75 research outputs found
What God in the Kingdom of Bastards
No full textA collection exploring boyhood in a world of violence and death.Master of Fine Arts (MFA)MFA in Creative WritingUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/176777/1/Gyamfi_WhatGodInTheKingdomOfBastards_2023.pd
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Like Electricity Over the Makombo Village
No full textThis poem follows the life of a child soldier during the rise of Joseph Rao Kony in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Bennett, ChadWritin
Ancient Egyptian Medicine: A Systematic Review
No full textOur present day knowledge in the area of medicine in Ancient Egypt has been severally sourced from medical papyri several of which have been deduced and analyzed by different scholars. For educational purposes it is always imperative to consult different literature or sources in the teaching of ancient Egypt and medicine in particular. To avoid subjectivity the author has found the need to re-engage the efforts made by several scholars in adducing evidences from medical papyri. In the quest to re-engage the efforts of earlier writers and commentaries on the medical papyri, we are afforded the opportunity to be informed about the need to ask further questions to enable us to construct or reconstruct both past and modern views on ancient Egyptian medical knowledge. It is this vocation the author sought to pursue in the interim, through a preliminary review, to highlight, comment and reinvigorate in the reader or researcher the need for a continuous engagement of some pertinent documentary sources on Ancient Egyptian medical knowledge for educational and research purposes. The study is based on qualitative review of published literature. The selection of those articles as sources was based on the focus of the review, in order to purposively select and comment on articles that were published based either on information from a medical papyrus or focused on medical specialization among the ancient Egyptians as well as ancient Egyptian knowledge on diseases and medicine. It was found that the Egyptians developed relatively sophisticated medical practices covering significant medical fields such as herbal medicine, gynecology and obstetrics, anatomy and physiology, mummification and even the preliminary form of surgery. These practices, perhaps, were developed as remedies for the prevailing diseases and the accidents that might have occurred during the construction of their giant pyramids. It must be stated that they were not without flaws. Also, the key issues raised from these literatures are but a few among the Egyptian medical corpus across the academic and publishing world. It should therefore afford researchers, students and readers the opportunity to continue the educational dialogue on the medical practices of the Ancient Egyptians
Retelling the Story of Judah and Tamar in the Testament of Judah
No full textMany Christians assume that Old Testament documents were „Christianised. during the New Testament era, although the process predates the New Testament. This assumption may be premised on the lack of much information about how early Christians re-interpreted Old Testament stories to meet new trends of thinking during the Inter-Testament period. This paper, therefore, focuses on the story of Judah and Tamar in Genesis 38, which is retold in the Testament of Judah to discover the intentions and the worldviews of the author of the Testament of Judah. For the presupposition of this paper, the Testament of Judah will be studied as a Christian document. The other side of the debate that the Testaments are the works of a Jewish author is thus put aside at least for a while in this paper. This is because the Testaments look more like a Christian document than Jewish. As a result, the texts for comparison would be the LXX and the Greek version of theTestaments. The paper utilizes literary analyses of the two passages while it progresses through three main headings; the overall structure of the Testament of Judah, exegesis of the story of Judah and Tamar in both Genesis 38 and The Testament of Judah, an analysis of key characters and a summary of the significant differences between the two stories. The paper concludes that the world view of the author of the Testament thought of women as channels through which the devil overcomes man in battles of the mind, thereby, leading men into impurity. Hence, Bathshua and Tamar are thus presented as the „victimizers. while Judah is portrayed in the Testament as an old man who had gained experience with time whose strengths and weakness serve as example for his sons. Keywords: Testament of Judah, Second Temple Judaism, Pseudepigrapha, Judah and Tamar, Retelling
