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Integrating Adolescent Livelihood Activities Within A Reproductive Health Program For Urban Slum Dwellers In India, Dale Huntington, Mary Philip Sebastian, Nirmala Sevlam, Barbara Mensch, Sahar Hegazi Jan 2001

Integrating Adolescent Livelihood Activities Within A Reproductive Health Program For Urban Slum Dwellers In India, Dale Huntington, Mary Philip Sebastian, Nirmala Sevlam, Barbara Mensch, Sahar Hegazi

Reproductive Health

The Population Council's Frontiers in Reproductive Health Program and the Policy and Research Division are collaborating with CARE India to conduct an operations research study to examine the feasibility and impact of adding livelihood counseling and training, savings activities, and follow-up support to the ongoing reproductive health program for adolescents. The short-term objective is to foster the development of alternative socialization processes for adolescent girls that encourage positive sexual and reproductive health behaviors. As noted in this project update, the study will produce a replicable model for CARE India and other agencies to use in adding livelihood activities to adolescent …

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Reproductive Tract Infections: A Guide For Programme Managers, Sarah Hawkes, Anjali Nayyar, Johannes Van Dam, Kevin R. O'Reilly, Bidia Deperthes, Dinesh Agarwal Jan 2001

Reproductive Tract Infections: A Guide For Programme Managers, Sarah Hawkes, Anjali Nayyar, Johannes Van Dam, Kevin R. O'Reilly, Bidia Deperthes, Dinesh Agarwal

Reproductive Health

Reproductive tract infections (RTIs) including sexually transmitted infections represent a silent worldwide pandemic that adversely impacts the reproductive health (RH) of women and men. Various community- and hospital-based studies in India have provided insights into the magnitude of the problem. The International Conference on Population and Development (1994) emphasized integration of RH services to meet the needs of men and women especially with prevention and management of RTIs/STIs. The emergence of HIV and the identification of STIs as a risk factor for the spread of HIV have further lent a sense of urgency for a programmatic response to address this …

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Operations Research In Reproductive Health And Family Planning At The Cairo Demographic Center, Magdi A. Ibrahim, James R. Foreit, M.E. Khan Jan 2001

Operations Research In Reproductive Health And Family Planning At The Cairo Demographic Center, Magdi A. Ibrahim, James R. Foreit, M.E. Khan

Reproductive Health

This report evaluates the effectiveness of a two-year training program at the Cairo Demographic Center to increase the number of researchers using operations research (OR), and to help institutionalize the ability of the Center to offer training in operations research in reproductive health. It also provides feedback for OR curriculum development. The project trained researchers with program and policymaking responsibilities and provided participants with the experience of designing an OR project, and built participants’ skills in communicating research results to managers. Participant evaluations showed that, overall, the course met its objectives. The training that the students received in OR has …

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An Assessment Of Youth Centres In South Africa, Annabel Erulkar, Mags Beksinska, Queen Cebekhulu Jan 2001

An Assessment Of Youth Centres In South Africa, Annabel Erulkar, Mags Beksinska, Queen Cebekhulu

Reproductive Health

Within South Africa there is much interest in expanding youth center programs, particularly in the nongovernmental sector, in part because of recognition that the HIV/AIDS crisis is disproportionately affecting young South Africans. This study was designed to give implementing agencies and donors a broad view of how the youth centers function, who they reach, and the quality of information and services. The assessment underscored the importance of monitoring the performance of programs and understanding who is being reached with what interventions. Youth centers that focus on providing recreational facilities attract a large number of clients, often boys who are repeat …

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An Assessment Of The Alternative Rites Approach For Encouraging Abandonment Of Female Genital Mutilation In Kenya, Jane Chege, Ian Askew, Jennifer Liku Jan 2001

An Assessment Of The Alternative Rites Approach For Encouraging Abandonment Of Female Genital Mutilation In Kenya, Jane Chege, Ian Askew, Jennifer Liku

Reproductive Health

Maendeleo Ya Wanawake (MYWO), with technical assistance from the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), has been implementing an Alternative Rite of passage programme as part of its efforts to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in five districts in Kenya. This study addressed the factors that influence some families and individuals to adopt the Alternative Rite while others, exposed to the same messages discouraging FGM, decide not to. It also evaluated the effect of the training component of the Alternative Rite on the girls who participated.

