Echoes of SoHo

Formed by the London Community Foundation (LCF), the Vision SoHo Alliance is a partnership between six non-profit housing developers, which includes Chelsea Green Home Society, Homes Unlimited, Indwell, Residenza Affordable Housing, London Affordable Housing Foundation, and Zerin Development Corporation. Vision SoHo Alliance will create 650-unit apartments, of which 30-60% will be affordable units, in seven buildings on the former South Street Victoria Hospital property. Most buildings will be located on the block bounded by Waterloo, South, Colborne, and Hill streets. Another building will be constructed at the northeast corner of South and Colborne. Indwell purchased the former Faculty of Medicine building and War Memorial Children’s Hospital to be redeveloped as housing and designated as heritage buildings under the Ontario Heritage Act. The Vision SoHo Alliance tasked Western’s MA Public History Program with researching and compiling stories of St. David’s Ward, now known as the South of Horton, or SoHo neighbourhood (bounded by the Canadian National Railway and Adelaide Street with the Thames River acting as a natural south-west barrier), the former Western Faculty of Medicine building (1921), and the War Memorial Children’s Hospital (1922). This research included orally interviewing Londoners who had or have ties to the SoHo area. This is in effort to preserve the history of one of the oldest and most culturally diverse area in London, and which changed demographically following the medical school moving to Western’s main campus in 1965, the closing of War Memorial in 1985, and of Victoria Hospital in 2013. Western’s MA Public History Program plans to use the compiled research and recordings to curate a digitally interactive outdoor exhibit installed in the green spaces of the Alliance’s property, which will highlight the significance of the neighbourhood and the area’s medical history. The goals of this report are to: • Document the history of the SoHo area, including Indigenous presence, immigration, and neighbourhood culture; • Create a thematic historical overview of the neighbourhood, the medical school, and War Memorial Children’s Hospital; • Compile associated stories, memories, and photographs provided by the public

The Relationship of Teachers\u27 Perceptions of Collective Efficacy and Perceptions of Professional Learning Communities

The dissertation was designed to describe the relationship of collective teacher efficacy to the phases of professional learning communities (PLC) in a rural school district in the southern piedmont region of North Carolina. Limited research exists in the area of collective teacher efficacy and its relationship to professional learning communities, especially related to the phases of development conceptualized by Huffman and Hipp (2003) in their Professional Learning Community Organizer (PLCO). The researcher gathered baseline data regarding the teachers\u27 perceptions of their schools functioning as professional learning communities from the North Carolina Teacher\u27s Working Conditions Survey given in the spring of 2010. The Professional Learning Community Assessment (PLCA) and Collective Teacher Efficacy Instrument (CTE) were administered in the fall to 26 schools within the district. Using this information, the researcher conducted statistical analyses to determine the relationships between professional learning communities and collective teacher efficacy and the relationships between the specific phases of development (initiation, implementation, and institutionalization) of a PLC and collective teacher efficacy. Educators are seeking to improve student learning by means of internal reform, namely a professional learning community. According to the results of this study, the five dimensions of the PLC have been shown to have some positive, significant relationships with CTE especially at the elementary level. The educators within this district should seek to continue developing their PLCs at every level to build collective teacher efficacy and to sustain a culture conducive to continued reform

Prevalence of liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica) in wild Red Deer (Cervus elaphus): coproantigen ELISA is a practicable alternative to faecal egg counting for surveillance in remote populations

Red deer (Cervus elaphus) are hosts of liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica); yet, prevalence is rarely quantified in wild populations. Testing fresh samples from remote regions by faecal examination (FE) can be logistically challenging; hence, we appraise frozen storage and the use of a coproantigen ELISA (cELISA) for F. hepatica surveillance. We also present cELISA surveillance data for red deer from the Highlands of Scotland. Diagnoses in faecal samples (207 frozen, 146 fresh) were compared using a cELISA and by FE. For each storage method (frozen or fresh), agreement between the two diagnostics was estimated at individual and population levels, where population prevalence was stratified into cohorts (e.g., by sampling location). To approximate sensitivity and specificity, 65 post-slaughter whole liver examinations were used as a reference. At the individual level, FE and cELISA diagnoses agreed moderately (κfrozen = 0.46; κfresh = 0.51), a likely reflection of their underlying principles. At the population level, FE and cELISA cohort prevalence correlated strongly (Pearson’s R = 0.89, p < 0.0001), reflecting good agreement on relative differences between cohort prevalence. In frozen samples, prevalence by cELISA exceeded FE overall (42.8% vs. 25.8%) and in 9/12 cohorts, alluding to differences in sensitivity; though, in fresh samples, no significant difference was found. In 959 deer tested by cELISA across the Scottish Highlands, infection prevalence ranged from 9.6% to 53% by sampling location. We highlight two key advantages of cELISA over FE: i) the ability to store samples long term (frozen) without apparent loss in diagnostic power; and ii) reduced labour and the ability to process large batches. Further evaluation of cELISA sensitivity in red deer, where a range of fluke burdens can be obtained, is desirable. In the interim, the cELISA is a practicable diagnostic for F. hepatica surveillance in red deer, and its application here has revealed considerable geographic, temporal, sex and age related differences in F. hepatica prevalence in wild Scottish Highland red deer

