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Children with neonatal Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy (HIE) treated with therapeutic hypothermia are not as school ready as their peers
No full textAbstractAim: We aimed to determine whether children with neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) treated with therapeutic hypothermia (TH) differ from their peers on measures of fine motor skills, executive function, language and general cognitive abilities; factors that are important for school readiness. Methods: We compared school readiness in 31children with HIE treated with TH (without Cerebral Palsy; mean age 5 years 4 months) with 20 typically developing children without HIE (mean age 5 years 6 months). Results: Children with HIE scored significantly lower than typically developing children on fine motor skills, executive functions, memory and language. Conclusion: While general cognitive abilities and attainment were in the normal range, our findings suggest those scores mask specific underlying difficulties identified by more focussed assessments. Children with HIE treated with TH may not be as “school ready” as their typically developing classmates and may benefit from long-term follow-up until starting school
Talking about a Christine Borland sculpture: effective empathy in contemporary anatomy art (and an emerging counterpart in medical training?)
No full textThis Introduction and interview discusses the poetical and empathic insights that are a key to the effectiveness of contemporary artist Christine Borland's practice and its relevance to the medical humanities, visual art research and medical students’ training. It takes place in a context of intensive interest in reciprocity and conversation as well as expert exchange between the fields of Medicine and Contemporary Arts. The interview develops an understanding of medical research and the application of its historical resources and contemporary practice-based research in contemporary art gallery exhibitions. Artists tend not to follow prescriptive programmes towards new historical knowledge, however, a desire to form productive relationships between history and contemporary art practice does reveal practical advantages. Borland's research also includes investigations in anatomy, medical practices and conservatio
List of witnesses at the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians public hearings
No full textHandwritten list of the seventeen testimonies recorded at the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians public hearings held at the Golden Gate University Auditorium in San Francisco, California from 12:00 Noon to 9:00 P.M on August 12, 1981.The testimonies were taped by Christine Asoo Umeda on a Sony Walkman recorder. Most of the witnesses were from Sacramento, California. Ms. Umeda was four years old when her family was incarcerated at Tule Lake and later transferred to Topaz, Utah. By the time of the hearings, Christine and Mary Tsukamoto were already involved in town hall meetings to advocate, educate, and help people prepare for the hearings
List of witnesses and cassette tape numbers from the 1981 Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians public hearings in San Francisco
No full textHandwritten list of seventeen testimonies from the 1981 Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians public hearings in San Francisco and the identification number of their recordings.The testimonies were taped by Christine Asoo Umeda on a Sony Walkman recorder. Most of the witnesses were from Sacramento, California. Ms. Umeda was four years old when her family was incarcerated at Tule Lake and later transferred to Topaz, Utah. By the time of the hearings, Christine and Mary Tsukamoto were already involved in town hall meetings to advocate, educate, and help people prepare for the hearings
Practitioner Profile: An Interview with Christine Moriarty
No full textChristine Moriarty, MBA, CFP® is a financial speaker, author and coach. She has been quoted extensively in publications including USA Today, Good Housekeeping, the Boston Globe and Fidelity Focus Magazine, as well as several books including Living Your Joy. She is a past columnist for Vermont Woman and has been published in several periodicals and on-line publications. In addition, she writes a monthly newsletter, “My Peace on Money,” that reaches a growing list of thousands of subscribers
Christine Iverson: Cook Prize 2024, Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Christine Iverson gives an acceptance speech for Santiago Saw Things Differently: Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Artist, Doctor, Father of Neuroscience (Mit Kids Press an imprint of Candlewick Press)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1009/thumbnail.jp
Board monitoring and judgement as processes of sensemaking
No full textWhen organizational scandals occur, the common refrain among commentators is: 'Where was the board in all this?' 'How could the directors not have known what was going on?''Why didn't the board intervene?' The scandals demonstrate that board monitoring or oganizational performance is a matter of great importance. By monitoring, we mean the act of keeping the organization under review. In many English-speaking countries, directors have a legal duty of care, which includes duties to monitor the performance of their organizations (Hopt and von Hippel 2010). However, statutory law typically merely states the duty, while providing little guidance on how that duty can be met. \u
La Boite Theatre: A Brief History
No full textThis brief history was requested by La Boite Theatre Company and completed in February 2007. As a series of printed panels with accompanying photographs this history is available to the public in the foyer area of The Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove, home to La Boite. The author, Dr Christine Comans, is the Company’s official historian
Stimulant drug effects on attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a review of the effects of age and sex of patients
No full textObjective: As dopamine functioning varies by sex and age it might be expected that the effects of methylphenidate or amfetamine, the psychostimulants used for the treatment of Attention Deficit /Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), will also be moderated by these factors. Here we review the published literature on whether stimulant effects in ADHD symptoms vary by age and sex.Method: We searched for studies published from 1989 until October 2009. Databases searched included U. S. National Library of Medicine (PubMed), Medline, EMBASE, PsycINFO and ISI Web of Knowledge. Firstly, we reviewed the effects of stimulant drugs on male and female patients and also patients of pre-school, middle childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Secondly, we reviewed studies that directly tested the moderating effect of age and sex on stimulant treatment outcome.Results: Randomised controlled trials confirm that stimulant medication is efficacious for, and well tolerated by, males and females and patients across the age range; although preschoolers appear to have a less beneficial response and more side effects. Few studies that specifically examined the moderating effect of age and/or sex were identified. For sex, no effects on overall response were found, although one study reported that sex moderated methylphenidate pharmacodynamics. The few effects found for age were small and inconsistent.Conclusions: The available evidence suggests that stimulant medication, when appropriately administered, has efficacy as an ADHD treatment for both sexes and across all ages. There are currently too few published papers examining the effects of sex and age to draw strong conclusions about moderation. Further studies of the pharmacodynamics of stimulants on symptoms measured using objective tests in the laboratory or classroom setting need to be undertaken.</p
Christine de Pizan and Biblical Wisdom: A Feminist-Theological Point of View
No full textFifteenth-century author Christine de Pizan is admired for the extensiveness and the diversity of her writing, and is best known for her insightful defense of women. She, like many medieval writers, often used literary personification as a vehicle for conveying her thought. It has been noticed by many commentators that a number of the female literary figures Christine created had an unmistakably deified aura about them. A close engagement with her work reveals that when the need arose to affirm the inherent worth of women, or to herald the outstanding achievements of women, or to argue for the placement of women and men in the created order as equal partners in a common humanity, or to validate herself as a person of sound wisdom and learning, Christine added a theological dimension to her writing which included an affirming and wisdom-inspiring female symbol for deity. This current study, drawing upon the insights of today\u27s feminist scholars in religion, has attempted to demonstrate that the female literary theological figures she developed for the purpose of feminist authentication were inspired to a significant extent by the female figure of biblical Wisdom. Moreover, it has been shown that the scriptural Wisdom text that Christine used most extensively was the book of the Wisdom of Solomon. Scholars have long noted that in the three works under discussion here - L\u27epistre Othea la deesse, L\u27advision Cristine, and Le livre de la cite des dames - Christine utilized, borrowed from, and often revised many traditional examples of female empowerment. The recognition of her poetic as well as didactic use of the imposing female figure of biblical Wisdom adds another intriguing interpretative element to an understanding of the feminist dimension of Christine\u27s thought
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