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Kenya: Identifying Rtis Remain Problematic: Prevention Is Essential, Frontiers In Reproductive Health Jan 2000

Kenya: Identifying Rtis Remain Problematic: Prevention Is Essential, Frontiers In Reproductive Health

Reproductive Health

Since 1990, the Nakuru Municipal Council (Kenya) has implemented a multifaceted program to reduce the incidence of reproductive tract infections (RTIs), especially those that are sexually transmitted, including HIV/AIDS. Staff in the Council’s five health clinics use syndromic management guidelines, based on clients’ reported symptoms and clinical signs, to identify clients with RTIs. In 1998, the Population Council conducted a study to assess the accuracy of syndromic management and determine the best ways to integrate RTI management into existing antenatal (ANC) and family planning (FP) services. After an assessment of existing RTI services, 18 nurses from the five municipal clinics …

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Kenya: L'Identification Des Iar Demeure Hasardeuse: La Prévention Est Primordiale, Frontiers In Reproductive Health Jan 2000

Kenya: L'Identification Des Iar Demeure Hasardeuse: La Prévention Est Primordiale, Frontiers In Reproductive Health

Reproductive Health

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Peru: Tell Clients How To Use Their Chosen Method, Frontiers In Reproductive Health Jan 2000

Peru: Tell Clients How To Use Their Chosen Method, Frontiers In Reproductive Health

Reproductive Health

In 1998, the Peruvian Ministry of Health (MOH) issued quality of care norms to ensure that family planning providers respond to clients’ reproductive health care needs and goals. In mid-1999, the Population Council collaborated with the MOH on a study to determine whether length of counseling sessions affects amount of information provided. The study focused on 19 health centers in 10 urban areas. Six simulated clients (women posing as clients) made a total of 114 visits to the health centers during June–July 1999. Each client was trained to say that she wanted to switch from the rhythm method to a …

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Pérou: Informer Les Clients Sur Le Mode D'Utilisation De Leur Méthode De Choix, Frontiers In Reproductive Health Jan 2000

Pérou: Informer Les Clients Sur Le Mode D'Utilisation De Leur Méthode De Choix, Frontiers In Reproductive Health

Reproductive Health

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Meeting Women's Health Care Needs After Abortion, Dale Huntington Jan 2000

Meeting Women's Health Care Needs After Abortion, Dale Huntington

Reproductive Health

Women who seek emergency treatment for abortion complications—bleeding, infection, and injuries to the reproductive tract system—should be a priority group for reproductive health care programs. These women often receive poor-quality services that do not address their multiple health needs. They may be discharged without counseling on postoperative recuperation, family planning (FP), or other reproductive health (RH) issues. Women who have had an induced abortion due to an unwanted pregnancy are likely to have a repeat abortion unless they receive appropriate FP counseling and services. Preventing repeat unsafe abortions is important for RH programs because it saves women's lives, protects women’s …

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Report On The International Symposium On Quality Of Care In China, Population Council Jan 2000

Report On The International Symposium On Quality Of Care In China, Population Council

Reproductive Health

In 1995, China’s State Family Planning Commission (SFPC), the governmental agency charged with developing and implementing China’s population policy, issued an official call for the reorientation of the family planning program from a focus on demographic targets to meeting clients’ needs. In support of this reorientation effort, the SFPC selected six rural counties and five urban districts with comparatively good socioeconomic conditions as pilot sites for a quality-of-care experiment. This report provides a summary of an international symposium on quality of care held in Beijing from November 17–19, 1999. The symposium was sponsored by SFPC with the support of the …

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An Assessment Of The Community Based Distribution Programs In Ghana, Jane Chege, Diouratie Sanogo, Ian Askew, Angela Bannerman, Steve Grey, Evam Kofi Glover, Francis Yankey, Joana Nerquaye-Tetteh Jan 2000

