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Richard Millett
No full textRichard C. Millett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Millett, received his Duty to God Award
Nebraska, Omaha -- 1962 -- Correspondence, OPV National -- letter, 1962-06-18
No full textLetter from Millett, Clinton C. to Sabin, Albert B. dated 1962-06-18.Sabin Collection Fair Use Policy</a
Oral History Interview with Ethel Blaine, April 24, 2000
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ethel ""Sally"" Blaine Millett. Millett grew up in Missouri and went to nurses training in San Diego, California. She volunteered for the Philippines in 1941. She witnessed the bombing at Clark Field. She took care of the soldiers wounded by Japanese strafing. When the bombing got too bad, the nurses left Statsenberg for Manila. Because of continued Japanese bombing all over the Philippines, the nurses had to keep moving as the hospitals moved. She describes having malaria and then having to evacuate from Bataan to Corregidor. Then they went to Mindanao where they were formally captured by the Japanese. They were moved to Davao and then to Santo Tomas. She describes losing her possessions. She describes life in the internment camp: the food, the work required, the sanitary conditions, the self-government, the birthrate, and the entertainment. Millett has to have an operation while at Santo Tomas. She also describes executions. Finally, the American soldiers arrived, and she took a plane home in February 1945. Her brother met her in San Francisco
Millett, Harris, Kirkham, Telford, Church of the Madelene, Geneve
No full textBlack and white photograph from Omer C. Stewart Album 2, page 2, showing missionaries Millett, Harris, Kirkham, and Telford outside the Church of the Madeleine in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1930
The 'Conditions of Eligibility' in 'The Wohunge of ure Lauerd'
No full textThe article examines the use of the 'topos' of Christ's eligibility as a lover in 'The Wohunge of ure Lauerd', noting parallels in the related early thirteenth-century Middle English works Ancrene Wisse and 'Epistel of Meidenhad', and also (as identified by Nicole Beriou and David d'Avray) in later thirteenth-century Paris marriage sermons. It traces the historical development of the 'topos' from the late patristic period onwards, and argues that the parallels between the 'Ancrene Wisse' Group works and the later Paris sermons point to a common origin in the preaching of the schools c. 1200
Associations between active travel and weight, blood pressure and diabetes in six middle income countries: a cross-sectional study in older adults
No full textBACKGROUND:
There is little published data on the potential health benefits of active travel in low and middle-income countries. This is despite increasing levels of adiposity being linked to increases in physical inactivity and non-communicable diseases. This study will examine: (1) socio-demographic correlates of using active travel (walking or cycling for transport) among older adults in six populous middle-income countries (2) whether use of active travel is associated with adiposity, systolic blood pressure and self-reported diabetes in these countries.
METHODS:
Data are from the WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) of China, India, Mexico, Ghana, Russia and South Africa with a total sample size of 40,477. Correlates of active travel (≥150 min/week) were examined using logistic regression. Logistic and linear regression analyses were used to examine health related outcomes according to three groups of active travel use per week.
RESULTS:
46.4% of the sample undertook ≥150 min of active travel per week (range South Africa: 21.9% Ghana: 57.8%). In pooled analyses those in wealthier households were less likely to meet this level of active travel (Adjusted Risk Ratio (ARR) 0.77, 95% Confidence Intervals 0.67; 0.88 wealthiest fifth vs. poorest). Older people and women were also less likely to use active travel for ≥150 min per week (ARR 0.71, 0.62; 0.80 those aged 70+ years vs. 18-29 years old, ARR 0.82, 0.74; 0.91 women vs. men). In pooled fully adjusted analyses, high use of active travel was associated with lower risk of overweight (ARR 0.71, 0.59; 0.86), high waist-to-hip ratio (ARR 0.71, 0.61; 0.84) and lower BMI (-0.54 kg/m(2), -0.98;- 0.11). Moderate (31-209 min/week) and high use (≥210 min/week) of active travel was associated with lower waist circumference (-1.52 cm (-2.40; -0.65) and -2.16 cm (3.07; -1.26)), and lower systolic blood pressure (-1.63 mm/Hg (-3.19; -0.06) and -2.33 mm/Hg (-3.98; -0.69)).
