Regular Place Research Articles

Gender, Power, and Alternative Living Arrangements in the Inner-City Crack Culture

Impoverished crack-abusing women are usually without a regular place to live, sleep, relax, bathe, eliminate, eat, and store possessions—but most are not homeless persons on the streets because they find alternative living arrangements. This article draws from a rich descriptive repository of field notes, field diaries, and transcribed tape-recorded interviews from two ethnographic studies in New York City, focused upon crack users and sellers. The most common alternative living arrangement was for women to live in the household of an older male with a dependable income for a period of time. Women typically provided the men with sex, drugs, cash (less often), domestic service, or companionship. Several women lived in freakhouses (locales where several women entertained sexual customers and shared crack or other drugs) but tried to avoid crack houses or shooting galleries as residential locations. These alternative living arrangements reflected the women's powerlessness and the high levels of sexual exploitation and degradation of women in the inner-city crack culture.

A measure theoretical subsequence characterization of statistical convergence

The concept of statistical convergence of a sequence was first introduced by H. Fast. Statistical convergence was generalized by R. C. Buck, and studied by other authors, using a regular nonnegative summability matrix A A in place of C 1 {C_1} . The main result in this paper is a theorem that gives meaning to the statement: S = { s n } S = \{ {s_n}\} converges to L L statistically ( T ) (T) if and only if "most" of the subsequences of S S converge, in the ordinary sense, to L L . Here T T is a regular, nonnegative and triangular matrix. Corresponding results for lacunary statistical convergence, recently defined and studied by J. A. Fridy and C. Orhan, are also presented.

Breast Cancer Screening Practices by Vietnamese Women

ABSTRACT Although there has been an increase in research to identify factors associated with breast cancer screening in the general population, documentation to characterize breast cancer screening practices among Asian women is lacking. To learn more about the extent to which socioeconomic features, attitudes and beliefs about breast cancer screening, and certain acculturation factors influence breast cancer screening use, a telephone survey was conducted of Vietnamese women ages 18–-65 (n = 141). One half of the respondents (50.4%) had ever had a clinical breast examination (CBE), and 35.5% had had a CBE in the past year. For women 40 or older, 64.9% of the respondents had ever had a mammogram. Among the features assessed, age, income, length of residence in the United States, and marital status were important determinants of previous CBE. Length of residence, sociocultural preference, age, and regular place for care were important predictors of prior mammography experience. These findings emphasize the...

Mammography in women ???50 years of age Predisposing and enabling characteristics

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship of selected predisposing and enabling characteristics of women > or = 50 years of age to mammography utilization. Andersen and Aday's theoretical model for health services utilization guided data collection. Data were collected from a convenience sample of 161 women members of four urban churches, using a mailed survey. Results showed that 81% reported at least one mammogram and 24% had followed mammography guidelines for the preceding 3 years. Results of logistic regression analyses with variables having a bivariate significance of p < or = 0.01 showed that higher income was associated with both ever having a mammogram and adherence. Willingness to pay > $50 out of pocket for a mammogram was significant for 3 year adherence. Additionally, the sociodemographic variables of age and religion were associated with adherence, whereas a college education was highly significant (odds ratio = 13.78) for ever having a mammogram. Having a regular place for health care and having yearly Papanicolaou tests were associated with ever having a mammogram, but not adherence. Finally, intending to get a mammogram was associated with ever having a mammogram. In this study, belief and knowledge variables showed no association with utilization, and social influence had bivariate significance only for ever having a mammogram. This study suggests the importance of addressing economic and health-care delivery system factors to promote increased mammography utilization, particularly for older women.

