“Where I’m Coming From”: A Discourse Analysis of Financial Advice Media

In this paper we conceptualize different understandings and positions taken in conflicts over finances in family and couple relationships. We see these as informed by discourses found in popular and professional media. Discourses, as we describe them, are cultural ways of understanding and acting – where “we are coming from,” in this case, relates to finances and financial management. We turn to various media (magazine advice articles, self-help books, professional and research literatures) using discourse analysis to identify distinct discourses regarding how finances are to be regarded and managed. We then link these discourses to discourse positions, or positionings, that partners and family members present that could be relevant to concerns about finances presented to relational therapists and financial therapists. We offer questions and other ways of avoiding “capture” in discourse positions that can be harmful to relationships, including the therapeutic relationship

Aqueous Nile blue: a simple, versatile and safe reagent for the detection of latent fingermarks

Nile blue A in aqueous solution undergoes spontaneous hydrolysis to the photoluminescent compound Nile red. This reagent provides a simple and safe approach to the detection of latent fingermarks on porous and non-porous surfaces

Nanoparticle-Enhanced Fluorescence Imaging of Latent Fingerprints Reveals Drug Abuse

No sweat! The sweat in a latent fingerprint (LFP) can contain orally ingested drugs and their metabolites. In a new method for drug detection, primary antibodies(Abs) against drug metabolites are conjugated to magnetic nanoparticles (NPs). The LFP is incubated with the NPs, excess particles removed, and the LFP treated with a fluorescently labeled secondary antibody. Fluorescence imaging then allows characterization

Negotiation of misunderstandings between clients who have immigrated to Canada and therapists in collaborative therapeutic conversations

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How do Immigrant Family Members Successfully Negotiate Cultural Identities in Family Therapy: A Discursive Analysis

One of Canada’s trademarks is the cultural diversity of its people, and how different ways of life are integrated to Canadian society a current and important issue. Often, unresolved dilemmas surface as attempts to negotiate and recognize different cultural identities in ways that reflect both immigrants and Canadian preferences. Therapy conversations can become spaces in which immigrant family members, together with therapists, collaborate in recognizing each other according to cultural memberships that are preferred by them. In this study, I focus on how immigrant family members relationally recognize and co-articulate with each other their preferred cultural memberships. I also explore what immigrant family members consider therapists’ helpful conversational moves in helping them negotiate preferred cultural identities. Informed by discursive psychology, I offer my analysis of five immigrant families’ therapy conversations. I describe three practices (resisting recognition, foregrounding cultural identities, and recognizing preferred cultural identities) in which immigrant family members engaged, together with their therapists, in successfully negotiating preferred cultural identities. This preference-animated research can be useful for family therapists who work with immigrant families, to help them foreground relational patterns of dis-preferred cultural identity ascriptions (i.e., misrecognition), to find relational patterns that suit them better as a family

Les conseillers répondent au DSM-IV-TR

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) is an administrative fact for many counsellors. This psychiatric approach to formulating client concerns runs counter to those used by counsellors of many approaches (e.g., systemic, feminist). Using an online survey of counsellors (N = 116), invited contributions to a website blog, and in-depth interviews of 10 counsellors, we sought to better understand how the DSM-IV-TR infuenced counsellors' practice, and their responses to its expected use. From our situational analyses, we relate our findings to tensions experienced by counsellors when practicing from non-psychiatric approaches to practice.Le Manuel diagnostique et statistique des troubles mentaux, texte révisé (DSM-IVTR), est devenu un fait administratif pour beaucoup de conseillers. Cette approche psychiatrique à la formulation des préoccupations des clients va à l’encontre du style de thérapie adopté souvent par des conseillers (e.g., systémique, féministe). Nous nous sommes servi d’un sondage en ligne de praticiens (N = 116), des soumissions sollicitées à un blogue Web, et des entrevues en profondeur avec dix conseillers dans le but de mieux comprendre l’influence du DSM-IV-TR sur la pratique des conseillers, et leurs réponses à son utilisation attendue. Les constatations de nos analyses situationnelles sont reliées aux tensions ressenties par les conseillers dont la pratique se base sur des approches non psychiatriques

Herpes Simplex Virus Type‑1 Attachment Inhibition by Functionalized Graphene Oxide

Graphene oxide and its derivatives have lately been the subject of increased attention in the field of bioscience and biotechnology. In this article, we report on the use of graphene oxide (GO) derivatives to inhibit herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1) infections, mimicking the cell surface receptor heparan sulfate, and the GO derivatives compete with the latter in binding HSV-1. The inhibition does not affect cell-to-cell spreading. Media content has a significant effect on the inhibition properties of the nanomaterials. These have no cytotoxic effect, suggesting that this is a promising approach for the development of antiviral surfaces and for diagnostic purposes

“Where I’m Coming From”: A Discourse Analysis of Financial Advice Media

In this paper we conceptualize different understandings and positions taken in conflicts over finances in family and couple relationships. We see these as informed by discourses found in popular and professional media. Discourses, as we describe them, are cultural ways of understanding and acting – where “we are coming from,” in this case, relates to finances and financial management. We turn to various media (magazine advice articles, self-help books, professional and research literatures) using discourse analysis to identify distinct discourses regarding how finances are to be regarded and managed. We then link these discourses to discourse positions, or positionings, that partners and family members present that could be relevant to concerns about finances presented to relational therapists and financial therapists. We offer questions and other ways of avoiding “capture” in discourse positions that can be harmful to relationships, including the therapeutic relationship