Case Of Degree Research Articles

Unraveling the Legal Knots around Inter-country Adoptions in De Gree v Webb

With reference to the case of De Gree v Webb 2007 SCA 87 (RSA) and developments in the field of international and South African child law, this contribution examines some challenges posed to the judiciary in particular with regard to inter-country adoptions and the application of the best interests of the child principle in this context. In traversing the area of inter-country adoption law against the background of provisions from related international treaties, the author alludes to some key aspects that may require attention in South Africa in years to come. Pending the promulgation of regulations in terms of the Children’s Act the author furthermore comments on the role that co-operative governance and implementation of the 2006 Guidelines for Inter-Country Adoption may play. 

Morphometric study of proximal femur in fractured and non-fractured post menopausal women

Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the risk of hip fracture using proximal femoral morphometry in fractured and nonfractured postmenopausal women.Methods: We conducted an observational cross-sectional study with 138 postmenopausal women (49 fractured and 89 nonfractured). The hip axis length (HAL), femoral neck axis length (FNAL), acetabular width (AW), femoral head width (FHW), femoral shaft width (FSW), and femoral neck shaft angle (FNSA) were measured in all cases by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. We also studied the correlation between body mass index (BMI) with all the parameters in fractured and control groups.Results: The mean age, height, weight, and BMI were 61.24±3.23, 163.94±7.84 cm, 71.88±9.14 kg, and 26.72±2.78 kg/m², respectively, in fractured patients. In nonfractured patients the values were 59.73±5.32, 161.73±4.25 cm, 69.54±6.25 kg, and 26.74±2.23 kg/m² respectively. The mean HAL, FNAL, AW, FHW, FSW, and FNSA were 130.5±3.18 mm, 111.26±3.64 mm, 18.2±1.91 mm, 53.46±1.51 mm, 37.45±1.82 mm, and 132.76±3.15 degree incase group and 130.84±4.74 mm, 112.48±4.08 mm, 17.57±2.32 mm, 53.4±1.86 mm, 35.29±1.82 mm, and 128.76±3.6° in control group, respectively.Conclusion: The femoral parameters such as HAL, FNAL, AW, and FHW do not indicate any correlation between fractured and control groups, whereas FSW and FNSA were significantly higher in case group. The FNSA was having significant negative correlation with BMI in fractured group while that was having a significant positive correlation in the nonfractured group. This observation will be helpful in exploration of its clinical significance in proximal femoral fracture.Keywords: Proximal femur, Morphometry, Postmenopausal, Fracture.

노인복지주택 입지 결정요인의 중요도 분석 연구

Although an elderly welfare housing is the facility that prepares for a social issue that is about population aging in a near future, because of the location propriety, suitability and demand survey and surrounding facility are not considered so the meaning of public view of an elderly housing welfare facility is faded in reality. For this, in this study, it tries to investigate the important decision factors of elderly welfare housing that is facility location is decided not by considering factors such as the nature of population structure for an elderly, spatial distribution feature of an aging population, convenience in use and locational preference factor but by supplier's intention when it comes to location decision. Therefore, in this study, it synthesises the considerations about the elderly welfare housing as a target that is about the absence of consideration of locational characteristic that reflects the current Social atmosphere which is regarded the quality of life importantly when it comes to a locational decision making and it does a field investigation with residents as a target so when it comes to location decision, It can draw the important factors. As a result of this study, when It comes to the location of the elderly welfare housing location, it considers various factors. through hierarchy structuralisation, within 30 facilities of 54 location decision factors that are drawn so that the whole from 1st degree to 3th degree of priority of location decision factors can be drawn. If we look at the each degree of site factor, we can see that in the first degree's case, it draws a university hospital, public office building, gym, railway service, wholesale market, job training centre, theatre, karaoke bar, passenger terminal and general business facility. in the second degree's case, a walking range station(within 600m), sports facility, labour welfare facility, private educational institute, hospital, shop, IC, retail market, bar and downtown area are drawn. in the third degree's case, a library, a social welfare organisation, use district of connection, casino, elderly welfare facility, petrol station, bus, religious facility, schoolyard and harbour facility are drawn. the elderly welfare housing has been developed by mostly private developments, provider's intention rather than resident's needs and environments for aging. Thus, the current elderly welfare housing is recognised not as a public meaning of welfare house but as an economic asset such as investment goods. On the other hand, If we consider the aging problem in a coming future, from now on, like the definition of "welfare of the aged act", the elderly welfare housing has to reinforce the role of specialisation of elderly housing facility as the facility that has purposes of convenience of living, guidance of life, counselling and safety control etc and provides convenience which is needed in daily life. Therefore, from now on, when it comes to location decision of the elderly welfare housing, it needs to consider the surrounding environment that needs for moving in and through the law institutional strategy, it considers that a policy plan that can lead such environments has to be made.