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GLOBAL CHILDREN, GLOBAL MEDIA: MIGRATION, MEDIA AND CHILDHOOD, LIESBETH DE BLOCK AND DAVID BUCKINGHAM (2010) Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 978023027344, Paperback, £20.99 CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS: PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSLOCATION IN A GLOBAL AGE, CHRIS PRENTICE,
VIJAY DEVADAS AND HENRY JOHNSON (EDS) (2010) contributors: Andrew Barrett, Dan Bendrups, Diana Brydon, Vijay Devadas, Jacob Edmund, Alyth Grant, Philip Hayward, Henry Johnson, Mary McLaughlin, Brett Nicholls, Chris Prentice, Kate Roy, Simon Ryan, Paola Voci, New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi
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Space has become more accessible, led by commercial actors taking an increasingly important role. SpaceX alone completed 21 launches in 2018, placing communication and navigation satellites into orbit, resupplying the ISS, and launching TESS. The Beresheet mission, while ultimately crashing on the Moon, was a major milestone because it was driven by a private company incorporated in Israel. Such landings, whether successful or not, had previously only been attempted by major space-faring nations (Soviet Union/Russia, United States, EU, Japan, India, and China). A private American company (Moon Express) is planning a mission to the Moon with the International Lunar Observatory (ILO) as a payload. If successful, it will be the first international facility in space organized by a non-profit global enterprise (ILOA). A Canadian company is one of the primary contractors for this mission and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Moon Express to explore options for collaboration with the CSA and Canada's private space sector on technologies and payloads for missions to the Moon. In Low-Earth Orbit, new models for scientific study are also emerging. When CSA funding for the satellite MOST ceased in 2014, the project was taken over by Microsatellite Systems Canada Inc., which continued operations using a pay-for-use model. The UK mission Twinkle (2022 launch) is being developed and run by a private company that will offer photometric and spectroscopic observing capabilities under a similar pay-for-use model, with an anticipated strict proprietary data policy. Canada has formally joined the United States in the planned Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, and is planning to invest $2 billion over the next 24 years. If successful, the mission will see a space station and launch platform in orbit about the Moon that will facilitate human and robotic missions on the lunar surface. Gateway will be open to both government and commercial actors. It will also not be the only means for ...

This book focuses on connections between biblical, literary, film, and music studies, as well as ecotheology and studies of how ecology and theology interact. This collection features chapters about creation care and the Sabbath, the sacramental approaches to earth care in the poetry of Wendell Berry and Sherman Alexie, classical and medieval cosmologies of J. R. R. Tolkien and Boethius, and Judeo-Christian perspectives on nonhuman suffering in the book of Romans, the literary works of C. S. Lewis, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Darren Aronofsky's film Noah.

This book promotes Christian ecology and animal ethics from the perspectives of the Bible, science, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. It covers diverse topics such as developing Christian virtue ethics, assisting species threatened by climate change, liturgical and hymnal ecologies, past and present Catholic ecological thinking, and Jesus and the animals in the Gospel of Mark.

The Coalition for Clinical Research—Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose Scientific Board, a group of nine academic clinicians and scientists from the United States and Europe, convened in San Francisco, California, on June 11–12, 2008, to discuss the appropriate uses of self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) and the measures necessary to accurately assess the potential benefit of this practice in noninsulin-treated type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Thirteen consultants from the United States, Europe, and Canada from academia, practice, and government also participated and contributed based on their fields of expertise. These experts represent a range of disciplines that include adult endocrinology, pediatric endocrinology, health education, mathematics, statistics, psychology, nutrition, exercise physiology, and nursing. This coalition was organized by Diabetes Technology Management, Inc. Among the participants, there was consensus that: protocols assessing the performance of SMBG in noninsulin treated T2DM must provide the SMBG intervention subjects with blood glucose (BG) goals and instructions on how to respond to BG data in randomized controlled trials (RCTs);intervention subjects in clinical trials of SMBG-driven interventions must aggressively titrate their therapeutic responses or lifestyle changes in response to hyperglycemia;control subjects in clinical trials of SMBG must be isolated from SMBG-driven interventions and not be contaminated by physician experience with study subjects receiving a SMBG intervention;the best endpoints to measure in a clinical trial of SMBG in T2DM include delta Hemoglobin A1c levels, hyperglycemic events, hypoglycemic events, time to titrate noninsulin therapy to a maximum necessary dosage, and quality of life indices;either individual randomization or cluster randomization may be appropriate methods for separating control subjects from SMBG intervention subjects, provided that precautions are taken to avoid bias and that the sample size is adequate;treatment algorithms for ...