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Involving child and youth advisors in academic research about child participation: The Child and Youth Advisory Committees of the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership
Authors: Collins Tara , Jamieson Lucy , Wright Laura H.V. , Rizzini Irene , Mayhew Amanda , Narang Javita , Tisdall E Kay M , Ruiz-Casares Monica 
Published: March 2024

<p>Nearly thirty years ago, the world recognised the participation rights of children with the adoption by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Since then childhood researchers in the Global South and Global North have been at the forefront of promoting these rights. The increased involvement of children and youth in research has challenged ‘traditional’ adult research practices in numerous ways. This article explores the role and contributions of Child and Youth Advisory Committees (CYACs) in the research process. It discusses the establishment of CYACs and how they supported the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP). The ICCRP began as a three-year multi-country research project addressing children’s rights to participation and protection and monitoring this connection internationally within several Global South and North countries: Brazil, Canada, China and South Africa. This article describes the creation and functioning of the ICCRP CYACs and the strengths, challenges, and creative processes in implementation. Findings presented relate to ethics regulation, differing expectations and assumptions about CYAC involvement, and virtual communication. These are discussed with the inclusion of adult researchers’ and the CYAC members’ perspectives. The article shares lessons learned about the role and significance of dialogue to support other child and youth advisory bodies in research at the local and global levels.</p>
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Global health is political; can it also be compassionate?
Authors: Cislaghi Beniamino , Bukuluki Paul , Chowdhury Mushtaque , Miranda Angélica Espinosa , Kenny Leah , Kohli Anjalee , Kusumaningrum Santi , Brah Balkissa Harouna , Love Catherine , Mathpati Mahesh Madhav , Nkwi Paul , Ona Fernando , Porter John , Ruiz-Casares Monica , Saldanha Neela , Sulaiman Munshi , Wessells Mike 
Published: March 2024

<p>One would think that global health, as “trans-national research and action for promoting health for all”, should be rooted in the compassionate desire to alleviate suffering. Yet, its current operationalisation has been criticised for bureaucratising action into addressing technical (rather than moral) problems. This bureaucratisation doesn’t help global health researchers and practitioners resist a natural sense of disconnect with people living in very distant places. As Addis noted, compassionate responses to global health issues both require recognising suffering as such and demand purposeful action. Ethical questions for compassionate global health practitioners then become: how do we identify (as opposed to assume) people’s suffering, and what should we do to alleviate it, without making it worse? </p>
Health workers' perceptions of access to care for children and pregnant women with precarious immigration status: Health as a right or a privilege?
Authors: Vanthuyne Karine , Meloni Francesca , Ruiz-Casares Monica , Rousseau Cécile , Ricard-Guay Alexandra 
Published: March 2024

<p>The Canadian government's recent cuts to healthcare coverage for refugee claimants has rekindled the debate in Canada about what medical services should be provided to individuals with precarious immigration status, and who should pay for these services. This article further explores this debate, focussing on the perceptions of healthcare workers in Montreal, a large multiethnic Canadian city. In April–June 2010, an online survey was conducted to assess how clinicians, administrators, and support staff in Montreal contend with the ethical and professional dilemmas raised by the issue of access to healthcare services for pregnant women and children who are partially or completely uninsured. Drawing on qualitative analysis of answers (<em>n</em> = 237) to three open-ended survey questions, we identify the discursive frameworks that our respondents mobilized when arguing for, or against, universal access to healthcare for uninsured patients. In doing so, we highlight how their positions relate to their self-evaluations of Canada's socioeconomic situation, as well as their ideological representations of, and sense of social connection to, precarious status immigrants. Interestingly, while abstract values lead some healthcare workers to perceive uninsured immigrants as “deserving” of universal access to healthcare, negative perceptions of these migrants, coupled with pragmatic considerations, pushed most workers to view the uninsured as “underserving” of free care. For a majority of our respondents, the right to healthcare of precarious status immigrants has become a “privilege”, that as taxpayers, they are increasingly less willing to contribute to. We conclude by arguing for a reconsideration of access to healthcare as a right, and offer recommendations to move in this direction.</p>
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tau-Safe (I, k)-Diversity Privacy Model for Sequential Publication With High Utility
Authors: Zhu Hui , Liang Hong-Bin , Zhao Lian , Peng Dai-Yuan , Xiong Linghong 
Published: March 2024

