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Economics of Public Health: Study Finds Price for Reducing HIV Risk

By Guest PostFebruary 7, 2013General, Healthbeneficial behaviors, bill, brown university, cash transfer program, cesar infante, condoms, education in mexico, gay men, hiv infection, hiv prevention education, hiv risk behaviors, hiv testing, hiv therapy, increase safe sex, insp, malawi, male sex workers, melinda gates foundation, Mexico City, omar galarraga, policymakers, prediction, reduce infection, sandra sosa rubi, sexually transmitted infections, stefano m bertozzi, sti testing, Tanzania, western nations

With a goal to reduce HIV risk behaviors, researchers investigated whether gay men and male sex workers in Mexico City would participate in a conditional cash transfer program that encourages HIV prevention education and regular testing. A new study in the European Journal of Health Economics reports the price that would get more than 75-percent participation: $288 a year.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Studies have found that conditional cash transfer programs, in which governments pay citizens if they consistently practice societally beneficial behaviors, have improved pediatric health care and education in Mexico, increased HIV testing in Malawi, and reduced sexually transmitted infections in Tanzania. Public health researchers therefore investigated whether the idea could be applied to HIV risk behaviors among gay men and male sex workers in Mexico City. A new study reports not only that some members of those populations would change behavior for conditional cash payments, but the exact prices they would accept. (more…)

How Good to Get Growth with New Technology in Textile Industry

By Guest PostFebruary 7, 2013General, Small Business, Technologyblogger, brianne, cotton gin, day after day, domestic needs, England, Europe, greenlife water, growth, industrial revolution, machine, new technology, next drawback, number of spindles, popularity, sequential manner, skilled labors, spinning, spinning jenny, spinning mill, synthetic fibres, textile industry, water frame, weaving machines, writer

Technology came along into the industries along with the Industrial Revolution. Through generations till date, the same is got carried and eventually got passed off from one generation to another, techniques changed with the course of time, but the idea of implementing technology in industries did not actually change. The same became the principle while its application happened to spread up its wings. Initially textile industries thrived on hand woven techniques, which needed huge labor and was even a time consuming task, but with the aid of technology, and newly designed machineries, the textile industry had its make-over with infrastructural changes, and got mechanized to serve its purpose fruitfully.

Initial days:

Initially the only machineries that emerged up to serve textile industries are the spinning and weaving machines. These were machines with limited facilities, and hence, the person who is actually using it had to put up a lot of effort to have results with full accuracy and precision. Spinning and weaving were even done in the house-holds, to run houses and satisfy the domestic needs, eventually, this got transformed when various small scale industries cropped up, which even got better day after day. (more…)

‘Cool’ Kids In Middle School Bully More, UCLA Psychologists Report

By Guest PostFebruary 7, 2013General, Healthanti bullying programs, bullied by classmates, cool kids, eighth grade, female typed, forms of aggression, harmless name calling, innocent punch, jaana juvonen, los angeles, male typed, middle school bully, middle school students, non human primates, physical aggression, popularity, social status, spreading rumors, ucla psychologists

Study of seventh and eighth graders finds no difference between boys, girls

Bullying, whether it’s physical aggression or spreading rumors, boosts the social status and popularity of middle school students, according to a new UCLA psychology study that has implications for programs aimed at combatting school bullying. In addition, students already considered popular engage in these forms of bullying, the researchers found.

The psychologists studied 1,895 ethnically diverse students from 99 classes at 11 Los Angeles middle schools. They conducted surveys at three points: during the spring of seventh grade, the fall of eighth grade and the spring of eighth grade. Each time, students were asked to name the students who were considered the “coolest,” the students who “start fights or push other kids around” and the ones who “spread nasty rumors about other kids.” (more…)

Numerology Guide: Your Destiny Number rules your Future

By Guest PostFebruary 7, 2013Culture, Generalastrology, basic numerology, calculate destiny number, descriptive term, dream interpretation, expression number, full birth name, greek philosopher pythagoras, mathematical pattern, mathematical theories, methods, numerological values, numerology, numerology guide, palmistry, potential future trends, power, quantum physics, roots of numerology, rule, students, symbols, tarot cards, tools of divination, your destiny number, your future

Through the ages man has formulated various ways to provide an insight to his nature that comprises of tarot cards, dream interpretation, astrology, palmistry as well as basic numerology. These methods are used to discover the inner self. All of these practices share a common reputation as “the tools of divination”. Though, it is often said that there is no one to predict your future accurately. Instead basic numerology as well as other tools teaches us about ourselves and it also offers various options available to us in any given circumstances.