Test characteristics of self-reported hypertension among the hispanic population: Findings from the Hispanic health and nutrition examination survey

Data from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted from 1982 to 1984 were analyzed for the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive value of self-reported hypertension in 5195 Hispanics of both sexes between the ages of 18 and 74 years. On the basis of a hypertension definition of 140/90 mmHg or of the use of antihypertensive medications, overall sensitivity of self-reported hypertension was 56% for Mexican-Americans, 71% for Cuban-Americans and 72% for Puerto Ricans. Sensitivity was higher among women, among the obese, and among those with access to a regular place for medical: care; increased with increasing age; and decreased with education and the time interval since last medical visit. Independent associations for sensitivity were noted for sex, body mass index (BMI), and time interval since last medical visit among Mexican-Americans; and for time interval since last medical visit and for being divorced or separated for Cuban-Americans. Overall positive predictive value reached 49% among Mexican-Americans, 53% among Cuban-Americans, and 39% among Puerto Ricans. Raising the hypertension threshold to 160/95 mmHg tended to increase the sensitivity but reduced the positive predictive value.

Personal Librarian: a Tool for the Literature Classroom

A text retrieval program for IBM-compatible microcomputers, Personal Librarian (formerly known as SIRE), is reviewed for its relevance to undergraduate study of literary texts in the classroom. In addition to supporting the standard text retrieval functions, with searches for words and collocates, support of Boolean operators, and a proximity operator for collocates, retrieved documents are rank ordered according to their estimated relevance to the query. Personal Librarian also allows searches that use a whole document as a query term and an Expand command which produces a thesaurus of collocates unique to the text base being studied. In this way the program enables the user to progress from word occurrences to the level of themes and ideas. These facilities will make the software particularly useful in supporting classroom discussion of texts, where suggestiveness and a fairly intuitive set of search pathways are more important than close linguistic analysis. In introducing students of English and other literatures to the computer as a medium for the analysis of texts, there is a need for computer software that will enable rapid searching and retrieval of a text base. A range of text retrieval packages has been created, and many are now available for a microcomputer, but so far few have found a regular place in the undergraduate curriculum. For classroom use, where the focus of attention is on the content of a text rather than on its linguistic or computational dimensions, there is need for a program that is simple to understand and use, but powerful enough to enable different search strategies to be implemented and the results of searches to be viewed immediately on screen. Personal Librarian, a program available for IBM-compatible microcomputers, meets this basic need; it also provides some facilities to support text retrieval which are unique, and specially suited to work in the humanities classroom. Until recently the only program explicitly designed to meet such a need was WordCruncher. a brief account of the advantages of WordCruncher will help to set Personal Librarian in context. Almost no prior training is required to make effective use of WordCruncher at a first attempt. A student introduced to the program can choose a text (or 'book') from the 'bookshelf, shown when the program is first called up, can go from there to a screen containing an alphabetical list of all the words in the text, and by choosing a word can call up all instances of the use of the word in a window where the search word is highlighted. Given that students approach a text with some understanding, with questions they wish to ask, WordCruncher provides a highly efficient tool for focusing on the vocabulary of a text.

Attitudes of British Psychotherapists Towards the Role of Humour in Psychotherapy

ABSTRACTIn the absence of any studies concerning views that psychotherapists have towards the place of humour in psychotherapy, a questionnaire was devised and distributed to a sample of therapists practising in the United Kingdom. Half the respondents saw a regular place for humour in treatment; 62%0 of the respondents regarded the risks involved as moderate or marked. From their qualitative responses it was possible to identify eight factors relevant to the application of humour in treatment and five categories of risk. Most therapists suggested that the effective promotion of humour depended on the therapist's awareness of his own sense of humour and how this could find expression in therapy. Any theoretical basis for the incorporation of humour into treatment did not seem to be regarded as particularly important.

The Management of Stigma in a Large Group Setting

ABSTRACT This paper describes how a Large Group can heal the emotionally scarred victims stigma. This heterogeneous group creates the microcosm of society. The object is to raise the self-esteem of those people who attend by providing a regular place and time for them, sitting in a single circle, to talk to each other without there being any agenda. There are examples of how the Large Group has been used by different disadvantaged members of our society. An analogy is drawn of the many Large Groups to which we all belong in our social and professional lives. Likewise the Large Group exposes how events in the outside world, for example Chernobyl, cause panic and anxiety in each individual's inner world. Could there be a regular weekly Large Group on our television sets?

