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Egypte: Les Ong Doivent Unir Leurs Forces Pour Éradiquer L'Excision, Frontiers In Reproductive Health

Reproductive Health

No abstract provided.

Men As Supportive Partners In Reproductive Health: Moving From Rhetoric To Reality, Saraswati Raju, Ann Leonard

Reproductive Health

This book builds on presentations of the Workshop on Men as Supportive Partners in Reproductive and Sexual Health held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1998. By analyzing the experiences of nongovernmental organizations across India, this publication reviews important concerns that should inform the discourse on male partnership. The previous views of reaching men as contraceptive users and removing them as impediments to women’s efforts to control fertility are too limited. The argument is not whether men and women should use family planning, but rather the extent to which men can become supportive of women’s reproductive and sexual rights and actively take …

Sexual And Reproductive Health And Health Sector Reform In Latin America And The Caribbean: Challenges And Opportunities, Ana Langer, Gustavo Nigenda, Sandra G. Garcia, Rosario Valdez, Emanuel Orozco, Jennifer Catino

Reproductive Health

Most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are at varying stages of a reform process to improve the response capacity of health systems by upgrading the effectiveness and sustainability of programs and services. Changes promoted by the reform focus on priority health needs and underprivileged society groups. Some problems, such as sexual and reproductive health (SRH), can be tackled with cost-effective technologies. Reform projects offer a unique opportunity to reconsider policies, programs, and services aimed at facing the issues encompassed in the term SRH. Nonetheless, the formulation of a strategy and the identification of concrete measures represent a …

Supreme Court Voting Behavior: 1998 Term, Richard G. Wilkins, Scott Worthington, R. Chad Hales, Rachelle Fleming

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

This Article, the fourteenth in a series, tabulates and analyzes the voting behavior of the United States Supreme Court. This particular study examines the Court's voting behavior during the 1998 Term. The Article attempts to determine whether individual Justices and the Court as a whole are voting more "conservatively," more "liberally," or about the same as compared with past terms.

Whether a vote is considered "conservative" or "liberal" depends upon the issues being decided. Generally, votes favoring the assertion of governmental power are "conservative," while those favoring claims of individual liberty are considered "liberal." The issues are categorized into ten …

Beneficial And Unusual Punishment: An Argument In Support Of Prisoner Participation In Clinical Trials, Sharona Hoffman

Faculty Publications

Currently, approximately 1.8 million people are incarcerated in the United States at any given time. A disproportionately large percentage of the prisoner population has serious illnesses, such as AIDS and tuberculosis. Prisoners most often, however, are barred from participation in clinical trials, even when conventional therapy has failed, and experimental treatment might provide them with their only hope of survival.

Much of the reluctance to include prisoners in biomedical research is based on history. In the past, prisoners have been severely abused and even tortured in medical studies conducted in the Nazi death camps, Japanese prisoner camps, and correctional facilities …

Volume 15, No. 3

Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children

Curnow, Trevor. “The Value of Dialogue.” 36-­40.

Daniel, Marie­-France. “Audrey­Ann’s Tales.” 26­-32.

Daniel, Marie­-France and Ann-­Marie Michel. “Learning to think and to Speak: An Account of an Experiment Involving Children Aged 3 to 5 in France and Quebec.” 17­25.

Lushyn, Pavel and Kennedy, David. “The Psychodynamics of Community of Inquiry and Educational Reform: A Cross­Cultural Perspective.” 9­-16.

Matthews, Gareth B. “Thinking in Stories: Many Moons by James Thurber.” 1.

Mohr-­Lone, Jana. “5th graders discuss robotics.” 46-­47.

Scolnicov, Samuel. “The Problematic Community of Inquiry: The Socrates and Kant of Lipman and Dewey.” 41­-45.

Sheets­-Johnston, Maxine. “Dance Improvisation: A Paradigm of Thinking …

Volume 15, No. 1

Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children

Cam, Philip. “Philosophy and Freedom.” 10-­13.

Christie, Juliette. “Introduction of Philosophy for Children into the Montessori Curriculum.” 22­-29.

Daniel, Marie­-France, Louise Lafortune, Richard Pallascio and Michael Schleifer. “The Developmental Dynamics of a Community of Philosophical Inquiry in an Elementary School Mathematics Classroom.” 2-­9.

Gazzard, Ann. “What does Philosophy for Children have to do with Emotional Intelligence?” 39­-45.

Gratton, Claude. “Precision, Consistency, Implication and Inference.” 30­-37.

