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Right To Play And Right To Health: The Role Of Sub-Saharan Sport For Development Programs In The Hiv/Aids Pandemic, Rebecca B. Dunn

VA Engage Journal

Using the foundation of a child’s right of health and right to play, programs in sub-Saharan Africa are making unique and powerful contributions to combatting and educating youth regarding HIV/AIDS. Through critical analysis of the programs’ successes and failures, I draw conclusions on the reach of sport programs in mitigating the disease and thus combatting global poverty and draw inferences regarding the direction sport for health development programs should be taking to lessen HIV/AIDS infection rates. Subsequently, I identify two areas for growth for sport for development programs: greater outreach to young women and working in partnerships with other key …

2014 Trademark Law Decisions Of The Federal Circuit, Jonathan M. Gelchinsky

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Examination Of Accelerometer Reactivity Among Children, Adolescents, And Adults: Implications For Influencing Physical Activity Estimates, Proportion Meeting Physical Activity Guidelines, And Associations With Health Outcomes, Robert Eugene Davis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The health benefits of regular Physical activity (PA) have been rigorously documented and continue to be investigated from the standpoint of prevention, as well as, treatment of a multitude of adverse health outcomes including cardiovascular disease, obesity, sleep disorders, depressive symptomatology and countless others. In order to minimize subjectivity and more accurately measure PA behavior, researchers often use accelerometers. Although this method is considered valid and reliable a methodological issue that has rarely been addressed is the potential “reactivity” effect of measuring PA with an objective measure, such as accelerometry. Reactivity is a behavior change by the participant due to …

Concerning Increasing The Amount That The General Assembly May Appropriate For The Child Nutrition School Lunch Protection Program, And, In Connection Therewith, Making An Appropriation., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Trends In Hiv Prevalence, Sexual And Health Seeking Behaviors, And Hiv-Related Discrimination Among Nigerian Youth, Population Council

HIV and AIDS

Nigeria, home to over 170 million people, has a disproportionately heavy youth population of 32 percent whose well-being is intricately tied to the country’s prospects for sustainable development. Nigeria has an HIV prevalence of 3.4 percent, the second highest number of infections in the world. In 2013, it was estimated that 160,000 adolescents in Nigeria were living with HIV. Although Nigeria has developed a national HIV strategic plan that forms a basis for the HIV response, national AIDS and related policies contain few youth-centered provisions. Overall, the national strategic plan targets youth as part of the general population. To fill …

A Secondary Analysis Of Retention Across The Pmtct Cascade In Selected Countries: Rwanda, Malawi, Kenya, And Swaziland, Godfrey Woelk, Aida Y. Berhan, Kwashie Kudiabor, Martha Mukaminega, John On'gech, Epiphanie Nyirabahizi, Caspian Chouraya, David Kimosop, Dieudonne Ndatimana, Mafayo Phiri, Heather Hoffman

HIV and AIDS

There is global consensus that transmission of HIV from mother to child can be eliminated. The Global Task Team, co-chaired by UNAIDS and the US Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, has developed a global framework with the goal of eliminating new HIV infections among children (transmission rate of less than 5 percent) by 2015. Reaching the goal depends on optimal execution of each step in a complex cascade of activities, including testing and counseling for HIV, early attendance for antenatal care to optimize antiretroviral prophylaxis for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), adherence to the drugs, CD4 count testing, and, …

Annotated Bibliography Of Nigerian Youth-Focused Hiv And Sexual And Reproductive Health Project Publications (Grey Literature), Population Council

HIV and AIDS

Adolescents and young adults (15–24 years) constitute about one-third of the total population of Nigeria, and their well-being is intricately tied to the country’s prospects for sustainable development. The HIV prevalence among 15–24-year-old men and women is 2.5 percent and 3.1 percent, respectively. In 2013, it was estimated that 160,000 adolescents (aged 10–19) in Nigeria were living with HIV. Rightfully, an increasing focus is being paid to the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of young Nigerians, however it is essential that the dialogue and interventions around young people’s SRH be informed and take into account the body of evidence available …

