Tender Care Research Articles

Trauma Shall Be No More: A Rhetorical-Canonical Reading of Isaiah 35:1-10 and 40:1-5, 10-11

This article engages the reading of Isaiah from a trauma hermeneutical perspective. It presents a reading of Isaiah with special attention to the comforting message of Yahweh to the exiles in Babylon for the dawn of the new time of their release and restoration to Jerusalem. The argument of the article presents a response to Rambo (2010) and Groenewald (2018) on the question of trauma. The fact is that trauma shall end with the coming of the Lord as the God who frees people from the place and state of trauma. This argument projects the possibility of the end of trauma, which remains a further theological-ethical stimulant for biblical interpreters to participate in the healing process and the restorative actions of God. As typical of the prophetic books, the book of Isaiah is both a book of judgement and a book of restoration. It presents the goodness of life in the acts of God’s gifts of freedom. The sensitivity of God helps us to reimagine the image of God in the context of the suffering of his people. Isaiah 35:1-10 and 40: 1-5, 10-11 is the good news of hope that helps its readers to rejoice for the coming time of true freedom and the tender care of God. Keywords: Trauma, Cultural Trauma, Exile, Joy, Redemption, Hope, Healing

Keeping the Connection Alive With Tender Care and Common Sense: A Phenomenological Study on Daughters' Experiences of Having a Mother in a Nursing Home.

The relationship between mother and daughter is exceptional when it comes to closeness and its impact on their whole life. Thus, a mother's move to a nursing home is pivotal for both of them. The aim of this interpretative phenomenological study, using the Vancouver School of Doing Phenomenology, was to explore daughters' experience of having a mother in a nursing home, its impact on the maternal relationship, and the daughters' need for education and support. Data were collected by 21 semi-structured interviews with 12 women who had mothers living in a nursing home. Keeping the connection alive with tender care and common sense encapsulates the interrelation between the daughters' urge to hold on to the mother-daughter relationship and the rare consideration of education and support from health professionals. Responsibility and sense of duty paired with relief because the mother is in a safe place were accompanied by the daughters' need for confirmation that the mother is well taken care of.

Diabetes and Kidney Failure among Older Adults in India

Diabetes is a severe disease. It happens when the body cannot generate the needed amount of insulin and when the body does not utilize the insulin it produces. Thus, the study sought to examine whether diabetes impacts kidney failure among older adults in India. The study adopted the experimental research design. The data was collected from the doctors and nurses in Halasuru Referral Hospital. The study used the purposive sampling technique and collected the data. Notably, the researcher was able to get a sample size of 168 respondents. The collection of the data was done using questionnaires. The analysis of the data was done using descriptive and inferential statistics. It was found that when someone has diabetes, the blood glucose or blood sugar levels are too high. Over time, this can damage the kidneys. Kidney damage from diabetes is called diabetic nephropathy. Poorly controlled diabetes can cause damage to blood vessel clusters in your kidneys that filter waste from your blood. The study concluded that diabetes is positively and significantly related to kidney failure. High blood glucose levels, known as hyperglycemia, affect many central organ systems, particularly the kidney. The study recommended that high blood sugar be regulated to prevent damaging other body parts like the kidney. The elderly should be given tender care and ensure they eat foods with a low possibility if none that can lead to high blood sugar. People with diabetes should get regular screenings for kidney disease. Tests should be conducted regularly to examine how well the kidneys work. Effective communication between healthcare providers and people with diabetes is essential. Keywords: Diabetes, Kidney Failure, Older Adults, India

Perception of Teachers and Mothers about Impact of Father Absence and Presence on the Truancy Behavior of Secondary School Students

