Mexico and the United States both contend with the issue of human trafficking and implement measures to address this prevalent challenge, not only within their respective territories, but also along their shared border region. Despite significant efforts, both nations encounter obstacles in their anti-trafficking endeavors. The U.S. promotes a comprehensive legal framework, exemplified by the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, yet faces criticism regarding deportation policies and inadequate victim support mechanisms. In contrast, Mexico has demonstrated progress through legislative advancements such as the 2012 anti-trafficking law and initiatives like the "Blue Heart" campaign, yet the country struggles with challenges in law enforcement coordination and media portrayal accuracy. International collaborations, including treaties like the Palermo Protocol and initiatives such as the Polaris Project, facilitate cross-border cooperation. But, there remains a pressing need for enhanced victim assistance, improved accessibility to legal aid, and intensified public awareness campaigns. This case note underscores the necessity of collaborative efforts between Mexico and the U.S. to effectively combat human trafficking. It advocates for legislative reforms that prioritize victim-centered approaches and comprehensive public engagement strategies, aiming to foster a safer and more just border region for all individuals involved.

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Annual MeetingFull AccessAshley Judd to Speak at APA Annual MeetingKatie O'ConnorKatie O'ConnorSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:25 Feb 2023https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2023.03.3.66AbstractGolden Globe winner and Emmy-nominated actress Ashley Judd has long been a devoted activist and humanitarian, championing women’s rights and public health issues. She has also written about the need to ensure privacy for families following the death of a loved one to suicide.Actor and mental health advocate Ashley Judd is the keynote speaker at the Opening Session of APA’s 2023 Annual Meeting. The Opening Session will be held Saturday, May 20, at 5:30 p.m. in the Moscone Center.Known for her roles in “De-Lovely,” “Ruby in Paradise,” and “Double Jeopardy,” actress, writer, and humanitarian Ashley Judd, M.P.A., will be a plenary speaker at the 2023 APA Annual Meeting in San Francisco.Judd has also gained worldwide acclaim as an avid advocate of human rights, with a focus on gender equality and public health. Since 2004 she has worked with numerous NGOs and traveled the world in support of public health efforts related to maternal health, child survival, HIV prevention, and malaria prevention and treatment.She currently serves as a Global Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations (UN) Population Fund, the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency. She is also the chair of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project: Curbing Abuse, Expanding Freedom; a Global Ambassador for both Population Services International and Polaris Project; and a member of the leadership council of the International Center for Research on Women.Judd earned her master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. In 2017, she was the recipient of the Muhammad Ali Kentucky Humanitarian Award. Her undergraduate alma mater, the University of Kentucky, established the Ashley T. Judd Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women.She was also featured on the cover of TIME Magazine’s 2017 Person of the Year issue, which honored the thousands of individuals across the world who spoke out about their experiences of sexual harassment and assault, dubbed “The Silence Breakers.”Judd has written about her family experiences with mental illness. In August 2022, she penned a guest essay in the New York Times about her family’s effort to keep police reports related to the suicide of her mother, Naomi Judd, private. Naomi Judd was a well-respected musician who dealt with mental illness for much of her life.Tennessee law allows police reports from closed investigations, including family interviews, to be made public. “Naomi lost a long battle against an unrelenting foe that in the end was too powerful to be defeated,” Ashley Judd wrote. “I could not help her. I can, however, do something about how she is remembered.”She wrote that she intends to make the invasion of privacy following an individual’s death by suicide “a personal as well as a legal cause.” She also called for a reformation of law enforcement procedures related to such cases. “Though I acknowledge the need for law enforcement to investigate a sudden violent death by suicide, there is absolutely no compelling public interest in the case of my mother to justify releasing the videos, images, and family interviews that were done in the course of that investigation.”Last August, Naomi Judd’s family filed for injunctive relief in Williamson County, Tenn., to keep the police records related to her death private. Last December, the Associated Press reported that the family had filed a notice to voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit, due in part to the fact that journalists who requested the police records were not requesting photographs or body cam footage. The notice also said a Tennessee state lawmaker is introducing legislation to make death investigation records private when the death is not the result of a crime.“I hope that leaders in Washington and in state capitals will provide some basic protections for those involved in the police response to mental health emergencies,” Ashley Judd wrote in her essay, adding that her mother “should be remembered for how she lived, which was with goofy humor, glory onstage, and unfailing kindness off it—not for the private details of how she suffered when she died.” ■ ISSUES NewArchived

