Dr Chelsea Bond, an Aboriginal (Munanjahli) and South Sea Islander Australian and a Senior Lecturer with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies Unit at the University of Queensland, raises some important questions in the article below about the NHMRC's capacity to envisage and enable Indigenous - led research.
• Dr Chelsea Bond is an Aboriginal (Munanjahli) and South Sea Islander Australian and a Senior Lecturer with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies Unit at the University of Queensland.
This week's episode was focused on the south - western Brisbane suburb of Inala, raising concerns about the «chronicling of Indigenous despair» for Dr Chelsea Bond, a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman, a Senior Lecturer with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies Unit at the University of Queensland, and local resident.
At one session, presenter Dr Chelsea Bond, an Aboriginal (Munanjahli) and South Sea Islander Australian and a Senior Lecturer with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies Unit at the University of Queensland, framed her experiences and advice as a «letter to my former self».
• Dr Chelsea Bond is an Aboriginal (Munanjahli) and South Sea Islander Australian and a senior lecturer with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies Unit at the University of Queensland.
In the trial, co-led by Rachael Clark, MD, PhD, associate professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, Alain Rook, MD, professor of Dermatology and director of the Cutaneous Lymphoma Program at Penn Medicine, and Joel M. Gelfand, MD, MSCE, associate professor of Dermatology and medical director of the Clinical
Studies Unit at Penn Medicine, twelve patients who had previously undergone an average of six treatments for early stage CTCL were treated with topical resiquimod gel at varying doses and intervals.
Investing in research is cheap, says John Twidell, director of the Energy
Studies Unit at the University of Strathclyde.
Not exact matches
While there are no official
studies, Cambridge, Mass. - based consulting firm New Markets Advisors says that a «significant» portion of Fortune 500 companies — including Procter & Gamble, IBM, Walgreens and The Hershey Company — likely have some sort of incubator cooking in
at least one business
unit.
(Hanna Tuomisto, who in 2011 conducted a
study at Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research
Unit, found that growing meats in - vitro would use 35 % to 60 % less energy, emit 80 % to 95 % less greenhouse gas and use around 98 % less land than conventionally produced animal meat.)
That led investigators to conclude that ResearchKit is «particularly suitable for
studies of short duration that require rapid enrollment across diverse geographical locations, frequent data collection, and real - time feedback to participants,» according to Yvonne Chan, who heads up the digital health and personalized medicine
unit at Mount Sinai.
Such
studies should be carried out for the smallest conceivable
units (one family or clan, a local group
at a given period of time, the occasional following of one cult leader, etc.).
[16] Andrews et al., «Misdiagnosis of the Vegetative State: Retrospective
Study in a Rehabilitation Unit,» British Medical Journal, 313 (6 July 1996): 13 - 16, report on a study of forty PVS patients at Britain's Royal Hospital for Neurodisabi
Study in a Rehabilitation
Unit,» British Medical Journal, 313 (6 July 1996): 13 - 16, report on a
study of forty PVS patients at Britain's Royal Hospital for Neurodisabi
study of forty PVS patients
at Britain's Royal Hospital for Neurodisability.
So when I would get to the
unit on the prophets in this introductory biblical
studies course, I would be up there ranting and raving about justice, and the passion for justice, and my students would be sitting there not looking excited
at all, taking notes, wondering what was going to be on the exam.
Anthony McRoy, author of From Rushdie to 7/7: The Radicalisation of Islam in Britain (Social Affairs
Unit), who lectures in Islamic
Studies for Wales Evangelical School of Theology, spent considerable time
at the Olympic venues in discussion with Muslim evangelists.
The
study, by Howard Steele, director of the Attachment Research
Unit at University College London, also found, however, that the effects of fathers» relationships with their children do not begin to show until their offspring hit puberty.
Looking behind the Curtain A recent
study of elective induction
at term purports to show that it would reduce perinatal mortality without affecting spontaneous birth rates, although it would increase admission to a special neonatal care
unit if done before 41 weeks, which contradicts the current belief that elective delivery
at 39 weeks poses no excess risk.
Funding: This
study combines the Evaluation of Maternity
Units in England
study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation (NIHR SDO) programme, and the Birth
at Home in England
study funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme (DH PRP).
The
study was a prospective cohort
study with planned place of birth
at the start of care in labour as the exposure (home, freestanding midwifery
unit, alongside midwifery
unit, or obstetric
unit).12 Women were included in the group in which they planned to give birth
at the start of care in labour regardless of whether they were transferred during labour or immediately after birth.
The strengths of the
study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth
at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery
units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified
at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.
Public Speaking & Debate was requested by my social
studies students a year ago as an extension of discussions we hold
at the end of each year's History classes in a current events
unit.
Ironically the Birthplace
Study (National Perinatal Epidemiology
Unit) found that labour takes nearly twice as long in obstetric
units than it does in midwife - led
units or
at home.
The purpose of our
study was to determine whether breastfeeding rates in the UK were higher among mothers delivering in Baby Friendly accredited maternity units, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study.18 Specifically we assessed breastfeeding initiation and the prevalence of any breastfeeding at 1 month after adjustment for maternal factors known to influence a mother's decision to breast
study was to determine whether breastfeeding rates in the UK were higher among mothers delivering in Baby Friendly accredited maternity
units, using data from the Millennium Cohort
Study.18 Specifically we assessed breastfeeding initiation and the prevalence of any breastfeeding at 1 month after adjustment for maternal factors known to influence a mother's decision to breast
Study.18 Specifically we assessed breastfeeding initiation and the prevalence of any breastfeeding
at 1 month after adjustment for maternal factors known to influence a mother's decision to breastfeed.
