Cities Building Community Wealth

As cities struggle with rising inequality, widespread economic hardship, and racial disparities, something surprising and hopeful is also stirring. In a growing number of America's cities, a more inclusive, community-based approach to economic development is being taken up by a new breed of economic development professionals and mayors. This approach to economic development could be on the cusp of going to scale. It's time it had a name. We call it community wealth building

The human delusion: A discussion into the emergence of the posthuman through the deconstruction of the liberal humanist view of the self in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl

This dissertation will serve to investigate the deconstruction of the liberal humanist vision of the ‘self’ through a posthumanist reading of the two dystopian novels Oryx and Crake and The Windup Girl by Margaret Atwood and Paolo Bacigalupi respectively. By engaging with these two novels, this dissertation will focus primarily on a posthumanist reading of the texts and analyse the perceived image of the nineteenth century ‘man’ and discuss the possible disappearance of this view of what it means to be a human being. The introduction will explain the differences between the liberal humanist subject, the transhumanist subject and the posthumanist subject. The main body of the dissertation will then discuss key issues surrounding these three subjects. By focusing on epistemic shifts, the blurring of boundaries between humans and animals and the end of a capitalistic model of living, this dissertation serves to prove how these two novels expose the threat that the liberal humanist subject poses to itself and highlights the inevitable move to the posthuman. This dissertation also serves to discuss the possibility of the human and posthuman being able to survive together

Differential parent and teacher reports of school readiness in a disadvantaged community

Differential ratings by multiple informants are an important issue in survey design. Although much research has focused on differential reports of child behaviour, discrepancies between parent and teacher reports of children’s school readiness are less explored.

Perspectives on the application of technology to enhance learning in an undergraduate nursing degree programme

This paper discusses concepts and practice relating to the use of computer-based technologies for enhancing learning. It draws on examples from a UK nursing degree programme

The Management of Non-IgE-Mediated Allergies in Human Milk-Fed Infants

Background: Non-IgE (immunoglobulin E)-mediated food allergies (FA) present diagnostic and management challenges despite guidelines due to knowledge gaps amongst clinicians. Given that 60% of food protein-induced allergic proctocolitis (FPIAP) cases occur in breast-fed infants, maternal elimination diets are routinely prescribed to manage allergy symptoms. The implications of maternal dietary eliminations extend beyond maternal nutrition to consideration of infant nutrition and feeding skill acquisition. Methods: A survey-based retrospective, cross-sectional study sought to identify dietary triggers and symptom management techniques practiced by (n=59) lactating mothers of infants with confirmed and suspected cases of non-IgE FA in the United States. Statistical significance was set at p \u3c0.05 and correlations were performed using SPSS statistical software version 29.0. Results: Cow’s milk followed by soy represented the most common dietary antigens at 96.6% and 22.0% respectively of those surveyed. Of these, 88% reported maternal elimination of cow’s milk and 35.6% reported elimination of milk and soy. Only 14.3% of respondents received a referral to a dietitian. Among infants with confirmed or suspected non-IgE FA (n=59), 72.9% (n=43) continued breastfeeding during maternal elimination, 13.5% (n=8) transitioned to a hypoallergenic formula, and the other 5.1% (n=3) were fed a combination of breast milk and formula. The predominant symptoms reported were abdominal pain (59.3%), feeding difficulties (59.3%), and colic (50.8%). Conclusion: Based on the number of lactating mothers practicing cow’s milk avoidance, there are nutritional concerns for mothers and infants experiencing non-IgE FA. Dietitians can play a crucial role in supporting the breastfeeding mother through dietary eliminations for the management of non-IgE FA in their infant

An Analysis of Non-Dichotomous Laws

The US legal system relies on its ability to categorize cases presented to present verdicts in an orderly and timely manner. However, as individual identities become more multifaceted, our legal system fails to encompass all gender and racial identities for which protections exist. The acceptance of queer, nonbinary, trans, and intersex individuals has unveiled issues with the protections given to the traditional male/female dichotomy. These protections for males/females stood as the foundation for civil protections since the founding of our legal system. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 allowed for equal opportunity for all people on the “basis of sex”. This laid the foundation for the continuation of the LGBTQ movement, and lead to equal protections for those who do not fall into the traditional male/female dichotomy. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a non-dichotomous law – it gives protections to individuals without requiring them to self-identify. However, since its ratification, other statues that extended on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 required identification. The Education Amendments of 1972 dictated that all schools must be equal in stature and allowed for the creation of single-sex schools as long as they were all equally funded. It did not dictate how trans, nonbinary, or anyone who does not fit into a male/female dichotomy, fit into this mold. The existence of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a non-dichotomous law grants equal opportunity without requiring self-identification. Through the scope of a traditional feminist philosophical viewpoint, I will analyze what makes the Civil Rights Act non-dichotomous, and whether this framework can be applied to future laws, or if the absence of dichotomies requires further statues to clarify its protections