A community-based cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of different bundles of nutrition-specific interventions in improving mean length-for-age z score among children at 24 months of age in rural Bangladesh: study protocol

PRIFPRI3; CRP4; ISIPHND; A4NHCGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH

La música y su celosía. Las ideas y usos musicales de las grandes casas españolas del Siglo de Oro (1580-1640) como caso de “estado latente”

From late 16th century to mid-17th century, at the height of the Spanish Golden Age, music withdrew from historical sources. Modern authors have underlined the importance of this phenomenon, trying to find its economic and social roots and stressing how the lack of a Spanish aristocratic patronage may have caused it. This article puts forward the possibility that this did not actually happen, arguing that music was consciously concealed, taking new forms that can only be understood within the aristocratic ideals of that time. In fact, this hidden way of cultivating music may have been key to the popularity of Spanish music in seventeenth century Europe, and can be considered an example of what Ramón Menéndez Pidal called “latent state”.Desde finales del siglo XVI hasta bien entrado el siglo XVII, en pleno Siglo de Oro, la música se retira de la documentación española. La crítica insiste en el fenómeno aduciendo razones económicas y sociológicas: entre ellas, que la aristocracia española no cultivó la música. Retomando la obra de Menéndez Pidal y su concepto de “estado latente”, plantéase aquí la posibilidad de que aquello en realidad no sucediera, sino que la música fuera entonces conscientemente velada, tomando formas nuevas que sólo pueden comprenderse en la vida aristocrática de la época; formas que de hecho pudieron ser razones del triunfo de la música española en la Europa del momento

Men's nutrition knowledge is important for women's and children's nutrition in Ethiopia.

In an effort to address undernutrition among women and children in rural areas of low-income countries, nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) and behaviour change communication (BCC) projects heavily focus on women as an entry point to effect nutritional outcomes. There is limited evidence on the role of men's contribution in improving household diets. In this Agriculture to Nutrition trial (Clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT03152227), we explored associations between men's and women's nutritional knowledge on households', children's and women's dietary diversity. At the midline evaluation conducted in July 2017, FAO's nutrition knowledge questionnaire was administered to male and female partners in 1396 households. There was a high degree of agreement (88%) on knowledge about exclusive breastfeeding between parents; however, only 56-66% of the households had agreement when comparing knowledge of dietary sources of vitamin A or iron. Factor analysis of knowledge dimensions resulted in identifying two domains, namely, 'dietary' and 'vitamin' knowledge. Dietary knowledge had a larger effect on women's and children's dietary diversities than vitamin knowledge. Men's dietary knowledge had strong positive associations with households' dietary diversity scores (0.24, P value = 0.001), children's dietary diversity (0.19, P value = 0.008) and women's dietary diversity (0.18, P value < 0.001). Distance to markets and men's education levels modified the effects of nutrition knowledge on dietary diversity. While previous NSA and BCC interventions predominantly focused on uptake among women, there is a large gap and strong potential for men's engagement in improving household nutrition. Interventions that expand the role of men in NSA may synergistically improve household nutrition outcomes

Post-Franco Theatre

In the multiple realms and layers that comprise the contemporary Spanish theatrical landscape, “crisis” would seem to be the word that most often lingers in the air, as though it were a common mantra, ready to roll off the tongue of so many theatre professionals with such enormous ease, and even enthusiasm, that one is prompted to wonder whether it might indeed be a miracle that the contemporary technological revolution – coupled with perpetual quandaries concerning public and private funding for the arts – had not by now brought an end to the evolution of the oldest of live arts, or, at the very least, an end to drama as we know it