A child is born innocent and if nurtured with tender care and attention, then grows in positive way. Physical, mental, moral and spiritual development of the children makes them capable of realizing fullest potential. On the contrary, harmful surroundings, negligence of basic needs, wrong company and other abuses may turn a child to a negative action like truancy. The present study was designed to analyze the impact of father’s absence on truancy behavior of secondary school students. The major objectives of the present study were: i) to find out the views of teachers about the truancy behavior of secondary school students in father’s absence. ii) to find out the views of teachers about the truancy behavior of secondary school students in father’s presence. iii) to investigate the mother’s views about the truancy of their children in father’s absence. iv) to investigate the mother’s views about the truancy of their children in father’s presence. A sample of four hundred students was selected through convenient sampling. This group was further divided equally on the students whose fathers were present and absent from home. Data was collected from sample student’s mothers and teachers through questionnaire. Data was analyzed through Chi-Square. Teachers and mothers opined that students showed more truancy behavior in the absence of father. The study may be helpful both for teachers and students to overcome the anti-social behavior to increase the academic performance at secondary level. The study may also beneficial to prepare positive members of the society. It is recommended that proper programs and campaigns be launched for mothers to highlight and realize the difficulties of truancy behaviors through media and social media. In-service training for teachers may be conducted to recognize and solve the truancy behavior of students. In this way teacher may able to solve the truancy behavior and solve problems.

Art and the Power of Goodness: A Collection of John Agyekum Kufuor, Ivor Agyeman-Duah

Reviewed by: Art and the Power of Goodness: A Collection of John Agyekum Kufuor by Ivor Agyeman-Duah Nana Abena Amoah-Ramey BOOK REVIEW of Agyeman-Duah, Ivor. 2021. Art and the Power of Goodness: A Collection of John Agyekum Kufuor. Tema: Digibooks Ghana. 208 pp. $34.07 (hardcover). Art and the Power of Goodness: A Collection of John Agyekum Kufuor has been expertly authored by Ivor Agyeman-Duah, a Ghana-born development specialist who specializes in economics, international development cooperation, and literary histories. He is a well-known producer of documentaries, including the documentary series Yaa Asantewaa: The Heroism of an [End Page 135] African Queen and The Return of a King to Seychelles. He was on the BBC and PBS team that produced Wonders of the African World, a documentary presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard University. Agyeman-Duah accepts that art has been a feature of Africa’s culture from time immemorial and adds in his introduction that “art has always been part of Africa’s power exhibitions”; for example, carved stools and chairs meant for palaces, household elders, family heads, and individuals “could be classified as institutional or leadership art” (1). Embedded in African art are other aspects of culture, science, and social information; and visual images document and communicate events. Agyeman-Duah quotes Amoah Labi, an art historian at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, as affirming in 2013 that “African art has always been important icons, embodiments of aesthetic expression, representations of cultural values and records of history” (390). Gordon Brown, a former British prime minister, in his foreword, offers compelling reflections on the beauty of the “selected art collections and the telling companion” (x). He suggests that the accompanying essays provide a vivid account of the taste and history of art. Agyeman-Duah confirms that Ghana’s former president Kufuor is “an art enthusiast, who appreciates music composition, visual expression, and photography” (18). He cites Kufuor’s achievements and accomplishments in collecting art as seen in a selection of more than seventy artworks in Kufuor’s “unintended gallery in a double-chamber space” (20). Inside this gallery, where Kufuor receives visitors and international diplomats, is a fascinating mixture of art and history. Impressively surrounded by these artworks are compelling historical moments attached to them, including a portrait of Kufuor at Exeter College of the University of Oxford, his alma mater, and a vivid description of a “garden pot, made of wood and ceramic material that has a picture of Mr. Kufuor and an adjacent color embossment of Ghana’s Coat of Arms” (89). This book is divided into ten chapters, coupled with detailed notes and a handy index. Chapter 1, “A Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Lesson in Portrait Painting,” highlights Kufuor’s accomplishments in pictures and showcases a 2018 “photographic portrait decoration” at Exeter College (34). Chapter 2, “A Woman’s Tender Care,” summarizes Kufuor’s family life, giving insights into when and where he met his wife, Madam Theresa, as well as her love for music and devotion to him while he was in political detention. “Faith and the Testimonies of the Martyrs” constitutes chapter 3, which delves into Kufuor’s connection with faith, appreciation, and tolerance in the so-called politics of indulgence. As Agyeman-Duah tells it, Kufuor was consulted by the Vatican to help with “reforms of sclerotic civil structure and to create more efficient bureaucracy” (52); featured is a picture of Kufuor and Pope John Paul II in 2002 (59). The other chapters are “Africa of Our Forebears” (chapter 4), “Between South of the Orient and Occident is Our Abode” (chapter 5), and “Before the Better Angels of Our Nature” (chapter 6). The last listed vaunts Africa as the [End Page 136] birthplace of humanity and adds information on languages, economic and cultural livelihoods, the discovery of oil on the continent, and Chinese influence in the twenty-first century. Undeniably masterful artworks in Kufuor’s gallery weave beautifully into the narrations in these chapters. Agyeman-Duah discusses African artworks as icons, embodiments of aesthetic expression, and records of history in four additional chapters: “Ethnography of Art and Cosmopolitan Aspirations” (chapter 7), “Not for Its...

