Cardiovascular prevention model from Kenyan slums to migrants in the Netherlands

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the main cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. As prevention and treatment of CVD often requires active screening and lifelong follow up it is a challenge for health systems both in high-income and low and middle-income countries to deliver adequate care to those in need, with efficient use of resources.We developed a health service model for primary prevention of CVD suitable for implementation in the Nairobi slums, based on best practices from public health and the private sectors. The model consists of four key intervention elements focusing on increasing awareness, incentives for promoting access to screening and treatment, and improvement of long-term adherence to prescribed medications. More than 5,000 slum dwellers aged ≥35 years and above have been screened in the study resulting in more than 1000 diagnosed with hypertension and referred to the clinic.Some marginalized groups in high-income countries like African migrants in the Netherlands also have low rates of awareness, treatment and control of hypertension as the slum population in Nairobi. The parallel between both groups is that they have a combination of risky lifestyle, are prone to chronic diseases such as hypertension, have limited knowledge about hypertension and its complications, and a tendency to stay away from clinics partly due to cultural beliefs in alternative forms of treatment, and lack of trust in health providers. Based on these similarities it was suggested by several policymakers that the model from Nairobi can be applied to other vulnerable populations such as African migrants in high-income countries. The model can be contextualized to the local situation by adapting the key steps of the model to the local settings.The involvement and support of African communities' infrastructures and health care staff is crucial, and the most important enabler for successful implementation of the model in migrant communities in high-income countries. Once these stakeholders have expressed their interest, the impact of the adapted intervention can be measured through an implementation research approach including collection of costs from health care providers' perspective and health effects in the target population, similar to the study design for Nairobi.

Traduzindo Moll Flanders : as versões de Lucio Cardoso e Antônio Alves Cury sob a perspectiva dos estudos de tradução

Os fenômenos da tradução, assim como vários dos diversos percursos históricos e teóricos apresentados ao longo da História sobre o tema, serão explicitados e discutidos. A avaliação comparatista de duas traduções de Moll Flanders, de autoria de Daniel Defoe, será desenvolvida, levando-se em consideração as concepções mais atuais dos Estudos de Tradução, como a teoria da Reescritura de Andre Lefevere. Aspectos como o status do tradutor, assim como o sistema literário do qual este provém, são fatores que também serão pertinentes às referidas análises críticas.

Omtvedt Innovation Awards Presented to Chris Calkins, Steven Jones, Rodger Johnson, and Sheila Scheideler

It's a great pleasure to welcome you to this very first recognition ceremony for the Omtvedt Innovation Awards. We are present here to honor innovation strengths of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and certainly the four faculty members receiving today's awards are greatly deserving of this recognition. Just hearing about their work is gratifying!

Metafora: specchio della mente umana un viaggio mano per mano con Steven Pinker

L'elaborato mostra in un primo momento i poteri del linguaggio, inteso come diretta espressione della persona. In un secondo momento la ricerca si sofferma sui poteri particolari della metafora. La metafora è in grado se usata in maniere consapevole di modificare il nostro rapporto con la comunità e quello con noi stessi.

Mus Hs 2392 - Sinfonie c-Moll, Werk 57

von Bodo Wolf

Sonntagmorgen in Moll [Illustration]

Emanuel S. van Beever

Matthäus-Passion und H-Moll-Messe

Joh. Seb. Bach. Hrsg. von Georg Richard Kruse

Aportaciones contemporáneas a la calle corredor. Análisis e interpretación del Linked Hybrid de Steven Holl

Entender el desplazamiento que se ha producido, tanto en los procesos proyectuales como en la construcción, entre la arquitectura contemporánea y la arquitectura moderna a través de una serie de conceptos aplicados a la calle corredor. Para este complicado proceso comparativo se ha seleccionado la calle corredor del complejo del Híbrido Enlazado o Linked Hybrid de Steven Holl, como nuevo paradigma de calle corredor contemporánea. ABSTRACT. Understanding the shift that has occurred in both the project processes such as construction, between contemporary architecture and modern architecture through a series of concepts applied to the street corridor. For this complicated process is selected comparative Street corridor Linked Hybrid complex by Steven Holl, as a new paradigm of contemporary street corridor.

El ciclo de acción de Hollywood (1980-2015): industria, autoría y cine de acción en la obra de Steven Seagal

Esta tesis doctoral analiza y evalúa el impacto, alcance e influencia de los filmes comprendidos en lo que ha dado en llamarse el ciclo de acción de Hollywood entre los años 1980 y 2015 —el ciclo posee etapas netamente diferenciadas: «musculosa», «acrobática» y «inhumana»—. Mediante el estudio de tres vertientes —industria, autoría y el cine de acción—, se ha puesto en contexto este tipo de cinematografía dentro de un escenario de entretenimiento multinacional —donde el cine es una de las múltiples for-mas artísticas de entretenimiento basadas en la narrativa, junto a los videojuegos, la música, la literatura, etc.— y globalizado —el cine de Hollywood, la industria más impor-tante del mundo en términos económicos, lo es no solo por sí misma, sino por su im-pacto en el mercado internacional—. En este sentido, el cine de acción, dadas sus carac-terísticas intrínsecas más elementales, se ha manifestado como un vehículo narrativo y artístico idóneo para la exportación del entretenimiento de Hollywood —así como su ideología— a lo largo de todo el mundo. A través del análisis de una de las obras cinematográficas más consistentes y coherentes del ciclo de acción Hollywood —la obra de Steven Seagal: actor, productor, guionista, director, compositor musical y coreógrafo—, la presente tesis ofrece una pro-funda reflexión sobre el fenómeno de la acción en el cine, su origen, su alcance y sus más habituales manifestaciones. Argumenta, además, la imposibilidad de concebir un cine narrativo sin acción —en mayor o menor medida— en su seno. El estudio de la obra de Steven Seagal —y su clasificación en etapas: clasicista, manierista y metadiscursivo— permite extraer algunas de las más relevantes caracterís-ticas y contradicciones de este tipo de filmes, al tiempo que ofrece un nuevo paradigma de análisis centrado en la influencia autoral del actor en esta cinematografía y/o en los datos de carácter cuantificable extraídos de los mismos —número de escenas de acción, duración de las mismas, porcentaje de acción por filme, etc.