There are several methods of divination which are intimately intertwined, each of which are related to the other in some way or the other. In the tarot, basic numerology as well as astrology is both portrayed in the symbols that are used to illustrate the cards. Astrology depends on the mathematical correspondences to help construe what each of the twelve houses symbolizes, just as basic numerology, a numbers vibrations might communicate to a particular planet or sign which rules the sign. A reader will make use of each approach to do a reading or she can also get herself specialize in any one. (more…)

More Sex for Married Couples with Traditional Divisions of Housework

By Guest PostFebruary 7, 2013General, Health, Sexdata, divisions of housework, everyday life, gender identity, juan march institute, julie brines, katrina leupp, madrid, marital satisfaction, marriage, married couples, more sex, sabino kornrich, sex, sex and housework, sexual behavior, sexual frequency, traditional gender roles, traditional ways, types of chores, university of washington, us couples

Married men and women who divide household chores in traditional ways report having more sex than couples who share so-called men’s and women’s work, according to a new study co-authored by sociologists at the University of Washington.

Other studies have found that husbands got more sex if they did more housework, implying that sex was in exchange for housework. But those studies did not factor in what types of chores the husbands were doing. (more…)

Secret of Scent Lies in Molecular Vibrations

By Guest PostFebruary 2, 2013General, Sciencealexander fleming, athens, atom, bonds, british chemist, bsrc, chemists, cyclopentadecanone, deuterium odorants, electron cloud, Greece, hydrogen atom, hydrogen musk molecules, inelastic electron tunnelling, lcn, luca turin, malcolm dyson, mass, molecular shape, molecular vibrations, nano scale changes, quantum mechanism, secret of scent, simon gane, spectroscope, ucl scientists, vibration of molecule

Molecular vibrations, rather than molecular shape, give substances their distinct smell according to a new study by UCL scientists.

In a study designed to find out how smell is written into a molecule’s structure, scientists tested whether changing how a molecule vibrates on a nano-scale changes its smell.

Molecules are made of atoms connected by bonds. The arrangement of bonds and atoms defines the vibration of the molecule. Chemists can therefore identify molecules by their vibrations, using a spectroscope. (more…)

Effort to Enforce HIV ‘Health Threat’ Law Raises Questions

By Guest PostFebruary 1, 2013General, Healthadvocates, blood draw, community, database, diagnose, epidemiological data, health threat law, hiv positive woman, hiv surveillance technologies, hiv-positive, local jurisdictions, medical information, michigan health officials, people, policymakers, public health policy, sex, sexual partners, sexually transmitted diseases, stakeholders, trevor hoppe, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR — Michigan health officials are using HIV surveillance technologies to assist in enforcing a “health threat” law that makes it illegal for HIV-positive people to have sex without disclosing their status.

A new University of Michigan study reveals that health officials employ the state’s names reporting database, alongside partner services referrals, for law enforcement purposes. However, this is bad social policy for a variety of reasons, says Trevor Hoppe, the study’s author and a doctoral candidate in sociology and women’s studies. (more…)

A Family’s Lost Story Found, and the Sephardic Studies Initiative

By Guest PostJanuary 20, 2013Culture, Generalamerican life, arabic, arabic letters, auschwitz, autumn, benny, brother salomon, devin naar, during the war, esther, family story, grandfather, great uncle, Greece, hebrew, hebrew letters, historical archive, immigrant generation, islam, jewish community, jewish studies, jews expel, jews throughout europe, judeo spanish, judezmo, ladino language, ladino phrases, mediterranean basin, muslims, nazi occupation, nazis, northern greece, ottoman empire, port city, rabbi friend, rabbi solomon maimon, rosetta stone, salonica, script, seattle, sephardic jewish culture, sephardic jews, sephardic studies initiative, shelly, spain, spanish, third reich, thomson hall office, turkey, united states, washington university, world war

For Devin Naar, the Sephardic Studies Initiative is not just a valuable historical archive; it has also been a personal journey revealing an untold family story from the years of the Third Reich.

Naar’s part of the story began about 10 years ago, when as an undergraduate at Washington University he grew interested in the history of Turkey and Greece, which for centuries until World War I was part of the Ottoman Empire. His family comes from Salonica, a port city in Northern Greece. (more…)