An Assessment Of The Community Based Distribution Programs In Ghana, Jane Chege, Diouratie Sanogo, Ian Askew, Angela Bannerman, Steve Grey, Evam Kofi Glover, Francis Yankey, Joana Nerquaye-Tetteh

Reproductive Health

This study was carried out to describe the major NGO community-based distribution (CBD) programs in Ghana, and to assess in some detail the functioning, quality of care, and performance of the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) program. The study showed that national coverage by the NGO programs is extensive—virtually all the 110 districts in the 10 regions have at least one program. However, coverage within districts is sparse, as each program covers only a few communities. The results have been communicated to the NGOs whose programs were included in the study and PPAG has already identified a number of …

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Daniel Elazar, Bogus Or Brilliant: A Study Of Political Culture Across The American States, Todd Zoellick '00 Jan 2000

Daniel Elazar, Bogus Or Brilliant: A Study Of Political Culture Across The American States, Todd Zoellick '00

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

American states each have individual political cultures which are important to our understanding of their political environments, behavior, and responses to particular issues. While voters probably do not consciously think about political culture and conform to that culture on election day, they seem to form cohesive clusters in different areas of the state, creating similar group political ideologies. Because of these similarities, it is possible to measure the dominant political culture within states or areas of a state, gaining insight into the mind-set of state residents. Whatever the state culture, whether liberal or conservative, participatory or exclusive, political culture identifies …

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Indoctrination And Assimilation In Plural Settings, Ken Badley Jan 2000

Indoctrination And Assimilation In Plural Settings, Ken Badley

Faculty Publications - College of Education

"A twofold problem faces Canadian education. The first fold involves the indoctrination debate, still unsettled after several decades, yet still bearing decisively on educational policy. The second fold involves the changing Canadian educational landscape, now obviously characterized by increasing cultural, religious, and linguistic plurality. This plurality manifests itself in tribalism and in regular conflicts about normativity in the public square. In the midst of this plurality, many Canadian parents of school-aged children believe that courts, provincial governments, and educational authorities deny them educational justice by determining that their own religion cannot inform what their children learn in schools. Yet, from …

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Standing For Protection Of Collective Rights In The European Communities, Alison Peck Jan 2000

Standing For Protection Of Collective Rights In The European Communities, Alison Peck

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Substance Dependence. A Hospital Based Survey, Nayyer Iqbal Jan 2000

Substance Dependence. A Hospital Based Survey, Nayyer Iqbal

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To collect basic data on multiple and diverse issues such as drugs of dependence, smoking, initiation age, injection related harm, nutritional status, trauma, accidents, abnormal laboratory parameters and co-morbid conditions. METHODS: Seven hundred and ninety nine subjects from a voluntary detoxification unit were studied. Four hundred and ninety seven charts from June 1995 to December 1995 were reviewed retrospectively. For the other 302 subjects admitted between September 1996 to December 1996, information regarding drug use, smoking, trauma, accidents and co-morbid conditions was recorded during the admission interview while the remaining data was later obtained from the charts. RESULTS: Sixty …

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Childhood Enuresis. Epidemiology, Pathophysiology And Management, Yaser S. Al-Ghamdy, Naseem A. Qureshi, Muzamil H. Abdelgadir Jan 2000

Childhood Enuresis. Epidemiology, Pathophysiology And Management, Yaser S. Al-Ghamdy, Naseem A. Qureshi, Muzamil H. Abdelgadir

Neurosciences

The goal of this article is to review childhood enuresis, which is a common behavioral condition reported in millions of children worldwide. An online computer search was made, and the literature up to 1997 was screened in order to include relevant data for this review. The prevalence of childhood enuresis varies across reviewed studies. This was attributed to a variety of sociodemographic and cultural dynamics of societies. Similarly, the pathophysiology of this ubiquitous symptom is determined by multiple risk factors including biological, psychological, social, and cultural, but the developmental/maturational delay influenced by genetics remains the most plausible explanation. Although a …

