Great Britain, Palestine and the Jews : Jewry's celebration of its national charter

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Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 695 - "The Collapse of German Democracy and the Expansion of National Socialism", "Cultural Aspects of National Socialism" u.a. (p. IX 169.1a - IX 170.1-4)

"The Collapse of German Democracy and the Expansion of National Socialism" (1940):; 1. Darstellung des Forschungsprojekts (15.9.1940), b. Typoskript mit handschriftlichen Korrekturen, 78 Blatt; 2. "Research work on recent trends in the history of ideas (parts of the Research project on the Collapse of German Democracy would be included)". Als Memorandum zur Eröffnung zur Eröffnung einer Zweigstelle des Instituts in Los Angeles (12.12.1940): a) Typoskript, 2 Blatt, b) Teilstück, Typoskript mit handschriftlichen Korrekturen, 1 Blatt, c) Teilstück, Typoskript mit handschriftlichen Korrekturen, 1 Blatt, d) Teilstück, Typoskript, 1 Blatt, e) Teilstück, Typoskript, 1 Blatt, f) Entwurf, Typoskript mit handschriftlichen Korrekturen und Manuskript, 3 Blatt; 3. University of California, Los Angeles: 2 Briefe (Abschrift) von Max Horkheimer, o.O., 1940, 2 Briefe (Abschrift) an Max Horkheimer, 1940, 2 Blatt; A.R.L. Gurland: "Survey of Structural Changes in the German Economy, 1933 to 1939. Technological Bases and Organizational Forms of the National Socialist Economic System". Typoskript mit handschriftlichen Korrekturen unter anderem von Theodor W. Adorno, 48 Blatt (formal nicht identisch mit "Technological Trends and Economic Structure under National Socialism", Studies in Philosophy and Social Science, Bd. IX, 1941, S. 226ff.); "Cultural Aspects of National Socialism. A Research Project" (1941):; 1. Institute of Social Research: Mitteilung über das Forschungsprojekt und das 'Supplementary Statement', Typoskript, englisch, 4 Blatt; 2. Supplementary Statement to the Research Project, a) Typoskript, 14.4.1941, 63 Blatt, b) Typoskript, 12.4.1941, mit handschriftlichen Korrekturen, 35 Blatt; 3. "Cultural Aspects of National Socialism. A Research Project" (24.2.1941), a) als Typoskript vervielfältigt, 54 Blatt, b) Typoskript mit handschriftlichen Korrekturen, 34 Blatt, c) Fassung Januar 1941, Typoskript mit handschriftlichen Korrekturen, 40 Blatt; 4. Inhaltsverzeichnisse, mit handschriftlichen Korrekturen, 3 Blatt;

Predigt und Gebet beim feierlichen Gottesdienste in der Synagoge zu Cöln am National-Bettag, Mittwoch den 27. Juli 1870

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The relationship between risk perception and ethnicity as an explanation for late stage skin cancer diagnosis in Black and Hispanic populations: An analysis using data from the 2005 Health Information and National Trends Survey

Objective. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between ethnicity and skin cancer risk perception while controlling for other risk factors: education, gender, age, access to healthcare, family history of skin cancer, fear, and worry. ^ Methods. This study utilized the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) dataset, a nationally representative sample of 5,586 individuals 18 years of age or older. One third of the respondents were chosen at random and asked questions involving skin cancer. Analysis was based on questions that identified skin cancer risk perception, fear of finding skin cancer, and frequency of worry about skin cancer and a variety of sociodemographic factors. ^ Results. Ethnicity had a significant impact on risk perception scores while controlling for other risk factors. Other risk factors that also had a significant impact on risk perception scores included family history of skin cancer, age, and worry. ^

