Guillain-Barré syndrome

Mr G.B. presented to casualty with bilateral weakness in distal lower limbs which was progressive. He had a history of gastrointestinal illness with severe diarrhoea. On examination he had decreased deep tendon reflexes (ankle jerk) and an unsteady gait. A lumbar puncture was done and the findings were unremarkable. An EMG was also done and confirmed Guillain-Barré Syndrome. He was treated with intravenous immunoglobulin and physiotherapy and he is currently still in hospital recovering well.peer-reviewe

More Than Just a Number? The Impact of Age and Generational Affiliation on Christian Academic Librarians’ Beliefs About the Future of Librarianship and Higher Education

This article investigates the relationship between academic librarians’ demographic characteristics and their beliefs about the future of academic librarianship and higher education. The researcher administered a survey to a group of academic librarians at Christian colleges and universities, with the intent of identifying possible correlations between particular demographic characteristics, such as age and generational affiliation, and four pre-established belief constructs. Statistical analysis of the survey results revealed that no significant differences exist between age groups, generational groups, experience levels, geographic locations, or type of institution with regard to Christian academic librarians’ beliefs about the future of academia and academic libraries

Engaging Ideas for Pathology Student Interest Group Meetings

Pathology Student Interest Groups (PSIG) are a recruitment tool supported by VCU Department of Pathology to attract medical students into pathology residency. VCU PSIG wanted to increase student attendance and engagement by choosing an off-site venue and employing gamification to increase student interaction with pathology residents and faculty

HBO Series Girls and Insecure’s Depiction of Race and Gender

In this research study the identification and representation of race and gender were looked at in the primetime HBO television series Insecure and Girls. The characters that were analyzed in two episodes were the young black women of Insecure and in two episodes the young white women in Girls. The method for this study was conducted using content analysis to identify the following variables focusing on identity, racial stereotypes and names used to address one another. Additionally, variables to identify gender included emotional approaches to situations, stereotypes and gender role expectations. The comprehensive findings revealed through similarities and differences of the episodes containing similar plot lines, as well as the overall analysis of each show, gave insight on how race and gender is being presented. Consistently throughout each of the episodes in terms of gender representation, emotional approaches to situations was the variable with a fair amount of content found. Although anticipated prior to conducting research, gender role expectations were shown less often by the women in each series. Race identity was another variable chosen that also resulted as being less frequently identifiable. In terms of race and gender stereotypes that were looked at, gender stereotypes were more prominent within each of the episodes. The variable used to identify race in each episode, names used to address one another, were mentioned more throughout the episodes of Insecure than in Girls

Moral aspirations and ideals

My aim is to vindicate two distinct and important moral categories – ideals and aspirations – which have received modest, and sometimes negative, attention in recent normative debates. An ideal is a conception of perfection or model of excellence around which we can shape our thoughts and actions. An aspiration, by contrast, is an attitudinal position of steadfast commitment to, striving for, or deep desire or longing for, an ideal. I locate these two concepts in relation to more familiar moral concepts such as duty, virtue, and the good to demonstrate, amongst other things, first, that what is morally significant about ideals and aspirations cannot be fully accommodated within a virtue ethical framework that gives a central role to the Virtuous Person as a purported model of excellence. On a certain interpretation, the Virtuous Person is not a meaningful ideal for moral agents. Second, I articulate one sense in which aspirations are morally required imaginative acts given their potential to expand the realm of practical moral possibility

Investing in Healthy, Sustainable Places Through Urban Agriculture

The purpose of this paper is to provide funders with an overview of urban agriculture and its benefits; its connections to the community-based food system; and how foundations are supporting and encouraging urban agriculture as a public health, social enterprise, environmental stewardship, and/or economic development strategy. With bibliographical references

Independent Evaluation of Water and Sanitation Hibah: Management Response

The Water and Sanitation Hibah is a program developed by the Australian Agency for International Development and the Indonesia Infrastructure Initiative whereby local governments are encouraged to invest in urban water utilities through an output-based payment mechanism. An independent evaluation of the program was conducted in 2011, which AusAID's management reviews and responds to in this document. They have endorsed plans to implement a second phase of the project taking into account the recommendations of the evaluation, which include improving monitoring and evaluation and mitigating environmental impacts

USA – Glass-Steagall on life support

Kimberely Anne McCoy (associate, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York) explains the debate in the USA about the Glass-Steagall Act 12 US Code (popular name of the Banking Act 1933 in the USA) and whether the long established legal division between commercial and investment banking in the United states should continue. Published in the Letter from … section of Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

Showcasing health psychology postgraduate research: contemporary theory and methods

This article describes a conference workshop organised by the author which showcased the breadth of current postgraduate research within the area of Health Psychology