Home oxygen for children: who, how and when?

A review of the specific requirements of home oxygen therapy in children which attempts to offer guidance to clinicians and service providers

Five to Four over Spirited Dissent: Justification to Overrule - Payne v. Tennessee

Symposiuim on Education Law: Note

Meaning and Impact of Board and Staff Diversity in the Philanthropic Field: Findings from a National Study

The report's premise is that the staffs and boards of philanthropic institutions have not kept pace with the general population in terms of diversity, and that if responsiveness and diversity are linked, then foundations must attend to their internal diversity if they wish to offer a more credible outreach to diverse communities. It seeks to find answers to the following questions: What is the empirical reality that grounds these conjectures? Can we quantify the changes in foundation staffing? How well represented are different identity groups within the field, and how do members of these diverse groups fare in their career advancement? How do different types of foundations address inclusiveness, and what are examples of practices that lead to successful implementation of staff and board diversity? The report is the result of a multi-stage research project that combined surveys, interviews, and focus groups to reach more than 600 grantmakers nationwide

Impact of Study Abroad to Nazi Concentration Camps: Perceptions of Interpreting Students on Identity-Building

This study focuses on the perceptions of post-secondary interpreting students who traveled to concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) and Schloss Hartheim (Austria). The historical context of spoken language interpreters in concentration camps, eugenics in the Deaf community, and extermination of people with disabilities underpin the study’s mixed-methods design, incorporating social identity and transformative learning theories to explore professional identity development. A Deaf, Jewish moderator-participant facilitated four focus groups using photo elicitation to foster narratives. Participants ranked photos and value statements to reveal identity components that most impacted them. A grounded theory approach to analysis revealed four themes triangulated with survey data: productive dissonance, justice and equity, communal coping, and consumer orientation. Data verified students were strongly impacted by negotiating communication with Deaf nationals, sharing disorienting experiences with colleagues, and applying Holocaust education to their personal, social, and professional identities. Results are useful for students, interpreters, and programs seeking ways to address social justice concerns through experiential learning

The Contribution of Financial Services-related Higher Education to the Development of Global Citizenship and the Influence of Global Citizenship on Employability in the Financial Services Sector

This thesis explores the 'global citizen' concept in higher education and financial services sectors. It investigates business school lecturers' and financial services managers' understandings of the 'global citizen' phenomenon. It investigates whether global citizenship supports employability in the financial services sector and should therefore be an aim of financial services-related higher education.Since 2000, 'global citizen' has been used increasingly in public, educational and business discourses, but the term encompasses many ideas and practices and is not clearly defined in policies or research literature in either higher education or business contexts. Some literature and policy documents suggest that global citizenship contributes to employability, which implies the need for a match between employment recruitment criteria and global citizen attributes promoted and developed in higher education.To address these issues, a qualitative investigation was undertaken using semi-structured interviews with business school lecturers and financial services managers together with documentary analysis of higher education and financial services policies. The conjoining of Lave and Wenger's legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice and Archer's identity development through reflexive deliberation provided a framework to understand, interpret and explain the data. The findings show varied understandings of 'global citizen' both within and between my academic and professional communities of practice, and challenge the notion that being a global citizen contributes to employability in the financial services sector.This study also exposes disparities in academic and professional understandings of the aim(s) of higher education both within and between the two groups. Business school participants in the study largely considered that developing employability should be an aim of higher education, while the academics who participated in the research believed higher education should promote students' personal development. This may include global and cultural awareness, attributes that may be ascribed to global citizenship, but not the development of global citizens per se

In Situ Investigation of Genetic Damage in Wild Rodents Inhabiting a Site Contaminated with Aroclor 1254

This study is part of a larger effort working toward the development of mammalian in situ genetic biomonitors. It examines the frequency of structural chromosome aberrations in standard bone marrow metaphase preparations of three rodent species inhabiting a site contaminated with Aroclor 1254. These data are compared to those of conspecifics from uncontaminated reference areas. In the case of 2 species, comparisons are also made to conspecifics from an area contaminated with substances associated with the induction of structural chromosome aberrations and significant variation in whole cell DNA content.Zoolog

Forensic drug applications of electrochemical sensors

Electrochemical based sensors are a powerful analytical tool which can be exploited by the forensic community particularly for the analysis of illicit substances from street and biological samples. This report presents a brief overview on selected recent publications related to the application of electrochemical sensors to forensic drug analysis and gives opinions on the technical developments as well as the future applications in this field