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Combatting Periodontal Disease: Potential use of Cannabidiol
No full textPeriodontal diseases are highly prevalent around the globe, affecting approximately 538 million individuals worldwide. In the United States, 64.7 million adults (46%) age 30 and older are impacted.1–4Periodontal diseases are chronic disorders of the periodontium, and many modalities exist to combat, reduce, and prevent these oral health problems.5,6 In some instances, adjunctive local and systemic antibiotic therapies and even surgery may be necessary. A new and emerging modality, however, cannabidiol (CBD) may help reduce the inflammatory response associated with this chronic destructive disease
Taking The Liberty: Toward a Theory of Copyright and Creativity
No full textIn the three hundred year history of statutory copyright debates have continued to rage about the aims of copyright law and how it can best fulfill them. Striking a balance between the disparate interests of content creators, publishers, and the public domain has proved persistently difficult. Yet, a myopic focus on the intricacies of legal policy has often obscured the underlying issues that plague copyright law on a fundamental, ideological level. This article will argue that the fundamental problem in copyright law is an incomplete theorization of the nature of creativity and creative work. It will trace an intellectual history of copyright theorization in two major theoretical frameworks: classical liberalism and cultural Marxism. Based upon this review, it will suggest a third framework, ritual economy, as capable of theorizing the economics of creative work more completely. It concludes with an application of ritual economy to the popular music industry
PROMOTING HEALTHCARE ADVOCACY AMONG STUDENTS: UTILIZATION OF A MULTIPRONGED APPROACH
No full textA novel multipronged approach was implemented in an urban state university to increase nursing advocacy focused on access to healthcare. Nursing students reported increased confidence, willingness, awareness, and participation in advocacy efforts which have contributed to engagement in legislative activities, passage of legislation, and development of health policy in Georgia. </i
Disabling Prejudice: A Case Study of Images of Paralympic Athletes and Attitudes Toward People With Disabilities
No full textPart of the goal of the International Paralympic Committee is to “touch the heart of all people for a more equitable society” by exposing people to adaptive sports, with the goal of improving public views toward people with disabilities. The authors hypothesized that exposure to parasocial contact with images of athletes with disabilities could lead to a change in attitude during the formation of social identity, disrupting the tendency to view the population of individuals with physical disabilities as “other. ” This case study found that viewing a documentary of a Paralympic sprinter produced in the same style as an Olympic feature appeared to affect the emotional components of attitude formation, especially when compared with respondents who viewed a comparable documentary about an able-bodied athlete. These findings are of interest to proponents of adaptive sports, producers of adaptive-sports media, and marketers who use athletes with disabilities in advertising campaigns
Diversity in Health Care: A Case of Diversity in Long-Term Care
No full textAchieving diversity is a necessity in any organization but is especially important in long-term care. The care delivered is to a diverse group of patients and their families. Therefore, this case allows the analysis of diversity in one long-term care company. While Federal EEO requirements include a report of diversity annually for employers and contractors, this is a further analysis of the diversity data used for reporting. Looking into frequency and distributive statistics allows a better understanding of the diversity of this company
"Angel and Puppet," "Errancy," "Calisthenics," "Poetics," "Eternity Scorned," 'Histrionics"
No full textSpecial Edition: Southern Perils, edited by Camille Martin
Tennessee Williams’ South and Southern Women: Casualties of Modern American South
No full textTennessee Williams, one of the icons of modern American drama, grapples with the disintegrating values of his society, a world formally based on chivalry and charm. After losing the American Civil War, Southerners still promoted their cause by what may be described as a fierce protection of their values against a progressive North, and thus began the “cult of the Lost Cause,” which popularized a romantic and idealized view of the region (Hobson 245). Williams sets many of his plays in the American South, and utilizes specific sets of values, recognizable to his audiences as the myth of the Old South, to show how individuals struggle to maintain old values in a post-Civil War society. Analyzing Williams’ prize-winning plays, The Glass Menagerie (1944) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), within theoretical approaches that include, new formalist, biographical, new historicism, and feminist criticisms show, with telling finality, the collapse of the value-system of the American South in the face of a harsh modern society. His female characters are casualties, victims of an encroaching modern American South as they are overwhelmed by the collision of beauty, love, grace, poise, esteem, idealized homes, wealth, virtue and courtesy with the brutal realities of modern American South that comprise rape, insanity, hardship, poverty and the loss of propriety, honor, order and dignity. Williams’ female characters, notwithstanding the strong emergence of the modern values that threaten their venerated cultural sensibilities, cling tenaciously to whatever shreds of the ebbing revered values of the Old South they can still handle. While showing how his heroines are steeped in Southern tradition or culture of the past, Williams depicts the familiar Southern icon, the Southern Belle, but distorts her image to the extent that his audience tends to doubt both the survival of the old tradition and the authenticity of the myth of the Southern Belle
International alliances with competitors and non-competitors: The disparate impact on SME international performance
No full textThe international entrepreneurship literature maintains that small and medium size firms can suffer from resource constraints as they move abroad. To alleviate this problem research suggests participating in strategic alliances. We develop and test the theoretical perspective that not all alliances are the same; cooperative agreements with non-competitors and competitors have disparate direct and moderating impacts on international performance. Based on an analysis of 162 British and U.S. private SMEs our results indicate that alliances with non-competitors are positively associated with international performance but that alliances with competitors are negatively related. In addition our findings suggest that in alliances with non-competitors entrepreneurial orientation helps SMEs increase international performance and that in alliances with competitors entrepreneurial orientation simply reduces the negative impact
