Redefining American Motherhood: Emily Mudd\u27s Mission at Home and Abroad

In 1929, Emily Hartshorne Mudd risked arrest by volunteering as a nurse at Philadelphia’s first birth control clinic. Visibly pregnant with her second child, Mudd relied on an antiquated law that barred the incarceration of a pregnant woman in order to serve women in need of contraceptive advice. Before this bold venture, Emily Mudd had worked for a decade as her husband’s unpaid research assistant in immunology and had personally experienced the conflicting pressures of a woman in the early twentieth century who aspired to be both a mother and a professional. Over the next seventy years, Mudd became a key player in the development of marriage counseling as a way to help women navigate their maternal and professional ambitions. Scholars have remembered Mudd for her contributions to the field of marriage counseling but have criticized her for her methods and her failures. This limited view of her career detracts from her larger professional ambitions. Mudd’s professional shortcomings, reexamined, reveal a strong-willed and pragmatic idealist working against a rapidly changing social order

Criminal Investigation and Enforcement of the Antitrust Laws in the Health Care Field

Criminal enforcement of the antitrust laws has only recently become a serious issue in health care. It is likely to remain one of the Justice Department\u27s priorities. However, providers of healthcare can avoid the risk of criminal liability

Ensuring Compliance: The Case of the Private Rented Sector

regulation, law and economics, governance, compliance, renting

Self-Directed Support: A Review of the Barriers and Facilitators

This is a report on the published literature on the barriers and facilitators of self- directed support. It was undertaken to inform a research study funded by the Scottish Government 2009-2011 that is evaluating initiatives in three local authorities. These initiatives aim to improve take up of self-directed support for people eligible for social care and other public funds. The three test site areas are working to reduce bureaucracy; to make the processes easy and 'light touch'; and to provide training and leadership to people working on these developments. Scottish Government has provided extra money to assist these three authorities and to help people in other areas learn from their experiences

Literary uses of biblical imagery in Hartmann Von Aue's Gregorius, Kafka's Die Verwandlung and Thomas Mann's Der Erwählte

This thesis presents a comparative analysis of Hartmann von Aue’s $Gregorius$, Kafka’s $Die$ $Verwandlung$ and Thomas Mann’s $Der$ $Erwählte$, focusing on their uses of biblical motifs. Connected by pervasive themes of guilt and atonement, each text also relies similarly in its expression of these ideas on the use of images which are familiar from the biblical context, and thus suggest archetypal instances of sin and redemption as points of comparison for the protagonist’s fate. In this way all three texts create a manifest sense of helpless affliction by guilt by implementing echoes of the fate of Adam, both in the relationships of their characters, and in structures of recurring loss, decline and expulsion. Each narrative, moreover, also suggests allusions to the opposing figure of Christ through concurrent echoes of the Passion in its imagery of degradation and exile, and, to varying degrees, through the introduction of complementary images of restoration and rehabilitation drawing on patterns of resurrection. The texts diverge, however, in the way in which they relate these fields of imagery, as the correlation of Fall and redemption which is symbolically affirmed in Hartmann’s narrative, and echoed in Mann’s, is disrupted by Kafka’s introduction of a tragic conclusion

Day care of children of employed mothers, 1942-1944

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universityhttps://archive.org/details/daycareofchildre00hun

Investigating Human Embryo Implantation – Developing Clinical Applications from in vitro Models

Introduction: While assisted conception success rates have increased, factors limiting IVF success include inadequacies in identifying viable embryos, and transfer of embryos into uteri with an unknown state of receptivity. Aims and experimental approaches: The aims of this project are to determine the possibility of using non-invasive techniques to reveal differences between preimplantation human embryos which successfully form a pregnancy and those that fail to implant. The experimental approaches are: 1 Sampling of conditioned media and co-culture with a 3D in vitro model of mid-secretory phase normal human endometrium, followed by transcriptomic analysis of these endometrial cells; 2 Development of a time lapse annotation system to improve selection of PN stage frozen embryos cultured to blastocyst and replaced in FET cycles. Methods: Endometrial epithelial and stromal cells in an in vitro model of mid-secretory phase human endometrium were exposed to conditioned media samples from 10 human embryos cultured singly to the blastocyst stage, with known pregnancy outcomes. These cells were subjected to RNA sequencing and transcriptomic analysis. Time lapse recordings of these embryos were taken through an experimental AI model (eM-Life). Retrospective analysis and annotation of time lapse videos of embryo development of 193 PN stage frozen embryos thawed and cultured to the blastocyst stage for replacement in an FET cycle was performed. Results: Endometrial epithelial cells showed changes in gene expression in response to media from successful embryos, while stromal cells responded to a lesser extent to media from unsuccessful embryos. The deep learning model ranked embryos on morphology but did not correlate with endometrial response in this project. From the analysis of 193 PN stage frozen embryos, statistically significant differences in several morphokinetic parameters between implanting and non-implanting embryos were found and morphological differences not previously studied in frozen thawed embryos relating to embryo viability were identified. Conclusions: Both experimental approaches revealed differences between embryos which implant successfully and those which fail, not detected by standard morphological grading. Further work is needed to identify upstream factors in conditioned media which cause gene expression changes in the in vitro endometrial model, and to test the morphokinetic model developed for frozen embryos in culture

Towards best practice during COVID-19: A responsive and relational program with remote schools to enhance the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students

Purpose: From 2018, the Schools Up North (SUN) programme worked with three remote Australian schools to enhance their capability and resilience to support the wellbeing and mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and staff. This paper explores the implementation of SUN during the first two years of COVID-19 (2020–2021). Method: Using grounded theory methods, school staff, other service providers and SUN facilitators were interviewed, with transcripts and programme documents coded and interrelationships between codes identified. An implementation model was developed. Results: The SUN approach was place-based, locally informed and relational, fostering school resilience through staff reflection on and response to emerging contextual challenges. Challenges were the: community lockdowns and school closures; (un)availability of other services; community uncertainty and anxiety; school staff capability and wellbeing; and risk of educational slippage. SUN strategies were: enhancing teachers’ capabilities and resources, facilitating public health discussions, and advocating at regional level. Outcomes were: enhanced capability of school staff; greater school-community engagement; student belonging and engagement; a voice for advocacy; and continuity of SUN's momentum. Conclusions: The resilience approach (rather than specific strategies) was critical for building schools’ capabilities for promoting students and staff wellbeing and provides an exemplar for remote schools globally