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Sociologically speaking, we are referring to homelessness that goes beyond street homeless or literally homeless people who are living on the street with no adequate shelter over their heads. We also refer to people who are precariously housed – the ones at risk of being thrown out of their homes (renters, for example) who are paying an excessive portion of their income to rent (affordable housing), who are living in poor living conditions, overcrowded and the like. And there are people that are hidden from the count (of hidden homeless we refer to people who try to hide their situations by either being on someone else’s couch for extended periods of time, “doubling-up” to hide their homelessness, or that they live in some type of housing that is not considered suitable for an average human being). According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), this form of homelessness is a national and deeply local issue, with annual point-in-time counts and estimates made on a yearly basis to show that that as of January 2019 there were approximately 552,000 people that were homeless on any given day, which translates into approximately 1.5 million annually in the United States. These counts have a direct relationship with local housing supplies, availability of social services, and policy decisions made at the municipal and city levels. It is difficult to give a comprehensive look of the problem, but according to numbers issued by the National Alliance to End Homelessness and HUD since the 2011 counts there have been various shifts to the overall numbers with respect to who is now classified as being homeless, with many areas witnessing increases to the number of unsheltered homeless (the numbers for sheltered and total numbers were the inverse). An increase to the numbers in the chronic, elderly, and family demographics is seen on a national level (National Alliance to End Homelessness and HUD). With these numbers in mind this editorial piece intends to shed light upon sociological views of causes of homelessness at the structural, institutional and the micro-levels while highlighting some suggested policy implications to resolve it. In this piece we consider economic structures of the housing and labor markets as well as policy institutions (such as welfare policies and housing) and micro-level factors of individual and interpersonal nature and examine how the interplay of these different social forces are responsible for the exacerbation of the homelessness as a structural community issue, and what types of social changes would have to be implemented in order to try to bring an end to it.

Fast fashion versus sustainable clothing is a highly contested space, the marketing competition for which can be viewed as a problem where growth mandates, value propositions and equity trajectories clash and possibly align. This paper views fast fashion and sustainable clothing as two different strategic options and marketing competitive strategies resulting in different trade-offs between short-term revenue growth, price value and long-term brand equity. A marketing competitive analysis is carried out to understand when companies can capitalize on short term market share gains versus when they need to invest in their brands for long-term sustainable development. The study uses marketing criteria of segmentation, positioning, pricing, channel design and communication and presents managers with a comprehensive framework in which they can decide how to balance revenue and reputation.

The three mechanisms highlighted in our research explain how social media exposure affects youth mental health. First, social comparison and body image processes can be triggered through the social media environment, such as when individuals compare themselves to others on the platform based on the images and information disseminated through their feeds, as well as likes and endorsements received. This can perpetuate a cycle in which individuals continually compare themselves to the seemingly flawless images of celebrities, peers, or fitness models and airbrushed models (Nesi & Prinstein, 2015), which can negatively affect self-esteem and body image (Gilliland & Allen, 2004). Second, social media can act as a source of interpersonal stress, such as through cyberbullying and social exclusion. Audiences provided by social media platforms, as well as features such as broad audiences and the ability to quickly disseminate information, can make social interactions more stressful and increase rejection sensitivity (Przybylski et al., 2013). Additionally, the constant fear of missing out (FoMO) can drive individuals to continually monitor their social media feeds, which can cause significant amounts of stress and anxiety (Modecki et al., 2014). Third, social media can engage youth in behavioral patterns that undermine mental health. Exposure to social media can cause sleep disturbances through the exposure to screens in the evenings that suppress melatonin (Cain & Gradisar, 2010), can create compulsive behaviours (Kuss & Griffiths, 2011), and can lead to decreased engagement in physical and social activities that have been shown to protect against mental health problems (Levenson et al., 2016).

Recent studies suggest that artificial intelligence (AI) is dramatically changing the way that clinicians make diagnoses, how healthcare organizations organize and deliver clinical services, and the ability of personalized medicine to deliver on its promise, raising new ethical, regulatory, and equity challenges along the way. In this paper, the author claims that as it is currently constituted and as it will be deployed in the short term in translational research the current form of AI (machine learning in the forms of supervised and unsupervised learning, and other versions of shallow learning) has the potential to have positive consequences on health and healthcare including improvements in patient diagnosis, productivity and the ability to deliver highly individualized treatment. In order to make these possible and to mitigate potential negative consequences, any deployment of this kind of current or near term AI will have to be validated in rigorous studies, carefully regulated and closely evaluated to understand what the effects will be for whom and under what conditions. The claim is strictly based on an analysis of current developments in the clinic, health care organizations and in near term translational studies for healthcare, not on any possible developments that could potentially occur at some time in the future in artificial general intelligence (Topol).

Gender roles at work change in the early 21st century The era we live in, some 20 years into the 21st century, has seen the gender roles at work change in complex ways – with flexibility and a higher visibility of change accompanied by entrenched structural inequality. This article posits that current workplaces can be conceived as comprising two aspects, a changing surface of work practices and compositions together with ongoing structural obstacles and presents, using a comparative case study approach, the example of a mid-size private company specialising in technology, and a metropolitan hospital in the public sector. Gender roles refer to the socially organized sets of duties, degrees of authority, and familial care responsibilities associated with gender identities within the worlds of work and the family. A workplace, in this context, refers to the formal organisational environment of paid work as covered by private and public sector organisations and their internal labour divisions and management practices. The timeframe of the paper is 2000–2025. This period of 2.5 decades, allows a scope for exploring the profound impact of policy, technology and culture on new workplace practices. References are produced following Harvard style and link qualitative and case based research to a wealth of comparative, empirical and policy related evidence.