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Strengthening Social Science Research On Women's Health: Lessons Learned From A Capacity Building Programme, M.E. Khan, Bella C. Patel, John Townsend Jan 2001

Strengthening Social Science Research On Women's Health: Lessons Learned From A Capacity Building Programme, M.E. Khan, Bella C. Patel, John Townsend

Reproductive Health

The International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 led to an upsurge in interest in implementing reproductive health (RH) programs worldwide. The urgency to act has led to the development of disparate activities in several developing countries including India. While programs have been growing in numbers, their quality is in question. A fundamental problem has been lack of capacity at all levels of the health service system to respond to the paradigm shift articulated by the advocates of the reproductive health and rights agenda. To redesign programs, considerable research must be undertaken to understand the health needs and sociocultural …

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Cytogenetics Study In Severely Mentally Retarded Patients, Akeel A. Yasseen, Thekra A. Al-Musawi Jan 2001

Cytogenetics Study In Severely Mentally Retarded Patients, Akeel A. Yasseen, Thekra A. Al-Musawi

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To study the frequency of chromosomal abnormalities in severely mentally retarded Iraqi patients. Secondly, to determine the types of chromosomal abnormalities that play a major role in the causation of mental retardation and to compare our results with those reported elsewhere. METHODS: Twenty-one patients with severe mental retardation were subject to chromosomal analysis. The lymphocyte culture was carried out according to standard methods. RESULTS: Fourteen of the subjected mentally retarded patients had chromosomal abnormalities, 13 autosomal abnormalities, and only one had sex chromosomal abnormalities. However, structural autosomes were found to be the most prominent abnormalities and only 2 patients …

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Metaphase Acrocentric Associations In Metally Retarded Patients, Akeel A. Yasseen, Thekra A. Al-Musawi Jan 2001

Metaphase Acrocentric Associations In Metally Retarded Patients, Akeel A. Yasseen, Thekra A. Al-Musawi

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: The metaphase of 21 severely mentally retarded patients were studies to assess the role of satellite association in the etiology of mental retardation. METHODS: Peripheral blood culture, chromosome harvesting and study scoring were conducted according to standard methods. RESULTS: Considered as a whole the results indicate that there is a significant increase in the frequency of satellite association among the mentally retarded. CONCLUSION: The present study concluded that satellite association may play a role in the etiology of mental retardation and may explain to some extent the presence of normal karyotype in some mental retardation patients.

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Pattern Of Erectile Dysfunction In Jeddah City, Nabil S. Al-Helali, Mostafa A. Abdolfotouh, Hussein M. Ghanem Jan 2001

Pattern Of Erectile Dysfunction In Jeddah City, Nabil S. Al-Helali, Mostafa A. Abdolfotouh, Hussein M. Ghanem

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the demographic features of erectile dysfunction patients attending different specialized clinics in Jeddah city, and to identify possible risk factors associated with erectile dysfunction problem. METHODS: All newly erectile dysfunction patients (n=388) who attended 6 andrology and urology clinics within a period of 3 months were subjected to a modified structural interview questionnaire to collect demographic data and risk factors for erectile dysfunction. RESULTS: The study revealed the following results among erectile dysfunction patients; Saudi patients constituted (81%). The age ranged from 20-86 years with mean age of 43.23+/-12.56 years, 73% …

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Evidence-Based Medicine, Ibrahim Mansoor Jan 2001

Evidence-Based Medicine, Ibrahim Mansoor

Neurosciences

Evidence-based medicine is one of the recently born explosively growing important issues, whose philosophical origins extend back to mid-19th century and remains a hot topic for clinicians, public health practioners, purchasers, planners, and the public. Evidence-based health care has extended the application of the prinicples of evidence-based medicine to all professions associated with health care, including purchasing and management. So it is important for the up and coming young doctors and clinicians, and even other health care professions, to gain knowledge of critical appraisal and experience in the practice of evidence-based health care. This article gives a brief description of …