Животноводство и охота у северян

The aim of the study is to analyze the role of animal husbandry and hunting among the Siverians. The database is composed of osteological remains of mammals from 20 residential sites and products that characterize the importance of animal husbandry and hunting. The total number of the sites is 28. Thirteen of the twenty complexes involved in the analysis contain materials on animal husbandry, eight on hunting and 14 allow a complex analysis. Cattle predominated in animal husbandry, small cattle and pigs ranked second to third, horses were approximately 1/10. The age composition of the herd indicates a developed animal husbandry and a good forage base. The tools of animal husbandry confirm tender care and active life-saving use. Hunting depended on game and hunter skills. The most common prey were deer. Fur is represented mainly by fox. Probably some bone arrowheads represent fur hunting. We do not exclude the existence of the bear totem, as well as the importance of the beaver. The ratio of animal husbandry (reproductive form) and hunting (appropriative form) indicates the active use of the gifts of nature not because of the lack of meat from animal husbandry, but because of the rational use of food sources.

From the Object to the Embodiment of Alienation: The Predicament of the Protagonist in Arun Josh’s Novel, The Foreigner

Arun Joshi is an outstanding Indian English Novelist who has dealt with the inner crises of the modern man living in the present day world. The Foreigner (1968) is his novel that concerns itself with the human relations and its various aspects. The present paper deals with the Protagonist of the novel, Sindi Oberai. The whole story revolves around his feelings and experiences. The novel’s central thematic concerns are attachment, detachment, loss of faith, loneliness, identity crisis, and anxiety, all of which are artistically explored in the protagonist’s life. Oberai, the central character, comes back to Delhi, after experiencing life and love in America, and at last persuaded by a humble office worker in India.Although the effects of alienation in Oberai’s life are analyzed by the earlier critics, the present paper attempts to trace the roots of that alienation. Most commonly children bloom in their childhood with tender care, support and guidance of their parents. The lack of parental love and the life of orphanage greatly affect one’s personality, and the paper argues that here lies the source of Oberai’s alienated life. As the title suggests explicitly, the paper claims that the protagonist starts his life as an object of alienation, but as he grows up, he himself becomes the embodiment of alienation, through the process of internalization, and some other characters in the novel have to face the bitter consequences of his alienated personality.The protagonist Sindi Oberai is an orphan, who is deprived of the parental love. He is trapped in his own loneliness, and develops a kind of chronic detachment. The bitter experiences of his childhood and his environment in which he was brought up were internalized by him and eventually he becomes an unwitting embodiment of the alienation which devastated his childhood initially. Sindhi is deprived of family nourishment and becomes a wandering alien. He is exposed to various cultures of people but he is not attached to any of these cultures. The paper analyses the loss of parents’ true love and affection as the formative cause of Oberai’s alienated personality.

Slippin’ into Darkness

Slippin’ into Darkness

Breaking the Formula in Mother--Daughter Relationship with Reference to Geetanjali Shree's Mai

The novel depicts how Sunaina grows up in a North Indian middle-class family under the tender care of her mother. The daughter belatedly recognizes her mother’s role in creating a fertile space of freedom in which she could cultivate herself despite the stifling patriarchal environment into which she was born. Sunaina also reevaluates her mother’s silence as a subtle effort to protect her against the stringencies of the society. Thus, the text exposes the rigid system that frames women within domestic confines but in doing so, advocates for borderline sites where women manifest themselves. Outlining the tradition and custom Mai stands for how the stereotype of womenhood is gradually changed through these three generation women.

