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Kinds of Mission Terms modified by Mission Selected AbstractsINSTITUTIONAL ROLE AND MISSIONHIGHER EDUCATION ABSTRACTS, Issue 4 2009Article first published online: 26 FEB 2010 No abstract is available for this article. [source] FORMING CHURCH, FORMING MISSIONINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 365 2003Mark Lau Branson First page of article [source] MISSION TOWARDS RECONCILED AND INTER-CONTEXTUAL COMMUNITIESINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 363 2002Christopher Duraisingh [source] THE FUNCTION OF THE OTHER IN RECENT GERMAN MISSION CALLSINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 362 2002Arnd Bönker First page of article [source] "WHEN ALL THE SINGING HAS STOPPED" ECCLESIASTES: A MODEST MISSION IN UNPREDICTABLE TIMESINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 360 2002John Prior The ability to enjoy riches and property and to find contentment in work is a gift from God. Such a person will hardly notice the passing of time, so long as God keeps the heart occupied with joy. [source] THE RELATION BETWEEN TRINITY AND ECCLESIOLOGY AS AN ECUMENICAL CHALLENGE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF MISSIONINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 359 2001Matthias Haudel [source] IS MISSION A CONSEQUENCE OF THE CATHOLICITY OF THE CHURCH?INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 359 2001AN ORTHODOX PERSPECTIVE [source] THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, TEXT ON THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE CHURCHINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 358 2001Neville Callam First page of article [source] ECCLESIOLOGY AND MISSION: A LUTHERAN PERSPECTIVEINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 358 2001Peri Rasolondraibe First page of article [source] ISLAMIC DA ,WA AND CHRISTIAN MISSION: TOWARDS A COMPARATIVE ANALYSISINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 353 2000David A. Kerr First page of article [source] POST-MODERN MISSION: A PARADIGM SHIFT IN DAVID BOSCH'S THEOLOGY OF MISSION?INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 353 2000Kirsteen Kim First page of article [source] ARCHITECTURE, INCULTURATION AND CHRISTIAN MISSIONINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 353 2000AND THEIR MEANING FOR THE CHURCH TODAY, THE BUILDINGS OF THE CAMBRIDGE MISSION TO DELHI First page of article [source] EVANGELISATION, MISSION AND PASTORAL STRATEGIESTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 5 2008ANTHONY BARRATT First page of article [source] INCARNATIONAL THEOLOGY AND THE GOSPEL: EXPLORING THE MISSISSIPPI MODEL OF EPISCOPAL MEDICAL MISSIONS TO PANAMAANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2010Robert P. Connolly This article explores the faith-based medical missions of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi to underserved rural indigenous peoples of Panama. The Mississippi Model focuses on health care delivery and de-emphasizes conversion to a religious faith, an approach that some may classify as a faith-based community performing secular tasks. However, the Mississippi Model arises from incarnational theology, which,viewed from both historical and contemporary perspectives,argues against a secular categorizing of the mission clinics. Consistently, our interviews with missioners, participant-observations, and review of the Episcopal Church literature, both nationally and in Mississippi, suggest that mission performance is considered a practice of faith not distinct from other expressions of faith, such as liturgical worship. [source] The Conundrum of Conservation Education and the Conservation MissionCONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Issue 5 2006Ian Bride No abstract is available for this article. [source] Evaluating the Conservation Mission of Zoos, Aquariums, Botanical Gardens, and Natural History MuseumsCONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Issue 1 2004BRIAN MILLER Many of these institutions emphasize a mission of conservation, and, undeniably, they do contribute directly to conservation education and conservation science. They present an exceptional opportunity for many urban residents to see the wonders of life, and they can contribute to education and habitat preservation. Because many collection-based institutions now hold a stated mission of conservation, we suggest eight potential questions to evaluate actions toward that mission: (1) Does conservation thought define policy decisions? (2) Is there sufficient organizational funding for conservation activities? (3) Is there a functional conservation department? (4) Does the institution advocate for conservation? (5) Do conservation education programs effectively target children and adults? (6) Does the institution contribute directly to habitat protection locally and internationally? (7) Do exhibits explain and promote conservation efforts? and (8) Do internal policies and activities protect the environment? These questions are offered as a place to begin discussion. We