Prospectives

Tiré de: Prospectives, vol. 19, no 1/2/3, février/avril/oct. 1983.Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 24 janv. 2013

City Habitats: thriving people, thriving nature and solving stormwater collaboratively as a region

The City Habitats Network connects over 100 partner organizations and entities involved in the work or urban ecosystem restoration with a particular interest in green infrastructure and stormwater. By focusing on coordination of partners, collaborative approaches, and meeting communities where they are, City Habitats is accelerating and amplifying efforts from across the Salish Sea and turning the tide on polluted stormwater. This presentation will highlight the overall strategies of City Habitats and examples of our collective impacts across regional and economic sector lines. As a coalition of partners involved in urban restoration, City Habitats is intentionally centering racial and social equity in the positive impact work that this network does

Development of a conceptual framework to underpin a health‑related quality of life outcome measure in paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy (CFS/ME):prioritisation through card ranking

PURPOSE: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/myalgic encephalopathy (ME) is relatively common in children and is disabling at an important time in their development. This study aimed to develop a conceptual framework of paediatric CFS/ME using the patient-perspective to ensure that the content of a new outcome measure includes the outcomes most important to young people. METHODS: We developed a child-centred interactive card ranking exercise that included health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes identified from a previous review of the literature as well as qualitative work. Adolescents and their parents selected and ranked the outcomes most important to them and discussed each outcome in further detail. Adolescents were purposively sampled from a single specialist paediatric CFS/ME service in England. Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim, and thematic framework analysis was used to develop the final conceptual framework. RESULTS: We interviewed 43 participants in which there are 21 adolescents, 12-17 years of age with mild-moderate CFS/ME and their parents (20 mothers and 2 fathers). 'Symptoms', 'tiredness', 'payback and crashing' and 'activities and hobbies' were ranked most important to improve by both children and parents. Children ranked 'school' higher than parents and parents ranked 'mood' higher than children. A youth- specific CFS/ME conceptual framework of HRQoL was produced that included 4 outcome domains and 11 subdomains: sleep, tiredness, problems concentrating, individual symptoms, fluctuation and payback, daily and general activities, participation in school, leisure and social life, mood, anxiety and self-esteem. CONCLUSIONS: An interactive card ranking exercise worked well for adolescents aged 12-17 to elicit the most important outcomes to them and explore each domain in further detail. We developed a final conceptual framework of HRQoL that forms the basis of a new paediatric patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) in CFS/ME. KEYWORDS: Adolescents; Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy (CFS/ME); Conceptual framework; Health-related quality of life (HRQoL); Patient-reported outcome measure (PROM); Qualitativ

Weight loss interventions as an option for a lifestyle treatment in urinary incontinence

Urinary incontinence (UI) (involuntary or abnormal urine loss) is a common condition affecting an estimated 423 million individuals around the world (Irwin et al. 2011). Its prevalence varies, ranging from between 5-15.2% in Asian, 1.8-30.5% in European and 1.7-36.4% in US populations (Milsom et al. 2014). This condition can have a significant clinical (Yang et al. 2018), psychological (Farage et al. 2008; Sims et al. 2011), and financial impact (Thom et al. 2010) on an individual’s life. The risk of developing UI is associated with several non-modifiable modifiable risk factors of age (Milsom and Gyhagen 2019), gender (Nitti 2001) and family history (von Gontard et al. 2011) and modifiable risk factors of weight (Aune et al. 2019), smoking (Kawahara et al. 2020), diet (Maserejian et al. 2010) and caffeine intake (Gleason et al. 2013). Despite the association with such modifiable risk factors, there is limited evidence supporting interventions which aim to affect their influence (Imamura et al. 2015). This Cochrane systematic review aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a range of lifestyle focused interventions which are commonly used in the management of UI. Aims of commentary: This commentary critically appraises the methods used in the Cochrane systematic review and consider its importance of the findings for clinical practice

Genetic influences on cost-efficient organization of human cortical functional networks

The human cerebral cortex is a complex network of functionally specialized regions interconnected by axonal fibers, but the organizational principles underlying cortical connectivity remain unknown. Here, we report evidence that one such principle for functional cortical networks involves finding a balance between maximizing communication efficiency and minimizing connection cost, referred to as optimization of network cost-efficiency. We measured spontaneous fluctuations of the blood oxygenation level-dependent signal using functional magnetic resonance imaging in healthy monozygotic (16 pairs) and dizygotic (13 pairs) twins and characterized cost-efficient properties of brain network functional connectivity between 1041 distinct cortical regions. At the global network level, 60% of the interindividual variance in cost-efficiency of cortical functional networks was attributable to additive genetic effects. Regionally, significant genetic effects were observed throughout the cortex in a largely bilateral pattern, including bilateral posterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortices, dorsolateral prefrontal and superior parietal cortices, and lateral temporal and inferomedial occipital regions. Genetic effects were stronger for cost-efficiency than for other metrics considered, and were more clearly significant in functional networks operating in the 0.09–0.18 Hz frequency interval than at higher or lower frequencies. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that brain networks evolved to satisfy competitive selection criteria of maximizing efficiency and minimizing cost, and that optimization of network cost-efficiency represents an important principle for the brain's functional organization