Close Colleagues Research Articles

The Effects of Homophobia, Partnership, Sexual Self-Labels, and Involvement of LGBT Center Activity on Coming Out in Various Social Relationships among Chinese Gay Men

Objectives The present study explored the factors that influenced the likelihood of 503 Chinese gay men’s choice of coming out in different social relationships in a Chinese cultural context. Methods The current study reports on data from a cross-sectional survey analyzing the relationships between the choice of coming out of a homosexual individual’s social relationships and its relation to demograph-ics, internalized homophobia, sexual self-label, and attendance at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) center activity using a multivariate logistic regression model. Results Other-oriented identity was a predictor of outness to close friends, friends, relatives, and colleagues. The greater the frequency of attendance to LGBT center activities, the more likely the participants were to choose to come out to their parents, relative, and friends. Other demographic data, such as age, education, number of siblings, and partnership, are also factors related to outness in different social relationships. Conclusions The factors related to coming out are varied in different social relationships, which implies that individuals use different principles in different social relationships. The present study provides further evidence that mental health professionals should work with LGBT centers to help homosexual individuals with their iden-tity development and to develop individualized assistance strategies based on different social relationships.

Cheryl and Jack Taunton’s Role in the Evolution of Sports and Exercise Medicine in British Columbia and Beyond

This commentary outlines the evolution of sports and exercise medicine in British Columbia and the unique collaborations with my close friends and colleagues, Dr. Jack and Cheryl Taunton. This article outlines the important legacy of the work of the Jack and Cheryl and the trainees that came through the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre. Included in this article is an anthology of works that outline the impact of the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Clinic over the years including highlighting key graduates from our programming.

Fernando Arenas (1963-2019)

The untimely death of Fernando Arenas on October 30, 2019 has left his partner, mother and brothers, who were by his side at the time, with much pain and an indescribable sense of loss. For his colleagues, his death is a major loss in Lusophone Studies, the field that he helped to forge with unrelenting conviction, generosity and kindness. As I share the outline of a memory that others will want to fill-in, I mourn a close friend and colleague of more than two decades without whom life in Minnesota will never be the same.

