Rus gives an answer

Belaiew, N. T.
Eymundar saga and Icelandic research in Russia. 11:93–99. 16
Rorik of Jutland and Rurik of the Russian chronicles. 10:267–97. 17

from 
THE VIKING SOCIETY FOR NORTHERN RESEARCH

INDEX TO SAGA-BOOK VOLUMES 1–23

By J. A. B. Townsend

VIKING SOCIETY FOR NORTHERN RESEARCH

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

+ VIKING SOCIETY WEB PUBLICATIONS


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wanted

посмертное про Минделя Шепса
там же, на той же странице -- влияние абортов на рождаемость в США = must see

Ахиезер

Haman (kneeling) convinces King Ahasuerus (Artaxerxes) that all disobedient people in his kingdom should be killed. Haman does not tell the king that he wants this just to be rid of his rival Mordecai.
By giving his ring to Haman, Ahasuerus acknowledges his consent.

Mediaeval illuminations on the story of Esther and Mordecai:
Queen Vashti Refuses to Appear before Ahasuerus | Haman Convinces Ahasuerus |

need this

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/demography/v047/47.1.retherford.pdf


Demography
Volume 47, Number 1, February 2010
E-ISSN: 1533-7790 Print ISSN: 0070-3370
DOI: 10.1353/dem.0.0087


Robert Retherford
Naohiro Ogawa
Rikiya Matsukura
Hassan Eini-Zinab
Multivariate Analysis of Parity Progression–Based Measures of the Total Fertility Rate and Its Components
Demography - Volume 47, Number 1, February 2010, pp. 97-124

This article describes a methodology for applying a discrete-time survival model—the complementary log-log model—to estimate effects of socioeconomic variables on (1) the total fertility rate and its components and (2) trends in the total fertility rate and its components. For the methodology to be applicable, the total fertility rate (TFR) must be calculated from parity progression ratios (PPRs). The components of the TFR are PPRs, the total marital fertility rate (TMFR), and the TFR itself as measures of the quantum of fertility, and mean and median ages at first marriage and mean and median closed birth intervals by birth order as measures of the tempo or timing of fertility. The focus is on effects of predictor variables on these measures rather than on coefficients, which are often difficult to interpret in the complex models that are considered. The methodology is applicable to both period and cohort data. It is illustrated by application to data from the 1993, 1998, and 2003 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in the Philippines.

highly unexpected news ?

On March 31, AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW) and its partners in the International HIV/AIDS Consortium The Netherlands* received the highly unexpected news that the Dutch government will no longer fund their international HIV/AIDS projects under their MFS (co-financing system). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands had rejected the consortium’s application for a major grant that would have provided finance for their HIV/AIDS activities in 2011-2015.

This decision comes as a severe blow to Dutch civil society, which has long been a driving force for evidence-based approaches to HIV/AIDS across the world. In Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA), AFEW has worked in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for nine years. Our successful projects with local partner organisations have exemplified how our projects achieve demonstrable, stable results. We are concerned that the withdrawal of Dutch governmental support will seriously undermine our long struggle to introduce evidence-based HIV prevention methods and to support the fledgling civil society in EECA in implementing a rights-based approach to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. 

The Dutch government’s decision is particularly baffling since a declared aim of MFSII was to strengthen collaboration between leading humanitarian organisations. In response, over the past year, AFEW and its 10 consortium partners have devoted huge efforts to integrating their programme planning and to creating an ambitious, global HIV/AIDS programme. 

Over the coming weeks, the Consortium will seek consultation with members of Parliament and other officials to find a way forward. 

Read the consortium’s press release from April 1. 

*Consortium members: Aids Fonds, Aids Foundation East-West (AFEW), COC, dance4life International, the Global Network of People Living with HIV, Health Connections International (HCI), International Civil Society Support, Mainline, Schorer, STOP AIDS NOW! and the World Aids Campaign (WAC).

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25 Марта 2010

Новый вид человека назвали «Денисов»

это взвешенное, своевременное, научно-обоснованное и ваще пральное решение :)

Мировая наука преподнесла в среду очередную сенсацию - специалисты знаменитого немецкого Института Макса Планка эволюционной антропологии заявили о существовании нового, неизвестного ранее вида человека. Ученые сделали открытие в результате анализа ДНК фрагмента фаланги пальца, обнаруженного на территории России в Южной Сибири, сообщает ИТАР-ТАСС.

Анализ показал, что у этого жившего 44 тыс лет назад человека, предположительно ребенка, структура ДНК имела 50 проц отличий от генетического кода как современного человека, так и неандертальца. "Речь, видимо, идет о новом виде человека, который ранее не был известен мировой науке", - заявили руководители исследований Йоханес Краузе и Сванте Паабо. Они назвали его "Денисов" по пещере, в которой был обнаружен фрагмент скелета.

