The study aimed to explore barriers to mental health service attainment among Bedouin women living in different residential environments in southern Israel. We hypothesized that emotional distress and the utilization ...
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The study aimed to explore barriers to mental health service attainment among Bedouin women living in different residential environments in southern Israel. We hypothesized that emotional distress and the utilization of mental health services would be influenced by the living environment and ethnic identity factors. The sample included 376 Arab-Bedouin women, 126 Arab-Bedouin women from the recognized and unrecognized villages, and 250 Arab-Bedouin women from the central localities. Quantitative methods were used, including emotional distress (GHQ12), ethnic identity scale (EIS), mental health literacy (MHLS), and barriers to mental health services attainment (BACE). Results indicated that participants from the central localities demonstrated a greater inclination to seek and utilize mental health services. Furthermore, higher rates of affirmation of ethnic identity were also found to be a predictive factor for the willingness to attain mental health services. These findings further support the role of residential environment and ethnic identity in shaping mental health service utilization patterns. Current research explored barriers to mental health services seek and attainment for Arab-Bedouin women in different residential environments in southern Israel. Ethnic identity factors and barriers such as stigma and access to resources predicted the tendency to seek help. Findings emphasize the need to address barriers to seeking help and the role of ethnic identity in mental health service attainment for Arab-Bedouin women.
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps's first adolescent girls' novel Caroline Westerley: or, the Young Traveller from Ohio (1833) is a travelogue of the Great Lakes and the Hudson River valley. Given Phelps's educat...
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps's first adolescent girls' novel Caroline Westerley: or, the Young Traveller from Ohio (1833) is a travelogue of the Great Lakes and the Hudson River valley. Given Phelps's educational and scientific work, it has been viewed as another effort to disseminate scientific knowledge. This article argues first that Phelps situated her novel within the context of a highly popular girls' tour, which held considerable personal and ideological meaning. Second, it maintains that Phelps used the novel to reflect upon models of femininity, arguing in favor of one in which the life of the mind, including a lifelong interest in science and religion, occupied a central place, and against one focused on consumerism and the body. The article closes with a reflection on the ways in which Phelps's ideas regarding opposing models of femininity fit with Joan Brumberg's argument regarding the rise of consumerism and its effect on girls' bodies at the turn of the century. The article is based on a reading of Phelps's fictional text alongside her nonfictional text Lectures to Young Ladies (1833).
This study investigated the correlations between social workers' levels of religiosity and their professional attitudes toward discussing sexual health. The focus was particularly on the potential mediating role o...
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This study investigated the correlations between social workers' levels of religiosity and their professional attitudes toward discussing sexual health. The focus was particularly on the potential mediating role of their attitudes to heteronormative beliefs. A random sample of 150 social workers from Israel (Jewish [63.3 percent], Palestinian-Arab [36 percent], and those who self-identified as "other" [0.7 percent]) completed a self-administered questionnaire. The findings revealed significant correlations among professional attitudes toward discussing sexual health, attitudes toward heteronormativity, and degree of religiosity. Social workers with higher levels of religiosity exhibited higher levels of heteronormative beliefs, which, in turn, influenced their professional attitudes toward discussing sexual health. Furthermore, the findings highlight the importance of challenging heteronormative perspectives for all social welfare service users. Social work must establish culturally sensitive training to challenge the hegemony of heteronormative perspectives while connecting to religious and conservative values and perceptions.
Based on a participatory study design, this article describes how a group of family members of people deprived of liberty (PDL) experienced the COVID-19 control measures implemented in Mexico's prisons. We conduct...
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Based on a participatory study design, this article describes how a group of family members of people deprived of liberty (PDL) experienced the COVID-19 control measures implemented in Mexico's prisons. We conducted 28 in-depth interviews and analyzed them using ***. We found that the measures implemented in Mexican prisons to avoid the spread of COVID-19 focused mainly on suspension of visitation and PDL confinement. The isolation imposed on PDL impacted their living conditions, making them more vulnerable to contracting COVID-19 due to lack of access to essential services, food, and hygiene supplies. Visit restrictions and PDL isolation also impacted PDL relatives' health and socioeconomic conditions. Our findings indicate that the consequences of COVID-19 control actions in Mexican prisons differ according to the gender and jurisdiction of PDL. Women in federal prisons were more isolated, while those in local ones were more deprived of basic supplies. Imprisoned women's isolation has especially severe effects on the mental and physical health of their elderly parents and children. The results show how the measures adopted to control COVID-19 outbreaks in Mexican prisons have exacerbated the preexisting systemic violence experienced by PDL and their families and how they have failed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in these settings. These findings provide support for the health-informed penal reform of Mexican prisons.
The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented lockdowns with rippling impacts on the lives of humans and animals alike. Since zoos were among the first institutions to close during the pandemic, the lockdowns presented t...