<p> Preserving privacy while maintaining high utility during sequential publication for data providers and data users in mathematical statistics, scientific researching, and organizations making decisions play an important role recently. The τ -safety model is the state-of-the-art model in sequential publication. However, it is based on the generalization technique, which has some drawbacks such as heavy information loss and difficulty of supporting marginal publication. Besides, the privacy of individuals is the major aspect that needs to be protected in privacy preserving data publishing. In this paper, to protect the privacy of individuals in sequential publication, we develop a new τ -safe (l, k)-diversity privacy model based on generalization and segmentation by record anonymity satisfying l-diversity and individual anonymity satisfying k-anonymity. This privacy model ensures that each record’s signatures keep consistency or have no intersection in all releases. It can get high data utility while resisting the linking attacks due to arbitrary updates. In addition, it can also be applied to a dataset where individual has multiple records and arbitrary marginal publication. The results of our experiments show that the proposed privacy model achieves better anonymization quality and query accuracy in comparison with the m-invariance and τ -safety model in the sequential publication with arbitrary updates. </p>
Dynamic Finite Element Modeling and Simulation of Soft Robots
Authors: Ding Liang , Niu Lizhou , Su Yang , Yang Huaiguang , Liu Guang Jun , Gao Haibo , Deng Zongquan 
Published: March 2024

<p>Soft robots have become important members of the robot community with many potential applications owing to their unique flexibility and security embedded at the material level. An increasing number of researchers are interested in their designing, manufacturing, modeling, and control. However, the dynamic simulation of soft robots is difficult owing to their infinite degrees of freedom and nonlinear characteristics that are associated with soft materials and flexible geometric structures. In this study, a novel multi-flexible body dynamic modeling and simulation technique is introduced for soft robots. Various actuators for soft robots are modeled in a virtual environment, including soft cable-driven, spring actuation, and pneumatic driving. A pneumatic driving simulation was demonstrated by the bending modules with different materials. A cable-driven soft robot arm prototype and a cylindrical soft module actuated by shape memory alley springs inspired by an octopus were manufactured and used to validate the simulation model, and the experimental results demonstrated adequate accuracy. The proposed technique can be widely applied for the modeling and dynamic simulation of other soft robots, including hybrid actuated robots and rigid-flexible coupling robots. This study also provides a fundamental framework for simulating soft mobile robots and soft manipulators in contact with the environment.</p>
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Virtual Decomposition Based Modeling for Multi-DOF Manipulator With Flexible Joint
Authors: Xia Kerui , Xing Hongjun , Ding Liang , Gao Haibo , Liu Guang Jun , Deng Zongquan 
Published: March 2024

<p>This paper discusses a problem that has plagued researchers for a long time regarding the dynamic modeling of a multiple degree-of-freedom (multi-DOF) manipulator such that its manipulation exhibits a higher computational efficiency and accuracy. Unknown friction, unknown gravitational torque, an uncertain moment of inertia, and severe joint coupling are the primary disturbing factors in multi-DOF manipulator modeling. In addition, joint flexible problems caused by the integration of harmonic drives increase the modeling complexity. Hitherto, no effective method has been found to address these problems. The virtual decomposition (VD)-based method exhibits the advantages of joint dynamics decoupling and minor computation compared with the traditional Lagrangian formulation or Newton–Euler formulation. In this study, an estimation method for the deformation-related torque of harmonic drives is established based on a novel experimental model; subsequently, this method is utilized in the VD-based model for the multi-DOF manipulator. Hence, the decoupling dynamic model for the manipulator considering joint flexibility is established. The performance of this new method has been evaluated by a contrast simulation with the Newton–Euler formulation, and the multi-DOF manipulator control simulation and experiment have been conducted with a VD-based model as a feedforward compensator to verify its performance in real-time control. The results demonstrated the validity and efficiency of e proposed approach. </p>
Emancipatory engagement: An urban womanist social work pedagogy
Authors: McLane-Davison Denise 
Published: March 2024

