Loyola eCommons Copyright (c) 2017 Loyola University Chicago All rights reserved. http://ecommons.luc.edu Recent documents in Loyola eCommons en-us Sun, 09 Jul 2017 01:41:23 PDT 3600 Gender, Democracy, and the Justice of Athena’s Vote to Acquit Orestes http://ecommons.luc.edu/classicalstudies_facpubs/94 http://ecommons.luc.edu/classicalstudies_facpubs/94 Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:27:12 PDT This essay examines closely how Athena by chartering the Areopagus court resolves the succession of violence on which Aeschylus centered his Oresteia. Neither historical nor dramatic and poetic conventions determine whether Athena calls an odd or even number of human jurors, and does or does not vote with them to create their quitting tie. The interaction of :Orestes', the Erinyes', and Apollo's arguments," together with Athena's reactions, demonstrates that an even-numbered human jury splits equally over whether a human child owes duty more to father or mother. Athena's birth bars her from testing this question on her own sensibility and her celibacy prevents her from Clytemnestra's guilt. Instead she turns to social values. Since judgment of individuals levels out inconclusively, the democratic jury Athena institutes deflects outrage at its verdicts. Similarly, Athena's rule tied jury-votes acquit maximizes satisfaction for the human community within which a case is judged.

]]> Jacqueline Long Ite Inflammate Omnia: Setting the World on Fire with Learning http://ecommons.luc.edu/english_facpubs/44 http://ecommons.luc.edu/english_facpubs/44 Thu, 22 Jun 2017 08:55:41 PDT Mark Bosco, SJ Children’s Exposure to Environmental Toxins: Socioeconomic Factors and Subsequent Effects on Mental Health and Function http://ecommons.luc.edu/chrc/13 http://ecommons.luc.edu/chrc/13 Mon, 05 Jun 2017 09:38:11 PDT The physical environment in which children live, including the air they breathe and the water they drink, has a profound influence on their development. While children need many chemicals and nutrients to physically grow and develop normally, others, such as those deemed environmental toxins (e.g. pesticides, lead, mercury, and illicit substances) act instead as a threat to healthy development. These chemicals may have highly toxic effects, and while they are a threat to all individuals, they affect infants and children most severely. In order to provide an introduction to the issue of toxin exposure and mental health outcomes, to highlight the relevant evidence-based research, and to build a foundation for policy change, we present the following brief review of the literature.

]]> Dorothy L. McLeod A Review of Needs and Challenges Facing Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) Released into U.S. Communities http://ecommons.luc.edu/chrc/12 http://ecommons.luc.edu/chrc/12 Mon, 05 Jun 2017 09:33:56 PDT Immigrant children (<18 years) who enter the United States alone and without legal status are defined as unaccompanied alien children (UAC ), according to United States law. Between 2013 and 2015, the number of unaccompanied immigrant children arriving at the United States-Mexico border increased dramatically, reaching a peak of over 55,000 in FY 2014. While a number of research and policy documents detail the movement of youth through the immigration system, little is known about this population after their release to sponsors in the U.S. The current research brief synthesizes the existing research using a multi-disciplinary approach. We have chosen to prioritize peer-reviewed research, but have also included information from governmental and NGO reports. Each of the following sections summarizes the research on a different aspect of youth’s postr-elease adjustment to life in the United States. We conclude the report with a list of unanswered research questions.

]]> Dorothy L. McLeod Child Labor Trafficking in the United States: A Hidden Crime http://ecommons.luc.edu/chrc/11 http://ecommons.luc.edu/chrc/11 Mon, 05 Jun 2017 09:04:28 PDT Emerging research brings more attention to labor trafficking in the United States. However, very few efforts have been made to better understand or respond to labor trafficking of minors. Cases of children forced to work as domestic servants, in factories, restaurants, peddling candy or other goods, or on farms may not automatically elicit suspicion from an outside observer as compared to a child providing sexual services for money. In contrast to sex trafficking, labor trafficking is often tied to formal economies and industries, which often makes it more difficult to distinguish from ”legitimate” work, including among adolescents. This article seeks to provide examples of documented cases of child labor trafficking in the United States, and to provide an overview of systemic gaps in law, policy, data collection, research, and practice. These areas are currently overwhelmingly focused on sex trafficking, which undermines the policy intentions of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (2000), the seminal statute criminalizing sex and labor trafficking in the United States, its subsequent reauthorizations, and international laws and protocols addressing human trafficking.

