This study compared the structure (i.e., stage) of moral judgments to dilemmas involving AIDS to the structure of moral judgment on Kohlberg's test to determine whether attitudes and opinions about AIDS affect level of moral judgment. Subjects included 40 men, who responded to (a) two standard dilemmas from Colby and ...

Experience sampling methodology was used to examine the effects of current and prior problems on negative mood within and across days. Forty male community residents wore signal watches and kept dairy records of problem occurrence and mood 8 times a day for 8 consecutive days. Trait negative affectivity (NA), prior ...

In the eighties a new medium has found its way in French society: the minitel. It has influenced gay communication immediately, heavily and constantly. The role of the minitel in the gay world of the eighties is gone into. Some ideas are put forward as to why the minitel has ...

The Healthy Cities movement, or Healthy Communities as it is known in some parts of the world, has grown rapidly since it was launched in 1986. In addition to the 35 cities formally associated with the WHO Europe project, there are now 18 national networks and hundreds of towns and ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between postoperative abdominal incision problems and opening subcutaneous tissues with electrocautery or scalpel. Women scheduled for elective abdominal hysterectomy who gave informed consent were randomly assigned to subcutaneous abdominal wall tissue incision by electrocautery or scalpel. Postoperative abdominal wound problem ...

The unicornuate uterus is associated with a poor reproductive outcome and many gynecological problems. We collected data from 45 women with a unicornuate uterus. We found a high abortion rate of 22% in the first trimester and 16% in the second trimester. Premature labor occurred in 18%. The prevalence of ...

From 1983 through mid-1991, more than 200,000 MEDLINE entries were AIDS-related. Close to 60% of the journals indexed in MEDLINE published at least one article on AIDS during the past ten years. As reflected by a subset of 29,077 MEDLINE records, the literature of AIDS has grown to encompass 29 ...

Why does it matter whether a woman can choose whether to be lesbian? I argue by illustration that, first of all, it does make good sense to see the option to be lesbian as genuine for women in a fairly common sort of circumstance; that recognizing the genuineness of this ...

In light of the opening of the borders within the EC, scheduled for January 1993, this article "discusses the prospects in Europe concerning immigration from third [world] countries in relation to the internal market, the border control issue and the general policies towards non-EC nationals living within the community. The ...

We studied volunteers in one of the world's first AIDS-dedicated hospices and compared them on demographic, experiential, and personality related dimensions to volunteers in a traditional hospice. Eighty percent of the active volunteers at each facility participated. Eight of 16 demographic and 4 of 11 personality related variables differentiated the ...

The WHO estimates that during the first decade of the HIV/AIDS pandemic there were about 500,000 cases of AIDS in women and children, most of which have been unrecognised. During the 1990s, WHO estimates that the pandemic will kill an additional 3 million or more women and children world wide. ...

Canadian students provided ratings of the degree of sympathy they felt for those involved in each of 20 world disasters. Playing the role of taxpayer, they also apportioned monies from a disaster relief fund to assist in such emergencies. A single dimension, Culpability, was found to underlie the sympathy ratings. ...

"Third World cities are growing so fast that in the 21st century over half the world's population will be urban. This shift will need to be recognized by all aid donors, and particularly by the USA. Sustainable development will be possible only if Third World governments--central and local--can be assisted ...

The specter of pediatric AIDS fundamentally challenges elements of the liberal ideological basis of women's reproductive freedom. Many public health officials hold that preventing transmission of HIV from mother to fetus requires efforts to discourage pregnancy by infected women. For over two decades, however, genetic counselors, feminists, and medical ethicists ...

This article describes the epidemiology of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in women in the United States. Comparisons of female and male transmission categories are made and emphasis is placed on the heterosexual transmission and undetermined risk categories for women. Since its onset in 1981, AIDS has affected males predominantly and ...

Neonatal calf diarrhea is one of the most serious problems of cattle industry all over the world. Although the aetiology is complex, it is possible to assess that viruses play a very important role. During an investigation to study the importance of Rotavirus in enteric problems in calves and piglets, ...

