Outbursts of Violence: Reaction to Oppression or Acts of Terrorism? An Analytical Study of Han Chinese and Uighur Muslims Relations

The Uighur, a group of Chinese Muslims residing in the Xianjiang province, are a minority in communist China. For centuries Muslims have suffered persecution from the central government through policies, economic disadvantages, and geopolitical isolation. The Han have begun to show greater interest in the region due to the natural oil resources. Therefore, tension between the Uighurs and the Han government has amplified significantly and violent Uighur attacks are common.Terrorism remains a primary concern in the United States, especially for policy makers shifting their focus to Asian politics. This paper questions whether the outbursts of violence are a result of ethnic oppression or acts of terrorism.  Through analysis of fieldwork, and interpretation of the media, the issue is comprehensively evaluated. The results found that though terrorist in nature, the outbursts should be considered expressions of resentment for years of subjugation by the Han Chinese.  The situation is complex and history plays an important role in being able to grasp the political situation for the Uighur going forward.  These results are helpful in understanding the situation for Muslims in China. This understanding can be applied to gaining a deeper appreciation for the cultural complexities that exist in East Asia as well and the difficulty for future politics in the region

Promoting a Culture of Mental Health and Wellness at the SMHS: SMHS Wellness Program

McManus (2007) indicates that healthcare professionals, who are highly committed and involved in their profession, often experience stress and burnout. A multitude of stressors effect health care professionals, including time restraints, workload, multiple roles, and emotional investment in the career (McCann et aI., 2013). Jennings (2009) makes the connection that stress does not begin when medical students enter the workforce, but starts during their academic preparation as well. Allied health profession students and professionals are not exempt from experiencing considerable stress and burnout (Harris, Cumming, & Campbell, 2005; Othman, Farooqui, Yusoff, & Adawaiyah, 20\3). Harris and colleagues (2005) found that the single significant predictor of psychological distress and life satisfaction was perceived stress (p. 198). At a college level, students do not proactively seek out mental health resources before a crisis point has been reached largely due to the stigma associated with having a mental illness (Wynaden et aI., 2014). The purpose of this scholarly project was to propose a Mental Health Wellness Program for the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) to implement to reduce stress and burnout associated with intensive school programming for all students. A Mental Health Prevention Model is the framework for this program incorporating the Person-Environment-Occupation Model of Occupational Therapy (PEO). The PEO model examines the transaction between three concepts: Person, Environment and Occupation, with the goal of an optimal fit for competent occupational performance. The Mental Health Prevention Model utilizes a tbree-tiered approach focusing on: (1) universal interventions, (2) targeted group interventions and (3) intensive/individual interventions. A decline in mental health can impact daily functioning. Mental health challenges in students are often due to increased stress levels, increased burnout, and a lack of balance in tbeir personal and professional lives (Harris et aI., 2005; Jennings, 2009; Rizer, Fagan, Kilmon, & Rath, 2015;). Occupational demands of being a student may exceed the person\u27s ability to cope and participate competently in not only school tasks, but in fulfilling other meaningful roles as well. The student may not feel adequate supports from tbe environment to continue engaging in academia or other occupations needing to be performed. The goal of the program is to optimize the fit between the person, the environment, and tbe occupations of the student in the SMHS. It is proposed the SMHS use the learning communities to develop a school wide environment that more actively promotes the established learning communities primary goals. Doing this will promote a more balanced life to meet occupational demands, establish healthy habits and routines they carry into their professional life, and more effectively meet the needs of their future clients and colleagues

The Belle of Georgia cake walk / by Wm. S. Glynn

Cover: illustration of man in top hat, woman in floral hat with bow, high stepping together; Publisher: Wm. J. Lefavour (Salem, Mass.); includes torn pageshttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/sharris_f/1000/thumbnail.jp

Improving the TanDEM-X Digital Elevation Model for flood modelling using flood extents from Synthetic Aperture Radar images

The topography of many floodplains in the developed world has now been surveyed with high resolution sensors such as airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), giving accurate Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) that facilitate accurate flood inundation modelling. This is not always the case for remote rivers in developing countries. However, the accuracy of DEMs produced for modelling studies on such rivers should be enhanced in the near future by the high resolution TanDEM-X WorldDEM. In a parallel development, increasing use is now being made of flood extents derived from high resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images for calibrating, validating and assimilating observations into flood inundation models in order to improve these. This paper discusses an additional use of SAR flood extents, namely to improve the accuracy of the TanDEM-X DEM in the floodplain covered by the flood extents, thereby permanently improving this DEM for future flood modelling and other studies. The method is based on the fact that for larger rivers the water elevation generally changes only slowly along a reach, so that the boundary of the flood extent (the waterline) can be regarded locally as a quasi-contour. As a result, heights of adjacent pixels along a small section of waterline can be regarded as samples with a common population mean. The height of the central pixel in the section can be replaced with the average of these heights, leading to a more accurate estimate. While this will result in a reduction in the height errors along a waterline, the waterline is a linear feature in a two-dimensional space. However, improvements to the DEM heights between adjacent pairs of waterlines can also be made, because DEM heights enclosed by the higher waterline of a pair must be at least no higher than the corrected heights along the higher waterline, whereas DEM heights not enclosed by the lower waterline must in general be no lower than the corrected heights along the lower waterline. In addition, DEM heights between the higher and lower waterlines can also be assigned smaller errors because of the reduced errors on the corrected waterline heights. The method was tested on a section of the TanDEM-X Intermediate DEM (IDEM) covering an 11km reach of the Warwickshire Avon, England. Flood extents from four COSMO-SKyMed images were available at various stages of a flood in November 2012, and a LiDAR DEM was available for validation. In the area covered by the flood extents, the original IDEM heights had a mean difference from the corresponding LiDAR heights of 0.5 m with a standard deviation of 2.0 m, while the corrected heights had a mean difference of 0.3 m with standard deviation 1.2 m. These figures show that significant reductions in IDEM height bias and error can be made using the method, with the corrected error being only 60% of the original. Even if only a single SAR image obtained near the peak of the flood was used, the corrected error was only 66% of the original. The method should also be capable of improving the final TanDEM-X DEM and other DEMs, and may also be of use with data from the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite

University of Michigan football game at Regents Field, 1894

[looking north toward campus, Museum Building Tower and University Hall dome in background

[Rockery Grotto at the Salem Willows.]

SV391 — Nelson Dionne Collection. View of rockery grotto at the Salem Willows on Salem Neck in Salem, Mass. In front, two girls sit and one boy stands posed. In the background, to the right, is a carousel (where E.W. Hobbs\u27 restaurant will later operate). Published by J.S. Lefavour, 66 Federal Street, Salem, Mass.https://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/stereoviews/1417/thumbnail.jp

[Eastern Railroad Depot, Salem, Mass.]

SV362 — Nelson Dionne Collection. View looking south at the Eastern Railroad depot from Town House Square, with Washington Street visible. Published by J.S. Lefavour, Salem, Mass., c. 1878-92. Built in 1847, the Salem Depot, with a stone facade resembling a medieval castle, stood for over a century before being demolished in 1954-55; at the same time, a new railroad tunnel was built under the site. The site is now occupied by the intersection of Washington and New Derby Street, along with Riley Plaza.https://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/stereoviews/1388/thumbnail.jp

[Unidentified House.]

SV314 — Nelson Dionne Collection. View of an unidentified house, possibly in Salem, Mass. Published by Perkins & Lefavour, 238 Essex Street, Salem, Mass., c. 1870s.https://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/stereoviews/1338/thumbnail.jp