128 research outputs found
Fluoroquinolone-induced achilles tendinopathy – A case report and management recommendations
No full textFluoroquinolone antibiotics are frequently used in the management of infection despite being associated with several side effects including the potential to cause tendon injury. While numerous case reports of Achilles tendon injury related to fluoroquinolone exposure exist in the literature, there is a paucity of research evaluating the effectiveness of treatment interventions for the condition. The author presents a case of chronic bilateral Achilles tendinopathy associated with two separate exposures to ciprofloxacin and its subsequent management with eccentric loading exercises and extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT)
The presence of the past
No full textThis is the archive of a lecture given by Bernhard Schlink, acclaimed author and professor of law at Humbold University Berlin. Moderator: Mark Feeney, Boston Globe Living Arts Reporter and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. This lecture originally aired on WBUR's World of Ideas. Watch video on BUniverse at http://www.bu.edu/buniverse/view/?v=28bfah7q.Boston University Humanities Foundation; Brandeis University; Goethe Institut Boston; AGNI (literary journal); American Literary Translators Association (ALTA); Zephyr Pres
Is less more? Confirmatory factor analysis of the Attachment Style Questionnaires
No full textFew psychometric studies have confirmed the factor structure of the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ) (Feeney, Noller, & Hanrahan, 1994), a widely used self-report attachment measure. Moreover, no study has formally investigated the factor structure of the ASQ's short form (ASQ-SF) proposed by Alexander, Feeney, Hohaus, and Noller (2001). The aim of the present study was to validate the factor structures of the ASQ and ASQ-SF, and to identify the more parsimonious measure. In two studies, a nested factor model provided the best fit, the ASQ-SF was the more parsimonious measure, and results were consistent across age and gender groups. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed. © The Author(s), 2010
\u3cem\u3ePersonnel Administrator v. Feeney\u3c/em\u3e: A Policy Decision
No full textIn this casenote the author critically examines the recent decision of Personnel Administrator v. Feeney, in which the Supreme Court of the United States advanced a two-part test to probe for a discriminatory intent behind a facially gender-neutral state law. The author sets this decision in the context of other equal protection cases and concludes that this case reflects a policy decision by the Court not to sustain equal protection challenges to facially gender-neutral laws unless the legislature has unequivocally expressed an invidious intent to discriminate
Cancer Narrative with a Difference: Elaine Feeney΄s ‘As You Were’
No full textElaine Feeney ́s novel As You Were offers the story of a terminal cancer patient who forsakes any medical treatment. Narrating the final moments of her protagonist’s life, the author breaks with the traditional cancer novel formula in which a bellicose stance is prescriptive. Instead, the heroine’s stay at a hospital ward with other female patients constitutes Feeney ́s point of departure for writing a state-of-the-nation novel. The article discusses how the merging of different literary traditions, such as cancer narrative, literature of witness, or experimental fiction, allows the author to paint a poignant picture of Irish society, in which women, whose rights were historically curbed, empower each other through telling their life stories as well as reclaiming the life tales of their lost sisters. The analysis focuses on metaphors and narrative strategies that customarily underpin cancer stories and which can be identified in the novel. Secondly, the subversion of the cancer narrative is taken under scrutiny to demonstrate the experimental character of Feeney ́s novel. Subsequently, the ethical dimension of storytelling is given critical attention and the work ’s status as a state-of-the-nation novel is elaborated [email protected] Feldman-Kołodziejuk, Ph.D., is an assistant at the University of Białystok, Poland. She is a member of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies. Her publications oscillate around the literary representations of motherhood and literary geography in the North American context. She is an author of several articles and book chapters. She has also co-edited three volumes of collected essays The Fantastic and Realism (2019), Jews of Eastern Poland: Between Odessa and Vilnius (2019) and Inclusion & Exclusion in/au Canada (2024). In 2015 she was awarded a scholarship from the Corbridge Trust in Cambridge, England. In April – July 2022 she was a Visiting Fellow at The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University, Toronto. Her current research project pertains to the literary representations of Newfoundland.Uniwersytet w BiałymstokuAtwood, M. (1972) Survival: a thematic guide to Canadian literature. Toronto: House of Anansi.Beaumont, P. and Holpuch, A. (2018) How The Handmaid’s Tale dressed protests across the world. The Guardian, 3rd August. Available from https://www.theguardian. com/world/2018/aug/03/how-the-handmaids-tale-dressed-protests-across-theworld [Accessed on 20 March 2023].Bloomer, F. and Campbell, E. (2022) Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland. London: Bloomsbury Academic.Carragher, A. (2015) Elaine Feeney should come with a trigger warning. HeadStuff, 15 October. Available from https://headstuff.org/culture/literature/elaine-feeney/[Accessed on 20 March 2023].Connolly, L. 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Is the COVID-19 vaccination a ray of hope for the elimination of prevalent infectious diseases in the future?
No full textIn recent years, many disease outbreaks and pandemics have been reported and have posed serious public health challenges. Therefore, vaccination on a large scale is the only hope to prevent and control these vaccine-preventable diseases. This letter discusses the COVID-19 vaccination’s role in preventing other infectious diseases.</p
Big enough for all of us: geo-strategic competition in the Pacific Islands
No full textChina\u27s growing engagement in the Pacific Islands has fueled talk of great-power competition in the region. But viewing China\u27s activities in the region in geo-strategic terms is inappropriate and potentially counter-productive. Australia and the United States should focus on cooperating with China in aid and investment activities that support Pacific Island development priorities rather than building new security arrangements designed to compete with or manage China.
Key findings:
The rise of Chinese influence, which is driven predominantly by diverse commercial interests, does not presage a new era of geo-strategic competition in the Pacific Islands.
China’s engagement in the Pacific Islands is overshadowed by the dominance Australia enjoys in aid, trade, investment and defence links with the Pacific Islands region.
Increased external interest presents a new opportunity for Pacific Islands to achieve their development goals
Tempo-quantum and period-cohort interplay in fertility changes in Europe
No full textUsing detailed data on period and cohort fertility in four European countries, this paper discusses various indicators of period fertility, including indicators adjusted for changes in fertility timing. Empirical analysis focuses on the comparison of cohort fertility and corresponding indicators of period fertility; particular attention is paid to the periods of intensive postponement of childbearing. Some period indicators come consistently closer to the completed cohort fertility than the total fertility rates. This pattern of differential period-cohort approximation widely varies by birth order. Quite high level of approximation is provided by the tempo-adjusted birth probabilities of parity 1 and a combined indicator of total fertility. Two examples illustrate the use of indicators discussed in the paper: the first provides an estimation of the tempo (timing) and quantum (level) components in fertility change in the Czech Republic and the second presents projections of cohort fertility in the Czech Republic and Italy.cohort, Czech Republic, fertility, fertility timing, Italy, Netherlands, period fertility, Sweden
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