Children and Pets: The Hidden Victims of Domestic Violence & Abuse (DVA): Where Action & Activism merge!

Children and Pets: The Hidden Victims of Domestic Violence & Abuse (DVA): Where Action & Activism merge! Researchers such as Harne (2011) and Radford et al (2011) have long championed the area of Children’s rights in the DVA field and the Government’s VAWG strategy has begun to recognise young people as victims of DVA as a distinct issue. Another gain thus far has been that the Home Office (2013) definition now recognises victims from age 17 years. Moreover, the Government’s draft Domestic Abuse Bill (2019) commits itself to better addressing young people’s needs alongside making improvements for children, though it does fall short of recognising children as victims of DVA independently. Nonetheless, there continues to be calls to progress the agenda to recognise that child victims be given independent agency, with research and practice strategically developed to address their needs specifically, as well as within the broader context of DVA prevention (e.g. NSPCC 2019). In a similar vein, we argue that the concept of denial of agency, is equally applicable to other types of hidden victims of DVA including that of companion animals/pets. While some research has explored the link between victims and their companion animals in DVA relationships (e.g. Flynn, 2000, 2011), the area of agency and its denial has been relatively underexplored as it relates to animals. Arguably, one reason for this, is the notion of a broader ontological debate on anthropocentrism and speciesism. More specifically, an anthropocentric perspective of companion animals has provided some developments towards their protection such as pet fostering services offered to victims experiencing DVA when seeking to escape/flee. This is aligned with a hierarchal concept of the species placing humans at the top of a policy agenda comparative to non-human species (e.g. Beirne, 2013). On the other hand, a speciesist perspective explores and emphasises the rights of animals, where animals are given independent agency in the same way as humans (e.g. Sollund, 2011). This perspective then translates into policy and criminal law regarding the treatment of animals as victims of animal cruelty. These services already exist in for instance animal organisations taking responsibility for prosecutions of animal cruelty. However, we contend that the treatment of companion animals/pets should – not unlike the developments regarding children as victims of DVA – be incorporated into the same approach to developing and tackling strategies to address DVA. This poster explores the steps taken to date to draw attention to and develop a research and policy agenda of DVA for Pets, how this interlinks with the rights of children and what may be the blocks, challenges and enabling forces to start a collaborative discussion as to how to best address/recognise animal agency. We propose a broader theoretical development to help understand these victims of DVA using ‘The Power and Control Wheel’ model. Raising awareness of the need for the intersection of agency and highlighting that children and pets are very different to adults in numerous ways has important implications for service delivery and community resources which may help professionals and advocates to develop the support mechanisms these victims really need to survive and best recover from the trauma of DVA

Energizing entrepreneurs: Resourceful communities and economic pathways

INTRODUCTION This paper illustrates the relevance for the non-profit sector of moving beyond its traditional roles into entrepreneurial community economic development. Its approach aligns with conceptualizations of sustainability through the self-help galvanization and development of enterprise opportunities, education pathways, and labour market outcomes for the community, by the community. METHOD It develops the concept of social entrepreneurship as a hybrid form between private, non-profit, and public sectors, in line with examples of non-profit organizations with entrepreneurial offshoots, generating revenue for the organization’s social objectives. ANALYSIS The article operationalizes these ideas through the design, creation, roll-out, and achievement of a community enterprise incubation program for urban Polynesians in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It examines the challenges, how they were resolved, and analyzes how both challenges and reforms contribution to the body of knowledge. RESULTS Through the project’s demonstrable initial successes, the authors argue that it offers clear signposts to government, the public sector, and the private sector in how to move beyond simple capacity building to sustainable enterprises and by entrepreneurs in the community who have been created, energized, and given experience by participation in the process. They present the project as a prototype on how to resource community groups and organizations embarking on their community economic development journeys and how to liberate the self-motivating entrepreneurial energies of communities

Real Time in Plan 9

We describe our experience with the implementation and use of a hard-real-time scheduler for use in Plan 9 as an embedded operating system

An Evaluation of the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) in Chicago: Year One Impact Report

Based on test scores, teacher records, surveys, and interviews, examines the first-year impact of the TAP program, in which teachers delivering added value to student achievement and quality classroom performance earn extra pay and become mentors

Localization of the Functional Domains of Human Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinases-3 and the Effects of a Sorsby's Fundus Dystrophy Mutation

