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R Lampard

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PubMed1999

Repartnering: the relevance of parenthood and gender to cohabitation and remarriage among the formerly married.

This paper is an exploratory analysis of the impact of current and anticipated parenthood on cohabitation and remarriage among those formerly living in marriage-type relationships. The focus on children is embedded within a broader analysis of repartnering which takes account of other factors, including gender. Quantitative and qualitative analyses are used, with a multivariate analysis of repartnering patterns, using data from the General Household Survey, being complemented by in-depth interview data examining the attitudes of the formerly married to future relationships. The paper demonstrates that parenthood has a statistically significant effect on the likelihood of formerly married women repartnering, with a higher number of children being associated with a lower probability of repartnering. The presence of children can work against repartnering in a variety of ways. Children place demands on their parents and can deter or object to potential partners. Parents may see their parental role as more important than, and a barrier to, new relationships. However, mothers are typically looking for partners for themselves rather than fathers for their children. Among formerly married people without children, the desire to become a parent encourages repartnering. The paper concludes that parenthood should be a key consideration in analyses of repartnering.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1997

The Ram's Horn: the commonplace book of Dr. Earle Parkhill Scarlett.

Dr. Earle Scarlett (1896-1982) was "a man for all sasons:" he was a flourishing internist in Calgary, Alta., and a proud, self-confessed "medical truant." One of his greatest accomplishments was his written work; he published over 500 articles in several journals. His passion for books and reading gave rise to his commonplace book, The Ram's Horn. He used this collection of poems, prose, quotations, thoughts, and ideas as a source for his articles, most of which focused on historical and philosophical matters, and were rich in references to literary figures, mythology, and the Bible. The Ram's Horn contains writings that he deemed to be worthwhile and enjoyed reading over again. This book gives insight into the writings and interests of Scarlett, and in his words. "sound[s] a full-blooded compliment to [his] life."

Canada↗
PubMed1993

Availability of marriage partners in England and Wales: a comparison of three measures.

Measures of partner availability introduced by Goldman, Westoff & Hammerslough (1984) and by Veevers (1988) are described and a new measure of partner availability, the Iterated Availability Ratio, is introduced. The three measures are applied to 1981 Census data for England and Wales and their abilities to predict regional variations in age-specific marriage rates are compared.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

Surgical wound infections: a 63-month survey in a developmental institution.

Michener Centre, a developmental institution of 1200 residents, instituted a nosocomial infection control program in October 1983, which included surgical wound monitoring. Of the 336 clean and clean-contaminated operations performed in the next 63 months, there were 15 wound infections attributable to the surgeon; another 7 occurred which were directly attributable to the patient's postoperative behaviour. Six of the seven occurred in severely retarded patients. The wound infection rate dropped during the surveillance period from 23% to 4.1% or less. Careful preselection of patients for elective surgery and studious attention to postoperative nursing care are necessary to achieve these rates or to reduce them further, particularly amongst severely retarded patients.

Canada↗
PubMed1986

Changes at the base of skull and cervical spine in Down syndrome.

Lateral films of the skull base and upper cervical spine in flexion, extension, and neutral positions in 165 patients with Down syndrome, ranging in age from 16 to 60 years, were analyzed. There is a 20% incidence of atlantoaxial subluxation with a marked preponderance in men (24% incidence compared to 15% in women). In addition, there is a high incidence of degenerative changes at the C2-3 and C3-4 cervical interspaces, especially in patients over 37 years of age; these are unusual sites when compared to the normal population in which the degenerative changes are most often at the C5-6 and C6-7 levels. Four patients demonstrated subluxation at cervical interspaces other than C1-2 and six had congenital fusion of either vertebral bodies or facets in the cervical region. Several patients also had flattening of cervical vertebrae; 20% of patients had nonaeration of the sphenoid sinus and 46% had partial aeration.

Adolescent↗
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Computed tomography of the upper cervical spine in Down syndrome.

Axial CT of the upper cervical spine was performed on 25 Down syndrome patients. Measurements of the degree of atlantoaxial displacement, the sagittal diameters of the spinal canal and spinal cord, thickness of the transverse ligament, and the ratio of sagittal diameter of spinal cord to canal were made. Thirty-six percent of the group showed evidence of cord compression. These patients demonstrated a significant decrease in the anteroposterior diameter of the spinal canal and the cord with an increase in the degree of subluxation and the cord:canal ratio when compared with the remainder.

Adult↗