Matthews, Gareth B. “Thinking in Stories: Shrek! by William Steig.” 1. ­­­­­

----- "Creativity in the Philosophical Thinking of Children.” 14-­19

The Weekly Challenger, January 1, 2000, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The January 1, 2000, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Tort Suits For Injuries Sustained During Illegal Abortions: The Effects Of Judicial Bias, Gail D. Hollister

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Anticipating Technology: A Statute Bytes The Dust In Recording Industry Ass'n Of America V. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc., Stephanie Skasko Rosenberg

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

The Digital Divide: Some Reflections, Stephen Paul Foster Ph.D.

University Libraries' Staff Publications

One of the many remarkable impacts of the Internet on our social lives has been its shaping of our language. A spontaneously evolving Internet-argot has relentlessly and conspicuously intruded itself into everyday life. The activities and circumstances of a people "on-line" are now described by an array of powerful and colorful metaphors that capture the spirit of a new, robust technology. We find ourselves often conversing casually and unselfconsciously in an idiom that would have been incomprehensible only a few short years ago. We do, indeed, talk differently now.

One Internet-spawned expression that seems to have achieved common linguistic currency …

Striving To Do Well What Comes Naturally: Social Support, Developmental Psychopathology, And Social Policy, Ross A. Thompson, Lenna Ontai

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Social support can have significant stress-preventive and stress-buffering benefits for troubled individuals in everyday circumstances. Consequently, it is not surprising that many therapeutic and preventive programs enlist social support to address problems of child and family psychopathology, especially in the context of “two-generation interventions” that seek to improve child well-being by strengthening parental functioning and parent–child relationships. Home visitation programs are the best known of these two-generation strategies and have become the focus of state-level and national efforts to support families and prevent harm to children. The conclusions of basic research studies on social support converge significantly with the findings …

Volume 15, No. 2

Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children

Green, Lena. “Never mind if it’s right or wrong, just think! Investigating the potential of Philosophy for Children with primary teachers in South Africa.” 12-­20.

Heesen, Berrie. “Stories for Thinking.” 2­-11.

Matthews, Gareth B. “Thinking in Stories: Rotten Island by William Steig.” 1.

Murris, Karin. “The role of the facilitator in philosophical inquiry.” 40-­46.

Saenz, Carmen Lopez. “The child, the school and philosophy: a phenomenological reflection.” 34­-39.

Sewald, Kristin. “4th and 5th graders discuss knowing.” 47-­48.

Turgeon, Wendy. “The mirror of aesthetic education: philosophy looks at art and art at philosophy.” 21­-31.

Community, Winter 2000, Office Of Communications And Marketing, Wright State University

Community

Thirty-six page issue of Community which was published periodically from 1996 through 2011. The magazine focused on news and events at Wright State University relating to faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the university.

The Small Gulls Of North America, Stephen C. Rottenborn

Western Birds

No abstract provided.

Transient Nature Of The Stimulatory" Nem-Effect" On K-Cl Cotransport In Kccl-Transfected Hek293 And Primary Rat Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells, Peter K. Lauf, Jin Zhang, Jing Zhang, Norma C. Adragna

Pharmacology and Toxicology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Extension Newsletter, Issue 25, Winter Quarter 2000, Wright State University Retirees Association

The Extension Newsletter

An eight page newsletter from the Wright State University's Retirees Association.

Civilization And Commerce: The Concept Of Governance In Historical Perspective, Antony Anghie

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

The Truth And Reconciliation Commission (Trc): Human Rights And State Transitions – The South Africa Model, Patricia J. Campbell

Benerd College Faculty Articles

Post-authoritarian regimes have struggled with the most appropriate way to deal with the former regimes’ human rights abuses.Several schools of though have emerged as to how this should be accomplished.Into this framework the South Africa model, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), is discussed.The TRC has completed its charge and the results vary according to one’s perception of that charge.An assessment of South Africa’s attempt at truth and reconciliation and the TRC’s viability as a model for other transitioning societies are discussed.

