Intimacy and Sexuality: Toward a Lifespan Perspective

While the marketplace for sex-related goods and services, including drugs to remedy sexual dysfunction or enhance sexual experience, appears to be expanding exponentially, sexuality and intimacy are poorly understood aspects of human life and health. At some point, most adults experience sexual problems, concerns, or dysfunction, but physicians and other health care providers are poorly equipped to elicit discussion of or to treat these problems. Furthermore, social, cultural, and religious traditions largely exert negative influence on an individual's capacity for sexual self-knowledge and communication about sexual concerns. Ageist attitudes and overlapping health concerns further divert awareness and attention from sexual issues and exacerbate the problem for older adults. Physicians, the public, and policymakers alike assume that sexual expression and function inevitably wane and deteriorate with age. Even when sexual problems are anticipated or correctly diagnosed, a paucity of effective therapies prohibits treatment. To address these problems, a small consensus workshop of leading researchers on sexuality, intimacy, and aging was convened to review and evaluate current data on:sexuality and intimacy as part of a healthy lifestyle throughout lifecauses and impact of problems relating to sexuality and intimacypharmaceutical and other therapeutic interventions The workshop aimed to identify research gaps and disagreement about current data, to construct a research agenda for future work, and to make recommendations in order to assist individuals in maintaining a healthy sexual and intimate life into their later years

Iconic Designs, Icon Status, and Intellectual Property: Discussing Copyright and Fashion and the Ideal Mode of Protection for Fashion Designs and Patterns

In the United States, the establishment of copyright protection for fashion designs and patterns has been a struggle that has only partially been successful. Protections available under design patent, trademark, and trade dress law only provide insufficient protection to fashion designs. Since the Star Athletica v. Varsity decision, it is clear that fashion patterns enjoy sufficient protection under copyright law. In the European Union and in Germany, the intellectual property protection capital of Europe, fashion designs enjoy much greater protection than in the United States. This paper uses a comparative approach to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of providing more protection to argue that fashion designs should be granted protection even though they are intrinsically utilitarian, and to issue recommendations as to specific principles and elements that must be included in any legislation to introduce protection

Opening Pandora's box on the Balkans? The possibility of land swaps as conflict resolution for Kosovo

The thesis will consider the recent debate about land swaps as a possibility of final settlement between Serbia and Kosovo. While Kosovo has declared its independence unilaterally ten years ago and built its institutions with international support, Serbia has not recognized its former region as an independent state. The theoretical part will discuss power-sharing and partition as possible tools of conflict management. Both approaches include empirical and normative arguments for their theory. Land swaps in this context are discussed as a form of partition. The empirical part will analyse past attempts of negotiations since 1999. The idea of land swaps appeared within the framework of the EU facilitated dialogue; and the support and objection of relevant actors are analysed.https://www.ester.ee/record=b5243237*es

Gabon : HIV/AIDS

Gabon is a country in West Africa that has a population of 1.8 million and is a relatively poor nation. It has had quite a few public health and political problems in the last couple of years. These problems include water and electricity shortages along with HIV/AIDS. HIV seems to be one of the biggest public health problems in Gabon at this moment. There is quite a bit of the population that is living with this virus. However, there are many people that are living with this virus but either do not understand the severity of it or just do not have the means to take it seriously. There are many issues with safe sexual contact along with the ability for certain groups of people getting the chance to even take a HIV test. The group that has the most chance of getting tested would be females. There have been campaigns that have tried to help educate others and even just research that has been done to see how safe people who have HIV have been in Gabon but there needs to be more to help the people of Gabon

Research and development of HgZnTe as an infrared material

Interfacial morphology and Fermi level pinning behavior at the interfaces of Al, Ag, and Pt with UHV-cleaved CdTe and ZnTe have been studied using X-ray and ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopies. Results are compared to metal/HgCdTe interface formation, where the weak HgTe bond and consequent ease of Hg loss strongly influence semiconductor disruption and metal-semiconductor intermising. For Al/CdTe, the strong Al-Te reaction yields a significantly more extensive Al-Te reacted region than has been observed for HgCdTe. The Al/ZnTe interface is observed to be more abrupt than Al/CdTe. The final Fermi level pinning positions, Ef-Evbm for Al, Ag, and Pt on p-type CdTe and p-ZnTe have been determined. Efi is found to be roughly the same for both CdTe and ZnTe, with the value for ZnTe lying approximately 0.2 eV closer to the VBM for all three metals. From these results, one would expect Schottky barriers of about the same height for these metals on p-CdTe and p-ZnTe; and also that, in principle, metal interfaces with the two alloys HgCdTe and HgZnTe would have the same properties. Comparisons and implications for electrical behavior of metal contacts to the alloys are discussed

Artemis and Virginity in Ancient Greece

ABSTRACT This thesis will examine the nature and function of virginity in the service of Artemis. It will look at two famous virgins in classical literature, Iphigenia and Hippolytus, the girls called “bears” in the festival of Artemis at Brauron, the virgin choruses of Artemis in Sparta, prophetic and sacrificed virgins, abducted and dead virgins in Ovid (Daphne, Callisto, and Philomela), and the virgin goddess Artemis herself. Whereas previous studies emphasize social and legal aspects, arguing that virginity mattered in order to legitimize offspring and marriage, this study will attempt to demonstrate that virginity was originally largely a religious concept and that it occupied a significant place in ancient society, at least as reflected in literary sources. In classical antiquity, however, the chiefly religious properties of virginity became intellectualized as purity and chastity among poets and philosophers. Euripides and Plato were two early proponents. These concepts in the realm of ethics were further developed by pagan philosophers in late antiquity. Early Christian writers, who were heavily influenced by contemporary philosophical teachings, subsequently reclaimed virginity, purity, and chastity as religious properties in the service of God

Artemis and Virginity in Ancient Greece

ABSTRACT This thesis will examine the nature and function of virginity in the service of Artemis. It will look at two famous virgins in classical literature, Iphigenia and Hippolytus, the girls called “bears” in the festival of Artemis at Brauron, the virgin choruses of Artemis in Sparta, prophetic and sacrificed virgins, abducted and dead virgins in Ovid (Daphne, Callisto, and Philomela), and the virgin goddess Artemis herself. Whereas previous studies emphasize social and legal aspects, arguing that virginity mattered in order to legitimize offspring and marriage, this study will attempt to demonstrate that virginity was originally largely a religious concept and that it occupied a significant place in ancient society, at least as reflected in literary sources. In classical antiquity, however, the chiefly religious properties of virginity became intellectualized as purity and chastity among poets and philosophers. Euripides and Plato were two early proponents. These concepts in the realm of ethics were further developed by pagan philosophers in late antiquity. Early Christian writers, who were heavily influenced by contemporary philosophical teachings, subsequently reclaimed virginity, purity, and chastity as religious properties in the service of God