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Facets of human behavior deserve the serious consideration of man more than the re-evaluation of our moral codes and the development of a sound, functional, ethical orientation regarding sex. Because human beings have sex impulses, society has found it necessary to order and regulate sex activities and relations, and therefore every cultural group has established some set of rules and patterns to which its members were expected to conform. Some of the traditional attitudes and beliefs about sex have focused upon the negative view that sex was unclean--something to be denied and rejected. The church and state took upon themselves the responsibility of establishing regulations and attempted to enforce adherence to these regulations in order to preserve the values of the society or group. The double standard in premarital sexual intercourse has been increasingly questioned and criticized in modern United States. There are those who believe in and observe a single standard of chastity, and an apparently increasing number who are accepting premarital coitus for both male and female.

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) has formed a Working Group on Adaptive Designs. The group aims to contribute to a constructive dialogue on adaptive designs by engaging statisticians, clinicians, and other stakeholders in academia, regulatory agencies, and industry. Hopefully this will facilitate broader consideration and implementation of these designs. The papers that follow in this issue comprise the Full White Paper of the group and summarize its findings and recommendations from its first year of activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on an elaboration of the resource potential and annual production of tight sandstone gas and shale gas in the United States and China, this paper reviews the researches on the distribution of tight sandstone gas and shale gas reservoirs, and analyzes the distribution characteristics and genetic types of tight sandstone gas reservoirs. In the United States, the proportion of tight sandstone gas in the total gas production declined from 20%--35% in 2008 to about 8% in 2023, and the shale gas production was 8 310x108 m3 in 2023, about 80% of the total gas production, in contrast to the range of 5%--17% during 2000--2008. In China, the proportion of tight sandstone gas in the total gas production increased from 16% in 2010 to 28% or higher in 2023. China began to produce shale gas in 2012, with the production reaching 250x108 m3 in 2023, about 11% of the total gas production of the country. The distribution of shale gas reservoirs is continuous. According to the fault presence, fault displacement and gas layer thickness, the continuous shale gas reservoirs can be divided into two types: continuity and intermittency. Most previous studies believed that both tight sandstone gas reservoirs and shale gas reservoirs are continuous, but this paper holds that the distribution of tight sandstone gas reservoirs is not continuous. According to the trap types, tight sandstone gas reservoirs can be divided into lithologic, anticlinal, and synclinal reservoirs. The tight sandstone gas is coal-derived in typical basins in China and Egypt, but oil-type gas in typical basins in the United States and Oman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents field measurements of the rotational stiffness of three transport vehicles equipped with different types of suspensions: leaf, combined air and leaf, and hydraulic suspensions. The rotational stiffness was determined by measuring the tilts of the vehicles when a girder or known weights were placed on them at various eccentricities. One of the tested vehicles, which featured transversely expandable wheel spacings varying from 6 to 18 ft (1.8 to 5.5 m), exhibited an increase in rotational stiffness from 78,181 to 134,584 kip-in./radian (8833 to 15,206 kN-m/radian). This paper summarizes the rotational stiffness for all the vehicles tested by the authors. The field measurements conducted have enriched the existing database on vehicle rotational stiffness in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The provision of modern health care in the United States faces significant challenges, as evidenced by multiple national reports of a workforce in distress. In response to these challenges, the practice of coaching emerges as a transformative skill, recommended for individuals in high-stress environments. Coaching in health care focuses on developing nurses and building teams by fostering self-understanding, deploying strengths, improving relational strategies, and gaining moral clarity. It serves as a potent strategy for nurse leaders to navigate the complexities of their systems. This paper explores the practice of coaching as an important mindset and skill. A coaching mindset is characterized by trust, deep listening, curiosity, embracing both/and thinking, discernment over judgment, and fosters an environment where nurses can flourish. It promotes a shift from telling to asking, empowering individuals to contribute innovative ideas and solutions. Additionally, the paper provides guidance for coaching and tools for maintaining a coaching mindset in the face of chronic stress. By fostering a coaching mindset, employing powerful questions, and using tools to sustain emotional integrity, leaders can empower nurses to thrive in complexity, enhance workplace well-being, and contribute to a resilient health care culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to investigate how and to what extent 'critical' global citizenship is reflected in middle school English textbooks in Korea. Framed within Freire's concept of critical literacy, the study is concerned with analyzing the written texts in two English textbooks, with a focus on the issue of representations. Using critical content analysis, the research centers on unpacking how race, racism, or racialization, especially in the United States, is represented, and to what extent these representations may be associated with global citizenship education in English language learning. The major findings indicate a notable absence of sufficient sociohistorical and cultural contexts of race in the United States as presented in the concerned English textbooks. Based on the analysis, this paper calls for an expansion of the dimensions of critical global citizenship in English language learning settings, aiming to provide students with broader opportunities to question colonial discourse and challenge issues related to power and systemic oppression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the animal welfare issues related to puppy mills in Canada. It states that it received a lot of attention from the public and slowed the importation into Canadian dogs from puppy mills in the U.S. It mentions that although it decreased the importation of dogs from the U.S., it resulted in an increase in the number of Canadian puppy mills and local bred dogs from new puppy mills.