]]> Katherine Kaufka Walts JD Racial Inequality and the Implementation of Emergency Management Laws in Economically Distressed Urban Areas http://ecommons.luc.edu/socialwork_facpubs/58 http://ecommons.luc.edu/socialwork_facpubs/58 Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:37:11 PDT This study examines the use of emergency management laws as a policy response to fiscal emergencies in urban areas. Focusing on one Midwestern Rust Belt state, we use a mixed methods approach – integrating chronology of legislative history, analysis of Census data, and an ethnographic case study – to examine the dynamics of emer- gency management laws from a social justice perspective. Analysis of Census data showed that emergency man- agement policies disproportionately affected African Americans and poor families. Analysis indicated that in one state, 51% of African American residents and 16.6% of Hispanic or Latinos residents had lived in cities that were under the governance of an emergency manager at some time during 2008–2013, whereas only 2.4% of the White population similarly had lived in cities under emergency management. An ethnographic case study high- lights the mechanisms by which an emergency manager hindered the ability of residents in one urban neighbor- hood, expected to host a large public works project, to obtain a Community Benefits Agreement intended to provide assistance to residents, most of whom were poor families with young children. We conclude with a dis- cussion of how emergency management laws may impact social service practice and policy practice in urban communities, framed from a social justice perspective. We argue that these are not race neutral policies, given clear evidence of race and ethnic disparities in their implementation.

]]> Shawna J. Lee et al. Beguiling Religion: The Bifurcations and Biopolitics of Spirituality and Medicine http://ecommons.luc.edu/ips_facpubs/43 http://ecommons.luc.edu/ips_facpubs/43 Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:36:22 PDT M. Therese Lysaught Review: Group Work with Adolescents: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition) http://ecommons.luc.edu/socialwork_facpubs/57 http://ecommons.luc.edu/socialwork_facpubs/57 Wed, 31 May 2017 14:52:34 PDT Brian L. Kelly The Comparative Impacts of Social Justice Educational Methods on Political Participation, Civic Engagement, and Multicultural Activism http://ecommons.luc.edu/socialwork_facpubs/56 http://ecommons.luc.edu/socialwork_facpubs/56 Wed, 31 May 2017 14:52:30 PDT This cross-sectional, repeated measures, quasi-experimental study evaluates changes in college stu- dents’ commitment toward, and confidence in, political participation, civic engagement, and multi- cultural activism. Our sample (n = 653) consisted of college students in a Midwestern university who participated in one of three social justice education course types (service learning, intergroup dialogue, or lecture-based diversity classes) or in an “introduction to psychology” course (the non-intervention group). After completion of a social justice education course, students reported an increase in politi- cal participation and multicultural activism, whereas students enrolled in the non-intervention group reported no changes in these measures. Service learning course participants started and ended their course with the highest reported levels of political participation, civic engagement, and multicultural activism but did not demonstrate an increase in any of the three outcomes. Intergroup dialogue par- ticipants demonstrated increases in all three outcomes, while participants of lecture-based classes focusing on social justice issues demonstrated increases in political participation and multicultural activism, but not civic engagement. Our findings suggest that participation in social justice education courses is associated with increases in political participation and multicultural activism.

]]> Amy Krings et al. Sustainable Social Work: An Environmental Justice Framework for Social Work Education http://ecommons.luc.edu/socialwork_facpubs/55 http://ecommons.luc.edu/socialwork_facpubs/55 Wed, 31 May 2017 14:52:27 PDT Environmental degradation is not experienced by all populations equally; hazardous and toxic waste sites, resource contamination (e.g., exposure to pesticides), air pollution, and numerous other forms of environmental degradation disproportionately affect low income and minority communities. The communities most affected by environmental injustices are often the same communities where social workers are entrenched in service provision at the individual, family, and community level. In this article, we use a global social work paradigm to describe practical ways in which environmental justice content can be infused in the training and education of social workers across contexts in order to prepare professionals with the skills to respond to ever-increasing global environmental degradation. We discuss ways for social work educators to integrate and frame environmental concerns and their consequences for vulnerable populations using existing social work models and perspectives to improve the social work profession's ability to respond to environmental injustices. There are significant social work implications; social workers need to adapt and respond to contexts that shape our practice, including environmental concerns that impact the vulnerable and oppressed populations that we serve.

