“It falls on all our shoulders”: Overcoming Barriers to Delivering Sex Education in West Texas Schools

BACKGROUND: Many racial, socioeconomic, and geographic disparities exist in rates of teen birth and sexually transmitted infections. Increasing access to comprehensive sex education is one risk reduction strategy for these outcomes, yet access to and quality of sex education in schools often falls far below recommended standards, particularly in Texas. The current exploratory study examines barriers to effectively delivering sex education in West Texas schools and identifies strategies to help overcome these barriers. METHODS: In-depth interviews with school leaders and health education professionals (n=4) were conducted to understand teen sexual health needs in West Texas. Interviews were analyzed using descriptive coding, memoing, and quote matrices to interpret the data. RESULTS: Participants identified a number of policy-, organizational-, and interpersonal-level barriers to delivering sex education in public schools. School personnel experienced intense time pressures, a lack of institutional support, and tension with parents. Many expressed a desire to work more collaboratively with parents and participants acknowledged the important role of school health advisory councils (SHACs). CONCLUSIONS: School personnel face complex challenges at multiple levels when attempting to deliver sex education in public schools. Despite these challenges, SHACs represent a valuable opportunity for communities to work collaboratively to improve sex education in public schools

Egaenus convexus - eine neue Weberknechtart aus der Tschechischen Republik

The harvestmen fauna of the Czech Republic is relatively species-poor; so far 29 species have been found, of them 23 in Bohemia, the western part of the country, and 26 species in Moravia, the eastern part of the Czech Republic

Chapter Swedish Trade and Shipping in the Mediterranean in the 18th Century

This paper analyses the rise of Swedish trade and shipping in the Mediterranean in the eighteenth century. It focuses on three factors that shaped Sweden’s role in the area: foreign policy interest, foreign trade policy (mercantilism), and commodity demand and supply. The foreign policy interest is represented by attempts to build an alliance with the Ottoman Empire against Russia. An outcome of this was the short-lived Swedish Levant Company. The second factor relates to Sweden’s mercantilist policy in the Mediterranean, embodied in the Swedish Navigation Act, trade and peace treaties with the North-African states, and the consular services in southern Europe. Sea salt was in the core of this policy—a strategic commodity in northern Europe. Southern Europe, too, was important market for Swedish exports goods: iron, tar and pitch, and planks

Las políticas de suelo y vivienda en la construcción de modelos de desarrollo urbano

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Swedish shipping in Southern Europe and peace treaties with North African states: an economic security perspective

"In the late eighteenth century, Swedish ships frequently sailed in the Western Mediterranean. They could be found in Marseilles, Livorno, Genoa, Alicante, Sicily, Sardinia, and North Africa, as well as in Cadiz and Lisbon outside the Mediterranean. Indeed, the Mediterranean was an area of great importance for Swedish shipping. How was it possible that Sweden - a small country in northern periphery of Europe - could play such a prominent role in carrying trade in Southern Europe? There are a number of plausible explanations but an especially significant factor was the fact that Sweden had peace treaties with North African states. The treaties improved the security of Swedish-flagged vessels, reducing their protection and operation costs, insurance premiums, etc. It was economically reasonable for foreigners to employ Swedish carriers. The topic of this essay is this connection between the establishment of peace relations between Sweden and North African states and the success of the Swedish carrying business in Southern Europe. The issue is approached from the protection-cost perspective (institutional economics) and related to the different concepts of security: state security, economic security and in a certain sense also human security." (author's abstract)"Im späten 18. Jahrhundert fuhren schwedische Schiffe regelmäßig im westlichen Mittelmeer. Sie waren häufige Gäste in Marseille, Livorno, Genua, Alicante, Sizilien, Sardinien und Nordafrika, zudem noch in Cádiz und Lissabon außerhalb des Mittelmeeres. Das Mittelmeer war für die schwedische Reederei eine der wichtigsten Zielregionen. Wie war es möglich, dass Schweden - ein kleines Land an der nördlichen Peripherie Europas - eine solch wichtige Rolle in Südeuropa spielen konnte? Es gibt eine Reihe an plausiblen Erklärungen, jedoch war ein besonders wichtiger Faktor die Tatsache, dass Schweden Friedensverträge mit den nordafrikanischen Staaten besaß. Diese Verträge erhöhten die Sicherheit von schwedisch beflaggten Schiffen, was wiederum deren Verteidigungs- und Operationskosten, Versicherungsraten etc. reduzierte. Seither wurde es ökonomisch sinnvoll, Transportaufträge an schwedische Schiffe zu vergeben. Der Artikel soll die Verknüpfung zwischen der Herstellung des Friedenszustandes zwischen Schweden und den nordafrikanischen Staaten und dem Erfolg des seebasierten schwedischen Transportwesens ziehen. Der Komplex wird aus der Perspektive der sog. 'Protektionskosten', einem Begriff aus der Institutionenökonomik, betrachtet und in den Kontext verschiedener Konzepte von Sicherheit gesetzt: staatliche Sicherheit, wirtschaftliche Sicherheit und in einem gewissen Sinne auch humane Sicherheit." (Autorenreferat

