Shirt Off Research Articles

Did court dismiss student's Title IX claim?

A cheerleader at Georgia College and State University went on a spring break trip with a few classmates. On this trip, a male student sexually assaulted the cheerleader while she was intoxicated. The cheerleader didn’t remember the assault but woke up the next morning with her shirt off and soreness in her vaginal area.

Did court dismiss cheerleader's Title IX claim?

A cheerleader at Georgia College and State University went on a spring break trip with a few classmates. On this trip, a male student sexually assaulted the cheerleader while she was intoxicated. The cheerleader didn't remember the assault but woke up the next morning with her shirt off and soreness in her vaginal area.

Did court dismiss student's Title IX claim?

A cheerleader at Georgia College and State University went on a spring break trip with a few classmates. On this trip, a male student sexually assaulted the cheerleader while she was intoxicated. The cheerleader didn't remember the assault but woke up the next morning with her shirt off and soreness in her vaginal area.

Am I the Bad Guy?

Am I the Bad Guy? Tavishi Chopra What do you do when the 6-year-old patient you have vowed to protect suddenly deems you the bad guy? The afternoon started out like any typical afternoon during my inpatient pediatric rotation. We had finished rounding, grabbed lunch, and began to see our new admits. My residents told me to go see a 6-year-old, Ela, in the ED. All I knew was that she had a burn injury. As I walked to her ED room, my heart sank. Burns from cigarette stumps covered her torso and back. She was holding her shirt off her chest to prevent the excruciating pain caused by her t-shirt rubbing against her skin. As soon as Ela made eye contact with me, she immediately started crying and exclaiming, "Mommy didn't mean to!" confirming exactly what I thought. These burns were inflicted from someone she loved. Ela was eventually admitted into the hospital, and the Department of Child Services was contacted. Little did I know that I would be so conflicted by this decision. DCS launched an investigation on Ela's mom, but during the investigation, Ela's mom was permitted at her bedside. It was very clear that Ela felt protected and loved by her mom. Often it was only her mom who could get her to stop crying during the painful dressing changes. I felt torn allowing Ela's mom to have such a strong presence in Ela's hospital stay. To me, nothing in the world can justify hurting a child so cruelly, and inflicting that pain so many times. However, my job was to help Ela heal. That meant that because Ela turned to her mom for support, I also needed to include Ela's mom in our medical decisions. I buried away any negative feelings I had, and I proceeded to interact with Ela's mom in a professional manner. It was this that allowed me to get to understand Ela's mom a little bit more. She was a single mom [End Page E8] working multiple jobs to help keep her family afloat. She often lived her day on three to four hours of sleep, so she was very tired. The sleep deprivation made her frustrated more easily, and she didn't have a healthy outlet to release her emotions. Unfortunately, Ela was on the receiving end of that frustration. Hearing her story made me even more angry, confused, and upset that a child suffered. I strongly believed that as adults, we should have better control of our emotions, and sleep deprivation and frustration weren't an excuse. I couldn't find it in me to respect Ela's mom, who I shamefully began to avoid. I still wanted to bond with Ela and show her unconditional love. When Ela's mom was at work, I would use that opportunity to go and spend time with her. We would play "princesses," blow bubbles together, and turn dressing changes into a game. We formed a special bond, and I always made it a goal to go and spend some time with her every day. DCS, meanwhile, was actively conducting an investigation. They interviewed Ela's mom, Ela's siblings, and Ela. The findings of their investigation revealed that Ela's mom often would lose her temper, and the kids feared their mom. Hearing this further proved to me that I did not need to interact with Ela's mom. Embarrassingly, it was just as much a priority for me to avoid Ela's mom as it was to spend time with Ela. DCS eventually concluded that Ela's mom would lose custody of Ela for the time being. Because of the connection that Ela and I had, I took it upon myself to deliver the news to her. Our bond was shattered right then and there. She immediately began to cry, told me she hated me, and asked me to leave the room. Anytime I would go into her room after that, she would start screaming and refused to talk to me. In a span of five minutes, Ela's mom made a decision that destroyed their family...