Burundi Program Implementation Workshop, 3–5 June 2014: Link Up Meeting Report, Population Council, Alliance Burundaise Contre Le Sida

HIV and AIDS

Link Up is a global consortium of international and local nongovernmental organizations led by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance. Link Up aimed to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people in Bangladesh, Burundi, Ethiopia, Myanmar, and Uganda who are living with HIV or are affected by the HIV pandemic. At a workshop held in Burundi, 3–5 June 2014, the Population Council, Alliance Burundaise contre le SIDA, and local partners in Burundi identified successful activities, highlighted important challenges and best practices, and found innovative ways to improve Link Up programming. This document contains a selection of the most …

Manufacturing A Run: How Major League Baseball Can Use The Morals Clause To Clean Up Baseball, 48 J. Marshall L. Rev. 539 (2015), Nathan Law

UIC Law Review

This Comment will explore the applicability of the morals clause to the PED scandals that have afflicted baseball in the twenty-first century and how it might be employed to clean up the sport. This Comment first discusses the development of the morals clause in sports and entertainment contracts. Then the Comment proposes a revision to the morals clause in MLB players’ contracts to effectively deal with the PED issue.

Transparency And Transmission: Theorizing Information's Role In Regulatory And Market Responses To Workplace Problems Essay, Charlotte S. Alexander

Connecticut Law Review

This Essay develops a comprehensive theory of the role of information in regulatory and market responses to workplace problems. Existing legal and economic scholarship has focused narrowly on transparency mandates that reveal facts about the hidden conditions of work—for example, the health risks to which workers are exposed without their knowledge, or undisclosed pay differentials between men and women. Scholars and policymakers assume that when employers are required to reveal this information, regulators, outside interest groups, and workers themselves will penalize bad actor employers via the market, regulation, or rightsenforcing litigation. However, information about the hidden conditions of work is …

Beef Is Beef? An Actor-Network Analysis Of The 2012 Lftb Food Scare, Trenton Ellis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

During March of 2012 a food scare erupted concerning the beef product lean finely-textured beef (LFTB) or, as it became pejoratively named, “pink slime.” This 2012 “pink slime” food scare resulted in major changes to the beef agrifood network including increases in U.S. ground beef imports and changes to ground beef purchasing policies in the public and private sectors. This dissertation utilized an actor-network theory-guided content analysis of videos produced by key network-buildings actors, ABC News and Beef Products Incorporated (BPI). The goal of the study was to uncover the process by which ABC News and BPI attempted to order …

The 164th Annual Report Of The Town And School Officers Of Croydon, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2014., Croydon Town Representatives

Croydon, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Prevalence Of Vitamin D Deficiency In Exclusively Breastfed Infants At The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Nusrat. A. Said

Master of Medicine in Paediatrics and Child Health

Introduction: Vitamin D deficiency in infants is a recognized cause of rickets. In the last few years, evidence has emerged of its association with lower respiratory tract infections, food allergy, type 1 diabetes, schizophrenia and various other extra skeletal health effects. Exclusively breastfed infants are especially vulnerable to vitamin D deficiency due to their dependence on previous trans-placental transfer of vitamin D from the mother, dietary vitamin D from breast milk and cutaneous synthesis of vitamin D on exposure to sunlight. The worldwide epidemic of Vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy and the low content of vitamin D in breast milk …

Existential Suffering And Cura Personalis: Dilemmas At The End-Of-Life, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

Existential, or non-somatic suffering, is often associated with the management of refractory pain at the end-stage of life. Because of misleading sympathologies, this condition is often either mis-diagnosed or even ignored. When diagnosed as a part of a futile medical condition, this Paper argues that deep, palliative, or terminal sedation be offered to the distressed, dying patient as an efficacious and ethical response to preserving a semblance of human dignity in the dying process. Not only is this option of care humane and compassionate, it is consistent with the ideal of best patient care. The notion of care should not …

Patent Harmonization In Biotechnology: Towards International Reconciliation Of The Gene Patent Debate, Molly Jamison

Chicago Journal of International Law

International patent harmonization is far from complete. In the field of biotechnology, the patchwork of standards governing patentable subject matter is a growing cause for concern. Divergent international standards harm patent holders who lack the certainty of knowing where and to what extent their patents will be valid. Divergent standards also harm patients who face restricted access or prohibitively high costs for genetic testing. While many solutions have been proposed, neither a new substantive treaty nor use of compulsory licensing are likely to provide long-term solutions. Independent licensing coordinated by the WTO or WIPO is a far better solution from …

When Baby Steps Just Won't Work: Small Farmers Are Our Best Hope Reducing Food Insecurity And We Are Not Doing Enough, Anjanette H. Raymond, Abby Stemler

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

The concept of “baby steps” is well-known among psychologists and

movie buffs alike. In the classic movie “What About Bob,” Dr. Leo Marvin

(played by Richard Dreyfuss) gives to Bob (Bill Murray), a highly dependent

and worried individual, a copy of his book Baby Steps. Dr. Marvin explains, “It

means setting small, reasonable goals for yourself. One day at a time, one tiny

step at a time—doable, accomplishable goals.” For many, the concept of “baby

steps,” methodically working on simple, constrained pieces of a problem, is a

useful approach in solving complex and difficult problems. Unfortunately, accomplishing

large goals through …

Disciplinary Mythologies: A Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis Of Performance Enhancement Technologies In Sports, John Lamothe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In sports discourse, the relationship between athletics and technology is often paradoxical. On the one hand, modern sports rely on technology at every level, from training and tracking of players to the equipment and apparel used by athletes to the game strategies and playing fields themselves. Nearly all of these technologies are intended to increase athletic performance on some level. And yet, certain performance enhancement technologies can be criticized for being antithetical to the spirit of sports, which is framed as being a strictly natural and pure human endeavor. Using a rhetorical-cultural methodological approach, popular sports discourse is analyzed to …

Parental Understanding Of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, Pauline Samia, Kirsten A. Donald, Birgit Schlegel, Jo M. Wilmshurst

Paediatrics and Child Health, East Africa

Tuberous sclerosis complex is a genetic disorder with multisystem involvement that poses significant challenges to the affected child and family. Caregiver knowledge in the South African population has not previously been reported. A prospective study of the parents of 21 children with tuberous sclerosis complex was undertaken. Median parental age was 38 (interquartile range 34.5-45) years. Parents were randomly allocated to receive written information about the condition, or to receive verbal counselling already established in clinic. A significant difference (P ¼ .001) was observed in the change in the mean knowledge scores for the parent group that received written information …

Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2014-2015, Tennessee. Department Of Human Services

Annual Reports

This annual report highlights the accomplishments of the Department of Human Services for the fiscal year.

Annual Report, Fy 2014-2015, Tennessee. Department Of Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities

Annual Reports

This document is the annual report of the Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities for the fiscal year.

Resource Map Of Expenditures For Tennessee Children, Annual Report - April 2015, Tennessee Commission On Children And Youth

Resource Mapping Reports

This report compiles the federal and state expenditures for services across all departments and agencies for Tennessee children from the previous fiscal year.

Food And Agricultural Systems For The Future: Science, Emancipation And Human Flourishing, Hugh Lacey

Philosophy Faculty Works

It has been proposed that the policies and practices of food sovereignty, unlike those of today's hegemonic food/agricultural system, provide the means for satisfying and safeguarding the right to food security for everyone everywhere. My principal objective in this article, which gains its significance in the light of an explanatory critique of the current system, is to explore how scientific research — using what kinds of methodologies, and building on experiences of what and of whom? — can constructively inform these practices and policies, and contribute towards appraising this proposal.

Pathologizing The Poor: Implications For Preparing Teachers To Work In High-Poverty Schools, Kerri Ullucci

Education Faculty Publications

The recent economic downturn highlights that poverty continues to be a significant social problem. Mindful of this demographic reality, it is imperative for teacher educators to pay close attention to the manner in which teachers are prepared to educate students from impoverished backgrounds. Given the number of frameworks that offer reductive recommendations for teaching students from impoverished backgrounds, we seek to accomplish two goals with this work: (a) to summarize mythologies about poverty that impact student–teacher relationships and (b) to offer new perspectives on educating students from impoverished backgrounds by providing anchor questions teacher educators can explore with pre-service teachers.

Undernutrition And Associated Risk Factors Among School Age Children In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Dawit Degarege, Abraham Degarege, Abebe Animut

Journal Articles: Epidemiology

BACKGROUND: Causes of child undernutrition are diverse and change in space and time. Investigating current determinants of undernutrition remains vital to design an effective intervention strategy. The study assessed prevalence of undernutrition and its associated factors among children living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

METHODS: A community based cross-sectional study was conducted in 459 school age children and their parents or caregivers living in Lideta sub-city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Participants were selected using a multi-stage simple random sampling technique. Height and weight of children was measured and their parents or care givers were interviewed for factors associated with undernutrition.

RESULTS: About …

Starvation-Induced Collective Behavior In C. Elegans, Alexander B. Artyukhin, Virginia Commonwealth University J. Yim, Mi Cheong Cheong, Leon Avery

Physiology and Biophysics Publications and Presentations

We describe a new type of collective behavior in C. elegans nematodes, aggregation of starved L1 larvae. Shortly after hatching in the absence of food, L1 larvae arrest their development and disperse in search for food. In contrast, after two or more days without food, the worms change their behavior—they start to aggregate. The aggregation requires a small amount of ethanol or acetate in the environment. In the case of ethanol, it has to be metabolized, which requires functional alcohol dehydrogenase sodh-1. The resulting acetate is used in de novo fatty acid synthesis, and some of the newly made fatty …

An Opioid-Like System Regulating Feeding Behavior In C. Elegans, Mi Cheong Cheong, Alexander B. Artyukhin, Yong-Jai You, Leon Avery

Physiology and Biophysics Publications and Presentations

Neuropeptides are essential for the regulation of appetite. Here we show that neuropeptides could regulate feeding in mutants that lack neurotransmission from the motor neurons that stimulate feeding muscles. We identified nlp-24 by an RNAi screen of 115 neuropeptide genes, testing whether they affected growth. NLP-24 peptides have a conserved YGGXX sequence, similar to mammalian opioid neuropeptides. In addition, morphine and naloxone respectively stimulated and inhibited feeding in starved worms, but not in worms lacking NPR-17, which encodes a protein with sequence similarity to opioid receptors. Opioid agonists activated heterologously expressed NPR-17, as did at least one NLP-24 peptide. Worms …

Impact Of Client-Centered Tailored Vs. Expert-Centered Tailored Nutrition Education On The Perceived Autonomy Of Food Pantry Clients, Ellen Victoria Pudney

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine perceived autonomy support of food pantry clients who were provided with tailored nutrition education in two different methods. By allowing some clients to self-select their recipes (CT) while having other clients receive recipes that were selected for them (ET), the researcher hoped to show a greater increase, pre versus post, in perceived autonomy support among the CT clients. As of late, the current literature has lacked in distinguishing the manner by which educational materials have been tailored to specific audiences. Using Self-Determination Theory (SDT) as a framework, the researcher theorized that an …

Full Issue, Number 42, Fall 2015, The Congregational And Synodical Mission Unit, The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America

Intersections

No abstract provided.

"Greed Is An Unbelieving Scoundrel": The Common Good As Commitment To Social Justice, Samuel Torvend

Intersections

No abstract provided.

Corporate Social Responsibility, Uche Ewelukwa

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.