85 research outputs found

    The Iowa Homemaker vol.29, no.6

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    I Had a Career on the Companion, Mary Dodds Schlick, page 3 Improve Your Lighting, Katherine Williams, page 4 What’s New, Virginia Foth, page 5 Cold in Name Only, Barbara Allen, page 6 Fill Your Hopechest Free, Mary Kay Pitzer, page 7 Convening in Sweden, Janet Sutherland, page 8 Cook’s Favorite at Sigma Nu, Patricia Binder, page 10 Here’s an Idea, Barbara Short, page 14 Put Spring in a Winter Wardrobe, Margaret Wallace, page 1

    The Iowa Homemaker vol.18, no.7

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    Education Comes from Within by Vega Hanke, page 1 Dining in a Diner by Jane Helser, page 2 Oh Say, Can You Ski by Katherine Dodds, page 3 Elective Returns by Ruth Marks, page 4 Good Looking Pottery Goes to Lunch by Doris Detjen, page 5 Schooling for Homemaking by Nina Johnson, page 6 Spring Tonic for Style by Harriet Graves, page 7 What’s New in Home Economics edited by Marjorie Pettinger, page 8 Personality Class by Roberta Stock, page 10 College Loans by Charlotte Backman, page 11 Alums in the News by Grace Strohmeier, page 12 Run Down Your Budget by Audrey Wells, page 13 Behind Bright Jackets edited by Winnifred Cannon, page 14 For Feet’s Sake by Vega Hanke, page 15 Wardrobe Reform by Margaret Sheridan, page 16 Keeping Posted by the editor, page 1

    The Iowa Homemaker vol.19, no.3

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    Cuisine, page 1 College With an Eye to a Job, page 2 Shoulder Arms Against Telltale Tarnish, page 3 Generosity with Spices, page 4 Grandmother’s Heirlooms, page 5 Greyed Pastels, page 6 Food Facts – or Fairy Tales, page 8 Les Menus, the American Nemesis, page 9 What’s New in Home Economics, page 10 From Panama to Paris, page 12 Spread-ucation, page 13 Behind Bright Jackets, page 14 Alums in the News, page 15 His Royal Highness, the Chef, page 16 New Zealand Cuisine, page 17 From Journalistic Spindles, page 18 A Frozen Art, page 19 Biography of a Home Economist, page 2

    How Low Can You Go?: Widespread Challenges in Measuring Low Stream Discharge and a Path Forward

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    Low flows pose unique challenges for accurately quantifying streamflow. Current field methods are not optimized to measure these conditions, which in turn, limits research and management. In this essay, we argue that the lack of methods for measuring low streamflow is a fundamental challenge that must be addressed to ensure sustainable water management now and into the future, particularly as climate change shifts more streams to increasingly frequent low flows. We demonstrate the pervasive challenge of measuring low flows, present a decision support tool (DST) for navigating best practices in measuring low flows, and highlight important method developmental needs

    The Iowa Homemaker vol.18, no.8

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    Follow the Leaders by Marian Weinel, page 1 Calling on a Kitchen by Lydia Cooley, page 2 We’re Throwing Bouquets by Alvina Iverson, page 3 Home Economics on the Air by Jane Stallings, page 4 Food for Thought by Ruth Dahlberg, page 5 Style for Everybody by Katherine Dodds, page 6 Making Friends Under Ten by Virginia Schweiker, page 7 What’s New in Home Economics edited by Marjorie Pettinger, page 8 Up-to-Date Dates by Betty Davis, page 10 School Marm for Six Weeks by Ruth Howie, page 11 Give Your Wardrobe Nine Lives by Ethel Overholt, page 12 Spreads Via Ingenuity by Marian Gutz, page 13 Behind Bright Jackets edited by Winnifred Cannon, page 14 Textile Wise? By Betty Feyder, page 14 Alums in the News by Grace Strohmeier, page 15 Tables Don Fine Feathers by Margaret Thomas, page 16 Keeping Posted by the editor, page 1

    Calculation of a Primary Immunodeficiency “Risk Vital Sign” via Population-Wide Analysis of Claims Data to Aid in Clinical Decision Support

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    Background: Early diagnosis of primary immunodeficiency disease leads to reductions in illness and decreased healthcare costs. Analysis of electronic health record data may allow for identification of persons at risk of host-defense impairments from within the general population. Our hypothesis was that coded infection history would inform individual risk of disease and ultimately lead to diagnosis.Methods: In this study we assessed individual risk for primary immunodeficiency by analyzing diagnostic codes and pharmacy records from members (n = 185,892) of a large pediatric health network. Relevant infection-associated diagnostic codes were weighted and enumerated for individual members allowing for risk score calculations (“Risk Vital Sign”). At-risk individuals underwent further assessment by chart review and re-analysis of diagnostic codes 12 months later.Results: Of the original cohort, 2188 (1.2%) individuals were identified as medium-high-risk for having a primary immunodeficiency. This group included 41 subjects who were ultimately diagnosed with primary immunodeficiency. An additional 57 medium-high risk patients had coded diagnoses worthy of referral.Conclusions: Population-wide informatics approaches can facilitate disease detection and improve outcomes. Early identification of the 98 patients with confirmed or suspected primary immunodeficiency described here could represent an annual cost savings of up to $7.7 million US Dollars

