9 research outputs found
On-Site Test Collection Intervention Improves Lead Screening Rates at an Urban Family Medicine Practice
Study Aims:
Examine the effect of on-site lead screening collection on resulted lead screening rates.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/patientsafetyposters/1018/thumbnail.jp
RUB: brutal schön?
RUB: brutal schön? Ein Ausstellungsbuch
Die Ruhr-UniversitĂ€t Bochum ist auch ein StĂŒck Architekturgeschichte. Darauf machen hier Bochumer Studierende der Kunstwissenschaft aufmerksam, insbesondere auf die stilgeschichtliche Frage des Brutalismus. Neu in den Blick kommen dabei beispielsweise der AuĂenraum der UniversitĂ€t, aber auch Erfahrungen von Zeitzeugen aus der GrĂŒndungszeit. Die Publikation basiert auf einer Ausstellung im Herbst 2019, die als studentisches Projekt entstand.
Hg. von Cornelia Jöchner, mit GruĂworten von Axel Schölmerich, Erdmute Lapp, Constantin Goschle
Preference for modernization is universal, but expected modernization trajectories are culturally diversified: A nineâcountry study of folk theories of societal development
Cultural sensitivity in societal development has been advocated for since at least the 1960s but has remained understudied. Our goal is to address this gap and to investigate folk theories of societal development. We aimed to identify both universal and culturally specific lay beliefs about what constitutes good societal development. We collected data from 2,684 participants from Japan, Hong Kong (China), Poland, Turkey, Brazil, France, Nigeria, the USA, and Canada. We measured preferences for 28 development aims. We used multidimensional scaling, analysis of variance, and pairwise comparisons to identify universal and countryâspecific preferences. Our results demonstrate that what people understand as modernization is fairly universal across countries, but specific pathways of development and preferences towards these pathways tend to vary between countries. We distinguished three facets of modernizationâfoundational aims (e.g., trust, economic development), welfare aims (e.g., poverty eradication, education), and inclusive aims (e.g., openness, gender equality)âand incorporated them into a folk metaâtheory of modernization. In all nine countries, the three facets of modernization were preferred more than conventional aims (e.g., military, demographic growth). We propose a method of implementing our findings into a culturally sensitive modernization index
Towards Cultural Sensitivity in Societal Development
People across cultures differ in behaviours, thoughts and preferences. Cultural sensitivity â i.e., acknowledgment of these cultural differences â in development science is a postulate known since at least the 1960s, but has remained understudied. The goal of the current paper is to address this gap and to investigate folk theories of societal development, and in particular to identify both universal and culturally specific lay beliefs on what constitutes good societal development. In this study we collected data on preferences in social developmental from 2,684 participants across nine countries from five continents. We measured preferences towards twenty-eight different development aims, and separately for preferences towards three aims constituting Human Development Index. We used a comprehensive analysis approach, consisting of multidimensional scaling, analysis of variance, and pairwise comparisons to characterize universal and country specific preference patterns. Our results demonstrate that what people understand as modernization remains substantially universal across countries, but specific pathways of development and preferences towards these pathways tend to be different between countries. We also distinguished three facets of modernization: basics for modernization (e.g., trust, safety, economic development), welfare aims (e.g., poverty eradication, education), and inclusive aims (e.g., openness, gender equality, human rights). Importantly, in all studied countries, we found that each of the three types of modernization is much more preferred than conventional aims (e.g., military, demographic, religion). Cultural sensitivity may be reflected in how development is conceptualised and measured, and in this paper we propose a method of implementing our findings into development indexe
Hospital costs in relation to body-mass index in 1.1 million women in England: a prospective cohort study
The Million Women Study is funded by Cancer Research UK (grant C570/A16491) and the Medical Research Council (grant MR/K02700X/1). SK is funded by a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Doctoral Research Fellowship (grant DRF-2014-07-029). BJC acknowledges support from the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, Oxford, UK (grant RE/13/1/30181). SAJ is funded by the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care
Behavior of ice in the brittle range - a review
Brittle fracture of ice is the central and controlling phenomena in ice mechanics. Load prediction must include ice fracture mechanics and an understanding of the non-stationary nature of the roughness of the contact surface between ice and any structure.NRC publication: Ye