CONCLUSIONS:
In middle-income countries use of active travel for ≥150 min per week is more common in lower socio-economic groups and appears to confer similar health benefits to those identified in high-income settings. Efforts to increase active travel levels should be integral to strategies to maintain healthy weight and reduce disease burden in these settings
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Does mentoring deserve another look?
No full textIn recent decades, mentoring has been identified as a worthwhile workplace learning activity for men, women and minority groups in a variety of organisational settings such as large and small corporations, government departments, hospitals, universities and schools. Mentoring has received enormous coverage in both the popular literature and academic literature. Some of these sources have hailed the mentoring process as a panacea for a variety of personal ills (Torrance 1984), while a smaller body of literature has cautioned about the 'dark side' of mentoring (Long 1997). The purpose of this chapter is to report on findings from empirical research conducted in the area of mentoring in order to draw more than tentative conclusions about its benefits and limitations, and its implications, challenges and future directions for human resource (HR) managers and other stakeholders affected by it
Evaluating the impact of financial incentives on inequalities in smoking cessation in primary care
No full textBackground:
Smoking cessation interventions are underprovided in primary care. This thesis examines the
impact of financial incentives on the provision of smoking cessation interventions, and
inequalities in provision, in primary care.
Methods:
• Systematic review of financial incentives for smoking cessation in healthcare.
• Cross sectional study using general practice data from Wandsworth, London, using
logistic regression to examine associations between ethnicity and disease group with
ascertainment of smoking status and provision of cessation advice following the
introduction of the UK’s Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF).
• Before-and-after studies using general practice data from Hammersmith & Fulham,
London, looking at the impact of a local financial incentive scheme (QOF+) on
smoking outcomes for patients without smoking-related diseases (primary
prevention), and antenatal patients, using logistic regression to examine inequalities.
Results:
Introduction of financial incentives was associated with increased recording of smoking
status and advice to smokers, most evident for patients with smoking-related diseases
compared with patients without smoking-related diseases, for whom there were much smaller
incentives for recording smoking status and none for offering stop smoking advice. However, when specific incentives were provided for primary prevention large improvements in
smoking outcomes were seen.
The youngest and oldest groups of patients were less likely to be asked about smoking. White
British patients were more likely to smoke than other ethnic groups, except Black Caribbean
men with depression, 62% of whom smoked. Smoking advice was provided relatively
equitably, but Black Caribbean men with depression were less likely to receive advice than
White British men with depression (59% vs 81%). Disparities in smoking outcomes with
respect to age and ethnicity persisted after the financial incentives were introduced.
Conclusions:
Introduction of financial incentives was associated with increases in recording smoking status
and largely equitable provision of cessation advice, but variations in smoking outcomes
between groups persisted. Extending financial incentives to include recording of ethnicity
and rewarding quit rates may further improve smoking outcomes in primary care.Open Acces
Take up and use of subsidised public transport: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
No full textBackground
Since 2006 England has had a bus pass scheme which provides free bus travel for older people. The scheme is universal but there are questions over whether take up is equitable.
Methods
Data come from waves 6 and 7 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing collected in 2012 and 2014. Logistic regression assessed factors associated with take up of a free bus pass by 2014 among eligible people without a pass in 2012, and associations of this with public transport use in 2014.
Results
Of those eligible for a free bus pass in 2012, 16.1% did not have one. 18.8% of these people had taken up a bus pass by 2014. Take up was equitable according to wealth and other individual characteristics but was more common among people retiring from paid work (AOR 2.33, p = 0.025), and moving house (AOR 2.76, p = 0.014). People who took up a free bus pass were more likely to use public transport in 2014 (AOR 3.23, p < 0.001).
Discussion
Take up of the free bus pass is equitable across groups, and is strongly linked to public transport use among older people
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