Motion sensor-acquired reachable workspace correlates with patient-reported upper extremity activities of daily living (ADL) function in facioscapulohumeral dystrophy.

This study examines the correlation, and clinical meaningfulness, between reachable workspace outcome and reported activities of daily living (ADL) function of individuals with facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD). Twenty-one FSHD subjects with various disease severity (clinical severity scores 1-4) underwent reachable workspace evaluation and completed the Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders (NeuroQoL) upper extremity questionnaire. Spearman and receiver operator curve analyses were performed. Moderate correlation was found between NeuroQoL scores and total (ρ = 0.7609; P < .01), and upper-quadrants relative surface areas (RSAs) (ρ = 0.6969; P < .01). Five specific items (ie, shirt on, shirt off, use spoon, pull on pants, pick-up clothes) demonstrated even higher correlations with total (ρ = 0.8397; P < .01) and above shoulder (ρ = 0.8082; P < .01) RSAs. A total RSA cuffoff value of 0.70 would achieve 100% sensitivity and 94% specificity (area under the curve = 0.975). Reachable workspace values identify when individuals have difficulties performing ADLs at home. This information improves patient monitoring, and clinical decision making by enabling more timely recommendations for medications, assistive devices, or considerations for clinical trial enrollments.

What’s Important: Patience in Patients’ Care

What’s Important: Patience in Patients’ Care

Loyalist Tattoos and Tattooed Generals in the Song Dynasty

According to Yue Fei’s biography, when the legendary general was slandered and interrogated for treason, he tore the shirt off his body, exposing four characters tattooed on his back: “Exhaust one’s loyalty in service of the state.” This study looks at two components of the Yue Fei story—patriotic tattoos, and tattooed generals—and examines their meaning in the broader stretch of Song dynasty history. Yue Fei was not the Song dynasty’s only tattooed general who came to a tragic end. The Northern Song’s Di Qing was a tattooed soldier whose military merit allowed him to rise to the highest levels of power in the empire. Di Qing’s story makes it clear that tattooed generals were objects of suspicion and ridicule at court due to their military tattoos, a trait that linked them to the criminals and lower class men that manned the Song armies. Though military tattoos sometimes had a loyalist ring to them, they were carried out on a mass scale, and were a characteristic of coercion rather than fervent loyalism. This study shows that underneath the nationalist historical narrative of the Song dynasty, of which Yue Fei is a famous example, there lies a different story of social conflict within the Song state. Rather than a story of Chinese fighting non-Chinese and of traitorous and cowardly officials struggling with loyal patriots, this study offers a narrative of a social conflict between high-born clear-skinned officials and low-born tattooed military men.

The shirt off his back

The shirt off his back

Big Bad Bill is sweet William now.

Recently, special symposia were held in honor of Bill DeGrado at UCSF and the American Chemical Society's national meeting in San Francisco to celebrate his 60th birthday. More important than dignifying his age, the symposia celebrated Bill's scientific contributions to a diverse set of disciplines and his role as an outstanding mentor to those who have trained in his lab. Bill's work is truly interdisciplinary having made significant impact in drug discovery, peptide chemistry, protein design, folding, structure and function, as well as membrane biophysics. Hope I didn't miss any! For me, his insight into protein structure is most impressive. Legend has it that Bill can just look at a primary sequence and tell you how it'll fold. Rosetta schmosetta-who needs it when you got Bill! With age comes many things, and for Bill, perhaps the most cherished may be a growing collection of mentees who have gone on to establish their own labs in industry, government and academia. The symposia consisted of two full days of talks given by Bill's former graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, collaborators and friends. Inside this issue, you will find a collection of reviews and original articles contributed by some of the folks who made the symposia very special indeed. I include a photograph from the first day of the event taken outside Bill's lab at UCSF. The photo reflects the upbeat nature of the event. Happiness pervades after enjoying an outstanding day of science, spending some time with each other and with Bill. The number of people who traveled from all over the world to attend this event was impressive. It was testament to how we all feel about Bill, his science, and how he has supported all of us throughout his career, which is still going strong. On occasion, people ask me how Bill was to work for. We have all heard horror stories about bad labs and bad advisors. My time in Bill's lab was arguably some of the best of my life. He motivates by inspiration and true curiosity, making the science downright fun. I remember sitting on the floor of Bill's office building CPK models of coiled coils with him; he was teaching me “knobs into holes” packing by physically touching the interaction. So, in addition to be being a great scientist, he is a patient teacher, see Figure 2. Beyond his outstanding attributes in the lab, Bill is a good human being. He'd give you the shirt off his back if you asked, he loves a good party, not bad on the guitar, better at tennis and loves to cook (his smoked BBQ is outstanding). I, and I would guess many of his protégées, try to emulate Bill in how we run our own labs and professional lives. This, I think, will be his true legacy. Best regards, Joel Schneider

