Curating a genre: representing and exhibiting prisoner arts

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) disproportionately affects certain sub-populations, including people with experience of incarceration (PWEI). Little is known about how perceptions of HCV and treatment have changed despite simplifications in testing and treatment in carceral settings. Nineteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with people living with or having a history of HCV infection released from Quebec provincial prison. Interviews were guided by the Common Sense Self-Regulation Model (CS-SRM) and aimed to explore cognitive and emotional representations of HCV and coping strategies. Among the 19 participants, seven (37%) were diagnosed with HCV in prison and 14 (74%) had previously received HCV treatment. Participants' HCV illness perceptions were influenced by fear (of HCV transmission, death, and the well-being of family) and stigma (related to HCV, injection drug use, and incarceration). While some sought education and social and professional support, others self-isolated or engaged in high-risk behaviors to cope. Despite advances in HCV treatment, PWEI continue to experience various forms of stigma and fear surrounding their HCV diagnosis, resulting in delayed HCV care. These findings provide insights into how prison-based healthcare providers can better utilize HCV illness perceptions to evaluate willingness to engage in HCV care among PWEI.

Factors influencing the acceptability of hepatitis C screening among people with experience of incarceration in Quebec, Canada: A qualitative descriptive study guided by the Theoretical Domains Framework.

This article explores white collar criminals’ experience of imprisonment in England and Wales. Based upon interviews with 13 convicted offenders after they had completed their imprisonment, it is the first study to date of this kind in England and Wales (all others have been based in prison). It offers a unique impartial insight of prisoners’ experience, beyond the influence of the prison walls. The paper explores the experience around the largely American ‘special sensitivity’ debate, over whether such offenders are more sensitive to prison. The research uncovers both positive experiences, labelled ‘good’, but also negative, labelled ‘bad’ (non-violent experiences) and ‘ugly’ (violent experiences). Overall the findings reveal it is difficult to apply the special sensitivity hypothesis universally to this group of offenders.

Virginia Woolf haunts our culture. Images of Woolf, particularly the famous 1902 Beresford photograph, resurface in unexpected places, redolent with meaning. She has become a ready signifier of highbrow modernism, bohemian London, 1970s feminism, elitism, aestheticism, madness, and the drive to suicide. Her persona has been used to market products ranging from Bass ale to the New York Review of Books (Silver 1999, 8) to the new Waitrose supermarket at the Brunswick Centre in London’s Bloomsbury.1 Her cultural influence is eclectic: inspiring Dries Van Noten’s 2004 fashion collection and graffiti art in London’s Vauxhall (Barkway 2005, 36 and 2002, 29). Fans and detractors alike feel the need to declare their position, often intensely held and heavy with assumptions about art, class and feminism. Few writers, in fact, have triggered such passionate responses. While this is a book about the academic response to Woolf — what we might call Woolf studies — intensity and polarity of response are still to be found. This sense of commitment — Woolf is a writer who matters — makes her reception endlessly fascinating. And her controversial status is a result of her interest in culturally troubling questions, those that still preoccupy us in the twenty-first century. In addition, the plurality of approaches to Woolf speaks to the richness of her writing. That she came at life from so many angles — sexual, political, historical, and psychological — facilitates corresponding critical approaches. Each of these approaches has, in its own way, revolutionized the way one might read Woolf.KeywordsFeminist CriticismAmerican CriticPostcolonial StudyDialogic DebateOrdinary ReaderThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Abstract. AI has gradually become a vital tool involved in creating content since it has changed the way information that is shared on different platforms is produced, the use of artificial intelligence in content generation particularly through social media has far-reaching consequences for societys attitude, confidence, and the public information domain. This literature review aims to critically evaluate the prevalence of the works hinging on the impact of AI-generated content dissemination on public sentiment and trust; it assesses the way content disseminated through AI impacts the users perception and behavior. Thus, this review not only presents an integration and elaboration of the existing literature but also notes limitations and directions for forthcoming exploration.

