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Kenneth Brown – US Army Corps of engineers 1968 Vietnam, 18 Engineer Battalion (CBT). Various locations in South Vietnam. Road construction in Vietnam highway QL1. He also helped children in orphanage in Vietnam. ; https://vc.bridgew.edu/vhp_stories/1024/thumbnail.jpg

The current political economy imposes cost-saving rationalisation within home care work. In this context, a key question is whether home care aides act with indifference to clients or whether home care aides continue to espouse and act out of the caring self, which centres on the desire to give meaningful care to clients. This article assesses the thesis of the caring self within a context of rationalisation in relation to home care aides in three organisations. The article brings qualitative and quantitative research to bear on this question. It finds that despite the processes of rationalisation occurring in home care work, home care aides' overall satisfaction with client relations, and their ability to satisfy clients continue to have significant links to their job satisfaction, and discretionary effort. This offers support for the thesis of the caring self within the context of rationalisation.

The current political economy imposes cost-saving rationalisation within home care work. In this context, a key question is whether home care aides act with indifference to clients or whether home care aides continue to espouse and act out of the caring self, which centres on the desire to give meaningful care to clients. This article assesses the thesis of the caring self within a context of rationalisation in relation to home care aides in three organisations. The article brings qualitative and quantitative research to bear on this question. It finds that despite the processes of rationalisation occurring in home care work, home care aides' overall satisfaction with client relations, and their ability to satisfy clients continue to have significant links to their job satisfaction, and discretionary effort. This offers support for the thesis of the caring self within the context of rationalisation.

Contents: Dedication / Ken Brown -- The abolition of war: deposing a modern monarchy / David McFadden -- Is the new abolitionist covenant new enough? / Robert C. Johansen -- Military recruitment at Manchester College -- Military recruitment should be allowed on campus / John H. Planer -- Why military recruitment should not be allowed on campus / Religious Life Committee -- The necessity of violence / Phil Amadon -- The dangerous silence / G. John Ikenberry -- News of students, faculty and friends of peace studies -- Self-disarmament / Tom Kinzie -- Hostages / Ingrid Rogers -- A sin unhealed / Rev. Cosmos L. Raimondi -- U.S. support of repression / Stephen C. Thomas -- Attitudes about the nuclear arms race at Manchester College / Ronn Frantz & David McFadden.

This is a multi-part study centering on a hitherto unknown-to-exist, mid-sixteenth-century Spanish poetic anthology exhumed in Barcelona's Notarial Archives. The ms. includes poems authored by Garcilaso, Cetina, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Montemayor, and Oropesa. Also, many of the twenty-eight poems included herein are anonymous, and several entirely new, in the sense that their first verses have never been catalogued in academic databases. The collection includes two distinct series of poems: biblical ballads and a long mythological work, as well as numerous Italianate-verse sonnets and a poem in tercets, characteristic of the fresh wave of Petrarchism transforming the discourse of literature of the Iberian Peninsula at the time. The study includes an introductory essay, followed by a critical edition of the manuscript, and a photographic facsimile of the original. This is followed by a series of biblical ballads in Spanish ; El presente es un estudio largo, en varias partes, que se centra en un cuaderno de versos de mediados del siglo XVI en lengua española que se ha exhumado en el Archivo Histórico de Protocolos de la ciudad de Barcelona. El manuscrito contiene obras de Garcilaso, Cetina, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Montemayor y Oropesa, además de muchos anónimos. En total el cuaderno contiene veintiocho poemas, algunos de ellos totalmente nuevos, en el sentido de que nunca han sido catalogados en una base de datos académica. Son dos las vertientes genéricas del cuaderno: cuatro romances tanto bíblicos como mitológicos, seguidos de una veintena de versos al itálico modo y de temática amorosa. Así, este pequeño cancionero es representativo tanto de la creatividad española castiza como de la nueva influencia petrarquesca que invadía amable pero decididamente la Península Ibérica durante los primeros decenios del siglo XVI. Nuestro estudio incluye una introducción, seguida de una edición crítica del manuscrito, más una reproducción fotográfica en facsímil del texto. Se incluye luego una transcripción de otros romances bíblicos que comparten cierta relación temática con los romances veterotestamentarios del cuaderno