Prior history of atopy or autoimmunity increases risk for alopecia areata

Background. The association between a prior history of atopy or other autoimmune diseases and risk of alopecia areata is not well established. ^ Objective. Purpose of this study was to use the National Alopecia Areata Registry database to further investigate the association between history of atopy or other autoimmune diseases and risk of alopecia areata. ^ Methods. A total of 2,613 self-registered sporadic cases (n = 2,055) and controls (n = 558) were included in the present analysis. ^ Results. Possessing a history of any atopy (OR = 2.00; 95% CI 1.50-2.54) or autoimmune disease (OR = 1.73; 95% CI 1.10-2.72) was associated with an increased risk of alopecia areata. There was no trend for possessing a history of more than one atopy or autoimmune disease and increasing risk of alopecia areata. ^ Limitations. Recall, reporting, and recruiting bias are potential sources of limitations in this analysis. ^ Conclusion. This analysis revealed that a prior history of atopy and autoimmune disease was associated with an increased risk of alopecia areata and that the results were consistent for both the severe subtype of alopecia areata (i.e., alopecia totalis and alopecia universalis) and the localized subtype (i.e., alopecia areata persistent).^

Cancer perceptions: Implications from the 2007 Health Information National Trends Survey

Background. Research has demonstrated associations between sociodemographic characteristics and illness perceptions; however, the impact of cancer exposure through personal or family diagnoses is not well-studied. The purposes of this study were to examine the prevalence of different cancer beliefs and the disparity in cancer beliefs across groups of individuals with distinct cancer histories; and to identify whether, when adjusted for sociodemographic characteristics, cancer history predicts a set of cancer beliefs.^ Methods. Using Leventhal’s Common Sense Model and data from the 2007 Health Information National Trends Survey (N=7172), we constructed multivariable logistic regressions to evaluate the effect of different stimuli, including cancer experience, on cancer perceptions (e.g., risk, worry, causation, outcome).^ Results. Findings indicate significant associations between cancer history and cancer perceptions. Individuals with family and personal cancer histories were more likely than individuals without any cancer history to worry about getting cancer (OR=3.55, P<0.01), agree they will develop cancer in the future (OR=8.81, P<0.01), and disagree that cancer is most often caused by a person’s behavior or lifestyle (OR=1.24, P=0.03). Additionally, results support education’s role in forming cancer perceptions. Individuals with high levels of education were more likely to endorse cancer prevention (OR=1.68, P<0.01) and higher 5-year survival rates (OR=1.41, P<0.01). ^ Conclusions. Results indicate cancer history affects cancer perceptions throughout the cancer continuum. Additionally, cancer history may influence coping behaviors and outcomes related to cancer.^ Impact. Cancer education and survivorship programs should assess important variables (e.g., cancer history) to more effectively tailor services and monitor evolving needs throughout cancer care.^

Is family medicine meeting the HIV/AIDS challenge? A national survey of family physicians' beliefs, clinical competence, and experience regarding HIV disease

A national sample of family physicians was surveyed to (1) assess family physicians' beliefs about the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and individuals at risk for infection, their clinical competence regarding HIV-related issues, and their experiences with HIV disease; (2) present conclusions to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) to effect the development of an early clinical care protocol and a continuing medical education curriculum; and (3) collect base-line data for use in the evaluation of an early clinical care protocol and a continuing medical education curriculum, in the case that such programs are developed and disseminated. After considering retired or deceased respondents, of the 2,660 physicians surveyed, 1,678 (63.7%) responded. The resulting sample was representative of the active members of the AAFP. About 77% of the respondents were unable to accurately identify the universal precautions for blood and body fluids to prevent occupational transmission of HIV or hepatitis B virus (HBV). Residency trained and board certified physicians expressed fewer "external constraints," such as fear of losing patients, obviating them from providing treatment to individuals with HIV disease (p =.004 and p $<$.001, respectively). These physicians also manifested fewer "internal constraints" to the provision of HIV treatment, such as fear of becoming infected (p $<$.001 and p =.012, respectively). Residency trained physicians also expressed a greater comfort with discussing sexually-related topics with their patients than did non-residency trained physicians (p $<$.001). There were 67.1% of the physicians surveyed who reported never providing treatment to an individual with HIV disease. Residency trained and board certified physicians expressed a greater likelihood to provide treatment to HIV-infected patients (p $<$.001) than non-residency trained and non-board certified physicians.^ Among the various primary care specialties, family medicine is especially vulnerable to the current challenges of HIV/AIDS. These challenges are augmented by the epidemiologic pattern that characterizes AIDS. For the past several years, we have seen AIDS in this country assume a similar pattern to that seen in most other countries; HIV is becoming increasingly prevalent in the heterosexual population as well as in locations removed from metropolitan centers. This current phase of the epidemic generates greater pressures upon primary care physicians, particularly family physicians, to become better acquainted with the means to provide early care to HIV/AIDS patients and to prevent HIV/AIDS among their patients. Family medicine is especially appropriate for providing care to HIV patients because family medicine involves treatment to all age groups and conditions; other primary care specialties focus on limited patient populations or specific conditions. Family physicians should be armed with the expertise to confront HIV/AIDS. However, family physicians' clinical competence and experience with HIV is not known. The data collected in this survey describes their competencies, attitudes, and experiences. ^