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X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy. The Saudi Experience, Mohammed A. Al-Essa, Nadia A. Sakati, Siema M. Bakheet, Zoltan J. Patay, Omar Dabbagh, Enrique Chaves-Carballo, Pinar T. Ozand Jan 2000

X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy. The Saudi Experience, Mohammed A. Al-Essa, Nadia A. Sakati, Siema M. Bakheet, Zoltan J. Patay, Omar Dabbagh, Enrique Chaves-Carballo, Pinar T. Ozand

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical, biochemical, neuroradiological, and neurophysiological findings of patients with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. METHODS: Retrospective study evaluating the data of 10 X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy patients diagnosed at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. RESULTS: The common presenting symptoms were deterioration in school performance, vision and hearing, behavioral changes, and seizures. Eight patients survived 1-4 years and one patient 12 years after the initial presentation, while one patient expired. Six patients had the childhood form, 3 had the adolescent form and one had the adrenomyeloneuropathy form. Six are in an advanced stage of the disease and …

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Arabic Melodic And Rhythmic Therapy. A Method Of Severe Aphasia Therapy, Fawzi Jalled, Hichem Skik, Amel Mrabet Jan 2000

Arabic Melodic And Rhythmic Therapy. A Method Of Severe Aphasia Therapy, Fawzi Jalled, Hichem Skik, Amel Mrabet

Neurosciences

The necessity of a therapy allowing aphasics to be rehabilitated quickly in social life urged us to adapt a therapeutic strategy developed in the USA and implemented in France under ‘therapie melodique et rythmee’. This model of language therapy has been destined to aphasics with good auditory comprehension and emotional stability despite severe language impairment. A careful evaluation of the patient is necessary to select the candidates for exposure to this therapy. Our evaluation is based on an examination battery (made of repetition, naming, auditory comprehension), items inspired by the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination and adapted to Tunisian context. This …

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The Use Of Indomethacin For The Prevention Of Intraventricular Brain Hemorrhage In High-Risk Neonates, Essam M. Al-Shawaf, Saleh A. Al-Alaiyan, Ali Y. Aqeel, Mohammed H. Gamal Jan 2000

The Use Of Indomethacin For The Prevention Of Intraventricular Brain Hemorrhage In High-Risk Neonates, Essam M. Al-Shawaf, Saleh A. Al-Alaiyan, Ali Y. Aqeel, Mohammed H. Gamal

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine the effect of indomethacin on reducing the incidence of intraventricular hemorrhage in premature infants treated in our units at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre. METHODS: This historical cohort study included 45 infants born with birth weights of 1250g or less and received indomethacin in the first 12 hours of life for intraventricular hemorrhage prevention. The treated infants were compared to 33 other infants with birth weights of 1250g or less who did not receive indomethacin for intraventricular hemorrhage prevention. Data collected included demographic, complications of prematurity, renal function and …

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Neurobrucellosis, Biniganavale N. Gokul, Alfred Paul, Iftikhar Hussein Jan 2000

Neurobrucellosis, Biniganavale N. Gokul, Alfred Paul, Iftikhar Hussein

Neurosciences

Brucellosis, which is endemic in Saudi Arabia, can present as a disease with multisystem involvement. Occasionally the organisms invade the central nervous system producing varied neurological manifestations. Often the clinical diagnosis of neurobrucellosis is not straight forward and is obscure. Certain criteria have to be fulfilled for the definitive diagnosis of neurobrucellosis. We report 2 cases of neurobrucellosis which were encountered for the first time during the past 10 years at this hospital.

