on experiences in the United States of America or the United Kingdom. For this research, the researcher had few previous published findings and was unsure of the many issues that could possibly arise. However, the intervention was enjoyable and recommendations have been provided for the hotel to consider, so the hotel can go from "good to great"
Energy-dependent solar neutrino flux depletion in the Exact Parity Model and implications for SNO, SuperKamiokande and BOREXINO
Energy-dependent solar neutrino flux reduction caused by the
Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) effect is applied to the Exact Parity Model.
Several scenarios are possible, depending on the region of parameter space
chosen. The interplay between intergenerational MSW transitions and vacuum
``intragenerational'' ordinary-mirror neutrino oscillations is discussed.
Expectations for the ratio of charged to neutral current event rates at the
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) are estimated. The implications of the
various scenarios for the Boron neutrino energy spectrum and BOREXINO are
briefly discussed. The consequences of MSW-induced solar neutrino depletion
within the Exact Parity Model differ in interesting ways from the standard
and cases. The physical causes of
these differences are determined.Comment: 43 pages, 8 figures, RevTeX; to appear in Phys. Rev. D, accepted
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Sterile Neutrinos in E_6 and a Natural Understanding of Vacuum Oscillation Solution to the Solar Neutrino Puzzle
If Nature has chosen the vacuum oscillation solution to the Solar neutrino
puzzle, a key theoretical challenge is to understand the extreme smallness of
the () required for the purpose.
We find that in a class of models such as [SU(3)]^3 or its parent group E_6,
which contain one sterile neutrino, for each family, the is proportional to the cube of the lepton Yukawa
coupling. Therefore fitting the atmospheric neutrino data then predicts the
mass difference square to be , where the atmospheric neutrino data is assumed to be
solved via the oscillation. This provides a natural
explanation of the vacuum oscillation solution to the solar neutrino problem.Comment: 7 pages, UMD-PP-99-109; new references added; no other chang
Three Neutrino Flavors are Enough
It is shown that it is possible to account for all three experimental
indications for neutrino oscillations with just three neutrino flavors. In
particular, we suggest that the solar and atmospheric neutrino anomalies are to
be explained by the same mass difference and mixing. Possible implications and
future tests of the resulting mass-mixing pattern are given.Comment: 15 pages, LATEX format. 5 figures. Replaced 1 figure and corrected
typographical error
Self-Control in Cyberspace: Applying Dual Systems Theory to a Review of Digital Self-Control Tools
Many people struggle to control their use of digital devices. However, our
understanding of the design mechanisms that support user self-control remains
limited. In this paper, we make two contributions to HCI research in this
space: first, we analyse 367 apps and browser extensions from the Google Play,
Chrome Web, and Apple App stores to identify common core design features and
intervention strategies afforded by current tools for digital self-control.
Second, we adapt and apply an integrative dual systems model of self-regulation
as a framework for organising and evaluating the design features found. Our
analysis aims to help the design of better tools in two ways: (i) by
identifying how, through a well-established model of self-regulation, current
tools overlap and differ in how they support self-control; and (ii) by using
the model to reveal underexplored cognitive mechanisms that could aid the
design of new tools.Comment: 11.5 pages (excl. references), 6 figures, 1 tabl
Oscillation Solutions to Solar Neutrino Problem
The current status of oscillation solutions to the Solar Neutrino Problem is
reviewed. Four oscillation solutions are discussed in the light of 708d
Superkamiokande data: MSW, Just-So VO, VO with Energy-Independent Suppression
(EIS) and Resonant-Spin-Flavor-Precession (RSFP). Only EIS VO is strongly
disfavoured by the global rates, mostly due to the Homestake data. Vacuum
oscillations give an interesting solution which explains high-energy excess of
events observed by Superkamiokande and predicts {\em semi-annual} seasonal
variation of -neutrino flux. There are indications to these variations in
the GALLEX and Homestake data. No direct evidence for oscillation is found yet.Comment: Plenary talk at 19th texas Symposium. New references adde
Three Generation Neutrino Oscillation Parameters after SNO
We examine the solar neutrino problem in the context of the realistic three
neutrino mixing scenario including the SNO charged current (CC) rate. The two
independent mass squared differences and are taken to be in the solar and atmospheric ranges
respectively. We incorporate the constraints on m as obtained
by the SuperKamiokande atmospheric neutrino data and determine the allowed
values of , and from a combined
analysis of solar and CHOOZ data. Our aim is to probe the changes in the values
of the mass and mixing parameters with the inclusion of the SNO data as well as
the changes in the two-generation parameter region obtained from the solar
neutrino analysis with the inclusion of the third generation. We find that the
inclusion of the SNO CC rate in the combined solar + CHOOZ analysis puts a more
restrictive bound on . Since the allowed values of
are constrained to very small values by the CHOOZ experiment there is no
qualitative change over the two generation allowed regions in the plane. The best-fit comes in the LMA region and
no allowed area is obtained in the SMA region at 3 level from combined
solar and CHOOZ analysis.Comment: One reference added. Version to apprear in PR
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