The grande multipara

The grande multipara is a woman who has given birth seven or more times. This is a survey consisting of a study of all the para 7 or over delivered at St. Luke`s Hospital, Malta, during the two-year period 1963-1964. A series of 638 grande multipara is studied. The findings show a higher rate than average for certain obstetrical abnormalities, such as toxemia, abruptio placentae, still-birth and malpresentations. Notwithstanding, the maternal mortality is not affected.peer-reviewe

Learner Interest, Reading Comprehension and Achievement in Web-Based Learning

The web-based learning environment provides access to education for those who are unable to be physically present in a classroom. In situations where comprehensive learner analysis is cost prohibitive, fiscally prudent guidelines for learner analysis that include learner interest and the cultural attribute of language may be feasible alternatives to omitting learner analysis altogether as an online instructional design consideration. Community colleges routinely collect student data during the college admission process, such as the COMPASS reading score, which may be useful in predicting student success in web-based courses. Therefore, learner characteristics such as the COMPASS reading score, learner interest in course topic, and interest in web-based learning were examined to determine their utility as predictors of achievement in an online introductory health care course. Learner interests were measured using the Course Interest Scale and Web Interest Scale developed in 2008 by Nummenmaa and Nummenmaa. Simple and multiple regression analyses were utilized to determine potential associations. The results demonstrated that the COMPASS reading score positively predicted achievement and was statistically significant, F(1, 17) = 8.05, p = .011 when considered solely, when combined with course interest, F(2, 16) = 4.42, p = .030, and when combined with web interest, F(2, 16) = 3.79, p = .045. These findings indicated that the COMPASS reading score and other data routinely collected on community college students may be useful as predictors of success in online courses and may be effective for guiding student learning format design selections. Using familiar measures such as the COMPASS test score to predict achievement in web-based courses may promote learning outcomes, course completion rates, and graduation rates in community colleges.https://fuse.franklin.edu/ss2014/1037/thumbnail.jp

Just Leftovers

Just Leftovers is intended to offer an understanding of the woman’s role within the domestic realm and its evolution over time in American society. My ultimate goal is to create an awareness of women’s inequality historically, but also to expose the inequality, biases, and double standards that continue to exist in our contemporary society. I choose to create this awareness through visual art with the manipulation of recognizable objects that the general public, stereotypically speaking, would associate with femininity and domesticity. I am fascinated by how these “feminine” objects and their historical content [e.g. bread pan] have been socially constructed through rhetoric and material culture. Since these objects have been removed from their original context, I see them as not only symbols of a time period, but also a representation of the women who were striving to express themselves individually, intellectually, and creatively in a society that did not allow them to do so in the public sphere

Women's Experience, Women's Knowledge and the Power of Knowledge: An Illustration and an Elaboration

Within the framework of women's contribution to knowledge creation, this paper presents data on two linked research projects. In the first instance, women's contribution to a prestigious knowledge area is examined and their relegation to peripheral roles is emphasized; in the second, women's participation in a secondary knowledge area is outlined and the mechanisms for the continuing containment of the whole knowledge area are highlighted. The paper concludes with comments on the importance not only of women's relative absence from knowledge creation, but also of the mechanisms through which woman-created knowledge is contained and denigrated

COVID-19 contact tracing: 8 privacy questions explored - a reply to de Montjoye et al

The privacy examination in the paper is structured around three "toy" pro- tocols for the design of an app which can maximise the utility of contact tracing information while minimising the more general risk to privacy. On this basis, the paper proceeds to introduce eight questions against which they should be assessed. The questions raised and the protocols proposed effectively amount to the creation of a game with different categories of players able to make different moves. It is therefore possible to analyse the model in terms of optimal game design

Recreation administration on higher education campuses : an investigation

Educational institutions have only in recent years appreciated the need to educate people in the management of recreation, due primarily to the increasing leisure time available and the upsurge of sport and recreation participation. Student leisure time must also be managed effectively, particularly in today's economic climate. For this to be achieved, calls for many diverse principles of management that responsible personnel must acquire. The principles of management are widely documented in the literature, but their relevance to campus recreation in institutes of Higher Education appear to be greatly deficient and fragmented. Hence, there is very little literature offering guidance for administrators of campus recreation. This situation prompted the author to investigate for any relevant information pertaining to campus recreation. The ultimate aim was to develop a series of theoretical process models which could be adapted and implemented to suit any institute of Higher Education. The purpose of the models would be to offer guidance for the various processes involved in the administration and co-ordination of campus recreation, a situation of serious need. [Continues.