The Prevention Of Bullying In Elementary Schools

This Capstone project focuses on bullying prevention and its importance in elementary school years. Bullying may start when a child enters elementary school. It is important to inform students of the types of bullying many students can receive. Learning about the damages bullying can have to a student. Bullying can affect a child mentally, physically, and emotionally. In some cases, bullying can lead the child to become depressed and commit suicide

Environmental justice and the clean power plan: the case of energy efficiency

Presented at the Environmental justice in the Anthropocene symposium held on April 24-25, 2017 at the Lory Student Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Colorado. This symposium aims to bring together academics (faculty and graduate students), independent researchers, community and movement activists, and regulatory and policy practitioners from across disciplines, research areas, perspectives, and different countries. Our overarching goal is to build on several decades of EJ research and practice to address the seemingly intractable environmental and ecological problems of this unfolding era. How can we explore EJ amongst humans and between nature and humans, within and across generations, in an age when humans dominate the landscape? How can we better understand collective human dominance without obscuring continuing power differentials and inequities within and between human societies? What institutional and governance innovations can we adopt to address existing challenges and to promote just transitions and futures?Includes bibliographical references.The purpose of this paper is to provide an outline of environmental justice (EJ) issues of the CPP, specifically with respect to energy efficiency. It is one of a complement of papers sponsored by the Milano School of International Sustainability at the New School that are intended to provide an EJ review of the CPP as a foundation for understanding the opportunities and challenges for integrating equity and justice in climate policy. The catalyst for this set of papers exemplifies one of the problematic issues of climate policy in the U.S. as it has developed over the last several years. While various policy mechanisms have been extensively analyzed in terms of economic efficiency, flexibility and costs of compliance, these stand in stark contrast to only a handful of research efforts that focus on equity impacts of domestic climate mitigation policy. Our goal here is to provide a summary of the major justice/equity issues associated with the CPP specifically, and mainstream climate and energy policy generally. As such, it is not intended to be an in-depth analysis, but rather a starting point for further policy research which we hope to continue

Making Immigrants into Criminals: Legal Processes of Criminalization in the Post-IIRIRA Era

During a post-election TV interview that aired mid-November 2016, then President-Elect Donald Trump claimed that there are millions of so-called “criminal aliens” living in the United States: “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, we have a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate.” This claim is a blatant misrepresentation of the facts. A recent report by the Migration Policy Institute suggests that just over 800,000 (or 7 percent) of the 11 million undocumented individuals in the United States have criminal records. Of this population, 300,000 individuals are felony offenders and 390,000 are serious misdemeanor offenders — tallies which exclude more than 93 percent of the resident undocumented population (Rosenblum 2015, 22-24).[1] Moreover, the Congressional Research Service found that 140,000 undocumented migrants — or slightly more than 1 percent of the undocumented population — are currently serving time in prison in the United States (Kandel 2016). The facts, therefore, are closer to what Doris Meissner, former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Commissioner, argues: that the number of “criminal aliens” arrested as a percentage of all fugitive immigration cases is “modest” (Meissner et al. 2013, 102-03). The facts notwithstanding, President Trump’s fictional tally is important to consider because it conveys an intent to produce at least this many people who — through discourse and policy — can be criminalized and incarcerated or deported as “criminal aliens.” In this article, we critically review the literature on immigrant criminalization and trace the specific laws that first linked and then solidified the association between undocumented immigrants and criminality. To move beyond a legal, abstract context, we also draw on our quantitative and qualitative research to underscore ways immigrants experience criminalization in their family, school, and work lives. The first half of our analysis is focused on immigrant criminalization from the late 1980s through the Obama administration, with an emphasis on immigration enforcement practices first engineered in the 1990s. Most significant, we argue, are the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) and the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA). The second section of our analysis explores the social impacts of immigrant criminalization, as people’s experiences bring the consequences of immigrant criminalization most clearly into focus. We approach our analysis of the production of criminality of immigrants through the lens of legal violence (Menjivar and Abrego 2012), a concept designed to understand the immediate and long-term harmful effects that the immigration regime makes possible. Instead of narrowly focusing only on the physical injury of intentional acts to cause harm, this concept broadens the lens to include less visible sources of violence that reside in institutions and structures and without identifiable perpetrators or incidents to be tabulated. This violence comes from structures, laws, institutions, and practices that, similar to acts of physical violence, leave indelible marks on individuals and produce social suffering. In examining the effects of today’s ramped up immigration enforcement, we turn to this concept to capture the violence that this regime produces in the lives of immigrants. Immigrant criminalization has underpinned US immigration policy over the last several decades. The year 1996, in particular, was a signal year in the process of criminalizing immigrants. Having 20 years to trace the connections, it becomes evident that the policies of 1996 used the term “criminal alien” as a strategic sleight of hand. These laws established the concept of “criminal alienhood” that has slowly but purposefully redefined what it means to be unauthorized in the United States such that criminality and unauthorized status are too often considered synonymous (Ewing, Martínez, and Rumbaut 2015). Policies that followed in the 2000s, moreover, cast an increasingly wider net which continually re-determined who could be classified as a “criminal alien,” such that the term is now a mostly incoherent grab bag. Simultaneously and in contrast, the practices that produce “criminal aliens” are coherent insofar as they condition immigrant life in the United States in now predictable ways. This solidity allows us to turn in our conclusion to some thoughts about the likely future of US immigration policy and practice under President Trump. [1] These numbers are based on the assumption that “unauthorized immigrants and lawful noncitizens commit crimes at similar rates” (Rosenblum 2015, 22). However, there is research that provides good support that criminality among the undocumented is lower than for the foreign-born population overall (Rumbaut 2009; Ewing, Martínez, and Rumbaut 2015)