Velcro

Velcro Calvin Gimpelevich (bio) When the doctors told me that I would lose all sensation, that the procedure required unhooking my nerves and repasting the flesh, and I wouldn’t have breasts but a flat, what they call masculine, chest with a little red line to mark out my pecs, the subtraction, and I’d be able to walk on the beach with my shirt off, to go to the gym, to show my senseless dead nipples in public, I decided against the basic needle and thread, for them, the doctors, that is the surgeon and his assistant, to use velcro instead. It’s given me so many options. I can wear one on my forehead, a triclops, or cover my ears. I can put them over my ribs. I can leave them at home. It’s strange how disturbing that looks, no nipples, how alien—though I don’t feel it about my nude body, sans penis and breasts. Maybe it brings me back to childhood, having the same layout, more hair. When I was a teenager and my friends had just discovered transsexuals, we thought trans women were best because they had the most of all worlds. It seemed like the men were subtraction, but now I know better. [End Page 157] Calvin Gimpelevich Calvin Gimpelevich is a trans Cascadian writer. He has work in Plentitude, Glitterwolf, THEM, and The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard. His webcomic, Wolfmen, was awarded the 2014 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant. http://www.calvingimpelevich.com/ Copyright © 2015 University of Wisconsin Board of Regents

Sexist Communication in Advertisements: It’s Not Fair Honey!

Money makes the mare go. Similarly market makes the language dance to its tune. Deepika Padukone sells coffee by belly-dancing. John Abraham sells almost everything with his shirt off. Mangoes as sex aids and deodorants turning women into nymphomaniacs – advertising in India seems unable to think beyond Sex to Sell (Rajan 2013). Commercials from the 1950s are jaw-dropping in their prejudice. Some of the decade's slogans - 'keep up with the house while you keep down your weight’ or a leather shoe is pictured beside an undressed female model, with the words 'Keep her where she belongs' or a promotional poster for Kellogg's Pep cereal suggests that 'A harder a wife works, the cuter she looks' - are peep-holes into an era when women's roles were confined to the corridor between the bedroom and the kitchen (Thompson 2013).The above advertising slogans of yesteryear reveal how sexist and inappropriate language was once widespread in advertising but several generations from now the dilemma remained unresolved when we observe today the way the language is being used in context of women in the advertising media. In particular, language and gender are sensitive issues that remain widely controversial in the domain of advertising. The paper discusses the sexist language employed in advertisements and the compulsion of marketers to showcase the visual images and verbal messages that demean the female species but captures the eyeball. The author finds that sexist communication is planned and strategic and illustrates further the way it influences the social, cultural and economic position of women in society.

Without his shirt off he saved the child from almost drowning: interpreting an uncertain input

Unedited speech and writing often contains errors, e.g., the blending of alternative ways of expressing a message. As a result comprehenders are faced with decisions about what the speaker may have intended, which may not be the same as the grammatically-licensed compositional interpretation of what was said. Two experiments investigated the comprehension of inputs that may have resulted from blending two syntactic forms. The results of the experiments suggest that readers and listeners tend to repair such utterances, restoring them to the presumed intended structure, and they assign the interpretation of the corrected utterance. Utterances that are repaired are expected to also be acceptable when they are easy to diagnose/repair and they are ‘familiar’, i.e., they correspond to natural speech errors. The results of the experiments established a continuum ranging from outright linguistic illusions with no indication that listeners and readers detected the error (the inclusion of almost in A passerby rescued a child from almost being run over by a bus.), to a majority of unblended interpretations for doubled quantifier sentences (Many students often turn in their assignments late) to only a third undoubled implicit negation (I just like the way the president looks without his shirt off.) The repair or speech error reversal account offered here is contrasted with the noisy channel approach and the good enough processing approach.

