Children of the Caribbean

Cummings, Alban; Lee, Mildred K.; London, Clement B.

doi:10.1177/002193478301300407

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“…A measurement of BMD remains the distinguishing diagnostic 10,11 feature between the two conditions. However, despite the susceptibility of the disease to both males and females, the burden is comparatively high on postmenopausal women eventually elevating the fracture risk up to 60 % for 12,4 women above 50 years of age.…”

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Osteoporosis Within a Cohort of Postmenopausal Pakistani Women Using Dual X-Ray Bone Densitometry

Ziad

Wahla

Riaz

et al. 2021

KMUJ

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OBJECTIVE: To explore the prevalence of osteopenia and osteoporosis within a cohort of Pakistani postmenopausal women with respect to the lumbar spine and hip. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted at Shifa International Hospital Islamabad, Pakistan from September 2019 to Feb 2020. Study comprised of 237 postmenopausal females who visited the outpatient department of the hospital. The T-scores of Bone Mineral density (BMD) data was collected and arranged in three groups: normal, osteopenia and osteoporosis. Data was analyzed to explore the distribution of the data and correlation analyses using R software version 3.6.3. RESULTS: Out of 237 females, majority were ranging in age from 61-70 years (n=110; 46.4%), followed by 51-60 years age group (n=60; 25.3%). Osteopenia was noted in 98 (41.4%) cases in lumber spine and hip area. Osteoporosis was found in 79 (33.3%) and 59 (24.9%) cases in lumber spine and hip region respectively. Mean T score was -1.775±-2.000 and median T score was -1.469 for lumber spine and hip. T-scores distribution of lumbar spine and hip indicated the highest proportion having a sore of -2 SD (n=60; 25.3% each), followed by -3 SD in 52 (21.9%) cases. Bone mass density was negatively correlated with age (p≤0.01). However, no significant difference was found among the BMD values of lumbar spine and hip region. CONCLUSION: Decreased bone density was a common occurrence affecting postmenopausal females and there is increase in degenerative bone loss with increasing age. Hip and lumbar spine region are equally affected by degenerative bone loss.

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Osteoporosis Within a Cohort of Postmenopausal Pakistani Women Using Dual X-Ray Bone Densitometry

Ziad

Wahla

Riaz

et al. 2021

KMUJ

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“…Glass, or rather kiln-formed glass, is as highly valued in contemporary society as it was at its birth in Mesopotamia from 2000-3000 BC. Glass, being a synthetic material, a precursor to plastics given its mouldable nature, was originally used to imitate precious and semi-precious stones such as agate, opal and lapis lazuli (Cummings 1997;Macfarlane and Martin 2003). I sometimes exploit this material mimicry by casting with opaque frits.…”

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“…According to Cummings, 'the evolution from industrial to post-industrial society has seen the rebirth of kiln-formed glass, after almost 2000 years, in a direct way. The main processes and techniques, the types of objects made by them, their relationship to society in terms of value, function and philosophy are remarkably unchanged and therefore of extreme relevance to our own era and practice' (Cummings 1997, p. 24) Kiln-formed glass was, and still is, due to the nature of the laborious hand-crafted procedures, costly to make, and the resulting outputs tend to be produced on a small scale and have limited functionality, catering for 'an elite clientele who valued the luxurious exclusive goods produced by the system' (Cummings 1997). I also outsource studio-blown glass components, which possess a similar value to kiln-formed glass, given that they are one-off, individually blown items.…”

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Clean-Up Workers (Deluxe Series): The Embodiment of Waste Values and Aesthetics

Matthias

2023

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Written from the perspective of practice-led research, this reflective case study rationalises and charts the production of ‘Clean-Up Workers (Deluxe Series)’—mixed media sculptures that embody notions of waste aesthetic, value and abjection. Integrating discourses surrounding waste theory and using the sink and plug as a metaphor to discuss Lacan’s theory of the objet petit a, the paper is presented as an autobiographical waste narrative. Production of a series of anatomical vacuum cleaners made from re-appropriated artwork found waste materials in the form of ‘pre-owned objects or materials’ and ‘by-products’ of a creative practice’, sit alongside crafted luxurious glass objects and speak of corporeal ageing, dysfunction and the domestic realm. Discarded objects take the form of car parts found in the non-places of the gutter. Through assemblage, these unique items’ ‘use-time’ is recontextualised and elevated as art objects viewed within a gallery arena.

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“…Teachers and guidance counselors are faced with students whose learning styles and expectations differ from the Canadian norm. For example, Black and Asian students previously in schools in the West Indies or Hong Kong have been used to authoritarian teaching styles and more passive learning patterns in settings where students are expected to show deference to elders (Cummings, Lee, & London, 1983). Moreover, teachers, counselors, and social workers often misinterpret the behavior of Asian and West Indian parents, who were used to maintaining a noninterfering relationship with the school system in their countries of origin.…”

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