The Polaris Project, a National Science Foundation–funded program at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, aims to comprehensively address minority participation in climate and Arctic science research. Critical participant outcomes included development of interdisciplinary research projects, involvement in self-efficacy and advocacy experiences, and increased awareness and discussion of Arctic research careers.

Friends, family, and boyfriends: An analysis of relationship pathways into commercial sexual exploitation.

Modern slavery and human trafficking in the United Kingdom presents a series of new challenges for those working within the healthcare sector (Dalphins, 2016). Healthcare professionals have unique access to those involved in modern slavery, with over 88 percent of survivors reporting that they had accessed medical care on numerous occasions throughout their ordeal (Polaris Project, 2016). The variation in victim demographic, the differing forms of exploitation experienced and the traumatic nature of their ordeal can greatly affect the health of modern slavery victims (Adams, 2012). The enormity of the issue must be acknowledged and pre-emptive action taken to overcome barriers to satisfactory health and ultimately end the cycle of exploitation.

This study examines factors associated with human trafficking in states of the USA. A better understanding of human trafficking can benefit anti-trafficking efforts of public administrators in governmental agencies, business organisations, and private citizens in non-governmental organisations. Findings indicate that locations with higher rates of corruption and higher population are associated with higher rates of human trafficking per capita. Anti-trafficking efforts, in the USA and other countries, could be more effective by focusing on such areas. In addition, a timeline is presented of key events in the history of slavery such as efforts by William Wilberforce that culminated with the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in the early 1800s to modern-day efforts by the Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking (gBCAT), Christian Solidarity International, Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAAST), International Justice Mission, Polaris Project, Salvation Army, and World Relief.

3-D crust and mantle structure in southern Ontario, Canada via receiver function imaging

PurposeThe general purpose of this paper is to give Sapolsky's classical study of the Polaris Project, written in 1972, the credits it actually earns. In addition, there are two more specific aims: to discuss the role and usage of project management techniques, such as PERT (programme evaluation and review technique), in the practices of project execution; and to display the power of thorough empirical case studies in order to deepen our understanding of the realities of project execution.Design/methodology/approachThe paper constitutes a detailed review of the content and contributions of the bookThe Polaris Systems Developmentwritten by Harvey M. Sapolsky in 1972. The paper presents the main ideas of the book and discusses its implications for contemporary project management research.FindingsSapolsky's work,The Polaris Systems Development,is an important account of some of the most significant courses of events in the birth and formation of project management, especially the creation of PERT as a technique for project coordination. However, by going beyond the rhetorical surface of the project management, Sapolsky shows that PERT never played the role in Polaris that it is generally claimed to have had. The paper puts these findings in context and discusses why this has been ignored in project management research so far.Research limitations/implicationsScholars focusing on project management research need to distance themselves from its historical tight bounds to project management textbooks and administrative project management techniques. There is a strong need for a broader empirical basis and pluralism in theoretical perspectives in the study of the realities of project execution.Originality/valueThe paper recapitulates a classic account of the formative period of project management, which so far has generally been ignored in project management research. In addition, it discusses three functions of project planning techniques: boundary objects for coordination, political features for legitimacy and trust building, and cognitive means for the social construction of a predicable future.