A critical assessment of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Program against the eras which shaped it

This research study offers a critical assessment of NIH's Consensus Development Program (CDP), focusing upon its historical and valuative bases and its institutionalization in response to social and political forces. The analysis encompasses systems-level, as well as interpersonal factors in the adoption of consensus as the mechanism for resolving scientific controversies in clinical practice application. Further, the evolution of the CDP is also considered from an ecological perspective as a reasoned adaptation by NIH to pressures from its supporters and clients for translating biomedical research into medical practice. The assessment examines federal science policy and institutional designs for the inclusion of the public interest and democratic deliberation.^ The study relies on three distinct approaches to social research. Conventional historical methods were utilized in the interpretation of social and political influences across eras on the evolution of the National Institutes of Health and its response to demands for accountability and relevance through its Consensus Development Program. An embedded single-case study was utilized for an empirical examination of the CDP mechanism through five exemplar conferences. Lastly, a sociohistorical approach was taken to the CDP in order to consider its responsiveness to the values of the eras which created and shaped it. An exploration of organizational behavior with considerations for institutional reform as a response to continuing political and social pressure, it is a study of organizational birth, growth, and response to demands from its environment. The study has explanatory import in its attempt to account for the creation, timing, and form of the CDP, relative to political, institutional, and cultural pressures, and predictive import thorough its historical view which provides a basis for informed speculation on the playing out of tensions between extramural and intermural scientists and the current demands for health care reform. ^

Cataract surgery in cancer patients and its impact on quality of life as measured by the National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire - 25 (NEI-VFQ-25)

Purpose. The measurement of quality of life has become an important topic in healthcare and in the allocation of limited healthcare resources. Improving the quality of life (QOL) in cancer patients is paramount. Cataract removal and lens implantation appears to improve patient well-being of cancer patients, though a formal measurement has never been published in the US literature. In this current study, National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ-25), a validated vision quality of life metric, was used to study the change in vision-related quality of life in cancer patients who underwent cataract extraction with intraocular lens implantation. ^ Methods. Under an IRB approved protocol, cancer patients who underwent cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation (by a single surgeon) from December 2008 to March 2011, and who had completed a pre- and postoperative NEI-VFQ-25 were retrospectively reviewed. Post-operative data was collected at their routine 4-6 week post-op visit. Patients' demographics, cancer history, their pre and postoperative ocular examinations, visual acuities, and NEI-VFQ-25 with twelve components were included in the evaluation. The responses were evaluated using the Student t test, Spearman correlation and Wilcoxon signed rank test. ^ Results. 63 cases of cataract surgery (from 54 patients) from the MD Anderson Cancer Center were included in the study. Cancer patients had a significant improvement in the visual acuity (P<0.0001) postoperatively, along with a significant increase in vision-related quality of life (P<0.0001). Patients also had a statistically significant improvement in ten of the twelve subcategories which are addressed in the NEI-VFQ-25. ^ Conclusions. In our study, cataract extraction and intraocular implantation showed a significant impact on the vision-related quality of life in cancer patients. Although this study includes a small sample size, it serves as a positive pilot study to evaluate and quantify the impact of a surgical intervention on QOL in cancer patients and may help to design a larger study to measure vision related QOL per dollar spent for health care cost in cancer patients.^

