Human rights culture: solidarity, diversity and the right to be different

The concept of a human rights culture has been crucial to the incorporation of the European Convention of Human Rights into UK law. In this paper media and activist representations of human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights are considered as indicative of an emerging human rights culture, especially around the Civil Partnerships Act 2004. A typology of representations of rights is developed and discussed. It is concluded that insofar as there is an emerging human rights culture, it is one that is concerned above all with creating and maintaining civic relationships rather than with the assertion of individual liberty, and as inviting political compromise rather than a principled stance on universal human rights

Genetic and morphometric evidence for parallel evolution of the Globigerinella calida morphotype

Molecular genetic investigations of the highly abundant extant planktonic foraminifera plexus Globigerinella siphonifera/Globigerinella calida have recently shown this group to be the genetically most diverse one within planktonic foraminifera, separating it into 12 distinct genetic types belonging to three main genetic lineages. Independently, several morphological or physiological variants have been described within the group, but the correlation between the high genetic diversity and the phenotypic variability remains unclear. In this study, we combine genetic data with morphometric analyses of shell shape and porosity of genotyped individuals of the different genetic lineages. Our morphometric measurements suggest a differentiation of three morphotypes within the plexus, two of which possess the elongated chambers described as a typical trait of G. calida. These two morphotypes with elongated chambers are associated with two distinct genetic lineages. The G. calida morphology therefore appears to have evolved twice in parallel. Unexpectedly, we show that the two morphotypes with elongated chambers can be separated from each other by characters seen in the lateral view of their shells. This implies that the taxonomy of the extant members of the genus Globigerinella should be revised. A comparison with the original descriptions and type specimens of members of the genus shows that two genetic types of one major lineage correspond to G. calida. The second group with elongated chambers is associated with a recently diverged genetic type and we propose to reinstate the name Globigerinella radians for this distinct form. The remaining nine of the 12 genetic types correspond to the G. siphonifera morphology, and in the absence of evidence for morphological differentiation, they form a paraphyletic morpho-taxon. Our results highlight the prevalence of parallelism in the evolution of shell morphology in planktonic foraminifera even at the lowest level of relatedness represented by genetic types

Profile of Chebeague Island artist Shirley Burgess, who was born there in 1918.

Profile of Chebeague Island artist Shirley Burgess, who was born there in 1918. Her largest project, a queen-sized quilt with pictures of 15 different lighthouses, was designed to preserve both the art of quilting and the history and mystique of lighthouses. Full-page quilt photo, related essay on the aesthetic value of lighthouses

New directions for higher education

Publ. comme no 119, fall 2002 de la revue New directions for higher educationBibliogr. à la fin des textesIndex: p. 123-12

Health Care Service Utilization Among Anxious and Nonanxious Youth

Background: Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problem, impacting 15% to 20% of youth at any given time. Despite high prevalence, little is known about the type of health care services utilized by anxious youth, impeding public health efforts to improve access to and quality of care. To address this need, the current study will directly compare service utilization in a large sample of anxious and nonanxious youth patients enrolled within Mental Health Research Network (MHRN). Methods: Preliminary analyses were conducted using a sample of 17,929 youths (ages 4 to 17 years) from Kaiser Permanente Northwest (KPNW). Anxiety diagnoses were derived from ICD-9 codes and service use from procedure codes during 2013–2014. Analyses were completed using a match-control design, in which anxious youth were matched with their nonanxious peers using sociodemographic indices. Results: Results from the KPNW site showed that anxious youth were significantly more likely to receive care than nonanxious matched controls in pediatrics (odds ratio [OR]: 2.28; P \u3c 0.001), family medicine (OR: 1.36; P \u3c 0.001), emergency departments (OR: 2.23; P \u3c 0.001), and urgent care (OR: 1.66; P \u3c 0.001). Anxious youth also were more likely to receive services in specialty care settings such as outpatient mental health (OR: 17.34; P \u3c 0.001), inpatient mental health (OR: 16.56; P \u3c 0.001), neurology (OR: 3.71; P \u3c 0.001) and cardiology (OR: 2.85; P \u3c 0.001). Overall, anxious youths in this insured sample were high utilizers of services, including increased use of high-cost services. Conclusion: Final analyses will integrate data from an additional three MHRN sites using innovative statistical methods designed to pool and analyze de-identified services data across multiple sites. The present study will be one of the first to examine health services use for a large and diverse sample of anxious youth across several different health care settings and systems. Findings from this study will provide unique and critical information about the availability and type of care currently utilized by anxious youth. Results may be useful in guiding efforts to most efficiently intervene with this widely prevalent and highly impairing condition

Mercury bioaccumulation increases with latitude in a coastal marine fish (Atlantic silverside Menidia menidia)

Human exposure to the neurotoxic methylmercury (MeHg) occurs primarily via the consumption of marine fish, but the processes underlying large-scale spatial variations in fish MeHg concentrations [MeHg], which influence human exposure, are not sufficiently understood. We used the Atlantic silverside (Menidia menidia), an extensively studied model species and important forage fish, to examine latitudinal patterns in total Hg [Hg] and [MeHg]. Both [Hg] and [MeHg] significantly increased with latitude (0.014 and 0.048 Âľg MeHg gThe accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author