J Safety Res

IntroductionIgnition interlocks are effective in reducing alcohol-impaired driving recidivism for all offenders, including first-time offenders. Despite their effectiveness, interlock use among persons convicted of driving while intoxicated from alcohol (DWI) remains low. This cross-sectional survey of U.S. adults assessed public support for requiring ignition interlocks for all convicted DWI offenders including first-time offenders. The goal was to update results from a similar 2010 survey in light of new state requirements and increased interlock installations.MethodsQuestions were included in the Porter Novelli FallStyles survey, which was fielded from September 28 to October 16, 2015. Participants were the 3,536 individuals who provided an opinion toward requiring ignition interlocks for all offenders. For analyses, opinion toward requiring interlocks for all offenders was dichotomized into \u2018agree\u2019 and \u2018neutral/disagree.\u2019 To handle missing data, 10 imputed datasets were created and pooled using fully conditional specification (FCS).ResultsFifty-nine percent of adults supported requiring interlocks for all DWI offenders. Multivariate analysis revealed that persons who did not report alcohol-impaired driving (AID) were 60% more likely to support requiring interlocks than those who reported AID. Having heard of interlocks also increased support. Support was generally consistent across demographic subgroups.ConclusionsInterlocks for all offenders have majority support nationwide in the current survey, consistent with previous reports. Support is lowest among those who have reported alcohol-impaired driving in the past 30 days. These results suggest that communities with higher levels of alcohol-impaired driving may be more resistant to requiring ignition interlocks for all convicted DWI offenders. Future studies should examine this association further.Practical applicationsThese results indicate that the majority of adults recognize DWI as a problem and support requiring interlocks for all offenders.CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States2018-12-01T00:00:00Z29203030PMC5751413vault:2576

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Relational Leading: Practices for Dialogically Based Collaboration. By Lone Hersted & Kenneth J. Gergen.

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Adult Women in the Wizarding World : Rowling’s Ideal Female in the Harry Potter Novels

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(In) between word and image : reading comics

In this thesis, I explore what it means to read a comic. Because comics combine words and images, reading a comic involves discovering the various relationships between two forms of language that create meaning. Fundamentally, comics are what Mikhail Bakhtin would call a hybridized construction because they combine two languages. Thus, comics are helping language to evolve. Historically, the relationship between words and images has been misunderstood, which has led to a misunderstanding of comics. Bakhtin, writing in defense of the novel (another medium that was poorly-received at its inception and criticized for many of the same reasons comic books are criticized), says novels require different things of their readers because of the ways they use language. Similarly, comics use language in new ways and present particular challenges to their readers. There are remarkable parallels between how Bakhtin says we read the novel and how comics scholars such as Thierry Groensteen and Charles Hatfield suggest we read comics. Using Bakhtin’s philosophy of language to read two comics, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp, reveals that comics create both visual and verbal representations of Bakhtin’s ideas. In particular, comics find new ways to manifest heteroglossia, through the many ways they can visually represent the voices of many speakers, pure dialogue, language as ideology. Furthermore, hybrid constructions, dialogism, and centripetal/centrifugal forces are an inherent part of comic art. Reading comics is particularly complex because they are a discourse that intentionally embraces hybrid texts with words and images. Bakhtin shows that hybridized constructions are the primary way language evolves. As our culture becomes more and more accustomed to reading images, comics can help us make the shift to what image/word theorist W. J. T. Mitchell predicts is new paradigm that will transcend the word/image dichotomy

Az 1956-os magyar forradalom a francia oktatásban és a történelem tankönyvekben

A hidegháború miatt a közép-európai országok és népek történelmének tanítása hosszú ideig nehéz és tökéletlen volt. Pedig Magyarország megfelelő példa annak bemutatására, miként nyomták el a népeket, amelyeknek mégis volt bátorságuk újra és újra felkelni szabadságukért, végül 1989-ben nyerve el azt. Egy humánus és testvéri Európa létrehozatalához nélkülözhetetlen szomszéd országaink történelmének ismerete, különösen a közép-európai országoké