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Prevention is a Privilege: Black Drug-free Community Leaders Implementing Drug-free Community Coalitions in Black Communities
(Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 2024-02-15) Quinton, Sylvia L.; Burgon E; Hicks Harper, P. Thandi; Parker, Rosalind M.; Cunningham, Suzanne Randolph; Boekeloo, Bradley O.
Community-based interventions for youth substance use prevention require high levels of capacity to organize and coordinate community resources to support youth development and create opportunities to prevent youth substance use. This project aimed to better understand what Black prevention practitioners perceive as the requirements for a successful drug-free community coalition. Black prevention practitioners, who were engaged in drug-free community funded coalitions had discussions about coalitions as a strategy for youth substance use prevention in Black communities. These facilitated discussions resulted in consensus over a set of nine core principles regarding successful youth substance use prevention coalition building in these communities.
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Temporal Processing in Adults Who Stutter
(2024-05-10) Wathen, Jasmine; Anderson, Samira; Ratner, Nan Bernstein
Stuttering is often thought of as simply an impairment in speech production. However, some studies have indicated that people who stutter (PWS) also experience temporal processing impairments which affect perception of speech. In particular, previous behavioral and electrophysiology (EEG) studies have demonstrated time delays in processing speech stimuli in PWS. Most research to this date has only examined these timing delays at the level of the cerebral cortex, which represents the later stages of processing. Very few studies have examined delays at the level of the brainstem, and no study has looked at processing in both the cortex and the brainstem. This study recruited adults who stutter (AWS) and adults who do not stutter (AWNS) to examine how each group processes speech at both subcortical and cortical levels. Participants completed a perceptual test to determine how well they perceived speech and underwent EEG testing to measure cortical and subcortical electrical activity while listening to speech stimuli. Compared to AWNS, AWS showed poorer neural representations of the speech stimulus in the brainstem and delays at the cortical level. Perceptual testing in AWS also seemed to show a poorer perception of phoneme boundaries in words compared to AWNS. Our research suggests that temporal processing deficits are a factor in stuttering and that these deficits arise at early levels of the auditory system. These findings might call for an update of current speech therapy methods to address the timing delays that AWS experience in speech processing.
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We're Still Here
(2023-11) Small Business Anti-Displacement Network
The documentary film We're Still Here tells the story of small business owners and communities fighting commercial gentrification in Miami’s Little Santo Domingo, Chicago’s Puerto Rico Town, and the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Boyle Heights and East LA. The film follows SBAN on site visits to learn more about the efforts of The Allapattah Collaborative, the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, and Inclusive Action for the City. The companion report, Keeping Small Businesses In Place: Voices From the Field, is a collection of SBAN-funded case studies from neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., Miami, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Kolkata, and Montréal. Written by researchers from community-based organizations and academic institutions, the 11 case studies examine how public, private, and nonprofit organizations are using diverse anti-displacement tools and strategies to keep BIPOC- and immigrant-owned small businesses in place.
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Vanishing Ice: Simulating Changes in Atmospheric Circulation
(2024-07-19) Majithia, Himani; Srinivasan, Sujay; Strey, Sara T
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IMPACT OF WRF-ARW CLOUD FRACTION ON ARCTIC ALBEDO FOLLOWING EXTREME SEPTEMBER SEA ICE CONDITIONS
(2024-07-19) Chakraborty, Ishaan; Lingala, Divya; Mehra, Sophiya; Strey, Sara T