Positive Scholarship for K-20 Education in Africa
No full textChallenges of the modern global world require a change in thinking and reform of educational curricular to incorporate means through which education can enhance scholarship and career advancement for adult learners in Africa. The main objective of this chapter is to develop K-20 educational strategies that promote scholarship and career development to meet the complex human resource demand of the business industry in Africa. The exploration focuses on the type of education that combines both work and scholarship through formal and informal means. The chapter critically examines the approaches that educational institutions should follow to enrich their curricular activities with work experience. The author discusses the means through which the opportunities from the industry could be employed to create conducive learning environment for learners pursuing K-20 education. </jats:p
Natural organic matter-cations complexation and its impact on water treatment: A critical review
No full textThe quality and quantity of natural organic matter (NOM) has been observed to evolve which poses challenges to water treatment facilities. Even though NOM may not be toxic itself, its presence in water has aesthetic effects, enhances biological growth in distribution networks, binds with pollutants and controls the bioavailability of trace metals. Even though NOM has heterogeneous functional groups, the predominant ones are the carboxyl and the phenolic groups, which have high affinities for metals depending on the pH. The properties of both the NOM and the trace elements influence the binding kinetics and preferences. Ca2+ prefers to bind with the carboxylic groups especially at a low pH while Zn2+ prefers the amine groups though practically, most cations bind to several functions groups. The nature of the chemical environment (neighboring ligands) the ligand finds itself equally influences its preference for a cation. The presence of NOM, cations or a complex of NOM-cations may have significant impact on the efficiency of water processes such as coagulation, adsorption, ion exchange resin and membrane filtration. In coagulation, the complexation between the coagulant salts and NOM helps to remove NOM from solution. This positive influence can further be enhanced by the addition of Ca2+. A negative influence is however, observed in lime-softening method as NOM complexes with Ca2+. A negative influence is also seen in membrane filtration where divalent cations partially neutralize the carboxyl functional groups of NOM thereby reducing the repulsion effect on NOM and increasing membrane fouling. The formation of disinfection by-products could either be increased or reduced during chlorination, the speciation of products formed is modified with generally the enhancement of haloacetic acid formation observed in presence of metal cations. This current work, presents in details the interactions of cations and NOM in the environment, the preference of cations for each functional group and the possible competition between cations for binding sites, as well as the possible impacts of the presence of cations, NOM, or their complex on water treatment processes.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Sanitary Engineerin
The effects of knowledge sharing and knowledge application on service recovery performance