The organized movement of lesbian and gay Jews took root in the mid-1970s when groups of Jewish homosexuals in the United States, England, and Israel began gathering for religious, educational, and social purposes. After centuries of denial, the Jewish community was faced with the reality of this increasingly visible and ...

Female partners of 200 consecutively seen infertile couples attending our infertility clinic were interviewed on a structured, precoded form for the social problems faced by the childless women. One or more social problems were present in 34% couples, of whom 53% faced abandonment. Sixteen percent of the women had a ...

"A global problem--a global response. AIDS has become a great and powerful symbol for a world threatened by its divisions, East and West, North and South. In a deep and remarkable way, the child with AIDS is the world's child; the man or the woman dying of AIDS has become ...

One of the main causes of the world-wide eutrophication of rivers and lakes is the extensive use of phosphate in both detergents and agricultural fertilizers. Partial or total substitution of phosphates in household detergents by other compounds exhibiting chelating properties has been introduced in several countries to ameliorate such problems. ...

"This article sets out the broad nature of population movements and changes in distribution which are taking place in the major continental areas of the Third World, while making comparisons and contrasts. It outlines the differing approaches to these movements, and the interpretations of varying ideological and disciplinary points of ...

Because acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has often been perceived as a disease of gay men, little attention has been given to the increasing number of women exposed to AIDS. An overview of the disease reveals that its victims confront both physical and psychosocial problems of great complexity and that ...

After the second world war Marshall Aid funds were used to establish a cooperative organisation for growing, drying, and selling Digitalis lanata (and other medicinal, aromatic, and culinary herbs) in the Netherlands. The crop is sown in mid April and the fully mechanised harvest of the leaves takes place from ...

This is a study of 185 women attending a menopause clinic in London, England. Individual interviews carried out by a gynecologist trained in sex therapy found a variety of psychosexual problems affected the lives of a large majority of the women. Sex problems existing prior to menopause were exacerbated. For ...

Three trisomic offspring conceived by artificial insemination by donor (AID) were observed in a population in which a total of about 400 babies were so conceived. To test whether this excess represented a random fluctuation or a real effect of the AID procedure we surveyed, by questionnaire, a group of ...

In this era of rapid, far-reaching transformation, our way of life is in many respects a novelty for our species. Opportunities arising from profoundly enhanced capabilities in science and technology are felt in every sphere of life from health to communication, yet each advance has side effects that take time ...

The most significant advances in the field of Brucella classification since the last meeting have been in the field of Brucella phages reviewed by Corbel & Morgan (1980) Handbuch der Bakteriellen Infektionen bei Tieren, 4, Ed Blobel & Schliesser) and Corbel & Morgan (Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. In press). ...

Two reoviruses identified as 172 and 176 were isolated from the hock of 2-to-3-week-old broiler breeders exhibiting leg problems. Oral-ocular or intraplantar inoculation of day-old specific-pathogen-free or broiler chickens produced severe mortality (60-100%) within 2 to 6 days. The main lesions observed were tenosynovitis as well as necrosis and congestion ...

It is the position of R L Gregory and other cognitive theorists that perceptual knowledge conceived as an inner picture leads to an infinite regress, but that perceptual knowledge conceived as an abstract or coded representation does not. It is argued here that this view is mistaken. All inner representations, ...

Factors influencing the probability of conception following artificial insemination with donor semen (AID) have been investigated in a series of 124 married females. Overall, 79 conceptions were achieved, for a cumulative rate of conception of 85.1% at the end of 1 year and an average fecundability of 15%, using life-table ...

Freud's life and thought were in part molded by the desire to aid the dispersed secular Jew. The Jew, warped and minified by the cruel paradoxes to which his life situations rather uniquely exposed him, would be returned to an adaptive life style by psychoanalysis. In particular, the analytic work ...