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The Negative Consequences Of Regulation Fd On The Capital Markets, Andrea J. Sessa Jan 2001

The Negative Consequences Of Regulation Fd On The Capital Markets, Andrea J. Sessa

NYLS Law Review

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A Boredom Theory Of Youth Criminality, Julie-Anne Newton Jan 2001

A Boredom Theory Of Youth Criminality, Julie-Anne Newton

Theses : Honours

Boredom, although a regular occurrence among the general youth population of the modern society and a possible causal factor of truancy, drug use, suicide and crime, has been widely neglected within the fields of education, psychology, sociology, and criminology. Since it is the intention of this thesis to show that boredom is a causal factor of youth criminality which must be recognised and studied further, it is essential that boredom is thoroughly researched for both theoretical and practical reasons within the field of criminology. In a two part documentary analysis on boredom and youth criminality, this thesis demonstrates what makes …

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Sistem Pembelajaran Robotik, Che Rosli Ahmad Nasir Jan 2001

Sistem Pembelajaran Robotik, Che Rosli Ahmad Nasir

Student Works (2000-2009)

Perkembangan sains komputer dan teknologi maklumat telah merangsang ke arah pembangunan sistem pembelajaran yang bertujuan untuk mempermudahkan proses pengajaran, pembelajaran dan menguji kefahaman pelajar. Projek latihan ilmiah tahap akhir II yang dijalankan ini mengambilkira keberkesanan penyampaian sesuatu maklumat kepada pelajar. Sistem pembelajaran robotik yang dibangunkan menghuraikan domain pengetahuan asas-asas robotik yang menjadi teras dalam mempelajari bidang robotik. Pengunaan ciri-ciri multimedia sebagai alatan pembantu pembelajaran seperti pemilihan warna, gambar dan grafik yang menarik serta simulasi komputer adalah untuk menambahkan kefahaman pelajar tentang domain pengetahuan yang dipersembahkan. Sistem pembelajaran robotik yang dibangunkan ini menekankan ciri-ciri pembelajaran berasaskan kemahiran sains kognitif dimana sistem …

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What's Basic About The Basic Course? Enriching The Ethosystem As A Corrective For Consumerism, Roy Schwartzman Jan 2001

What's Basic About The Basic Course? Enriching The Ethosystem As A Corrective For Consumerism, Roy Schwartzman

Basic Communication Course Annual

A marketplace mentality featuring the student as consumer reaches deeply into educational practice today. This essay examines the roots and implications of framing public speaking education in economic terms. The amorality of the marketplace could be supplemented by closer attention to how values infuse the communication process. A value-laden communication environment, or ethosystem, may contribute to greater student awareness of their obligations to others and yield a fuller description of communication education.

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Tribute To Chief Justice Joseph R. Weisberger, John P. Bourcier, Robert G. Flanders Jr., Maureen Mckenna Goldberg, Robert B. Kent Jan 2001

Tribute To Chief Justice Joseph R. Weisberger, John P. Bourcier, Robert G. Flanders Jr., Maureen Mckenna Goldberg, Robert B. Kent

Roger Williams University Law Review

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What Factors Affect Cheating In Secondary School And Why?, Penelope Kathryn Armstead Jan 2001

What Factors Affect Cheating In Secondary School And Why?, Penelope Kathryn Armstead

School of Psychology Theses

Cheating in British secondary schools has not been previously researched. The aim of this thesis was to ascertain what factors affect cheating in secondary school and why? Initially, four questions were posed: "what is cheating?', "when is it wrong to cheat?', 'what role do parents play' and 'what are teacher perceptions of cheating compared with those of students?'. These questions were addressed by studying the perspectives of students, parents and teachers using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, involving nearly 1000 respondents in six studies. Two models were developed. The first, a four dimensional model, explained what students thought …

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Taming The Pernicious Creature That Is § 523(A) (15) Of The United States Bankruptcy Code, Jeffrey Margolin Jan 2001

Taming The Pernicious Creature That Is § 523(A) (15) Of The United States Bankruptcy Code, Jeffrey Margolin

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note examines the complexities of Section 523a(15) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, focusing on the dischargeability of debts related to divorce, particularly property settlements. It critiques the legal handling of such debts, emphasizing the need for a more equitable approach. The analysis highlights historical context, judicial interpretations, and the impact of burden of proof placement on ex-spouses, especially women, advocating for a consistent and fair application of the law to balance the interests of debtors and creditors.