Publishing the Southwest: An Editorial Farewell

Publishing the Southwest: An Editorial Farewell Joseph Carleton Wilder After 34 years, with this (Spring 2020) issue, I am retiring as editor of Journal of the Southwest. When historian Jack Carroll started Arizona and the West in 1959, he suggested the journal would “burn its own cigarettes,” which it continued to do under Harwood Hinton (1963–1986). Under my editorship since 1986, I have similarly endeavored to follow an innovative path. In 1987, we renamed and refocused the journal. As Journal of the Southwest we began publishing a distinctive regional quarterly attuned to multidisciplinary studies of the American Southwest, the Mexican Northwest, and the borderlands. Over the years, there have been many intellectuals and scholars who have made major contributions to JSW, indeed, too numerous to name them all. I had the good fortune to publish Bernard L. (Bunny) Fontana, Helen Ingram, Bill Broyles, Bruce Dinges, Tom Sheridan, David Yetman, Charles Bowden, Tom McGuire, Celestino Fernández, Raymond Thompson, Alberto Búrquez, Francisco (“Paco”) Manzo Taylor, Julian Hayden, James (“Big Jim”) Griffith, David Weber, Elizabeth A. H. John, James Officer, Rev. Kieran McCarty, Lawrence Clark Powell, Barbara Babcock, Marta Weigle, Alan Ferg, and Nancy Parezo; Sylvia Rodríguez, JPS Brown, and Curtis Hinsley; David Burckhalter, Susan Deeds, and Gary Nabhan. Also, Martin Padget, Diana Hadley, Helga Teiwes, Stephen Cox, and Nieves Zedeño; Gwyneth Harrington and Mary Beck Moser, Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce, Emil Haury, Ned and Rosamond Spicer, Donald Bahr, Miki Maaso, Felipe Molina, Larry Evers; Nicolás Pineda Pablos, Stephen Mumme, Jim Hills, Thomas Bowen, Greg McNamee, Joaquin Murrieta, and Bob Vint. Many of these close colleagues are no longer with us. We introduced special thematic issues, among many: “Dry Borders” (Bill Broyles and Richard Felger, eds.), “The Southwest Defined” (James Byrkit), “Mata Ortiz Pottery” (Jim Hills), Larry Evers and Felipe Molina’s “Hiakim: The Yaqui Homeland,” and “Seri Hands,” a collaborative grouping of essays and a photo portfolio; also special issues on “The Vikita Ceremony of the Papago” (Julian Hayden and others), “Chinese Sojourners in Territorial Prescott” (Florence Lister and Robert Lister), and southwestern anthropologists Edward (Ned) Spicer and Emil Haury. In recent years, we published a festschrift double issue “Ways of Knowing: Helen Ingram and Water Scholarship” (Margaret Wilder, ed.); one on Agnese Nelms Haury (Bill Broyles and Rein Vanderpot, eds.); and one on Charles Bowden, whose writing shaped our understanding of the southwestern environment and the borderlands (Bill Broyles [End Page 3] and Bruce Dinges, eds.). In addition to the journal, I started two Southwest Center book series, at the University of Arizona Press (UAP) and the University of New Mexico Press (acquiring editor Larry Ball), to bring out important books with our imprint, and enjoyed a fruitful relationship with both presses, especially with directors Stephen Cox, Christine Szuter, and Kathryn Conrad at UAP. Along the way, associate editor Jeff Banister and I introduced some innovations to the journal, including full-color photos and individually designed covers, with the assistance of Bill Benoit early on and later Christine Hubbard, and hand-drawn maps and illustrations by Don Bufkin and Paul Mirocha. Alene Randklev capably handles typesetting. We have relied on Jim Wigginton and Becky Wigginton-Colon at West Press for fine production of the journal, and on Debra Makay for excellent copyediting. We published pieces bilingually in Spanish, Yaqui, and O’odham (with English), and we printed extra copies to share within the communities. We transitioned the journal from a fully print format to a hybrid online and print format, successfully weathering a challenging period and creating a digital legacy (on JSTOR and Project MUSE) of JSW stretching back to 1959. In the effort to move online, the support of the Southwestern Foundation for Education and Historical Preservation, then led by Dianne Bret Harte, was crucial to our success. In the first few years, W. David Laird, then director of libraries and Southwest bookman extraordinaire, provided office space on the third floor of the Main Library at the University of Arizona. Randi Kisiel, director, and Constance Bryden have been our gracious landlords at the Little Chapel of All Nations for about 30 years. In the early years, Rita Arnett and Adela Hice provided administrative support...

Dimensions of Work-Related Age Stereotypes and In-Group Favoritism.

Age stereotypes in the context of work take effect in management decisions and leadership behavior. We aimed to comprehensively measure main dimensions of work-related age stereotypes, namely, performance, adaptability, reliability, and warmth, and explored how they vary across age groups, thereby testing predictions of social identity theory and associations with social contact. Three hundred and eighty German nurses aged between 19 and 63 years participated in this study. Older nurses were seen as more competent, less physically strong, and less adaptable, whereas younger nurses were seen as less reliable and less warm. In-group bolstering was observed for both age groups, however, much stronger for older professionals. Besides age, contact quality, the number of very close older colleagues, the perception of aging, and the perception of older people in general were associated with age stereotypes about older nurses. We conclude with a discussion of measures to reduce age stereotypes at work.

19 weeks: Performing theatre about abortion

This paper examines the creative processes employed by an actor playing a woman who chooses a late-term abortion following a diagnosis of Down Syndrome. 19 weeks is an award-winning solo performance staged in a pool. Although explicitly autobiographical, it was written to be performed by an actor; specifically, the paper's author, who is also the playwright's close friend and colleague. The paper considers ethical and performative issues arising from embodying a friend's traumatic and stigmatised experience, drawing parallels between the actor's creative process and social science research methods. It reveals how the tension between disability and reproductive rights shaped the performance. It argues that contemporary live performance practices cultivating intimacy and audience engagement offer a novel method for addressing complex and emotionally-charged issues like late-term abortion and reproductive loss.

