142 research outputs found
The Iowa Homemaker vol.1, no.7
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The Yea and Nay of Newspaper Work for Women by Helen Easter, page 1
Facts About the Feeding of Young Children by Belle Lowe, page 2
An Inventory of Skill for the Honest Homewife by Elizabeth Storm, page 3
Who Waits on Your Table? by Beth Bailey, page 4
My First Flight in the Pursuit of Beauty by Eda Lord Murphy, page 4
A New Cure for the âRun-Downâ Housewife by Carrie Plunkett, page 5
A Pattern in Hot Lunch Service for Rural Schools by Grace McIlrath, page 6
The Reason for the Addled Egg by C. H. Plunkett, page 7
Short Cuts in Sewing by Helen Easter, page 1
The Iowa Homemaker vol.3, no.9
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Books â Why Not? by Charles H. Brown, page 3
A Visit to the Bazaars of Stamboul by Eda Lord Murphy, page 4
Glimpses in a Christmas Shop by Helen Brennan, page 4
That Roast Fowl by Viola M. Bell, page 5
Echoes from State Home Economics Convention by Katherine Goeppinger, page 6
Toys That Interest by Bertha Mann, page 7
Christmas Festivities in Foreign Lands by Barbara Dewell, page 8
Christmas Dinner for Two â by Louise Doole, page 9
Italian Hemstitching by Lora Ann Stanke, page 10
Eda Lord Murphy Writes from Constantinople by Eda Lord Murphy, page 10
Who is Responsible for the Child? by Minne Elisabeth Allen, page 11
Holiday Sweets by Alma Riemenschneider, page 12
The Perfect Guest by Lucile Barta, page 12
The Evolution of Home Economics at Iowa State by Ruth Elaine Wilson, page 13
Baskets Which Will Lead Long Useful Lives by Viola Jammer, page 14
Whoâs There and Where by Helen I. Putnam, page 1
Object Relations in the Museum: A Psychosocial Perspective
This article theorises museum engagement from a psychosocial perspective. With the aid of selected concepts from object relations theory, it explains how the museum visitor can establish a personal relation to museum objects, making use of them as an âaesthetic thirdâ to symbolise experience. Since such objects are at the same time cultural resources, interacting with them helps the individual to feel part of a shared culture. The article elaborates an example drawn from a research project that aimed to make museum collections available to people with physical and mental health problems. It draws on the work of the British psychoanalysts Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion to explain the salience of the concepts of object use, potential space, containment and reverie within a museum context. It also refers to the work of the contemporary psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas on how objects can become evocative for individuals both by virtue of their intrinsic qualities and by the way they are used to express personal idiom
Apparently synonymous substitutions in FGFR2 affect splicing and result in mild Crouzon syndrome
Background: Mutations of fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2) account for a higher proportion of genetic cases of craniosynostosis than any other gene, and are associated with a wide spectrum of severity of clinical problems. Many of these mutations are highly recurrent and their associated features well documented. Crouzon syndrome is typically caused by heterozygous missense mutations in the third immunoglobulin domain of FGFR2.Case presentation: Here we describe two families, each segregating a different, previously unreported FGFR2 mutation of the same nucleotide, c.1083A>G and c.1083A>T, both of which encode an apparently synonymous change at the Pro361 codon. We provide experimental evidence that these mutations affect normal FGFR2 splicing and document the clinical consequences, which include a mild Crouzon syndrome phenotype and reduced penetrance of craniosynostosis.Conclusions: These observations add to a growing list of FGFR2 mutations that affect splicing and provide important clinical information for genetic counselling of families affected by these specific mutations
Defining language impairments in a subgroup of children with autism spectrum disorder
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is diagnosed on the basis of core impairments in pragmatic language skills, which are found across all ages and subtypes. In contrast, there is significant heterogeneity in language phenotypes, ranging from nonverbal to superior linguistic abilities, as defined on standardized tests of vocabulary and grammatical knowledge. The majority of children are verbal but impaired in language, relative to age-matched peers. One hypothesis is that this subgroup has ASD and co-morbid specific language impairment (SLI). An experiment was conducted comparing children with ASD to children with SLI and typically developing controls on aspects of language processing that have been shown to be impaired in children with SLI: repetition of nonsense words. Patterns of performance among the children with ASD and language impairment were similar to those with SLI, and contrasted with the children with ASD and no language impairment and typical controls, providing further evidence for the hypothesis that a subgroup of children with ASD has co-morbid SLI. The findings are discussed in the context of brain imaging studies that have explored the neural bases of language impairment in ASD and SLI, and overlap in the genes associated with elevated risk for these disorders.M01 RR00533 - NCRR NIH HHS; R01 DC10290 - NIDCD NIH HHS; U19 DC03610 - NIDCD NIH HH
Trust, Nostalgia and Narrative Accounts of Blood Banking in England in the 21st Century
Historically, cultural accounts and descriptions of blood banking in Britain have
