In the 20th century, influenza and pneumonia constituted the largest proportion of infectious disease deaths in the United States. Despite progress in management, US mortality trends for these ...diseases have not been thoroughly investigated.
We aim to examine the patterns of influenza and pneumonia-related deaths among US residents.
Crude death rates and age-adjusted mortality rates (AAMRs) per 100,000 individuals were calculated using influenza and pneumonia mortality data (International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision codes: J09-J18) from the CDC WONDER database. Annual percentage changes with a 95% confidence interval were determined using joinpoint regression analysis. Average annual percentage changes were computed as the weighted average of annual percentage changes.
From 1999 to 2020, US influenza and pneumonia deaths totaled 1,257,088 (AAMR: 17.09), with a significantly decreasing AAMR (−2.94). Males had a higher AAMR (20.13) than females (15.02). Non-Hispanic American Indians had the highest AAMR (20.44), while Hispanics had the lowest AAMR (13.91). The Northeast had the highest AAMR (18.02). All other regions had similar AAMRs. Rural regions had a consistently higher AAMR (19.80) than urban regions (AAMR: 16.51).
Tailoring interventions toward high-risk groups can enhance the effectiveness of preventive measures, vaccination, and health care access.
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•In 20th century, influenza & pneumonia were leading causes of infectious death in US.•Past research has examined mortality trends of geographical racial disparities.•Over the study period, death rates from influenza and pneumonia declined in the US.•Males consistently exhibited higher mortality rates than females.•NH American Indians had the highest mortality rates, while Hispanics had the lowest.
The erasure Effect is considered one of the Iraqi novels which delved into the depths of the texts to capture that unknown and tempts the to enter to those narrative realms which carry within them ...all that is strange and wondrous trying to reveal it indicating the most important conflicts that occur within them, whether they are with realistic or unreasonable events and outside of nature and do not harmonize with human reality, so that it will be a wonder for the recipient that the miraculous in the narration of 'The Erasure Effect' has manifested in its title, characters and events. The writer portrayed it with an amazing skill that amazes the reader and the recipient. This is all due to the author's ability to use the surprisingly imaginative side.
Wonderment is a remarkable ability that the human species has developed where one is amazed when observing phenomena from nature and then reflects on its beauty, immensity, complexity, and meaning. ...Several aspects of wonderment have surfaced following a careful reading of various literature sources representing some theological, philosophical, scientific, and to some extent psychological/spiritual thinking. Although wonderment can be experienced in many spheres of life, this article will focus on the experience of the natural world. The aim is to consider what value wonderment can bring to the enrichment and deepening of Christian spirituality in the experience of nature and how it can contribute to a disposition of humility. This article is the first of two deliveries on the subject. Several aspects of wonderment have surfaced following a careful reading of various literature sources representing some theological, philosophical, scientific, and to some extent psychological/spiritual thinking. Aspects of wonderment were identified in the writings of the authors and reflected upon and laid out as a synthesis of what was thought to be relevant.
Artikeln gör en jämförande undersökning av ramvillkoren i finska, norska och svenska nationella läroplaner för barns existentiella och religiösa funderingar i förskolan. De tre länderna hanterar ...religionens nya roll och relationen mellan kulturell mångfald, kulturarv och värdegrund olika. Den avgörande punkten är i hur hög grad ett sekulärt ideal förskjuter religiösa teman från förskolans pedagogiska verksamhet till en privat sfär och i vilken utsträckning kristendomens tidigare roll att forma medborgare fortfarande anses legitimt, men nu utvidgat till att inkludera också andra religioners identitetsbildning. Värden, principer och idéer i läroplanerna både begränsar och möjliggör barnets rätt till undran över livsfrågor, vilket leder till ett dynamiskt spänningsfält som inkorporeras i sociala institutioner. Detta gäller såväl i en nationell kontext som i pedagogiska situationer på förskolan. Utrymmet för undran över religiösa och existentiella frågor blir dock paradoxalt för både barnet och pedagogen när olika värden och principer motverkar varandra.
