Mental health and indigenous university students

In essence, the concept of mental health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is very broad. The capacity to achieve good mental wellbeing rests largely with the individual’s relationship with family and community and connection to land, as well as spiritual and physical wellness (Australia. Department of Health and Ageing 2004). Recent research into the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal students from eight universities, revealed a large number of them had a diagnosed mental health issue. This paper with explore the students’ mental health issues and their relationship to the university experience

CONFEDERATELY WRONG: THE NAMES OF HERMITAGE NEIGHBORHOOD IT SHOULD BE CHANGED

The Civil War was one of the most defining acts of war in American History. The Union and the Confederacy battled over the future of African born slaves. The Confederacy wanted to see the African born slaves in chains forever. However, the Union possessed the desire to allow the African slave a proper place in their society. LSU played a major part in the civil war on behalf of the confederacy. LSU’s staff, faculty, and students fought in the war for Baton Rouge and lost to the Union. Hence, the spirit of confederacy was embedded in Baton Rouge culture regardless of the war defeat. The spirit of confederacy provided local Baton Rouge Real Estate developers a marketing strategy to build confederate-themed neighborhoods. The intent behind the confederate-themed development concept was to increase racial segregation. Unbeknownst to the developers, the desire to have adequate housing trumped racism for middle class African Americans. My mother Alice Toombs was one of the first residents to live in the neighborhood of Hermitage. Hermitage was a fort for Andrew Jackson and a major contributor to the confederacy. My life has been affected by the confederacy as have others that look like me. It is my desire to utilize my Liberal Arts education to unravel the mindset behind the confederate-named neighborhoods in Baton Rouge. Patterns in history support the notion that the confederate values of the civil war are popular in Baton Rouge. The East Baton Rouge Parish Street Naming Committee conducted research that breaks down the confederate themed neighborhoods in Baton Rouge. The goal of my work is to highlight the need to rename the confederate themed neighborhoods to increase unity and develop progress in a socially damaged Baton Rouge. Currently, the celebration of the confederacy stifles the potential for racial advancement and diverse economic development. Baton Rouge is a unique city with a lot of pride and love. However, Baton Rouge is also a city that is still very segregated and territorial. South Baton Rouge is loyal to Louisiana State University and North Baton Rouge is loyal to Southern University. In 2022, the racial tension in Baton Rouge is still an issue. Renaming confederate themed neighborhoods can ease the tension by encouraging social conversation about new forms of progressive racial actions. Herb Turner believed by creating a neighborhood with a confederate theme, LSU faithful would flock to his real estate development. Instead, he underestimated the middle class African American desire to live in descent living quarters. Mr. Turner built homes that were affordable and desirable with great amenities. I’m sure Mr. Turner could not foresee his beloved Hermitage becoming a majority black neighborhood. I have lived in Hermitage for over 30 years and now I see the unbelievable irony that exists today. The intent of Mr. Turner to keep black people out of his neighborhood development has backfired tremendously. Hermitage and all of its rhetoric is now outdated and not relevant. The confederacy lost the civil war and its unjust heroes are traitors. The name of Hermitage should reflect the new residents and their culture

If It Looks Like a Scraper An Investigation of a Novel Lithic Tool Form from Waka’

Lithic artifact functions are often determined by analysis of form alone. Artifact function can be determined through experimental archaeology, use-wear, and paleoethnobotanical analyses. Determining artifact function provides information about the types of tasks people performed, including activities involving materials which are unlikely to preserve in the archaeological record. Such data are valuable for our understanding of day-to-day activities and larger scale past economic organization. This thesis addresses the function a novel form of unifacial scraper from the Classic period (250 – 900 AD) Maya city of Waka’, Guatemala. I employed experimental replication, use-wear analysis, and paleoethnobotanical analyses to ascertain potential functions for the specific tool type. This study shows that these tools were likely intended to process soft organic materials such as maguey cacti, but in practice they were employed for a variety of tasks. Beyond investigating the function of a novel tool form, produced on chert, which is underappreciated in Maya archaeology, this thesis uses this information to comment on the nature of Classic period Maya economies. This research adds to broader ongoing reassessments of Maya economies, which are now recognized as more similar to our own economies than previously thought. I find that these scrapers were quotidian tools manufactured by specialists and exchanged through a commercial system, illustrating that Classic Maya economies were complex, multi-scalar, and commercialized

