Augsburg University

Ideathons as anti-oppressive social work pedagogy: a case study with counternarrative

Anti-oppressive practice is central to social work, yet social work education offers limited opportunities for students to negotiate power and practice collective responses to structural oppression. This qualitative case study examined participants’ experiences of the Digital Jus...

A Cycle of Gendered Vulnerability: Understanding Violence, Poverty, and Systemic Failure Among Refugee Women in Malawi

Gender-based violence (GBV) is an urgent global health and social problem. GBV has implications for women's health outcomes and causes disruption to an individual's ecosystem, including their educational attainment, economic stability, and safety. Refugee women are an underserved...

AI Quality and Clinical Roles Impact Decision Quality in AI-Augmented Medical Decisions More than AI Explanations

BACKGROUND: Explainable AI has garnered significant attention in recent years, particularly in high-risk domains such as health care. Despite the enthusiasm, empirical evidence on the impact of AI explanations remains mixed. This study explores the effects of AI-generated recomme...

Borosulfates Hosting Se 4 2+ Ions—Crystal Structures, Chemical Bonding, Optical Spectroscopy, and Magnetism

ABSTRACT Despite consistent growth in the number of compounds known to host homo‐ and hetero polycations of group 16 elements, only two, Se 4 [HS 2 O 7 ] 2 and Se 4 [S 4 O 13 ], provided an exclusively oxidic coordination environment, the former being the first structural charact...

“I Will Never Be Enough Because My Skin Color Isn’t Right”: Structural Racism and Healthcare Access Following Nonfatal Strangulation Among Black Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

Background: Nonfatal strangulation (NFS) is one of the most lethal forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) that is associated with increased risk of future homicide, yet it frequently goes unrecognized within healthcare settings. Black women experience disproportionately high ra...

From Mitochondrial Support to Mitohormetic Readiness: A Micronutrient-Centric Extension of the Energy Allocation System

This review proposes that selected micronutrients may contribute to mitohormetic readiness, defined here as the pre-existing biochemical and regulatory capacity of a cell, tissue, or organism to sense, buffer, and transduce a bounded mitochondrial stressor, mount a proportionate...

Intimate partner violence against Jordanian women: a systematic review of prevalence, associated factors, and health outcomes

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive public health problem in many countries, including Jordan. To our knowledge, no systematic reviews have been conducted in Jordan regarding the prevalence of IPV, its associated factors, and related health outcomes. This systematic re...