]]> Samantha Teixeria et al. Ethics in International Relations: Expanding the Contributions of Latin American Scholars http://ecommons.luc.edu/philosophy_facpubs/22 http://ecommons.luc.edu/philosophy_facpubs/22 Tue, 23 May 2017 12:55:55 PDT Joy Gordon Optimizing the Teachable Moment for Health Promotion for Cancer Survivors and Their Families http://ecommons.luc.edu/nursing_facpubs/16 http://ecommons.luc.edu/nursing_facpubs/16 Tue, 16 May 2017 14:07:31 PDT Michelle Frazelle et al. Multigene Panel Testing for Hereditary Cancer Risk http://ecommons.luc.edu/nursing_facpubs/15 http://ecommons.luc.edu/nursing_facpubs/15 Tue, 16 May 2017 14:07:28 PDT Historically, an understanding of a patient and/or their family’s cancer risk and predisposition was based in large part on patient pedigree or family history, histology, and age at diagnosis. However, since the completion of the Human Genome Project, advances in technology have moved from pedigree to single-gene testing to multigene testing and next-generation sequencing. Advanced practitioners need to follow developments in genetic testing to interpret results, ensure that their patients/families receive appropriate counseling before and after testing, understand the clinical impact of genetic testing across the trajectory of healthcare, including surveillance, screening, diagnosis, treatment, lifestyle, pharmacogenomics, and new targeted therapies.

Advanced practitioners also need to recognize ethical challenges, limitations, and/or barriers to genetic testing. This article provides an overview of multigene panel testing for hereditary cancer risk and o ers two case examples to highlight the clinical considerations, bene ts, limitations, and insurance challenges encompassed in this new approach to genetic testing.

]]> Alyssa Grissom et al. Collaboration and Health Care Diagnostics: an Agent Based Model Simulation http://ecommons.luc.edu/cs_facpubs/147 http://ecommons.luc.edu/cs_facpubs/147 Tue, 16 May 2017 14:06:52 PDT This paper presents a simple ABM simulation that seeks to provide insight into the public health benefits that derive from greater collaboration among health care professionals. In particular, the paper compares the efficiency, delivery and timeliness of health care diagnostics under two contrasting paradigms–one in which collaboration is encouraged, and an- other where it is not. The preliminary results of this study suggest that while the effect of cooperation on aggregate public health depends on the patient search algorithm employed, its effect on overall efficiency and timeliness of health care diagnostics and treatment is significant and pos- itive. Since the speed with which an adequate diagnosis is provided has implications both for the overall cost of health care, as well as for the pos- sible gains from treatment and intervention (or even for the containing of contagious disease) the results appear relevant for anyone concerned with the planning and provision of health and health care.

]]> Sebastian Linde et al. Modernist Magazines http://ecommons.luc.edu/cs_facpubs/146 http://ecommons.luc.edu/cs_facpubs/146 Tue, 16 May 2017 14:06:50 PDT The critic Michael Levenson warned that "A coarsely understood modernism is at once an historical scandal and a contemporary disability". The Modernist Magazine Project aims to refine and enhance the record through the production of a scholarly resource and comprehensive critical and cultural history of modernist magazines in the period 1880-1945. So-called 'little magazines' were small, independent publishing ventures committed to new and experimental work. Literally hundreds of such magazines flourished in this period, providing an indispensable forum for modernist innovation and debate. They helped sustain small artistic communities, strengthened the resolve of small iconoclastic groups, keen to change the world, and gave many major modernists their first opportunities in print. Many of these magazines existed only for a few issues and then collapsed; but almost all of them contained work of outstanding originality and future significance.The study of modernism has been revolutionized over the last decade. Although it has long been recognised that 'little magazines' made a distinctive contribution to the modern movement, only a few examples have received any direct attention. The Modernist Magazines Project will result in the most comprehensive critical study so far of this aspect of modernism and will be an essential tool for all researchers and scholars in the field.

