The Impact of Social Situations on College Students’ Perceptions of Sexual Consent

The majority of research examining sexual consent among college students focuses on how young adults communicate sexual consent during interactions immediately preceding a sexual encounter. However, preliminary research suggests that college students perceive that individuals begin to communicate sexual consent within social settings (e.g., at a bar) and through nonsexual interactions (e.g., text messaging); this has been labeled “outside the bedroom” consent. In order to further explore “outside the bedroom” consent, college students (n= 789) were randomly assigned to read four of sixteen vignettes. Within each vignette, four variables were manipulated: gender of the initiator (male or female), the social setting in which the characters met (bar or library), the communication style used to transition to the home of the initiator (walking home together or exchanging text messages), and the final cue communicated by the characters (nonverbal or verbal) in the moments immediately preceding the sexual encounter. Participants were asked open-ended questions about when they believed the characters first consented to intercourse. Data were coded by two researchers using an inductive approach. Interrater reliability was analyzed via Kappa’s Light; coders were extremely reliable (α \u3e 0.90). Nearly 81 percent of responses (n = 4,602) stated the characters consented “inside the bedroom” (i.e., at the home of the initiator). Regardless of the gender of the character, students most frequently stated that the character communicated consent through the use of an explicit verbal cue. Approximately three percent of responses (n = 182) were coded as cues occurring “outside the bedroom,” indicating that that participants perceived characters consenting at the bar, library, while walking home, or exchanging text messages. The results are inconsistent with previous literature stating that college students most often use implicit nonverbal cues to communicate consent and that consent negotiations are perceived to begin “outside the bedroom.” Participants’ responses may reflect an exposure to contemporary consent education programs that endorse explicit verbal consent. The potential impacts of consent education programs on college student’s perceptions of consent and the methodological implications for future research will be discussed

How Eagle Public Schools\u27 Gifted Program Works as a System: A Case Study

Learners who are gifted often underachieve due to various issues related to how they are served in their gifted programs. The purpose of this qualitative single-instrumental, embedded case study was to describe how the components of the gifted program of Eagle Public Schools, a small suburban school district in northern Virginia that recently implemented a new talent search approach in its gifted program, work together as a system to address the problem of underachieving gifted learners. The study sought to answer the central question: How do the components of Eagle Public Schools’ gifted program work together as a system? The conceptual framework guiding this study was systems theory, which stresses the importance of looking at not only the individual parts of a system but also the interaction between the parts when evaluating a system. Participants included parents, teachers, staff members from the gifted program, and administrators. Data from a document review and individual and focus group interviews of parents, teachers, gifted program staff, and administrators in the district were analyzed. The most significant finding of this research was that communication is a vital part of a system, and when it is lacking, the system cannot function well across all its components. This study holds many potential implications for policy and practice in Eagle Public Schools, particularly related to the need to provide professional development about the identification of students from historically excluded populations as gifted and to consolidate communication about the gifted program to one central location

Shared Leadership on a Career and Technical Education Campus

Many students enter career and technical education (CTE) programs to pursue the attainment of job-specific skills. K-12 career and technical education program educators help prepare students for careers after high school by offering students a way to establish and improve upon industry-based skills (Treschan & Mehrotra, 2014). Through CTE programs, educators train students to become global competitors in the workforce by introducing them to career practices that are prominent within their fields (Conley, 2013; Gordon, 2014; Stone & Lewis, 2012)

A Historically Authentic Digital Recreation of Holocaust Survivor Henry Friedman’s Hiding Place and More Scenes from World War II

This project uses a variety of 3D technologies to give a deeper understanding of what it was like to live through the events of World War II. It includes three unique scenes: a Parisian Alleyway, an Underground Air Raid Shelter, and the attic where Holocaust survivor Henry Friedman and his family took refuge during the German occupation of Poland. These interactive 3D models are based on extensive research and first-hand experiences, and they will be utilized to preserve and expand knowledge in younger populations for generations to come.Key Words: Holocaust, Henry Friedman, World War II, 3D Modeling, Texturing, Autodesk Maya, Substance Painter, Sketchfa

Tracing an ethic of care in the policy and practice of the Troubled Families Programme

Drawing upon the Trace method developed by Selma Sevenhuijsen (2004), this paper has traced the discourse constructed in two key Troubled Families Programme (TFP) policy documents through the lens of care ethics, highlighting tensions between ‘care’ and ‘justice’ orientations in the neoliberal family intervention model. It is argued that whilst the family intervention model advocated has the potential to provide families with support underpinned by an ethic of care, the TFP's managerialist tendencies also create challenges to the integration of care ethics within such services. Given that the programme's financial framework generates considerable opportunity for local variation in policy implementation, the ethics of care offer a valuable moral framework by which to evaluate local practice. Moreover, engaging with a distinctly feminist ethic of care renders visible to family support services the inequalities produced through the gendered distribution of ‘caring’ responsibilities, and highlights the need for interventions to address rather than reinforce these inequalities