Chia (Salvia hispanica L.) oil stability: Study of the effect of natural antioxidants

The chia seed (Salvia hispanica L.) is globally popular and valued for its nutritional and health attributes. Chia oil is mainly composed of triglycerides, in which polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs, linoleic and α-linolenic acids) are found in high amounts. Although it seems evident that such fatty acid composition is favorable from a nutritional point of view, a higher content of linoleic and linolenic acids results in poorer oxidative stability and shorter shelf life of the oil. The aim of this study was to evaluate the combined effects of the storage condition (300 days under fluorescent light - 800 Lux - or in the dark, both at room temperature) with the addition of natural antioxidants (rosemary extract, RE; tocopherol, TOC; ascorbyl palmitate, AP). In the dark, the combined addition of AP and TOC significantly reduced lipid oxidation and improved oil shelf life. Moreover, this combination maintained an acceptable quality of at least up to 300 storage days. Results from this work highlight the influence of illumination condition on chia oil oxidative stability, suggesting that this oil should be stored in containers with light-barrier properties, and probably added to the antioxidants examined in the current study.Fil: Bodoira, Romina Mariana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; ArgentinaFil: Penci, Maria Cecilia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos Córdoba. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos Córdoba; ArgentinaFil: Ribotta, Pablo Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos Córdoba. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos Córdoba; ArgentinaFil: Martinez, Marcela Lilian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; Argentin

Measuring the Effects of Interpersonal Training for the Workforce

This study assesses the cumulative effect of a training curriculum focused on teamwork, which was delivered to technical employees in a multinational organization. Employees were given a 10-item survey prior to the training and four months after the survey. Several aspects of the literature were incorporated into the design of the curriculum and analysis of the results: content was tailored toward the employees’ environment, management was asked to promote the training to contribute to a positive climate, and assessment was deferred by four months to maximize the chance that employees might implement the lessons from the training into practice. The results for the 10-item survey show a significant pre- and post-training difference, and implications and findings are discussed and reconciled with the literature

Experiencias de programación en las escuelas

En los últimos años, diferentes organismos han promovido la enseñanza de la programación en la escuela. En esta publicación, analizaremos algunas experiencias de enseñanza de la programación en escuelas públicas primarias y secundarias de la provincia de Córdoba que se desplegaron como resultado de cursos cortos de formación docente. Desde un enfoque exploratorio identificamos, a partir de reflexiones docentes y observaciones de clase, cuatro emergentes en torno a experiencias de enseñanza de la programación con videojuegos: 1) el entusiasmo que genera en los estudiantes, 2) la posibilidad de integrar disciplinas a partir de proyectos de programación, 3) el desarrollo del trabajo colaborativo y 4) la inclusión en tareas de programación de estudiantes con diferentes capacidades cognoscitivas. Se ofrece una sistematización de las reflexiones de los docentes y algunos registros de observación que permitieron construir estos emergentes.Fil: Echeveste, María Emilia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física. Sección Ciencias de la Computación; ArgentinaFil: Martinez, Maria Cecilia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Cordoba. Facultad de Filosofia y Humanidades. Cent.de Invest. Maria Saleme de Burnichon; Argentin

Detection of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in oral mucosa of women with cervical lesions and their relation to oral sex practices

