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Ours to share : coexisting in a crowded world
\"Part of the nonfiction Footprints series for middle readers, illustrated with color photographs. Examines how overpopulation leads to unequal sharing of the earth's social and natural resources.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Early-stage osteonecrosis of the femoral head: where are we and where are we going in year 2018?
Osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) is a devastating condition affecting relatively young patients whereby the femoral head is necrotic, resulting in significant pain, articular surface collapse, and eventual osteoarthritis. This condition has been highly associated with chronic steroid use, alcoholism, and hip trauma, as well as other less common conditions. Without intervention, this condition has a high likelihood of progressing and developing into end-stage osteoarthritis. Unfortunately, ONFH is difficult to diagnose on plain radiographs in the early stages of the disease, and often requires more advanced imaging modalities such as MRI in order to fully assess for early degeneration. Providers, therefore, must have a high index of suspicion when a younger patient presents with hip pain and negative X-rays. Unfortunately, in patients whose femoral heads have already collapsed, joint-preserving procedures are not effective, and total hip arthroplasty remains the most reliable long-term treatment. Multiple treatments have been pursued to address osteonecrosis in patients whose femoral head have not yet collapsed, but the results of these treatments are mixed. The most promising of these interventions to date is core decompression with the use of concentrated bone marrow aspirate to improve the healing potential of the femoral head. Further studies including randomized clinical trials are necessary in order to assess the effectiveness of this therapy, the best possible source of cells and the best method of implantation in order to further improve results in those with pre-collapse ONFH.
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Shimmy
Lila has always loved belly dance--the music, the costumes, the choreography. So she is thrilled when she is invited to join a competitive and prestigious studio. But dancing at the new studio isn't quite what she expected. When she realizes that dance isn't as much fun as it used to be, she starts to question whether she has made the right decision.
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So much for democracy
The political upheaval in Ghana in 1979 puts Astrid and the rest of her Canadian family at risk.
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Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in low-income and middle-income countries: risk and protective factors
Children and adolescents who are forcibly displaced represent almost half the world's internally displaced and refugee populations. We undertook a two-part systematic search and review of the evidence-base for individual, family, community, and societal risk and protective factors for the mental health outcomes of children and adolescents. Here we review data for displacement to low-income and middle-income settings. We draw together the main findings from reports to identify important issues and establish recommendations for future work. We draw attention to exposure to violence as a well established risk factor for poor mental health. We note the paucity of research into predictor variables other than those in the individual domain and the neglect of other variables for the assessment of causal associations, including potential mediators and moderators identifiable in longitudinal work. We conclude with research and policy recommendations to guide the development and assessment of effective interventions.
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Milestones in humanitarian action
\"This book is a celebratory history, marking 25 years since the founding of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (CIHC); the completion of 50 of our premier training course; the highly intensive, month-long International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance (IDHA); the offering of dozens of other specialized courses; the publication of books, conference proceedings, and Occasional Papers, many translated into other languages and used in academic centers all over the world; the development of a Master of Arts in International Humanitarian Action (MIHA); the creation of an undergraduate major in Humanitarian Studies, one of only four such programs offered in any university anywhere; and the establishment of an independent Institute of Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) at Fordham University in New York. These are but some of the milestones we commemorate here, so that future generations entering the evolving profession of humanitarian assistance might appreciate the challenges faced by earlier pilgrims on a journey that embraced the spiritual as well as the practical elements of this noble, multidimensional discipline.\" -- Introduction.
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The nature photography project: A creative approach to the climate and ecological emergencies
This is a personal account of conducting a nature-based photography project with British primary school children aged 8-10 years. The purpose of the project was to give children the opportunity to engage in a positive and creative activity that would allow them to share what they cared about in the natural world around them, and discuss what they wanted to protect from the climate and ecological crises. It involved giving children cameras for a half day in an area of natural beauty and encouraging them to photograph whatever they liked. They were then asked to select one picture for exhibition and explain in their own words what the picture meant for them. They also had the opportunity to send messages to global political leaders who were attending the G7 meeting that was held in the neighbourhood, if they wished. In keeping with other research, the majority of children enjoyed the project, noticed things in nature they had never noticed before, felt that it connected them to nature and that it would be good for other children. Their stories showed how much they valued nature and recognised the need to protect it. Many also saw the connections between biodiversity, habitat loss and the climate crisis, and demanded action from politicians on all three. The project is simple to implement and is recommended for other children as a means to enhance nature connectedness, increase children's wellbeing and their wish to protect the environment.
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Proposals for mental disorders specifically associated with stress in the International Classification of Diseases-11
Among the controversies about existing formulations of PTSD are concerns about its overuse in populations exposed to natural or man-made disasters.7,8 One problem has been the application of the diagnosis when populations are still being actively exposed to extreme stressors--eg, continuing conflict, uprooting to unsafe locations, or earthquake aftershocks--which makes differentiation between PTSD, adaptive fear reactions, and grief difficult, especially when the definition of PTSD includes non-specific symptoms. [...]there is a concern that an overemphasis on PTSD could contribute to clinicians failing to recognise other commonly occurring mental disorders, especially depression.11 Nonetheless, the appropriate use of a clearly defined PTSD category is one aspect of progress in evidence-based mental health care in humanitarian settings.12 The Working Group has recommended a refocus on the diagnosis of PTSD on three core elements, and removal of non-specific symptoms that are also part of other disorders.13,14 The proposed diagnostic guidelines need re-experiencing of the traumatic event, in which the event is not only remembered but experienced as occurring again; avoidance of reminders likely to produce re-experiencing of the traumatic event(s); and a perception of heightened current threat, as indicated by various forms of arousal.15 These elements must have developed after exposure to an event of an extremely threatening or horrific nature, but the diagnosis is mainly based on symptom presentation rather than on determination of whether or not the event constitutes an eligible traumatic stressor. According to the DSM-5 proposal, PTSD is operationalised by 20 symptoms grouped into four clusters, yielding more than 10 000 combinations of symptoms by which a person can meet the minimum criteria for PTSD.
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The LSST Cadence Impact on Non-time-critical Eclipsing Binary Science
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is slated to commence in 2025 at the Vera Rubin Observatory. One of the crucial parts of preparing the survey is the choice of observing cadence in an effort to optimize auxiliary science goals while maintaining the core project requirements. Here we look at the impact of proposed cadences, encoded in different operation simulations (opsims), on non-time-critical eclipsing binary science. This is particularly pertinent because LSST is the first large-scale survey that will provide us with color information in addition to high-precision coverage of faint targets. We study the differences between the baseline opsim v2.1 and the latest opsim v3.0 runs. We find that all runs provide sufficient data coverage to enable in-depth studies in the field of eclipsing binaries, and that there are no adverse impacts from any proposed opsim modification studied here.
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