Using Crowdsourced Data to Study Crime and Place

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.31235/osf.io/9ntk6 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

David Buil-Gil ◽

Reka Solymosi

Keyword(s):

Police Management ◽

R Software ◽

Collaborative Project ◽

Crime And Place ◽

Digital Platform ◽

Crowdsourced Data ◽

Effective Use

Crowdsourcing refers to the practise of enlisting the knowledge, experience or skills of a large number of people (the crowd) through some digital platform to collect data towards a collaborative project. Crowdsourcing can generate large volumes of data in relatively little time at a very small cost, and can be useful for research, strategic police management and many other purposes. To make effective use of crowdsourced data, it is important to understand its key strengths to emphasize, and limitations to mitigate. In this chapter we highlight the main strengths and weaknesses of crowdsourcing, and illustrate how to acquire, make sense of, and critically evaluate crowdsourced data to study crime and place. We present a step-by-step exemplar study using crowdsourced data from a platform called Place Pulse, where people rate their feelings of safety between different areas. Taking the case study of Atlanta, Georgia, we work through analyzing and interpreting these data while highlighting how to emphasize and evaluate the strengths and limitations of crowdsourcing. Exercises are presented using R software.

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Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD Related to Racial Discrimination

Clinical Case Studies ◽

10.1177/1534650121990894 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 153465012199089

Author(s):

Mailae Halstead ◽

Sara Reed ◽

Robert Krause ◽

Monnica T. Williams

Keyword(s):

Therapeutic Interventions ◽

Traumatic Experiences ◽

Social Avoidance ◽

Functional Analytic Psychotherapy ◽

Treatment Resistant ◽

Psychotherapeutic Treatment ◽

Presenting Symptoms ◽

Self Talk ◽

Effective Use

Current research suggests that ketamine-assisted psychotherapy has benefit for the treatment of mental disorders. We report on the results of ketamine-assisted intensive outpatient psychotherapeutic treatment of a client with treatment-resistant, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of experiences of racism and childhood sexual abuse. The client’s presenting symptoms included hypervigilance, social avoidance, feelings of hopelessness, and intense recollections. These symptoms impacted all areas of daily functioning. Psychoeducation was provided on how untreated intergenerational trauma, compounded by additional traumatic experiences, potentiated the client’s experience of PTSD and subsequent maladaptive coping mechanisms. Ketamine was administered four times over a 13-day span as an off-label, adjunct to psychotherapy. Therapeutic interventions and orientations utilized were mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP). New skills were obtained in helping the client respond effectively to negative self-talk, catastrophic thinking, and feelings of helplessness. Treatment led to a significant reduction in symptoms after completion of the program, with gains maintained 4 months post-treatment. This case study demonstrates the effective use of ketamine as an adjunct to psychotherapy in treatment-resistant PTSD.

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The socio-spatial politics of royalties and their distribution: A case study of the Surat Basin, Queensland

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1177/0308518x211026656 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0308518X2110266

Author(s):

Neil Argent ◽

Sean Markey ◽

Greg Halseth ◽

Laura Ryser ◽

Fiona Haslam-McKenzie

Keyword(s):

Cost Effective ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Energy Extraction ◽

Grant Application ◽

Coal Seam Gas ◽

Spatial Politics ◽

Developmental Needs ◽

Development Fund ◽

Effective Use

This paper is concerned with the socio-spatial and ethical politics of redistribution, specifically the allocation of natural resources rents from political and economic cores to the economic and geographical peripheries whence the resource originated. Based on a case study of the coal seam gas sector in Queensland's Surat Basin, this paper focuses on the operation of the Queensland State Government's regional development fund for mining and energy extraction-affected regions. Employing an environmental justice framework, we critically explore the operation of these funds in ostensibly helping constituent communities in becoming resilient to the worst effects of the ‘staples trap’. Drawing on secondary demographic and housing data for the region, as well as primary information collected from key respondents from mid-2018 to early 2019, we show that funds were distributed across all of the local government areas, and allocated to projects and places primarily on a perceived economic needs basis. However, concerns were raised with the probity of the funds’ administration. In terms of recognition justice, the participation of smaller and more remote towns and local Indigenous communities was hampered by their structural marginalisation. Procedurally, the funds were criticised for the lack of local consultation taken in the development and approval of projects. While spatially concentrated expenditure may be the most cost-effective use of public monies, we argue that grant application processes should be open, transparent and inclusive, and the outcomes cognisant of the developmental needs of smaller communities, together with the need to foster regional solidarity and coherence.