]]> Nicholas Hayward Malory Project http://ecommons.luc.edu/cs_facpubs/145 http://ecommons.luc.edu/cs_facpubs/145 Tue, 16 May 2017 14:06:47 PDT Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur (1469-70) is one of the most important literary works written in Middle English prose, and has continued to fascinate readers throughout the centuries. It exists in two considerably different primary versions, the Winchester manuscript (British Library, Add. MS 59678), and two extant copies of William Caxton's printed edition (1485): a complete copy in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, and a copy lacking eleven leaves, in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.This project will for the first time provide users with high quality colour images of Winchester. The images were captured by a team of experts in digitization from the HUMI Project led by Director Professor Toshiyuki Takamiya and Technical Director Professor Masaaki Kashimura in 2003, and will be published by courtesy of © The British Library Board. Significant scholarship has been built on the physical aspects of Winchester which have so far been inaccessible: the use of colour, the vellum leaf used to repair the manuscript, the traces of printer's ink on several pages, the watermarks, or the dry-point glosses. Publication of these images will benefit Malory and manuscript scholars, serve teaching purposes, and aid the preservation of the original manuscript.The project also aims at creating an expandable associative environment, with facsimiles and texts of Malory's Morte Darthur interlinked, enabling the user to view them alongside one another. The Caxton images were also captured in colour by a digitization team in the John Rylands University Library, financially supported by the DARC. The images will be published by courtesy of © The University Librarian and Director, John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester. Transcriptions are encoded in TEI P5-compliant XML, and will be fully searchable. The texts and facsimiles are complemented by footnotes, commentaries, and other supporting information, designed to provide a wrapper for the core material.

]]> Nicholas Hayward et al. Moving Academic Department Functions to Social Networks and Clouds: Initial Experiences http://ecommons.luc.edu/cs_facpubs/144 http://ecommons.luc.edu/cs_facpubs/144 Tue, 16 May 2017 14:06:45 PDT The ability to move locally hosted services to cloud-based technologies is a key element in the scientific programming toolbox.

]]> George Thiruvathukal et al. Experiences with Scala Across the College-Level Curriculum http://ecommons.luc.edu/etl_pubs/5 http://ecommons.luc.edu/etl_pubs/5 Wed, 10 May 2017 07:25:11 PDT Various hybrid-functional languages, designed to balance compile-time error detection, conciseness, and performance, have emerged. Scala, e.g., is interoperable with Java and has become an early leader in adoption, especially in the start-up and open-source spaces.

As educators, we have recognized Scala’s value as a teaching language across the CS curriculum. In CS1, the read-eval-print loop and simple, uniform syntax aid programming in the small. In CS2, higher-order methods allow concise, efficient manipulation of collections. In a programming languages course, advanced constructs facilitate the separation of concerns, program representation and interpretation, and concurrent programming. In advanced applied courses, language mechanisms and suitable libraries support the development of mobile apps, web apps, and web services.

Based on our own experiences in the classroom, we discuss what works and what needs improvement, and hope to discuss the best ways for industry and higher education to partner in an effort to meet the growing demand for Scala talent.

]]> Konstantin Läufer et al. Teaching Concurrent Software Design: A Case Study Using Android http://ecommons.luc.edu/cs_facpubs/143 http://ecommons.luc.edu/cs_facpubs/143 Wed, 10 May 2017 07:22:10 PDT In this article, we explore various parallel and distributed computing topics from a user-centric software engineering perspective. Specifically, in the context of mobile application development, we study the basic building blocks of interactive applications in the form of events, timers, and asynchronous activities, along with related software modeling, architecture, and design topics.

]]> Konstantin Läufer et al. Matrix Methods of Approximating Classical Predator-Prey Problems http://ecommons.luc.edu/cs_facpubs/142 http://ecommons.luc.edu/cs_facpubs/142 Mon, 08 May 2017 20:17:03 PDT E. Y. Rodin et al.