In this
study of the cost effectiveness of alternative planned places of birth in England in women
at low risk of complications before the onset of labour, we found that the cost of intrapartum and after birth care, and associated related complications, was less for births planned
at home, in a free standing midwifery
unit, or in an alongside midwifery
unit compared with planned births in an obstetric
unit.
Classical Home Schooling Curriculum Deschooling Eclectic Home Schooling E-mail Acronyms Home Education HS HS «er Home Schooler Home Schooling Institutional Schools School
at Home Teaching
Unit Studies Unschooling
Studies were excluded where the intervention (a) was aimed
at prevention rather than treatment; (b) was aimed specifically
at children, the whole family as a
unit or
at teachers; or (c) was non-structured, such as an informal support group or unstructured home visits.
Jane Sandall was and is principal investigator for two
studies evaluating models of midwife - led continuity of care (Sandall 2001), and co-investigator on the «Birthplace in England Research Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned
at home, in different types of midwifery
units, and in hospital
units with obstetric services.
A
study of more than 2,000 babies
at a hospital in Oregon following «baby - friendly» guidelines found that «the rate of exclusive breastfeeding on the mother - baby
unit decreased significantly after pacifiers were restricted.»
There were no differences between groups in the gestational age
at randomization, time to uterine quiescence, time on
study drug, length of hospitalization, days from randomization to delivery, incidence of side effects, or admissions to the neonatal intensive care
unit.
Studying preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit (NICU)
at St. Louis Children's Hospital, the researchers found that preemies whose daily diets were
at least 50 percent breast milk had more brain tissue and cortical - surface area by their due dates than premature babies who consumed significantly less breast milk.
Dr Paul Ramchandani — a researcher and clinical psychiatrist now based
at the Academic
Unit of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London — led the
study, which assessed father - infant interactions in the family home when the child was aged three months and compared them against the child's behaviour
at the age of twelve months.
In a
study published July 19 in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, researchers
at the University of Oxford
studied 192 families recruited from two maternity
units in the UK to see whether there was a link between father - child interactions in the early postnatal period and the child's behaviour.
The large AFFIRM
study, which is looking
at the way maternity
units respond to women with reduced fetal movement (RFM), has started.
A previous
study showed that in the Campania region, the prevalence of full breastfeeding
at 6 months was 7 %.12 Assuming a 20 % loss to follow - up, we calculated that we would require ∼ 240 mother and father pairs to detect a statistically significant increase of 15 % (1 − α = 95 %, 1 − β = 80 %) in the rate of full breastfeeding
at 6 months.13 To avoid communication between
study groups, which would be likely if people who were admitted to the same hospital
unit were exposed to different messages
at the same time, we did not randomize the participants as it usually is done, 14 but we allocated the 2
study groups into 2 consecutive blocks of time, after having randomly paired the 2
study groups with the 2 blocks of time.
Declan Devane is a co-author in one of the included trials in this review (Begley 2011) Jane Sandall was and is principal investigator for two
studies evaluating models of midwife - led continuity of care (Sandall 2001), and co-investigator on the «Birthplace in England Research Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned
at home, in different types of midwifery
units, and in hospital
units with obstetric services.
He has worked
at the Treasury, the Number 10 Policy
Unit, the Centre for Policy
Studies and served as Paymaster General in the last Conservative Government.
According to the
study, East Harlem loses nearly 300
units of affordable housing from rent protection and other regulations each year and that average costs for housing are rising
at a fast clip.
Senior Researcher and Head of the foreign policy
unit at the Danish Institute for International
Studies, Danish Institute for International
Studies
A previous
study by researchers
at McGill University in Montreal found that the home - sharing company is driving up rental prices and reducing housing availability due to so - called «ghost
units» not made available to residents of New York City.
The
study included 249 audio - recorded in physician - family meetings between surrogate decision - makers and health care professionals in 13 intensive care
units at six medical centers around the country between October 2009 and October 2012.
Supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the
unit was designed in collaboration with curriculum developers
at the nonprofit Biological Sciences Curriculum
Study (BSCS).
«When we first began this
study, there had not been a lot of experimental research done,» said Prof Gail Tripp, one of the authors of the paper and director of the Human Developmental Neurobiology
Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST).
Christine Grady, acting chief of the NIH Clinical Centers» department of bioethics, is currently compiling the first - ever
study looking
at how many inconvenience
units various procedures have gotten over the years.
SI Fellowships are awarded annually to scholars wishing to conduct independent
study or research
at one or more of the Smithsonian's 19
units and research centers.
I honoured my obligation, and in 1990, upon completion of my
studies, I went back to work
at the Malawi Ministry of Health, as Officer - in - charge of the Community Health Sciences
Unit.
David Macdonald is part of a team of scientists
at the University of Oxford's Wildlife Research Conservation
Unit in the United Kingdom that was
studying Cecil.
As Saaïd Safieddine, CNRS Director of Research
at the Institut Pasteur and co-senior author of the
study with Prof. Christine Petit (head of the Genetics & physiology hearing
unit at the Institut Pasteur), explains, «we have just shown that it is possible to partially correct a specific form of hereditary hearing loss accompanied by balance problems using local gene therapy performed after the embryogenesis of the ear, which is primarily affected by the mutation responsible for the disorder.
I also
studied medicine in Leiden and after graduating went to work
at the experimental clinical pharmacology
unit of Wellcome (a pharmaceutical company in England).
Three British investigations focused on the Climate Research
Unit at the University of East Anglia, site of the stolen e-mails and a leading center for
studying global warming.
The
study team analyzed results in 1,257 premature infants in neonatal intensive care
units (NICUs)
at 12
study centers in the U.S. and one in Canada from 2011 to 2013.
Goss completed a 6 - month tour
at the beginning of the war as part of a Marine reserve
unit out of Little Rock, then returned to his
studies at Harding.