Northern Dancer: King of the Racetrack by G. Joyce

Joyce, Gare. Northern Dancer: King of the Racetrack. Markham, ON: Fitzhenry &amp; Whiteside, 2012. Print.It is not often that you find a biography of an animal, but in this case, the animal was a national icon. According to Gare Joyce, Northern Dancer, the great racehorse “made more money as an accomplished racehorse and sire than any Canadian athlete in history – even more than Wayne Gretzky ”. The book begins with a genealogical chart that shows that of the 19 horses starting in the 2011 Kentucky Derby, 18 were descended from Northern Dancer.This book chronicles Northern Dancer from his birth through to his wins and standing at stud until his death at age 29. Through his story, the reader also learns about the world of North American thoroughbred racing. We meet the great jockeys: Ron Turcotte, Willie Shoemaker and Bill Hardtack who all rode Northern Dancer to victories. We learn about the development of racehorses and the major races: The Preakness, The Belmont, The Kentucky Derby and the Queen’s Plate. Joyce writes informally and conversationally, as though he is telling one long story. For example, he tells us that Northern Dancer “became unruly around his stall…At least once he ripped the shirt off his trainer.” Later we are told that a trainer inadvertently let Northern Dancer run hard the day before a race and people thought that no thoroughbred could “run the equivalent of two races on two consecutive days. As it turned out, the only ones hurting after the Florida Derby were those who hadn’t bet on the heavily favoured Northern Dancer.” The text is accompanied by many photos of Northern Dancer, including archival images of horse and jockey in races, at the wire and in the winners’ circle. Overall, this is an enjoyable story of a remarkable horse. Northern Dancer: King of the Racetrack is highly recommended for junior high school libraries and public libraries everywhere. Highly recommended: 4 stars out of 4Reviewer: Sandy CampbellSandy is a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Alberta, who has written hundreds of book reviews across many disciplines. Sandy thinks that sharing books with children is one of the greatest gifts anyone can give.

In Timor-Leste, a Bumpy, but Rewarding, Road to Hearing Healthcare

In Timor-Leste, a Bumpy, but Rewarding, Road to Hearing Healthcare

Actinic Superficial Folliculitis in a 29-Year-Old Man

Since actinic superficial follicultis was first described in 1985, only three further cases have been published. The characteristics of this disease are monomorphous, superficial, follicular pustules that appear on the back, upper chest, and shoulders annually after the first sun exposure of the year. The lesions resolve on their own within 10 days. Recurrence occurs under similar conditions after a latency period of at least 4 weeks. A 29-year-old man presented to our clinic with a 5-year history of an intermittent follicular rash. These eruptions occurred on his back and chest only when he was exposed to the sun, with his shirt off. They developed 24 to 36 hours after the first sun exposure of the year and resolved spontaneously after 5 to 7 days. Photographs of the affected area were impressive, with follicular pustules grouped along his left flank. According to our literature search, this is the sixth reported case of actinic superficial folliculitis. This is the first case in which provocative phototesting was done. We review the clinical and pathologic attributes of actinic superficial folliculitis.

"Taking the Shirt Off Your Back" and Other Desperate Measures Used to Ambush the Ambushers in Sports and Entertainment

"Taking the Shirt Off Your Back" and Other Desperate Measures Used to Ambush the Ambushers in Sports and Entertainment

Sexuality and latchkey children

We became friendly, at first just over the games. But eventually it got serious. He started coming over to my house. My mother wasn't home and it was, you know, easy. One day he slipped his hand inside my blouse. It felt good and bad at the same time. I didn't know whether to take it out or leave it there, so I left it. Then one day he unbuttoned my shirt. It felt sinful. Scary. The next time he came over, he took my shirt off right away and eventually started to take down my pants. I told him to stop, thinking all the time what I would do if he didn't. He did. (Long & Long, 1983)