hope they will help employees and administrators of a collection-based institution (and citizens of the surrounding community) think about and support their institution's conservation activities. Public support and praise for institutions that are striving toward solutions for conservation problems and pressure on organizations that are moving more slowly toward a conservation orientation can help shift more resources toward saving nature. Resumen:,Las instituciones basadas en colecciones (zoológicos, acuarios, museos y jardines botánicos) exhiben vida silvestre. Por lo tanto, tienen una conexión especial con la naturaleza. Muchas de estas instituciones destacan una misión de conservación y, sin duda contribuyen directamente a la educación y la ciencia de la conservación. Brindan una oportunidad excepcional para que muchos residentes urbanos vean las maravillas de la vida, y pueden contribuir a la educación y a la preservación del hábitat. Debido a que en la actualidad muchas de las instituciones basadas en colecciones tienen una misión de conservación manifiesta, sugerimos ocho preguntas potenciales para evaluar las acciones hacia el cumplimiento de esa misión: (1) ¿Las consideraciones sobre la conservación definen las decisiones sobre políticas? (2) ¿Hay suficiente financiamiento organizacional para las actividades de conservación? (3) ¿Hay un departamento de conservación que funcione? (4) ¿La institución aboga por la conservación? (5) ¿Los programas de educación en conservación se enfocan eficientemente sobre niños y adultos? (6) ¿La institución contribuye directamente a la conservación del hábitat a nivel local e internacional? (7) ¿Las exhibiciones explican y promueven los esfuerzos de conservación? y (8) ¿Las políticas y actividades internas protegen el ambiente? Estas preguntas se ofrecen como un marco para iniciar la discusión. Esperamos que ayuden a los empleados y administradores de una institución basada en colecciones (y a los ciudadanos de la comunidad en la que se encuentra) a reflexionar sobre las actividades de conservación de su institución y lograr que las apoyen. El apoyo y el reconocimiento público de aquellas instituciones que pugnan por soluciones para los problemas de conservación y la presión sobre aquellas organizaciones que se están moviendo más lentamente hacia una orientación de conservación pueden ayudar a destinar más recursos para salvaguardar la naturaleza. [source] JDDJ and the Christian Mission in the Context of Multi-Cultural and Multi-Faith Realities1DIALOG, Issue 1 2006By Winston D. Persaud First page of article [source] The implications of data selection for regional erosion and sediment yield modellingEARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS, Issue 15 2009Joris de Vente Abstract Regional environmental models often require detailed data on topography, land cover, soil, and climate. Remote sensing derived data form an increasingly important source of information for these models. Yet, it is often not easy to decide what the most feasible source of information is and how different input data affect model outcomes. This paper compares the quality and performance of remote sensing derived data for regional soil erosion and sediment yield modelling with the WATEM-SEDEM model in south-east Spain. An ASTER-derived digital elevation model (DEM) was compared with the DEM obtained from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), and land cover information from the CORINE database (CLC2000) was compared with classified ASTER satellite images. The SRTM DEM provided more accurate estimates of slope gradient and upslope drainage area than the ASTER DEM. The classified ASTER images provided a high accuracy (90%) land cover map, and due to its higher resolution, it showed a more fragmented landscape than the CORINE land cover data. Notwithstanding the differences in quality and level of detail, CORINE and ASTER land cover data in combination with the SRTM DEM or ASTER DEM allowed accurate predictions of sediment yield at the catchment scale. Although the absolute values of erosion and sediment deposition were different, the qualitative spatial pattern of the major sources and sinks of sediments was comparable, irrespective of the DEM and land cover data used. However, due to its lower accuracy, the quantitative spatial pattern of predictions with the ASTER DEM will be worse than with the SRTM DEM. Therefore, the SRTM DEM in combination with ASTER-derived land cover data presumably provide most accurate spatially distributed estimates of soil erosion and sediment yield. Nevertheless, model calibration is required for each data set and resolution and validation of the spatial pattern of predictions is urgently needed. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Quantitative analysis of InSAR digital elevation models for identification of areas with different tectonic activities in southern ItalyEARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS, Issue 1 2009Claudio Martino Abstract This work presents the results of a quantitative analysis of an interferometric SAR (InSAR) digital elevation model (DEM), obtained by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The analysis aims to identify additional parameters to recognize areas in southern Italy with different tectonic activities and behaviours. The axial zone of the Campania-Lucania Apennine and the Sila Massif in Calabria, Italy, characterized by quite different evolutionary histories, have been chosen as test areas sufficiently wide to validate observations on a sub-regional scale at least. Geomorphological information on the shape of palaeosurfaces has been used to estimate uplift and/or erosion amounts and rates. Palaeosurfaces are identified on the DEM as regions with an altitude higher than 1000 m a.s.l. and sub-planar land surfaces dipping less than 6°. Information about the shape of palaeosurfaces during the first stage of uplift and before the tectonic-induced block fragmentation has been extracted. A fragmentation index has been computed for these erosional surfaces. The first stage of this landscape evolution has been studied in terms of the geometric characteristics of fragmented blocks. The last erosional stage has been recognized in terms of both geometric characteristics and fragmentation index of the sub-horizontal land surfaces. Altitude and age of the palaeosurfaces, referred to ancient base-levels of the erosion, have been used to estimate the erosional rate. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. [source] Testing bedload transport formulae using morphologic transport estimates and field data: lower Fraser River, British ColumbiaEARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS, Issue 10 2005Yvonne Martin Abstract Morphologic transport estimates available for a 65-km stretch of Fraser River over the period 1952,1999 provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the performance of bedload transport formulae for a large river over decadal time scales. Formulae tested in this paper include the original and rational versions of the Bagnold formula, the Meyer-Peter and Muller formula and a stream power correlation. The generalized approach adopted herein does not account for spatial variability in flow, bed structure and channel morphology. However, river managers and engineers, as well as those studying rivers within the context of long-term landscape change, may find this approach satisfactory as it has minimal data requirements and provides a level of process specification that may be commensurable with longer time scales. Hydraulic geometry equations for width and depth are defined using morphologic maps based on aerial photography and bathymetric survey data. Comparison of transport predictions with bedload transport measurements completed at Mission indicates that the original Bagnold formula most closely approximates the main trends in the field data. Sensitivity analyses are conducted to evaluate the impact of inaccuracies in input variables width, depth, slope and grain size on transport predictions. The formulae differ in their sensitivity to input variables and between reaches. Average annual bedload transport predictions for the four formulae show that they vary between each other as well as from the morphologic transport estimates. The original Bagnold and Meyer-Peter and Muller formulae provide the best transport predictions, although the former underestimates while the latter overestimates transport rates. Based on our findings, an error margin of up to an order of magnitude can be expected when adopting generalized approaches for the prediction of bedload transport. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Effects of sequential depositional basins on lake response to urban and agricultural pollution: a palaeoecological analysis of the Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, CanadaFRESHWATER BIOLOGY, Issue 3 2000Aruna S. Dixit 1. Palaeolimnological analyses of fossil diatoms and pigments were conducted in four lakes of the Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada, to quantify the effect of upstream depositional basins on lake response to urban and agricultural human activities. Pasqua, Echo, Mission and Katepwa lakes exhibit similar modern limnological characteristics, lie sequentially downstream from urban point sources of growth-limiting nitrogen (N), yet drain similarly large areas of farmland (38,40 × 103 km2). 2. Analyses indicated that all lakes were naturally productive, contained eutrophic diatoms (i.e. Stephanodiscus niagarae, S. hantzchii, S. parvus and Aulacoseira granulata), and supported blooms of colonial (as myxoxanthophyll) and potentially toxic N-fixing cyanobacteria (aphanizophyll), even prior to the onset of European settlement (ca. 1890) and urban development (ca. 1930). 3. The onset of agricultural practices ca. 1890 had only modest effects on algal communities in the Qu'Appelle lakes, with subtle increases in eutrophic diatom species (Pasqua, Mission and Katepwa lakes) and 25,50% increases in pigment-inferred algal abundance (Echo, Mission and Katepwa lakes). 