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The healthy body jigsaw
Published in Rachel Pryke, Joe Harvey, Annabel Karmel, Weight Matters for Children, 2018
Rachel Pryke, Joe Harvey, Annabel Karmel
In addition, it is important to keep the environment healthy too – which means tidying up litter, not leaving toys on the stairs where someone could trip over them, and closing gates and doors to stop toddlers running of. And what about emotions? People feel happier when they value their friends, when they are truthful and when they take the trouble to share. In particular, looking after family and listening to them if they are worried increases the chance that they will do the same when it is our turn to be down.
Impact of global environmental issues on health
Published in Richard Lawson, Jonathon Porritt, Bills of Health, 2018
Richard Lawson, Jonathon Porritt
In addition to the aesthetics, there is an economically beneficial aspect to removing litter. Sheets of plastic become air-borne in high winds, and some will become entangled in telephone and electricity wires, increasing their aerodynamic drag to the point that some wires are brought down. A thorough eradication of litter will therefore reduce repair costs following gales to some extent
Word Play
Published in Robert A. Harris, Writing with Clarity and Style, 2017
As the Keats example demonstrates, one form of pun is to use a word once that can represent two or more different words that are all spelled and pronounced the same (that is, they are homonyms). Tell me, what’s the scoop on cat litter?Here, scoop is a colloquial term for timely information as well as a standard word for a small shovel. By introducing a camera, we are going to take a shot at the photography business. Let’s hope it will be the picture of profitability. After all, digital cameras have no negatives. In this example, shot refers both to a gunshot (take a shot at, a metaphor for an attempt) and a photograph (take a picture). Similarly, picture puns on the pictures that will be taken by the camera and the common metaphor picture of, referring to the physical manifestation of some quality (as in picture of happiness). And negatives puns on the negatives produces by film cameras and negatives meaning disadvantages.
Menstrual Stigma Rearticulated as Environmental Pollution in Contemporary Scottish Policy-Making
Published in Women's Reproductive Health, 2023
The term “litter,” also often found in the Marine Litter report, presents single-use products as scattered discarded items, which suggests a need of containment and separation from their marine environment similar to that of menstrual blood in the logic of the containment ideal. When the Marine Litter report refers to menstrual products as “‘leakage’ into the marine environment” (Cole et al., 2019, p. 1), this is an unusual choice of words insofar as “leakage” is commonly reserved for fluids rather than solid litter (though it might also be due to the fact that the litter usually arrives in the sea carried by sewage water). It again reveals an underlying containment ideal in continuity with fears of menstrual pollution, this time referring to the marine environment that needs to be kept pure from unintentionally shed litter.
A Rare Case of Congenitally Acquired Ocular Toxocariasis in A Five-Week-Old Infant
Published in Ocular Immunology and Inflammation, 2021
Chris Or, James A. David, Munraj Singh, H. Sprague Eustis, D. Anthony Mazzulla, Stephen Hypes, Joseph Benevento
OT is usually diagnosed clinically and supported by serologic testing with an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based on anti-Toxocara antibodies, although in ocular variants the ELISA may return negative depending on infectious load.1 Although visceral larva migrans (VLM) warrants anti-helminthic therapy, treatment for ocular toxocariasis is controversial. As humans are intermediate hosts and the larvae cannot multiply, steroids may be initiated without anti-helminthic therapy, but some question this monotherapy due to concern of immunosuppression and risk of larvae migration. For populations in endemic areas, primary prevention includes avoidance of disposal of pet litter by pregnant individuals, avoidance of ingestion of undercooked meats, and proper handwashing techniques.1 The range of infectivity of toxocariasis depends on the host’s inflammatory response to infection, the parasite load, and the migration of larvae.1
The influence of lunar cycle at the time of conception on sex offspring distribution in dogs
Published in Chronobiology International, 2021
Daniela Alberghina, Mauro Gioè, Marco Quartuccio, Luigi Liotta
The average litter size was 6.5 ± 2.6 and the sex ratio was 1.09 (509 males and 468 females). Borderline dates between seasons (± 1 week from change of the season) and between lunar phases at conception were excluded from analysis (n.40 borderline for seasons and n. 7 borderline for lunar phases). No correlation was found between the offspring sex ratio and the age of mother (r = 0.07, p = .35). The distribution of births was higher for conception in autumn and lower in summer and higher for conception in the new moon compared to other phases (Table 1). The statistical model did not detect an effect of season at conception (F3,94 = 1.167, p = .32, Figure 1) but did indicate a significant effect of lunar phase on offspring sex ratio (F3,94 = 3.393, p < .05); specifically, the ratio males/males + females in offspring conceived in the new moon phase were significantly lower than during the full moon phase (p < .05, Figure 2). No significant interaction between lunar phase and season was found (F9,94 = 0.598, p = .796).