Virginia Gordon: Pioneering the Concept of Scholar-Practitioner in Academic Advising Through Her Own Scholarship and Practice

Virginia Gordon has had a significant influence on academic advising. Her scholarly work, along with that of other scholars in the field, shows how much she was respected and valued. In this article, we review her scholarly work to highlight some of her great research. Additionally, we incorporate personal narratives from those who knew her best, her closest colleagues.

Laurence Oldham 1931 - 2019, BDS, FDS

Laurence was the consultant who developed Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery services in Somerset. A gifted postgraduate educator, he passed away on 2nd October 2019. Born in 1931, Laurence was the son of a headmaster, educated at Hinckley Grammar School and a border at Ashby Grammer School. He graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1955, followed by House Officer posts which included a resident post at Birmingham General Hospital, which awakened his enthusiasm for surgery. His National Service was in the RAF, sharing rooms with John Rayne, who would remain a close colleague for many years. He gained his FDS in 1958. He was awarded a Rotary Foundation Fellowship to the USA and spent 1959-60 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The Fellowship included a lecture tour of Rotary Clubs across the USA. This honed his skills as a lecturer and raconteur, which would remain a life-long activity for him. Returning to the UK in 1960 he was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Manchester in Oral Surgery. Working with Gordon Ashcroft, who in the previous year had published a seminal paper on effective exodontia with Patrick Pawsey. In 1965 Laurence was seconded to the New Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, working with Sir Ian McAdam and gained ten years’ surgical experience of facial injuries and pathologies in two years. He returned to Manchester in 1968, finding the department greatly changed. He was encouraged to apply for the newly created Oral Surgery Consultant’s post in Taunton. He was appointed and over the next 25 years he built up the maxillofacial service. Latterly he was appointed to the Board of Somerset Health Authority and developed diplomatic skills as the bridge between clinicians and management. He retired in 1991. His retirement dinner was attended by over 85% of all the SHO’s he had trained over the years. Not one to rest on his laurels, Laurence was very active in the hospice movement. He chaired St Margaret’s Hospice Trust in Taunton for 12 years, then became secretary to the UK Chairs of Independent Hospices and a vice-president. He developed and led the University of Bristol BUOLD Oral Surgery distance learning programme, with over 300 dentists gaining from his knowledge over the next twenty years. He was also on the governing body of Queens College, Taunton for 12 years and an active member of the Temple. Meanwhile he lectured on a wide range of topics to local groups, and was an active member of the Oral Surgery Travelling Club, going on study tours around the world. Not content with this, he was a pianist, motor cyclist, and regular attender of the Hay Literary Festival. He certainly made the most of life and gave so much to so many people. He will be greatly missed for his compassion, wisdom, and humour. He leaves a wife, Diana, of over 50 years, two sons, Mark, a Professor of Medical Physics in the USA, and James, an osteopath who taught medical and dental students at the University of Plymouth now living in Bulgaria, and a grandson Tej. To them we extend our condolences. Those of us who worked for Laurie felt very privileged to have known him.

Nabil Nassar: physician, teacher, and editor in chief of the Middle East edition of The BMJ

Photo credit: American University of Beirut Nabil Nassar, who has died at the age of 80, enjoyed a dual career as a physician and teacher at the American University of...

Supporting newly-qualified teachers’ professional development and perseverance in secondary education: On the role of informal learning

ABSTRACTHigh percentages of newly qualified teachers (NQTs) drop out during their first 5 years in the classroom. Often, formal support systems are put in place to overcome ‘practice shock’. However, in this research, it was hypothesised that it is not the formal support structure put in place that determines whether starting teachers feel satisfied in their job and show perseverance but rather the amount of knowledge exchange that takes place. This was confirmed by the results of a first quantitative study. Then, a follow-up qualitative study showed that having the principal in the role of a mentor is often experienced as a mechanism of control or evaluation. Starting teachers prefer to choose their own mentor. They prefer their mentor not to be a superior but a close colleague whom they trust, who is teaching the same course in the same year. Our results have especially implications for onboarding of novice teachers. Since social informal learning (e.g. through the exchange of feedback with colleagues) benefits newly qualified teachers, it is important to create a safe and warm learning climate in which knowledge exchange can flourish. Also, NQTs should be given the opportunity to choose their mentor.