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A Novel Experimental Approach To The Explication Of Information Processing Differences Between High And Low Anxious Individuals., Gina M. Manguno-Mire Jan 2000

A Novel Experimental Approach To The Explication Of Information Processing Differences Between High And Low Anxious Individuals., Gina M. Manguno-Mire

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The information processing perspective of cognition and emotion has been a fruitful area of research inquiry in recent years. As a result of this recent spate of interest, emotional processing biases in anxiety have been consistently demonstrated, indicating that anxious individuals possess a processing priority for threatening information. This study is an attempt to further examine the processing biases which characterize anxious and nonanxious individuals. Pilot work was conducted to investigate the utility of a novel approach, the affective categorization task, to examine the affective meaning of lexical stimuli. Pilot research using the affective categorization task with socially anxious individuals …

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Development Of An Instrument For Predicting Success Of Persons In Real Estate Sales Careers., Carmel O. Streater Jan 2000

Development Of An Instrument For Predicting Success Of Persons In Real Estate Sales Careers., Carmel O. Streater

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this research was to develop a biodata instrument that would validly predict individuals with zero or non-zero sales production in real estate sales careers. Correlational and factorial procedures were used to develop keys for the biodata instrument. A logistic regression analysis was performed to measure the ability of the instrument to correctly predict the dichotomous forms of the dependent variables. Follow-up data on sales production was gathered at three and six months after the biodata instrument was administered. Subjects were real estate salespersons enrolled in entrylevel training classes across the country. Dependent variables in this study were …

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Investor Privacy, Larry D. Barnett, Ronald M. Feiman, Jeffrey J. Haas, Pauline C. Scalvino, Jason Zweig Jan 2000

Investor Privacy, Larry D. Barnett, Ronald M. Feiman, Jeffrey J. Haas, Pauline C. Scalvino, Jason Zweig

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Blackmail, Extortion, And Exchange, Walter Block, Gary M. Anderson Jan 2000

Blackmail, Extortion, And Exchange, Walter Block, Gary M. Anderson

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Judicial Legitimacy And The Unwritten Constitution: A Comment On Miranda And Dickerson, Richard H. Fallon Jr. Jan 2000

Judicial Legitimacy And The Unwritten Constitution: A Comment On Miranda And Dickerson, Richard H. Fallon Jr.

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Custodial Sexual Abuse: Enforcing Long-Awaited Policies Designed To Protect Female Prisoners, Anthea Dinos Jan 2000

Custodial Sexual Abuse: Enforcing Long-Awaited Policies Designed To Protect Female Prisoners, Anthea Dinos

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Tyrant, 2000, Longwood University Jan 2000

Tyrant, 2000, Longwood University

Student Publications

No abstract provided.

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Sicnn Optimisation, Two Dimensional Implementation And Comparison, Grant Walker Jan 2000

Sicnn Optimisation, Two Dimensional Implementation And Comparison, Grant Walker

Theses : Honours

The study investigates the process of optimisation, implementation and comparison of a Shunting Inhibitory Cellular Neural Network (SICNN) for Edge Detection. Shunting inhibition is lateral inhibition where the inhibition function is nonlinear. Cellular Neural Networks are locally interconnected nonlinear, parallel networks which can exist as either discrete time or continuous networks. The name given to Cellular Neural Networks that use shunting inhibition as their nonlinear cell interactions are called Shunting Inhibitory Cellular Neural Networks. This project report examines some existing edge detectors and thresholding techniques. Then it describes the optimisation of the connection weight matrix for SICNN with Complementary Output …

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An Exploration Of Tools, Techniques And Procedures For Evaluating Informational/Educational Multimedia Software, Serge Walberg Jan 2000

An Exploration Of Tools, Techniques And Procedures For Evaluating Informational/Educational Multimedia Software, Serge Walberg

Theses : Honours

This thesis explored the evaluation of informational/educational systems. It investigated the features of the design of an evaluation system needed to conduct the summative evaluation of informational and educational software. In designing this evaluation methodology, several questions were addressed: - What is needed to be achieved from an evaluation? - Which characteristics/features of a system required evaluation? - How was the evaluation going to be conducted? - How can future developers use the information obtained from the evaluation? - What were the scope and the limitations of the proposed evaluation? - How can evaluation tools, techniques and procedures developed by …