4. Despite naturally high production, total algal abundance (,-carotene) in upstream Pasqua Lake increased by more than 350% after intense urbanization beginning ca. 1930, while eutrophic diatoms became more common and cyanobacteria populations increased ten-fold. Principal components analysis (PCA) explained 64% of diatom variance, and identified three eras corresponding to baseline, pre-agricultural communities (1776,1890), an era of high production (ca. 1925,1960) and recent variable community composition following tertiary treatment of urban sewage (ca. 1977,1990). 5. Analyses of three downstream lakes demonstrated that urban impacts following 1930 remained evident in fossil profiles of ,-carotene and myxoxanthophyll, but that large blooms of N-fixing cyanobacteria were restricted to the past 25 years at downstream Mission and Katepwa lakes. Similarly, PCA showed that fossil diatom assemblages exhibited little directional variation until the 1970s. 6. Together, these analyses support the hypothesis that upstream lakes were effective at reducing the impacts of point-source urban nutrients on downstream lakes. In contrast, diffuse agricultural activities had only limited impacts on water quality and these were less well ameliorated by upstream basins. [source] The high-resolution gravimetric geoid of Iberia: IGG2005GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, Issue 3 2005V. Corchete SUMMARY It is well known that orthometric heights can be obtained without levelling by using ellipsoidal and geoidal heights. For engineering purposes, these orthometric heights must be determined with high accuracy. For this reason, the determination of a high-resolution geoid is necessary. In Iberia, since the publication of the most recent geoid (IBERGEO95), a new geopotential model has become available (EIGEN-CG01C, released on 2004 October 29) and a new high-resolution digital terrain model (SRTM 90M obtained from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) has been developed for the Earth. Logically, these new data represent improvements that must be included in a new geoid of Iberia. With this goal in mind, we have carried out a new gravimetric geoid determination in which these new data are included. The computation of the geoid uses the Stokes integral in convolution form, which has been shown as an efficient method to reach the proposed objective. The terrain correction has been applied to the gridded gravity anomalies to obtain the corresponding reduced anomalies. The indirect effect has also been taken into account. Thus, a new geoid is provided as grid data distributed for Iberia from 35° to 44° latitude and ,10° to 4° longitude (extending to 9°× 14°) in a 361 × 561 regular grid with a mesh size of 1.5,× 1.5, and 202 521 points in the GRS80 reference system. This calculated geoid and previous geoids that exist for this study area (IBERGEO95, EGM96, EGG97 and EIGEN-CG01C) are compared to the geoid undulations corresponding to 16 points of the European Vertical Reference Network (EUVN) on Iberia. The new geoid shows an improvement in precision and reliability, fitting the geoidal heights of these EUVN points with more accuracy than the other previous geoids. [source] Predicting and quantifying the structure of tropical dry forests in South Florida and the Neotropics using spaceborne imageryGLOBAL ECOLOGY, Issue 3 2006Thomas W. Gillespie ABSTRACT Aim, This research examines environmental theories and remote sensing methods that have been hypothesized to be associated with tropical dry forest structure. Location, Tropical dry forests of South Florida and the Neotropics. Methods, Field measurements of stand density, basal area and tree height were collected from 22 stands in South Florida and 30 stands in the Neotropics. In South Florida, field measurements were compared to climatic (temperature, precipitation, hurricane disturbance) and edaphic (rockiness, soil depth) variables, spectral indices (NDVI, IRI, MIRI) from Landsat 7 ETM+, and estimates of tree height from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and the National Elevation Dataset (NED). Environmental variables associated with tropical dry forest structure in South Florida were compared to tropical dry forest in other Neotropical sites. Results, There were significant correlations among temperature and precipitation, and stand density and tree height in South Florida. There were significant correlations between (i) stand density and mean NDVI and standard deviation of NDVI, (ii) MIRI and stand density, basal area and mean tree height, and (iii) estimates of tree height from SRTM with maximum tree height. In the Neotropics, there were no relationships between temperature or precipitation and tropical dry forest structure, however, Neotropical sites that experience hurricane disturbance had significantly shorter tree heights and higher stand densities. Main conclusions, It is possible to predict and quantify the forest structure characteristics of tropical dry forests using climatic data, Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery and SRTM data in South Florida. However, results based on climatic