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The Female Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Epidemic: Awareness and Prevention
The author wrote this paper for the Spring 2018 course, Global Perspectives on Women and Gender (WMS330.61). Dr. Sharon Jacobson was the instructor.
Female Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST) is a global epidemic requiring awareness and attention. Studies from a spectrum of human trafficking subtopics: human rights, sex trafficking, its female predominance, DMST, region, policies, stigma, ambiguity of terminology, and vulnerable populations, connect and examine the issue from a global perspective on women and gender to its manifestation in the United States and New York State. Participants in the studies include juveniles, representatives of non-governmental organizations, law enforcement, and public officials. Measurements of risk in minors and girls, results of at-risk minorsâ participation in psychoeducational groups, and attitudes of first responders, social workers, and policy makers, assisted conclusions and implications of this research. The findings demonstrate that stigma associated with DMST perpetuates the problem, young girls are particularly vulnerable to DMST, social construction that sexualizes girls and gender disparity in treatment of victims heightens their risk, demand fuels exploitation of girls, and laws contradict solutions. DMST can be prevented and victims rehabilitated through research, education, language and attitude changes, improved laws and enforcement, social work and human services that address minors at risk of victimization and support victims to avoid recidivism through helping with basic needs, legal assistance, addiction treatment, counseling, and education
The Epidemic Domestic Sex Trafficking of Girls: Awareness and Prevention
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST) of girls is a global epidemic requiring awareness and attention. Studies from a spectrum of human trafficking subtopics: human rights, sex trafficking, its predominance in girls and women, DMST, geography, policies, stigma, ambiguity of terminology, and vulnerable populations, connected and examined the issue from a global perspective on women and gender to its manifestation in the United States and New York State. Participants in the studies included juveniles, representatives of non-governmental organizations, law enforcement, and public officials. Measurements of risk in minors and girls, results of at-risk minorsâ participation in psychoeducational groups, and attitudes of first responders, social workers, and policy makers assisted conclusions and implications of this research. The findings demonstrate that stigma associated with DMST perpetuates the problem, young girls are particularly vulnerable to DMST, social construction that sexualizes girls and gender disparity in treatment of victims heightens their risk, demand fuels exploitation of girls, and laws contradict solutions. DMST can be prevented and victims rehabilitated through research, education, language and attitude
Coulomb force effects in low-energy -deuteron scattering
The -proton Coulomb interaction is included in the description of
-deuteron scattering using the screening and renormalization approach
in the framework of momentum-space three-particle equations. The technical
reliability of the method is demonstrated. Large Coulomb-force effects are
found.Comment: To be published in Phys. Rev.
New calculation schemes for proton-deuteron scattering including the Coulomb interaction
The Coulomb interaction between the protons is included in the description of
proton-deuteron scattering using the screening and renormalization approach in
the framework of momentum-space integral equations. Two new calculational
schemes are presented that confirm the reliability of the perturbative approach
for treating the screened Coulomb interaction in high partial waves, used by us
in earlier works.Comment: To be published in Phys. Rev.
Two Examples of Circular Motion for Introductory Courses in Relativity
The circular twin paradox and Thomas Precession are presented in a way that
makes both accessible to students in introductory relativity courses. Both are
discussed by examining what happens during travel around a polygon and then in
the limit as the polygon tends to a circle. Since relativistic predictions
based on these examples can be verified in experiments with macroscopic objects
such as atomic clocks and the gyroscopes on Gravity Probe B, they are
particularly convincing to introductory students.Comment: Accepted by the American Journal of Physics This version includes
revision
Benchmark calculation for proton-deuteron elastic scattering observables including Coulomb
Two independent calculations of proton-deuteron elastic scattering
observables including Coulomb repulsion between the two protons are compared in
the proton lab energy region between 3 MeV and 65 MeV. The hadron dynamics is
based on the purely nucleonic charge-dependent AV18 potential. Calculations are
done both in coordinate space and momentum space. The coordinate-space
calculations are based on a variational solution of the three-body
Schr\"odinger equation using a correlated hyperspherical expansion for the wave
function. The momentum-space calculations proceed via the solution of the
Alt-Grassberger-Sandhas equation using the screened Coulomb potential and the
renormalization approach. Both methods agree within 1% on all observables,
showing the reliability of both numerical techniques in that energy domain. At
energies below three-body breakup threshold the coordinate-space method remains
favored whereas at energies higher than 65 MeV the momentum-space approach
seems to be more efficient.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev.
Three-body description of direct nuclear reactions: Comparison with the continuum discretized coupled channels method
The continuum discretized coupled channels (CDCC) method is compared to the
exact solution of the three-body Faddeev equations in momentum space. We
present results for: i) elastic and breakup observables of d-12C at E_d=56 MeV,
ii) elastic scattering of d-58Ni at E_d=80 MeV, and iii) elastic, breakup and
transfer observables for 11Be+p at E_{11Be}/A=38.4 MeV. Our comparative studies
show that, in the first two cases, the CDCC method is a good approximation to
the full three-body Faddeev solution, but for the 11Be exotic nucleus,
depending on the observable or the kinematic regime, it may miss out some of
the dynamic three-body effects that appear through the explicit coupling to the
transfer channel.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review
A conceptual design study of a high temperature solar thermal receiver (added tasks 6 and 7)
The key component of this concept is a coiled tube of silicon nitride which acts as a heat exchanger appears to be ideal from the standpoint of utilizing structural ceramics at around 2500 F under severe thermal shock conditions. However the size and configuration of this coil are beyond the state of the art for fabricating such materials as silicon nitride and carbide. A two-task program to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of extruding and forming a section of thin walled silicon nitride tubing was undertaken as an addition to the original program. A promising polyvinyl butyral-based binder lubricant was identified. Fourteen full size extrusion experiments were conducted. Two trial firings of 1-1/4 turn helices were made
Planarians require an intact brain to behaviorally react to cocaine, but not to react to nicotine
Planarians possess a rudimentary brain with many features in common with vertebrate brains. They also display a remarkable capacity for tissue regeneration including the complete regeneration of the nervous system. Using the induction of planarian seizure-like movements (pSLMs) as a behavioral endpoint, we demonstrate that an intact nervous system is necessary for this organism to react to cocaine exposure, but not necessary to react to nicotine administration. Decapitated planarians (Girardia tigrina) display pSLMs indistinguishable from intact worms when exposed to nicotine, but cocaine-induced pSLMs are reduced by about 95% upon decapitation. Decapitated worms recover their normal sensitivity to cocaine within five days after head amputation. In worms where half of the brain was removed or partially dissected, the expression of cocaine-induced pSLMs was reduced by approximately 75 %. Similar amputations at the level of the tail did not show a significant decrease to cocaine exposure. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first report that explores how regenerating planarians react to the exposure of cocaine
Rehebbilitating Memory
Amnesia is a deficit of memory function that can result from trauma, stress, disease, drug use, or ageing. Though efforts are made to prevent and treat the various causes of amnesia, there remains no treatment for the symptom of memory loss itself. Because the defining feature of amnesia is an inability recall memory, any given case may be due to the possibility that the
memory is damaged, or the alternative that it is present but irretrievable (Squire, 1982). Discriminating between these two scenarios would be of scientific value, because the neurobiology of memory formation is anchored in experimental amnesia. Pathological cases of amnesia that are due to retrieval deficits may in principal be treatable rather than merely preventable. Amnesia could be attributed to a retrieval deficit if the ostensible âlostâ memory could be evoked through brain stimulation. The challenge here is to identify exactly where in the brain a particular memory is stored.JPB FoundationRIKEN Brain Science Institut
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