Reinforcement learning of visually guided spatial goal directed movement

A range of visually guided, spatial goal directed tasks are investigated, using a computational neuroethology approach. Animats are embedded within a bounded, 2-D environment, and map a 1-D visual array, through a convolution network, to a topography preserving motor array that stochastically determines the direction of movement. Temporal difference reinforcement learning modifies the convolution network in response to a reinforcement signal received only at the goal location. Three forms of visual coding are compared: multiscale coding, where the visual array is convolved by Laplacian of Gaussian filters at a range of spatial scales before convolution to determine the motor array; rectified multiscale coding, where the multiscale array is split into positive and negative components; and intensity coding, where the unfiltered visual array is convolved to determine the motor array. After learning, animats are examined in terms of performance, behaviour and internal structure. When animats learn to approach a solitary circle, of randomly varying contrast, rectified multiscale coding animats learn to outperform multiscale and intensity coding animats in both independent and coarse scale noise conditions. Analysis of the learned internal structure shows that rectified multiscale filtering facilitates learning by enabling detection of the circle at scales least affected by noise. Cartwright and Collett (1983) showed that honeybees learn the angle subtended by a featureless landmark to guide movement to a food source at a fixed distance from the landmark, and furthermore, when tested with only the edges of the landmark, still search in the same location. In a simulation of this experiment, animats are reinforced for moving to where the angle subtended by a solitary circle falls within a certain range. Rectified multiscale filtering leads to better performing animats, with fewer hidden units, in both independent and coarse scale visual noise conditions, though for different reasons in each case. Only those animats with rectified multiscale filtering, that learn in the presence of coarse scale noise, show similar generalisation to the honeybees. Collett, Cartwright and Smith (1986) trained gerbils to search at locations relative to arrangemments of landmarks and tested their search patterns in modifications of the training arrangements. These experiments are simulated with landmark distance coded as either a 1-D intensity array, or a 2-D vector array, plus a simple compass sense. Vector coding animats significantly outperform those using intensity coding and do so with fewer hidden units. Furthermore, vector coding animats show a close match to gerbil behaviour in tests with modified landmark arrangements

Arouse, Ye Slaves! : The Bill Haywood Trial, the Clash of Organized Labor and Capital in the West, and the Influence of the Appeal to Reason

The trial for the murder of a controversial ex-governor of Idaho represented a watershed moment in American labor history, especially in the West. The accused, three men who had been involved with the leadership of a predominantly western labor union, had been questionably extradited from Colorado to Idaho, causing a firestorm within the pro-labor forces. This public uproar and denunciation eventually caught the attention of sitting President Theodore Roosevelt, who became an unexpected and unwanted mouthpiece for concentrated capital. Ultimately, as this case came to occupy almost every major newspaper in the country, it illustrated the fierce and deadly clashes between powerful special interests and organized labor in the twentieth century American West

Is the family pet a risk for multidrug resistant infections? : thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Veterinary Science at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Copyright is owned by the Author of the thesis. Permission is given for a copy to be downloaded by an individual for the purpose of research and private study only. The thesis may not be reproduced elsewhere without the permission of the Author.Risk factors for community-acquired urinary tract infections (UTI) caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-(ESBL) and AmpC beta-lactamase-(ACBL) producing Enterobacteriaceae were investigated in a prospective case-control study conducted between August 2015 and September 2017. Both cases and controls were from the Auckland and Northland regions of New Zealand. A telephone questionnaire was delivered to participants, and the results analysed for putative risk factors for human infections. Analysis was performed using regression models, including factors around pet ownership and any other animal contact. Faecal samples were submitted from some households; this included samples from both people and companion animals. Isolates collected from index case urine samples and ESBL- or ACBL-producing faecal samples were sequenced and subsequently analysed through a bioinformatics pipeline. Pet ownership was not found to be a risk for human ESBL- or AmpC-producing infections in this study. Another important finding of this research was that E. coli ST-131 was the most commonly found bacteria associated with the UTI from people recruited into the case-control study. The strains of this sequence type were likely to have entered New Zealand in multiple introductions over the last 20 years. Transmission of ESBL-/ACBLproducing E. coli was also suspected to have occurred within households where a person had been recently infected with the same bacteria (in the form of a UTI) caused by an ESBL-/ACBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae. The results of this study as a whole indicate that while pets may not be a major risk for acquisition of ESBL/ACBL-producing bacteria, they are likely to play a role in the transmission of bacteria within homes and the community, and therefore warrant attention in future work

Puritan idea of the holy commonwealth with special reference to John Eliot and Richard Baxter

The pretext for this thesis was the notoriety which both Eliot and Baxter received over the publication of political treatises. Subsequent history has overlooked these facts and remembered them for other achievements. Our task was to determine the idea of the Holy Commonwealth visualised by these eminent Puritan divines. Accordingly, the method of treatment followed was: 1. To investigate the history of the two books which most concerned us ana to state the relevant facts about the authors' lives and contemporary history; 2. To make a detailed summary of the main characteristics of the ideal commonwealths described in these books; 3. To evaluate and compare these theories with the history of political thought up to John Locke.Eliot's pamphlet 'The Christian Commonwealth was republican in character and brought him into conflict with the authorities in Massachusetts immediately after the Restoration. Baxter's A Holy Commonwealth appeared in 1659 and at once it involved him in bitter controversy. Both authors revoked their books.The main conclusions of the investigation are as follows:1. Eliot's contribution to Puritan political theory was most Utopian, and like many theocracies assumed that the form of organisation of the commonwealth was all-important. His Scripture government deduced from the Old Testament revealed little knowledge of political philosophy. However, it did reflect the optimism and republican sentiments of the Puritans in New England.2. Baxter was an able exponent of Natural Law and had great [page missing