The article is a comparative study of curricular conditions in Finland, Norway and Sweden regarding children’s existential and religious questions in early childhood education and care. The three countries diverge in how they deal with the new role of religion and the relation between cultural diversity, cultural heritage and fundamental values. The crucial point is to what degree a secular ideal has moved religious themes from daily activities in ECEC into a private sphere. A central question concerns the legitimacy of the traditional role of Christianity in shaping the identities of citizens, and by extension concerns the legitimacy of identity processes informed by other religions. Values, principles and ideas in curricula both reduce and make possible children’s right to explore existential questions, thereby creating a dynamic field of tensions that is incorporated into social institutions. This is the case both at the national level and in concrete situations within ECEC institutions. However, when values and principles counteract each other, the space for existential and religious wonder becomes paradoxical both for children and staff.
Archaeology and the New Materialisms Witmore, Christopher
Journal of contemporary archaeology (Online),
01/2014, Letnik:
1, Številka:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article revisits the object of archaeology in light of the New Materialisms. Orienting recent work around three propositions with respect to the reality and definition of things—that is, things ...are assemblages, things are participants, and things are things—it lays out the core features of the New Materialisms and goes on to address some compelling methodological issues. Ultimately, this article raises a challenge; that New Materialist perspectives reveal a self-definition for archaeology, not as the study of the human past through its material remains, but as the discipline of things, as an “ecology of practices” that approaches the world with care and in wonder.
Wunderkammern represent a truly interesting phenomenon not only because of their pe- culiar feature of collecting amazing, even monstrous, items from all over the planet, but especially for the ...importance given to feelings such as curiosity, wonder and astonish- ment in the process of discovering the world, as a medium to get to knowledge. Wunder- kammern, also known as Cabinets of Curiosities, keep being represented in art and enter- tainment, with particular relevance to their most grotesque aspects; here, the focus is on two depictions coming from non-fiction children’s literature, which has gone through a recent wave of innovation regarding specifically the picturebooks form. The non-fiction picturebooks edited in the last decade appear to have in common a significant illustration and design apparatus, resulting in a strongly creative and aesthetic approach to knowledge: engaging the senses – and therefore inspiring awe and wonder – together with data and information, these non-fiction picturebooks contribute to restore value to art and beauty in the learning process, revealing a sort of relationship with the Wunderkammer paradigm.
Micrologia del sublime Giovanni Ferrario
Collana del Centro studi beni culturali e ambientali.,
08/2021
21
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Starting from the seventeenth-century aesthetic micrology, the essay intends to show how the concept of the sublime has, subterraneously, crossed different cultures configuring itself as that ...infinitesimal fracture that amazes, an abyssal space in which the moment opens showing us the fragments of what has been essential. From Spinoza to oriental culture, of which haiku is an elected expression, the sublime is not, as Burke claimed, distinct from beauty, but is the origin and the end of beauty. It is an "elevated beauty" and anti-monumental, which lurks in our gaze on the everyday and that, through the poetic intuition of the artist, finds restless and amazed emergence.
Education as a deliberate activity and purposive process necessarily involves mediation, in the sense that the educator mediates between the child and the world. This can take different forms: the ...educator may function as a guide who initiates children into particular practices and domains and their modes of thinking and perceiving; or act as a filter, selecting what of the world the child encounters and how; or meet the child as representative of the adult world. I look at these types of mediation (or aspects of the mediating role of the educator) at the hand of the work of John Dewey, Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, and Richard Peters. The purpose of this paper is to explore the bearing that the mediating role of the educator—as interpreted by these authors—has on the role wonder may play in the educational process. I suggest that initiation highlights the familiarizing function of wonder, and is most readily associated with inquisitive wonder; representation draws attention to the defamiliarizing role of (in particular contemplative) wonder, as well as to its world-affirming role; and selection (the educator as ‘filter’) foregrounds the distinction between momentary and dispositional wonder.
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