<p>Standing on the hope of the initial social work course from 1914 at Morgan College, this article provides insight into the significant learning outcomes of contemporary students in advanced social work practice with urban African American families. This research introduces the conceptual framework of urban womanist social work pedagogy as an inclusive practice-informed knowledge produced through the rituals, traditions, values, culture, and resilience of historically disenfranchised communities. Urban womanist social work teaching methods honor truth telling from the ones who have lived there. Urban womanist social work affirms transformative-centered research, teaching, and scholarship produced through institutions such as historically black colleges and universities (HBCU’s). The students’ reflective narratives reveal a process of transformation, centered in the freedom standpoint, which includes recognizing the location and context of their individual and collective identity as African Americans in the profession of social work. Urban womanist social work pedagogy cumulatively equips our students with intergenerational knowledge that inform their assessment of critical issues in Baltimore’s African American communities.</p>
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Readiness for Graduate Social Work Education: Does an Undergraduate Social Work Major Make a Difference?
Authors: Bowie Stan L. , McLane-Davison Denise 
Published: March 2024

<p>This study assessed the extent that a large sample of MSW-level social workers perceived that their undergraduate programs prepared them for graduate social work education. A survey collected data using the Undergraduate Preparation Subscale of the Preparation for Graduate Social Work Education (PGSWE) Scale. The sample (N = 1,056) consisted of MSW graduates from CSWE-accredited social work programs in the United States. Females represented 83.6% of the sample. Most respondents (64.1%) were White, followed by Black/African American (32.5%), Latinx (1.9%), Asian/Pacific Islander (0.9%), and Native American (0.5%). The remaining 0.1% of respondents were categorized as “other.” While 35.7% were undergraduate social work majors, followed by psychology (21.8%), sociology (11.7%), education (2.7%), and English (2.3%), an array of other majors was reported (25.8%), primarily business administration, liberal arts, history, political science, and criminal justice. The vast majority of respondents received their MSW degrees in the States of Tennessee (70.8%) and Florida (13.2%). The other 16% received MSW degrees in 28 other states. Most respondents (64.3%) had undergraduate degrees in majors other than social work. A surprising finding was that social work majors did not feel significantly more prepared for graduate social work education than non-social work majors. Implications are discussed regarding a need to strengthen the BSW/MSW continuum and seek evidence to guide curricular decisions in social work education.</p>
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Job satisfaction: a positive attribute of work-family integration for female social work faculty
Authors: Simmons Catherine A. , Weiss Eugenia L. , Schwartz Sarah L. , McLane-Davison Denise 
Published: March 2024

<p>Academic literature exploring the experiences and needs among women in the social work professorate has yet to explore the ways in which work-life and family-life are compatible, including work-life enrichment and job satisfaction. To remedy this empirical gap, the current descriptive exploratory study of 504 female tenure-track social work academics investigates components essential to job satisfaction, which are also important to work-life enrichment. A particular emphasis is placed on differences and similarities between women who have dependent children (e.g., under 18 and in the home), women who have adult children, and women who have no children. Data were collected using an on-line survey of social work faculty working at CSWE accredited programs. Variables explored include professional connectedness, workplace empowerment, career satisfaction, and stress. The most salient finding is that having dependent children is not a detriment to factors essential for successful work-life enrichment and job satisfaction, even though overall stress is higher. The three groups have more similarities than differences. Implications for policy, practice, and future research are addressed.</p>
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Community organizing against homophobia and heterosexism: The world through rainbow-coloured glasses
Authors: Wehbi Samantha 
Published: March 2024

