Biological Monitoring of Cadmium Exposed Workers in a Nickel-Cadmium Battery Factory in China

Abstract: Biological Monitoring of Cadmium Exposed Workers in a Nickel-Cadmium Battery Factory in China: Guicheng ZHANG, et al. School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology-A cross-sectional study of renal damage in workers from a Chinese Ni-Cd battery factory is reported in this paper. The present exposure of surveyed workers to Cd may be likened to that of factories in developed countries prior to the 1950s. The results show urinary cadmium did not increase significantly with the years of exposure in aged workers exposed to cadmium. In these occupationally exposed workers urinary cadmium levels of 3 to 60 µg/g creatinine relate to between 15% and 20% of the workers having B 2 -MG proteinura, and blood cadmium levels less than 5 µg/l relate to more than 10% of the workers having B 2 -MG proteinura. The results suggest that a urinary cadmium concentration of 5 µg/g cr or a blood cadmium concentration of 5 µg/ l would not be a safe level. (J Occup Health 2002; 44: 15-21

Beyond the Shade of the Oak Tree: The Recent Growth of Johannine Studies

The recent growth within Johannine studies has developed as a result of several factors. First, the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls led to an appreciation of the Jewishness of John’s origin. Second, new approaches to John’s composition have emerged, followed by a larger set of inquiries as to the Johannine tradition’s relation to parallel traditions. This has been accompanied by a fourth interest: the history of the Johannine situation. Fifth, new literary studies have posed new horizons for interpretation, and sixth, theories continue to abound on the identity of the Beloved Disciple. A seventh development involves new ways of conceiving John’s theological features, leading to an eighth: reconsidering John’s historical features and re-envisioning its historical contributions in new perspective

Echoes without resonance:Critiquing certain aspects of recent scholarly trends in the study of the Jewish scriptures in the New Testament

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Theology disrupted : doing theology with children in African contexts

The thrust of this article is an attempt to respond to the question whether we can read and interpret the bible in Africa from the child theology vantage point. The author’s answer is in the affirmative in two ways: Firstly, it is that the majority of children in Africa are facing abuses of unprecedented proportions. Historically and traditionally, African scholars always read and interpreted the bible with African lenses. The African bible critic and exegete should be part of the church, the body of Christ which ought to be a lotus of healing. Theologising in the context of the crisis of the ‘child’ in Africa is fairly a new development and needs to be aggressively pursued. The second aspect of this author’s response is that when Christianity entered the Graeco-Roman as well the Jewish milieu, it used the family symbolism such as father, brothers, love, house of God, children of God, and so on. The New Testament authors therefore used family as reality and metaphor to proclaim the gospel. The African theologian, critic and exegete, is therefore in this article challenged to make a significant contribution using the African context in that, ‘… the African concept of child, family and community appears to be closer to ecclesiology than the Western concepts’.This article emanates from a consultation on ‘Child Theology’ in August 2015, co-hosted by the Centre of Contextual Ministry, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria.http://www.hts.org.zaam2017Centre for Contextual Ministr

New Century Bible Commentary : V.4 : The Gospel of John

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An investigation into the effects the COVID-19 pandemic is having on children’s early experiences in education

On the 11th of March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared a global pandemic due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, later defined as COVID-19 (WHO, 2021). The pandemic disrupted many aspects of society but greatly impacted how primary school children were educated, with many children needing to learn from home (Chattopadhyay et al., 2022). This study aimed to examine the impact on children in UK primary schools from the perspective of school staff. As previous research often focussed on children, parents, teachers and headteachers, this study aimed at gaining the opinions and viewpoints of all staff working at primary schools, including lunchtime supervisors and administrative managers. To achieve this, an electronic questionnaire was circulated through emails sent directly to schools and distributed online through closed social media groups. The data from this research comes from ninety-three participants and found that children’s personal, social, and emotional development had been most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, along with their communication and language skills. Another gap identified from previous research was whether there were any positive outcomes from the COVID-19 pandemic, as research often reported a negative impact on children. This research found positive outcomes for children, such as increased technology skills and a better understanding of good hygiene practices. Although this study adds to the literature on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted children, further studies are needed to monitor the longer-lasting impact caused by the disruption due the pandemic

The Theology of the Letter to the Hebrews : New Testament Theology

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