Supporters of surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead rally in front of NJ Courthouse

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Jane Porcino speaks at "Women in Transition" conference

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Mary, a familiar homeless woman whose turf is 5th avenue and 14th street in NY

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Mary Kay Blakely, contributing editor at Ms. Magazine, speaks at pro-choice rally at St. Patrick's

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Mary Beth Whitehead from Whitehead surrogate case about Baby "M" trial in N.J.

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

International Women's Year conference. From left to right: Midge Costanza, Helen Haes, Celeste Holmes, unidentified, Mary Burke Nichols, Bella Abzug, unidentified, Lt. Governor Mary Anne Krupsak

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Women's March (L-R): Isola Dubic, Mary Anne Krupsak, and Bella Abzug

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Women's Equality Day march to the Statue of Liberty with suffragist Isola Dubic, Bella Abzug, and Lt. Gov. NY Mary Anne Krupsak

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Paysages d'amour. IV. No. 2 en Sol. Parmi les meules

Augusta Holmès.

Élaboration et validation d'un instrument préliminaire mesurant les connaissances, les attitudes, les croyances, les normes subjectives et les intentions d'agir des professionnels de la santé sur le don d'organes

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Seasonal changes in Vitamin D-effective UVB availability in Europe and associations with population serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D

Low vitamin D status is common in Europe. The major source of vitamin D in humans is ultraviolet B (UVB)-induced dermal synthesis of cholecalciferol, whereas food sources are believed to play a lesser role. Our objectives were to assess UVB availability (Jm−2) across several European locations ranging from 35° N to 69° N, and compare these UVB data with representative population serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) data from Ireland (51–54° N), Iceland (64° N) and Norway (69° N), as exemplars. Vitamin D-effective UVB availability was modelled for nine European countries/regions using a validated UV irradiance model. Standardized serum 25(OH)D data was accessed from the EC-funded ODIN project. The results showed that UVB availability decreased with increasing latitude (from 35° N to 69° N), while all locations exhibited significant seasonal variation in UVB. The UVB data suggested that the duration of vitamin D winters ranged from none (at 35° N) to eight months (at 69° N). The large seasonal fluctuations in serum 25(OH)D in Irish adults was much dampened in Norwegian and Icelandic adults, despite considerably lower UVB availability at these northern latitudes but with much higher vitamin D intakes. In conclusion, increasing the vitamin D intake can ameliorate the impact of low UVB availability on serum 25(OH)D status in Europe.

Élaboration et validation d'un instrument préliminaire mesurant les connaissances, les attitudes, les croyances, les normes subjectives et les intentions d'agir des professionnels de la santé sur le don d'organes

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Understandings of transnational families in debates on Migration and development

International migration sets in motion a range of significant transnational processes that connect countries and people. How migration interacts with development and how policies might promote and enhance such interactions have, since the turn of the millennium, gained attention on the international agenda. The recognition that transnational practices connect migrants and their families across sending and receiving societies forms part of this debate. The ways in which policy debate employs and understands transnational family ties nevertheless remain underexplored. This article sets out to discern the understandings of the family in two (often intermingled) debates concerned with transnational interactions: The largely state and policydriven discourse on the potential benefits of migration on economic development, and the largely academic transnational family literature focusing on issues of care and the micro-politics of gender and generation. Emphasizing the relation between diverse migration-development dynamics and specific family positions, we ask whether an analytical point of departure in respective transnational motherhood, fatherhood or childhood is linked to emphasizing certain outcomes. We conclude by sketching important strands of inclusions and exclusions of family matters in policy discourse and suggest ways to better integrate a transnational family perspective in global migration-development policy.

Standardization in the Pre-Columbian Pottery from El Caño, Panama: Specialization, Productivity and Consumption

The pottery found in the burials of El Cano is uniform in style to these made in the coclesanos valleys between 700 and 1000 AD. The coefficient of variability of the different pottery forms, evidence diverse standardizations values for polychrome and non-polychrome ceramics. Moreover, data of funerary contexts from the Cano recently excavated, suggest that elite has controlled ceramic production. This control over the production of certain goods reveals that these were important in the support or proper operational of the chiefdoms in Panama and mark the phase of splendour of this culture.