Lessons Learned from 50 Years of Hemoglobin Research: Unstirred and Cell-Free Layers, Electrostatics, Baseball Gloves, and Molten Globules.

Significance: Over the past 50 years, the mechanisms for O2 storage and transport have been determined quantitatively on distance scales from millimeters to tenths of nanometers and timescales from seconds to picoseconds. Recent Advances: In this review, I have described four key conclusions from work done by my group and our close colleagues. (i) O2 uptake by mammalian red cells is limited by diffusion through unstirred water layers adjacent to the cell surface and across cell-free layers adjacent to vessel walls. (ii) In most vertebrates, hemoglobins (Hbs) and myoglobins (Mbs), the distal histidine at the E7 helical position donates a strong hydrogen bond to bound O2, which selectively enhances O2 affinity, prevents carbon monoxide poisoning, and markedly slows autoxidation. (iii) O2 binding to mammalian Hbs and Mbs occurs by migration of the ligand through a channel created by upward rotation of the His(E7) side chain, capture in the empty space of the distal pocket, and then coordination with the ferroprotoporphyrin IX (heme) iron atom. (iv) The assembly of Mbs and Hbs occurs by formation of molten globule intermediates, in which the N- and C-terminal helices have almost fully formed secondary structures, but the heme pockets are disordered and followed by high-affinity binding of heme. Critical Issues: These conclusions indicate that there are often compromises between O2 transport function, holoprotein stability, and the efficiency of assembly. Future Directions: However, the biochemical mechanisms underlying these conclusions provide the framework for understanding globin evolution in greater detail and for engineering more efficient and stable globins.

James Lee Zarucchi (1952–2019)

James Lee Zarucchi (1952–2019)

Values and trust in human capital: University students’ perceptions, 2015-2017

Trust is an important value for the understanding and strengthening of human relations. It translates into the expectation of the persistence and fulfilment of the natural and moral order and underpins a truly meaningful existence. It fosters interactions, cooperation, empathy and well-being amongst individuals. It helps them to respond efficiently to everyday challenges and build a more dignified, fraternal and less conflictive society. This research seeks to understand the level of confidence of university students in various aspects of their academic lives, particularly in their relationships with colleagues, teachers, family and academic and community institutions, inter alia. While students indicate that they have a lot of confidence in their families and close friends and colleagues, their confidence in academic institutions and in the community as a whole is very fragile. Most of the students involved in this research do very little volunteer or philanthropic work but are aware that such activities impact positively in their becoming good citizens. They state that leadership is a value they aspire to and express strong motivation to become entrepreneurs in various areas of business. On comparing the different educational choices made by students, it would appear that those attending social science courses are more highly motivated to do work for the community than students involved in other areas of study who tend to favour their individual interests.

Depression Suppresses Treatment Response for Traumatic Loss-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Active Duty Military Personnel.

There are multiple well-established evidence-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, recent clinical trials have shown that combat-related PTSD in military populations is less responsive to evidence-based treatments than PTSD in most civilian populations. Traumatic death of a close friend or colleague is a common deployment-related experience for active duty military personnel. When compared with research on trauma and PTSD in general, research on traumatic loss suggests that it is related to higher prevalence and severity of PTSD symptoms. Experiencing a traumatic loss is also related to the development of prolonged grief disorder, which is highly comorbid with depression. This study examined the association between having traumatic loss-related PTSD and treatment response to cognitive processing therapy in active duty military personnel. Participants included 213 active duty service members recruited across two randomized clinical trials. Results showed that service members with primary traumatic loss-related PTSD (n = 44) recovered less from depressive symptoms than those who reported different primary traumatic events (n = 169), B = -4.40. Tests of mediation found that less depression recovery suppressed recovery from PTSD symptoms in individuals with traumatic loss-related PTSD, B = 3.75. These findings suggest that evidence-based treatments for PTSD should better accommodate loss and grief in military populations.

