Fragmentation of the Self: Characteristics of Sexual Assault and Implications in Self-Drawing

2021 ◽  
pp. 101877
Author(s):  
Limor Goldner ◽  
Limor Frid
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
The Self

scholarly journals Geographical Information System Based Safe Path Recommender

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 3863-3868
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Geographical Information System ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Crime Rate ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
Safe Path

The threat to women safety, especially on road, has become a major concern these days and the problem is increasing dramatically. Women are unsafe not just in the night but also in the day, they fear getting assaulted not only in public transport but also while travelling in cars and two-wheelers. People are harassed on road in various ways like robberies, killings, etc., but women go through even bigger traumas. Cases like, rape in moving cars, sexual assault and robberies by forcefully stopping the vehicle, teasing women on two-wheelers, etc. have increased to an alarming level. This study is an initiative to safe-guard the self-esteem of our women and prevent them from any ugly experience, while on road. It aims to find and suggest the safest path for women and tells the level of crime of the locations in that path, while travelling from one place to another. The system determines the various paths from source to destination, as entered by the user on the map interface, by calculating the danger index. This index is found on the basis of the crime rate of the grouped locations. These locations are grouped by clustering them on the basis of the crime history of that location. The app as a result suggests the best three paths in different colours (Green, Red, Yellow).

scholarly journals A Brief Analysis on the Construction of Subject Image in the Self-Documentary "Small Talk"

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiangrui Huang
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The Self ◽  
Small Talk ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Difference

Taiwanese producer Huang Hui-chen pointed the camera at herself and her mother, trying to achieve the purpose of communication and reconciliation with her mother through the means of documentary. The difference from previous self-recorded images is that the conflicts of the subject construction in “Small Talk” is no longer limited to the aspects of “people with people”, “person with family”, “parents with children”, but it constructed a subject image of an ordinary family that is a collection of various social issues such as homosexuality, domestic violence, sexual assault, and aboriginal Taiwanese culture etc.

scholarly journals Developing my Research Identity (Embodying the Self) through Exploring the Experience of Woman- to-Woman Rape and Sexual Assault Victim/Survivors: Doing, Being, Becoming, and Belonging

10.28945/4004 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 155-167
Author(s):  
Rebecca Twinley
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Sexual Offending ◽  
The Self ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Doctoral Training ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Biographical Approach ◽  
The Impact

Aim/Purpose: Engagement in doctoral training is intended to lead to personal development, as well as – of course - the development of a person’s skills as a researcher. Having engaged in the occupation of doctoral training, I aim to reflect upon how my identity as researcher developed throughout this process; that is, through doing, being, becoming, and belonging. The aim of my doctoral research was to explore the impact of woman-to-woman rape and sexual assault. Hence, the foundational themes explored in this paper are sexual offending, auto/biography, and the significance of identity. Background: I commenced my doctoral training as someone who identified as an occupa-tional scientist and who, therefore, understood that occupation is a means through which people can develop, express themselves, and achieve some sense of belonging. Having completed my training, I reflect upon my becoming an auto/biographical researcher. Methodology: In this original paper, I use the sociologically-informed auto/biographical ap-proach, which affords me with the rationale for writing from the first-person perspective. Auto/biography concedes the combined inclusion of my own voice – as researcher - and the experiences of my respondents. Contribution: Little is known about the issue of woman-to-woman sexual offending, let alone the impact of researching this traumatic topic upon the researcher. Moreover, research has only relatively recently started to grow that explicitly uses an auto/biographical approach, in which researchers embrace their subjectivity and positionality within their work. Findings: Identifying as an auto/biographical researcher, I appreciate how my respond-ents – in terms of their identity and the stories they told me - were integral to my development. That is, I engaged in the process of developing and under-standing the Self through exploring the perceived impacts of woman-to-woman rape and sexual assault. Recommendations for Practitioners: I invite practitioners to share their awareness that woman-to-woman sexual offending is a very real phenomenon. Additionally, your engagement in or with research (which can include being the audience, or reader of research) is one way in which you can gain understanding of your Self. Recommendation for Researchers: I invite others to reflect upon how embodying the Self can lead you to gain self-knowledge through direct experience. Good, moral research practice does not have to involve the researcher remaining objective, neutral, and value-free. Your subjective and personal experiences as the researcher may well support the use of an auto/biographical approach. Impact on Society: Researching traumatic topics can have a varied emotional and professional impact upon researchers that warrants scrutiny. Use of an auto/biographical approach, in which the researcher’s insider status is made explicit - has enabled this researcher (me) to manage this impact, whilst also developing my knowledge, experience and Self. Future Research: Research that should follow on from this paper must continue to explore working auto/biographically when researching traumatic topics and biographical disruptions.

