233 research outputs found
A process evaluation for the HIV/AIDS project for the Mbekweni Area Development Programme
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 56-59).This dissertation is a process evaluation of Mbekweni Area Development Programme (MADP)'s HIV/AIDS project. The MADP is a programme that is implemented by World Vision South Africa. The aim of the process evaluation was to assess whether the HIV/AIDS project was implemented as intended. HIV/AIDS is a global problem, particularly prominent in South Africa. It has negatively affected families and communities resulting in increased social and economic burdens. The HIV/AIDS project at MADP uses prevention and care programmes to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS in targeted areas of Mbekweni. In order to achieve this aim, the project uses the following programme activities: home visitation, home-based care, life skills, material support and awareness campaigns. To conduct the process evaluation, programme records, interviews with three key informants and questionnaires with 35 programme staff were used to assess the programme?s implementation. Findings from the evaluation show that the programme activities are largely being implemented as intended by the organisation. The HIV/AIDS project is being delivered to the intended beneficiaries and all the activities are being implemented as intended by the organisation. However, to improve the effectiveness of the project a structure
Connecticut school immunization requirements / analyst: Nicole Dube
No full text1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages)"November 9, 2020."; Includes bibliographical references (2nd unnumbered page)Discusses Connecticut school immunization laws
Testing private residential wells / by Nicole Dube, principal analyst
No full text1 online resource (4 pages)"June 29, 2020."Discusses whether state law requires private residential wells to be tested for contaminant
Dube, Nicole (Nicole A.). 2019 state programs for older adults
No full text1 online resource (22 pages)"July 21, 2021."Discusses select state programs and services to assist older adults. Updates OLR research report 2019-R-023
Assisted living facility staffing requirements / by Nicole Dube, principal analyst
No full text1 online resource (2 pages)"June 17, 2020."Discusses whether state regulations establish minimum staffing requirements for assisted living facilitie
History of Connecticut school immunization requirements / by Nicole Dube, principal analyst
No full text1 online resource (3 pages)"August 3, 2021."Discusses legislative and regulatory changes made to Connecticut's school immunization schedul
COVID-19 and Connecticut long-term care facilities / analyst: Nicole Dube
No full text1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages)"December 14, 2020."Discusses Governor Lamont's executive orders (EO) affecting the state's long-term care facilitie
As faces de John Dube: memória, história e nação na África do Sul
No full textDefensor da humanidade dos povos africanos, criador do primeiro jornal e autor do primeiro romance em isizulu, fundador do African National Congress, John Langalibalele Mafukuzela Dube (1871-1946) consiste numa figura central da história e memória sul-africana moderna. Há pelo menos duas tendências significativas entre aqueles que, de final do século XIX ao início do século XXI, têm tomado Dube como objeto ou sujeito de interesse. Assim, de um lado, há aqueles que tendem a identificar Dube como colaborador da implementação do regime segregacionista sul-africano. Nesta perspectiva, que é dominante nos anos 1950-1970, Dube é visto como um zulu influente, mas que teria se tornado fantoche dos brancos, um incentivador da solidariedade racial em detrimento daquela de classes e, como tal, promotor dos fundamentos do Apartheid. De outro lado, a exemplo do que ocorre nos dias atuais no contexto da Nação Arco-Íris, há aqueles que veem em Mafukuzela um personagem central das lutas históricas contra a segregação racial, inscrevendo-o como uma espécie de herói sulafricano. Aqui, Dube é reabilitado como sujeito envolvido nas lutas pela liberdade e cuja vida seria exemplo de que, nas origens da nação sul-africana moderna, haveria formas claras de relações raciais harmônicas entre brancos e negros. Embora distintas, essas formas de inscrever Mafukuzela se relacionariam tanto às opções que ele tomara ao longo de sua vida, quanto aos modos como os intérpretes se posicionam diante dos seus atos, palavras e silêncios, e em relação à história da África do Sul e, especialmente, do Apartheid (1948- 1994). Além disso, e paralelo à evidência de que existe uma relação direta entre as formas de conceber Dube e os modos de interpretar a história das relações raciais na África do Sul, notasse que as intervenções teóricas e práticas de e sobre John Dube se alicerçam e fomentam determinadas concepções de história e desenvolvimento, raça, cultura e nação. Neste contexto, são dominantes concepções progressistas de desenvolvimento social e histórico, apresentadas como universais, embora perspectivas diferentes, que consideram, por exemplo, especificidades culturais, também possam ser observadas.Defender of the humanity of African peoples, the creator of the first newspaper and author of
the first novel in isiZulu, and founder of the African National Congress, John Langalibalele
Mafukuzela Dube (1871-1946) was a central figure in modern South African history. There
are at least two significant trends among those in which, at the turn of the nineteenth to
twentieth centuries, Dube was the object or subject of interest. Thus, on one hand, there are
those who tend to identify Dube as a collaborator in the implementation of South Africa’s
segregationist regime. From this perspective, which predominated from the 1950s to the
1970s, Dube is seen as an influential Zulu who became a puppet of the whites by encouraging
racial solidarity at the expense of class, and therefore promoting one of the pillars of
Apartheid. On the other hand, as we are seeing today in the context of the Rainbow Nation,
there are those who see Mafukuzela as a central figure in the historical struggle against racial
segregation, presenting him as a South African hero. Here, Dube is rehabilitated as a leading
figure in the struggle for freedom, and his life is seen as a clear example of harmonious
relations between whites and blacks at the very beginning of the South African nation.