A transient COS-7 cell expression system was used to investigate the functional domain arrangement of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-3 (TIMP-3), specifically to assess the contribution of the amino- and carboxylterminal domains of the molecule to its matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) inhibitory and extracellular matrix (ECM) binding properties. Wild type TIMP-3 was entirely localized to the ECM in both its glycosylated (27 kDa) and unglycosylated (24 kDa) forms. A COOH-terminally truncated TIMP-3 molecule was found to be a non- ECM bound MMP inhibitor, whereas a chimeric TIMP molecule, consisting of the NH2-terminal domain of TIMP-2 fused to the COOH-terminal domain of TIMP-3, displayed ECM binding, albeit with a lower affinity than the wild type TIMP-3 molecule. Thus the functional domain arrangement of TIMP-3 is analogous to that seen in TIMP-1 and -2, namely that the NH2-terminal domain is responsible for MMP inhibition whereas the COOH-terminal domain is most important in mediating the specific functions of the molecule. A mutant TIMP-3 in which serine 181 was changed to a cysteine, found in Sorsby’s fundus dystrophy, a hereditary macular degenerative disease, was also expressed in COS-7 cells. This gave rise to an additional 48-kDa species (possibly a TIMP-3 dimer) that retained its ability to inhibit MMPs and localize to the ECM. These data favor the hypothesis that the TIMP-3 mutations seen in Sorsby’s fundus dystrophy contribute to disease progression by accumulation of mutant protein rather than by the loss of functional TIMP-3

An Examination of the Experiences of BAME Students in the Community and Criminal Justice Division

Freedom to Achieve is De Montfort University’s commitment to its students, whatever their ethnicity, to ensure there is an equal playing field. The attainment gap between Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME)1 and white students within UK Higher Education (HE) is well documented and DMU are part of a ground-breaking project to positively address this issue. As part of this multi-faceted programme, the Community and Criminal Justice Division (CCJ) undertook a pilot study to explore our BAME students’ experiences at the university. The aim of these results is to help establish preliminary short term and long term strategies to help deliver overall improvements in the BAME attainment gap and aspirations to achieve at DMU. After undertaking a survey of BAME students within the CCJ, a series of key thematic areas emerged, namely: 1) Assessments, 2) Discrimination, 3) Diversity, 4) Lecture Style, 5) Support, and 6) Universal Design for Learning. We examine and explore these issues in relation to three key theoretical models used to explore BAME attainment in Higher Education. Nigrescence Theory, Social Identity Theory, and Critical Race Theory are all used to help understand the experiences of BAME students. Using the results, we have identified a series of short and long term recommendations that could be utilised to ensure and take steps towards addressing the attainment gap between BAME and White students at DMU

'Doing What is Right': Researching Intimacy, Work and Family Life in Glasgow, 1945-1960

Understanding discursive shifts over the twentieth century in relation to family roles, paid work and care is essential to any critical review of contemporary family theory and policies. This paper charts aspects of these shifts. An analysis of case records of the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (RSSPCC), 1945 to 1960 is presented. Based upon these data we reflect upon the construction of the working-class family in the West of Scotland and draw upon one case study to illustrate issues further. This post-war period was one of rapid social and technological change. It is commonly perceived as a period of segregated gender roles, and in the UK a predominant male-breadwinner family model. The RSSPCC case records suggest that family lives and forms, particularly for those on low incomes, were diverse throughout this period. Although prosecutions for cruelty and neglect are dominant in perceptions of the society, most of its work was in material assistance, advice and surveillance. This latter aspect is considered in this paper.Families, Child Protection, Gender, Paid Work, Care

Comparison of acoustic data from a 102 mm conic nozzle as measured in the RAE 24-foot wind tunnel and the NASA Ames 40- by 80-foot wind tunnel

A cooperative program between the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), England, and the NASA Ames Research Center was initiated to compare acoustic measurements made in the RAE 24-foot wind tunnel and in the Ames 40- by 80-foot wind tunnel. The acoustic measurements were made in both facilities using the same 102 mm conical nozzle supplied by the RAE. The nozzle was tested by each organization using its respective jet test rig. The mounting hardware and nozzle exit conditions were matched as closely as possible. The data from each wind tunnel were independently analyzed by the respective organization. The results from these tests show good agreement. In both facilities, interference with acoustic measurement is evident at angles in the forward quadrant