data are region-specific and not necessarily transferable between tropical dry forests at a continental spatial scale. Spectral indices from Landsat 7 ETM+ can be used to quantify forest structure characteristics, but SRTM data are currently not transferable to other regions. Hurricane disturbance has a significant impact on forest structure in the Neotropics. [source] AHRQ's FY 2005 Budget Request: New Mission, New VisionHEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH, Issue 3 2004Agency for Healthcare Research, Carolyn M. Clancy Director, Quality First page of article [source] Darfur and the failure of the responsibility to protectINTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, Issue 6 2007ALEX DE WAAL When official representatives of more than 170 countries adopted the principle of the ,responsibility to protect' (R2P) at the September 2005 World Summit, Darfur was quickly identified as the test case for this new doctrine. The general verdict is that the international community has failed the test due to lack of political will. This article argues that the failure is real but that it is more fundamentally located within the doctrine of R2P itself. Fulfilling the aspiration of R2P demands an international protection capability that does not exist now and cannot be realistically expected. The critical weakness in R2P is that the ,responsibility to react' has been framed as coercive protection, which attempts to be a middle way between classic peacekeeping and outright military intervention that can be undertaken without the consent of the host government. Thus far, theoretical and practical attempts to create this intermediate space for coercive protection have failed to resolve basic strategic and operational issues. In addition, the very act of raising the prospect of external military intervention for human protection purposes changes and distorts the political process and can in fact make a resolution more difficult. Following an introductory section that provides background to the war in Darfur and international engagement, this article examines the debates over the R2P that swirled around the Darfur crisis and operational concepts developed for the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) and its hybrid successor, the UN,African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), especially during the Abuja peace negotiations. Three operational concepts are examined: ceasefire, disarmament and civilian protection. Unfortunately, the international policy priority o bringing UN troops to Darfur had an adverse impact on the Darfur peace talks without grappling with the central question of what international forces would do to resolve the crisis. Advocacy for the R2P set an unrealistic ideal which became the enemy of achievable goals. [source] Cosmopolitan peacekeeping and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone: what can Africa contribute?INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, Issue 6 2007DAVID CURRAN The article is organized into two main parts. First, it presents the termination of the conflict in Sierra Leone as a case-study to examine the degree to which cosmopolitan values connecting peacekeeping and peacebuilding are (or are not) evident. The case-study looks at the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) as a model of successful peacekeeping in the sense that everyday security was provided for the people of Sierra Leone through the deployment of a robust peacekeeping mission. This assessment needs to be qualified in relation to serious deficits still to be addressed in post-conflict peacebuilding, yet the success of this mission does provide encouragement for those who see the construction of a cosmopolitan security architecture for Africa as both desirable and achievable. Second, it explores the degree to which an appropriate model of cosmopolitan peacekeeping might emerge at regional and continental levels in Africa through the development of the African Standby Force (ASF). What the case-study presented here and the survey of the African Union (AU)/ASF in the second part of the article have in common is that taken together, they provide some evidence to suggest that, however fragile, the AU is beginning to define an agenda that represents a continent wide and, in that sense at least, a cosmopolitan response to African security issues. [source] An evaluation of high resolution precipitation products at low resolutionINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY, Issue 9 2010Mathew Raymond Paul Sapiano Abstract The large-scale homogeneity of several high-resolution satellite-based estimates of precipitation is assessed against the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) between January 2003 and December 2006. The high-resolution estimates are aggregated to match the resolution of GPCP (monthly, 2.5°) and an Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOF) analysis is conducted on each product along with an analysis of the slope from a linear regression with time. The results show that some of the datasets have