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Previous studies have either investigated the relationship of HPV with oral cancer or the prevalence of HPV on the oral cavity. The purpose of this investigation was to study the prevalence of HPV in oral cavity of women with oral sex practices and cervical lesions.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Forty six (46) non-smokers and non-alcoholic patients attended the "Clínica de Displasias" of "Ciudad Juarez" were sampled. This population had a CIN diagnosis sometime between the previous six months. On previous consent they filled out a questionnaire related to their oral sex practices. Afterwards one swab from cheeks and another from palate/gum were taken; PCR was used to determine generic HPV, HPV16 and HPV18.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Seventy two percent (72%) of the patients stated to have oral sex practices regularly which all of them were positive to HPV either in oral mucus, palate/gum or both. The total of the given results showed that 35% had HPV16; among those distributed in 26% with regular oral sex practices and 9% stated as never practiced oral sex. An association was found between oral HPV16 positivity and progression to cervical CIN advanced lesions. On the other hand HPV18 was not detected. The frequency of HPV16 was higher in buccal mucosa (23%) versus palate/gum (16%).</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>This study suggests that buccal HPV16 infection is associated with CIN progression.</p

Inhaloterapia en el manejo de las enfermedades respiratorias

El tratamiento se fundamenta en el uso de medicamentos por vía inhalada, ya que presenta grandes ventajas frente a las otras vías de administración al llegar directamente al órgano diana, por lo que se requiere menos dosis, su respuesta es más rápida y hay menos efectos adversos

The Loma Ruiz 1 site: lithic technological strategies during the initial late holocene in eastern pampa-patagonia transition

El sitio Loma Ruiz 1 se encuentra emplazado en el curso inferior del río Colorado, en el área de transición Pampeano Patagónica oriental. El conjunto arqueológico datado en ca. 1900-1600 años C14 AP se compone de materiales líticos, faunísticos y cerámicos recuperados tanto en posición superficial como estratigráfica. Los objetivos de este trabajo son discutir las características tecno-tipológicas del conjunto lítico, las estrategias de adquisición y gestión de materias primas líticas, las intenciones y técnicas de talla, los métodos de débitage y façonnage, las chaînes opératoires y la diversidad artefactual registrada. Asimismo, se discute cómo se ajustan los resultados obtenidos al modelo tecnológico areal existente. Estos indican estrategias diferenciales en la explotación de rocas según su origen (local, areal o extra-areal). Las técnicas de talla, los métodos de débitage, las características de los artefactos, sumados a la fragmentación en el espacio y tiempo de las chaînes opératoires reflejan distintos grados de planificación y estrategias de producción artefactual acordes con la procedencia de las rocas empleadas. La presencia de artefactos confeccionados sobre materias primas de la subregión Pampa Húmeda y, posiblemente, de Norpatagonia, indica la circulación de instrumentos en estado avanzado de confección durante el Holoceno tardío inicial.The Loma Ruiz 1 site (Buenos Aires Province) is located in the lower stream of the Colorado river, in the eastern Pampean-Patagonian transition. The archaeological assemblage recovered is composed of lithic, faunal and pottery remains, both in surface and in stratigraphic position. The archaeological component defined in the latter is dated at ca. 1900-1600 14C years BP. The objectives of this paper are to discuss the techno-typological characteristics of the lithic assemblage, the acquisition and management strategies of lithic raw materials, the purposes involved and employed knapping techniques, the débitage and façonnage methods, chaînes opératoires and diversity of tool categories. These results indicate strategies of differential exploitation of particular rocks according to their origin (local, areal and extra-areal). Knapping techniques, débitage methods and tool characteristics, as well as the differences in the space-time fragmentation of the chaînes opératoires related to raw material provenience, revealed differences in planning and tool production strategies. The presence of artifacts made of raw materials from the Humid Pampa sub-region and, possibly, from Northern Patagonia, indicates the circulation of tools in an advanced stage of preparation for the Initial Late Holocene (ca. 3000-1000 years BP). On the basis of these results, the already proposed lithic technological model for the lower stream of the Colorado river is evaluated.Fil: Armentano, Gabriela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Tandil. Investigaciones Arqueologicas y Paleontologicas del Cuaternario Pampeano; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires; ArgentinaFil: Martinez, Gustavo Adolfo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Tandil. Investigaciones Arqueologicas y Paleontologicas del Cuaternario Pampeano; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires; ArgentinaFil: Landini, María Cecilia . Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo; Argentin