Mother’s Experience Provide Burn First Aid to Younger Children

The incident of burns in children aged 1-4 years is risk get disabled and death. This is caused the children still do not understand about the danger and handling it. The role of a mother is important to give first aid to reduce the severity. First aid for burns that are still often given use such as toothepaste, saliva, coffe, soy sauce and margarine. The purpose of this study to describe the experience of mothers provide first aid in burns of children aged 1-4 years. This study was use qualitative phenomenologycal method. The sampel of this study was a mother have children aged 1-4 years who had suffered burn injury in periode of less than 9 mounth determined by the purposive sampling method. Collecting data was conducted by a in-depth interviews to 7 respondens. After 7 inteviews, found six main themes were identified: (1) first aid, (2) burns, (3) burns reaction, (4) psychological impact, (5) mother's perception of burns, (6) actions to reduce injury. Classification of burns found are mild to moderate burns. First aid for burns done by mothers using aloe vera, water, cooking oil, toothpaste, and tender care (oriflamme). The mother’s reaction to knowing that her child had burns was panic, worry, shoock, and pain. First aid for child burns given by the mother using aloe vera, water, cooking oil, toothpaste, and tender care (oriflamme).

An Insightful Foray into Odisha’s Education Sector

Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) has witnessed a significant improvement in primary education in Odisha; thanks to the Right to Education (RTE) Act and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) initiative. While Odisha lags behind the better performing states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu& Maharashtra in terms of infrastructure and enrolment, the overall quality remains dismal as per the independent survey of Annual Status of Education Reports (ASER). The paper brings out how an extremely alienated section of the society receives the tender care of inclusive education and empowerment in a centre called Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) in Odisha, which can form a templates for emulate, all over the country. The paper laments the tendency to outsource, basic education, which is a merit good, to the private sector, which can at best cater to the needy of the affluent few. There is a need to significantly bolster public allocation to primary education, invest it with the highest priority for capability development in future to improve India’s HDI. The quest for high growth rates, must give way to inclusive growth, which puts a premium on public investment quality teaching through suitable training, pedagogical training, IT familiarity of the teachers.

“Tender Care”: Iranian Women’s Needs to Cope with Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy- A Qualitative Content Analysis Study

ABSTRACTBackground:Gynecological surgeries associated with loss of feminine organs evoke more personal, interpersonal and psychological distress that may diminish women’s quality of life. Women need and seek support to cope with various distresses which may change over the course of diagnosis to treatment. This study aimed to explore Iranian women’s needs to cope with hysterectomy and oophorectomy. Methods: This qualitative study was conducted in Kerman and Tehran, Iran from 2015 to 2017. Thirty interviews were conducted with 28 eligible participants including 24 main participants including one gynecologist, one midwife and one nursing faculty member, one gynecologist and one midwife and 2 husbands. They were recruited through purposeful sampling. Data were collected through semi-structured and in-depth interviews and analyzed with Graneheim and Lundman’s method of conventional content analysis. The trial version of the MAX QDA 10 Software was used to manage the coding process. Results: “Tender care” emerged as the main theme. It was comprised of three categories: “to be well-informed, “to be treated with compassion in healthcare setting”, and “to be welcomed in the society”. Conclusion: Women after hysterectomy/oophorectomy were preoccupied with many physical and emotional concerns. They need a whole package of care which consists of proper information to know what to do, a well-prepared/trained healthcare setting to meet their needs, and visibility in the society as a whole person. A multidisciplinary approach must be activated to meet their coping requirements and it is necessary to address these needs in each level of healthcare services.

How to Understand the International Students with Whom You Work

Are international students needy? Are they intractable? Do they plagiarize? Are they inefficient in writing? Do they negotiate grades? Are these ontological questions?
 