<p>Examine how community organizing can help eliminate sexual oppression!<br>
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<p>This book presents insights from activists working in dramatically diverse cultures toward a common goal—the eradication of sexual oppression. Contributors share their experiences in organizing for sexual emancipation in many parts of the world, documenting progress in transforming oppressive sexual attitudes, policies, and practices, while acknowledging the long road to sexual democracy that remains to be traveled. Community Organizing Against Homophobia and Heterosexism: The World Through Rainbow-Colored Glasses highlights the importance of building alliances with social service providers and community organizers, of physical space as an element of identity-building, of understanding the tension between members of sexual minority communities and their other communities of belonging, and the transformation of individual efforts into movements necessary to affect long-term social change.<br>
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<p>Community Organizing Against Homophobia and Heterosexism presents chapters that focus on community organizing against homophobia and heterosexism, bringing to light the history and contemporary face of resistance in global contexts. The book highlights practical actions to liberate sexual and gender expressions, including:</p>
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<li>the challenge of organizing within a Two-Spirit (LGBT people of Aboriginal descent) community in Montreal</li>
<li>the organization of Tongzhi (LGBT and their supporters) rights in Hong Kong</li>
<li>the work of Yoesuf, a Muslim association that works on battling homophobia and xenophobia in communities in the Netherlands</li>
<li>the foundation of GALF, a Peruvian feminist group dedicated to organizing against lesbophobia and heterosexism</li>
<li>the development of GALZ, the gay liberation movement in Zimbabwe</li>
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<p>Community Organizing Against Homophobia and Heterosexism: The World Through Rainbow-Colored Glasses is an essential resource for social service professionals, community activists, and anyone else working to eliminate sexual oppression in all forms. </p>
‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’: The Restructuring of Power in Modi's India
Authors: Ruparelia Sanjay 
Published: March 2024

<p>This article examines the politics of development during the first year of the new Modi government. In particular, it explores the meaning of its guiding maxim, ‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’, by analysing specific reforms and broader changes in state–society relations. First, the Modi government has imposed greater discipline in public administration through a personalistic, centralised and technocratic style of rule. But it has bolstered executive power by limiting political transparency, parliamentary government and social dissent. Second, the new government has promoted urbanisation, manufacturing and infrastructure through greater economic liberalisation, public investment and institutional reform. Yet it has weakened many labour protocols, environmental regulations and participatory mechanisms regarding land acquisition and forest conservation. Lastly, the Modi administration has introduced new insurance schemes and championed digitally-enabled cash transfers to deliver social entitlements. However, it has reduced public spending on primary education and basic health, and undercut many rights-based welfare acts introduced by the previous administration, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). These three trends have narrowed the spaces of power and contestation in contemporary Indian democracy, frustrating the promise of ‘maximum governance’.</p>
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Rethinking Institutional Theories of Political Moderation: The Case of Hindu Nationalism in India
Authors: Ruparelia Sanjay 
Published: March 2024