No full text© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. This study set out to discover the effects of knowledge sharing (KS) and knowledge application (KA) on service recovery performance (SRP) through survey-based research. The population of the study consisted of front-line employees of hotels in Accra. The study found significant and positive effects of both KS and KA on SRP. Data were analysed using linear and multiple regression
Intrauterine growth restriction with abnormal umbilical artery Dopplers: A harbinger for preeclampsia
No full textObjective: To determine whether abnormal umbilical artery Doppler velocimetry in the setting of unexplained intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is predictive of preeclampsia. Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of singleton pregnancies diagnosed with unexplained IUGR between 2005 and 2008. Subjects were classified based on the presence or absence of abnormal Dopplers. The proportions of preeclampsia in the two groups were compared. Results: A total of 268 cases were included in the study. There were 57 cases with abnormal umbilical artery Dopplers. Of those, preeclampsia was diagnosed in 8 (14.0percent) cases. In turn, there were 211 cases with normal Dopplers. Of those, preeclampsia was diagnosed in 9 (4.3percent) cases. After controlling for age and parity, patients with abnormal Dopplers were 2.9 times more likely to be diagnosed with preeclampsia. Conclusions: Cases of unexplained IUGR with abnormal umbilical artery Dopplers appear to be at increased risk of preeclampsia compared to those with normal Dopplers. © 2012 Informa UK, Ltd.ACOG Committee on Practice Bulletins-Obstetrics, 2002, OBSTET GYNECOL, V99, P159, DOI DOI 10.1016-S0029-7844(01)01747-1.PUBMED:16175681; Baschat AA, 2000, AM J OBSTET GYNECOL, V182, P154, DOI 10.1016-S0002-9378(00)70505-9; BATTAGLI.FC, 1967, J PEDIATR, V71, P159, DOI 10.1016-S0022-3476(67)80066-0; BILARDO CM, 1990, AM J OBSTET GYNECOL, V162, P115; BURKE G, 1990, BRIT MED J, V300, P1044; CASPER FW, 1995, EXP CLIN ENDOCR DIAB, V103, P292; CUNNINGHAM FG, 1992, NEW ENGL J MED, V326, P927; Dekker GA, 1999, CLIN OBSTET GYNECOL, V42, P422, DOI 10.1097-00003081-199909000-00002; Duckitt K, 2005, BRIT MED J, V330, P565, DOI 10.1136-bmj.38380.674340.E0; GERRETSEN G, 1981, BRIT J OBSTET GYNAEC, V88, P876, DOI 10.1111-j.1471-0528.1981.tb02222.x; Huppertz B, 2008, HYPERTENSION, V51, P970, DOI 10.1161-HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.107607; KARSDORP VHM, 1994, LANCET, V344, P1664, DOI 10.1016-S0140-6736(94)90457-X; Kaufmann P, 2003, BIOL REPROD, V69, P1, DOI 10.1095-bioreprod.102.014977; Kleinbaum D, 1982, EPIDEMIOLOGIC RES; Matsuo K, 2007, AM J PERINAT, V24, P257, DOI 10.1055-s-2007-976548; Maulik D, 2005, DOPPLER ULTRASOUND O; McCowan LME, 2000, BRIT J OBSTET GYNAEC, V107, P916, DOI 10.1111-j.1471-0528.2000.tb11092.x; MEEKINS JW, 1994, BRIT J OBSTET GYNAEC, V101, P669, DOI 10.1111-j.1471-0528.1994.tb13182.x; Mitani M, 2009, J OBSTET GYNAECOL RE, V35, P882, DOI 10.1111-j.1447-0756.2009.01120.x; Moore-Maxwell CA, 2004, GYNECOL ONCOL, V92, P708, DOI 10.1016-j.ygyno.2003.10.048; Ness RB, 2006, AM J OBSTET GYNECOL, V195, P40, DOI 10.1016-j.ajog.2005.07.049; Nugent CE, 1996, OBSTET GYNECOL, V87, P829; PATTINSON RC, 1994, BRIT J OBSTET GYNAEC, V101, P114, DOI 10.1111-j.1471-0528.1994.tb13075.x; PEETERS LLH, 1979, AM J OBSTET GYNECOL, V135, P637; ROBERTS JM, 1993, LANCET, V341, P1447, DOI 10.1016-0140-6736(93)90889-O; SAFTLAS AF, 1990, AM J OBSTET GYNECOL, V163, P460; Sibai BM, 2003, OBSTET GYNECOL, V102, P181, DOI 10.1016-S0029-7844(03)00475-7; SIBAI BM, 1995, AM J OBSTET GYNECOL, V172, P642, DOI 10.1016-0002-9378(95)90586-3; SOOTHILL P W, 1986, Fetal Therapy, V1, P176; Srinivas SK, 2009, J PERINATOL, V29, P680, DOI 10.1038-jp.2009.83; Stella CL, 2006, AM J PERINAT, V23, P499, DOI 10.1055-s-2006-954961; Todros T, 1999, OBSTET GYNECOL, V93, P499, DOI 10.1016-S0029-7844(98)00440-2; Tranquilli AL, 1996, ANN NY ACAD SCI, V783, P337, DOI 10.1111-j.1749-6632.1996.tb26738.x; Tranquilli AL, 2005, EUR J OBSTET GYN R B, V122, P45, DOI 10.1016-j.ejogrb.2004.11.020; VALCAMONICO A, 1994, AM J OBSTET GYNECOL, V170, P796; YOON BH, 1993, AM J OBSTET GYNECOL, V169, P158623
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