significant artefacts and that none of the high-resolution products give a good depiction of precipitation above 50°N. The two datasets which are most consistent with GPCP are the Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission (TRMM) Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) and the Global Satellite Mapping Project (GSMaP) both of which have undergone recent re-processing which is an important quality for dataset homogeneity. Copyright © 2009 Royal Meteorological Society [source] The impact of vertical resolution on regional model simulation of the west African summer monsoonINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY, Issue 10 2008Leonard M. Druyan Abstract The RM3 regional climate model is used to simulate the west African summer monsoon for six June,September seasons using NCEP reanalysis data for lateral boundary forcing. The study compares the performance of the previously published 16-level version with a newly tested 28-level version, both running on a horizontal grid with 0.5° spacing, in order to determine what improvements in simulations are achieved by increased vertical resolution. Comparisons between the performances include diagnostics of seasonal mean precipitation rates and circulation, vertical profiles of cumulus heating rates, frequencies of shallow and deep convection and diagnostics related to transient African easterly waves (AEWs). The characteristics of a composite AEW simulated at both vertical resolutions are presented. Results show that the most significant impact of increasing the vertical resolution is stronger circulation, stronger vertical wind shear and higher amplitude AEWs. The simulations with higher vertical resolution also achieve higher peaks of cumulus latent heating rates. Spatial,temporal correlations between simulated daily 700 mb meridional winds versus corresponding NCEP reanalysis data and simulated daily precipitation versus estimates from the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) archive were equally high at both vertical resolutions. Copyright © 2007 Royal Meteorological Society [source] Evidence of artificial cranial deformation from the later prehistory of the Acacus Mts. (southwestern Libya, Central Sahara)INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY, Issue 4 2008F. Ricci Abstract The 1999,2001 Italian,Libyan Archaeological Mission in the Acacus and Messak, southwestern Libya, resulted in the discovery of human specimens from the Wadi Tanezzuft Valley belonging to the Final Pastoral horizon (i.e. late Neolithic, about 3000 years bp). Some of these show clear traces of artificial cranial deformation. This practice, hitherto unrecorded in the central Sahara, is described and analysed in this paper. It represents an additional source of information about population movements and cultural connections in the area. It does not appear to be gender-related, and neither does it involve all individuals in the sample, suggesting some kind of social and/or cultural differentiation within the group. The pattern of cranial deformation described here is not directly related to types most commonly encountered among recent African populations and elsewhere. It may be considered a combination of antero-posterior and circumferential deformation and thus is referred to as a ,pseudo-circular type'. Archaeological and ethnographic literature related to Africa and southwestern Asia is investigated in order to identify a possible origin of such a custom and its pattern of diffusion. The evidence, according to other sources of information, contributes to interpret this area at the centre of the Sahara as a focal point of population movements and circulation of cultural traditions across North Africa in the latest phases of the Pastoral Neolithic. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Rheumatic disease in the Australian Aborigine of Cape York Peninsula: a 1965 studyINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RHEUMATIC DISEASES, Issue 3 2004William Alexander DOUGLAS Abstract Aim:, To study the prevalence of rheumatic disorders in two Aboriginal populations on the western coast of Cape York Peninsula. Methods:, Physical and radiological examination of 217 adult Aborigines at Aurukun Aboriginal Mission and 71 Aboriginal adults at Weipa Mission. The study was performed in October 1965. Results:, Mild to moderate degenerative arthritis was not uncommon in the populations examined. However, generalised or nodal osteoarthritis was not seen. One young woman had definite sero-positive rheumatoid arthritis. This woman's appearance suggested some Torres Strait Islander influence. No case of gouty arthritis or classical ankylosing spondylitis was encountered. An incidental finding of retrospective interest was that the calculated body mass index showed that the majority of adults were underweight by Caucasian standards. Conclusions:, These findings are of historic interest given the health impacts of social, cultural and environmental circumstances of Aborigines currently reported. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||