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This research extends existing scholarship on the environmental movement by examining different groups of participants, building on the distinctions between public and private modes of engagement. The article uses data from the 2010 United States General Social Survey and the International Social Survey Programme to first conduct a latent class analysis to explore the existence of different classes of participants, and then presents a multinomial logit model to examine factors that affect class membership. The study finds there are four classes in the analysis of the environmental movement: a group of non-participators, a group that engages primarily in more organizationally-based environmental movement activities, a group that engages in green lifestyle activities, and a group that engages in both types of activities, but only at a high-intensity level. The study also finds that there are distinct differences in the composition of each group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: Compare the efficacy and safety of fibrin gel to 8% papain gel for wound dressing of venous ulcers. Method: Patients with chronic venous ulcers were randomly assigned to one in three groups: Group 1—fibrin gel; Group 2—8% papain gel; Group 3—carbopol gel (control). Patients were seen every 15 days during 2 months, verifying reduction of the ulcer area, local infection, exudation, and epithelization. All serious or nonserious adverse events were recorded. Results: Fifty-five patients (total of 63 ulcers) were randomly distributed in three groups (G1 = 21; G2 = 19; G3 = 23). No patient was excluded or discontinued treatment throughout the study. The areas of the ulcers were similarly reduced in all groups (14.3%, 21.1%, and 30.4% in groups 1, 2, and 3, respectively), and all had significant reduction in exudation and contamination. Conclusion: The data demonstrate that neither fibrin gel nor papain gel were able to improve the process of ulcer-healing, as compared to control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Giant aortic aneurysms (transverse diameter greater than 10.0 cm) are rare and open surgery is often the treatment of choice. We report an infrarenal saccular giant aortic aneurysm (measuring 25 cm in transverse diameter), which was treated with endovascular repair, with immediate technical success. No similar report of a giant infrarenal aortic aneurysm treated with an endovascular technique was found in the literature. High-risk patients could possibly benefit from the endovascular technique. Nevertheless, patient survival remains strongly influenced by comorbidities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Verrucous carcinoma, a variant of well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma, is usually described in the literature as arising in the oral cavity, skin, and larynx. The reports on verrucous carcinoma arising in the genital tract, usually originating in the vagina, vulva, or uterine cervix, are few. Verrucous carcinoma arising in the ovary has not been previously reported. In this article, a unique hybrid carcinoma, a large aggressive verrucous carcinoma in combination with squamous carcinoma of the left ovary and synchronously occurring with a squamous cell carcinoma in the endometrium, is presented. This unique case of a hybrid carcinoma includes the first-known case of this type of carcinoma involving the ovary The negative cervical evaluation findings, together with the histologic patterns of the tumors in the uterus and the ovary support the conclusion that these 2 carcinomas are synchronous, one arising in the left ovary and the other arising in the uterus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The most common basic weakness of black community‐related research is intrinsic to the Western academic tradition itself. This is the tendency to compartmentalize social phenomena and separate disciplines into air‐tight specialties. The main failings of economic approaches consist in not noting or dealing adequately with the consequences of noneconomic variables; for political studies, they consist in over‐study of a limited range of usually "here‐and‐now" techniques of politics related at best, to a narrow range of policy outcomes. While political scientists and economists work from different data universes, joint descriptive projects are relatively easily undertaken. Collaborating with their colleagues and nonprofessional social change advocates in offering insights into, and finding solutions to, urgent community needs may prove rewarding to social scientists. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Four to eight milligrams daily of the dextro isomer of thyroxine will lower serum cholesterol approximately 25 per cent without producing hypermetabolism. Table 4 shows other objective effects in man which may prove beneficial. While none of these assures prophylaxis or treatment of atherosclerosis, they do suggest an approach to this problem. The course of angina pectoris may be influenced favorably, although no objective appraisal of this statement is possible. The absence of significant side effects may be related to the stimulation of a physiologic excretion mechanism rather than interference with any essential process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]