    Radial shortening following a fracture of the proximal radius: Degree of shortening and short-term outcome in 22 proximal radial fractures

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    Background and purpose: The Essex-Lopresti lesion is thought to be rare, with a varying degree of disruption to forearm stability probable. We describe the range of radial shortening that occurs following a fracture of the proximal radius, as well as the short-term outcome in these patients. Patients and methods Over an 18-month period, we prospectively assessed all patients with a radiographically confirmed proximal radial fracture. Patients noted to have ipsilateral wrist pain at initial presentation underwent bilateral radiography to determine whether there was disruption of the distal radio-ulnar joint suggestive of an Essex-Lopresti lesion. Outcome was assessed after a mean of 6 (1.5-12) months using clinical and radiographic results, including the Mayo elbow score (MES) and the short musculoskeletal function assessment (SMFA) questionnaire. One patient with a Mason type-I fracture was lost to follow-up after initial presentation. Results 60 patients had ipsilateral wrist pain at the initial assessment of 237 proximal radial fractures. Radial shortening of ≄ 2mm (range: 2-4mm) was seen in 22 patients (mean age 48 (19-79) years, 16 females). The most frequent mechanism of injury was a fall from standing height (10/22). 21 fractures were classified as being Mason type-I or type-II, all of which were managed nonoperatively. One Mason type-III fracture underwent acute radial head replacement. Functional outcome was assessed in 21 patients. We found an excellent or good MES in 18 of the 20 patients with a Mason type-I or type-II injury. Interpretation The incidence of the Essex-Lopresti lesion type is possibly under-reported as there is a spectrum of injuries, and subtle disruptions often go unidentified. A full assessment of all patients with a proximal radial fracture is required in order to identify these injuries, and the index of suspicion is raised as the complexity of the fracture increases.</p

    River ecosystem conceptual models and non‐perennial rivers: A critical review

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    Conceptual models underpin river ecosystem research. However, current models focus on continuously flowing rivers and few explicitly address characteristics such as flow cessation and drying. The applicability of existing conceptual models to nonperennial rivers that cease to flow (intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams, IRES) has not been evaluated. We reviewed 18 models, finding that they collectively describe main drivers of biogeochemical and ecological patterns and processes longitudinally (upstream-downstream), laterally (channel-riparian-floodplain), vertically (surface water-groundwater), and temporally across local and landscape scales. However, perennial rivers are longitudinally continuous while IRES are longitudinally discontinuous. Whereas perennial rivers have bidirectional lateral connections between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, in IRES, this connection is unidirectional for much of the time, from terrestrial-to-aquatic only. Vertical connectivity between surface and subsurface water occurs bidirectionally and is temporally consistent in perennial rivers. However, in IRES, this exchange is temporally variable, and can become unidirectional during drying or rewetting phases. Finally, drying adds another dimension of flow variation to be considered across temporal and spatial scales in IRES, much as flooding is considered as a temporally and spatially dynamic process in perennial rivers. Here, we focus on ways in which existing models could be modified to accommodate drying as a fundamental process that can alter these patterns and processes across spatial and temporal dimensions in streams. This perspective is needed to support river science and management in our era of rapid global change, including increasing duration, frequency, and occurrence of drying.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

    Colonial refractions: the 'Gypsy camp' as a spatio-racial political technology

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    Camps for civilians first appeared in the colonies. Largely drawing on the literature on colonialism and race, this article conceptualizes the 'Gypsy camp' in Western European cities as a spatio-racial political technology. We first discuss the shift, starting with decolonization, from colonial to metropolitan technologies of the governance of social heterogeneity. We then relate this broad historical framing to the ideas and ideologies that since the 1960s have been underpinning the planning and governance of the ‘Gypsy camp' in both the UK and Italy. We document the 1970s emergence of a new and distinctive type of camp that was predicated upon a racially connoted tension between policies criminalizing sedentarization and ideologies of cultural protection. Given that the imposition of the ‘Gypsy camp' was essentially uncontested, we argue that the conditions of possibility for it to emerge and become institutionalized were both a spatio-racial similarity with typically colonial technologies of governance, and the fact that it was largely perceived as a self-evident necessity for the governance and control of one specific population. We conclude by calling for more analyses on this and other forms of urban confinement in both the Global North and South, in order to account for the increasingly disquieting mushrooming of confining and controlling governance devices, practices and ideologies
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