They Treat You Like You Are Worthless: Internal DHS Reports of Abuses by US Border Officials

This report examines allegations of abuse catalogued in internal US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reports received by Human Rights Watch on September 24, 2021 via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).The internal reports include testimony and descriptions of testimony regarding over 160 cases of misconduct and abuse of asylum applicants at the hands of officers within several DHS components, particularly CBP officers and Border Patrol agents. The records, though heavily redacted, demonstrate that asylum officers within US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), another component of DHS, have repeatedly provided internal reports on allegations of assault, sexual abuse, due process violations, denial of medical care, harsh detention conditions, and dehumanizing treatment at the border

Atrial Rate And Rhythm Abnormalities In A Patient With Hyperkalemia

A 67 year old man presented with a serum potassium of 7.7 mEq/L and slow atrial flutter with variable A-V block and peaked T waves. Initial treatment for hyperkalemia was followed by an increase in the atrial flutter rate to 300 beats per minute. After hemodialysis the rhythm converted to sinus

A practical application of LOTUS 1-2-3.

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Phonetic-phonoligical factors in stuttering in German

Jorschick A, Rachko D, Cholin J. Phonetic-phonoligical factors in stuttering in German. In: Skarnitzl R, Volín J, eds. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Guarant International; 2023.Relating stuttering to phonetic-phonological complexity has a long tradition in clinical and psycholinguistic research. Some findings point toward a relationship between stuttering and phonetic-articulatory effort, while others emphasize lexical-representational aspects. In our study, we focus on phenomena specifically arising in the transition from phonological to phonetic-articulatory encoding. Here, abstract phonological segments are assembled to form motor plans for articulation by taking various factors into account. We investigated stuttering in a German word-reading-task using words and nonsense-words starting with a [CV]-structure, manipulating manner and place of articulation of word-initial consonants and their distance to adjacent vowels (transition), vowel length, controlling for word length, syllable frequency and biphone frequency. Results show word length as a robust predictor of stuttering, while the factors transition, manner and vowel length (and their interaction) also played a role. We argue that only such systematic approaches allow insights into the complex interplay between encoding levels in stuttering