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Excellence in reading and math enable children entry to all of the professions. This is especially true for the nursing profession. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to provide background information on the national crisis in reading and math achievement among school children, present the methodology of the Saturday School church-based approach to enhance reading and math skills, and the seven year outcomes.

Several ideas on responding to religious intolerance among students are presented. A guidance counselor in Framingham MA, shares that her school incorporated the program called ROPES: Respect Other People Equally Siempre into the curriculum, where students are trained as peer teachers to present lessons on accepting differences in their classmates.

The role of borders in managing sex work is a valuable site for analysing the relationship between criminal justice and migration administration functions. For the purposes of this article, we are concerned with how generalized concerns around trafficking manifest in specific interactions between immigration officials and women travellers. To this end, this article contributes to a greater understanding of the micro-politics of border control and the various contradictions at work in the everyday performance of the border. It uses an intersectional analysis of the decision making of immigration officers at the border to understand how social differences become conflated with risk, how different social locations amplify what is read as risky sexuality and how sexuality is constructed in migration. What the interviews in our research have demonstrated is that, while the border is a poor site for identifying cases of trafficking into the sex industry, it is a site of significant social sorting where various intersections of intelligence-led profiling and everyday stereotyping of women, sex work and vulnerability play out. Adapted from the source document.

The role of borders in managing sex work is a valuable site for analysing the relationship between criminal justice and migration administration functions. For the purposes of this article, we are concerned with how generalized concerns around trafficking manifest in specific interactions between immigration officials and women travellers. To this end, this article contributes to a greater understanding of the micro-politics of border control and the various contradictions at work in the everyday performance of the border. It uses an intersectional analysis of the decision making of immigration officers at the border to understand how social differences become conflated with risk, how different social locations amplify what is read as risky sexuality and how sexuality is constructed in migration. What the interviews in our research have demonstrated is that, while the border is a poor site for identifying cases of trafficking into the sex industry, it is a site of significant social sorting where various intersections of intelligence-led profiling and everyday stereotyping of women, sex work and vulnerability play out.

Anode-free batteries possess the optimal cell architecture due to their reduced weight, volume and cost. However, their implementation has been limited by unstable anode morphological changes and anode–liquid electrolyte interface reactions. Here we show that an electrochemically stable solid electrolyte and the application of stack pressure can solve these issues by enabling the deposition of dense sodium metal. Furthermore, an aluminium current collector is found to achieve intimate solid–solid contact with the solid electrolyte, which allows highly reversible sodium plating and stripping at both high areal capacities and current densities, previously unobtainable with conventional aluminium foil. A sodium anode-free all-solid-state battery full cell is demonstrated with stable cycling for several hundred cycles. This cell architecture serves as a future direction for other battery chemistries to enable low-cost, high-energy-density and fast-charging batteries. Anode-free batteries are cost effective but limited by unstable anode morphology and interface reactions. Here the authors discuss design parameters and construct an anode-free sodium solid-state battery using compressed aluminium particles as the anode current collector to improve cycling performance.