Welcome to the Ninth Volume of Metabolomics! It is now a few days after the winter solstice and as this year draws to an end, and we have all successfully survived the dawn of the next B’ak’tun from the Mayan calendar with its misinterpretations, it is time to cast our minds back on 2012. For my home country it has been a successful year with several significant accomplishments: the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations brought great joy to most of the country and in July and August London hosted a very successful XXX Summer Olympic Games. One of the legacies from these Olympics was not just the inspiration that it has given many people, along with the sense of happiness that emanated throughput the UK in August and beyond, but the very generous donations and funding that have led to the initiation of two UK-based Phenome Centres in London (Saini 2012). This is a wonderful opportunity to bring metabolomics closer to patient care and we shall all be watching with interest to see the fruits of Jeremy Nicholson and colleagues’ work in this area. Similar activities have been initiated throughout the world and I would encourage you all to read about these in an article entitled ‘Metabolomics across the globe’ which features in the Metabolomics Society pages that accompany this issue, and of course to visit their web site: http://www.meta bolomicssociety.org. Turing my attention to the journal, we have also had another very successful year. Our impact factor rose again by *0.9 to 4.505. In Volume 8 issues 1–6 we published 105 papers and a single Editorial and also produced a Special Issue entitled ‘Data Analysis Methods for Metabolomics’ which contained 16 papers and an Editorial; I am very grateful to Guest Editors Johan Westerhuis and Jeroen Jansen for their very hard work and enthusiasm in putting this together—it contains some great reviews and primary papers. Earlier in the year I was fortunate enough to attend Royce Murray’s retirement party at Pittcon 2012 (11–15 March 2012 in Orlando) and chatted with Jonathan Sweedler—the new Editor of Analytical Chemistry—I wish Jonathan all the very best in his new role. I spent a few moments with Royce first of all thanking him for giving a young postdoc from Wales the opportunity to publish his first paper in Analytical Chemistry in 1994 (Goodacre et al. 1994), a monster-sized 16 page article on pyrolysis MS and neural nets. We laughed when I also told him that he sent me his editorial entitled ‘Lengthening Research papers: Conciseness is Next to Godliness’ (Murray 1995) when I sent my second paper in for review (Goodacre and Kell 1996). This was also too long and despite some necessary condensing still ended up at 10 pages! It was nice to finally meet Royce and I wish him a very long and happy retirement. Since we have been publishing Metabolomics the average article length has been between 10 and 12 pages, and recently seems to be creeping upwards. I would therefore encourage all potential contributors to read Royce’s editorial; even though it is 18 years old it is very forward thinking. Whilst the advent of electronic media has presented us with the opportunity to increase the amount of information we put into the public domain, it is generally accepted that although ‘‘the Devil is in the detail’’ in reality God is found in small places and thus shorter articles are likely to be better written, carefully constructed and hence more interesting, as well as more impactful. For Metabolomics there will be an expectation that the average R. Goodacre (&) School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK e-mail: Roy.Goodacre@manchester.ac.uk

Troops and Tribes: Masculinity, Playing Indian, and the Social Politics of Ernest Thompson Seton's Expulsion from the Boy Scouts of America

The Stock Market Prediction and Analysis has always been one of the most challenging tasks (Polamuri and Mohan in A survey on stock market prediction using machine learning techniques, 2019; Parmar et al. in First international conference on secure cyber computing and communication (ICSCCC), pp. 574–576, 2018). The variety of influences and unpredictability beats even the heavyweights to ground when it comes to successfully analyzing Stock Price data. In the proposed System, we have designed and successfully built a Machine Learning model using Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) algorithm which helps for prediction of stock price data. We have done experimentations for better training, accuracy and results, on used data. The proposed system is also deployed on a web application which helps eliminate/reduce the difficulty of its use for the users. The model also works on the real-time data as we are using Yahoo finance API for getting updated data for model training and prediction. Lastly, The Indian stock market prices are also heavily driven by public sentiments which have for providing a better public opinion upon a particular stock. To help our users tackle this, we have added twitter sentiment analysis as a feature which provides us results in term of percentages of positive and negative sentiments within the tweets in the public domain at present about a particular stock, achieving a better opinion on a particular stock for the users. The resulting model successfully gives us a prediction graphs as an output when given a particular stock on the proposed web application. We obtained least error in prediction, for Asian Paints data for the split of 80:20, using 75 epochs.

Social Justice from the Confessional?

