Shakespeare in Hawai‘i: Puritans, Missionaries, and Language Trouble in James Grant Benton’s Twelf Nite O Wateva!, a Hawaiian Pidgin Translation of Twelfth Night

In 1974, the Honolulu-based director James Grant Benton wrote and staged Twelf Nite O Wateva!, a Hawaiian pidgin translation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In Benton’s translation, Malolio (Malvolio) strives to overcome his reliance on pidgin English in his efforts to ascend the Islands’ class hierarchy. In doing so, Malolio alters his native pidgin in order to sound more haole (white). Using historical models of Protestant identity and Shakespeare’s original text, Benton explores the relationship between pidgin language and social privilege in contemporary Hawai‘i. In the first part of this essay, I argue that Benton characterizes Malolio’s social aspirations against two historical moments of religious conflict and struggle: post-Reformation England and post-contact Hawai‘i. In particular, I show that Benton aligns historical caricatures of early modern puritans with cultural views of Protestant missionaries from New England who arrived in Hawai‘i beginning in the 1820s. In the essay’s second part, I demonstrate that Benton crafts Malolio’s pretentious pidgin by modeling it on Shakespeare’s own language. During his most ostentatious outbursts, Malolio’s lines consist of phrases extracted nearly verbatim from Shakespeare’s original play. In Twelf Nite, Shakespeare’s language becomes a model for speech that is inauthentic, affected, and above all, haole

Consumer Response to Outsourced 1-800 calls: It’s the Solution Not the Country

The growth of call center outsourcing and its emergence as a political and economic issue may have obscured some very important business and consumer issues. It is believed by many that consumers cannot be satisfied when calls are outsourced (offshored to India for example). The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between where a call is answered and what happened on that call. In this study call outsourcing is placed within the well understood area of country-oforigin effects. Two experiments were completed in which outsourced country was manipulated with call outcome (resolution or no resolution). The findings showed that with no other information presented consumers do have a negative bias (lower expectations of satisfaction) against calls answered offshore. Yet when offshore outsourcing is presented in the context of what we know is important to callers to call centers (speed of answer and resolution) there is no effect of offshore calls

Conocimiento en el uso correcto de equipos de protección personal para la prevención de contaminación biológica entre internos y estudiantes de medicina

OBJETIVOS: Determinar si en internos de medicina el conocimiento adecuado en el uso correcto de equipos de protección personal para la prevención de contaminación biológica es mayor que en estudiantes de medicina de los hospitales nivel III de la ciudad de Trujillo. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: Se realizó un estudio observacional, analítico de corte transversal, evaluándose a un total de 306 participantes, distribuidos en 196 estudiantes de medicina y 110 Internos de medicina entre los meses de abril y junio del 2019. RESULTADOS: La prevalencia de conocimiento adecuado en el uso correcto de EPP, en los participantes fue del 58,50%. El análisis bivariado de las características generales del estudio mostró que las variables con mayor significancia (p < 0,05) fueron el tipo de estudiante donde la proporción de internos de medicina fueron 77 (43,01%) vs 33 (25,98%); IC 95% 2,15 [1,35-3,53] (p = 0,002) y la formación teórica 150 (83,80%) vs 92 (72,44%); IC 95% 1,97 [1,13-3,43] (p = 0,016); el resto de variables no resultaron estar asociadas al conocimiento adecuado en el uso correcto de equipos de protección personal CONCLUSIONES: La condición de ser interno de medicina y haber tenido formación teórica estuvieron significativamente asociados con el conocimiento adecuado en el uso correcto de equipos de protección personal y formaron parte del modelo de predicción.OBJECTIVES: To determine of internal medicine the adequate knowledge on the correct use of personal protective equipment for the prevention of biological pollution is greater than in the medical students of level III of the city of Trujillo MATERIAL AND METHODS: An observational, analytical, cross-sectional study, evaluating a total of 306 students, distributed among 196 students and 110 interns medicine during the months of April and June of 2019. RESULTS: The prevalence of adequate knowledge in the correct use of PPE in the participants was 58.50%. The bivariate analysis of the general characteristics of the study showed that the variables with the greatest significance (p <0.05) were the type of student where the proportion of the inmates of the medicine were 77 (43.01%) vs 33 (25, 98%); 95% CI 2.15 [1.35-3.53] (p = 0.002) and theoretical training 150 (83.80%) vs 92 (72.44%); 95% CI 1.97 [1.13-3.43] (p = 0.016); the rest of the variables were not associated with adequate knowledge in the correct use of personal protective equipment. CONCLUSIONS: The condition of being an internal medicine and having had theoretical training were significantly associated with adequate knowledge in the correct use of personal protective equipment and were part of the prediction model.Tesi

Community-based screening for infantile anemia in an Okinawan village, Japan

Infancy is a vulnerable age group for anemia throughout the world. However, community-based screening for infantile anemia is seldom reported. This study determined the prevalence of anemia among infants in an Okinawan village from 2003 to 2008, in relation to secondary prevention of the condition. The prevalence among infants aged 3–5, 6–12 and 16–23 months was 12.3%, 15.8%, and 4.2%, respectively, based on cross-sectional surveys (n = 3070 ), and was 11.0%, 17.2%, and 3.9% according to another retrospective cohort study (n = 511 ). The relatively low prevalence of anemia at early childhood suggested that previous detection and treatment through early and late infantile screening had been successful