This is a multi-part study centering on a hitherto unknown-to-exist, mid-sixteenth-century Spanish poetic anthology exhumed in Barcelona's Notarial Archives. The ms. includes poems authored by Garcilaso, Cetina, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Montemayor, and Oropesa. Also, many of the twenty-eight poems included herein are anonymous, and several entirely new, in the sense that their first verses have never been catalogued in academic databases. The collection includes two distinct series of poems: biblical ballads and a long mythological work, as well as numerous Italianate-verse sonnets and a poem in tercets, characteristic of the fresh wave of Petrarchism transforming the discourse of literature of the Iberian Peninsula at the time. The study includes an introductory essay, followed by a critical edition of the manuscript, and a photographic facsimile of the original. This is followed by a series of biblical ballads in Spanish ; El presente es un estudio largo, en varias partes, que se centra en un cuaderno de versos de mediados del siglo XVI en lengua española que se ha exhumado en el Archivo Histórico de Protocolos de la ciudad de Barcelona. El manuscrito contiene obras de Garcilaso, Cetina, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Montemayor y Oropesa, además de muchos anónimos. En total el cuaderno contiene veintiocho poemas, algunos de ellos totalmente nuevos, en el sentido de que nunca han sido catalogados en una base de datos académica. Son dos las vertientes genéricas del cuaderno: cuatro romances tanto bíblicos como mitológicos, seguidos de una veintena de versos al itálico modo y de temática amorosa. Así, este pequeño cancionero es representativo tanto de la creatividad española castiza como de la nueva influencia petrarquesca que invadía amable pero decididamente la Península Ibérica durante los primeros decenios del siglo XVI. Nuestro estudio incluye una introducción, seguida de una edición crítica del manuscrito, más una reproducción fotográfica en facsímil del texto. Se incluye luego una transcripción de otros romances bíblicos que comparten cierta relación temática con los romances veterotestamentarios del cuaderno

This is a multi-part study centering on a hitherto unknown-to-exist, mid-sixteenth-century Spanish poetic anthology exhumed in Barcelona's Notarial Archives. The ms. includes poems authored by Garcilaso, Cetina, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Montemayor, and Oropesa. Also, many of the twenty-eight poems included herein are anonymous, and several entirely new, in the sense that their first verses have never been catalogued in academic databases. The collection includes two distinct series of poems: biblical ballads and a long mythological work, as well as numerous Italianate-verse sonnets and a poem in tercets, characteristic of the fresh wave of Petrarchism transforming the discourse of literature of the Iberian Peninsula at the time. The study includes an introductory essay, followed by a critical edition of the manuscript, and a photographic facsimile of the original. This is followed by a series of biblical ballads in Spanish ; El presente es un estudio largo, en varias partes, que se centra en un cuaderno de versos de mediados del siglo XVI en lengua española que se ha exhumado en el Archivo Histórico de Protocolos de la ciudad de Barcelona. El manuscrito contiene obras de Garcilaso, Cetina, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Montemayor y Oropesa, además de muchos anónimos. En total el cuaderno contiene veintiocho poemas, algunos de ellos totalmente nuevos, en el sentido de que nunca han sido catalogados en una base de datos académica. Son dos las vertientes genéricas del cuaderno: cuatro romances tanto bíblicos como mitológicos, seguidos de una veintena de versos al itálico modo y de temática amorosa. Así, este pequeño cancionero es representativo tanto de la creatividad española castiza como de la nueva influencia petrarquesca que invadía amable pero decididamente la Península Ibérica durante los primeros decenios del siglo XVI. Nuestro estudio incluye una introducción, seguida de una edición crítica del manuscrito, más una reproducción fotográfica en facsímil del texto. Se incluye luego una transcripción de otros ...

