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    A Survey of School Supply Management Procedure In Certain Kansas Schools

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    This study is concerned with the selecting, purchasing, storage and distribution of instructional school supplies. This area of the administrative activity was chosen for investigation, in part, because of the writers own interest and partly on the suggestion of the Kansas Council for the Improvement of School Administration. The specific problem with which this investigation is concerned is to determine if there are some common practices of selecting , purchasing, storage and distribution of instructional school supplies in use by administrators in Kansas and to make a contribution toward the improvement of present practices of administration of school supplies

    Taxes and Civil Rights: Constitutionalizing the Internal Revenue Code

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    Caffeinated beverages and decreased seizure control

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    AbstractSeizure control is often affected by seizure threshold lowering behaviours. In this case report, the authors address excessive caffeine ingestion from tea with increased seizure frequency. When decaffeinated beverages were substituted for the tea, seizure frequency returned to baseline. Similar findings occurred when the patient was re-challenged. The authors recommend avoidance of excessive caffeine in patients with epilepsy

    Thinking, Talking and Acting about Public Health Ethics in the COVID-19 Pandemic

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    During the COVID-19 pandemic, the discipline of public ethics has struggled to find a consensus on how best to conceptualise the challenges. The transactional nature of clinical ethics is too limited to capture the range of ethically relevant concerns. Although public health ethics is broader, it fails to provide a convincing framework for the deeply political implications of the response to the pandemic. They go beyond health issues and raise questions of justice. We consider the demands of fairness for all, corrective justice for past structural wrongs, and utopian approaches that draw on our ideas about the ideal society. The lack of an agreed framework for ethical analysis is exacerbated by dwindling faith in expertise and a degradation of trust in media sources to present reliable, accurate information. These matters have undermined the quality of public reason. Although both the USA and UK had well-established anticipatory governance for pandemic influenza, it was not followed when COVID-19 took hold. The pandemic has exposed the weaknesses of our collective thinking, our readiness to discuss the issues rationally and effectively, and our ability to act effectively in the public good. Rebuilding effective public ethics in its wake will present a monumental challenge

    Trastorn per dèficit d'atenció/hiperactivitat (TDAH) en gimnastes: resultats preliminars

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    És intrínsec a l’esport assolir el rendiment sense l’ajuda de substàncies que el millorin. Tanmateix, la prohibició de medicaments específics discrimina els competidors que pateixen determinades malalties. Per evitar aquestes desigualtats, l’Agència Mundial Antidopatge (AMA) aprovà unes normes internacionals per a les autoritzacions d’ús terapèutic (AUT). El tractament d’esportistes amb trastorn per dèficit d’atenció/hiperactivitat (TDAH) suposa un repte singular. Els estimulants, considerats un tractament de primera línea en el TDAH, estan prohibits a no ser que hagin estat provats prèviament fàrmacs alternatius i hagin resultat ineficaços. La prevalença mundial del TDAH és del 5,3%, tot i amb això no hi ha estudis de prevalença d’afectació d’aquesta malaltia en esportistes. Aquest article tracta el TDAH d’un equip masculí de gimnàstica, les repercussions en futures investigacions, utilitzant el qüestionari que es proposa per mesurar la prevalença d’aquest trastorn i els efectes en la conducta dels gimnastes, i unes consideracions ètiques

    Enough intervention

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    AbstractPoetry is meant to express the emotions and thoughts often found difficult to state or even to put into prose. This clinician has dedicated his professional life to the rational treatment of epilepsy — for he understands only too well the consequences of varied interventions over a forty-year course of his own epilepsy. This poem is meant to remind other clinicians that quality of life may not always mean total seizure control

    Extremism, racism and riots:exploring the political, social and cultural determinants of poor mental health

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    The UK has seen an outbreak of riots after the death of three children in a knife attack. Misinformation about the suspect's heritage and religion was spread by social media, which was then used to incite violence and racism resulting in damage to property, terror and injuries. We put forward arguments that this was an extremist act and draw on the literature on terrorism, extremism and identity to put forward a deeper analysis of how this happened and what can be done to prevent future riots. We bring an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on research from social, cultural, psychological and political perspectives

    Hydrilla Infestations in Florida Freshwater Bodies: How Results from a Management Needs Assessment Survey Helped Develop Suitable Information Delivery Platforms

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    Hydrilla is an invasive aquatic plant that is expensive to control and exhibits increasing resistance to commonly used herbicides. Alternative control tactics for implementation in novel integrated management strategies are being investigated, but information needs to be delivered to stakeholders so new tactics can be adopted and used. Here, we report results from a low-cost, Web-based survey that assessed stakeholder access to hydrilla management information in Florida. We highlight the general benefits of needs assessment surveys for project development and exemplify how results from such surveys can be used by Extension professionals to tailor their information platforms to stakeholder-preferred outlets
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