Photo by Sam McGhee on Unsplash ABSTRACT Medical education has a long history of discriminatory practices. Because the hierarchy inherent in medical education, underrepresented-in-medicine (URiM) students are particularly vulnerable to discrimination and often feel they have limited recourse respond without repercussions. URiM student leaders at USA school needed their peers, faculty, administr...

volume 117 | number 1 | January 2009 • Environmental Health Perspectives January marks the completion of my first year as editor-in-chief of Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). Anniversaries and new years always tend to promote reflection on the year just past and provide an opportunity to look toward the future. Readers of EHP are no doubt aware of the instability that the journal endured...

The Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography special lecture at the 2022 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference delivered by Jonathan Pugh (written with his co-author David Chandler), provided a stimulating discussion and triggered range engagements challenges. plenary raised complex geographical challenge which had title then Abyssal Geographies located us in Anthropocene. Subsequently, as one...

There is an interplay between emotions and learning, but this interaction is far more complex than previous theories have articulated. This article proffers a novel model by which to: a. conceptualize the impact of emotions upon learning, and then, b. build a working computer-based model that will recognize a learner’s affective state and respond appropriately to it so that learning will procee...

S OF RELEVANT STUDIES Sample 1: ICRP version 1 Lyons, K.D., & Tickle-Degnen, L. (2005). Reliability and validity of a videotape method to describeexpressive behavior in Parkinson’s disease. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 59, 41-49. The ability to effectively communicate thoughts, feelings, and identity to others is an important aspectof occupational performance. The symptoms ...

Considerable evidence suggests that exposure to “green” environments can enhance human effectiveness and make life’s demands seem manageable. Does this phenomenon extend to poor inner cities, where green space is minimal and life’s demands may be overwhelming? In 145 urban public housing residents randomly assigned to buildings with and without nearby nature, attentional functioning and effecti...

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 ABSTRACT
 The current incarceration facilities for the growing number of women are depriving expecting mothers adequate care crucial child’s mental and physical development. Programs need to be established counteract this.
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 Currently, Diana Sanchez was eight months pregnant when she arrested identity theft put in a prison ce...

In the Australian coal mining region of Hunter Valley, a political contest is taking shape around mine final voids, large holes that are left in ground after has finished. This article describes an effort led by lobby to fill voids with imaginative and hopeful futures, described as process techno-speculative deferral. contrast, local environmentalists (Indigenous non-Indigenous) drawing on disp...

There’s A Crack in Everything- That’s How the Light Gets In May 2020, midst of our Covid plague, as I sheltered place front my television screen, observed televised murder a black man by white policeman charged with serving and protecting public. could not believe what was seeing own eyes. Of course, had been cognizant injustices that seemed intrinsic to status quo, but day existence tended dis...

The Indivisible Self, an evidence-based model of wellness, emerged from factor analytic studies based on an earlier wellness model, the Wheel of Wellness. Both models use Individual Psychology as an organizing theory; however, the current model exemplifies holism as the foundation of human wellness. In this article, the Indivisible Self model is described, and implications for counseling and ne...