Creating Safe Spaces: LGBTQ+ Inclusivity in Schools

This capstone\u27s focus is primarily on the Salinas Valley Education System. This project stresses the importance of inclusivity regarding the LGBTQ+ community in early education. Important factors emerged from an analysis of interviews and literature that shows how controversy, lack of exposure to LGBTQ+ identities, and time, all contribute to the lack of inclusivity for the LGBTQ+ community. As a result of the lack of inclusivity, many children are bullied on school grounds based on their identity. Teachers and stakeholders, who were previously enrolled in the K-12 system and identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community, were interviewed. As a result three themes were presented as part of how the issue could be addressed. After analyzing the research collected, an action option was chosen to address the lack of inclusivity of the LGBTQ+ community in early education

Justice in Extractivism Related Socio-environmental Conflicts from a Decolonial and Restorative Lens:The Agua Zarca case in Honduras

This article investigates the potential of the restorative justice approach to address socio-environmental conflicts resulting from extractivism by employing as a case study the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque River in Honduras. Based on interviews with victims from the affected Lenca community, environmental defenders, and local practitioners, this research shows that harms caused by extractivism are both multi-dimensional and multi-level. We argue that restorative justice represents a viable option for the Agua Zarca case because it offers a kind of justice that is in many ways close to what constitutes a meaningful justice for the Lenca people. However, due to the context of impunity in Honduras, meaningful justice also requires the prosecution of aggressors through the traditional judicial system in addition to structural changes that address colonial legacies such as historical injustices, systemic discrimination, and power asymmetries. Overall, this research shows the importance of a synergy of restorative justice with the decolonialtheory that allows bottom-up strategies for restoring justice on an intra-community as well as a structural level and implementing strategies that transform conflicts in Indigenous territories

A revised Ordovician age for the Miranda do Douro orthogneiss, Portugal. Zircon U-Pb ion-microprobe and LA-ICPMS dating

The Miranda do Douro orthogneiss was believed to be the oldest magmatic rock of the Central Iberian Zone, on the base of a U-Pb discordia upper intercept of 618 ± 9 Ma. Nevertheless, new ion-microprobe and LA-ICPMS U-Pb zircon dating revealed that the crystallization age was 483 ± 3 Ma. The orthogneiss also contains a 605 ± 13 Ma zircon population that indicates that the source-rock for the Ordovician magma was Pan-African. Moreover, a few ~3.17 Ga zircon grains were also recorded. These grains are the oldest found so far in Iberia, and its occurrence would suggest the involvement of an Archean crust in the Pan-African orogeny

Novedades para el Pre-Rif del Jbel Zalagh (Marruecos)

New taxa from the Pre-Rif of the Jbel Zalagh (Morocco)Palabras clave. Flora, corología, Pre-Rif, Jbel Zalagh, N Marruecos.Key words. Flora, chorology, Pre-Rif, Jbel Zalagh, Norther Morocco

First record of a tropical shallow water barnacle Tetraclita sp. (Cirripedia: Tetraclitoidea) from the middle Neogene of the Canary Islands

This paper describes the first record of the intertidal, tropical tetraclitoid barnacle Tetraclita sp. cf. T. stalactifera (Lamarck, 1818) from the middle Neogene of the Canary Islands. The barnacles were recovered as isolated plates from a bioclastic volcanic agglomerate. Associated fauna in- cludes patellid and neritid gastropods, and an oyster bank, which confirm a shallow-water litoral setting. Living Tetraclita stalactifera is recorded from tropical waters of the America, South Africa and the Arabian Sea; it is first recorded as fossil from Plio-Pleistocene of Curaçao (Caribbean Sea, Venezuela)

An effective theory of accelerated expansion

We work out an effective theory of accelerated expansion to describe general phenomena of inflation and acceleration (dark energy) in the Universe. Our aim is to determine from theoretical grounds, in a physically-motivated and model independent way, which and how many (free) parameters are needed to broadly capture the physics of a theory describing cosmic acceleration. Our goal is to make as much as possible transparent the physical interpretation of the parameters describing the expansion. We show that, at leading order, there are five independent parameters, of which one can be constrained via general relativity tests. The other four parameters need to be determined by observing and measuring the cosmic expansion rate only, H(z). Therefore we suggest that future cosmology surveys focus on obtaining an accurate as possible measurement of $H(z)$ to constrain the nature of accelerated expansion (dark energy and/or inflation).Comment: In press; minor changes, results unchange

A note on the determination of light quark masses

We provide a model-independent determination of the quantity B_0(m_d-m_u). Our approach rests only on chiral symmetry and data from the decay of the eta into three neutral pions. Since the low-energy prediction at next-to-leading order fails to reproduce the experimental results, we keep the strong interaction correction as an unknown parameter. As a first step, we relate this parameter to the quark mass difference using data from the Dalitz plot. A similar relation is obtained using data from the decay width. Combining both relations we obtain B_0(m_d-m_u)=(4495+/-440) MeV^2. The preceding value, combined with lattice determinations, leads to the values m_u(2 GeV)=(2.9+/-0.8) MeV and m_d(2 GeV)=(4.7+/-0.8) MeV.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, updated version with all detailed formulas, title slighly change