 Is everything they do a manifestation of their being international students? Or is there a way to understand, first, the students as human beings? Perhaps what they do is not because they are international students. Let’s face it:
 
 Internationals are strong. They are not here to receive our tender love and care. What they do need from us, fairly, is one thing, and that is understanding. It is important for college and university officials who work with international students to try to understand their students. Recognizing the international students as human beings like local students is the first step, one that goes a long way. Ask this question to yourself: what would a domestic student do in a similar situation? If the domestic student would do the same, then do not say that the international student did such and such because he or she is an international student. It’s because he is a human being.

Traumatic brain injury in Indian children.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children and adolescents is a community-based medical and educational challenge world-over due to increasing urbanization and motorization. In India, children between 1 to 15years constitute significant proportion of the total population, who are vulnerable for TBI. In developed countries, pediatric trauma mortality still represents more than half of all childhood fatalities, which is 18 times more common than brain tumors. In this study, we attempted to analyze epidemiological factors, management, and outcome of TBI in children at a tertiary care center in Pune, Maharashtra. To study the clinical spectrum of pediatric traumatic brain injury cases received at a Tertiary Care Hospital. This prospective study (August 2015-July 2017), conducted at our institution, includes all children < 16years with TBI reporting to the neurosurgical emergency department. All the case records were reviewed and the pertinent data (clinical history, age, sex, mode of injury, computed tomography (CT) scan findings, interventions, morbidity, and mortality) analyzed. Any residual neurological deficits at the time discharge were assessed as the outcome of TBI. A total 76 pediatric cases of TBI were admitted during the period of August 2015-July 2017, with 51 males (67%) and 25 females (33%) with male to female ratio 2:1. Mean age of incidence in our study is 5.5years. Out of 76 children with TBI, 60.5% were of mild, 14.5% moderate, and 25% severe TBI. Overall, RTA (40.8%) is the most common mode of injury followed by fall from height (30.2%) and slippage in and around home (26.4%). Clinical evaluation revealed, loss of consciousness(LOC) in 36 (47.3%) patients, vomiting in 42 (55%) patients, headache in 10 (13%) patients, ENT bleeding in 18 (23.6%), and seizure in 16 (21%) patients, no external injuries in 25 (33%) patients, normal sensorium was found in 41 (54%) patients, 18 (23.6%) children were drowsy at presentation, and 17 (22.3%) children were unconscious. CT scan findings revealed no gross abnormality in (26%), extradural heamorrhage (EDH) (18.4%), subdural hemorrhage (SDH) (14.4%), subarachnoid hemorrhage (21%), fracture skull (55.26%), cerebral oedema, and contusion (48.68%) as the radiological injury patterns. Out of 76 children, 42 (55%) children are managed with only observation, 26 (34%) children required only medical pharmacological treatment, and 8 (10.5%) children required surgical intervention, 24, (31.6%) children required mechanical ventilation. Overall mortality is 5.26%. Thus among the survivors (n = 72), 57 (79%) went home with no residual deficit, 3 (4%) had headache, 4 (5.5%) had hemiparesis, 2 (2.7%) had monoparesis, 1 (1.4%) had hypertonia, 3 (4%) had seizures, 2 (2.7%) had hydrocephalus, 2 (2.7%) had facial palsy, 2 (2.7%) had vision impairment, and 2 (2.7%) had speech impairment. In our study, we found that there is a significant association between residual deficits and severity of injury (p = 0.3), there is no significant association between mode of injury and outcome (p = 0.7). Mean duration of stay in hospital was 6.9days but 60% of patients had stay of less than 5days. Most of these injuries are preventable in infancy and childhood by ensuring proper vigilance, tender care by the parents and the caretakers. Safe driving techniques have to be followed by parents while traveling with children in their motor vehicles. Need to focus on grading the severity of TBI rather than on factors like age, mode of injury, and presence or absence of external injuries.

