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Moving toward Cross-Regional Comparison: The Legacy of Martha Zierden
Reviewing Martha Zierden’s distinguished career in the Carolina Lowcountry, I was struck by the many times Martha brought research from the Chesapeake region to bear on findings from Charleston. I build on the ground Martha prepared by comparing Indigenous ceramics recovered from late 17th-century trading post/station archaeological sites in Virginia and Carolina. This preliminary analysis identifies similarities and differences between these sites with implications for understanding the many forms colonialism took in English North America.
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Coretta : the autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King
\"This is the autobiography of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.; founder of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (the King Center); architect of the MLK, Jr. legacy; and global leader in movements for civil and human rights as well as peace. Learn about how a girl born in the segregated deep south became a global leader at the forefront of the peace movement and an unforgettable champion of social change. Resilience, bravery, and joy lie at the center of this timeless story about fighting for justice against all odds.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Migrant infrastructure
Infrastructure convenes social relations, thereby revealing how city dwellers access shared resources in the context of growing inequality. Our exploration of migrant infrastructure engages with how highly variegated migrant groups develop a ‘transaction economy’ (Simone, 2004) within marginalised city streets, exchanging goods and services, and information and care. In the context of ethnically diverse and deprived urban places, where state resources are increasingly diminished, we explore how a precarious yet skilled resourcefulness emerges through the street. Our empirical exploration of migrant infrastructure is located on Rookery Road in Birmingham and on Narborough Road in Leicester, and draws on qualitative surveys with 195 self-employed proprietors from many countries of origin. The streets reveal transaction economies that intersect local and migratory resources, eluding the categorisation of cities associated with either a global North or a global South. Further, the lively nature of street transactions decentres westerncentric measures of economic value. From the street, we develop a postcolonial analysis of infrastructure that relates properties of historic depth (power), socio-spatial texture (materiality) and locality (place).
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Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past
In this innovative work, Julia King moves nimbly among a
variety of sources and disciplinary
approaches—archaeological, historical, architectural,
literary, and art-historical—to show how places take on,
convey, and maintain meanings. Focusing on the beautiful
Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland, King looks at the ways in
which various groups, from patriots and politicians of the
antebellum era to present-day archaeologists and
preservationists, have transformed key landscapes into
historical, indeed sacred, spaces. The sites King examines
include the region’s vanishing tobacco farms; St.
Mary’s City, established as Maryland’s first
capital by English settlers in the seventeenth century; and
Point Lookout, the location of a prison for captured
Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. As the author
explores the historical narratives associated with such places,
she uncovers some surprisingly durable myths as well as
competing ones. St. Mary’s City, for example, early on
became the center of Maryland’s “founding
narrative” of religious tolerance, a view commemorated in
nineteenth-century celebrations and reflected even today in
local museum exhibits and preserved buildings. And at Point
Lookout, one private group has established a Confederate
Memorial Park dedicated to those who died at the prison, thus
nurturing the Lost Cause ideology that arose in the South in
the late 1800s, while nearby the custodians of a 1,000-acre
state park avoid controversy by largely ignoring the
area’s Civil War history, preferring instead to
concentrate on recreation and tourism, an unusually popular
element of which has become the recounting of ghost stories. As
King shows, the narratives that now constitute the public
memory in southern Maryland tend to overlook the region’s
more vexing legacies, particularly those involving slavery and
race. Noting how even her own discipline of historical
archaeology has been complicit in perpetuating old narratives,
King calls for research—particularly archaeological
research—that produces new stories and
“counter-narratives” that challenge old perceptions
and interpretations and thus convey a more nuanced grasp of a
complicated past.
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Does increased provider effort improve quality of care? Evidence from a standardised patient study on correct and unnecessary treatment
Background
Poor quality of care, including overprovision (unnecessary care) is a global health concern. Greater provider effort has been shown to increase the likelihood of correct treatment, but its relationship with overprovision is less clear. Providers who make more effort may give more treatment overall, both correct and unnecessary, or may have lower rates of overprovision; we test which is true in the Tanzanian private health sector.
Methods
Standardised patients visited 227 private-for-profit and faith-based facilities in Tanzania, presenting with symptoms of asthma and TB. They recorded history questions asked and physical examinations carried out by the provider, as well as laboratory tests ordered, treatments prescribed, and fees paid. A measure of provider effort was constructed on the basis of a checklist of recommended history taking questions and physical exams.
Results
15% of SPs received the correct care for their condition and 74% received unnecessary care. Increased provider effort was associated with increased likelihood of correct care, and decreased likelihood of giving unnecessary care. Providers who made more effort charged higher fees, through the mechanism of higher consultation fees, rather than increased fees for lab tests and drugs.