Как отмечает Би-би-си, часть пальца ребенка пяти-семи лет была извлечена российскими археологами в 2008 году на юге Сибири.
Специалисты отмечают, что речь идет об особой линии в развитии человека, которая ведет свое происхождение из Африки. В результате в этой части современной России бок о бок жили три разновидности людей - Homo sapience, неандертальцы и "Денисов". В последние годы на основе новейших данных мировая наука пришла к выводу, что за время эволюции на земле существовали по меньшей мере 7 видов людей, отличавшихся друг от друга генетически. Однако выжил лишь один из них - Homo sapience. Нынешняя находка в Сибири только подтверждает выводы о более сложном, нежели это представлялось ранее, путях человеческой эволюции. Одновременно она ставит новые и сложные вопросы, связанные с появлением современного человека и перспектив на будущее Homo sapience.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

В Нью-Йорке 12 апреля были объявлены лауреаты Пулитцеровской премии — престижной американской премии за работы в области журналистики, литературы и музыки. Премия вручается с 1917 года.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel получила премию в номинации «Местный репортаж» с материалом о мошенничестве с программой помощи детям бедных семей.

Journal Sentinel reporter wins Pulitzer Prize

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Children from unwanted pregnancies

Children from unwanted pregnancies

Z. MATĚJČEK ¹ , Z. DYTRYCH ¹ V. SCHÜLLER ¹

  ¹ Department of Pediatrics Thomayer Hospital Prague 4 Czechoslovakia Postgraduate Medical Institute

Correspondence to  Department of Pediatrics Thmayer Hospital Prague 4 Czechoslovakia Postgraduate Medical Institute

Copyright 1978 Blackwell Munksgaard

KEYWORDS

Unwanted pregnancy • induced abortion • child development • psychosocial development • child health • family relations • youth education

The health and development of 220 children born of unwanted pregnancies (UP) was investigated in a case-control study 9 years after their births. The analysis was based partly on data from health records and school reports, and partly on direct examination of the child and parents by a team of professionals using psychological tests, sociograms, rating scales, questionnaires, structured interviews and medical examinations.

Although differences between wanted and control children were not dramatic, they were consistent and multiple and tend to support the major hypothesis that the development of children born of unwanted pregnancies would be more problem prone. A child born from an unwanted pregnancy, especially a boy, is more likely to have deficiencies in psychosocial development and educational achievement than other children his own age, despite equivalent health status at birth.

The mothers of unwanted children, compared with mothers who accepted their pregnancy (AP children), despite having the same level of education and socioeconomic background, show less stability in their marital lives, poorer interaction with their husbands, a higher abortion rate before and after the birth of the unwanted child, less involvement in the upbringing of the child, and somewhat poorer interaction with their social environments. Nevertheless the majority of the mothers studied seem to have gradually changed from an originally strongly negative attitude toward the pregnancy to an accepting attitude toward the child.

A Maladaptation Score (MS) was developed as an overall measure of the social status of the child within the family and society. Differences between UP and AP children, which were not so definitive when viewed in terms of individual indicators, came into sharper focus when the cumulative effects of negative factors were noted. The MS findings confirmed more concretely that children born from unwanted pregnancies are more often in an unfavorable social situation and at greater future risk.

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Received July 7, 1977

The Best Intentions:

Unintended Pregnancy and the Well-Being of Children and Families


Description
Experts estimate that nearly 60 percent of all U.S. pregnancies--and 81 percent of pregnancies among adolescents--are unintended. Yet the topic of preventing these unintended pregnancies has long been treated gingerly because of personal sensitivities and public controversies, especially the angry debate over abortion. Additionally, child welfare advocates long have overlooked the connection between pregnancy planning and the improved well-being of families and communities that results when children are wanted.
Now, current issues--health care and welfare reform, and the new international focus on population--are drawing attention to the consequences of unintended pregnancy. In this climate The Best Intentions offers a timely exploration of family planning issues from a distinguished panel of experts.
This committee sheds much-needed light on the questions and controversies surrounding unintended pregnancy. The book offers specific recommendations to put the United States on par with other developed nations in terms of contraceptive attitudes and policies, and it considers the effectiveness of over 20 pregnancy prevention programs.
The Best Intentions explores problematic definitions--"unintended" versus "unwanted" versus "mistimed"--and presents data on pregnancy rates and trends. The book also summarizes the health and social consequences of unintended pregnancies, for both men and women, and for the children they bear.
Why does unintended pregnancy occur? In discussions of "reasons behind the rates," the book examines Americans' ambivalence about sexuality and the many other social, cultural, religious, and economic factors that affect our approach to contraception. The committee explores the complicated web of peer pressure, life aspirations, and notions of romance that shape an individual's decisions about sex, contraception, and pregnancy. And the book looks at such practical issues as the attitudes of doctors toward birth control and the place of contraception in both health insurance and "managed care."
The Best Intentions offers frank discussion, synthesis of data, and policy recommendations on one of today's most sensitive social topics. This book will be important to policymakers, health and social service personnel, foundation executives, opinion leaders, researchers, and concerned individuals. May