‘... You can only follow my body’

Abstract This article focuses on partnership, across couples and centuries. First, the married couple: my mother, a strong and dry intellect, paired with my father, water-god, all flowing passion; seventy years later, my ballroom dance instructor-parents, who teach me relationship through security born of trust, the intact self within dynamic mutuality. Last, the fraught mother–child couple. Woven throughout, a reading of Dante Alighieri’s great medieval poem ‘The Divine Comedy’ (Dante 1949: Inferno, Cantos I, XXXI and XXXIV) serves to shade my travel from dense fear and stasis towards a future where ecstasy can be a daily event. The theme (from earth to dancer) is ground-to-body. Its variations (dancer to earth) glide across the smooth-wood dance floor. In sympathetic parallels, I trace my personal history across multiple psychological landscapes: teacher–student, leader–follower, parent–child, tender care from guide and master to the foundling pilgrim heart. The project of ballroom dancing spontaneously and consciously incarnates the isolated soul. Infernal circles of pain and sin draw the voyagers down; eventually they’ll tunnel up to a new sphere of penance and ultimately of freedom. The circling dance forms evolve but never lose grateful contact with the earth. Neither myth nor literature (maybe both-and), they become a joyfully aware and centred turning on our turning planet as it fulfills its orbit in space.

The Role of Oxytocin in Parenting and as Augmentative Pharmacotherapy: Critical Issues and Bold Conjectures.

Despite the sometimes heated debate about the validity of human oxytocin studies, experimental oxytocin research with intranasal administration is a growing field with promising preliminary findings. The effects of intranasally administered oxytocin compared to placebo on brain neural activity have been supported in animal studies and in human studies of neural resting state. In several studies, oxytocin sniffs have been shown to lead to down-regulation of amygdala activation in response to infant attachment vocalisations. Meta-analytic evidence shows that oxytocin enhances the salience of (emotional) stimuli, lowers stress and arousal, and elevates empathic concern and tender care, in particular for offspring and in-group members. Less firm evidence points at the amnestic effects of oxytocin. We also note that the average effect sizes of oxytocin experiments are small to modest, and that most studies include a small number of subjects and thus are seriously underpowered, which implies a high risk for publication bias and nonreplicability. Nevertheless, we argue that the power of within-subjects experiments with oxytocin has been underestimated. Much more work is needed, however, to create a firm knowledge base of the neural and behavioural effects of oxytocin. Human oxytocin research is still taking place in the context of discovery, in which bold conjectures are being generated. In the context of justification, these conjectures should subsequently be subjected to stringent attempts at refutations before we jump to theoretical or clinical conclusions. For this context of justification, we propose a multisite multiple replications project on the social stimuli salience enhancing effect of oxytocin. Clinical application of oxytocin is premature. Meta-analytically, the use of oxytocin in clinical groups tends to show only effectiveness in changing symptomatology in individuals with autism spectrum disorders but, even then, it is not yet a validated therapy and its use is premature because safety and long-term side-effects have not been sufficiently studied, in particular in children.

The effects of massage therapy on physical growth and gastrointestinal function in premature infants: A pilot study.

To promote the growth and development of premature infants, effective and tender care is required in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The purpose of this study was to test the potential effects of massage therapy on increasing physical growth and promoting gastrointestinal function in premature infants. Twenty subjects were divided into two groups in the NICU of one general hospital located in South Korea. The experimental group (n = 10) were given massage therapy and the control group (n = 10) received routine care. Massage therapy was performed twice daily for 14 days, for 15 minutes per session. In the physical growth, height and chest circumference were significantly increased in the experimental group. In assessing gastrointestinal function, frequency of pre-feed gastric residual was significantly decreased and numbers of bowel movements were significantly increased in the experimental group. This study showed massage therapy has the potential effects on increasing physical growth and gastrointestinal function in premature infants. The massage in the NICU might be utilized as a part of developmental care, but more research needs to be done. NICU nurses need to be trained in massage therapy techniques to provide more effective clinical care for premature infants.