Conclusion
Providers who made more effort were more likely to treat patients correctly. A novel finding of this study is that they were also less likely to provide unnecessary care, suggesting it is not simply a case of some providers doing “more of everything”, but that those who do more in the consultation give more targeted care.
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Benefits and challenges of voucher-based transport for skilled birth attendance in Kitui County, Kenya: the health stakeholders’ perspectives
Background
Reducing maternal, newborn and child mortality remains one of the top global public health priorities. Each year, approximately 303,000 mothers, globally, die during delivery. Stillbirths and neonatal deaths within the first 28 days of life are estimated at 2.6 million and 2.7 million, respectively. Rural residents face challenges in accessing health care due to difficulties in transportation. Given the voucher-based transport’s potential to address inaccessibility to health services, this study explored the health stakeholders’ perspectives on the benefits and challenges of this intervention.
Methods
Using an exploratory qualitative design, this study was conducted in Kitui County located in the lower Eastern part of Kenya. The study was conducted from July to August 2023, with data collection occurring over a two-week period in August 2023. Participants were purposively drawn from the six wards in Kitui South Sub County. The interview guide included questions on views, experiences, challenges, and perspectives on voucher-based transport system for skilled birth attendance. Data triangulation was ensured through audio-recorded Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs). All audio recordings were transcribed verbatim, coded and thematically analyzed, using a holistic approach.
Results
Perceived benefits of Skilled Birth Attendance (SBA) champions model included improved access to delivery services, improved health outcomes and socioeconomic and awareness benefits. The perceived challenges and concerns of the SBA model included economic and sustainability challenges, infrastructure and connectivity challenges, as well as administrative and logistical challenges.
Conclusions
Overall, the SBA Champions model has proven effective in improving access to maternal services within the community, but prevailing challenges and sustainability issues need to be addressed. Additionally, the study provided strategic information to inform policy makers about the model and strengthen MCH policy.
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Thermal properties of 3-D printed polylactic acid-metal composites
Standard fused filament fabrication (FFF)-based 3-D printers fabricate parts from thermopolymers, such as polylactic acid (PLA). A new range of metal based PLA composites are available providing a novel range of potential engineering materials for such 3-D printers. Currently, limited material data, specifically thermal property characterization is available on these composites. As a result, the application of these materials into functional engineered systems is not possible. This study aims to fill the knowledge gap by quantifying the thermal properties of copperFill, bronzeFill, magnetic iron PLA, and stainless steel PLA composites and provide insight into the technical considerations of FFF composite 3-D printing. Specifically, in this study the correlation of the composite microstructure and printing parameters are explored and the results of thermal conductivity analysis as a function of printed matrix properties are provided. Considering the relative deviation from the filament raw bulk analysis, the results show the printing operation significantly impacts the resultant component density. Experimentally collected thermal conductivity values, however, do not correlate to the theoretical models in the literature and more rigorous quantitative exercises are required to determine true percent porosity to accurately model the effect of air pore volume fraction on thermal conductivity. Despite this limitation, the thermal conductivity values provided can be used to engineer thermal conductivity into 3-D printed parts with these PLA-based composites. Finally, several high-value applications of such 3-D printed materials that look metallic, but have low thermal conductivity are reviewed.
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Maternal Choline Supplementation during Normal Murine Pregnancy Alters the Placental Epigenome: Results of an Exploratory Study
The placental epigenome regulates processes that affect placental and fetal development, and could be mediating some of the reported effects of maternal choline supplementation (MCS) on placental vascular development and nutrient delivery. As an extension of work previously conducted in pregnant mice, the current study sought to explore the effects of MCS on various epigenetic markers in the placenta. RNA and DNA were extracted from placentas collected on embryonic day 15.5 from pregnant mice fed a 1X or 4X choline diet, and were subjected to genome-wide sequencing procedures or mass-spectrometry-based assays to examine placental imprinted gene expression, DNA methylation patterns, and microRNA (miRNA) abundance. MCS yielded a higher (fold change = 1.63–2.25) expression of four imprinted genes (Ampd3, Tfpi2, Gatm and Aqp1) in the female placentas and a lower (fold change = 0.46–0.62) expression of three imprinted genes (Dcn, Qpct and Tnfrsf23) in the male placentas (false discovery rate (FDR) ≤ 0.05 for both sexes). Methylation in the promoter regions of these genes and global placental DNA methylation were also affected (p ≤ 0.05). Additionally, a lower (fold change = 0.3; Punadjusted = 2.05 × 10−4; FDR = 0.13) abundance of miR-2137 and a higher (fold change = 1.25–3.92; p < 0.05) expression of its target genes were detected in the 4X choline placentas. These data demonstrate that the placental epigenome is responsive to maternal choline intake during murine pregnancy and likely mediates some of the previously described choline-induced effects on placental and fetal outcomes.
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