Voices in the Band: A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful

[Excerpt] I wanted to write a book about my patients and my colleagues and how we made it through the roller-coaster last decade of the twentieth century, how we moved from helplessly watching our patients die to being able to offer them a treatment course and a fairly normal life expectancy. In that time we saw some patients literally return from death’s door. This kind of dramatic success has not been seen in any other field of medicine, except perhaps following the introduction of penicillin many years ago. I wanted to try to answer the question “What was it like?” What was it like to care for patients with AIDS, a disease that didn’t even exist when I was in college? How did we deal with dying patients for whom we had a diagnosis but no treatment? How did we care for patients that many in society rejected, patients that many even within the field of medicine rejected? What happened in those years, when the prognosis for a patient with HIV went from nearly hopeless to very hopeful

Dlùth is Inneach: Linguistic and Institutional Foundations for Gaelic Corpus Planning

This report presents the results of a one-year research project, commissioned by Bòrd na Gàidhlig BnG) and carried out by a Soillse Research team, whose goal was to answer the following question: What corpus planning principles are appropriate for the strengthening and promotion of Scottish Gaelic, and what effective coordination would result in their implementation? This report contains the following agreed outcomes: a clear and consistent linguistic foundation for Gaelic corpus planning, according with Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s acquisition, usage and status planning initiatives, and most likely to be supported by Gaelic users. a programme of priorities to be addressed by Gaelic corpus planning. recommendations on a means of coordination that will be effective in terms of cost and management (i.e. an institutional framework

A Resource Guide for Embedding Multicultural Capital into the Secondary Science Classrooms of Central Washington

The multiple aspects of multicultural education were researched and are here-in compared and discussed. Through research it was found that although much research exists on multicultural education, little or no multicultural resources are available for secondary science specific to Central Washington. Implications for multicultural education, science education and the integration of the two are discussed. A collection of lessons, websites and teacher tools were merged into a resource guide that can be used for local lesson planning. Practical ideas are offered to the inexperienced multicultural science educator

Habitat complexity of polychaete tube-caps: Influence of architecture on dynamics of a meioepibenthic assemblage

A series of field experiments was conducted in a shallow sandflat in Tampa Bay, Florida, to examine the relationship between the abundance and diversity of meiofauna and the architectural complexity of tube-caps constructed by the polychaete, Diopatra cuprea. Two groups of azoic tube-caps were utilized: 1) tube-caps collected from the field and defaunated in the laboratory or 2) tube-caps created in laboratory aquaria with azoic sediment under controlled conditions. Tube-caps were designated high or low complexity based upon the amount of shell hash incorporated into tube-cap structure, replanted into sediments at 2 sites during February–April 1982 and collected 1, 3, or 4 days later. Meiofaunal-size organisms quickly recolonized experimental tube-caps. Harpacticoid copepods (adults, copepodites, nauplii) and juvenile amphipods displayed repeatedly higher abundance on tube-caps of high architectural complexity compared to those with low structural characteristics regardless of origin of tube-caps. This effect varied over space and time for some taxa. Examination of copepod species patterns revealed higher numbers of 72% of species on high complexity tube-caps over the experimental period; this relationship was modified occasionally by depth and day of retrieval. Correlation analysis of taxa abundance vs. quantitative measurements of architectural complexity reiterated the experimental trends, i.e. both copepod species richness and abundance of meiofaunal crustaceans were significantly positively correlated with the architectural complexity (amount of shell hash) of tube-caps. Two additional experiments were conducted in November 1983 and March 1984 to further investigate one possible explanation for the abundance/complexity relationships of meiofauoa taxa and tube-caps. To test whether large amounts of shell in tube-caps provide refuges from predators, recolonization experiments were conducted in both predator exculsion and open sites. Higher densities of harpacticoid copepods were recorded on tube-caps with greater amounts of shell hash regardless of predator activity. It is concluded that tube-cap complexity strongly influences abundance/species richness of meiofaunal crustaceans but a decrease of predator effectiveness on tube-caps with high complexity cannot explain the observed abundance/complexity relationship. The results from this study coupled with previous investigations on meioepibenthic assemblages provide a unique scenario of factors which, by controlling tube-cap turnover and architectural complexity, influence meiofaunal community structure

Conservatism implications of shock test tailoring for multiple design environments

A method for analyzing shock conservation in test specifications that have been tailored to qualify a structure for multiple design environments is discussed. Shock test conservation is qualified for shock response spectra, shock intensity spectra and ranked peak acceleration data in terms of an Index of Conservation (IOC) and an Overtest Factor (OTF). The multi-environment conservation analysis addresses the issue of both absolute and average conservation. The method is demonstrated in a case where four laboratory tests have been specified to qualify a component which must survive seven different field environments. Final judgment of the tailored test specification is shown to require an understanding of the predominant failure modes of the test item

