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Anxiety is an identified risk for students and its rates are increasing amongst young people. While there are numerous articles available on anxiety and adolescents, little is known about the impact that rurality may have on anxiety in secondary school students. In light of this, a systematic literature review was undertaken to explore not only the ways in which anxiety impacts upon students in secondary school but also whether living and studying in a rural context presented additional stressors. Through an examination of 29 peer-reviewed publications, six key themes were identified relating to the area under investigation: anxiety, long-term effect of anxiety, school completion, academic achievement, rurality and educational interventions. The conclusion of this review is that while rurality can have a significant negative impact upon students' anxiety and its management, through the implementation of school-based interventions, teachers can minimise its effect on academic outcomes.

Archives provide an important service in the preservation of our heritage, but the core archival processes involved in making literary papers accessible are essentially invisible to researchers. This essay outlines issues relating to archival appraisal, arrangement, and description because these processes directly affect the organization and subsequent interpretation of archival materials. What materials have archival value? How does an archivist respect original order while ensuring organized access? To what extent can and should finding aids as well as facsimiles of documents be made available in digital format? Discussion of these questions is illustrated with examples from Dalhousie University Archives and Special Collections' literary holdings, which include the papers of William R. Bird, Frank Parker Day, Thomas Head Raddall, and Budge Wilson. Les archives fournissent un service unique important qui permet de preserver note patrimoine mais les principaux processus archivistiques qui visent a rendre des documents litteraires q sont essentiellement invisibles aux chercheurs. Le present article veut donner un apercu des problemes relies a l'evaluation, a l'arrangement et a la description des archives parce que ces processus influent directement sur l'organisation et l'interpretation subsequente du materiel d'archives. Quel materiel a une valeur archivistique? Comment un archiviste respecte-t-il l'ordre original tout en assurant un acces organise? Jusqu'a quel point les instruments de recherche et la telecopie de documents devraient-ils etre permis en format nurnerique? Devraient-ils l'etre? La discussion de ces questions est illustree avec des exemples de documents litteraires de la section des archives et des collections speciales de l'universite Dalhousie, qui comprennent des documents de William R. Bird, Frank Parker Day, Thomas Head Raddall et Budge Wilson.

Background Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) affect approximately 10-15% of pregnancies and pre-eclampsia affects 3-5% of pregnancies. Women with previous pre-eclampsia or HDP are at increased risk of hypertension (2 to 5 times) and major cardiovascular disease (1.5 to 3 times). There is little guidance on how to reduce this risk. Aim To establish if there are interventions in women with previous HDP or pre-eclampsia that reduce the risk of developing adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Method A protocol was submitted to PROSPERO; inclusion and exclusion criteria were determined and a search strategy implemented. Primary outcomes were: development of hypertension or change in blood pressure and development of other cardiovascular complications. Records and full texts were screened independently by two reviewers. The Cochrane Risk of Bias tool was used for quality assessment. Results 3593 articles were screened. Nine articles were included. There were seven randomised-controlled trials and two quasi-experimental studies. One study trialled antihypertensive use, two studies looked at blood pressure monitoring and six studies focused on lifestyle interventions. Three trials reported significant reductions in diastolic blood pressure in the experimental group. No studies looked at the optimal time of intervention or the impact of interventions on the development of other long-term cardiovascular complications. Five studies reported participant feedback. The majority of studies were of low quality. Conclusion Further research needs to explore potential interventions and optimal timing of interventions to reduce cardiovascular risk. Women also need to be consulted about their preferences for discussions about cardiovascular risk and potential interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A study was conducted to compare self-assessment and blindly rated performance assessments, since functional performance measures had been stated to be superior to self-report measures in terms of reproducibility, sensitivity to change and acceptability by more patients. The results indicated that performance measures were not psychometrically better than self-assessments, and are not more sensitive to change or reproducible or more acceptable to patients. Both assessments were compared by using similar rating formats.

Abstract This paper aims to reconstruct some of the causes and the context of wife-battering in Montreal between the years 1869-1879. It seeks to determine what the immediate causes were [...]

Amplifying her mixed-method approach, the book uses not only raw numerical data to show the trends in hiring law school faculty but also extensive interviews with both male and female faculty of all races and backgrounds. Meera Deo, professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, sheds light on the current state of the legal academy. If pieces of Deo's book are slowly implemented in law schools, we will gradually begin to see the faculty look more like the tapestry that law schools often want to portray in their student guides but are unable to. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses issues concerning physician-assisted suicide (PAS) from Catholic perspective. Topics covered include the history of PAS in the U.S. and Great Britain, the role of British author Derek Humphry and American pathologist Jack Kevorkian in popularizing PAS, the relation between legalization of PAS and the rate of total suicides and postponed planned suicides and the role of mercy in dying patients.