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Selected AbstractsChanging Perceptions of Non-Consensual Sex Crime: The Mediation of a Local NewspaperTHE HOWARD JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, Issue 5 2009KEITH SOOTHILL Abstract: This article aims to consider all cases of non-consensual sex crime involving a court appearance that were reported in a local newspaper, the Lancaster Guardian, over a period of 120 years (1860,1979). Searching over 6,000 editions of a local newspaper, there are huge shifts in the outcome of non-consensual cases over the 120 years. There is evidence of a lively direct interest from the local populace in some of the early cases, but it is only since the Second World War that more sustained coverage of cases are featured in the newspaper. There is a clear shift over time in the type of cases that receive more media attention. [source] Experiences of diagnosis and treatment among people with multiple sclerosisJOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE, Issue 3 2008Rhiannon G. Edwards MSc Abstract Rationale, aims and objectives, The aim of this qualitative study was to examine patients' experiences of being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), the information that they were given at this time, subsequent treatment and its impact on their lives. Method, Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 24 people with MS. The use of interviews allowed participants' experiences to be explored in depth. Participants were recruited by the MS Society through membership details and through a press release in a local newspaper. Telephone interviews lasted between 30 and 60 minutes, were tape-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed using thematic content analysis. Results, The majority of participants were female (n = 17), with ages ranging from 35 to 72 years. Disease duration ranged from 1 to 37 years. Many participants' diagnosed before and after 2000 had experienced long delays in diagnosis. At the point of diagnosis, participants had to make sense of and understand their diagnosis often with insufficient support. Some participants expressed anger about the way they had been given their diagnosis. Many felt they had not received sufficient information about their illness at this time and had responded by conducting their own searches for information to satisfy this need. Conclusion, Improving the way in which doctors communicate with patients experiencing diagnostic delay and at the point of diagnosis deserves further study, in order to avoid later adjustment problems. [source] Our "Nation of Immigrants": Conflict and Citizenship in a Refugee Relocation ProgramNORTH AMERICAN DIALOGUE (ELECTRONIC), Issue 2 2009Bridget McDonnell Focusing primarily on letters to the editor of a local newspaper, analysis emphasizes how community members debated and constructed issues of difference, race, culture, citizenship, and belonging. [source] Normal values and standard deviations for pupil diameter and interpupillary distance in subjects aged 1 month to 19 yearsOPHTHALMIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS, Issue 3 2002Colleen MacLachlan Normal values of pupil diameters and interpupillary distances (PDs) were measured in a population of 1311 subjects (in 4294 visits) ranging from 1 month of age to slightly over 19 years of age. Subjects in this study were recruited from birth announcements in a local newspaper for a developmental vision project. Pupil sizes were measured photographically when the corneas were illuminated by 15.9 ± 0.5 lux ambient illumination (i.e. under mesopic conditions). Interpupillary distance was measured with an interocular distance rule while the subject fixated an object at 0.66 m distance. These PD measurements were corrected for systematic measurement errors and to an infinite viewing distance using radii of ocular rotation based on age-dependent axial lengths. Means and S.D. were calculated for age, pupil diameter and PD for each 1-year group of male and female subjects. The second order regression equation for average pupil size as a function of age was determined: [males pupil diameter (in mm)=5.83 + 0.181*age in years , 0053*age in years2, r2=0.897; female pupil diameter=5.40 + 0.285*age in years , 0.0109*age in years2, r2=0.945]. The difference between male and female pupil sizes (mean male , female=0.13 mm) was marginally not significant (p < 0.054). The average corrected PDs as a function of age were found to approximate another second-order regression equation: (males PD=43.36 + 1.663*age in years , 0.034*age in years2, r2=0.986; females PD=41.76 + 1.891*age in years , 0.052*age in years2, r2=0.986). Male PD was wider than female PD by an average of 1.58 mm (p < 0.0003). As expected, the results of this study were similar to a preliminary investigation conducted by Thunyalukul et al. [Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci.37 (1996) S731] on a portion of the present data set, and also very similar to data from another study of comparable racial composition using a different measurement method [Pryor, Pediatrics44 (1969) 973]. It was concluded that pupil diameter and PD increase more gradually than axial length of the eye in the first few years of life. The normal values and S.D. for both pupil size and PD determined in this study have important clinical implications as well as applications in the optical industry. [source] Changing Perceptions of Non-Consensual Sex Crime: The