The spatial manifestation of neoliberal discourse: mapping Chicago\u27s education reform debate

During the last decade, after thirty years of disinvestment in public education, the United States has rigorously implemented high stakes testing, the results of which have provided public school officials, politicians, and real estate developers with an identifiable pool of failing schools. This thesis focuses on the school choice debate as it plays out in Chicago\u27s news media by exploring the city of Chicago\u27s early implementation of school choice policy and by considering school choice policy as part of the larger neoliberal spatial project. The hegemonic naturalization of school spaces as failures or successes in Chicago has been perpetuated by an elite few who have access to the space-creating process of journalism (news reporting and opinion articles). These labels that schools take on have been a large part of the rationalization for Renaissance 2010, Chicago\u27s most powerful piece of school choice policy. Renaissance 2010 (2004-2010) was an initiative that gave city officials the power to close 60-70 traditional public schools and replace them with 100 school choice schools, two-thirds of which are privately-run charter and contract schools. The research conducted in this thesis contributes to understanding how the dominant discourse surrounding the school choice policy debate manifests itself spatially, both in physical and theoretical space. This paper presents the school choice policy debate as it is deliberated in the news media by mapping, in physical and discursive space, the emergence of these discourses from news media as they shape the spatial identity of Chicagoans. The resulting maps and analysis show that the discourse of the spatial project of school choice policies in Chicago pathologizes the education spaces (schools and neighborhoods) that serve lower-income African American Chicagoans

Foraging patterns of two syngnathid fishes: importance of harpacticoid copepods

The diets of juvenile ( less than 90 mm) Syngnathus scovelli and of Hippocampus zosterae, abundant members of a resident fish community in a Thalassia testudnum seagrass bed in Tampa Bay, Florida, were examined from Apnl to October 1984. Harpacticoid copepods comprised most of the diet, both in terms of percent number and percent biomass, for the smaller size classes of S. scovelli and for H. zosterae, and harpacticoids generally had the highest index of relative importance (IRI) for both syngnathids. S. scovelli displayed ontogenetic switching to larger food items, such as amphipods. shrimp and crustacean eggs. Harpacticus sp. 1 was the most common harpacticoid copepod species found in the guts of the 2 syngnathids, but was only rarely encountered in prey samples from seagrass blades. Three other harpacticoids, Paradactylopodia brevicornis sp., Dactylopodia tisboides and Harpacticus sp. 2 had high IRIS in H. zosterae but not in S. scovelli. Vanderploeg & Scavia's selectivity index (E') was calculated for sampling dates when both species of syngnathids were most abundant, using prey density on seagrass blades as a measure of prey avadabhty. Only the harpacticoid Harpacticus sp. 1 had high positive selectivity values

Virginia Commonwealth University Volunteer Doula Program Training Manual

A birth doula is a specially trained birth assistant who provides emotional, psychological and physical support and care to a pregnant and/or laboring woman. In providing this care, the doula helps the laboring woman and her support person achieve their most optimal birth experience. This is typically an unmedicated birth; however, doulas may attend any birth and be of profound assistance and comfort. This curriculum was written specifically for nursing students who are being trained as lay doulas. Unique in its approach and delivery, the curriculum is written with the nursing student in mind; particularly a student who has already been exposed to courses in anatomy, physiology and basic nursing concepts. However, it can easily be used with students who have not had this exposure, or exposure to specific women’s health content. While completing the course of study does not enable the student to sit for doula certification through a nationally recognized organization, it does provide valuable insight and baseline education necessary to fulfil their role. Students trained with this curriculum are prepared to attend women experiencing low risk, anticipated vaginal birth, as well as women who experience operative vaginal delivery and cesarean section. Additionally, specialty topics such as psychosocial concerns in the childbearing family, caring for the family experiencing birth of a special needs child, and breastfeeding education and advocacy are covered. Practice tips, safety alerts, and questions for reflection are highlighted in the margins of the curriculum, as well as links to external resources which may help build the student’s body of knowledge. Key Words: Curriculum design, women’s health, doula, childbirth, student doul

Marketing Extension Gardening Publications in Boise Nurseries and Garden Centers in 1994 and 1995

Six Boise, Idaho, garden centers began selling University of Idaho extension gardening publications in spring, 1994, on 20-slot metal racks provided by the Agricultural Communications Center (ACC)