Contents: Dedication: to Cliff and Arlene Kindy / Ken Brown -- Introduction: peace and the environment / Steve Naragon -- Peacemaking--viable and popular / Cliff Kindy -- The global ecological crisis and the evolution of peace studies / Dan Cook-Huffman -- Environmental degradation: the contributions of the military / Dan Cook-Huffman -- Trading away the environment / Jim Jontz -- News of friends and graduates of peace studies at Manchester -- Abstinence makes the earth grow greener / Steve Johnson -- On closing a toxic dump site / Dixie Good Sefcheck -- Trash / Dan Coats -- Educating environmental professionals / David Hicks -- Manchester's retreat center--a resource for environmental education / Barb Ehrhardt -- Manchester peace studies at the UN / Ardon Denlinger -- Book review / Ferne Baldwin -- Resources for action.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child holds governments responsible to ensure children's right to the highest attainable standard of health by providing breastfeeding support, and access to nutritious foods, appropriate health care, and clean drinking water. International experts have identified key child care practices and programmatic activities that are proven to be effective at reducing infant and young child undernutrition, morbidity, and mortality. Nevertheless, progress towards reducing the prevalence of undernutrition has been sporadic across countries of the Sahel sub‐region of Sub‐Saharan Africa. In view of this uneven progress, a working group of international agencies was convened to 'Reposition children's right to adequate nutrition in the Sahel.' The first step towards this goal was to organize a situational analysis of the legislative, research, and programmatic activities related to infant and young child nutrition (IYCN) in six countries of the sub‐region: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal. The purposes of this introductory paper are to review current information concerning the nutritional and health status of infants and young children in the Sahel and to summarize international guidelines on optimal IYCN practices. These guidelines were used in completing the above‐mentioned situational analyses and encompass specific recommendations on: (i) breastfeeding (introduction within the first hour after birth, exclusivity to 6 months, continuation to at least 24 months); (ii) complementary feeding (introduction at 6 months, use of nutrient dense foods, adequate frequency and consistency, and responsive feeding); (iii) prevention and/or treatment of micronutrient deficiencies (vitamin A, zinc, iron and anaemia, and iodine); (iv) prevention and/or treatment of acute malnutrition; (v) feeding practices adapted to the maternal situation to reduce mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV; (vi) activities to ensure food security; and (vii) the promotion of hygienic ...

Including biomarkers of micronutrient status in existing or planned national surveys or surveillance systems is a critical step in improving capacity to promote, design, monitor, and evaluate micronutrient policies and programs. We aimed to identify the barriers to and enablers of the inclusion of micronutrient biomarker assessment in national surveys and surveillance systems, to identify the main challenges faced during the survey process, and to review experiences using existing platforms for micronutrient surveys. We conducted a series of key informant interviews with in-country and external representatives from six countries where national-level data on micronutrient status were collected in the past 5 years: Cambodia, Pakistan, Malawi, Uganda, Ghana, and Uzbekistan. Micronutrients associated with specific public health programs were always prioritized for inclusion in the survey. If funding, time, and/or logistics allowed, other considered micronutrients were also included. The most important and frequently reported barrier to inclusion of a more comprehensive panel of micronutrient biomarkers was inadequate funding to cover the laboratory analysis cost for all micronutrients considered at the planning stage. Government support and commitment was stressed as the most important enabling factor by all key informants. Advocacy for funding for micronutrient status assessment is needed.

This article reviews theoretical and practical approaches for setting priorities in global child health research investments. It also provides an overview of previous attempts to develop appropriate tools and methodologies to define priorities in health research investments. A brief review of the most important theoretical concepts that should govern priority setting processes is undertaken, showing how different perspectives, such as medical, economical, legal, ethical, social, political, rational, philosophical, stakeholder driven, and others will necessarily conflict each other in determining priorities. We specially address present research agenda in global child health today and how it relates to United Nation's (UN) Millennium Development Goal 4, which is to reduce child mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. The outcomes of these former approaches are evaluated and their benefits and shortcomings presented. The case for a new methodology for setting priorities in health research investments is presented, as proposed by Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative, and a need for its implementation in global child health is outlined. A transdisciplinary approach is needed to address all the perspectives from which investments into health research can be seen as priorities. This prioritization requires a process that is transparent, systematic, and that would take into account many perspectives and build on advantages of previous approaches.