Takeshi Kasai: the health security thinker from Japan

Takeshi Kasai: the health security thinker from Japan

Stanley Moldawsky (1925-2018).

Presents an obituary for Stanley Moldawsky, who passed away on February 9, 2018. Moldawsky was a retired clinical psychologist and an adjunct visiting professor at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. With several close colleagues, he was not only instrumental in establishing the GSAPP but was also tenacious in working to obtain state approval and an academic home for their collaborative aspiration. Combining his passionate love for practice with a deep appreciation for the contributions of education and science, Stan was truly one of professional psychology's visionary pioneers, strongly believing in the importance of independent practice and professional autonomy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Preface

PREFACEThe “Victor Villanueva Memorial Meeting” to pay homage to our friend and colleague Victor Manuel Villanueva Sandoval was held at the premises of the Institute of Physics and Mathematics, University of Michoacán in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, on December 6, 2013, about 3 months after his tragic demise. This gathering was attended by his close friends, family, collaborators, colleagues and students. Several of those who could not physically be present for this commemorative gathering sent their messages of condolence and/or scientific contributions for this proceedings volume for which we are immensely grateful.The meeting started with personal recollections by Victor’s wife Ana Rosa Tenorio Lúa and his sisters Alejandra and Gabriela Villanueva. His daughters Ana Paola, Daniela and Mariana were also present to grace the solemn occasion and later provided us with their heart-felt messages. The academic part of the meeting started with Adnan Bashir presenting a summary of Victor’s scientific life, his research and its impact.Research talks were then presented by Luis Villaseñor (Ultra energetic cosmic rays - recent results), Mauro Napsuciale (A formalism for higher spins based on parity), Christian Schubert (Amplitudes with many photons in QED), Naser Ahmadiniaz (Amplitudes with gluons in a string inspired formalism), Carlos Vaquera (Second order fermions and renormalization) and Adnan Bashir (Strong interactions - peculiarities and challenges). There were several potential and interested speakers who were unable to physically attend the meeting but, as we have mentioned before, agreed to send their contribution for the proceedings volume at a later date. They are Dmitry Antonov (University of Lisboa, Portugal), Fiorenzo Bastianelli and Roberto Bonezzi (University of Bologna and INFN, Italy), Olindo Corradini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy), Pietro Dall’Olio (University of Michoacán, Mexico), Jan Govaerts (Université Catholique de Louvian, Belgium), Emanuele Latini (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Khaled Hassan Ould-Lahoucie (University Ferhat Abbas of Setif, Algeria), Eckehard Mielke (Metropolitan Autonomous University of Iztapalapa, Mexico), Néstor Ortiz, Olivier Sarbach and Thomas Zannias (University of Michoacán, Mexico).We are very grateful to the director Ricardo Becerril and personnel of the Institute of Physics and Mathematics, University of Michoacán, who ensured a smooth and pleasant organization of the meeting. We offer our special thanks to Itzel Alvarez who prepared a beautiful poster to announce the meeting. She also organized the personal part of the material for the proceedings in an outstanding manner.Finally, we would like this meeting and the proceedings volume to serve as a token of our appreciation and admiration for our friend Victor Villanueva. We also hope it serves as an inspiration for Victor’s students and his daughters Paola, Daniela and Mariana to follow in his footsteps and attempt to reach the stars.Adnan BashirChristian Schubert

