A Note on the Role of Equity in the Curriculum of the Modern Law School

One of the casualties of the generally beneficial merger of law and equity has been the abandonment by law schools of courses treating equitable relief. The author of this article perceives an increasing need for curriculum changes which will restore this neglected subject to its proper role in the education of the lawyer

Mali's white revolution: smallholder cotton from 1960 to 2003

"One of the pillars of rural development in francophone Africa, the cotton sector serves as a principal motor of economic development, generating benefits to farmers, rural communities, private traders, cotton companies, and national governments.... Government and farmers alike consider cotton a strategic industry.... The Malian cotton model exemplifies the common vertical support system for smallholder agriculture, in which a single entity supplies inputs (usually on credit) in return for guaranteed marketing of the output, from which input costs can be deducted..... In both research and marketing, Mali has benefited from collaboration with regional cotton networks that have achieved important scale economies for many small countries in the region.... Given obvious spillovers of agroclimatic zones across contiguous African countries, this model of regional collaboration in research and marketing illustrates key benefits that could be applied to many other agricultural commodities—bananas, cassava, maize, beans, and livestock, for example." From Text

Dietary fats and 16-year coronary heart disease mortality in a cohort of men and women in Great Britain

Objective: The paper aims to investigate the relationships of dietary fats to subsequent coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality in men and women while taking account of other CHD-related behaviours. Design: A cohort of randomly selected men and women were interviewed in 1984-85 and monitored subsequently for 16 y for deaths. The interview covered health, health-related behaviours, physical measurements, socio-demographic details and a dietary questionnaire. Appropriate exclusions left 1225 men and 1451 women aged 40-75 with 98 and 57 CHD deaths, respectively. Saturated, polyunsaturated and total fat intakes were estimated. Setting: The sample was randomly selected from households in Great Britain. The interviews took place in participants' own homes. Results: Not consuming alcohol, smoking, not exercising and being socially disadvantaged were related to high saturated fat intake and CHD death. Cox survival analyses adjusting for these factors found that a level of saturated fat 100 g per week higher corresponded to a relative risk for CHD death for men of 1.00 (0.86-1.18) and 1.40 (1.09-1.79) for women. This difference between the effects of saturated fat in men and women was statistically significant (P=0.019). Results are also reported for total fat and the relative effects of polyunsaturated and saturated fats. Conclusions: Strong evidence was found for the within cohort relationship of dietary fat and CHD death in women while no evidence was found for a relationship in men. Possible explanations for this are discussed

The development of a teachers' handbook in the Newton public schools

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

PRISAS/INSAH-MSU-USAID Sahel Regional Food Security Project: Results and Impact

Food Security and Poverty, Downloads July 2008-June 2009: 8,

Dyadic Friendship Interactions and Emotional Adjustment in Adolescents

Social interactions during childhood and adolescence contribute significantly to social and emotional adjustment. A primary source of social interaction for adolescents comes in the form of friends. Friendship functioning is thought to contribute to both relationship quality and emotional adjustment, such as depressive symptoms (Bukowski; Hoza, & Boivin, 1994; Demir & Urberg, 2004). However few studies have addressed how non-verbal interpersonal engagement may contribute to relationship quality and emotional adjustment in adolescent friendships. The current study examined associations of non-verbal interpersonal engagement in the context of adolescents’ same-sex friendships with self-reported friendship quality and depressive symptoms. The role of gender in these relations (see Rose & Rudolph, 2006) also was explored. Multilevel modeling was used to test all study hypotheses. Results suggested that non-verbal interpersonal engagement contributed significantly to positive, but not negative, friendship quality. Associations of interpersonal engagement with depressive symptoms were largely non-significant. Few gender differences emerged, perhaps because the study was underpowered to detect them. Additional limitations as well as future directions for research are discussed