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A Promising Practice: Using Facebook as a Communication and Social Networking Tool
Individuals with autism often face barriers to social interaction. Residing in a rural environment can compound these difficulties for individuals diagnosed with autism. Some of the reasons include transportation problems and small social networks, in addition to the characteristics of autism. This article discusses a promising practice for supporting the communication and social opportunities for individuals with autism. The authors examined how Facebook supported the social interaction of Jacob, a 28-year old with High Functioning Autism. The findings suggested that, through Facebook, Jacob increased the quantity and quality of social ties he had with others. The authors argue that although online social networking has limitations, with supervision, tools such as Facebook hold potential for developing and increasing social interaction for individuals with High Functioning Autism /Asperger Syndrome
The equivariant topology of stable Kneser graphs
The stable Kneser graph , , , introduced by Schrijver
\cite{schrijver}, is a vertex critical graph with chromatic number , its
vertices are certain subsets of a set of cardinality . Bj\"orner and de
Longueville \cite{anders-mark} have shown that its box complex is homotopy
equivalent to a sphere, \Hom(K_2,SG_{n,k})\homot\Sphere^k. The dihedral group
acts canonically on , the group with 2 elements acts
on . We almost determine the -homotopy type of
\Hom(K_2,SG_{n,k}) and use this to prove the following results. The graphs
are homotopy test graphs, i.e. for every graph and such
that \Hom(SG_{2s,4},H) is -connected, the chromatic number
is at least . If and then
is not a homotopy test graph, i.e.\ there are a graph and an such
that \Hom(SG_{n,k}, G) is -connected and .Comment: 34 pp
The Language and Affect of Belief
Research on emotion in anthropology has been supplanted by an ethnographic turn toward ‘subjectivity’, ‘embodiment’, ‘personhood’, and ‘experience’. In this article, I explore how these interrelated modes of analysis can help ethnographers to better understand the cultural processes that constitute how people feel. I show that among my Christian Dusun interlocutors in Ranau, Malaysian Borneo, the interactive engagement between subjects and their environment determined the vectors of emotional possibility in terms of belief. The intersection of religious objects (God, the Holy Spirit, Satan) and mutual obligations in the community produce what I refer to as the ‘faith network’. I trace these collective attachments to consider how ‘believing in’ regulates feeling in relation to situations of crisis, impasse, and tragedy. The combined efforts of my interlocutors, I suggest, created an active commitment that pulsated through the faith network, which sustained an intensive and defining mode of their relational experience
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