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Involving Services Users in Social Work Training on the Reality of Family Poverty: A Case Study of a Collaborative Project

Social Work Education ◽

10.1080/02615470701380261 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 27 (5) ◽

pp. 459-473 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Anna Gupta ◽

James Blewett

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Collaborative Project ◽

Social Work Training ◽

Work Training

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Improving the Downwind Sail Design Process by Means of a Novel FSI Approach

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering ◽

10.3390/jmse9060624 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 624

Author(s):

Antonino Cirello ◽

Tommaso Ingrassia ◽

Antonio Mancuso ◽

Vincenzo Nigrelli ◽

Davide Tumino

Keyword(s):

Numerical Methods ◽

Low Cost ◽

The Novel ◽

The Real ◽

Weakly Coupled ◽

Design And Manufacturing ◽

Sailing Yacht ◽

Computational Resources ◽

Effective Use

The process of designing a sail can be a challenging task because of the difficulties in predicting the real aerodynamic performance. This is especially true in the case of downwind sails, where the evaluation of the real shapes and aerodynamic forces can be very complex because of turbulent and detached flows and the high-deformable behavior of structures. Of course, numerical methods are very useful and reliable tools to investigate sail performances, and their use, also as a result of the exponential growth of computational resources at a very low cost, is spreading more and more, even in not highly competitive fields. This paper presents a new methodology to support sail designers in evaluating and optimizing downwind sail performance and manufacturing. A new weakly coupled fluid–structure interaction (FSI) procedure has been developed to study downwind sails. The proposed method is parametric and automated and allows for investigating multiple kinds of sails under different sailing conditions. The study of a gennaker of a small sailing yacht is presented as a case study. Based on the numerical results obtained, an analytical formulation for calculating the sail corner loads has been also proposed. The novel proposed methodology could represent a promising approach to allow for the widespread and effective use of numerical methods in the design and manufacturing of yacht sails.

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Usage of Online Public Access Catalogue by Faculty Members of Jeppiaar Maamallan Engineering College: A Case Study

Asian Journal of Information Science and Technology ◽

10.51983/ajist-2018.8.3.209 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 15-18

Author(s):

P. Krishnamoorthy ◽

C. Muthusamy

Keyword(s):

Associate Degree ◽

Education Programme ◽

The State ◽

Faculty Members ◽

Public Access ◽

College Libraries ◽

Effective Use ◽

Original Information ◽

Public Access Catalogs

This paper aims to gift the results of a survey conducted to see the effective use of online Public Access Catalogs (OPAC) at the library of Jeppiaar Maamallan Engineering College in Chennai. The paper examines the result from a questionnaire based survey conducted at the library. 50 samples of the form were distributed in a random way between the employees of Jeppiaar Maamallan Engineering College in Chennai out of which 48 completed and valid questionnaires (96.00 %) were received for analysis. The information received from the respondents through these questionnaires was analyzed. Thus, the study clearly highlighted the requirement for associate degree education programme module for users to market the effective use of OPAC. An effort is formed through this study to gift the difficulties Janus-faced by users at engineering college libraries, in looking for data victimization OPAC. This paper provides helpful empirical proof for librarians and therefore the analysis community on the usage of OPAC in libraries of engineering colleges. The results of this study are going to be helpful for librarians at Jeppiaar Maamallan Engineering College in Chennai and additionally to different librarians around the state and country. This paper provides original information from library finish users in engineering college, relating to their expertise whiles victimization OPAC.

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Industrial Corporation’s Transformation into a Digital Platform Provider: A Case Study on Enablers

10.1109/cbi52690.2021.00024 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Lara Riefle ◽

Marcel Eisold ◽

Carina Benz

Keyword(s):

Digital Platform

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Affordances, remediation, and digital mourning: A comparative case study of two AIDS memorials

Memory Studies ◽

10.1177/1750698019894686 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 175069801989468

Author(s):

Spencer P Cherasia

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Collective Memory ◽

Comparative Case Study ◽

Digital Repository ◽

Collaborative Project ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Cultural Importance ◽

Aids Memorial Quilt ◽

Names Project

The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt is a collaborative project that memorializes individuals who have died of AIDS-related causes. Since its inception, it has become the world’s largest public folk art project. Scholars have noted the Quilt’s materiality, scope, and cultural importance to collective memory processes related to HIV/AIDS. More recently, discussions of collective memory in the digital public sphere have attracted attention from new media theorists and memory scholars alike. @theAIDSmemorial (TAM) is an Instagram account that serves as a digital repository for a new form of connective memory. By assessing two AIDS memorials as comparative cases, this research argues that TAM’s digital affordances of interactivity and reach are evident, although in assessing the digital remediation of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, the materiality, metaphoric origins, and scope of the Quilt cannot be rendered on digital platforms, representing a loss in affective engagement.

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