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A Reexamination Of The Canon Of Objectivity In American Journalism, Les L. Lane Jan 2001

A Reexamination Of The Canon Of Objectivity In American Journalism, Les L. Lane

LSU Master's Theses

Journalistic objectivity is the definitive canon of American mainstream journalism. Yet American journalists cannot agree on what it is, how it is measured, or on how it is done. The source of the confusion is the assumption that objectivity is an ideal, absolute, impossible, incomprehensible, value-free state of being, outside of all physical, cognitive, psychological, and social contexts, where reality is perceived without distortions of any kind. This assumption is logically invalid and historically inaccurate. Journalistic objectivity evolved from the American cultural premises of egalitarianism and positive scientific empiricism through four historical stages: Nonpartisanship, Neutrality, Focus-On-Facts, and Detachment. It is …

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The Calm After The Storm: First Amendment Cases In The Supreme Court's 2000-2001 Term, Joel Gora Jan 2001

The Calm After The Storm: First Amendment Cases In The Supreme Court's 2000-2001 Term, Joel Gora

Faculty Scholarship

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Risk Management : A Cpa's Toolkit For A Changing Environment, Anthony E. Davis, Marcia Gordon, Robert H. Spencer Jan 2001

Risk Management : A Cpa's Toolkit For A Changing Environment, Anthony E. Davis, Marcia Gordon, Robert H. Spencer

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

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Finding Grandpa's Patent: Using Patent Information For Historical Or Genealogical Research, Jan Comfort Jan 2001

Finding Grandpa's Patent: Using Patent Information For Historical Or Genealogical Research, Jan Comfort

Publications

Hardly a week goes by without a phone call, an e-mail message, or a visit from a patron who is looking for a patent issued to a family member. Often, the patron does not have complete information, and sometimes has nothing more than a name and a notion that Grandpa once invented something. This article describes some strategies that can be used by Librarians to assist patrons in historical patent research. It, additionally, includes a list of sources and highlights special materials that are available at Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries.

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Invasion Of Mouse Fibroblasts And Macrophages By Human Isolates Of Agrobacterium, Karmon Leigh Kriechbaum Jan 2001

Invasion Of Mouse Fibroblasts And Macrophages By Human Isolates Of Agrobacterium, Karmon Leigh Kriechbaum

Honors Theses

In the past few decades there has been growing evidence that species of Agrobacterium can be opportunistic animal pathogens. One of these species is Agrobacterium tumefaciens, which for years has been studied as a plant pathogen. The results of one published experiment suggested that an Agrobacterium toxin could kill mice (12). Other strong evidence for Agrobacterium as an opportunistic human pathogen is the over fifty published clinical cases in which humans were infected by Agrobacterium species (3, 13-25). In almost all of these cases the patient was immunocompromised in some way and they often had an invasive procedure such as …

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Cardiovascular Genetics: Case Studies, Kenneth G. Zahka Jan 2001

Cardiovascular Genetics: Case Studies, Kenneth G. Zahka

Journal of Law and Health

What I'd like to do in the next 10 or 15 minutes is use a case approach which we all use in medicine as you use in law to give you a flavor for how we as clinicians think about things that are oftentimes obviously genetic. But I want to stress to you that probably a day does not go by or a patient does not go by where I don't think in terms of genetic issues for their cardiovascular health.