Mediation of a Local NewspaperTHE HOWARD JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, Issue 5 2009KEITH SOOTHILL Abstract: This article aims to consider all cases of non-consensual sex crime involving a court appearance that were reported in a local newspaper, the Lancaster Guardian, over a period of 120 years (1860,1979). Searching over 6,000 editions of a local newspaper, there are huge shifts in the outcome of non-consensual cases over the 120 years. There is evidence of a lively direct interest from the local populace in some of the early cases, but it is only since the Second World War that more sustained coverage of cases are featured in the newspaper. There is a clear shift over time in the type of cases that receive more media attention. [source] The status of warning services for plant pests in Italy,EPPO BULLETIN, Issue 1 2000V. Rossi A survey of the present status of warning services for plant protection in Italy shows the lack of a national project, so that the different regional governments approach the question in different ways. In spite of this, some common characters are present: (1) most of the regions manage the warning service directly; (2) everywhere, the warning service interacts with research institutes, farmers' associations, agrometeorological networks and other warning services; (3),indirect warning' is the prevalent model of organization; geographical areas are divided into homogeneous subareas, where information useful for producing advice is collected and elaborated; warnings are then disseminated by different means of communication, and farmers comply with them autonomously; (4) warnings are usually prepared by a team of advisers, who meet periodically, analyse available information and elaborate suggestions for crop protection; (5) available information comes from field monitoring, weather stations, insect and spore traps, forecasting models for pests and diseases; unfortunately, forecasting models are not widespread; (6) the content of warnings is rather uniform, including information on crops pests and diseases, suggestions for control strategies and, frequently, meteorological conditions and forecasts; (7) different means are used to disseminate warnings to farmers; usually several methods co-exist: bulletins published in local newspapers, sent by mail or fax, displayed on notice boards or available via the Internet; placards; telephone messages; surveys on local TV or radio. [source] Freezing of lakes on the Swiss plateau in the period 1901,2006INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY, Issue 4 2008H. J. Hendricks Franssen Abstract Data of ice cover for deep Alpine lakes contain relevant climatological information since ice cover and winter temperature are closely related. For the first time, ice cover data from 11 lakes on the Swiss plateau have been collected and analysed for the period 1901,2006. The ice cover data used stem from systematic registration by individuals or groups (fishermen, an ice club and lake security service) and from several national, regional and local newspapers. It is found that in the past 40 years, and especially during the last two decades, ice cover on Swiss lakes was significantly reduced. This is in good agreement with the observed increase in the winter temperature in this period. The trend of reduced ice cover is more pronounced for lakes that freeze rarely than for the lakes that freeze more frequently. This agrees well with the stronger relative decrease in the probability to exceed the sum of negative degree days (NDD) needed for freezing the lakes that rarely freeze. The ice cover data are related with the temperature measurements such as the sum of NDD of nearby official meteorological stations by means of binomial logistic regression. The derived relationships estimate the probability of a complete ice cover on a lake as function of the sum of NDD. The sums of NDD needed are well related to the average depth of the lake (rNDD,Depth = 0.85). Diagnosing lake ice cover on the basis of the sum of NDD is much better than a prediction on the basis of a climatological freezing frequency. The variance of lake ice cover that cannot be explained by the sum of NDD is important for judging the uncertainty associated with climate reconstruction on the basis of data on lake ice cover. Copyright © 2007 Royal Meteorological Society [source] The Relationship Between Lower Body Strength and Obstructed Gait in Community-Dwelling Older AdultsJOURNAL OF AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY, Issue 3 2002Ecosse L. Lamoureux PhD OBJECTIVES: To determine the relationship between lower body strength of community-dwelling older adults and the time to negotiate obstructed gait tasks. DESIGN: A correlational study. SETTING: The Biomechanics Laboratory, Deakin University, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: Twenty-nine women and 16 men aged 62 to 88 were recruited using advertisements placed in local newspapers. The participants were independent community dwellers, healthy and functionally mobile. MEASUREMENTS: Maximal isometric strength of the knee extensors and dynamic strength of the hip extensors, hip flexors, hip adductors, hip abductors, knee extensors, knee flexors, and ankle plantar flexors were assessed. The times to negotiate four obstructed gait tasks at three progressively challenging levels on an obstacle course and to complete the course were recorded. The relationship between strength and the crossing times was explored