The article presents a discussion on the issue of relocation in the Family Law Act in Australia. It also offers a discussion on how and whether relocation should be defined. It also reviews the existing law on relocation and invites proposals for the amendment of the Family Law Act concerning the issue on relocation. It also outlines the proposed reforms to the family law contained in the Family Law Amendment Bill 2005 or the Shared Parental Responsibility bill. It also presents the law in other jurisdictions such as United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, and some states of the United States.

Discusses the ethics of quackery and fraud in dentistry in the U.S. Quality of dental care; Challenges of the American College of Dentists for the profession to study and understand the nature and damage of unethical dental practices; Identification of the distinct patterns of dental practice; Obligation of dentists.

The author reflects on the methods on how students could make an interesting research paper. The author argues that students will be more interested in a research paper if the topic is interesting or if they feel it is important. It explores the discovery project of Vicki Homes and Margaret Moulton from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a list of ideas on organizing a research paper.

The article presents abstracts of contributed research papers to the Joint Forces Pharmacy Seminar (JFPS) including glucose intolerance or diabetes in the active duty soldier population in the U.S., ambulatory medication compliance at an academic tertiary care medical center, and implementing Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee (PTC) changes to pharmaceutical service.

The article presents abstracts from papers delivered at the Philip Roth Society conferences which include "Philip Roth's the Plot Against America: American Fraternity Betrayed," by Ann Basu, "Masculinity and the Family in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America," by Alex Hobbs, and "The Evolution/Revolution of Philip Roth," by Miriam Jaffe-Foger.

In this article the author discusses aspects of the paper presented at the Nagoya American Studies Summer Seminar (NASSS) 2009 on the civil rights movement and democratization in the U.S. after the World War II by Doctor Honda Kazuhisa. The author stresses the boundaries of democracy in the global trends and the progress of democratization in the postwar period. He also cites the impact of civil rights movements on racial discrimination and the legitimacy of American democracy.

The article presents abstracts of contributed papers related to pharmacy presented at the 2008 Joint Forces Pharmacy Seminar (JFPS) in the U.S. which include the assessment of blood pressure control following switch from irbesartan to telmisartan in patients with type 2 diabetes, assessment of several factors affecting the low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol control of deployed military and an analysis of insulin determir and glargine use at an academic medical center.

Systematic conservation planning (SCP) is a field of conservation biology concerned with the effective allocation of conservation efforts and the implementation of actions aiming to guarantee biodiversity persistence in the long-term and the efficient use of conservation resources. Here, we evaluated the main spatial-temporal trends and patterns among highly-cited papers in SCP. We considered "highly-cited" articles as those papers with at least 100 citations according to Web of Science database. A total of 132 highly-cited articles were published between 1989 and 2014, with the highest frequency at 2006. Papers were published in 25 different scientific journals (with a highlight for Conservation Biology and Biological Conservation) by researchers from 208 institutions and 25 countries (most from Australia and USA). Most of the analytical and methodological studies were carried out in the terrestrial environment, by considering more than one taxonomic group, and at a regional scale. Eleven studies included information on costs (e.g., economic or land use) in the prioritization process, and only one article considered information on other biodiversity dimensions such as phylogenetic diversity. Among analytical papers, 41 included only biodiversity data in the prioritization process, while 16 papers considered data on other features such as ecosystem services, biophysical factors, and vegetation. Furthermore, a plethora of different algorithms and software were used to perform the analyses. By analyzing the top-cited papers, we could track through time the main advances and stages of the development in SCP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents video tape recording (VTR) as new and unique term project in journalism history courses as an alternative to the traditional term paper in the United States. The author explains attempt to present VTR as her term project. To do her project she primarily identified the objective and the problems regarding that. She choose the subject someone who has contributed much to journalism and was not been researched before. She conducted an interview with the person and recorded it. She then edited it to a half hour program. The article also reflects how the author managed her project in an efficient way.

This article focuses on the summer course program for high school journalism teachers and publications supervisors offered by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh journalism department, Wisconsin. The teachers literally exchanged roles with their own high school students. They suddenly and without fanfare found themselves covering campus beats, writing stories, rewriting (for some an uneasy experience at first), typesetting on the department's modern computerized production equipment, proofreading, and editing. The course was so practical that the final "research" paper called for a design of a model high school journalism publications program at each teachers high school.

The article reports on the move of Badger Paper Mills Inc. to shut down its operation in mid-October 2005 after an agreement to sell the firm to a shareholder named James Azzar, in the paper industry in the U.S. The agreement that fell through had provided for the acquisition of Badger through a merger with an entity to be formed by Azzar.

Reports that United States-based Lagasse Inc. has completed the purchase of the stock of Hialeah, Florida-based Sweet Paper Corp. and substantially all of the assets of Sweet Paper Group, a privately-held wholesale distributor of janitorial and sanitation, paper and foodservice products, in a cash transaction.