Facebook is now about a decade old and the teen social media revolution is now in full swing. Debates continue over its effect on mental health. For instance, the Pew Research Center estimated that 73 percent of teens said they use Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat a lot; and that a large number of teens seem to spend their lives glued to their devices – a phenomenon that seems to be primarily confined to younger teenagers (Anderson & Jiang, 2018). The debate over social media’s effects on teenagers coincides with growing recognition of increased rates of teenage anxiety, depression and sleep problems — all issues that mental health professionals deal with on a daily basis (Twenge, Joiner, Rogers, & Martin, 2018). The impact of social media on teenagers’ mental health is particularly concerning because adolescents face particular mental health risks during a developmental stage that is critical for shaping their self-identity, social connections, and regulatory processes (Odgers & Jensen, 2020). While social media can certainly offer several positive and necessary functions to teenagers, I think that there is good reason to believe that current design and common behavior is generally bad for teenagers’ mental health — and that these effects will need to be managed by the regulation of regulations, education and of mediated interaction.

The question of free will occupies a central place in contemporary philosophy because it bears directly on moral responsibility, legal practice, and ordinary self-understanding: if agents lack the capacity to act otherwise in a morally significant sense, then our practices of praise, blame, punishment, and praise may require profound revision (Strawson 1962; Pereboom 2001). To make progress it is crucial to draw clear analytic distinctions. By causal or nomological determinism I mean the metaphysical thesis that given laws of nature and a complete state of the world at a time, only one future is metaphysically possible; logical determinism concerns the truth-values of future-tensed propositions; indeterminism denies universal nomic fixity and allows multiple physically possible futures; libertarian freedom is the incompatibilist claim that genuine free action requires agent-originated, non-determined choice; compatibilism denies this incompatibility and seeks to reconcile freedom with causal determinism by reinterpreting freedom in terms of reasons-responsiveness, absence of coercion, or certain hierarchical structures of desire (van Inwagen 1983; Kane 1996). I argue that a qualified compatibilist account – one sensitive to empirical constraints and to the normative salience of alternative possibilities – best reconciles agency with both scientific descriptions and moral practice. I will first sketch the historical background, then analyze determinism and libertarianism, consider compatible alternatives, examine relevant empirical findings, evaluate positions by explicit criteria, and conclude with practical implications and research directions.

The transition to renewable energy is a global, pressing and transformative challenge – covering both climate change mitigation and energy security agendas. Achieving the Paris temperature goal while meeting energy demand for the foreseeable future will require an almost drastic transformation of the energy sector over the coming decades (IPCC, 2022; IEA, 2023). Latest estimates show that two-thirds of this year’s required global primary energy emissions reductions will need to be achieved through energy sector transformations (IPCC, 2022; IEA, 2023\) and that there will be significant potential fiscal, commodity price risks if countries fail to meet their transition pledges (IPCC, 2022; IEA, 2023). All of these are issues that are high-stakes and global, and are now being discussed increasingly in terms of their potential impact on the economy: as an opportunity to boost growth, improve the resilience of countries and their economies and to rebalance global power structures and decision-making (IRENA, 2021; REN21, 2023). The urgent and far-reaching nature of these energy challenges, and their multiple interconnected implications for sustainable development mean that understanding what is at stake in relation to the risks of adjustment is of fundamental importance. Meeting the challenge of transition will be key to: • meeting our climate change mitigation commitments; • ensuring energy security and equitable access to energy for all while balancing the global economy; • protecting our health; and • ensuring the international competitiveness of our economies.

In the spring semester of my junior year I signed up for Advanced Research Methods with the intent of developing a publishable-style empirical proposal. The class had a ten-week project that counted for half of the final grade and any professor reviewing my application portfolio would likely consider my writing sample to be a representation of my abilities. My intent was to continue balancing work and my five other classes, and with my prior success in classes as a benchmark, I assumed I would be fine. It was four days after the submission deadline when I logged into our learning management system (LMS) and saw 58% and a long list of criticisms of my methodology. It may seem trivial to write about the devastation I felt when I opened my LMS and saw that I had failed this assignment by a significant margin. The project was more than just a grade; it was supposed to be an opportunity for me to demonstrate to my professors that I was prepared for graduate school. It was a painful failure, and one that I felt intensely and very personally. It was also very public; my professors knew me, knew my writing abilities, and it was clear that I had not met their expectations. All of these aspects of this failure made it devastating at the time, but it has also produced more, and more profound, learning than any of the successes I have experienced. This paper explores the changes in procedures and perspective that I developed in response to this failure, and explores how my academic identity was altered as a result. Using Carol Dweck's concept of mindset, it will show how my changed perspective on failure also led to significant changes in my learning.

I was fifteen and I told someone a secret that wasn't mine to tell. That's it. No big dramatic fallout, no teacher involvement, nothing that would make the news. The person found out, things got awkward, and that was mostly that. But it bothered me in a way I didn't expect, and it still does a little, and I think that's worth writing about.