Transitions to Better Lives: offender readiness and rehabilitation

Transitions to Better Lives aims to describe, collate, and summarize a body of recent research "both theoretical and empirical" that explores the issue of treatment readiness in offender programming. It is divided into three sections. Part one unpacks a model of treatment readiness, and explains how it has been operationalized. Part two discusses how the construct has been applied to the treatment of different offender groups. Part three discusses some of the practice approaches that have been identified as holding promise in addressing low levels of offender readiness are discussed. Included within each section are contributions from a number of authors whose work, in recent years, has stimulated discussion and helped to inform practice in offender rehabilitation. This book is an ideal resource for those who study within the field of criminology, or who work in the criminal justice system, and have an interest in the delivery of rehabilitation and reintegration programmes for offenders. This includes psychologists, social workers, probation and parole officers, and prison officers

Interaction of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus Matrix Protein and the Cellular Adaptor Protein Complex 3µ Subunit

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a leading cause of bronchopneumonia in infants and elderly. Knowledge of viral and host protein interactions is important for better understanding of the viral pathogenesis and may lead to development of novel therapeutic drugs. Here, we show that RSV Matrix (M) protein interacts with cellular adaptor protein complex (AP) 3 and its medium (µ) subunit (AP3µ1). A yeast two-hybrid assay indicated a novel protein-protein interaction that was then further confirmed in a mammalian system by colocalization between the RSV M and AP3µ1 proteins in a cytoplasmic defined region via Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM) analysis. Further evidence of this novel interaction was indicated via the presence of a known adaptor protein µ subunit sorting signal sequence, YXXL, which is conserved across various animal RSV M proteins. Subsequent studies also showed a specific up-regulation in the amount of AP3µ1 protein found in the cell during RSV infection, while corresponding subunits of the AP3 complex were unaffected. The interaction of AP3µ1 with RSV M represents a critical insight into the life cycle of this important virus protein

Generation Elevation: Promoting Sex Education Awareness

A prevalent problem among teens in West Virginia is a lack of accurate and comprehensive sex education. Among girls and women 15-19 years of age, teen pregnancy rates are 24.2 per 1,000 girls nationally and 31.9 per 1,000 girls in West Virginia (The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 2017). In the same age group, 4 out of 10 girls and women report that they do not use condoms during sex (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014), and the rate of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among teens is 1 in 4 (Minnesota Department of Health, 2015). With these statistics in mind, this current project seeks to provide accurate and comprehensive sex education to college students at Marshall University and teens at a local children’s shelter. We are working with the Women’s Center on campus to host events related to sex education. For example, we provided sex education and rape crisis information to groups of foreign exchange students and sorority members on campus. With the information that we learn through our work with the Women’s Center, we will provide sex education to ten underprivileged teens, ages 12-17, at Davis Child Shelter in Charleston, West Virginia. By providing students at Marshall University and underprivileged teens with accurate and comprehensive sex education, we hope to reduce rates of teen pregnancy, transmission of STIs, and possibly raise rates of high school and college completion

Interaction of the human respiratory Syncytial virus matrix protein with cellular adaptor protein complex 3 plays a critical role in trafficking

Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (HRSV) is a leading cause of bronchopneumonia in infants and the elderly. To date, knowledge of viral and host protein interactions within HRSV is limited and are critical areas of research. Here, we show that HRSV Matrix (M) protein interacts with the cellular adaptor protein complex 3 specifically via its medium subunit (AP-3Mu3A). This novel protein-protein interaction was first detected via yeast-two hybrid screen and was further confirmed in a mammalian system by immunofluorescence colocalization and co-immunoprecipitation. This novel interaction is further substantiated by the presence of a known tyrosine-based adaptor protein MU subunit sorting signal sequence, YXXФ: where Ф is a bulky hydrophobic residue, which is conserved across the related RSV M proteins. Analysis of point-mutated HRSV M derivatives indicated that AP-3Mu3A- mediated trafficking is contingent on the presence of the tyrosine residue within the YXXL sorting sequence at amino acids 197-200 of the M protein. AP-3Mu3A is up regulated at 24 hours post-infection in infected cells versus mock-infected HEp2 cells. Together, our data suggests that the AP-3 complex plays a critical role in the trafficking of HRSV proteins specifically matrix in epithelial cells. The results of this study add new insights and targets that may lead to the development of potential antivirals and attenuating mutations suitable for candidate vaccines in the future