Where Function Meets Form: Observations And Thoughts On Housing For The Archival Enterprise, David B. Gracy Ii

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

The most basic principle of architecture is that Form Follows Function. In other words, a building should be designed to facilitate the activities envisioned to occur within it. Through the centuries, structures erected for managing the archival heritage of civilizations and cultures indeed have reflected and shaped the archival activity transpiring within them. Physical configurations have facilitated or impeded the archival enterprise. A building with provision for storage only, and no area designated for use of the records it holds, obviously says that for the time, place, and archival institution, the value of archives was not broad public use. Rather, …

Promoting A Regional Foreign Copying Program: The Historic New Orleans Collection Experience, Alfred E. Lemmon

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

The Historic New Orleans Collection, as a museum and research center, seeks to document the developing profile of New Orleans. Awalk through the fabled cemeteries or "Cities of the Dead" in New Orleans reveals the French and Spanish colonial demography. While the German, Irish, French, and Italian immigrants received the most attention during the nineteenth century, there were also Belgian, Hungarian, Yugoslav, and Dutch immigrants. The 1850 census indicates that Louisiana had a significant foreignborn population even then. Immigrants accounted for 26 percent of the population in Louisiana, far greater than that of neighboring states. During the twentieth century, Louisiana …

Resolving The Dissonant Constitutional Chords Inherent In The Federal Anti-Bootlegging Statute In United States V. Moghadam, Keith V. Lee

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.

Defining Anuran Malformations In The Context Of A Developmental Problem, Carol U. Meteyer, Rebecca A. Cole, Kathryn A. Converse, Douglas E. Docherty, Mark Wolcott, Judy C. Helgen, Richard Levey, Laura Eaton-Poole, James G. Burkhart

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

This paper summarizes terminology and general concepts involved in animal development for the purpose of providing background for the study and understanding of frog malformations. The results of our radiographic investigation of rear limb malformations in Rana pipiens provide evidence that frog malformations are the product of early developmental errors. Although bacteria, parasites and viruses were identified in these metamorphosed frogs, the relevant window to look for the teratogenic affect of these agents is in the early tadpole stage during limb development. As a result, our microbiological findings must be regarded as inconclusive relative to determining their contribution to malformations …

A Relationship Between Trematode Metacercariae And Bullfrog Limb Abnormalities, James L. Christiansen, Heather Feltman

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

This study is the first report of statistically significant relationships between limb abnormalities and trematode metacercariae in natural populations of frogs. We examined only parasite associations and did not investigate numerous potential pollutants that have been suggested by others to be associated with frog limb abnormalities. Rana catesbeiana of varying ages with a variety of limb abnormalities were found during the flood of 1993. By June 1994, the receding flood waters had left four pools, each with newly metamorphosing bullfrogs. Only one of the pools contained abnormal individuals and histological examination revealed significantly greater prevalence of trematode metacercarial infection in …

Morphological Abnormalities In Illinois Cricket Frogs, Acris Crepitans, 1968-71, Robert H. Gray

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

Reports of malformed amphibians have been increasing, including external deformities such as missing or extra arms and legs, missing eyes and mandibles, and internal abnormalities involving the bladder, digestive system, and testes. Natural phenomena such as limb amputations during predation attempts by other animals, parasitism, xenobiotic chemicals (herbicides, insecticides, fertilizers and others), and UV-B or other radiation (either directly or indirectly by triggering production of toxicants from nontoxic chemicals) have all been linked to amphibian abnormalities. From 1968-71, I studied the natural history, effective breeding size, and seasonal, annual, and geographic variation in color morph frequencies of cricket frogs (Acris …

Frog And Toad Population Monitoring In Michigan, Lori G. Sargent

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

A volunteer-based monitoring project for frog and toad populations in Michigan was initiated in 1996. The survey protocols developed by the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP) were used and modified to suit the needs of the Michigan project and because of the highly variable Michigan spring weather. The modifications include route establishment, recommended dates during which surveys are conducted, and a more specific definition of population indices. Development of the project included training workshops for volunteers.

Shooting From The Lip: United States V. Dickerson, Role [Im]Morality, And The Ethics Of Legal Rhetoric, Elizabeth Fajans, Mary R. Falk

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Foreword: Still Unfinished, Ever Unfinished, Anita Bernstein

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Measuring Culpability By Measuring Drugs? Three Reasons To Re-Evaluate The Rockefeller Drug Laws, Susan Herman

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Channels Of Published Research Communication Used By Malaysian Authors In Computer Science And Information Technology, Y. Gu, Awang Ngah Zainab

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

Analyse 389 records retrieved from Inspec (1990-1999), Compendex (1987-1999) and IEL (IEE/IEEE Electronic library)(1987-1999). The records comprised 159 journal articles, 229 conference papers and 1 monograph chapter. The subject coverage was computer science and information technology. The yearly output of Malaysian publications indicated a gentle upward trend. The highest contributions was 87 published in 1997. The channels used to publish differ slightly from the norm for scientists. Conference papers were preferred to journal articles. The spread of conference papers used to publish indicate three zonal distributions; the nucleus, moderate and low productivity in the ratio of 19 : 41 : …