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Ovarian steroid cell tumor in pregnancy-a rare occurrence: Report of a case and review of the literature
No full textBackground: Steroid-cell tumors of the ovary are very rare, especially during pregnancy, and they must be distinguished from luteoma of pregnancy.
Case: An 18-year-old female, gravida 3, para 1-0-1-1, at 38 weeks' of gestation, had an adnexal mass that was discovered incidentally during a Caesarean section. The tumor was excised and her male infant was normal.
Results: Histologic workup revealed the tumor to be a steroid-cell tumor, which is exceedingly rare in pregnancy.
Conclusions: Ovarian steroid-cell tumors, which are malignant one-third of the time, are difficult to distinguish from luteoma of pregnancy.Peer reviewe
Smile by R. Telgemeier - 2nd review
No full textTelgemeier, Raina. Smile. New York: Scholastic, 2010. Print I picked the book Smile to review because it tells you about the author\u27s childhood. Going to the dentist, getting braces, going for gum surgery, severely injuring her two front teeth, and getting fake ones, while that\u27s going on, she was in a major earthquake. After getting braces her friends were making fun of her and when she finally left middle school and goes off to high school she finds new friends that are kind to her. And then when she got her braces off they did not make fun of her. That\u27s how she knew she found her true friends. I give this 4 out of 5. I recommend this book to anybody that likes graphic novels.Recommended: 4 out of 4 stars Reviewer: ShaunaMy name is Shauna and I like to read graphic novels
Adapting food environment frameworks to recognize a wild-cultivated continuum
Get PDFFood environments, or interfaces between consumers and their food systems, are a useful lens for assessing global dietary change. Growing inclusivity of nature-dependent societies in lower-and middle-income countries is driving recent developments in food environment frameworks. Downs et al. (2020) propose a food environment typology that includes: wild, cultivated, informal and formal market environments, where wild and cultivated are “natural food environments.” Drawing from transdisciplinary perspectives, this paper argues that wild and cultivated food environments are not dichotomous, but rather exist across diverse landscapes under varying levels of human management and alteration. The adapted typology is applied to a case study of Indigenous Pgaz K’Nyau food environments in San Din Daeng village, Thailand, using the Gallup Poll’s Thailand-adapted Diet Quality Questionnaire with additional food source questions. Wild-cultivated food environments, as classified by local participants, were the source of more food items than any other type of food environment (37% of reported food items). The case of Indigenous Pgaz K’Nyau food environments demonstrates the importance of understanding natural food environments along a continuum from wild to cultivated
Associations between women's empowerment, infant and young child feeding, and child anemia in rural Senegal
No full textMalnutrition in all its forms includes undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight/obesity. The determinants of malnutrition are inadequate dietary intake and disease, with underlying factors of food insecurity, poor health and household environments, and inadequate care practices. Children under 2 years are especially vulnerable to malnutrition because of rapid growth rates, and their nutritional status is directly affected by infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. Mothers are typically the primary caregivers who are responsible for IYCF. However, for women with low status and unequal access to resources, it is difficult to implement the best care practices. In rural Senegal, where gender inequalities and anemia are prevalent, appropriate complementary feeding practices are of most concern. The present study explores how women’s empowerment is related to IYCF practices and child anemia in the context of rural Senegal. This is a cross-sectional secondary data analysis of subsistence farming households, surveying mothers 15 to 49 years with children aged 0 to 23 months (n=521). Findings show that among children 6 to 23 months (n=484), 41.7% met minimum dietary diversity, 22.3% consumed a minimum acceptable diet, 51.4% had any unhealthy food consumption, and 65.7% consumed zero vegetables and fruits. Mother’s empowerment scores, measured on a scale from 0 to 9, were very low (mean 2.89±1.96). Binary logistic regression revealed few significant differences in IYCF with women’s empowerment as a predictor— having personal savings was the only significant determinant of meeting minimum dietary diversity in unadjusted analyses. The relationship between women’s status and IYCF practices could not be well-established in this study. However, our findings highlight the severity of suboptimal IYCF practices, child anemia, and low women’s status in rural Senegal.M.S.Includes bibliographical reference
Loving literature : a cultural history /
No full text"Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most common--and perhaps the most wounding--is that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studies does acknowledge and address personal attachments to literature, that answer risks obscuring a more fundamental question: Why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literature. How did it come to be that professional literary scholars are expected not just to study, but to love literature, and to inculcate that love in generations of students? What Lynch discovers is that books, and the attachments we form to them, have long played a role in the formation of private life--that the love of literature, in other words, is neither incidental to, nor inextricable from, the history of literature. Yet at the same time, there is nothing self-evident or ahistorical about our love of literature: our views of books as objects of affection have clear roots in late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century publishing, reading habits, and domestic history."--Publisher's Web site.Includes bibliographical references and index.At home in English -- Choosing an author as you choose a friend -- Making it personal -- Possessive love -- Literary history and the man who loved too much -- Wedded to books: nineteenth-century bookmen at home -- English literature for everyday use -- Going steady: canons' clockwork -- Dead poets societies -- Canon love in Gothic libraries -- Poetry at death's door."Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most common--and perhaps the most wounding--is that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studies does acknowledge and address personal attachments to literature, that answer risks obscuring a more fundamental question: Why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literature. How did it come to be that professional literary scholars are expected not just to study, but to love literature, and to inculcate that love in generations of students? What Lynch discovers is that books, and the attachments we form to them, have long played a role in the formation of private life--that the love of literature, in other words, is neither incidental to, nor inextricable from, the history of literature. Yet at the same time, there is nothing self-evident or ahistorical about our love of literature: our views of books as objects of affection have clear roots in late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century publishing, reading habits, and domestic history."--Publisher's Web site
Trans-Border Reformulation: US and Canadian Experiences with trans Fat
Get PDFFood managers are engaged in altering the nutritional quality of diets. They do so directly through product innovation strategies (food manufacturers) and the selection of products available in stores (grocers and restaurants) and indirectly through distribution and promotion strategies and prices. Decisions to alter products, menus, assortments and marketing strategies are drivers of supply, which interact with consumer demand to impact the nutritional quality of food available, purchased and eventually consumed. The sequence of managerial decisions leading to product-level marketing mixes is explored.
This case-study provides a comparison of monitored industry self-regulation of trans fat (Canada primarily) and more autonomous firm strategy (US primarily) on the nutrient quality of new cookies launched between 2006-12. Cookies were selected for this case-study given that they are commonly consumed and have traditionally contained trans fat. Differences between food labeling policies in the US and Canada are then compared to explore the merits of a conceptual model
Table_1_1_Adapting food environment frameworks to recognize a wild-cultivated continuum.pdf
No full textFood environments, or interfaces between consumers and their food systems, are a useful lens for assessing global dietary change. Growing inclusivity of nature-dependent societies in lower-and middle-income countries is driving recent developments in food environment frameworks. Downs et al. (2020) propose a food environment typology that includes: wild, cultivated, informal and formal market environments, where wild and cultivated are “natural food environments.” Drawing from transdisciplinary perspectives, this paper argues that wild and cultivated food environments are not dichotomous, but rather exist across diverse landscapes under varying levels of human management and alteration. The adapted typology is applied to a case study of Indigenous Pgaz K’Nyau food environments in San Din Daeng village, Thailand, using the Gallup Poll’s Thailand-adapted Diet Quality Questionnaire with additional food source questions. Wild-cultivated food environments, as classified by local participants, were the source of more food items than any other type of food environment (37% of reported food items). The case of Indigenous Pgaz K’Nyau food environments demonstrates the importance of understanding natural food environments along a continuum from wild to cultivated.</p
Reducing trans fat in the Indian food supply: a food systems approach
No full textNon-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death in India. A serious dietary risk factor for NCDs is the consumption of industrially-produced trans fat. The overall aim of this thesis was to examine the potential use of policy to improve the quality of fats that are available, affordable and acceptable in India using consumption-oriented food supply chain analysis. India will likely face significant challenges to reducing trans fat in its food supply given the perceived lack of trans fat awareness, the large unorganised manufacturing and retail sectors and a need for suitable alternative products that are both acceptable to consumers and affordable. Twenty-four policy solutions were identified to overcome these supply chain problems. Increasing the role of the private sector to improve links among producers, processors and retailers was identified as being key in terms of improving the availability of healthier oils and streamlining the fats supply chain in India. Improving policy coherence among upstream determinants of the quality of the food supply such as agricultural production and downstream consumer-facing policies such as trans fat limits and labelling is required to ensure that product reformulation is done in a way that maximises health gains
The Impact of Ethnic Geography Established in Colonial Kenya on Politics Post-Independence
Get PDFMany colonized nations post-independence struggle to maintain a political system representative of the majority of its people and instead consolidates power and resources to a select few. Kenya in particular has struggled with this, as they have been independent of British rule since 1963 yet have been unable to maintain an effective multi-party democratic system. Much of Kenya’s political turmoil comes from tensions amongst various ethnic groups as they fight to obtain access to power and resources for their specific groups. These tensions between ethnic groups can be traced back to British colonial rule as Britain initially divided the region into distinct districts giving groups of people tribal identities based on their location. While this style of rule mostly benefited European settlers, some tribal groups would benefit more than others based on their location and access to resources. This paper will look at how this system which consolidated power to a select few, would have lasting effects in Kenyan politics and result in a struggle to maintain an effective multi-party democracy.Peer reviewe
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