<p>In March 1998, following India's twelfth general election, a coalition of sixteen parties led by Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured a majority of seats in Lok Sabha, lower house of parliament, and formed a national government in New Delhi. For many observers, it marked a crucial turning point in modem Indian pol itics. The BJP, as front party of sangh parivar a family of militant Hindu organi zations led by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS, National Volunteer Corps), escaped its erstwhile political isolation by convincing a number of smaller secular par ties to join its ranks. In exchange, BJP shelved most contentious aspects of its agenda. Chief among them was campaign, spearheaded by its sister organization, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP, World Hindu Council), since mid 1980s, to build a temple for Hindu god Ram in town of Ayodhya in northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The Ramjanmabhoomi campaign had led to demolition of Babri mosque, which allegedly stood on birthplace of Ram, on December 6, 1992, unleashing worst communal riots in India since partition in 1947.1 The events in Ayodhya and their aftermath convinced most secular parties to renounce electoral alliances with BJP. The BJP agreed prior to 1998 election, however, to remove Ram temple issue from its official policy platform. It also set aside other controver sial proposals such as adoption of a union civil code, which would nullify spe cial judicial arrangements regarding personal family laws governing various minority groups, and abrogation of Article 370 of constitution, which gave disputed Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir special asymmetric rights in union. As a result of these gestures, many commentators portrayed the politics of social exclusion that BJP has carried forward to new extremes [as] self-limiting in domain of representative democracy.'2 In general terms, two versions of self-limiting thesis underwrote these confident expectations. The first, more general version was that BJP as a party would respect rule of law due to general exigencies of democratic electoral politics. Committing excessive violence towards minority groups would harm its prospects at polls.3 The second, more particular version claimed that it would have to moderate its policies due to the compulsions of coalition politics.4 The inability of any single party to capture a parliamentary majority on its own after 1989 forced larger parties, such as</p>
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Modi’s Saffron Democracy
Authors: Ruparelia Sanjay 
Published: March 2024

<p> In May 2014, Narendra Modi became India’s fourteenth prime minister since independence. Storming to power after a charged electoral campaign, the strongman from Gujarat represented a political earthquake. Under his leadership, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was the first party to win a parliamentary majority since 1984, ending a quarter century of national coalition governments in New Delhi. It also became the only party apart from the Indian National Congress (known simply as “the Congress”), which had traditionally ruled the country under the direction of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, to win a mandate on its own. Roughly 66 percent of the electorate, the highest share ever, voted in the 2014 general election. Voter participation increased in virtually every state and across diverse segments of the population, including historically marginalized communities of Dalits and Adivasis and especially women. The stunning triumph of the BJP heralded a new political order in the world’s largest democracy. </p>
EFEKTIVITAS PELAKSANAAN FUNGSI LEGISLASI BADAN PERMUSYAWARATAN DESA DI DESA UMAKLARAN KECAMATAN TASIFETO TIMUR KABUPATEN BELU
Authors: Mau Yovita Marselina , Atanus Fidelis , Botha Hendrikus Hironimus 
Published: March 2024

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui efektivitas pelaksanan fungsi legislasi Badan Permusyawaratan Desa (BPD) di Desa Umaklaran Kecamatan Tasifeto Timur Kabupaten Belu. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pelaksanaan fungsi BPD sudah memiliki tujuan yang jelas berdasarkan hasil wawancara tujuan tersebut berupa membahas dan merancang peraturan Desa di Desa Umaklaran. Kejelasaan strategi yang dijalankan oleh BPD sudah mencapai tujuan dalam pelaksanaan fungsi legislasi yang ada di Desa Umaklaran. Proses analisis yang dijalankan BPD belum menjamin BPD dalam pencapaian tujuan dari fungsi legislasi di Desa Umaklaran. Perencanan dalam pelaksanaan Fungsi Legislasi BPD sudah sesuai karena BPD sudah mempunyai perencanaan yang matang untuk dikerjakan di masa depan yang akan datang di Desa Umaklaran. Penyusunan program yang dijalankan BPD belum sesuai dengan jangka waktu yang telah ditentukan dalam pelaksanaan fungsi legislasi Di Desa Umaklaran. Sarana dan prasaraan kerja yang disediakan sudah sesuai dan sangat membantu BPD dalam pelaksanaan fungsi legislasi di Desa Umaklaran. Dalam pelaksanaan fungsi legislasi BPD belum efektif dan efisien karena belum ada rancangan peraturan Desa di Desa Umaklaran. Dalam pelaksanaan fungsi legislasi BPD selalu membutuhkan pengawasan dan pengendalian untuk mencapai tujua dalam pelaksanaan fungsi legislasi BPD di Desa Umaklaran.