using linear regression models. RESULTS: Significant associations between the seven strength measures and the times to negotiate each gait task and to walk the entire course at each level were obtained (r = ,0.38 to ,0.55; P < .05). In addition, the percentage of the variance explained by strength (R2), consistently increased as a function of the progressively challenging level. This increase was particularly marked for the stepping over task (R2 = 19.3%, 25.0%, and 27.2%, for levels 1, 2, and 3, respectively) and the raised surface condition (R2 = 17.1%, 21.1%, and 30.8%, for levels 1, 2, and 3, respectively). CONCLUSION: The findings of the study showed that strength is a critical requirement for obstructed locomotion. That the magnitude of the association increased as a function of the challenging levels suggests that intervention programs aimed at improving strength would potentially be effective in helping community-dwelling older adults negotiate environmental gait challenges. J Am Geriatr Soc 50:468,473, 2002. [source] Expectations and motivations of Hondurans migrating to the United StatesJOURNAL OF COMMUNITY & APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2007Jana Sladkova Abstract This study explores the expectations and decision-making processes of potential migrants at a community in Honduras. Hondurans have become one of the fastest growing populations in New York. Yet, although approximately 80,000 Hondurans try to reach the US annually, only 25 per cent succeed. To reach the United States they must undergo a dangerous journey across Guatemala and Mexico, a process to date under-researched by social sciences. As new undocumented migrant streams continue to expand within the global economies, scholars and practitioners who work on their behalf should understand the pre-migration values and expectations because they shape the way migrants adjust to and develop new cultural patterns in the receiving countries. Drawing on immigration and narrative theory, I hypothesize that narratives of migration from media, prior migrants, coyotes and community practices play an important role in the construction of potential migrant expectations. To represent narratives across several individual and community domains, the research design includes individual interviews, analysis of local newspapers, participant observations and teaching English classes. Analysis across these data reveals complex dilemmas potential migrants face as they weigh the costs and benefits of migration. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Press responses to the presence of free-living Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) in southern EnglandMAMMAL REVIEW, Issue 4 2002M. J. Goulding ABSTRACT Wildlife management and conservation programmes are likely to attract media attention, especially when the programmes in question involve large mammals. The present study surveyed the response of the press (national and local newspapers, and magazines) to the existence of two populations of free-living Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) that established in southern England in the early 1990s, following the escape of animals from captivity. One-hundred and seven target articles from 46 different titles were searched for references to 18 separate issues related to topics such as agricultural damage, risk to humans and ecological impact. The presence of free-living Wild Boar in the English countryside attracted predominantly negative press coverage: the issues most frequently raised by newspaper and magazine articles were that the animals constitute a danger to the public, damage agricultural crops, predate livestock and transmit disease. A minority of articles argued that the animals should be conserved, mainly on the grounds that they could be hunted for meat. There was relatively little coverage of environmental issues, and what there was tended to focus on detrimental effects of Wild Boar on native flora and fauna. We conclude that management and conservation programmes involving large, allegedly dangerous mammals are likely to encounter an adverse press reaction. This is something that the organizers of such programmes may need to take into account when predicting public attitudes. [source] The "I" in the gene: Divided property, fragmented personhood, and the making of a genetic privacy lawAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2007MARGARET EVERETT In this article, I explore the making and remaking of Oregon's Genetic Privacy Act, one of the first genetic privacy laws passed in the United States. New genetic technologies have provoked debates about medical privacy and property rights to the body and products derived from the body, and a majority of states have passed legislation regarding the use and disclosure of genetic information. Research in medical anthropology has increasingly focused on the politicized and fragmented body in modern science. As genetic privacy debates demonstrate, however, not only is the body increasingly subject to fragmentation but the property and privacy interests in bodies, body parts, and products derived from bodies are also increasingly subject to division. This article is based on my role as a member of two statewide advisory commissions from 1999 to 2005, the recordings and minutes of their meetings, legislation, testimony from legislative hearings, media coverage of the debate in Oregon, and letters to the editors of local newspapers. [source] | ||||||||||||||||