George F. Bereday Award for 2018

Previous articleNext article FreeAwardGeorge F. Bereday Award for 2018PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreEach year the Bereday Award Committee selects the most outstanding Comparative Education Review (CER) article for the George F. Bereday Award. The selection committee includes scholars who are chosen for their breadth of methodological skills and intellectual rigor. This year’s committee was chaired by Lesley Bartlett (University of Wisconsin–Madison) and included Amita Chudgar (Michigan State University), Kara Brown (University of South Carolina), and Thomas Luschei (Claremont Graduate University). From the 21 articles published in volume 62 (2018) of the CER (themselves selected from almost 200 annual submissions), the Bereday Committee awarded the honor to Nicholas Limerick for his article published in February 2018, “Kichwa or Quichua? Competing Alphabets, Political Histories, and Complicated Reading in Indigenous Languages.” The committee reported the following: “The article examines the politics surrounding the standardization of various alphabets for Kichwa/Quechua. Drawing on historical analysis and ethnographic research in Ecuador, Dr. Limerick considers how different alphabets include or exclude specific groups and considers how orthographies are influenced by histories of language contact and by contemporary politics. The committee noted the rigorous conceptual framework, the skilled integration of multiple sources of data, and the beautiful, sensitive, and engaging narration in the piece.” The CER editors congratulate Nicholas Limerick on this honor!The committee also noted the quality of other articles, and in particular offered an honorable mention to Francisco Ramirez, Evan Schofer, and John Meyer for their article published in August 2018: “International Tests, National Assessments, and Educational Development (1970–2012).” The committee noted: “This article addresses the growth of national participation in international and national testing efforts” and lauded the authors’ “strong theoretical framework, methodological sophistication, and clarity of argument.”George Zygmunt Fijalkowski Bereday, born in Warsaw in 1920, was both the founding editor of CER and a cofounder of the Comparative Education Society, along with his close colleague William Brickman. A graduate of London and Oxford (while also serving in the British army during World War II), Professor Bereday subsequently arrived in the United States for PhD studies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Later he received a JD from Columbia Law School, where he studied while teaching comparative education, sociology, and juvenile law at Columbia Teachers College from 1955 until his untimely death in 1983. William Brickman (writing in the fall of that year in Western European Education) called Bereday an extraordinarily talented and gifted personality: “A polyglot, he read, spoke, comprehended, and lectured in several Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages … and he attained a practical ability in the use of Japanese.” Brickman also enthused that “Professor Bereday represented a rare blend of the classical and the modern, of Eastern and Western European education and scholarship, and of the Occidental and Oriental cultures,” and that he “exhibited endless evidence of humanism toward other cultures and humanitarianism toward persons of all ethnic, racial, and national backgrounds.” Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 63, Number 2May 2019 Sponsored by the Comparative and International Education Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/703458 © 2019 by the Comparative and International Education Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

영어원어민과 한국인의 모바일 텍스트 메시지에 나타나는 비언어적 커뮤니케이션 양상의 화용론적 연구 : 이모티콘 사용을 중심으로

This study aims to explore how the use of emoticons differs between English native speakers and Koreans in terms of social distance and relationships in mobile communication. The research was conducted by surveys with participants' ages ranging from their 20s to over 60 from various professions. A total of 181 responses were collected. The results show that Koreans use emoticons more often than English speakers, and for English speakers, the main reason for using emoticons is to show emotions whereas for Korean, it is to make messages friendly. The survey results show that both groups use emoticons with close relationships such as family, friends, and close colleagues. Both groups responded that they would use emoticons most when sending thanking messages. However, Koreans do not tend to use emoticons much with family when thanking, compared to English-speaking professionals. In cases of relationships that provoke the most discomfort when receiving message with emoticons, English professionals responded "colleagues" whereas the Korean respondents did not think this is the case. Regarding the appropriate use of emoticons, a number of Korean professionals think emoticons should be used when showing emotions that cannot be delivered by text. However, many English professionals stated that the use of emoticons should be in informal texting and it is not appropriate in a professional relationship. (Daejeon University)

Lessons Learned from Arti-Collaborating to Improve Care: the Past, Present, and Future of the Cancer and Aging Research Group.

Dr Arti Hurria, who died tragically in November 2018, was a driving force in the growing field of geriatric oncology. She led the field through her commitment to her goals, collaboration with her colleagues, and the creation of the Cancer and Aging Research Group (CARG). As two of her closest colleagues, we are carrying her work forward with our colleagues through an infrastructure grant we led with Arti from the National Institute on Aging (R21/33; CARinG). This grant will provide a national structure for continuing to build the field through research, mentorship, and dissemination. We miss our friend dearly but are committed to carrying her legacy forward through CARG. J Am Geriatr Soc 67:879-883, 2019.