Reviews

"Anyone who cares for women and children or delivers prenatal care should spend time reading, examining, and dipping into this book. It is fascinating, eye-opening, and distressing. It should be on all family physicians' bookshelves.";--IT;Family Medicine;RO

from this page one coul start reading

an old oneS but need to see

The Validity of Retrospective Reports of Unwanted Births in the United States: Effects of Preference for Children of a Given Sex
David L. Kruegel
Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 6, No. 9 (Sep., 1975), pp. 345-348
(article consists of 4 pages)
Published by: Population Council
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1964701

The Estimation of Unwanted Fertility
John B. Casterline and Laila O. El-Zeini
Demography, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Nov., 2007), pp. 729-745
(article consists of 17 pages)
Published by: Population Association of America
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30053115

Vienna AIDS Conference

"Eastern Europe in Spotlight at Vienna AIDS Conference"
Agence France Presse (03.10.10)

In Vienna on Wednesday, UNAIDS chief Michel Sidibe previewed the 18th International AIDS Conference being held there this summer. "AIDS 2010 will be the conference for people without a voice," he said at a press briefing. "The rapidly growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in Eastern Europe, fueled primarily by unsafe injecting drug use, are topics under the spotlight at AIDS 2010," to be held July 18-23, UNAIDS and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a joint statement.

Vienna is a gateway to Eastern Europe and Central Asia - regions where HIV prevalence has nearly doubled since 2001, largely due to unsafe drug injection. An estimated 1.5 million people are living with HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. By holding the conference in the Austrian capital, organizers hope to highlight the regions' marginalized groups like drug users, said Robin Gorna, head of the International AIDS Society. "To break the trajectory of the HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe, we must stop new infections among injecting drug users and their partners," Sidibe said. "People who use drugs have a right to access the best possible options for prevention, care, and treatment."

"We can and must reverse the HIV epidemic, first of all by preventing the spread of drug use, and then by providing treatment to addicts. In this comprehensive program, HIV-targeted measures include providing clean injecting equipment, opioid substitution, and antiretroviral therapy," said UNODC head Antonio Maria Costa.

For more information on the conference, visit www.aids2010.org.


CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update Thursday, March 11, 2010

fools day

Всероссийский конгресс "АМБУЛАТОРНО-ПОЛИКЛИНИЧЕСКАЯ ПРАКТИКА - НОВЫЕ ГОРИЗОНТЫ"

Место проведения: г. Москва, ул. Академика Опарина, д. 4, ФГУ «Научный центр акушерства гинекологии и перинатологии им. В.И. Кулакова»

Дата проведения: 29 марта - 2 апреля 2010 года

16.00 - 17.30 МАЛЫЙ ЗАЛ
Круглый стол
Российская ассоциация «Народонаселения и развития»
«Сексуальные и репродуктивные права: медицинские, сексуальные, демографические и правовые аспекты»
Председатель: Ерофеева Л.В.

* Правовые аспекты
Павлова Ю.В. - 15 мин.
* Социальные аспекты
Малова Т.М. – 15 мин.
* Медицинские аспекты
Дикке Г.В. – 15 мин.
* Демографические аспекты
Сакевич В.И, Денисов Б.П. – 15 мин.
* Международные основы
Ерофеева Л.В. – 15 мин.
* Дискуссия. Ответы на вопросы. – 15 мин.

ResearchGATE – scientific network

First Harm Reduction, Now Client Management: AFEW in Belarus

This month, AFEW launches a new project ‘Implementation of a Client Management Programme for HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment and Support in the Republic of Belarus’. This landmark initiative will create client management systems with a particular focus on non-discriminatory, accessible and joined-up services for injecting drug users, men who have sex with men and sex workers. Expected outcomes will be better access to effective protection services for these key populations at risk and to antiretroviral therapy for people living with HIV.
This project follows on from AFEW’s introduction of harm reduction methodologies for injecting drug users in 2005 to 2008, the success of which generated strong interest on the part of the Belarusian government and civil sector to develop their partnerships with the organisation.
The current project initially focuses on stimulating a provider-patient dialogue through two steering committees in the cities of Minsk and Svetlogorsk. Client management networks of governmental and non-governmental service providers will then be developed in each city, with the aim of expanding them to seven other regions of the country by the end of 2012. Click here for detailed information about the project’s aims and methodologies.
Because activities are closely related to the ‘National Programme on HIV Prevention 2006-2010’ and involve capacity-building of local civil organisations, there are good prospects for their long-term sustainability and impact.
Funding is provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands under its Matra Social Transformation Programme, which supports projects that are designed to strengthen interaction between national and local government and civil society, and to encourage consensus on measures to strengthen democracy and the rule of law. In particular, it encourages the development of knowledge exchange and twinning networks between the Netherlands and Matra countries.

надо прочитать

статистическая теория эыолюции
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2277618

Новая Камуна ВИЧ+

Сообщество для положительных людей

модерила, как я понимаю, жона ВИЧ+ поцана,
родившая от него ВИЧ- детёныша

намеревается бороцо со СПИДофобией

Laboratorium

Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований

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