“I Believe We Are the Fewer, the Prouder”: Women’s Agency in Meaning-Making after Military Sexual Assault

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 624-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Hannagan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Self ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Military Sexual Assault ◽  
Theoretical Significance ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
The Many

This article draws on ethnographic evidence and argues for the theoretical significance of that evidence regarding concepts of personal agency vis-à-vis rhetorics of victimhood. The problem discussed in this article is that a dominant discourse that positions women primarily or exclusively as victims in response to their experience of sexual assault not only works to re-victimize women but imposes unnecessary boundaries on the meaning of these experiences for the women involved. Instead of privileging the dominant discourse, this article seeks to privilege the voices of women who have experienced sexual assault. How women make sense of their experiences and themselves is constituted by their discourses. Among the many ways women choose to make sense of their experience and (re)construct the self is by drawing on the alternative available discourses including their military values and identity.

Restoring what no longer exists: therapeutic and cultural issues regarding female genital mutilation/cutting

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
Christie Coho ◽  
Roxana Parra Sepúlveda
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Female Genital Mutilation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Genital Mutilation ◽  
The World ◽  
Letting Go ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Female Genital

Female genital mutilation/cutting/circumcision (FGM/C) is a form of childhood sexual violence, typically perpetrated by females on females, which has been passed down the generations across cultures and communities around the world. While the explanations for this practice involve love, future security, and cultural pride, the resulting expression of these ideals is a physical-cum-sexual/psychological damaging of the genitalia and the self for the purpose of suppressing and dominating the female, particularly her sexuality. Exploring this form of child abuse and sexual assault, this article will provide an overview of female genital mutilation. Varying purposes and functions of the practice are then outlined, from both cultures of origin and feminist perspectives. Psychological defences enabling the perpetuation of this harmful practice are explored. Potential versions of the therapeutic work are considered, which might involve resolving confusion, letting go of psychological defences, processing trauma and grief, reconfiguring attachment patterns, and/or re/connecting with one's body and sexuality. The journey is from victim to non-perpetrating, resilient survivor.

Problem behavior in autism spectrum disorders: A paradigmatic self-organized perspective of network structures

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucio Tonello ◽  
Luca Giacobbi ◽  
Alberto Pettenon ◽  
Alessandro Scuotto ◽  
Massimo Cocchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
The Self ◽  
Network Structures ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Critical Equilibrium ◽  
Self Organized Criticality ◽  
Acute Agitation ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

AbstractAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) subjects can present temporary behaviors of acute agitation and aggressiveness, named problem behaviors. They have been shown to be consistent with the self-organized criticality (SOC), a model wherein occasionally occurring “catastrophic events” are necessary in order to maintain a self-organized “critical equilibrium.” The SOC can represent the psychopathology network structures and additionally suggests that they can be considered as self-organized systems.