Three types of thought about the world are put forth by James in Pragmatism: common sense, science, and philosophy. The worlds of science and philosophy reified and idealized aspects of the vague, intersubjective world of common sense. However, once "formed" these two worlds are themselves "formative." They can and have ...

Reports by others that stress surrounding AID alters the menstrual cycle has prompted some physicians to provide pharmacologic control to predict the day of ovulation. We studied the BBT charts of 47 women who had predictable menstrual cycles in the 2 months preceding AID in order to compare them with ...

This article presents an overview of the magnitude of the schistosomiasis problem throughout the world, and is based on information on schistosomiasis control programmes provided by 103 countries in reply to a questionnaire circulated by the World Health Organization in 1976. According to the data either given in these replies, ...

Epidemic viral gastroenteritis is a significant world wide problem. In developed countries, gastroenteritis accounts for significant morbidity and loss of time from work; in the Third World it is the leading cause of mortality among infants and children. Recent technologic advances have been associated with an explosion of research activity. ...

Seven couples who were in a program of artificial donor insemination (AID) which had not resulted in a pregnancy were advised to abstain from sexual intercourse for 2 days prior to AID. Six of the wives became pregnant following this advice. Seminal plasmas from the seven husbands showed evidence of ...

A concise set of procedures is presented to aid laboratory personnel in complying with Part 20.205 of Title 10, Chapter 1, of the Code of Federal Regulations, concerning the receipt and monitoring of radioactive materials. Because these regulations were written for a large and diverse community of licenses, they are ...

Each culture has its own ways of coping with problems. The ancient peoples had developed various devices based on their settings. Those devices are not scientific from the modern man's point of view, however, they have been used over and over through thousands of years. The fact that the world ...

Ring doves of both sexes sit on young squabs after hatching in much the same manner as they sit on eggs before hatching, but this study demonstrates that the preferred stimulus varies with the state of the animal. A simultaneous squab--egg choice test was given on days 1, 4, 10, ...

Man and the physical and natural resources necessary to support him in a civilized society are on a collision course. It is simple to say that man cannot continue to grow in number at an ever-increasing rate without a destructive effect upon the environment. Positive scientific proof for this impending ...

Chemokine receptor CCR2 and stromal-derived factor (SDF-1) are involved in HIV infection and AIDS symptom onset. Recent cohort studies showed that point mutations in these two genes, CCR2-64I and SDF1-3′A, can delay AIDS onset ⩾16 years after seroconversions. The protective effect of CCR2-64I is dominant, whereas that of SDF1-3′A is ...

Ron Anderson, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota, writes this contexts blog to "use the lens of sociology to shed light on world problems". Topics include "abortion, aging, aid for developing countries, civic engagement, community service, crime, fear, forgiving, globalization, health, human rights, hunger, inequality, philanthropy, population ...

Muslims are always buried, never cremated. It is a religious requirement that the body be ritually washed and draped before burial, which should be as soon as possible after death. Those carrying out this duty should be immunised against hepatitis B and be aware of the hazards of AIDS. Muslim ...

Although the number of women who have been exposed to diethylstilboestrol (DES) in the womb is relatively small (about 10,000 in the UK) professionals should be aware of the possible associated problems. The situation is very different in other countries. For example, in the Netherlands DES was in use until ...

First aid, as a profession in its own right, has a history of only 120 years. It evolved from the teachings of the Royal Humane Society and military surgeons, who saw the wisdom of training in splinting and bandaging for battlefield wounds. In 1878 two Aberdeenshire military officers, Surgeon-Major Peter ...

There is at present a lack of accurate data on the prevalence of leprosy in the different countries of the world, primarily because case-finding has not reached the desired level in many of them. The authors have attempted to provide more realistic figures, using information obtained from several sources and ...

The introduction of tetanus toxoid about three decades ago, which was followed in many parts of the world by programmes of immunization of the population, has contributed greatly to the control of tetanus in the developed countries. Nevertheless, during the decade 1951-60, tetanus remained an unsolved problem in many of ...