Bioarchaeology is inherently interdisciplinary, but there is room to expand collaboration and dialogue with scholars in other fields, particularly if we want our work to benefit living people. One way to promote interdisciplinarity is through broader adoption of measures used in related fields. Given our own interests in health and well-being, here we describe applications of pubertal timing, which has been shown to reflect living conditions. By studying something that is assessed routinely in living populations, we can better connect the patterns found in skeletal assemblages to those observed in historical data and among living people. This will facilitate fruitful dialogue with human biologists, clinicians, economists, and scholars in other fields. Further, bioarchaeologists face major limitations when attempting to reconstruct health and well-being in the past, including heterogeneous frailty, selective mortality, and the generally low specificity and sensitivity of skeletal stress markers. There is thus a need to expand the toolkit of informative skeletal markers available to bioarchaeologists to improve our studies of these phenomena in the past. Promising variables, to that end, are those indicative of pubertal timing. This paper describes how pubertal timing is assessed, the factors that potentially affect it, how variation in pubertal timing is linked to health outcomes, and its potential use to evaluate biological and social conditions in past populations.   La bioarqueología es intrínsicamente interdisciplinaria. Sin embargo, existe todavía la posibilidad de incrementar el diálogo y la colaboración entre investigadores y académicos de otras disciplinas; particularmente si queremos que nuestras investigaciones favorezcan a los seres vivos. Una de las maneras de promover la interdisciplinariedad es adoptar las medidas utilizadas en campos semejantes. Debido a nuestro interés en la salud y el bienestar, este estudio describe las aplicaciones de los tiempos de desarrollo puberal, que según se ha demostrado refleja las condiciones de las personas en vida. Al investigar los parámetros que son asesorados rutinariamente en poblaciones vivientes, se pueden hacer conexiones entre los patrones obtenidos de las colecciones de restos óseos, así también como los observados en las documentaciones históricas y en los mismos seres vivos. Esto facilitará el diálogo productivo entre biólogos humanos, médicos clínicos, economistas, e investigadores de otras disciplinas. Asimismo, los bioarqueólogos se enfrentan a grandes limitaciones al tratar de reconstruir la salud y el bienestar del pasado, incluyendo fragilidades heterogéneas, mortalidad selectiva, y las especificidades y sensibilidades generales de los indicadores óseos de estrés. Por lo tanto, para mejorar los estudios sobre estos fenómenos del pasado, existe la necesidad de expandir la selección actual de métodos a disposición de los bioarqueólogos para estudiar los indicadores óseos informativos. Las variables que tienen el mayor potencial son las que indican los tiempos de desarrollo de pubertad. Esta investigación describe como los intervalos de desarrollo puberal son evaluados, los factores que potencialmente los afectan, como la variación en los tiempos de desarrollo puberal, están correlacionados con estados de salud posteriores y su uso potencial para evaluar condiciones biológicas y sociales de poblaciones pasadas.

Astrocytes are multi-functional glial cells in the central nervous system that play critical roles in modulation of metabolism, extracellular ion and neurotransmitter levels, and synaptic plasticity. Astrocyte-derived signaling molecules mediate many of these modulatory functions of astrocytes, including vesicular release of ATP. In the present study, we used a unique genetic mouse model to investigate the functional significance of astrocytic exocytosis of ATP. Using primary cultured astrocytes, we show that loss of vesicular nucleotide transporter (Vnut), a primary transporter responsible for loading cytosolic ATP into the secretory vesicles, dramatically reduces ATP loading into secretory lysosomes and ATP release, without any change in the molecular machinery of exocytosis or total intracellular ATP content. Deletion of astrocytic Vnut in adult mice leads to increased anxiety, depressive-like behaviors, and decreased motivation for reward, especially in females, without significant impact on food intake, systemic glucose metabolism, cognition, or sociability. These behavioral alterations are associated with significant decreases in the basal extracellular dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens. Likewise, ex vivo brain slices from these mice show a strong trend toward a reduction in evoked dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens. Mechanistically, the reduced dopamine signaling we observed is likely due to an increased expression of monoamine oxidases. Together, these data demonstrate a key modulatory role of astrocytic exocytosis of ATP in anxiety, depressive-like behavior, and motivation for reward, by regulating the mesolimbic dopamine circuitry.

Over the past decade, the border and border policing has figured as central to identifying and responding to trafficking. This article draws on original research into immigration officers’ decision-making — both at the border and within the nation — to identify the persistent preoccupation with suspect travellers. Examining research in Australia and Thailand that spans seven years, the article brings together research that demonstrates the predominance of the binary category of victim of trafficking/unlawful migrant worker and highlights the ambiguity of daily decision-making processes that categorise women who come into contact with immigration authorities. While the policy rhetoric is based on categories and risk profiles for identifying suspected victims of trafficking or those deemed at risk, we contribute to the growing body of work that has highlighted the presence of gendered and racialised stereotypes in immigration decision-making and consider implications this may have on women’s mobility across and within borders.