‘Dig It!’ Exhibit Visits North Carolina Natural Science Museum

Developed by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History with support from BASF, the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), and local donors, “Dig It! The Secrets of Soil,” a traveling exhibition that explores the profound ways soil supports our lives, opened at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on May 16. “With a growing world population, new research and innovative practices are vital to managing this soil for increased food production,” says Dr. Emlyn Koster, director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. “Soil has also been making headlines lately as the source of a novel antibiotic whose target pathogens have yet to develop resistance to the drug. The benefits of soil are vast and still somewhat uncharted.” Using videos, hands-on models, interactive displays, and real soil samples, the exhibition presents an eye-opening and engaging story about soil, the “skin of the earth.” This exhibit was originally created and put on display at the Smithsonian in 2006 where it spent most of its time. In 2010, it began traveling to different museums across the country. Maxine Levin, USDA-NRCS soil scientist, was instrumental in gathering the soil monoliths together for the original Smithsonian exhibit. Since then, she has been following the exhibit around the county and volunteering her time and travel on behalf of SSSA to ensure that the monoliths are intact and ready for display. When “Dig It!” crates arrived in Raleigh, the museum requested the assistance of soil scientists to clean up and triage the soil monoliths. Kent Clary (North Carolina State Soil Scientist), Milton Cortes (North Carolina Assistant State Soil Scientist), Debbie Anderson (Soil Survey Regional Director SSR-3), and Dan Wing (Soil Data Quality Specialist SSR-3) volunteered to work on the monoliths preparation and repair for display. Although most of the monoliths survived storage and the trip across the country with little to no damage, others needed some tender care. About a dozen needed some minor mending and patchwork, and there were a couple that needed major repairs. It was a tedious process to check the durability of each monolith and investigate them for loose pieces. After passing inspection, they were strategically laid out and ready for mounting. “I am excited to see the exhibition after construction is complete,” says Clary. This is a very impressive exhibit and a great educational tool for the public. If you happen to be travelling through Raleigh, the exhibit runs through August 16. Maxine Levin (USDA-NRCS soil scientist) and Jason Whitman (Museum Coordinator) inspecting and conducting some touch-up work on one of the monoliths. The monoliths are cleaned, repaired, and ready for display.

Situational Analysis of Street Children in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh: A Study

The present article discusses about the situation of street children in Guntur City of Andhra Pradesh. Street child is ‘any boy or girl for whom the street has become his or her habitual house or source of livelihood’. UNICEF estimated that there are 400, 000 street children are living in different parts of India with vulnerable conditions. Guntur is one of the growing cities in Andhra Pradesh. The researcher has selected Guntur City for research setting and collected the data from 42 street children on their socio economic and living conditions by using the purposive sampling method. The study found that the mean ages of the respondents’ are 14 years. About 82 per cent street children stopped their studies. The major work they are doing for their livelihood is collect old papers, cooli, begging, helper, hawker, shoe polishers, seller of flowers, etc. A small percentage of street children are, as reported by key Informants, involved in theft, snatching, pick pocketing, sex work, drug business, Informer etc. The study suggests that the Street children must be provided tender care and emotional support and good nutritive diet so that they are not exposed to occupational and health hazards. Street based education system should be developed for the street children up to mainstream them with other government schools. Given the knowledge on hazards such as HIV/AIDS, early pregnancies, abortion, substance abuse, school dropout, child abuse and related rights etc. Media should publish the success stories of restoration of street children with their family members.

Palliative care: Bridging the unmet spiritual, physiotherapy, and emotional aspects in cancer patients

Background: Palliative care is a technique to enhance the quality of life of patient suffering from devitalizing illness. This literature review is the work accomplished to pave the strong foundation of palliative care to the needy patients and their families. At the level of hospice care, besides doctors' and nurses' skills, tender care and affectionate support is much more needed then medicines. Materials and Methods: Literature search was performed using the terms palliative care, spiritual, physiotherapy, cancer patients and emotional aspects. The full articles available in English were reviewed. Results: Palliative care is a sophisticated requirement in cancer patients. Most of the available literature has stressed that there is a large gap between the actual demands and provision of palliative care including spiritual, physiotherapy, and emotional aspects in cancer patients. Conclusions: This article discusses various aspects of palliative care and how they influence attitude of the patient and his or her family toward the curing therapy. This provides guidance how nurses and doctor can create non-medication environment for ending suffering and pain for better quality of life by tending them spiritually, physically, and emotionally.