Art & future: the informal home

An architectural proposal in this era of war, disease and famine should seek to leverage technology to reclaim the future. Through this lens, the present-day displacement of Afghan refugees is an opportunity for rethinking the role of architecture in humanitarianism. The recovery of the Afghan community will depend upon quick-impact projects that target fundamental human needs such as housing, hygiene and rest. Contemporary approaches to refugee assistance are nonetheless undermined by the sociopolitical climate that is then reflected in the resulting built environment. Art, the application of human imagination and expression, can mitigate these impacts and provide collaborative spaces for recovery. Technology in recent years has also blurred the lines between physical and digital space. During the first year of the pandemic, the internet dictated human interactions on matters of safety and long-distance learning. This has resulted in the digital displacement of underprivileged populations with limited or unreliable internet access. The future, dependent on the continued existence of humanity, warrants this divide as equal grounds for change. This thesis analyzes both art& future to envision community-centric building methods that empower refugees. These will take the form of emergency shelter, supplemental communal spaces, and transitional housing. Improvisational and adaptable, these areas of refuge will seek to stabilize human existence in the biosphere so both can thrive.College of Architecture and PlanningThesis (B. Arch.

Fish Bulletin 181. California Marine Fish Landings for 1987-1999

Fish Landing bulletins provide basic records of amounts and values of marine resources taken by California's commercial fisheries, and summaries of catches by the passenger-carrying fishing industry. These figures are of local, national, and international significance tothose interested in the wise utilization and management of California's living marineresources.This report for 1987 through 1999 is the 38th in a series stemming from the firstgathering of commercial fisheries landing data by the California Department of Fish and Game (Department) in 1916 and the subsequent first publication of those landings data for the years 1926 and 1927 (Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, 1929)

An Experimental Thrust Measurement Study on the Nozzle Asymmetry of Turbulent Pulsed Jets

The resurgence of pulsejet engines has renewed the interest of the flow characteristics responsible for the high levels of thrust augmentation that are necessary for Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing (V/STOL) aircraft. It is well known that pulsation of the engine plays an important role on the thrust performance, but many of the characteristics that are primarily responsible for these enhancements are not well understood. This study is carried out to elucidate the effect of nozzle exit Mach number and the nozzle exit geometry on the characteristics of a high Reynolds number (~105), turbulent free pulsed jet. Direct thrust measurements are conducted using a pulsed jet as the driving source with different nozzle geometries (circular, diamond, elliptic, and rectangular) over a range of exit Mach numbers (Mj) from 0.10 to 0.30. The data show that for a given geometry, the jet strongly depends on the pulsing frequency. Further increase in pulsation will decrease thrust and eventually perform similar to an equivalent steady jet