Con las mejores intenciones... : Estudio sobre las prácticas políticas de los jóvenes estudiantes en la actual escuela secundaria obligatoria, en un contexto de fragmentación social

Este trabajo de investigación se ha propuesto indagar y comprender las prácticas asociadas con la construcción de una ciudadanía activa y participativa que desarrollan los jóvenes estudiantes en las escuelas secundarias seleccionadas, en la ciudad de Olavarría, durante el período 2009-2011. Iniciado un proceso de reposicionamiento estatal, la Ley de Educación Nacional No 26.206 deposita en la escuela sus expectativas de formación de una ciudadanía activa, construida sobre la base jurídica de "igualdad de derechos". Las escuelas, como parte de un sistema educativo fragmentado, tienen serias dificultades para instituir normas democráticas e igualitarias en el marco del escenario social contemporáneo. En su interior se desarrollan prácticas sociales que revelan la contingencia de lo social caracterizado por la desigualdad y la fragmentación, situación que genera, para los jóvenes, diversas y desiguales posibilidades de producir acciones orientadas a la convivencia, la participación y la generación de demandas ante situaciones de conflictos irresueltos. El formato del curriculum escolar, que mantiene en su desarrollo el peso de la historia de la escuela secundaria tradicional, pareciera, por momentos, constituirse en un obstáculo para sostener las nuevas relaciones pedagógicas y sociales necesarias para educar a los jóvenes como sujetos políticos. Ya sea para comprender las disposiciones de los jóvenes como también la propuesta de la nueva LEN es preciso indicar que -a pesar de los nuevos aires democratizantes que surcan el cono sur del continente- sigue siendo necesario reflexionar sobre las nuevas formas de construcción de hegemonía neoliberal, de acuerdo con los posicionamientos que marcan reconocidos referentes de la Pedagogía Crítica (Apple, Torres, entre otros)

"La Conquista del Desierto" en las aulas : Estudio a través de los manuales de historia para el tercer año del nivel medio de acuerdo al Programa de Estudios de 1956 (1956-1979)

La historia en las aulas cumple un uso político de formar "ciudadanos", "patriotas" y "argentinos". Concibiendo el valor que poseen los manuales escolares no sólo como "productos historiográficos" sino también como "espacios de memoria", el objeto de este trabajo es analizar cómo ha sido presentada "La Conquista del Desierto" por los manuales de historia argentina para el 3º año del nivel medio entre 1956 y 1979. Periodo relevante de la historia educativa nacional debido a la masificación de la matrícula en dicho nivel (De Luca, 2008) y la implementación de una serie de manuales recordados por su larga vigencia (Romero, 2007; y Tosi, 2012)

Con las mejores intenciones... : Estudio sobre las prácticas políticas de los jóvenes estudiantes en la actual escuela secundaria obligatoria, en un contexto de fragmentación social

Este trabajo de investigación se ha propuesto indagar y comprender las prácticas asociadas con la construcción de una ciudadanía activa y participativa que desarrollan los jóvenes estudiantes en las escuelas secundarias seleccionadas, en la ciudad de Olavarría, durante el período 2009-2011. Iniciado un proceso de reposicionamiento estatal, la Ley de Educación Nacional No 26.206 deposita en la escuela sus expectativas de formación de una ciudadanía activa, construida sobre la base jurídica de "igualdad de derechos". Las escuelas, como parte de un sistema educativo fragmentado, tienen serias dificultades para instituir normas democráticas e igualitarias en el marco del escenario social contemporáneo. En su interior se desarrollan prácticas sociales que revelan la contingencia de lo social caracterizado por la desigualdad y la fragmentación, situación que genera, para los jóvenes, diversas y desiguales posibilidades de producir acciones orientadas a la convivencia, la participación y la generación de demandas ante situaciones de conflictos irresueltos. El formato del curriculum escolar, que mantiene en su desarrollo el peso de la historia de la escuela secundaria tradicional, pareciera, por momentos, constituirse en un obstáculo para sostener las nuevas relaciones pedagógicas y sociales necesarias para educar a los jóvenes como sujetos políticos. Ya sea para comprender las disposiciones de los jóvenes como también la propuesta de la nueva LEN es preciso indicar que -a pesar de los nuevos aires democratizantes que surcan el cono sur del continente- sigue siendo necesario reflexionar sobre las nuevas formas de construcción de hegemonía neoliberal, de acuerdo con los posicionamientos que marcan reconocidos referentes de la Pedagogía Crítica (Apple, Torres, entre otros)