been associated with notions of altruism, national solidarity and imagined
community. While these ideals have continued to be influential, the business of
procuring and supplying blood has become increasingly complex. Drawing on
interview data with donors in one blood centre in England, this article reports
that these donors tend not to acknowledge the complex dynamics of production and
exchange in modern blood systems. This, it is argued, is congruent with
nostalgic narratives in both popular and official accounts of blood services,
which tend to bracket these important changes. A shift to a more open
institutional narrative about modern blood services is advocated, as blood
services face current and future challenges
Vitamin D in the general population of young adults with autism in the Faroe Islands
Vitamin D deficiency has been proposed as a possible risk factor for developing autism spectrum disorder (ASD). 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D3) levels were examined in a cross-sectional population-based study in the Faroe Islands. The case group consisting of a total population cohort of 40 individuals with ASD (aged 15â24Â years) had significantly lower 25(OH)D3 than their 62 typically-developing siblings and their 77 parents, and also significantly lower than 40 healthy age and gender matched comparisons. There was a trend for males having lower 25(OH)D3 than females. Effects of age, month/season of birth, IQ, various subcategories of ASD and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule score were also investigated, however, no association was found. The very low 25(OH)D3 in the ASD group suggests some underlying pathogenic mechanism
Enhanced visual search in infancy predicts emerging autism symptoms
In addition to core symptoms, i.e., social interaction and communication difficulties and
restricted and repetitive behaviours, autism is also characterized by aspects of superior perception [1].
One well-replicated finding is that of superior performance in visual search tasks, in which participants
have to indicate the presence of an odd-one-out element amongst a number of foils [2,3,4,5]. Whether
these aspects of superior perception contribute to the emergence of core autism symptoms remains
debated [6,4]. Perceptual and social interaction skills could reflect co-expressed but biologically
independent pathologies, as suggested by a âfractionableâ phenotype model of autism [7]. A
developmental test of this hypothesis is now made possible by longitudinal cohorts of infants at high
risk, such as of younger siblings of children with ASD. Around 20% of younger siblings are diagnosed
with autism themselves [8], and up to another 30% manifest elevated levels of autism symptoms [9].
We used eye-tracking to measure spontaneous orienting to letter targets (O, S, V and +) presented
amongst distractors (the letter X, Figure 1). At 9 and 15 months, emerging autism symptoms were
assessed using the Autism Observation Scale for Infants (AOSI; 10) and at 2 years of age using the
Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS; 11). Enhanced visual search performance at 9-month
predicted a higher level of autism symptoms at 15 months and at 2 years. Infant perceptual atypicalities
are thus intrinsically linked to the emerging autism phenotype
Changes in the socio-demographic patterning of late adolescent health risk behaviours during the 1990s: analysis of two West of Scotland cohort studies
Background: Substance use and sexual risk behaviour affect young people's current and future health and wellbeing in many high-income countries. Our understanding of time-trends in adolescent health-risk behaviour is largely based on routinely collected survey data in school-aged adolescents (aged 15 years or less). Less is known about changes in these behaviours among older adolescents. Methods: We compared two cohorts from the same geographical area (West of Scotland), surveyed in 1990 and 2003, to: describe time-trends in measures of smoking, drinking, illicit drug use, early sexual initiation, number of opposite sex sexual partners and experience of pregnancy at age 18-19 years, both overall and stratified by gender and socioeconomic status (SES); and examine the effect of time-trends on the patterning of behaviours by gender and SES. Our analyses adjust for slight between-cohort age differences since age was positively associated with illicit drug use and pregnancy. Results: Rates of drinking, illicit drug use, early sexual initiation and experience of greater numbers of sexual partners all increased significantly between 1990 and 2003, especially among females, leading to attenuation and, for early sexual initiation, elimination, of gender differences. Most rates increased to a similar extent regardless of SES. However, rates of current smoking decreased only among those from higher SES groups. In addition, increases in 'cannabis-only' were greater among higher SES groups while use of illicit drugs other than cannabis increased more in lower SES groups. Conclusion: Marked increases in female substance use and sexual risk behaviours have implications for the long-term health and wellbeing of young women. More effective preventive measures are needed to reduce risk behaviour uptake throughout adolescence and into early adulthood. Public health strategies should reflect both the widespread prevalence of risk behaviour in young people as well as the particular vulnerability to certain risk behaviours among those from lower SES groups
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