As environmental change accelerates in the Arctic, the international scientific community is struggling to keep up with research efforts. To help with this, an innovative project aims to create a new cohort of Arctic researchers by uniting U.S. and Russian undergraduate students and early‐career scientists through the Polaris Project, a focused effort to investigate the impacts of climate change in the Siberian Arctic.Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation as part of the International Polar Year (IPY), the Polaris Project (http://www.thepolarisproject.org) began in January 2008 with Arctic‐focused undergraduate courses at seven participating institutions across the United States (Carleton College; Clark University; College of the Holy Cross; St. Olaf College; University of Nevada, Reno; and Western Washington University) and Russia (Yakutsk State University in Siberia). The students enrolled in these on‐campus courses were then eligible to apply for a summer field program in Siberia, the first of which was launched in July 2008 as a group of students and faculty traveled from the United States to Moscow, then to Yakutsk, and finally to Cherskiy in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Siberia (Figures 1 and 2a).

Research Article| March 01, 2009 Anatomy of a Small Earthquake Swarm in Southern Ontario, Canada Shutian Ma; Shutian Ma Department of Earth Sciences University of Western Ontario 1151 Richmond Street London, Ontario N6A 5B7 Canada sma44@uwo.ca (S. M.) Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar David W. Eaton David W. Eaton Department of Geoscience University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada eatond@ucalgary.ca (D. W. E.) Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Shutian Ma Department of Earth Sciences University of Western Ontario 1151 Richmond Street London, Ontario N6A 5B7 Canada sma44@uwo.ca (S. M.) David W. Eaton Department of Geoscience University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada eatond@ucalgary.ca (D. W. E.) Publisher: Seismological Society of America First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Online ISSN: 1938-2057 Print ISSN: 0895-0695 © 2009 by the Seismological Society of America Seismological Research Letters (2009) 80 (2): 214–223. https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.80.2.214 Article history First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Shutian Ma, David W. Eaton; Anatomy of a Small Earthquake Swarm in Southern Ontario, Canada. Seismological Research Letters 2009;; 80 (2): 214–223. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.80.2.214 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietySeismological Research Letters Search Advanced Search Earthquake swarms are spatio-temporal seismicity clusters that exhibit a gradual rise and fall in seismic moment release, lacking any well-defined mainshock-aftershock sequence (Yamashita 1998). Swarms are common in volcanic regions, where they typically persist for several months or years and generally have maximum event magnitudes of less than 4. Earthquake swarms also occur in nonvolcanic settings and are often classified according to their area of occurrence (Press and Siever 2001). Kurz et al. (2004) have suggested, however, that all tectonic settings may share a common physical generation mechanism for earthquake swarms. Some swarms may... You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.

Within the POLARIS project multi-pass amplification to the 10 joule level for a femtosecond CPA laser system has been achieved by diode-pumping an Yb3+ doped fluoride-phosphate glass disk with a total energy of 240 J. The collimated light of 40 diode stacks is focussed onto a circular area of the glass disk with a diameter of 18 mm. A two-sided ring shaped setup is used for axially symmetric pumping. We developed a computer aided optimization routine for the positioning of single pump foci to gain a smooth homogeneously distributed, top-hat shaped pump profile. The homogeneity of the pump light distribution was improved substantially by this new method.

SUMMARY A detailed passive seismic experiment was carried out across southwestern British Columbia and northwestern Washington to investigate the structure of the subducting Juan de Fuca plate and mantle wedge in Cascadia and its relation to intraslab seismicity. As part of the POLARIS project, 31 three-component broad-band stations were deployed in an approximately linear array spanning southern Vancouver Island, the Gulf and San Juan Islands, Watcom county and the British Columbia lower mainland. P-wave coda from 41 teleseismic events have been employed in formal inversions for fine-scale shear-velocity structure. Our results indicate a structure very similar to that identified across a comparable profile in central Oregon. The continental Moho is evident at the eastern end of the profile near 35-km depth but disappears towards Georgia Strait/Puget Sound. A prominent low-S-velocity zone is clearly evident below southern Vancouver Island dipping eastwards through Georgia Strait/Puget Sound, and coincides with the E-reflection zone originally identified in LITHOPROBE studies. Structure below the E-layer is much less prominent and varies intermittently along the array. Based on the observations and interpretations of similar structures beneath Oregon, Alaska and South America, and its projection to mantle depths, we suggest that the low-velocity E-layer represents the dehydrating oceanic crust of the subducting Juan de Fuca plate. This interpretation is consistent with recent seismicity studies that place shallow Wadati‐Benioff events within the oceanic mantle, and implies that the oceanic crust is 6‐8 km shallower beneath Vancouver Island than previously assumed. As in Oregon, we interpret the diminished signature of oceanic crust below a depth of 45 km to signal the presence of eclogitization, which in turn supplies water to serpentinize the overlying forearc mantle.