"La Conquista del Desierto" en las aulas : Estudio a través de los manuales de historia para el tercer año del nivel medio de acuerdo al Programa de Estudios de 1956 (1956-1979)

La historia en las aulas cumple un uso político de formar "ciudadanos", "patriotas" y "argentinos". Concibiendo el valor que poseen los manuales escolares no sólo como "productos historiográficos" sino también como "espacios de memoria", el objeto de este trabajo es analizar cómo ha sido presentada "La Conquista del Desierto" por los manuales de historia argentina para el 3º año del nivel medio entre 1956 y 1979. Periodo relevante de la historia educativa nacional debido a la masificación de la matrícula en dicho nivel (De Luca, 2008) y la implementación de una serie de manuales recordados por su larga vigencia (Romero, 2007; y Tosi, 2012)

Con las mejores intenciones... : Estudio sobre las prácticas políticas de los jóvenes estudiantes en la actual escuela secundaria obligatoria, en un contexto de fragmentación social

Este trabajo de investigación se ha propuesto indagar y comprender las prácticas asociadas con la construcción de una ciudadanía activa y participativa que desarrollan los jóvenes estudiantes en las escuelas secundarias seleccionadas, en la ciudad de Olavarría, durante el período 2009-2011. Iniciado un proceso de reposicionamiento estatal, la Ley de Educación Nacional No 26.206 deposita en la escuela sus expectativas de formación de una ciudadanía activa, construida sobre la base jurídica de "igualdad de derechos". Las escuelas, como parte de un sistema educativo fragmentado, tienen serias dificultades para instituir normas democráticas e igualitarias en el marco del escenario social contemporáneo. En su interior se desarrollan prácticas sociales que revelan la contingencia de lo social caracterizado por la desigualdad y la fragmentación, situación que genera, para los jóvenes, diversas y desiguales posibilidades de producir acciones orientadas a la convivencia, la participación y la generación de demandas ante situaciones de conflictos irresueltos. El formato del curriculum escolar, que mantiene en su desarrollo el peso de la historia de la escuela secundaria tradicional, pareciera, por momentos, constituirse en un obstáculo para sostener las nuevas relaciones pedagógicas y sociales necesarias para educar a los jóvenes como sujetos políticos. Ya sea para comprender las disposiciones de los jóvenes como también la propuesta de la nueva LEN es preciso indicar que -a pesar de los nuevos aires democratizantes que surcan el cono sur del continente- sigue siendo necesario reflexionar sobre las nuevas formas de construcción de hegemonía neoliberal, de acuerdo con los posicionamientos que marcan reconocidos referentes de la Pedagogía Crítica (Apple, Torres, entre otros)

"La Conquista del Desierto" en las aulas : Estudio a través de los manuales de historia para el tercer año del nivel medio de acuerdo al Programa de Estudios de 1956 (1956-1979)

La historia en las aulas cumple un uso político de formar "ciudadanos", "patriotas" y "argentinos". Concibiendo el valor que poseen los manuales escolares no sólo como "productos historiográficos" sino también como "espacios de memoria", el objeto de este trabajo es analizar cómo ha sido presentada "La Conquista del Desierto" por los manuales de historia argentina para el 3º año del nivel medio entre 1956 y 1979. Periodo relevante de la historia educativa nacional debido a la masificación de la matrícula en dicho nivel (De Luca, 2008) y la implementación de una serie de manuales recordados por su larga vigencia (Romero, 2007; y Tosi, 2012)