463 research outputs found
Incidence and mortality from malignant mesothelioma 1982-2020 and relationship with asbestos exposure: the Australian Mesothelioma Registry
No full textObjectives: malignant mesothelioma is an uncommon cancer associated with asbestos exposure, predominantly occupational. Asbestos has been banned in Australia since 2003 but mesothelioma has a long latency and incident cases continue to present. The Australian Mesothelioma Registry was incepted to collect systematic data about incidence and mortality alongside asbestos exposure.Methods: benefiting from the Australian national system of cancer notification, all incident cases of mesothelioma in all states and territories are fast-tracked and notified regularly. Notified patients are contacted asking for consent to collect exposure information, initially by postal questionnaire and subsequently by telephone interview. Age-standardised annual incidence rates and mortality rates were calculated. Asbestos exposure was categorised as occupational, non-occupational, neither or, both; and as low, or high, probability of exposure.Results: mesothelioma incidence appears to have peaked. The age-standardised incidence rates have declined steadily since the early 2000s (peaking in males at 5.9/100 000 and in all-persons at 3.2/100 000), driven by rates in males, who comprise the majority of diagnosed cases. Rates in women have remained fairly stable since that time. Age-standardised mortality rates have followed similar trends. Mesothelioma remains the most common in those aged over 80 years. Nearly all (94%) cases were linked with asbestos exposure (78% occupational in men; 6.8% in women).Conclusions: with effective control of occupational asbestos use, the decline in age-standardised incidence and death rates has occurred. Incidence rates among women, in whom occupational asbestos exposure is rarely detectable, remain unchanged, pointing to the role of household and /or environmental asbestos exposure.</p
WLJS-FM, 1976-1977 Campus Radio Station 14
No full textWLJS was created for entertainment and information to Jacksonville State University and its surrounding community. Shown are students Rex Wilson, Al Rubin, Tim Baird, Dave Driscoll, Rod Steward, Anthony Robertson, second row, John McAfee, Roger O\u27Neal, P.J. Moss, Tim McDow, Leo Davis, Jim Lewis, Joe A. Holland.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_histimg_1970/5367/thumbnail.jp
WLJS-FM, 1976-1977 Campus Radio Station 13
No full textWLJS was created for entertainment and information to Jacksonville State University and its surrounding community. Shown are students Rex Wilson, Al Rubin, Tim Baird, Dave Driscoll, Rod Steward, Anthony Robertson, second row, John McAfee, Roger O\u27Neal, P.J. Moss, Tim McDow, Leo Davis, Jim Lewis, Joe A. Holland.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_histimg_1970/5366/thumbnail.jp
Information Literacy Seven Corners: Improving instruction by reviewing how librarians, faculty culture, professional literature, technology, and today’s college students converge
No full textThis article reviews library and education literature, as well as the author’s personal observation of undergraduate information literacy (IL) instruction sessions, and provides a range of ideas and suggestions for ways in which librarians can increase the effectiveness of IL instruction sessions. The author asserts that there are five major influences that present challenges and opportunities to librarians who wish to increase authentic collaboration with faculty for course-integrated instruction that more fully addresses the higher-thinking skills true information literacy requires. In today’s world of expanded electronic access to information and the impact ubiquitous Internet searching has had on students entering or returning to post-secondary education, new strategies must be employed to facilitate instruction that goes beyond procedural skills – the conceptual aspects of information literacy and critical thinking must come to the forefront of library and classroom instruction
New avenues for prevention of occupational cancer: A global policy perspective
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Enacting Kaitiakitanga: Challenges and Complexities in the Governance and Ownership of Rongoā Research Information
No full textThis article explores the tensions one research team has faced in securing appropriate governance or stewardship (which we refer to as kaitiakitanga) of research data. Whilst ethical and regulatory frameworks exist which provide a minimum standard for researchers to meet when working with Māori, what our experience has highlighted is there is currently a “governance” gap in terms of who should hold stewardship of research data collected from Māori individuals or collectives. In the case of a project undertaken in the traditional healing space, the organisation best placed to fulfil this governance role receives no funding or support to take on such a responsibility; consequently by default, this role is being borne by the research team until such time as capacity can be built and adequate resourcing secured. In addition, we have realised that the tensions played out in this research project have implications for the broader issue of how we protect traditional knowledge in a modern intellectual property law context, and once again how we adequately support those, often community-based organisations, who work at the interface between Indigenous knowledge and the Western world
Insulin-like factor 3 levels in amniotic fluid of human male fetuses
No full text© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected]: Rodent studies suggest that the peptide hormone insulin-like factor 3 (Insl3) made by the fetal testis is responsible for the first transabdominal phase of testicular descent, and may be affected by xenobiotics to disrupt male reproductive tract development. To date, there is very little information on the production of INSL3 by the human fetus during gestation. The objective of the present study was to determine the concentrations and time course during pregnancy of INSL3 and testosterone production in human fetuses and their associations with maternal characteristics, pregnancy complications and outcome. METHODS: This is a retrospective cohort study in which women who contributed amniotic fluid specimens to a bank from 2003–2006 were followed to determine their pregnancy complications and pregnancy outcome. Amniotic fluid specimens were collected from the Reproductive Genetics Laboratory of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania subsequent to routine amniocentesis. INSL3 and total testosterone levels were measured in amniotic fluid (from n = 50 female, n = 237 male fetuses) by validated immunoassays and correlated with maternal characteristics, pregnancy complications and outcomes. RESULTS: INSL3 was only detectable in amniotic fluid from male fetuses, and highest levels occurred from weeks 15–17 of gestation. INSL3 concentration was positively associated with increased birth weight, the occurrence of pre-eclampsia and advanced maternal age, but not with testosterone levels. CONCLUSIONS: INSL3 concentration in human amniotic fluid is potentially predictive of fetal sex and pre-eclampsia, and presumably reflects the functioning of the fetal Leydig cell populationRavinder Anand-Ivell, Richard Ivell, Deborah Driscoll and Jeanne Manso
