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We introduce a method of using wrist-worn accelerometers to measure non-verbal social coordination within a group that includes autistic children. Our goal was to record and chart the children's social engagement-measured using interpersonal movement synchrony-as they took part in a theatrical workshop that was specifically designed to enhance their social skills. Interpersonal synchrony, an important factor of social engagement that is known to be impaired in autism, is calculated using a cross-wavelet similarity comparison between participants' movement data. We evaluate the feasibility of the approach over 3 live performances, each lasting 2 hours, using 6 actors and a total of 10 autistic children. We show that by visualising each child's engagement over the course of a performance, it is possible to highlight subtle moments of social coordination that might otherwise be lost when reviewing video footage alone. This is important because it points the way to a new method for people who work with autistic children to be able to monitor the development of those in their care, and to adapt their therapeutic activities accordingly.

The consumption of the industrial diet—characterized by highly processed, low-nutrient foods and the reduced intake of produce in its natural state, such as fruits and vegetables—is generating a large number of health and environmental concerns in the developed world. In the meantime, the public health response to food-related health issues typically focuses on healthy eating, despite the growing amount of research showing the complexity of food environments. In this article, we discuss the limitations and fragmented perspective of current “healthy eating” strategies and the obvious disconnect between public health interventions and broader food environments. We outline the transformation of food environments in recent decades and how this is shaped by shifting ways of life and forms of governance built on neoliberal principles, which in turn influence individuals’ food practices. By availing of critical social theory, we suggest that the potential for change should involve a systemic, ecological understanding of the complexities involved, exposing the interdependencies within broader socioeconomic, cultural, and political contexts and current food systems processes and environments.

R efugees in the United States face multiple unique challenges related to acculturation, meeting basic needs, and accessing vital services such as health care [1]. Structural and contextual factors, such as "othering" and discrimination, are potential pathways through which acculturation can erode the health of refugees and their descendants [2]. Although experiences of trauma, displacement, and disruptions in health care are not unique to refugees, the experience of real or threatened danger is a defining characteristic of this population, and traumatic experiences may directly contribute to suboptimal acculturation, health care access, and health outcomes [3].Difficulties in health care access upon arrival in the United States include barriers to navigating complex medical and insurance systems, overcoming language and cultural barriers, institutional mistrust, and the residual impacts of trauma and challenging experiences prior to and during migration [1,4]. These challenges exacerbate health inequities and place families and individuals with refugee status at undue risk for numerous health issues.The barriers to health care faced by newly arrived refugees may be particularly challenging for children, who may fail to receive preventive care, lack proper nutrition, and experience developmental delays, all of which may be due to the often chaotic resettlement process and delayed access to care upon arrival in the United States [5]. Mental health issues are especially prevalent among refugee children, who are exposed to trauma before, during, and after the resettlement process [6,7].The North Carolina Triangle area (comprised of Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and their surrounding areas) has long been an important center for refugee resettlement in the state and in the southern United States. In recent years, refugees settling in North Carolina have come from diverse locations including Afghanistan, Central African Republic,

This commentary offers an explanation for how and why the Dalhousie Dentistry scandal could occur in a society and time where traditional gender roles are seemingly being eradicated. We use Foucault’s modes of objectification, applied to an analysis of the use of “manhood acts” and in relation to the hidden curriculum, to argue that when women threaten the authority of men in health professions, men may subconsciously look for ways to re-exert an unequal and gendered subject-object binary.Ce commentaire explique comment et pourquoi un scandale, tel que celui de la Faculté de dentisterie de l’Université Dalhousie, peut se produire dans une société et une époque où les rôles traditionnels assignés aux femmes et aux hommes ont apparemment disparu. Nous nous référerons aux modes d’objectivation de Foucault, appliqué à une analyse de l’utilisation des « actes de virilité », en relation avec le curriculum dissimulé, pour faire valoir que, lorsque les femmes menacent l’autorité des hommes dans les professions de santé, les hommes peuvent inconsciemment chercher des moyens de ré-exercer une partition binaire sujet-objet, inégale et genrée