Parenting Latino Toddlers and Preschoolers: Clinical and Nonclinical Samples

Parenting practices contribute significantly to the social-emotional development of young children. There is limited literature that addresses the role of culture in parenting, particularly among Latino families who have very young children with significant behavior problems. The current study compared the parenting practices of 30 low-income Latino mothers whose young children had been referred for mental health services for their behavior problems with a similar group of 30 mothers of children without behavior problems. Results showed that mothers in the clinical sample nurtured their children less often and used more frequent verbal and corporal punishment as discipline than the nonclinical sample. The clinical sample also had a significantly higher incidence of mental health problems in their families. Results also showed the significant toll that raising young children with challenging behaviors takes on their mothers. The implications of these findings for the early identification of these children are discussed

Sociocultural Attitudes and Expectations As A Result of Media Internalization: An Exploration of Potential Cultural Resiliency Factors Among Mexican-American College Women

This study involved a final sample of 153 Mexican-American college women who viewed photos of models who exemplify the thin ideal and models who are considered average and overweight according to society’s standards of beauty. The order of the photos was manipulated to determine if subjection to the thin ideal would negatively affect body satisfaction and or affect how the participants judged the models who did not meet the thin ideal. Manipulation did not negatively affect how participants judged the average and overweight models. In addition, upon manipulation, both groups rated themselves as heavier despite group assignment. Finally, acculturation level was not associated with body satisfaction. Additional measures were included to assess potential resiliency factors

Little lambs, linnets and babes in the snow: messages of kindness and caution in Christina Rossetti\u27s _Sing-Song_ and _Speaking Likenesses_

In this study of Christina Rossetti\u27s two books for children, Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1872) and Speaking Likenesses (1875), I use a feminist theoretical lens to examine the implicit directions given to young girls about how to be an appropriate girl, woman, mother, and citizen of the British Empire in the 19th century. In many ways, the poems and stories in these two books contain a subtle set of rules regarding behavior for the implied audience, which is largely middle-class, white, and Christian. These works for children written by Christina Rossetti reflect an interesting middle place between a feminist viewpoint and an insistence on abiding by a patriarchal set of rules. She seems to find a place that is neither adversarial to the existing patriarchal structures nor entirely satisfied by living within it. Both books celebrate the safety and love found in the mother-child relationship and expand that to portray the extended community of female care-givers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, as nearly utopian. Sing-Song and Speaking Likenesses contain pieces which portray a respite from the temptations and dangers of the larger world in the female sphere of the nursery. Of particular interest in these two texts is the inclusion of a cautionary note on the fallen woman and the dangers of sensuality and promiscuity

How We Were Not Sparrows

How We Were Not Sparrows is collection of numbered pieces that create lyrics essays on topics related to girlhood, womanhood and the expectations heaped upon the idea of both. My goal was to create a collection of pieces which when placed against or toward one another make something larger and also create surprising connections. I like to think about the finished work like an Advent calendar with miniature boxes that open to reveal a tiny picture of a mouse or a chocolate, full of bits that keep unfolding to expose another layer. Each essay includes a variety of perspectives interspersed to add texture to what is largely a personal and at times confessional book. The voice of the world or authority is present to bring the reader out of the too-close world of the writer into a larger cultural space. The world has a lot to say about who and what and where girls can be, the spaces they can hope to fill. Including these epigraphs is an attempt to create the same kind of jumble of voices in which girlhood is navigated

AgroFIMS v.1.0 - User manual

The Agronomy Field Information Management System (AgroFIMS) has been developed on CGIAR’s HIDAP (Highly Interactive Data Analysis Platform) created by CGIAR’s International Potato Center, CIP. AgroFIMS draws fully on ontologies, particularly the Agronomy Ontology (AgrO)1. It consists of modules that represent the typical cycle of operations in agronomic trial management (seeding, weeding, fertilization, harvest, and more) and enables the creation of data collection sheets using the same ontology-based set of variables, terminology, units and protocols. AgroFIMS therefore enables a priori harmonization with metadata and data interoperability standards and adherence to the FAIR Data Principles essential for data reuse and increasingly, for compliance with funder mandates - without any extra work for researchers. AgroFIMS is therefore of value to anyone (scientist, researcher, agronomist, etc.) who wishes to easily design a standards-compliant agronomic research fieldbook following the FAIR Data Principles. AgroFIMS also allows users to collect data electronically in the field, thereby reducing errors. Currently this is restricted to the KDSmart Android platform, but we expect to enable this capability with other platforms such as the Open Data Kit (ODK) and Field Book in v.2.0. Once data is collected using KDSmart, the data can be uploaded back to AgroFIMS for data validation, statistical analysis, and the generation of statistical analysis reports. V.2.0 will allow easy upload of the data from AgroFIMS to an institutional or compliant repository of the user’s choice

Jeunes musulmans et citoyenneté culturelle : retour sur des expériences de recherche en Afrique de l’Ouest francophone

La question des jeunes est un élément essentiel pour comprendre les dynamiques de l’espace public et les pratiques citoyennes qui émergent dans l’Afrique d’aujourd’hui. Leur importance tient non seulement à leur poids démographique imposant, mais aussi à leur transformation, souvent dramatique, en tant qu’acteurs sociaux dans l’espace public africain au cours des années 1990. Cette transformation encourage la création de nouvelles formes de légitimité et de nouveaux espaces d’expression individuelle ou collective, et correspond à une mutation radicale de l’idée de citoyenneté, qui fait appel à de nouvelles ressources et qui remodèle les dynamiques nationales d’inclusion et d’exclusion. Ainsi, la constitution de nouveaux espaces d’expression encourage une conception moins restrictive de la participation citoyenne dans la mesure où les jeunes veulent faire entendre leur opinion et participer ouvertement aux divers débats de société. En lien avec les concepts de « citoyenneté culturelle » et de « contre-nation », nous nous proposons dans cet article d’examiner le rôle des jeunes dans le contexte de réaffirmation de l’identité islamique qui a marqué l’Afrique de l’Ouest francophone à partir des années 1980 et plus encore dans les années 1990, particulièrement dans les grands centres urbains du Sénégal, du Mali, du Burkina Faso et de la Côte d’Ivoire. Nous nous penchons plus spécifiquement sur la question du rapport entre jeunes (comme catégorie sociale), religion et espace public

Emergency Contracting: Themes from Agencies’ Disaster and Pandemic Response Efforts

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Emergency Contracting: Themes from Agencies’ Disaster and Pandemic Response Efforts

Excerpt from the Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Acquisition Research SymposiumThe federal response to the rising number of natural disasters coupled with other emergency response efforts, such as those for COVID-19, have illustrated the important role that federal contracts have in providing life-saving and life-sustaining goods and services. However, contracting during an emergency can pose a unique set of challenges as contracting officials face significant pressure to provide these services as quickly as possible. Leveraging several U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reviews of emergency contracting issues, this paper examines (1) contract and agreement mechanisms agencies used to facilitate response efforts; (2) challenges planning and executing contracts in an emergency environment; and (3) how tracking contract obligations and contracting lessons learned can inform future response efforts.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited