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Dietary Treatment For Epilepsy, Margaret Rebecca Sinclair
Dietary Treatment For Epilepsy, Margaret Rebecca Sinclair
Margaret R.Sinclair
Dietary treatments for epilepsy have been used since the early 1920s, however, the use of these treatments has been replaced by anticonvulsant drugs. In the past ten years there has been a reemergence of the use of dietary treatments for epilepsy. These dietary treatments are referred to as Ketogenic Diets. There are three types of ketone diets: Classic Ketogenic Diet (KD), Medium-chain-triglyceride Ketogenic Diet (MTC), and the Modified Atkins Diet (MAD). Theses dietary treatment utilize a high-fat, adequate protein and very low carbohydrates diet to control seizures. The purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive overview of dietary …
Gender Issues Find Space In Manifesto, Professor Vibhuti Patel
Gender Issues Find Space In Manifesto, Professor Vibhuti Patel
Professor Vibhuti Patel
WPC is continuously working on Women issues such as, Child Marriage, Land Rights for Women, access of the Mobile population to HIV & AIDS services’ information & support Migrants and other women. Other than this one of our long standing issues is the ever evasive 33 per cent Women’s Reservation Bill. After years of struggle women won just half the battle, when the bill was passed in Rajya Sabha. But once again the government backtracked on its promise of tabling the bill in the Lok Sabha this monsoon session. This indicates that the struggle has to be kept alive with …
Sexual Objectification Of The Female Body And Breastfeeding, Margaret Sinclair, Corina Sanchez
Sexual Objectification Of The Female Body And Breastfeeding, Margaret Sinclair, Corina Sanchez
Margaret R.Sinclair
The act of breastfeeding has been heavily contested, advocated, stigmatized, and studied; it has been treated much like a phenomenon than a natural situation. In much of the discourse about breastfeeding, the focus is on cultural paradigms regarding breastfeeding, socio-economic challenges of specific demographic groups, and medical benefits for the mother and/or child. While all of these factors are very important concerning the discourse on breastfeeding, none of these points of views deal directly with the ultimate subject of controversy...the woman. The female body is highly sexualized; resulting in women’s reluctance to breastfeed and the overall stigmatization of the practice. …
Improving Cultural Approaches To Pediatric Palliative Care In Central Massachusetts, Nancy E. Harger, Rn, Ms Lis, Usmani Naheed, Md, Jennifer Costa, Pnp, Estela Mcdonough
Improving Cultural Approaches To Pediatric Palliative Care In Central Massachusetts, Nancy E. Harger, Rn, Ms Lis, Usmani Naheed, Md, Jennifer Costa, Pnp, Estela Mcdonough
Nancy E. Harger
Objectives: To determine the impact of a web tool developed to improve health care providers' ability and comfort in caring for a diverse patient population in the hospital setting. Methods: The pediatric palliative care team including a pediatric oncologist and a nurse practitioner in association with a clinical medical librarian and a hospital-based interpreter, collaborated to create a resource using SpringShare software to create a library guide. The purpose is to provide cultural and palliative care information resources, books, and journal articles to assist health care workers at UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center in caring for children from the diverse …
What Was Under The Mcmartin Preschool? A Review And Behavioral Analysis Of The "Tunnels" Find, W. Joseph Wyatt
What Was Under The Mcmartin Preschool? A Review And Behavioral Analysis Of The "Tunnels" Find, W. Joseph Wyatt
W. Joseph Wyatt
The McMartin Preschool child abuse case began in 1983 in Manhattan Beach, California, and was one of the most visible cases in history. Although two trials were conducted and no convictions were obtained, some individuals continue to believe that dozens of children were sexually abused at the preschool. In 1990 an archeologist was hired to determine whether tunnels had existed under the school because some of the children had alleged that some of their abuse took place in tunnels under the building. The archeologist’s report was issued in 1993. It concluded that evidence of back-filled tunnels had been found. This …
Expanding Social Networks Through Ritual Deposition: A Case Study From The Lower Mississippi Valley, Megan C. Kassabaum, Erin S. Nelson
Expanding Social Networks Through Ritual Deposition: A Case Study From The Lower Mississippi Valley, Megan C. Kassabaum, Erin S. Nelson
Megan C Kassabaum
No abstract provided.
Lines Of Evidence Used To Reconstruct Patterns Of Diet, Nutrition And Disease In Ancient Populations, Margaret Rebecca Sinclair
Lines Of Evidence Used To Reconstruct Patterns Of Diet, Nutrition And Disease In Ancient Populations, Margaret Rebecca Sinclair
Margaret R.Sinclair
Researching, analyzing, and reconstructing the diet, nutrition, and diseases of ancient humans is an interdisciplinary field referred to as bioarchaeology. Bioarchaeologists use several methods to reconstruct the lives of ancient humans. Some of these methods are quantitative, such as skeletal and environmental analysis, while other methods are qualitative such as, interpreting archaeological evidence, using texts as historical reference, and comparing contemporary indigenous populations to ancient hunter-gatherers and pastoralist. Each method provides key insights into the lives of ancient people. I will discuss three of these methods, their techniques, and respective limitations. The three methods are: 1) Analyzing skeletal remains; 2) …
Youth Participation In Changing Food Systems: Toward Food Justice Youth Development, Krista Harper, Catherine Sands, Diego Angarita, Molly Totman
Youth Participation In Changing Food Systems: Toward Food Justice Youth Development, Krista Harper, Catherine Sands, Diego Angarita, Molly Totman
Krista M. Harper
We present results from a youth participatory action research (YPAR) project in which young people from Holyoke studied the school food system in order to make positive interventions in their school district. We used the Photovoice research method, placing cameras in the hands of youth so that they themselves could document and discuss their concerns and perspectives (Wang, et al., 1996). The research was designed to gain insight about the students’ knowledge of food, nutrition, and community food systems. The research also illuminated students’ impressions of public policy, active citizenship, and community building that have arisen out of food justice …
Youth Participation In Changing Food Systems: Toward Food Justice Youth Development, Krista Harper, Catherine Sands, Diego Angarita, Molly Totman
Youth Participation In Changing Food Systems: Toward Food Justice Youth Development, Krista Harper, Catherine Sands, Diego Angarita, Molly Totman
Catherine Sands
We present results from a youth participatory action research (YPAR) project in which young people from Holyoke studied the school food system in order to make positive interventions in their school district. We used the Photovoice research method, placing cameras in the hands of youth so that they themselves could document and discuss their concerns and perspectives (Wang, et al., 1996). The research was designed to gain insight about the students’ knowledge of food, nutrition, and community food systems. The research also illuminated students’ impressions of public policy, active citizenship, and community building that have arisen out of food justice …
Healing To Reverse The Apocalypse, Julianne E. Henderson Ms.
Healing To Reverse The Apocalypse, Julianne E. Henderson Ms.
julianne e. henderson ms.
When I presented the medicinal oil to people and explained what we are studying and aiming to do collectively in our class is to address how we would respond in the event of a crisis or if we were to find ourselves in an apocalyptic landscape. It is a given that maintaining a positive, optimistic outlook is likely to aid us in our long-term survival regardless of what level of adversity we face. This project attempts to combine an important skill, which is knowing how to heal oneself naturally with what Nature provides, with the power of our consciousness to …
El Surgimiento Del Paisaje Monumentalizado En La Cuenca Del Lago Titicaca, Luis A. Flores
El Surgimiento Del Paisaje Monumentalizado En La Cuenca Del Lago Titicaca, Luis A. Flores
Luis FLORES
The present paper proposes a new interpretation on the origin of the monumentalized landscape in the Titicaca lake area (South-Central Andes), whose consequences were the emergence of barrow structures at the transition from the Formative to the Archaic periods. Such process could be detected through the analysis of the last complex hunter-gatherers’ houses, where domestic and funerary practices coexisted. Both of them allowed the houses to be seen at objects and subjects at the same time within a cyclical system of existence. In that way monumentality is understood as conveying a form of thinking, whose origins are in the domestic …
Introduction: Obesity, Eating Disorders, And The Media, Karin Eli, Stanley Ulijaszek
Introduction: Obesity, Eating Disorders, And The Media, Karin Eli, Stanley Ulijaszek
Karin Eli
No abstract provided.
Judging Emotion In Reason: The Effect Of Emotion In The Anglo-American Legal System, Diana B. Kontsevaia
Judging Emotion In Reason: The Effect Of Emotion In The Anglo-American Legal System, Diana B. Kontsevaia
Diana Kontsevaia
The social construction of emotion shapes communities’ definitions of what is “appropriate” to feel in a given situation. The social construction of emotion is especially salient and imperative to understand in the context of the current Anglo-American legal system. In this system, the perceived cognitive separation between emotion and reason is accepted as commonly held understanding for evaluating people’s behavior, which prescribes a set of expectations that in certain cases comes forth in gendered terms. This study in cognitive anthropology explores how perceptions of the human cognitive mechanism affect how people are treated even in the allegedly most rational parts …
Risk Interpretation And Action (Ria): Decision Making Under Conditions Of Uncertainty, Emma H. Doyle, Shabana Kahn, Carolina Adler, Ryan Alaniz, Simone Athayde, Kuan-Hui Lin, Todd Schenk, Fabiola Sosa-Rodriguez, Victoria Sword-Daniels
Risk Interpretation And Action (Ria): Decision Making Under Conditions Of Uncertainty, Emma H. Doyle, Shabana Kahn, Carolina Adler, Ryan Alaniz, Simone Athayde, Kuan-Hui Lin, Todd Schenk, Fabiola Sosa-Rodriguez, Victoria Sword-Daniels
Ryan C. Alaniz
The paper reports on the World Social Science (WSS) Fellows seminar on Risk Interpretation and Action (RIA), undertaken in New Zealand in December, 2013. This seminar was coordinated by the WSS Fellows program of the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the RIA working group of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) program, the IRDR International Center of Excellence Taipei, the International START Secretariat and the Royal Society of New Zealand. Twenty-five early career researchers from around the world were selected to review the RIA framework (Eiser et al., 2012) under the theme of ‘decision-making under conditions of uncertainty’, and …
Nature And The City, Robert Rotenberg
Review Of Reclaiming Basque By Kathryn Woolard, Jacqueline Urla
Review Of Reclaiming Basque By Kathryn Woolard, Jacqueline Urla
Jacqueline L. Urla
Book Review of Reclaiming Basque by Kathryn Woolard. American Ethnologist February 2014.
Evaluating The Drivers And Triggers Of Ecosystem Dynamics In Pre‐Contact New England, Elizabeth Chilton, Dianna Doucette, Katie Kirakosian, Deena Duranleau, David Foster, Wyatt Oswald, Bryan Shuman
Evaluating The Drivers And Triggers Of Ecosystem Dynamics In Pre‐Contact New England, Elizabeth Chilton, Dianna Doucette, Katie Kirakosian, Deena Duranleau, David Foster, Wyatt Oswald, Bryan Shuman
Elizabeth S. Chilton
No abstract provided.
The Decline And Fall Of The Hudson’S Bay Company Village At Fort Vancouver, Douglas Wilson
The Decline And Fall Of The Hudson’S Bay Company Village At Fort Vancouver, Douglas Wilson
Douglas C. Wilson
Archaeological exploration of the remains of the Hudson’s Bay Company Fort Vancouver and its Village (also known as “Kanaka Village”), including its demise in the 1850s, provides the means to explore a difficult but important period in history that continues to shape modern relations between indigenous peoples and other Americans. Historical archaeology provides an independent measure of the Village, supplementing and enlarging its history, and shifting the focus to its inhabitants. Exploration of the human use of space, investment in houses, and ceramics use by households offer new insights into the fur trade community. These data provide us a means …
Babies Aren’T Persons:” A Survey Of Delayed Personhood., David F. Lancy
Babies Aren’T Persons:” A Survey Of Delayed Personhood., David F. Lancy
David Lancy
To better understand attachment from a cross-cultural and historical perspective, I have amassed over 200 cases from the ethnographic and archaeological records that reveal cultural models (D'Andrade and Strauss 1992) of infancy. The 200 cases represent all areas of the world, historical epochs from the Mesolithic to the present and all types of subsistence patterns (Appendix 1). The approach is inductive where cases with similar models of infancy are clustered into archetypes. My principal finding from this analysis is that, in the broadest overview, infants are, effectively, placed on probation and not immediately integrated into the society. Attachment failure is …
Ethnoarchaeology As A Strategy For Building Frames Of Reference For Research Problems, Pei-Lin Yu
Ethnoarchaeology As A Strategy For Building Frames Of Reference For Research Problems, Pei-Lin Yu
Pei-Lin Yu
Ethnoarchaeology is a powerful strategy for structuring archaeological research questions that uses ethnographic information to make inferences about the material residues of past human activities. Ethnoarchaeology is not a theoretical approach per se, so it can investigate research questions generated from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives. Ethnoarchaeological scopes and scales of research are expanding rapidly in geography, chronology, method, and theoretical stance, from variables conditioning the manufacture of traditional technology to the evolution of symbolic expression and ritual behaviors.
Ice Patch Archaeology And Paleoecology In Glacier National Park, Pei-Lin Yu
Ice Patch Archaeology And Paleoecology In Glacier National Park, Pei-Lin Yu
Pei-Lin Yu
A fragment of basket. The tip of a digging stick. The shaft of an ancient spearthrower. Very rarely do such items preserve in the archeological record, but these works of ingenuity and craftsmanship, reflective of past human presence and lifeways in sub-alpine and alpine environments, have been preserved in nearly perfect condition in ice and snow patches for hundreds—or even thousands—of years. Also locked in the ice are traces of vanished ecosystems: animal scat, bones, horns, antlers, fragments of ancient wood, even entire “frozen forests.”
Implications Of Upper Columbia River Lithic Technology For Prehistoric Fishing In The Rockies, Pei-Lin Yu, Jackie M. Cook
Implications Of Upper Columbia River Lithic Technology For Prehistoric Fishing In The Rockies, Pei-Lin Yu, Jackie M. Cook
Pei-Lin Yu
Lithic tools used for fish processing in North America range from hafted lanceolate bifaces and microlithic blades to handheld lunate tools. Despite use wear and residue analysis, archaeologists still lack diagnostic means to identify archaeological fish processing tools at larger scales, resulting in a dearth of knowledge about past fishing behavior. This paper describes and predicts variability in tool shape using ethnographic fish processing data and functional morphology of tabular quartzite tools from Kettle Falls, a major Columbia River salmon fishery. Gender-specific organization of labor during intensive fish harvest and technological behavior associated with large-scale processing practiced by aquatic-focused foragers …
Controlled Vocabulary Standards For Anthropological Datasets, Celia Emmelhainz
Controlled Vocabulary Standards For Anthropological Datasets, Celia Emmelhainz
Celia Emmelhainz
This article seeks to outline the use of controlled vocabulary standards for qualitative datasets in cultural anthropology, which are increasingly held in researcher-accessible government repositories and online digital libraries. As a humanistic science that can address almost any aspect of life with meaning to humans, cultural anthropology has proven difficult for librarians and archivists to effectively organize. Yet as anthropology moves onto the web, the challenge of organizing and curating information within the field only grows. In considering the subject classification of digital information in anthropology, I ask how we might best use controlled vocabularies for indexing digital anthropological data. …
Cultural Variation In Life Phases., David F. Lancy, M. Annette Grove
Cultural Variation In Life Phases., David F. Lancy, M. Annette Grove
David Lancy
The knowledge base in the study of human development is built primarily from work with children from the modern, global, post-industrial population. This population is unrepresentative in many respects, not least in that childhood and adolescence is dominated by the experience of formal schooling—an experience missing from the lives of most of the world’s children until very recently. This entry will examine child development from the perspective of pre-modern societies as described in the ethnographic, archaeological and historic records. Specifically, we will review material indicative of cultural or indigenous models of development, phases and phase transitions, in particular.
Review Essay: Cultural Heritage Management: Power, Values And Identity, Ana Pereira Roders
Review Essay: Cultural Heritage Management: Power, Values And Identity, Ana Pereira Roders
Morag M. Kersel
No abstract provided.
A Life With Stone: Gary Rollefson And The Archaeology Of Jordan, Morag Kersel
A Life With Stone: Gary Rollefson And The Archaeology Of Jordan, Morag Kersel
Morag M. Kersel
No abstract provided.
The Lure Of The Artefact? The Effects Of Acquiring Eastern Mediterranean Material Culture, Morag Kersel
The Lure Of The Artefact? The Effects Of Acquiring Eastern Mediterranean Material Culture, Morag Kersel
Morag M. Kersel
No abstract provided.
Pleasure Policies: Debating Development Plans In Southern California's Wine Country, Kevin Yelvington, Laurel Dillon-Sumner, Jason Simms
Pleasure Policies: Debating Development Plans In Southern California's Wine Country, Kevin Yelvington, Laurel Dillon-Sumner, Jason Simms
Jason L Simms
On 11 March 2014, the Board of Supervisors of Riverside County in southern California, USA, voted to approve the Wine Country Community Plan, culminating a nearly six-year policy and planning process that would pave the way for the expansion of the Temecula Valley’s wineries and wine tourism complex. The exercise in state-led development was a triumph for the plan’s major proponents, but this does not mean that the Plan was accepted by all elements of the community nor does it mean that the approval process was a smooth and orderly one. This article takes as its frame of reference an …
Building A Collection Of Contemporary Urban Material Culture, Robert Rotenberg, Alaka Wali
Building A Collection Of Contemporary Urban Material Culture, Robert Rotenberg, Alaka Wali
Robert Rotenberg
No abstract provided.
Material Agency In The Urban Material Culture Initiative, Robert Rotenberg
Material Agency In The Urban Material Culture Initiative, Robert Rotenberg
Robert Rotenberg
This contribution to the discussion of collecting contemporary objects reviews the implications of taking seriously how and what objects communicate, especially how we can identify the ways messages are coded in the forms of familiar objects. Of special interest are the conceptual tools that are available to differentiate these messages when objects are arranged in assemblages, including emergent implicit messages, the messages implicit in sets of objects. I advocate an approach to collecting in museums based on the tactics people use to create these assemblages at home. What theorizing about material agency offers to our collection program is a focus …