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Letter: Kate Louise Roberts to Ida M. Tarbell, February 14, 1929
No full textLetter, 4 pages. Writes of discrepancies in researc
Letter: Kate Louise Roberts to Ida M. Tarbell, November 7, 1937
No full textHandwritten letter. 2 page
Kate: Cofiant Kate Roberts 1891-1985
No full textThis substantial monograph is the culmination of many years of extensive and exhaustive research. All the sources were primary sources, including the discovery of Kate Roberts’ ‘lost diary’ of 1940 and 1946. The author gathered material from over a dozen different libraries, and meticulously studied hundreds of letters written by Kate Roberts to various friends, as well as combing through countless periodicals and local newspapers. He based his original literary assessment of her work on this extensive research over many years
Kate Roberts
No full textThis is an introduction to the life and work of Kate Roberts, the most important woman writer ever to have emerged from Wales. It offers a comprehensive account of her life, from her birth into a life of poverty and hardship in the slate-quarrying region of Snowdonia to her death almost a hundred years later in Denbigh
A study to establish 16 year old students' views of an ergonomic schoolbag
No full textLow back pain has been called a 20th century enigma 1 which continues to cause disability and distress in a large proportion of the adult population. Within the last decade, it has been recognised that adolescents increasingly report back discomfortIn a cross-sectional postal study, amongst a Danish population of 29,424 twins, born between 1953 and 1982, Leboeuf-Yde and Kyvik report a rapid increase in back pain prevalence after the age of 12 years 2. By the age of 18 years (girls) and 20 years (boys), more than 50% of the study population reported experiencing at least one back pain episode. A five year, longitudinal survey, with 216 British eleven-year-olds, showed the prevalence of back pain rising by about 10% per year, from 11.6% at age 11 + to 50.4% at 15+ years 3.Despite these significant increases with age, a link between childhood and adult back pain remains highly controversial. Although adolescent back pain does appear to increase with age, in general it is not reported to deteriorate with time 3. Many episodes in the young are readily forgotten and treatment is not usually required. Indeed, Burton et al. conclude that much of the symptomatology may be considered a normal life experience 3
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