Adolescent health in alameda county

A cross-sectional study of 194 adolescents in Alameda County, California, was performed to investigate health care behavior, personal adjustment, substance abuse, and medical and dental morbidity. A multivariate analysis of this sample using age, sex, ethnic group, and family type as independent variables was carried out. Females were less likely than males to have a regular place for medical care, and youths belonging to single parent families were less likely than those from intact families. Older adolescents, blacks and Hispanics used hospitals and clinics more frequently, while whites used private physicians more frequently than did other ethnic groups. Also blacks and Hispanics were less likely to have received recent dental care than whites. Levels of substance abuse were comparable to national levels, and increased significantly with age. Though overall medical morbidity was low, the study confirms previous findings of significant levels of dental decay particularly in black youth. A significant relation exists between less dental care and dental decay, though no such relation exists between medical care and medical morbidity. The study has potential implications for better preventive approaches to adolescent health care.

Reaction to directory

I just received my copy of the January issue with the Directory of Members of AGU. After thumbing it I sat down to write, protesting my exclusion. Then I found my name in the geographical part—California, Los Angeles. Then I went to the 1967 Directory and then back to the new one. I found that you have given me and others new surnames, in my case ‘Harris Jr.,’ and have not listed me and others in the regular place as their proper surnames require. The name of my family is ‘Harris’ and has been so used in records for fourteen generations. None of us have taken legal action, least of all myself, to change it. My work and name are properly listed under ‘Harris’ in domestic and foreign literature and bibliographies, as also in American Men of Science. The proper method of listing names when arranged in alphabetical order is ‘Jones, W. J., Jr.’

A contract for world maps at Barcelona, 1399–1400

A contract for world maps at Barcelona, 1399–1400

How Significant are Textual Parallels? A New Author for Pericles?

OST readers of Pericles are agreed that the play's literary and dramatic quality is highly uneven. Much of the first two acts is written in doggerel, sometimes flat sometimes twisted, for which no superior dramatist, let alone Shakespeare, can be held responsible. On the other hand, passages, especially AxR4w in the three acts, bear the mark of consummate verse-artistry and abound in echoes to romances, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest. It is no wonder then, that from early days doubt was cast on the play's authorship. Though on the title-page of the quartos, Pericles was attributed to Shakespeare, it was omitted from the First Folio. Only in the second impression of the Third Folio was it finally included in the Shakespeare canon, and then together with a number of apocrypha that no one today would attribute to Shakespeare. Editors in the eighteenth century were no happier about Pericles, as its omission in the editions of works from Pope to Capell indicates. Since Malone, Pericles has enjoyed a fairly regular place in the canon, mainly on account of the three Shakespearian acts. For time, critics and editors sought to explain the play's obvious weaknesses in terms of youthful authorship. They accepted Dryden's unreliable statement that Shakespeare's Muse her Pericles first bore. But when towards the middle of the century, scholars were driven to assign to the play a much later place in the canon, namely at the beginning of the last plays, controversy took a new turn in the form of lengthy theses and countertheses about the play's authorship. Some even went so far as to reedit only the three acts as a unit, which they called Marina. Yet no agreement has been reached. The situation to-day is as confused or unsettled as three generations ago, for no theory based on literary or bibliographical grounds has found a wide following. Many scholars still attribute parts of Pericles, especially the first two acts, to Heywood or to Wilkins or, more cautiously, to some unidentified while others postulate that Shakespeare wrote the entire play but that what was printed as the first quarto (from which all other texts are derivative) is so far removed from the original as sometimes to eclipse planet completely. There the controversy stands, unresolved. It is still very hot, and I propose to keep the fire burning by introducing yet another collaborator, one nobody seems ever to have thought of before in connection with Pericles.

Radio for telephone service in America

In the 30 years since radio first took a regular place in the United States' telephone plant, its use has spread into many parts of the telephone network, making possible world wide telephony and other extensions of service.

Radio for Telephone Service in America

In the 30 years since radio first took a regular place in the United States' telephone plant, its use has spread into many parts of the telephone network, making possible world wide telephony and other extensions of service.