Reports that the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry has announced the formation of the National Network for Pulp and Paper Technology Training in the United States. Leadership of the Alabama Southern Community College in Thomasville in the program; Aim of training workers for the paper and chemical industries; Offer of scholarships and internships; Features of the industry, government and education collaboration. united states

Required undergraduate diversity courses often expose students to topics and worldviews which may push them out of their comfort zones and prompt dissonance and even resistance. This paper reports on interviews with 68 faculty members across 16 humanities and social science disciplines at five predominantly white institutions in the Southern United States, detailing how they navigated discussion of controversial topics in required diversity courses. Most instructors aimed to expose students to critical social issues yet were concerned that resistance could disturb the learning process. We identified 20 unique strategies for handling controversial topics in class that included proactively establishing community and safety and normalizing conflict, and reactively acknowledging and surfacing multiple perspectives, as well as connecting content to students’ lived experiences. Some instructors also reported a lack of controversy or conflict in their classrooms, which they variously attributed to student characteristics or their own disinclination to promote heated discussion—which, we argue, calls into question the breadth and criteria of many institutionally defined diversity course requirements. We conclude the paper with implications for faculty, educational developers, administrators, and institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the responsibilities of Sunday supplements on errors committed during its publication in the U.S. Realm of responsibility among editors in correcting the errors; Option for a reader to correct the publication if it refuses to make a correction; Remedy for an aggrieved party victimized by a Sunday supplement.

Presents the significance of employee publications on a substantial number of dailies circulation in the U.S. Median circulation and costs of these publications; Details of information on format and sizes of employee publication; Content of the publication.

This article focuses on making efficient use of college newspapers by students of journalism. University student publications across the United States represent a vast resource to those who study and teach journalism. Despite a huge variation in resources, student newspapers offer a microcosm of the commercial newsroom. No matter what their size, they make editorial decisions, write headlines, and conduct interviews, crop photos and paste up pages. Because of this, student newspapers can also be valuable and semi-realistic environments in which to teach management, advertising, public relations and law, and in which to learn the complexities and peculiarities of readership communities.

Focuses on the study of censorship of the university press in the U.S. Duties of journalism students on university newspapers; Impact of censorship on school newspaper; Relationship between the problems of university press and the decreasing numbers of news-editorial majors.

Despite total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) and reverse TSA (rTSA) being fundamentally different procedures, and indicated in different pathologies (rTSA for rotator cuff deficiency [RCD] and proximal humeral fractures [PHFx] and anatomic TSA [aTSA] for glenohumeral osteoarthritis [GHOA]), they have the same Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code (23472). This paper's aim is to investigate differences in operative time and work-related value units (wRVUs) per hour among these pathologies, and ultimately determine if there is a need to assign separate CPTs for aTSA and rTSA. A retrospective cohort of data from the American College of Surgeons–National Surgical Quality Improvement Program was collected, all patients who underwent aTSA or rTSA (CPT: 23472) between the years of 2006 and 2019 for diagnoses of GHOA, RCD, and PHFx were included. Data collected included patient age, body mass index, operative time, and wRVUs per hour. Compared to GHOA (reference group), the average operative time for the RCD cohort was 12.242 minutes shorter (P <.001), while the wRVUs were higher by 1.627 (P <.001). The average operative time for rTSAs in the PHFx cohort were 17.615 minutes longer (P <.001), while the wRVUs were lower by 2.205 (P <.001). The average operative time for rTSAs for both RCDs and PHFx were longer than that for aTSAs for GHOA. Additionally, wRVUs were lower for rTSAs for RCD and PHFx compared to aTSAs for GHOA. This elucidates inconsistency in reimbursement structure for the procedures, which should be revisited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ICH E17 guidelines (2014–2017) on Multiregional Clinical Trials (MRCT) was a joint effort by the regulators and industry to facilitate simultaneous global drug development and registration through taking a strategic approach for clinical trials. In other words, the objective was to reduce the time it takes to bringing medications to patients around the world through minimizing unnecessary duplication of local or regional studies, which may add the regulatory burden to cost and time of bringing new therapies to patients. Under the auspices of ICH, training materials were created and provided to various stakeholders. Despite the successful promotion of the benefits of ICH E17 MRCT guidelines across the different regions, the uptake of some concepts (e.g., pooling strategy) in the ICH E17 guidelines has been slow. This paper describes various factors which could affect the conduct of MRCT at a global level, including ambiguity in definition of "region" (in MRCT), new regulatory requirements to enroll a diverse patient population, the use of decentralized clinical trials, use of data sources other than randomized clinical trials (e.g., use of Real Word Data), and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the conduct of MRCT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts of research related to pharmacy in the U.S. which include the assessment of basic medication management knowledge for individuals with diabetes and hypertension in an indigent care setting, assessment of pharmacists' confidence in Ohio in giving pharmaceutical care to children in a community setting and assessment of patient perceptions related to antidepressants and depression in the community pharmacy practice.