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Sexual and Reproductive Health in Rwanda
KEY MESSAGES Empowerment (women, youth, communities) Inclusion (age + gender) Prevention/Early Detection
PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS Partner with Rwandan medical students to improve program delivery Communicate monthly with local leaders Partner with Community Health Center
FUTURE INTERVENTIONS Partner with Rwandan medical students to improve program delivery Communicate monthly with local leaders Partner with Community Health Centerhttps://jdc.jefferson.edu/cwicposters/1026/thumbnail.jp
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Periportal Capsulotomy: A Technique for Limited Violation of the Hip Capsule During Arthroscopy for Femoroacetabular Impingement.
Hip arthroscopy has become the standard treatment for symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement as patients have shown good outcomes and high satisfaction with this intervention. However, capsular management to gain access for intra-articular procedures remains greatly debated. Capsular closure is advocated particularly in the setting of interportal or T-capsulotomy to avoid complications of instability or nonhealing capsule. We introduce a technique for capsular management through a limited periportal capsulotomy during arthroscopic treatment of femoroacetabular impingement. In using dilation of the anterolateral and mid-anterior portals without completion of a full interportal capsulotomy, the stabilizing iliofemoral ligament is preserved. We have found that periportal capsulotomy provides safe and sufficient access to the hip joint without necessitating capsular closure
The Total Acquisition Number of the Randomly Weighted Path
There exists a significant body of work on determining the acquisition number
of various graphs when the vertices of those graphs are each initially
assigned a unit weight. We determine properties of the acquisition number of
the path, star, complete, complete bipartite, cycle, and wheel graphs for
variations on this initial weighting scheme, with the majority of our work
focusing on the expected acquisition number of randomly weighted graphs. In
particular, we bound the expected acquisition number of the
-path when distinguishable "units" of integral weight, or chips, are
randomly distributed across its vertices between and . With
computer support, we improve it by showing that lies between
and . We then use subadditivity to show that the limiting
ratio exists, and simulations reveal more exactly what the
limiting value equals. The Hoeffding-Azuma inequality is used to prove that the
acquisition number is tightly concentrated around its expected value.
Additionally, in a different context, we offer a non-optimal acquisition
protocol algorithm for the randomly weighted path and exactly compute the
expected size of the resultant residual set.Comment: 19 page
JeffHEALTH: Helping East Africa Link to Health
JeffHEALTH-Helping East Africa Link to Health is a student-run organization at Thomas Jefferson University dedicated to improving basic medical education and quality of life in Rwanda, which was devastated in 1994 by civil war and genocide. Working in partnership with the Rwanda Village Concept Project, a student organization at the National University of Rwanda, JeffHEALTH seeks to implement sustainable health initiatives in our partner villages. Graduate students from Thomas Jefferson University travel to Rwanda where we taught Community Health Workers from the Villages of Akarambi and Ruli the following topics: Nutrition and Vitamin Deficiencies, Family Planning, Prenatal care, HIV, Sexually Transmitted Illnesses and Hepatitis, Breast and Cervical Cancer, Diabetes, and Fistulas. We also taught two programs to children of the villages (Oral Hygiene and Soil Transmitted Helminths) and talked with young adults about Circumcision and HIV Prevention and Sex Education.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/cwicposters/1018/thumbnail.jp
New Tricks for an Old Dog: Deterring the Vote Through Confusion in Felon Disenfranchisement
Felon disenfranchisement laws do not just disenfranchise. They also confuse. By imposing heavy penalties for failing to correctly navigate complex provisions, these statutes confuse eligible voters and discourage them from exercising their right to vote. In this way, felon disenfranchisement laws resemble modern voter suppression laws: they deter eligible voters from voting. Modest reforms can and should be implemented to affirmatively inform formerly incarcerated individuals of their restored voting rights
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