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented lockdowns with rippling impacts on the lives of humans and animals alike. Since zoos were among the first institutions to close during the pandemic, the lockdowns presented the opportunity to conduct a natural experiment examining the relationship between visitor presence and the welfare of zoo-housed animals. In this study, we assessed the welfare of six Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) at Toronto Zoo both during and following the pandemic lockdowns. We compared behavioural and physiological indicators of welfare during a lockdown and after visitors were reintroduced. Specifically, if the orangutans' welfare was affected by the visitor re-introduction phase we predicted there would be an increase in the following measures: (1) use of exhibit areas away from visitors;(2) behavioural measures (hiding, self-directed behaviours, agonistic behaviours, agitated movement, and idiosyncratic object-directed behaviours [head slamming, and fabric tearing]);and (3) physiological measures (faecal consistency and glucocorticoid metabolites) when compared to the lockdown. We also measured changes in activity levels such as foraging and inactivity. We found that orangutan exhibit space use did not change when visitors were reintroduced. In fact, the orangutans hid less when visitors were introduced than during the lockdown. Foraging, inactivity, and other behavioural indicators of stress did not change when visitors were introduced. Similarly, neither faecal consistency nor glucocorticoid metabolites changed across the study phases. Our data show that visitor re-introduction did not negatively affect the welfare of the Toronto Zoo orangutans. However, the presence of keepers was found to affect the behaviour of the orangutans and warrants further study.
This article suggests several design principles intended to assist in the development of ethical algorithms exemplified by the task of fighting fake news. Although numerous algorithmic solutions have been proposed, fa...
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This article suggests several design principles intended to assist in the development of ethical algorithms exemplified by the task of fighting fake news. Although numerous algorithmic solutions have been proposed, fake news still remains a wicked socio-technical problem that begs not only engineering but also ethical considerations. We suggest employing insights from ethics of care while maintaining its speculative stance to ask how algorithms and design processes would be different if they generated care and fight fake news. After reviewing the major characteristics of ethics of care and the phases of care, we offer four algorithmic design principles. The first principle highlights the need to develop a strategy to deal with fake news on the part of the software designers. The second principle calls for the involvement of various stakeholders in the design processes in order to increase the chances of successfully fighting fake news. The third principle suggests allowing end-users to report on fake news. Finally, the last principle proposes keeping the end-user updated on the treatment in the suspected news items. Implementing these principles as care practices can render the developmental process more ethically oriented as well as improve the ability to fight fake news.
This paper addresses the robust control for a slung-mass quadrotor under abrupt velocity changes. The proposed algorithm is based on a sliding mode controller applied to the quadrotor translational dynamics considerin...
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This paper addresses the robust control for a slung-mass quadrotor under abrupt velocity changes. The proposed algorithm is based on a sliding mode controller applied to the quadrotor translational dynamics considering the slung-mass angle as feedback. A Lyapunov candidate function is used to demonstrate system stability. Numerical simulations are performed to demonstrate stability in hover, forward flight, and under abrupt velocity changes. Experimental tests show that the proposed approach is also robust for stabilizing the aerial vehicle against disturbances caused by slung-load oscillations and wind gusts in outdoor environments by stopping the forward velocity from 29 km/h to hover by compensating within 1 s for the slung-mass oscillations.
This article presents a virtual swashplate mechanism for a mini helicopter in classic configuration. The propeller bases are part of a passive mechanism driven by main rotor torque modulaton, this mechanism generates ...
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This article presents a virtual swashplate mechanism for a mini helicopter in classic configuration. The propeller bases are part of a passive mechanism driven by main rotor torque modulaton, this mechanism generates a synchronous and opposite change in the propellers angle of attack, then the thrust vector tilts. This approach proposes to control the 6 degrees of freedom of the aircraft using two rotors. The main rotor controls vertical displacement and uses torque modulation and swing-hinged propellers to generate pitch and roll moments and the horizontal displacement while the yaw moment is controlled by the tail rotor. The dynamic model is obtained using the Newton-Euler approach and robust control algorithms are proposed. Experimental results are presented to show the performance of the proposed virtual swashplate in real-time outdoor hover flights.
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Schaffer, GadTel Hai Coll
Multidisciplinary Dept BA Program Qiryat Shemona Israel Tel Hai Coll
Galilee Studies MA Program Qiryat Shemona Israel Tel Hai Coll
Hist Cartog Res Inst Qiryat Shemona Israel
This study analyses the Israeli stamp series 'Landscapes of Israel' issued between 1971-1980, revealing the series' geographical pattern, themes and hidden messages. The stamp images and information folder...
This study analyses the Israeli stamp series 'Landscapes of Israel' issued between 1971-1980, revealing the series' geographical pattern, themes and hidden messages. The stamp images and information folders were critically examined within their historical context. The analysis revealed that the spatial distribution of sites also included captured territories, and by this Israel indirectly drew its own borders. Moreover, colour value was used to highlight important topics or create an atmosphere. Furthermore, apart from using the stamps to promote tourism, many of the sites and areas chosen served to promote issues of national pride, connect the Jewish people to the land and illustrate the struggle for Jewish revival and independence.
We describe the COVID-19 Online Visualization Collection (COVIC), its goals, how it came to be, and why we propose such a collection as a new path for design research. The COVIC database contains a collective visualiz...
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We describe the COVID-19 Online Visualization Collection (COVIC), its goals, how it came to be, and why we propose such a collection as a new path for design research. The COVIC database contains a collective visualization response to the COVID-19 pandemic gathered from approximately 3,000 articles, each containing one or more visualizations (about 12,000 in total). We have sought to create a resource for design research-a boundary object-that will be useful to any of the disciplines brought together through their response to the pandemic event.
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