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Workplace Safety Policy: Past, Present, And Future, Thomas J. Kniesner, John D. Leeth Jan 2000

Workplace Safety Policy: Past, Present, And Future, Thomas J. Kniesner, John D. Leeth

Center for Policy Research

With an annual budget of about $400 million, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is about 5 percent the size of the Environmental Protection Agency, another federal agency created by President Richard M. Nixon in 1970, the "Year of the Environment." Nearly all workers in the United States come under OSHA's jurisdiction, with some notable exceptions, including miners, transportation workers, many public employees, and people who are self-employed. OSHA is currently responsible for projecting over 100 million workers at 6 million work sites with the help of only about 2,000 workplace health and safety inspectors. Nevertheless, suppers of OSHA …

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Health Promotion For Older Adults: What Is The Potential?, Linda P. Fried Jan 2000

Health Promotion For Older Adults: What Is The Potential?, Linda P. Fried

Center for Policy Research

As a greater number of people reach old age, medicine is challenged to develop new approaches to this population. Health promotion, not just treatment of disease but improving the quality of life for older persons, must play a role. What happens to individuals in terms of health status as they get older, and what are the implications for health care needs? Where should we focus to get the biggest benefits in terms of health promotion? Overall, we have learned a tremendous amount over the last 25 years about the components of health as people get older, and what modifies their …

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How Well Can We Track Cohabitation Using The Sipp? A Consideration Of Direct And Inferred Measures, Reagan Anne Baughman, Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Scott Houser Jan 2000

How Well Can We Track Cohabitation Using The Sipp? A Consideration Of Direct And Inferred Measures, Reagan Anne Baughman, Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Scott Houser

Center for Policy Research

Cohabitation is an alternative to marriage and to living independently for an increasing number of Americans. Despite this fact, research exploring links between living arrangements and economic behavior is limited by a lack of data that explicitly identify cohabiting couples. To aid researchers in using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) rich data for cohabitation issues, our paper considers direct and inferred measures of cohabitation. Our findings suggest that: (1) the best inferred measures in pre-1966 SIPP depends upon a researcher's goals, and (2) the SIPP counts a larger number of cohabiting couples than the widely used CPS.

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Microdata Panel Data And Public Policy: National And Cross-National Perspectives, Robert Carroll, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Harvey S. Rosen, Mark Rider Jan 2000

Microdata Panel Data And Public Policy: National And Cross-National Perspectives, Robert Carroll, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Harvey S. Rosen, Mark Rider

Center for Policy Research

This paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurs' personal income tax situations on the growth rate of their enterprises. We analyze the personal income tax returns of a large number of sole proprietors before and after the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and determine how the substantial reductions in marginal tax rates associated with that law affected the growth of their firms as measured by gross receipts. We find that individual income taxes exert a statistically and quantitatively significant influence on firm growth rates. Raising the sole proprietor's tax price (one minus the marginal tax rate) by 10 percent increases receipts …

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Now You See It, Now You Don't: Why Do Real Estate Agents Withhold Available Houses From Black Customers?, Jan Ondrich, John Yinger, Stephen Ross Jan 2000

Now You See It, Now You Don't: Why Do Real Estate Agents Withhold Available Houses From Black Customers?, Jan Ondrich, John Yinger, Stephen Ross

Center for Policy Research

This paper develops a new approach to testing hypotheses about the causes of discrimination in housing sales. We follow previous research by using data from fair housing audits, a matched-pair technique for comparing the treatment of equally qualified black and white home buyers. Our contribution is to shift the focus from differences in the treatment of teammates during an audit to agent decisions concerning an individual housing unit. Our sample consists of all units seen by either a black of a white auditor in the 1989 national Housing Discrimination Study. We estimate a multinomial logit model to explain a real …

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