A Better Home Project

The great possibility for making our present homes as well as our future homes better, both within and without, depends not only upon good instruction in our secondary schools and colleges, but upon actual experience under capable guidance

Choosing the Right Picture for the Right Place

Robert Louis Stevenson must have had pictures in mind for one thing. The world is full of them. Among these are the treasured books of childhood; magazine covers and illustrations; photographs, engravings and etchings. But most important of all are the pictures painted by the best artists and the fine reproductions of their work

And Now Comes the Fulfillment

The new Home Economics Hall is a reality· The hopes and plans and labors of all those who have contributed their share in this splendid undertaking, that of housing adequately the largest home economics school in the world, have now materialized

The Art of Framing and Hanging Pictures

A picture should first of all be worthy of a frame. It should express an ideal in human life, in nature, or in a man\u27s achievement

Applied Art

We hope you are planning to come. back to see how our courses in Applied Art have developed since 1901, when the first class in Interior House Design was taught. With students sufficient for one class and one room in the early history of home economics at Iowa State College, tho enrollment has increased to such a degree that we now have 10 Applied Art laboratories ho·used in the beautiful new Home Economics Building. Don\u27t you wish you were taking your art work all over again

On DIY Cloth Face Masks and Scalar Relationships in Design

In this paper, we take the case of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) face masks as an entry point to questions of scale and scalar relations in design. We provide two example scalar trajectories that illustrate how DIY face masks - as everyday design artefacts - are in continuous shaping and re-shaping through various forms of active use and design. We also point out how scalar relations manifest in knowledge sharing and circulation of know-how, as DIY masks emerge in a world facing the same COVID-19 virus but within different local realities and relationships.Peer reviewe

Dietary treatment of Crohn’s disease: perceptions of families with children treated by exclusive enteral nutrition, a questionnaire survey

Background: Diet is strongly associated with the aetiology of Crohn’s Disease (CD) and exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) is the primary induction treatment in paediatric CD. This study explored opinions around the use of EEN and alternative novel, solid food-based diets (SFDs) expressed by paediatric patients with CD, previously treated with EEN and their parents. Methods: This anonymous questionnaire surveyed families of CD patients treated with EEN over 1 year. Two questionnaire forms were completed; one asking the patients’ opinions and another referring to their main carer. This questionnaire explored participants’ demographic characteristics; acceptability of a repeat EEN course to treat a future flare (EEN repeat); their opinion on how difficult EEN would be compared to an example SFD; and their intention to participate in a future clinical trial assessing the therapeutic efficacy of an SFD in CD. Results: Forty-one families of CD patients were approached with 29 sending replies (71%). Most of our participants were positive on completing another EEN course, however the majority would choose an SFD alternative (Patients: 66, Parents:72%). Both patients and their parents rated EEN to be more difficult to adhere to compared to an example SFD (p < 0.05), and their ratings were strongly correlated (EEN:r = 0.83, SFD:r = 0.75, p < 0.001). The majority of our respondents would agree to participate in a clinical trial assessing an SFD’s effectiveness (Patients:79, Parents:72%) for the management of active CD. Conclusions: While patients with CD and their families would accept an EEN repeat, the majority would prefer an SFD alternative. CD families surveyed are supportive of the development of solid food-based dietary treatments

Photoinduced and ground state conversions in a cyclic β-thioxoketone

The photochemistry of a cyclic β-thioxoketone (2-methyl-1-(2-thioxycyclohexyl)propan-1-one (MTPO)) is investigated by NMR, UV, and IR experiments supported by DFT calculations. MTPO exists as a tautomeric mixture of an enol and a thiol form. Irradiation at low temperature led to a cis–trans isomerization of the thiol form resulting in a rather unusual enethiol (3). This is followed by a transfer of the isopropyl methine proton onto the carbonyl carbon resulting in yet another enethiol isomer (4). The photoconversion mechanisms without water present are discussed. Photochemical experiments at ambient temperature showed involvement of water in the excited state and resulted in another keto-form (5). The same species was also obtained when the products of the low temperature experiments were kept in the dark at ambient temperature