Sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing health services, sexual behaviours, and substance use are all key parts of maintaining sexual health for undergraduate students. The author compares results on these factors from the 2012 Maritime Undergraduate Student Sexual Health Services Survey with those from a 2021 survey at one of the universities that was included in the original survey. Noteworthy changes in context between 2012 and 2021 include the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2018 legalization of cannabis. Findings indicate that while rates of binge drinking, peer perceptions of sexual activity while using substances, and condom use during sexual activity remained stable, rates of STI testing and cannabis use increased. Recommendations include increasing comprehensive, peer-led sexual education initiatives to continue to reduce stigma while educating students on sexually transmitted infections and substance use during sexual activity.
Abstract This chapter offers an ecocritical reading of texts that are seldom considered for their ecological import. It looks at the widespread theme of cartography as an important way to chart and thus reclaim symbolic space in a nation that would erase Mexican American cultural presence even as it militarizes the border as an attempt to eradicate the physical presence of Mexican Americans. It pays special attention to how the different modes of art production examined (e.g., murals, autobiography, performance art) not only reclaim symbolic space in different ways but also stage opportunities for transformation in the artist and her audience. More than metaphor, these cartographic representations spatialize historical and contemporary relationships among humans, nature, and spirit others, and point the way forward toward a more just social and environmental configuration.
Many ecofeminists propose holistic models of ecological relationships as alternatives to dualism. Investigating how such models are put into practice, this chapter analyzes the feminist and ecological consciousness developing at the Women's Intercultural Center (New Mexico) and begins to sketch a borderlands ecofeminism. Employing interviews and participant-observation research, thechapter traces the emergence of ecological consciousness from the affective work and relation-building activitiesthat embed women in the kinds of deeply intersubjective ecological cultures advocated by ecofeminists. Although this study is rooted in the geography of the borderlands, it is relevant to anyone buildinga decolonizing feminist and environmental movement.
Standardization is critical to scientists and regulators to ensure the quality and interoperability of research processes, as well as the safety and efficacy of the attendant research products. This is perhaps most evident in the case of "omics science," which is enabled by a host of diverse high-throughput technologies such as genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. But standards are of interest to (and shaped by) others far beyond the immediate realm of individual scientists, laboratories, scientific consortia, or governments that develop, apply, and regulate them. Indeed, scientific standards have consequences for the social, ethical, and legal environment in which innovative technologies are regulated, and thereby command the attention of policy makers and citizens. This article argues that standardization of omics science is both technical and social. A critical synthesis of the social science literature indicates that: (1) standardization requires a degree of flexibility to be practical at the level of scientific practice in disparate sites; (2) the manner in which standards are created, and by whom, will impact their perceived legitimacy and therefore their potential to be used; and (3) the process of standardization itself is important to establishing the legitimacy of an area of scientific research.
Abstract This chapter offers an in-depth case study of a single documentary, Señorita Extraviada, directed by Lourdes Portillo. It provides an ecocritical reading of a film that has received much scholarly attention, but never from an environmental viewpoint. The chapter builds on insights from the prior chapters on artists' use of affect to create new relationships with their audience, and it merges those discussions with assemblage theory to consider the unique role of filmmaking in the creation of new subjects. It argues that this film creates new subjects within the text (i.e., new readings of the humans, landscapes, and spirit configurations within the film) and that it can create new kinds of action-oriented subjects within the human community of spectators that view it. The chapter also employs reception analysis to look at the effectiveness of filming strategies that could potentially raise social and ecological consciousness.
We argue that, while there is general agreement within the field of proteomics that standards are important to science, the goals of the researchers, depending on their research type (discovery, methods or clinical [see Table 3.1]), determine whether they see laboratory quality standards as a necessity or as a potential barrier to scientific creativity and innovation.
In 1950 the friendship between the Soviet Union and China seemed to many an unshakable alliance pitting East against West and communism against democracy. The Cuban missile crisis occurred almost simultaneously with the Sino-Indian border conflict, and added fuel to China's complaints about Soviet timidity. Beijing's anti-Soviet propaganda, however, continued unabated, and a message of congratulations sent by Leonid Brezhnev to Hua Guofeng on his appointment as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party was rejected. Mao Zedong told Kosygm when he last saw him in 1969 that it might be possible to improve state-to-state relations, but that inter-Party ties would be much harder to ameliorate. Although there have been developments and changes in state, Party and personal relations, there has been no major breakthrough. Soviet propaganda in the post-Mao period has continued to attack 'Maoism' and has argued that 'de-Maoization' was a myth, but personal attacks on Chinese leaders have been rare.
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