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Application Of Administrative Law To Health Care Reform: The Real Politik Of Crossing The Quality Chasm , Thomas R. Mclean Jan 2001

Application Of Administrative Law To Health Care Reform: The Real Politik Of Crossing The Quality Chasm , Thomas R. Mclean

Journal of Law and Health

Real Politik, a term in vogue at the height of the Cold War, contemplates that in practice, governmental bodies attempt to expand their spheres of influence and control by the application of economic leverage. The federal government is clearly interested in expanding its influence into health care because of its cost. Americans spend over one trillion dollars - forty-four percent of which is paid for by the federal government - on health care each year. To control the cost of health care, governmental reformers proposed the Health Securities Act of 1993 as a frontal assault on the American health care …

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Misperception And Misapplication Of The First Amendment In The American Pluralistic System: Mergers Between Catholic And Non-Catholic Healthcare Systems, Jason M. Kellhofer Jan 2001

Misperception And Misapplication Of The First Amendment In The American Pluralistic System: Mergers Between Catholic And Non-Catholic Healthcare Systems, Jason M. Kellhofer

Journal of Law and Health

This note questions the wisdom of those who content that Catholic health providers, to constitutionally qualify for government assistance or be permitted to merge with public entities, must be stripped of that which makes them most effective - their religious identity. The threat to sectarian healthcare has steadily been on the rise as can be seen in actions such as the American Public Health Association's recent approval of a policy statement recommending more government oversight to preclude the dropping of reproductive services when Catholic and Non-Catholic hospitals merge. Section II explores why these mergers occur and why certain services are …

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A Moment Of Transcendence: Encountering Each Other In And Beyond The Fiction Of Raymond Carver, Amy Lynn Leo Jan 2001

A Moment Of Transcendence: Encountering Each Other In And Beyond The Fiction Of Raymond Carver, Amy Lynn Leo

Honors Papers

This is an essay about reading Raymond Carver. It deals mostly with his work in general rather than with what individual stories mean or exemplify. My aim is to describe and understand the experience of Carver that I had upon my first reading. I will show how reading Raymond Carver can be a spiritual experience, and, in fact, was for me. The reading experience becomes spiritual when readers exchange meaning with the characters through identification and by doing so consider themselves in such a way that they fully embrace the patterns of their lives and manage to transcend them. Because …

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The Persistence Of Romanticism: Essays In Philosophy And Literature, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2001

The Persistence Of Romanticism: Essays In Philosophy And Literature, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

Has Romanticism been superseded by realism, modernism, and postmodernism, all of which are often taken to acknowledge reality more fully than Romanticism? What is it that Romantic thinkers and writers do? Why does what they do matter? Is Romanticism a think of the past? "These challenging essays defend Romanticism against its critics. They argue that Romantic thought, interpreted as the ongoing pursuit of freedom in concrete contexts, crossed by frustration and marked by desire, remains a central and exemplary form of both artistic work and philosophical understanding. Marshaling a wide range of texts from literature, philosophy, and criticism, Richard Eldridge …

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Postmodernism, The Relational Self, Constructive Therapies, And Beyond: A Conversation With Kenneth Gergen, M. F. Hoyt, Kenneth J. Gergen Jan 2001

Postmodernism, The Relational Self, Constructive Therapies, And Beyond: A Conversation With Kenneth Gergen, M. F. Hoyt, Kenneth J. Gergen

Psychology Faculty Works

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Is Competition Policy Possible In High Tech Markets: An Inquiry Into Antitrust, Intellectual Property, And Broadband Regulation As Applied To The New Economy ?, Lawrence A. Sullivan Jan 2001

Is Competition Policy Possible In High Tech Markets: An Inquiry Into Antitrust, Intellectual Property, And Broadband Regulation As Applied To The New Economy ?, Lawrence A. Sullivan

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation Assistance To Financial Intermediaries And Commercial & Industrial Enterprise In The U.S., 1932 – 1937, Joseph R. Mason Jan 2001

Reconstruction Finance Corporation Assistance To Financial Intermediaries And Commercial & Industrial Enterprise In The U.S., 1932 – 1937, Joseph R. Mason

Documents

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