It's about time: WHO and partners release programming strategies for postpartum family planning

The postpartum period is a critical time to address high unmet family planning need and to reduce the risks of closely spaced pregnancies. Practical tools are included in the new resource for integrating postpartum family planning at points when women have frequent health system contact, including during antenatal care, labor and delivery, postnatal care, immunization, and child health care

Dickens in Byron's Chair:Authenticity, Author Portraits, and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture

Dickens's comic account ofa charity dinner for the “Indigent Orphans’ Friends Benevolent Institution” in his sketch “Public Dinners” (Sketches by ‘Boz’) is illustrated in the 1838 serial and 1839 volume editions with the image in Figure 2.</jats:p

The racial conflict in India

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Municipal Annexation in Ohio: Putting an End to the Bitter Battle

Recent decades, marked by steady population growth, have seen the evolution of a distinctly urban nation. The multiplicity of local governments within metropolitan areas has raised serious questions about the efficiency and equity of fragmented government organizations. Critics argue that the existence of multiple local governments in metropolitan areas leads to an inequitable allocation of public goods and services, inefficient patterns of area land use and development, and counterproductive competition for new fiscal resources and territorial autonomy. Moreover, the urbanized landscape poses problems of community leadership. And sadly, municipal annexation in Ohio has fallen far short of its potential to be a viable solution to the State\u27s urban problems. This note will examine the statutory scheme for annexation in Ohio, analyze the policy reasons underlying the statute, and review how the statute and its application have inhibited its usefulness in servicing the needs of Ohio\u27s urban areas. Finally, the note will advocate the implementation of alternative dispute resolution methods as a means of increasing the potential utility of annexation under Ohio\u27s current annexation statute

The Death of Print Magazines in Fashion: The Fight to Stay Relevant During the Digital Era and a Look at the Future of Fashion Print Magazines

We have found ourselves in a digital era. For the past ten years, the public’s Internet usage per day has skyrocketed across all age groups, which in turn, has had an effect on the print industry (e.g. books, magazines, newspapers). As technology has progressed, many have turned to online magazines and journals to receive their fashion news. Given this rapid advance in digital technology, in my honors thesis, I plan to focus on the effect of digital media on print, specifically in the context of fashion magazines. Specifically, I will explore the history of the fashion magazine, its efforts to stay relevant, and make predictions about the future of print magazines. Overall, I predict that while the magazine industry continues to branch off into various other digital alternatives in order to stay relevant, print will continue to serve as an important fashion news outlet, as the fashion industry and demand for fashion news will continue to grow. Following these predictions, I have also created an original fashion magazine issue, available both digitally and in print. The content of this magazine includes advertisements, articles, and interviews that highlight the future of the fashion industry, as well as current trends and relevant topics

Alien Registration- Shannon, Mary A. (Bangor, Penobscot County)

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Microbiological approaches for the improvement of industrial biogas production

Biogas is an alternative fuel source, composed of methane and carbon dioxide, formed during the microbial process of anaerobic digestion (AD). Biogas production has the potential to be used as a substitute for natural gas and ease problems associated with global warming, energy security and waste management. However, AD can often be unreliable due to the instabilities that can arise during the process. The work described in this thesis, focuses on the discovery and development of micro-organisms for use in synthetic bio-methane producing microbial communities. Two main sources of instability within AD were focused on: oxygen-sensitivity of methane-producing microbes (methanogens) and volatile fatty acid (VFA) accumulation. The estuarine tidal mudflats of the River Exe Estuary, Exmouth, Devon, UK, were chosen for the search of potentially oxygen-tolerant methanogens, due to its intermittent oxygen exposure. Initially, 16S rRNA screening indicated the presence of methanogens in the very surface layer of the sediment, which was later confirmed by enrichment experiments. Whole genome shot-gun sequencing suggested Methanosarcina mazei, a methanogen known to have oxygen-tolerant capabilities, or a closely related organism, had been successfully enriched. The second part of this investigation focused on the use of E. coli as a model organism, for the engineering of a negative feedback loop against acetate production, a common VFA. The glutamine synthetase promoter, found to be sensitive to external pH and acetate concentration, was used to control the production of antisense RNA targeting the pta gene, involved in acetate production. Results indicated that expression of pta was successfully reduced, however overall acetate production was not found to decrease

PROSPECTIVE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS' LEARNING TO EDUCATE ENGLISH LEARNERS IN A TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM: A CASE STUDY

In this study, I examined the opportunities prospective elementary teachers had to learn about educating students learning English as an additional language during their thirteen-month Master's with Certification in Elementary Education (MCEE) program. Data collection efforts centered around repeated teaching observations and interviews with four focal participants who were members of the 2010-2011 MCEE cohort during eight months of their program. Additional data collection on candidates' learning experiences in the program included surveys administered with the entire cohort, a focus group interview with the four focal candidates, and a focus group with four other members of the cohort. To investigate efforts teacher educators made to help candidates learn about educating English language learners (ELLs), I interviewed eight teacher educators in roles ranging from mentor teacher to program director. These interviews, along with observations of over one hundred hours of course meetings and a review of program documents, enabled me to identify challenges and opportunities teacher educators encountered when attempting to guide candidates in learning about educating ELLs. When teaching ELLs in their internships, candidates learned valuable skills to educate ELLs, but they also attended to the implicit message that marginalizing ELLs in elementary schools and classrooms is acceptable. In regards to their coursework, candidates identified instances in which they learned about educating linguistically diverse students, but also reported that they remembered little overall because the education of ELLs was addressed infrequently. While teacher educators actively strove toward guiding candidates to learn knowledge, skills, and dispositions of educating linguistically diverse students, they faced challenges such as those related to communication and coherence among teacher educators at the university and school sites. Implications for practice and research include implementing more innovative forms of collaboration among both teacher candidates and teacher educators in elementary education and second language education