This article provides detailed guidelines for the implementation of systematic method for setting priorities in health research investments that was recently developed by Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI). The target audience for the proposed method are international agencies, large research funding donors, and national governments and policy-makers. The process has the following steps: (i) selecting the managers of the process; (ii) specifying the context and risk management preferences; (iii) discussing criteria for setting health research priorities; (iv) choosing a limited set of the most useful and important criteria; (v) developing means to assess the likelihood that proposed health research options will satisfy the selected criteria; (vi) systematic listing of a large number of proposed health research options; (vii) pre-scoring check of all competing health research options; (viii) scoring of health research options using the chosen set of criteria; (ix) calculating intermediate scores for each health research option; (x) obtaining further input from the stakeholders; (xi) adjusting intermediate scores taking into account the values of stakeholders; (xii) calculating overall priority scores and assigning ranks; (xiii) performing an analysis of agreement between the scorers; (xiv) linking computed research priority scores with investment decisions; (xv) feedback and revision. The CHNRI method is a flexible process that enables prioritizing health research investments at any level: institutional, regional, national, international, or global.

Contribution: A roadmap is provided for building a quantum engineering education program to satisfy U.S. national and international workforce needs. Background: The rapidly growing quantum information science and engineering (QISE) industry will require both quantum-aware and quantum-proficient engineers at the bachelor's level. Research Question: What is the best way to provide a flexible framework that can be tailored for the full academic ecosystem? Methodology: A workshop of 480 QISE researchers from across academia, government, industry, and national laboratories was convened to draw on best practices; representative authors developed this roadmap. Findings: 1) For quantum-aware engineers, design of a first quantum engineering course, accessible to all STEM students, is described; 2) for the education and training of quantum-proficient engineers, both a quantum engineering minor accessible to all STEM majors, and a quantum track directly integrated into individual engineering majors are detailed, requiring only three to four newly developed courses complementing existing STEM classes; 3) a conceptual QISE course for implementation at any postsecondary institution, including community colleges and military schools, is delineated; 4) QISE presents extraordinary opportunities to work toward rectifying issues of inclusivity and equity that continue to be pervasive within engineering. A plan to do so is presented, as well as how quantum engineering education offers an excellent set of education research opportunities; and 5) a hands-on training plan on quantum hardware is outlined, a key component of any quantum engineering program, with a variety of technologies, including optics, atoms and ions, cryogenic and solid-state technologies, nanofabrication, and control and readout electronics.

Contribution: A roadmap is provided for building a quantum engineering education program to satisfy U.S. national and international workforce needs. Background: The rapidly growing quantum information science and engineering (QISE) industry will require both quantum-aware and quantum-proficient engineers at the bachelor's level. Research Question: What is the best way to provide a flexible framework that can be tailored for the full academic ecosystem? Methodology: A workshop of 480 QISE researchers from across academia, government, industry, and national laboratories was convened to draw on best practices; representative authors developed this roadmap. Findings: 1) For quantum-aware engineers, design of a first quantum engineering course, accessible to all STEM students, is described; 2) for the education and training of quantum-proficient engineers, both a quantum engineering minor accessible to all STEM majors, and a quantum track directly integrated into individual engineering majors are detailed, requiring only three to four newly developed courses complementing existing STEM classes; 3) a conceptual QISE course for implementation at any postsecondary institution, including community colleges and military schools, is delineated; 4) QISE presents extraordinary opportunities to work toward rectifying issues of inclusivity and equity that continue to be pervasive within engineering. A plan to do so is presented, as well as how quantum engineering education offers an excellent set of education research opportunities; and 5) a hands-on training plan on quantum hardware is outlined, a key component of any quantum engineering program, with a variety of technologies, including optics, atoms and ions, cryogenic and solid-state technologies, nanofabrication, and control and readout electronics.