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This section presents a bibliography of literature on child abuse fatalities, including, A Nation's Shame: Fatal Child Abuse and Neglect in the United States.

Infant and child homicide rates have remained stable over the last 20 years. They represent the most visible part of the spectrum of fatal child abuse. By contrast, infant mortality and child deaths from accidents and SIDS have all declined. The prevention strategies used to combat these deaths would appear to have been more successful than the protection strategies used against child abuse deaths. International comparisons of infant homicide rates have shown that measures of family stress, available resources and the cultural variables of low status of women and the culture of violence were all associated with increased infant homicide rates. The paper argues for a change in our culture towards children to prevent fatal child abuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Infant and child homicide rates have remained stable over the last 20 years. They represent the most visible part of the spectrum of fatal child abuse. By contrast, infant mortality and child deaths from accidents and SIDS have all declined. The prevention strategies used to combat these deaths would appear to have been more successful than the protection strategies used against child abuse deaths. International comparisons of infant homicide rates have shown that measures of family stress, available resources and the cultural variables of low status of women and the culture of violence were all associated with increased infant homicide rates. The paper argues for a change in our culture towards children to prevent fatal child abuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three successive (representative) values of fluorescein-instillation TBUT (tear break-up time) were obtained from a group of young Hong Kong (HK)-Chinese. The median TBUT1, TBUT2 and TBUT3 were 3.2, 3.8 and 4.5 sec. respectively. Wilcoxon signed-rank tests showed that TBUT1 was significantly different from TBUT2 and TBUT3, but there was no difference between TBUT2 and TBUT3. It is therefore important, when measuring the TBUT, to specify which TBUT value was taken as the representative TBUT. Fluorescein was reapplied about six mm after the first application, and the TBUT value re-determined (TBUTR). The median TBUTR was not significantly different from TBUT1. The subjects were requested to return another day and TBUT values (TBUTW) were determined, with the subjects opening their eyes as wide as possible, such that the palpebral aperture size was increased. The mean ± SD normal palpebral aperture size was 10.0 &plusmnn; 1.3 mm, and the mean &plusmnn;SD palpebral aperture size with the eyes wide open was 11.4 ± 1.5 mm. The median TBUTW (3.6 sec) was significantly longer than the median TBUT1 (3.0 sec), but this difference appeared to be due to the extremely long TBUTW of one subject; no significant difference was found between the median TBLUTW (3.4 sec) and TBUT1 (2.8 sec) when data from this subject were excluded. There was no significant correlation between changes in palpebral size and IBUT value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cyclobutane-type photodimers of dinucleoside monophosphates dCpdT, dTpdC and dTpdT were prepared by ultraviolet irradiation in the presence of acetophenone as photosensitizer. The cytosine-containing derivatives were found to deaminate forming uracil products. Using one-and two-dimensional NMR, the photoproducts were characterized as cis-syn and trans-syn cyclobutane photodimers. On the basis of NOE data the structures of the cis-syn and trans-syn products of dUpdT were determined using distance-geometry and restrained-energy- minimization methods. The cis-syn structures showed (high-ANTI/SYN)/high-ANTI glycosidic linkages while the trans-syn structures were in the SYN-ANTI region. The backbone conformations of both structures were in fair agreement with the coupling-constant-data. The trans-syn structures were found to be very rigid and similar in all three products. For the three cis-syn structures more conformational freedom and more variation among the three structures was observed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on bulletin review index, published in the December 1965 issue of the journal "Rural Sociology." In this index, books of joint authorship are fully cited under each author's name when there are three or fewer authors. For books having more than three authors, only the senior author's name appears in the citation. The references include volume number, year of publication in parentheses and the page number on which the review appears or begins. The names of reviewers are in brackets. Some of the books and their authors are: "Tenure and Mechanization of the Cotton Harvest, Texas High Plains," by William G. Adkins and William H. Metzler, "Rural Areas in Transition. A Study of the Impact of Off-Farm Employment in a Low-Income Farm Area of Florida," by Daniel E. Allege, "Rural Farm Retirement," by Daniel E. Alleger, "The Dynamics of Georgia's Population," by John C. Belcher. "Medical Service Relationships in Harper County, Oklahoma," by John C. Belcher and Donald G. Hay.