Increasing Awareness of Community Resources and Support for Individuals with Depression

Depression is a common mental disorder characterized by loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low-self worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy, poor concentration, insomnia or hypersomnia, and occasionally suicidal thoughts. These problems can lead to substantial impairments in an individual\u27s daily functioning. At its worst, depression can lead to suicide. In Vermont, suicide consistently ranks as one of the top 10 leading causes of death.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk/1048/thumbnail.jp

Reliability and Validity of the Academic Maturity Scale

Academic maturity is defined as the extent to which college students maximize their academic potentials. Addison, Althoff, and Pezold (2009) designed the 100-item Academic Maturity Scale (AMS) to measure this construct. Through factor analyses, the AMS was reduced to 30 items and four factors: motivation, responsibility, focus, and time management. The current study examined the reliability and validity of the 30-item AMS. Data from 425 participants supported the internal consistency of the AMS subscales, and results from 88 participants who completed the AMS, the Academic Motivation Scale (Vallerand et al., 1992), and the Time Management Questionnaire (TMQ; Britton & Tesser, 1991) yielded significant, positive correlations between scores on the AMS time management subscale and TMQ scores, and between scores on the AMS motivation subscale and those on the Academic Motivation Scale. These findings support the validity of the time management and motivation subscales of the AMS

Understory Species Increase Project: Evaluating Establishment From Seed

Urban forest fragments are frequently managed with an aim to reduce invasive species and promote native species diversity. However, natural regeneration of native forest species, including herbaceous understory species that are especially sensitive to site conditions, is often lacking in these environments. Herbaceous understory species are important for nutrient dynamics in forests and they contain higher biodiversity than other forest strata. Many restoration projects implemented throughout the Willamette Valley in Oregon focus primarily on the establishment of the dominant woody species typical of a Pacific Northwest riparian forest. The lack of focus on the herbaceous understory species can be attributed to the relatively high costs and scarcity of plant material as well as limitations in technical information. The Understory Species Increase Project (USIP) is a collaborative effort started by City of Portland’s Reveg Program, Clean Water Services, and Metro that aims to fill these knowledge and resource gaps by researching, developing, and amplifying diverse herbaceous understory species. The current project stage examines which species readily establish from seed, using in-situ trial plots throughout the Portland Metro Area, half of which were seeded with a mix of native herbaceous understory species. Data from year 1-4 post-seeding have revealed significantly greater richness and abundance of herbaceous understory species in seeded plots compared to controls, but results vary greatly by site and species. Here, we investigate which herbaceous understory species have the greatest overall success and which environmental conditions have the strongest effect on the germination, establishment, and growth of target species

Uncertainty Analysis of NASA Glenn's 8- by 6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel

An analysis was performed to determine the measurement uncertainty of the Mach Number of the 8- by 6-foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the NASA Glenn Research Center. This paper details the analysis process used, including methods for handling limited data and complicated data correlations. Due to the complexity of the equations used, a Monte Carlo Method was utilized for this uncertainty analysis. A summary of the findings are presented as pertains to understanding what the uncertainties are, how they impact various research tests in the facility, and methods of reducing the uncertainties in the future

Covid-19 and housing struggles: The (re)makings of austerity, disaster capitalism, and the no return to normal

Seemingly overnight, the use value of housing as a life-nurturing, safe place is at the center of political discourse, policy-making, and new governmentalities. The right to suitable and secure shelter has shifted from the “radical” margins to the object of unprecedented public policy interventions worldwide. Writing collectively from the relative privilege of our (often precarious) homes, we sketch out a space to reflect on the centrality of housing and home to the Covid-19 crisis, to disentangle the key nexus between housing, the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, austerity, and the current pandemic, and connect current responses to longer-term trajectories of dispossession and disposability, bordering, ethno-nationalism, financialization, imperialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and racism. We argue that much is to be learned from collective organizing and mutual aid in the context of previous moments of disaster capitalism

Housing Justice in Unequal Cities

Housing Justice in Unequal Cities is a global research network funded by the National Science Foundation (BCS 1758774) and housed at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. This open-access volume, co-edited by Ananya Roy and Hilary Malson, brings together movement-based and university-based scholars to build a shared field of inquiry focused on housing justice. Based on a convening that took place in Los Angeles in January 2019, at the LA Community Action Network and at the University of California, Los Angeles, the essays and interventions situate housing justice in the long struggle for freedom on stolen land. Embedded in the stark inequalities of Los Angeles, our work is necessarily global, connecting the city’s Skid Row to the indebted and evicted in Spain and Greece, to black women’s resistance in Brazil, to the rights asserted by squatters in India and South Africa. Learning from radical social movements, we argue that housing justice also requires a commitment to research justice. With this in mind, our effort to build a field of inquiry is also necessarily an endeavor to build epistemologies and methodologies that are accountable to communities that are on the frontlines of banishment and displacement