Although different, these ways of inscribing Mafukuzela in history are both related to the
choices he made throughout his lifetime and the standpoints of those who interpret his
actions, words and silences, and their views of South African history, particularly Apartheid
(1948-1994). Furthermore, and in parallel to the evidence we have of a direct relationship
between ways of perceiving Dube and interpretations of the history of South African race
relations, we can see that the theoretical and practical work done by and about John Dube
consolidate and promote specific concepts of history and the development of race, culture and
nation. In this context, the predominant concepts of social and historic development are
progressive and presented as universal, although different perspectives, considering, for
example, cultural specificities, can also be observed
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No full textEste artículo presenta un estudio realizado sobre la hambruna padecida por buena parte de los habitantes de la Nueva España entre 1785 y 1787, a partir de una revisión y sistematización de los resúmenes de 122 expedientes incluidos en una Guía Electrónica del Archivo General de la Nación (AGN). Estos documentos contienen las solicitudes de releva de tributos enviados por las autoridades de varias repúblicas de indios al virrey y la Real Audiencia, durante esos difíciles años. Con este último dato, enriquecido con resultados de otras investigaciones, se reconstruye de manera espacial, los alcances geográficos de la pérdida de cosecha de maíz en el virreinato, con el anhelo de contribuir al estudio histórico del cambio climático.This essay is part of a broader anthropological history regarding the elites and privilege, linked to capital and class, gender and difference, in neoliberal and nationalist, plutocratic and populist times. The project began as the ethnography and history of a specific high school generation, “the class of 1979,” at the ‘Modern School,’ a co-ed institution that embodies the elite status in the heart of New Delhi. Since then, this study has expanded to include varied encounters with agents of power, from fund managers and their capitalist clientele, to bureaucrats, lawyers, journalists and academics. Considering the various ways of investigating the elites and their worlds, the study’s exploratory effort focuses on representations of privilege, displays of memory, proclamations of entitlement, economies of affection and the uses of capital, along with their present genealogies. In the context of the transitions from postcolonial development to neoliberal capitalism, throughout the final quarter of the 20th Century, a critical account is offered that intertwines ethnographic accounts, analytical emphases and anecdotal theory. This is also reflected in the style and structure of this essay, which weaves together sociological snapshots, everyday stories, anthropological vignettes and theoretical textures.Abbink, Jon y Tijo Salvedra (eds.). 2013, The Anthropology of Elites: Power, culture and the complexities of distinction. Palgrave Macmillan. Nueva York.
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Novel germline mutations in FLCN gene identified in two Chinese patients with Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome
No full textBirt-Hogg-Dube (BHD) syndrome, a hereditary renal cancer syndrome caused by mutations in the folliculin (FLCN) gene, is characterized by the presence of fibrofolliculomas, pulmonary cysts, spontaneous pneumothorax, and renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Few BHD syndrome cases have been reported in Asian countries, and cutaneous presentations are relatively rare in Asian patients. Asian BHD patients may be misdiagnosed due to their atypical manifestations. Here, we report two Chinese BHD patients with novel FLCN mutations (c.946-947delAG in exon 9 and c.770-772delCCT in exon 7). Both of them had RCC and spontaneous pneumothorax without fibrofolliculomas. In patients with RCC and pulmonary cysts but without cutaneous lesions, screening for mutations in the FLCN gene should be performed, especially for those with a family history of RCC or pulmonary cysts (pneumothorax).National Natural Science Foundation of China [81172418]; Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation [7142160]SCI(E)ARTICLE299-1023
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