The Nature of Rapidly Extracted Phycocyanin from the Blue-Green Alga Plectonema Boryanum

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 366-367
Author(s):  
M. Kessel ◽  
R. MacColl
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Analytical Ultracentrifugation ◽  
Uranyl Acetate ◽  
The Self ◽  
Major Protein ◽  
Subunit Structure ◽  
Blue Green Alga ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Blue Green Algae ◽  
Cacodylate Buffer

The major protein of the blue-green algae is the biliprotein, C-phycocyanin (Amax = 620 nm), which is presumed to exist in the cell in the form of distinct aggregates called phycobilisomes. The self-assembly of C-phycocyanin from monomer to hexamer has been extensively studied, but the proposed next step in the assembly of a phycobilisome, the formation of 19s subunits, is completely unknown. We have used electron microscopy and analytical ultracentrifugation in combination with a method for rapid and gentle extraction of phycocyanin to study its subunit structure and assembly.To establish the existence of phycobilisomes, cells of P. boryanum in the log phase of growth, growing at a light intensity of 200 foot candles, were fixed in 2% glutaraldehyde in 0.1M cacodylate buffer, pH 7.0, for 3 hours at 4°C. The cells were post-fixed in 1% OsO4 in the same buffer overnight. Material was stained for 1 hour in uranyl acetate (1%), dehydrated and embedded in araldite and examined in thin sections.

Interrelationship of the cellular distribution and secretion of regular structure (RS) protein in Bacillus licheniformis nm 105

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 712-713
Author(s):  
Xiaorong Zhu ◽  
Richard McVeigh ◽  
Bijan K. Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Alkaline Phosphatase ◽  
Bacillus Licheniformis ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Culture Supernatant ◽  
Regular Structure ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cellular Distribution ◽  
Structural Protein ◽  
Laboratory Cultures

A mutant of Bacillus licheniformis 749/C, NM 105 exhibits some notable properties, e.g., arrest of alkaline phosphatase secretion and overexpression and hypersecretion of RS protein. Although RS is known to be widely distributed in many microbes, it is rarely found, with a few exceptions, in laboratory cultures of microorganisms. RS protein is a structural protein and has the unusual properties to form aggregate. This characteristic may have been responsible for the self assembly of RS into regular tetragonal structures. Another uncommon characteristic of RS is that enhanced synthesis and secretion which occurs when the cells cease to grow. Assembled RS protein with a tetragonal structure is not seen inside cells at any stage of cell growth including cells in the stationary phase of growth. Gel electrophoresis of the culture supernatant shows a very large amount of RS protein in the stationary culture of the B. licheniformis. It seems, Therefore, that the RS protein is cotranslationally secreted and self assembled on the envelope surface.

Self-Compassion and Quality of Life in Adults Who Stutter

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 2097-2108
Author(s):  
Robyn L. Croft ◽  
Courtney T. Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
The Self ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Adults Who Stutter ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this study was to identify levels of self-compassion in adults who do and do not stutter and to determine whether self-compassion predicts the impact of stuttering on quality of life in adults who stutter. Method Participants included 140 adults who do and do not stutter matched for age and gender. All participants completed the Self-Compassion Scale. Adults who stutter also completed the Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering. Data were analyzed for self-compassion differences between and within adults who do and do not stutter and to predict self-compassion on quality of life in adults who stutter. Results Adults who do and do not stutter exhibited no significant differences in total self-compassion, regardless of participant gender. A simple linear regression of the total self-compassion score and total Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering score showed a significant, negative linear relationship of self-compassion predicting the impact of stuttering on quality of life. Conclusions Data suggest that higher levels of self-kindness, mindfulness, and social connectedness (i.e., self-compassion) are related to reduced negative reactions to stuttering, an increased participation in daily communication situations, and an improved overall quality of life. Future research should replicate current findings and identify moderators of the self-compassion–quality of life relationship.

AAC Collaboration Using the Self-Anchored Rating Scales (SARS): An Aphasia Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 136-143
Author(s):  
Lynn E. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Family Counseling ◽  
The Self ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Solution Focused

Abstract The self-anchored rating scale (SARS) is a technique that augments collaboration between Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) interventionists, their clients, and their clients' support networks. SARS is a technique used in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, a branch of systemic family counseling. It has been applied to treating speech and language disorders across the life span, and recent case studies show it has promise for promoting adoption and long-term use of high and low tech AAC. I will describe 2 key principles of solution-focused therapy and present 7 steps in the SARS process that illustrate how clinicians can use the SARS to involve a person with aphasia and his or her family in all aspects of the therapeutic process. I will use a case study to illustrate the SARS process and present outcomes for one individual living with aphasia.

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