(2005). MORE BANG FOR A BOB: THE DECISION TO ‘GO NUCLEAR’ AND ITS IMPACT ON CHATHAM DOCKYARD. The Mariner's Mirror: Vol. 91, No. 4, pp. 554-571.

The POLARIS project aims at the development of an all-diode-pumped, high-peak-power femtosecond laser system reaching the petawatt level. The laser amplifiers are based on pumping Yb3+-doped fluoride phosphate glass at 940 nm. Recently, stable operation of the first three amplifiers was achieved. Pulses with a bandwidth of 12 nm, which supports 135 fs pulses with energies up to 1.25 J, were generated in the third amplifier with a 12-pass configuration. The amplifier was pumped by 150 collimated high-power laser diodes. Successive polarization maintenance is used for a compact, stable, and convenient adjustable setup. Thermally induced abberations of lowest order were compensated by adaptive mirrors.

This case study examines how the Florida State University Libraries' Claude Pepper Library planned the first phase of the Pepper OnLine Archival Retrieval and Information System (POLARIS) Project—the development of an on-line finding aid and search engine—to provide electronic access to its unique resources. It also demonstrates how the project staff studied the research usability of the Pepper Collection finding aid in the on-line environment. The identification of potential users, creation of a focus group based on a sampling of these users, and the compilation and analysis of focus group responses were important factors in planning the first phase, evaluating usability of the finding aid, and influencing the changes that the POLARIS Project team made.

The link between distance learning and telematics is becoming ever stronger, yielding new solutions to old problems, innovative educational resources and new teaching/learning models. One of the most innovative and promising fruits of this relationship is on‐line education, notably a process whereby all the participants (teachers, tutors and students) are linked up in a computer network; the effect of this is the creation of a fully‐fledged learning community in which all individuals take an active part and make a valuable contribution to the group. The aim of the paper is firstly to outline the distinctive characteristics of on‐line education methodology and secondly to examine the POLARIS project, which proposes an experimental approach for in‐service teacher training based on intensive use of computer mediated communication according to the principles of on‐line education.

The National Aeronautics & Space Administration's ER-2 high-altitude research plane has begun flying out of Fairbanks, Alaska, in an international field campaign to study stratospheric ozone over the Arctic during the late spring and summer. Results of the mission—called Photochemistry of Ozone Loss in the Arctic Region in Summer, or POLARIS—will feed into an assessment of the affect of aircraft emissions on ozone. This project will evaluate how gases that have natural sources, such as reactive nitrogen compounds, affect the Arctic ozone layer, says David W. Fahey, research chemist with the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's aeronomy lab in Boulder, Colo. Fahey is one of the POLARIS project scientists. This will help us better understand the influence of human [activities], he says. In the Arctic, large changes in ozone levels occur naturally at this time of year, peaking in spring and reaching a minimum in the fall. Researchers think the long periods of intense sunlight ...

Reflections on various issues related to distance education, with particular reference to the Polaris project.

Presentation of the POLARIS project aims to test a particular method of in-service training of teachers based on the intensive use of telematic resources with the approach of so-called online education (training network), or third generation distance education.

Journal Article The Nassau connection: the organisation and management of the British Polaris Project Get access The Nassau connection: the organisation and management of the British Polaris Project. By Peter Nailor. Norwich: HMSO. 1988. 133pp. £12.95 ISBN 0 11 772526 9. John Gooch John Gooch 1University of Lancaster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 2, April 1990, Page 365, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621360 Published: 01 April 1990