Like the sports franchises and foreign auto plants that preceded them, state and local governments are touting prisons as the latest means of economic miracle‐making, often for small towns and communities that are economically depressed. The building of prisons is supposedly tied to the development of a just, fair, and rational criminal justice policy in a civil democratic society. Prison building has positive and negative social and political consequences for these communities. This critical essay explores some of these consequences in light of the literature on prison siting, the experiences of communities and prisoners, and relevant statistical data in the public domain. It also offers an alternative framework for evaluating prison recruitment as a strategy for local economic development.

This qualitative cross-sectional survey, undertaken in the antenatal booking clinics of a hospital in central London, explores pregnant women’s responses to routine HIV testing, examines their reasons for declining or...

<p>The modernization of Saudi Arabia, manifested in the Arab Vision 2030 policy, has implications for various sectors of life, including the perceived modern transformation of Saudi women. Among the research on Arab Vision 2030, this article specifically focuses on elaborating the forms of transformation of Saudi women in various fields. This research uses a qualitative descriptive method that focuses on exploring literature related to women's activities and roles in the public domain after the implementation of Arab Vision 2030 and analyzing them from a modernist perspective. The results show that Arab Vision 2030 significantly impacts women's activities and roles in the public domain, especially in the socio-cultural field. This includes women's freedom to engage in public spaces, even without the presence of a legitimate companion (mahram), and without wearing a niqab or burqa. Women are also granted freedom in the fields of education, such as unrestricted choice of study programs and politics, including the permission to become politicians and hold ministerial positions, and in the economic field, with the freedom to choose careers and become corporate leaders.</p>

This paper examines the gap between moral purpose and moral performance as a problem created in part by the alienation of spirituality from civic life. We are a nation ofprivatized morality that places corporate and civic leaders in a labyrinth of uncertainty when they try to establish a moral foundation for actions and decisions affecting the public interest. This uncertainty is compounded by an Enlightenment tradition of modern secular pluralism privileging rational discourse as the vehicle of public moral sentiment. In this longstanding intellectual tradition, reason is the highest good (Plato, Aristotle), the defining,feature of human subjectivity (Descartes), the foundation of human freedom (Kant, Hegel, Locke), and the path to moral truth (Kant). Although much of the intellectual, social, economic, and political energy of the last century has challenged the totalizing assumptions embedded in this tradition (Marx, Foucault, et alia), qualities of neutrality, objectivity, and universality remain as privileged values influencing cultural practices of morality and leadership. Leaders turn to reason, with its assumed qualities of tolerance and respect, in the attempt to cultivate organizational cultures of moral clarity, accountability, and trust without violating the intellectual and spiritual freedom of the individuals and groups who constitute the organizational culture. The problem with this approach is that moral solidarity - and, for that matter, genuine tolerance and respect -- are not a product of the intellect; they are a creation of the human spirit. In the secular tradition, spirituality is a private pursuit with no legitimate role in the public domain. This paper introduces a framework, the Moral Compass, as a possible approach for creating moral solidarity. The Moral Compass creates a conceptual framework and terminology the enables people to engage in meaningful, authentic moral dialogue and discernment while remaining anchored in the their unique moral traditions.

Reimbursing incarcerated individuals for participation in research: A scoping review

Historically, research on prisons and prisoners privileges an individualizing framework, when in fact the prison experience is strongly tied to social stratification and collective identities. Informed by the data created for a Photovoice project with former prisoners in South Australia, I contend that contemporary “criminological” knowledge tends to individualize crime through its own privileged view of the world. This individualizing approach seeps into the ways in which criminalized women experience release into the community after a prison sentence, confirming that society does not believe that imprisonment furnishes any form of “rehabilitation.” There can be no separation between capitalism, the prison industrial complex (PIC), and the violence present in carceral settings. This violence, although to a lesser extent than prisoners, is experienced by social workers selling their labor power within the PIC who are co-opted into believing that they can “make a difference.” Yet, social workers, whose codes of ethics are grounded in a framework of human rights, are witness to abuses of human rights on a daily basis within the PIC. Instead of making a difference, they are coerced into silence and roles of social control. The argument proposed here suggests that social workers must radically rethink the place and purpose of prisons by considering them as a violent response by the state to structural social problems that are experienced as politically perpetrated misery and oppression.