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Sustainable assessment of structures and materials using ground penetrating radar (GPR)
No full textGround penetrating radar (GPR) is a non-destructive, non-invasive device that can be used to investigate materials in buildings, structures and the ground. Its use relies on recording the reflections of radar waves that are transmitted into materials. This paper provides an overview of GPR, a brief explanation of its principles of operation and application, suggests areas where its use may be appropriate in the context of buildings and structures, and includes some case studies from engineering investigations conducted by the author to highlight examples of the information it can provide. The technical information that GPR can commonly provide includes material depths and thicknesses, locations of excessive moisture or deterioration, and the location of steelwork within construction materials. Whilst reducing uncertainty in data obtained from building and structural investigations, other advantages compared to alternative intrusive investigations include less time and costs for investigations, less disruption to users of the building / structure, and less material required for subsequent repair and maintenance work. This paper also highlights, however, some limitations of the technique which should be considered in order to optimise the success of GPR investigations, such as the necessity for specialist knowledge in operation and data interpretation, and the limited GPR signal penetration within certain materials. Overall, the potential for use of GPR in the determination of material and structural properties in the built environment is highlighted
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Tasso among the Muses: Reading and Writing Women in Early Modern Italy
No full text“Tasso among the Muses: Reading and Writing Women in Early Modern Italy” is the first study to address the dynamics of reciprocity and collaboration between Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) and women writers, performers, and patrons. This dissertation situates Tasso’s literary and cultural activities with women within social and historical contexts, especially those informed by the disputes regarding women’s status of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, commonly known as the querelle des femmes. Among the lines of inquiry I pursue in this study is how the fiction of “Tasso, the errant madman” is a broadly popular literary-artistic construct, a product of the Romantic imagination that lionized the poet’s documented history of disquieting paranoia. While localized episodes from Tasso’s biography—including his seven years of detention in Ferrara for his public displays of defiance against the Este court—lend some credibility to this sorely isolating depiction of the poet, the story I tell attends to other considerations. By studying Tasso through the lens of early modern sociability, this research raises awareness of the poet’s activities coordinating literary-intellectual networks. Emphasized herein is how Tasso’s socialized literary production—his nearly 4,000 letters and lyric poems sent to friends and potential patrons, dialogues with contemporary interlocutors, and epic poems about mobility and community building—reflects the cultural communities in which he participated. Essential collaborators in these settings are contemporary women writers, performers, and patrons, socially marginalized figures who shared in Tasso’s need to secure sponsorship from institutional authorities. In careful analysis of Tasso’s writings and women’s active reception of them, I demonstrate how the male poet’s sympathetic representation of fictional female characters yielded positive responses among historical female readers: professional singers and actresses designed performance programs based on the Gerusalemme liberata’s women, while female poets disseminated Tasso’s thematic and conceptual principles. The thesis this dissertation advances is that Tasso’s multifaceted connections with women shaped the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century expansion of cultural networks—literary, musical, theatrical, and scientific—in which opportunities for women and men to collaborate as intellectual protagonists increased due to developments in the notion of collective identity.More broadly, this study underscores the collaborative networks within which early modern poets circulated, and situates questions of group identity at the forefront of the study of literary history. My findings reveal that the literary-intellectual exchanges between Tasso and women model multi-authored transmission, more than they indicate a linear process of reception. Tasso learned from women as much as women learned from Tasso. In different, though interconnected ways, each chapter challenges the dominant discourses of reception as a narrow form of imitation by shifting the critical focus from constructions of canonicity to modes of reciprocity. This attention complicates the conservative approaches to literary history that assert the dominant influence of one canonical (typically male) author. In this respect, the comparative work conducted herein avoids conveying any sense of hierarchy between Tasso’s constructed “canonical” voice and women’s marginalized “other” voices. This study further indicates how early modern women’s integration in poetic production—as makers and muses—complements the history of women’s one-sided efforts to “transcend their sex.” By offering new perspectives onto the relationship between literary and performance histories, this research brings into relief their interrelation as part of a broader, sociopolitical cultural history. Such emphases expand opportunities for critical investigation into ideas of collective authorship and audience, in both early modern and contemporary contexts
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