THE APPLICATION OF PATH ANALYSIS TO ASSESSMENT OF IRON NUTRITIONAL STATUS IN MAN

Path analysis has been applied to components of the iron metabolic system with the intent of suggesting an integrated procedure for better evaluating iron nutritional status at the community level. The primary variables of interest in this study were (1) iron stores, (2) total iron-binding capacity, (3) serum ferritin, (4) serum iron, (5) transferrin saturation, and (6) hemoglobin concentration. Correlation coefficients for relationships among these variables were obtained from published literature and postulated in a series of models using measures of those variables that are feasible to include in a community nutritional survey. Models were built upon known information about the metabolism of iron and were limited by what had been reported in the literature in terms of correlation coefficients or quantitative relationships. Data were pooled from various studies and correlations of the same bivariate relationships were averaged after z- transformations. Correlation matrices were then constructed by transforming the average values back into correlation coefficients. The results of path analysis in this study indicate that hemoglobin is not a good indicator of early iron deficiency. It does not account for variance in iron stores. On the other hand, 91% of the variance in iron stores is explained by serum ferritin and total iron-binding capacity. In addition, the magnitude of the path coefficient (.78) of the serum ferritin-iron stores relationship signifies that serum ferritin is the most important predictor of iron stores in the proposed model. Finally, drawing upon known relations among variables and the amount of variance explained in path models, it is suggested that the following blood measures should be made in assessing community iron deficiency: (1) serum ferritin, (2) total iron-binding capacity, (3) serum iron, (4) transferrin saturation, and (5) hemoglobin concentration. These measures (with acceptable ranges and cut-off points) could make possible the complete evaluation of all three stages of iron deficiency in those persons surveyed at the community level. ^

ARREDA HOMEM QUE AÍ VEM MULHER... Representações de Gênero nas Manifestações da Pombagira

Arreda homem que aí vem mulher... , trata das representações de gênero nas manifestações da Pombagira, entidade espiritual da religiosidade afro-brasileira. O trabalho faz uma leitura diferenciada sobre a figura da Pombagira trazendo-a para o campo social, mostrando sua construção e suas funções, desmistificando sua associação com o mal que supomos esteja relacionado com a sua função de intermediadora das relações amorosas, vinculadas ao poder via sexualidade, além da sua manifestação como contestadora do papel feminino construído. A pesquisa foi realizada por meio da observação dos rituais e entrevistas semi-estruturadas com sacerdotes, sacerdotisas e adeptos da religiosidade afro-brasileira em terreiros de Candomblé e Umbanda na cidade de Porto Velho - Rondônia. Apresentamos no primeiro capítulo algumas observações sobre as suas imagens, funções e representações. No segundo capítulo trazemos as construções da sua figura pelos cientistas sociais, religiosos, entrevistados e entrevistadas. O terceiro capítulo foi dedicado às observações sobre as representações da Pombagira, objetivo central do trabalho.AU)

ARREDA HOMEM QUE AÍ VEM MULHER... Representações de Gênero nas Manifestações da Pombagira

Arreda homem que aí vem mulher... , trata das representações de gênero nas manifestações da Pombagira, entidade espiritual da religiosidade afro-brasileira. O trabalho faz uma leitura diferenciada sobre a figura da Pombagira trazendo-a para o campo social, mostrando sua construção e suas funções, desmistificando sua associação com o mal que supomos esteja relacionado com a sua função de intermediadora das relações amorosas, vinculadas ao poder via sexualidade, além da sua manifestação como contestadora do papel feminino construído. A pesquisa foi realizada por meio da observação dos rituais e entrevistas semi-estruturadas com sacerdotes, sacerdotisas e adeptos da religiosidade afro-brasileira em terreiros de Candomblé e Umbanda na cidade de Porto Velho - Rondônia. Apresentamos no primeiro capítulo algumas observações sobre as suas imagens, funções e representações. No segundo capítulo trazemos as construções da sua figura pelos cientistas sociais, religiosos, entrevistados e entrevistadas. O terceiro capítulo foi dedicado às observações sobre as representações da Pombagira, objetivo central do trabalho.AU)

Private (Brown) Eyes: Ethnicity, Genre and Gender in Crime Fiction in the Gloria Damasco novels and the Chicanos Comic Series

The representation of women in crime fiction has traditionally been a complicated one. Consistently forced into secondary characters (assistants, girlfriends, or damsels in distress) the most active role a female character could aspire to was that of the femme fatale, a pit of perdition, an unwelcome distraction for a man looking for truth and justice. This traditional approach to the genre has been challenged in the last decades by women acting as detectives, trusted with solving their cases in a hostile male world. Similarly, the traditional white male protagonist has been contested by fictions where ethnic minorities are not just consigned to the criminal world, but where detectives are members of ethnic groups, and can use their knowledge of the community to solve the case. This essay focuses on the crossroads of ethnic and women’s detective fiction, specifically the Gloria Damasco series by Chicana writer Lucha Corpi and the graphic novel Chicanos (Trillo and Risso, 1996). Both protagonists (Gloria Damasco, a Chicana clairvoyant detective, and “poor, ugly, and a detective” Alejandrina Yolanda Jalisco) must face both the dangers of investigating criminal cases and discrimination in their professional surroundings due to their gender and ethnicity. By contrasting these texts, the essay elucidates the importance of specific cultural products, their connection to (and defiance of) canonical forms of the genre, and their rejection of generic and gender expectations.

The woman who didn't /

Binding and ornamental t.p. designed by Aubrey Beardsley.

A strong-minded woman, or, Two years after /

Wright's American fiction, v. III, no. 2434.

The man without a profession /

Miller-Macartney. Australian lit.,

A crime of the under-seas /

Short stories.

Wealth and worth; or, Which makes the man? ...

Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.)

Stokeshill Place, or, The man of business /

Wolff, R.L. 19th cent. fiction,

Leaves from the scrap book of an awkward man /

Statement of responsibility from front cover.

The placid man, or, Memoirs of Sir Charles Beville /

Wolff, R.L. 19th cent. fiction,

Lady Cheveley; or, The woman of honour.

A satire in verse, written in answer to Lady Bulwer-Lytton's attack on her husband in "Cheveley, the man of honour."

Evenings of a working man : being the occupation of his scanty leisure /

Stories, verses, and essays.

The fortune hunter, or, The adventures of a man about town : a novel of New York society /

Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.),